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THE CASE OF MRS. BRINsMADE.
Whoever Las a sister, q wie,s or a aaugh-
ter, a2l desires to know what pangs may
come TO him through those tender ties who
cr would learn beyond what Naples and
the lnQuistion can teach) to what outrageous
lcAgths the unbridled, unpublished exercise
of unlawful and despotc power will run, may
learn from tho correspondence in the case of
Mrs Brinsmadc, which we publish this morn
ing.
Mrs Brnsmale, q young and beautiful
wosan, hardly ont Of her teens, possessing
therefore neither the selfrcstraint which
comes with years nor the cautious reticcncc
of the other sex, two months ago came North
under the pass of Gen. Butler, in the New.
Orleans steamer, in order to spend the win
ter with her friends in Washington and Troy
Arrived in the former city she is arrested
withour warrant imprisoned without trials
denied communication with her friends, kept
closely guarded, at length brought on to til
city and thrown into prison in the Forty-sev.
en,h street station-house. Through hack
man employed by the officer in charge Of her.
i.er friends in this city learn Of the outrage
they apply ciyily to the infamous Kennedy
who made the arrest. to know its cause
They are assailca with imprecations and
threats that they too shall be locked up if the
Inquiry is repeated. Assured by deputy
that the prisoner is to be sent to her father in
New Orleans Ivy the next steamer, her friends
content themselves with the hope that, al
though every form of law, every guarantee of
civil and personal liberty has been violated
by one of their appointed custodians, the suf-
ierer had at last escaped without loss Of life
or that of which is dearer.
But her wrongs were not yet ended. They
did not know the kennedy. Perhaps they
had n2yer heard of Cell No. !. Thirty-fye
days afterwards letter was received by one
Of her friends, from which it was learned
Ina, she was still close prisoner in the For
;y-seyenth street station house, waited upon
by male attendants, fed with prisoners fare,
part of the time Frustrated by illness as we'll
as grief every Instinct Of dccency thus viola.
sod as well as every form of law.
TIVE ladies then apply to the Kennedy tsr
permission. to see their friend. 1t denied
They ask what are the charges and who the
accuscrs. i, the Kennedy, am the accuser
arrested her. put her and kept her
where she is, and she ought to be hung
Hopeless Of redress from the brute when
ais infamy blasts up and down through all
lis lineage and in all his postcrisy, Mrs.
Br;nsmade's friends applied to Provost Mar
shal Gen. Draper, Mr. Draper promptly
addressed himself to the Judge Advocate
General whe said that he knew nothing of
he case to Mr.. Kennedy, W no replied that
sh- was held by order of Col Baker, provost
saarShal Of Washington to COL Baker and
he Assistant Sec. of War, who replied prov
,rg # course that Kennedy had lied) that
The arrest hal been made by one Of Mr.. Ken-
nedy's oTacrs, and that Mrs Brinsmade was
4e..incd by him without any authority what
er from the War Department whereupon
Ii. Draper get from the Kennedy an order
v the lady's release, went in person and
'zecHted it, and left her in the charge of her
lends.
1t but Justice to say that the War De,
par'ment is no further responsible for this
particular outrage than as responsibility is
implied in its having been gsilty Of similar
"ncs, in its having committed despotic and
legal power into the hands Of q petty Cali
ala, ana in its having hitherto ccnnived at
very licence to which its itckings of paltry
,,olics despot and the instincts Of brute had
goadel him Oh.
Of Mr.. Draper it on y needs to be said, to
tAos. who DO not know HIM, that his human
ity 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
;.re redeemed from utter dctcstation in the
character Of a gentleman by whom it never
ought to have been assumed.
But of the Kennedy, whose own peculiar
and undivided crime this is crime of which
even Tic War Department denies knowledge
and csponsibility-whatc can be said that
will not insult by its tameness every citizen
who has thought himself under free govern
,nent, protected in his liberty and personal
rights by laws and penalties, by human rul-
ers, and all the environments Of an advanced
Utilization what can be said that will not
shock by lis tceblencss whoever has young
daughter, sister, or wife, to-day as liable as
this fair lady was to he incarceratcd in her
helplessness, to be subjected to the will of a
NAN whom laws only protect in the exercise
of Unlawful power, whom the guardians o.
law neither punish nor remove, from whom
fear neither extorts rude iustica nor youth