Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-09-11
Ano arbitrary ArresIs-Une Case Ofsa
Thousand.
lVrom the New York World CONSERVATIVE Republican,
sept 5th1

Imprisoned without guilt, held without trial,
liberated without repsrasion-that 10 the damn.
ing record which Lewis Ballard must write; an
honest and loyal man, imprisoned in Fort La
iayette by Provost Marshal Kennedy, under
orders from Secretary Stanton, for having been
engaged In the substitute agency business-on.
~ tnat' ana nothing more. A policeman, whose
oaoge was concealed, stepped into Mr.. Ballsrd's
oLnoe' Wnere ne was trsnsacting q business not
YET PROMPTED nor proclaimed crime; bis hon.
esty guaranteed oy such men as Belmont & Co.,
noyt, Spraeuee Co, and Daniel Drew: bis
Ioyaisy proven hy The whole course of bis life,
loe pollceman purchases an obligation TO pro.
vide him with substitute II drafted (srch are
the arts by which justice must reach its ends).
then shows his shield and takes Mr. Ballard A
prisoner to the headquarters of Mr., Kennedy,
Ihe Provost Marshai refuses to receive bail,
sends his prisoner TO the Fifteenth ward sta.
ton house-eVen denies him permission to visit
nrst bis own residence. Not merely was no
!rial gfanted-no warrant shown by the Provost
Mareoal. 10 citizen of New York, oue Of
tue Sta'es of Cons ii Iutionsl Union, toe oral
statement OF an insolent and arbitrary ia or
was deemed quite enough ground for conse q.
log HIM TO the walls of B lsule and the com.
panionship OF traitors. He lies thero for ds,s,
ana at lass is released Internationally, with out
information as to the estimate OF HE guilt,
without bonds, without oath given or required
inaeoteo, perhaps, to the intervention of pow
erlul friends With member Of the Cabinet for
the liberation which, II he was guilty, Was not
his due, and If he vas guiltless was, II its man
ner, insult added to outrage. This befell in
New York-the chief city of the nation---tbo
very core of its loyal heart.
Inc stones OF the streets of city of cravens
anould cry ous at such scorn of her honor, her
loyalty, and her citizens'7rights. Imprisoned
without guilt, for an act yet to be pronounced a
crime, arrested without warrant, incarcera ated
Wilhout srial' liberated without reparation. In
nnat other terms than these do we phrase the
high-nsnded ordainings of despotism? Is there
any otner language for the deeds of tyrants2--
YET this is republic, and these are the men of
the nations choice.
Ihere are none to plead the cause of the op-
pressed The bar of New York ia silent A
phantom Provost Marshal opens and shuts the
doors OF the harbor fort, and they are dumb
Inc tort Is named for him who gave TO the
Father OF his Country the key of O Bsstile
which has perished, but the omen is naught.-
Inc blood in their veins Ia milk.
The days 60 on. The administration permits
THE monument of its shame to be heaped higher
-of dead civil rights ana of throttled liberties.
Every hour offers 1t the chance of atoning for
tne past and OF establishing impregnably what
only In an hour OF national peril it could have
undermined. But every hour the shaft is driven
deeper. The crime is even clinched. For he
VINO is liberated goes free neither because he is
confessed guiltless nor because he has been
proved not guilty; and the prisoners who re.
main, guilty or guiltless as he-noI more not
less-remain, it would seem, that the spotless
majesty of Law may be sullied by every Of
fence.