The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-02 00:00:00

Of Mr. Draper it only needs to be said, to those
who do not know him, that his humanity and his
sense of justice needed no second or long appeal,
and that the functions of an office which never
ought to have been created are redeemed from utter
detestation in the character of a gentleman by
whom it never ought to have been assumed.
But of the Kennedy, whose own peculiar and un-
divided crime this is—a crime of which the War
Department denies knowledge and responsibility—
what can be said that will not insult by its tame-
ness every citizen who has thought himself under
free government, protected in his liberty and per-
sonal rights by laws and penalties, by humane
rulers, and all the environments of an advanced
CiNilizatirm • what can be staid that will not shock by
its feebleness whoever has a young daughter, sister,
or wife, to-day as liable as this fair lady was to be

incarcerated in her helplessness, to be subjected to
the will of a man whom laws only protect in the
exercise of unlawful power, whom the guardians of
law neither punish nor remove, from whom fear
neither extorts rude justice, nor youth, nor beauty,
nor innocence persuades to compassion ?
Tliere are fools and fanatics who will say that
this young woman, this child, for trolling a Secesh
song and for wearing the garments of her sex, in
which quinine may be more easily concealed than
in dress coats and white cravats, i 9 doubtless a spy,
and, as the Kennedy says, "ought to be hung." To
them we confidently look for such patriotic displays
as idiots are capable of, and the charges of treason
which have been so common against all who be-
lieve that it is not worth while to lose our liberties
in the effort to save them.

But to the loyal and intelligent men, to the
patriotic and noble women of this city and of the
country, with the facts above admitted by the War
Department, and endorsed by theProvost-Marshal-
General, we confidently appeal, and ask if a help-
less woman shall thus suffer. To the custodians
tied interpreters of law we appeal, who know that
law is in its nature sovereign, and that its restraints
are just as obligatory upon the rulers who admini-
ster it as upon the people who obey it ; who are in-
structed in its binding sanctions and know the
dangers of their disregard; them we ask if such
outrages against every law shall go unpunished.
To the Government we appeal, and ask if the
usurpations which it has permitted, which Forts
Lafayette and 'Warren to-day perpetuate and hide,
must be overtopped by these outrages which it dis-
claims. We ask if President Lincoln must be
posted in the contempt of the world—must the un-
lawful power which he still persists in using be
consigned to men who make it more than lawless,
and whose instincts would cover what is shameless
with shame.

To the Grand Jury now in session we appeal, and
demand that they lose no time in indicting this
Kennedy, the disgrace of the city, the country, and
his sex. There must be somewhere justice and law
for a helpless woman, and retribution for a Kennedy.

The following correspondence between the coun-
sel of Mrs. Brinsmade and Simeon Draper, Esq.,
Pr, ovost-Marshal Gencral, is published by request
of her friends :

"TO SIMEON DRAPER, ESQ.

" Office of Bowdoin, Larocques, and Barlow, No. 45,
„ Dear Sir, -.The William-atreet, New York, Nov. 8.
Orleans have friends of Mrs. Brinsmade, late of New
with be; ureartel'Atated me to ascertain the facts connected
stantially se fouchandw in,Prisonment. I believe they are sub-
', About two months
passDnsm a since Mrs. Brinsmade, the wife of
Bealßjilady about '2O years of age, having
a from Gen,
Orleans, having been 15 arrived in this city from New
A. James, a highly Cpl by by her father, Mr. Theodore
pheipsble merchant of that city, in
the charge of Dr.
of the surgeons of the
steamer upon which he had's:"
" She brought letters from °Zered her passage.
Scott and Co. and other gentlemernfather t°
Messrs. J. D.
Vitt Rouse by
Upon her
arrival here she was accompanied to°lththei
requested by Com-
an invalid naval officer, who had bee,
modore Morris, at New Orleans, t,o protect
Washington,
was to
';Mrs. Brinsmade 's object in visiting
the
theadnaalist her'
reside with her uncles, one of them in
where, afterarned
other in Troy. She remained a few days in this cit
trooklyn and then went to Washington,
inaiuing four days, she was arrested by Marshal Baker, who
kept her a close prisoner for four days, carefully guarded.
•' Some ten days after she left this city for Washington a
hackman called on roeuofhthien
ofrriLetnhdestrinainNoetwthYork, and
and conveayPerdetoyiTe
said that a lady
nis,-;ht by a detect:: fromr.glV ash in gto n ,
station, and that her name was
Forty_seventh-street police
Mrs. Brinsmade.
"An immediate application
fwas made to Mr. Kennedy
for the canoe of her arrest and
or permission
This was rudely refused by Mr. Kennedy, to see her.
who threatened
to lock np the applicant if the inquiry was repeated.
"Another friend of Mrs. Brinsmade then saw a deputy-
marshal, and was informed that she could only be seen by
permission of Mr. Kennedy. He stated that she was con-
fined in the Forty-seventh-street station-house ; that shoe.
was a giddy, foolish, seceah woman, who had been sfrginc,