New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-07-13

being sbot down in your streets, ana having
great blocks Of iron thrown on their h.. <as IRON
third-story windows. Here is q clear adm. >slon
that your Police is incompetent to repress the
murderous impulses of your mob. even so far as
to secure patriot soldiers from outrage and death
while passing through your st eets. If Gov.
Banks's vigorous course with regard to that
Police needed justification, you have supplied it.
If your Police couldn't control your mob, it was
high time they should give place to one that
could. The Nation imperstively needed sub.
mssiye if not q loyal Baltimore, aud it was
Gov. Banks's immediate duty to provide one.
but the Mayor proceeds:
" The facts which witnessed mysef and all that
have since heard, satisfied me that the attack WAS The
result oil @ sudden mpuee, and not If premed taied
scheme But the effect on citizens was for time
uncomfortable. In the intense excitement which ell
tued, VIII h Lasted for many days, AMI wiz h was
shared by men OF all parties, and by volunteer o
dies we'll rs citizens it would have been impossible
% convey more troops IRON the North through the city
without severe fight and blOodshed. Such an
would have been fatal the ,iy and corcing-
~, to prevent it, tee bridges the Nol them Central
RAILROAD and the Philadelphia, Wilmington and
IB4ltimofe Railroad, were, with tue consent OF the
Governor, and by my order, with the cooperation OF
the Board Of Pclice-exceIt Mr. ChaIleo 5. links,
who was absent from the d'y-parlialy disabled aud
burned, S. On TO prevent tie immeOhte approach Of
troops 10 the city, bat with no purpoe oil hostility "
the Federal Government"
Serene lint il The mob bad wahtOnly
butchered number Of Volunteers, who were
fastening through Baltimore TO the defense of
Washington. few of the soldiers had fired in
sef.defeuse, so that the mob had rather the
worst OF the fray. This produced 8" intense ex-
'citement" The traitors were for tune
coming from the North, and there was danger
that their entrance into Baltimore would provoke
| :" severe fight and bloodshed." So, then, the
humane, careful provident Mayor, with the co.
operation Of his brother Police Commissioners
and their Marshal, burnt the bridges on the Rail
roads entering Baltimore from the North and
East lie says the Governor consented 10 this,
bat the Governor stoDtly denies it-aDd the ques
ton whether there was one traitor more or less
implicated in the crime is not worth discussion.
Every man who cOncurred in authorizing or exc
cutting that dastardly order was ms black traitor
as JEFF Davis or BeaureSard, and as richly de-
serving halter. For the inevitable tendency
TO block tie way to Washington against oil
Federal troops whatever, and thus hand
the Capital to capture, sack and conaagration
ia the interest of treason. Benedict Arnold was
faithful aud loyal American compared with the
authors Of that infamous order.
But the Mayor keeps back much, while
seeming to reveal all He says nothing Of the
and Ia "a, d.,L he
himself among others-on the President that
no troops should be pushed southwark through
any port Of Maryland. Was it concern for their
safety that dictated this Message alfo' Was
that tie impulse which sent the Young Christians
OF Baltimore on their modest mission to the Pres-
dcnt' Why the speaking silence on this point
And then the breaking of the telegraph wires
at and about Baltimore, with the consequent in
terruption Of all telegraphic intercourse between
Washington aud the North-why is this left out
Of the exhibit The Mayor tells us the Massa-
cbusctts men were attacked because there was
not sufficient notice given Of their approach and
their numbers! Wac breaking the telegraphic
wires calculated 10 ill this aching void in the
sum of Baltimorean knowledge We should sup
pOtt t1dl tut DIitor Woulu nurtchru W pun
up two or three new lines instead of tearing any
down.
but we lack patience to chase Mayor Brown
through all the windings of his labyrinth Of soph-
istry. The simple truth IT, that the man is a
traitor, aud is pcttfoggiug the cause of his con.
ftderate traitors. lie is giving lessons in Trea-
son Made Easy, and talks of Municipal Rights
and their invasion, % il be did rot know that
the country has recently been, through the wan.
ton acts Of his fellow traitors, plunged into q
desolating Civil War, whereby ell other rights
are necessarily postponed or subordnated to the
all-absorbipg Right of the Nation TO BE. War
overrulcs Law in many things, for the Nation
must live though Mr.. Browns Secession Police
should lose their places and their pay. Down
with treason and traitors! Live the Republic