The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1862-11-28
The Case Of Hrs. Blinsmade.
From tie Chicaqo Times.

It is only as Mrs Brinsmade is a won.
All that the enornity of the proceedings
against her stand out in bold relief. Her
case aside from her sex, is paraIleled bv
hundreds # other cases She vas arbi
trar;ly arrested br one of the creatures Of
the Secretary Of War, (what one is not
yet decided, J cast into prison; uniformed
Of the charges against her and AS to who
we're her accusers, access 10 her BY her
friends denied, and they threatened with
arbitrary arrest and imprisonment if they
should interfere in hel behalf; and placed
beyond the reach Of judicial remedy by
the suspension, BY the President Of the
United States, of the writ Of habeas corpus
Such Is, simply, her case, and, in all but
her sex, il is the case of hundreds Of other
people; and there are plenty of cases, ex
cept as to sex. which are very much more
aggravated than hers. Indeed, consider
ing tia, Mrs Brjnsmade had just come
from the South, there might have been
propriety in the exercise Of some sort of
Surveillance over her; bua hundreds have
been seized and imprisoned, as she was,
/
IL not a circumstance could be truthtuliy
alleged, and nothing in whose antecedents
OF associations could justify the slightest
breath of suspicion TO their prejudice.
Great as is the reproach Of this case of
Mrs Brinsmade to the American name, 1t
is perhaps fortunate that it has happened,
because it will have served, better than al
most anything else could, to expose to the
American people the nature Of the terror
jsin which the administration at Washing
ton are visiting upon the country, and the
extent If .he invasion by them o. the cons
s.itutional rights Of evil liberty.
No doubt the attempt will be made
indeed it has alread, heen made-to shift
the responsibility Of ti.is particular case
from the shoulders of the administration
TO those Of some subordinate. lSut It IS
not denied that the fact of the arrest was
known to the officers of that Bnreal. IN
Washington which conducts the general
/ business of administration terrorism and
if the fact had not been known to them
the authority which has been assumed bv
subordinate officers all over the country,
and approved by the administration, Of
arbitrary arrests aud impriSonments, wo'd
fasten, irresistably, the responsibility of
this case upon the administration. This
case is not M exception to the general
rule, save as to the sex of the victim it
is, on the contrary, strictly within the
rule, and Mrs. Brinsm ade has suffered
nothing that hundreds of the other sex, of
! all ages and conditions. have not suffered.
! We published the other day the report Of
case Of a mere child whose sutferings
/ exceeded hers. lie came out Of his cell
emaciated to skeleton and covered with
vermin.
! The infamous Kennedy has all the while
/ been the immediate and confidential agent
of the infamous Secretary of War, and no
body will ever convince Us that the Secre-
tary Of War was ignorant of the imprison
ment Of Mrs Brinsmade
No. The horrible od;um of this --latest
revealed infamy must rest upon the admin
istyation, as the odium Of all the seizures,
and incarcerations, and other expressions
of loyal citizens, must rest upon them. 1t
will cling to them indeliby forever.
1t does not matter that many Of the alb
clifton newspapers are making haste to dis
prove of the particular proceedings III this
particular case. We know why they do
It. They do not do it from any real hor.
ror Of the proceedings, -for have thew not
bounded Oh the administration to iu@:s such
and even worse ac:s Of barbatity ? Have
they not, here in Chicngo, demanded tie
ioFcib!e expulsion Of women from the city
aud sought to excite mob violence against
them, on the vaouest suspic,ea if their dis
Loyalty. They do it solely for tue reason
that they have some realizing sense of the
/ popular avalanche which is rising in the
land. and which threatens TO sweep the re
sponsible party for these infamies from the
face Of tie earth They do it through
cowardIy fear. They wish in their hearts
that Mrs Brinsmade had been buried in {
cell so subterranean that, hy no effort o.
law, could she lave issued to the region,
Of light; and they would if they could
~ it has been their policy to do for the
whole summer long-imprison every lead
ing democrat, and suppress every demo
cratic press, from Maine to California. :
And who supposes that, had the recent
elections resulted differently, Imprisonment
would not have been the portion of every
leading democrat, and suppression .~~yuId
not have been the fate Of Gvery democratic
press, from Maiue to California.
LAKE MARINERS ExEMPr.-The Buffalo
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