Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-12-08
From the Boston Courier
The Fort Warren PriSOners

Below i the order for the release of the State
prisoners at Fort Warren, constituting IA general
Jail delivery al that point. The phraseoogy of
the order will strike some persons as little pro-
mlscu0us. The names specified appear only in
the certificate of release furnished by Colonel
Dimmick, while the order of the Department only
mentions in general terms call the Maryland
State prisoner" -and so that none NAV be over
looked in this act OF amnesty, "any other State
prisoners in the custody OF the Commandant
We infer from this. that as these gentlemen were
arrested without warrant and have been held in
prison without law, so no record of their ma mes
even, much less any specification of their i'm
puted Offenses. has been kept at the War Depart
ment. We must say that this seems to us Il very
irresponsible way of doing public business; and
none the less so, that among the gentlemen re
leased are persons of not little social distinction
and public cOnsideration-iOr instance, thu late
Mayor OF Baltimore, and various members of the
Mary land Legislature, who " ere seized and in
generated when that body was broken up by the
violent action of the Administration, more than a
year ago We have understood that the arrest
| in question was then made by order of one of
/ Mr. Lncoln's Secretaries. without the knowledge
OF the others, or of the President; and also that
at the very time reports were in preparation by
| committees of both branches of the Legislature,
showing the uncOnstitutionality OF secession,
which would undoubtedly have been accepted by
the Legislature, had no such extraordinary inter
! ference been had with that assembly
In consequence of that action, however, these
gentlemen have now been imprisoned during this
long period; and at last their prison doors are
thrown open, and they are permitted to 60 at
/ large without any condition, il being well known
that they steadily declined placing themselves i'm
the awkward and not very honorable position of
thus acknowledging themselves guilty of charges
which have never been exhibited against them.
/ They have had the personal inconv enence of this
confinement; but it is plain, that instead of vic.
tins, they thus come triumphant; and that
only the natural Indignation with which they and
their friends will look back upon this useless per-
secuion, remains. Let us trust that we have had
| the last example of such unwarrantable and un-
justifable exercise of brief authority.
FoRr WARREN. BosroS HARBoR,l
Nov. 81, 1862.
GEORGE p KANE
GEORGE WIN. BRowS.
| CHARLES HOWARD,
FRANK X. Howard.
| HENRY NJ WAKEFIELD.
j VIM. G. HARRISON.
ROBERT Hull.
s TEAcKLE WALLIS.
| CHARLES MAcGILL.
i WM. GATcHELL
THOMAS w HALL.
T. PARKIN ScoTT.
WIN. II. WIYDER.
B. L. CUTTER.
The above named prisoners are released agree
able TO the following telegram:
j. DrMMcK.
Colonel LIST Artillery, Comd'g Fort.
Colonel j. Dimmick. u S. Army. Fort Warren,
| Boston:
The Secretary of War directs that you release
all the Maryland State prisoners; also, any other
State prisoners that may be in your custody, and
report to this Office
(Signed.) Z D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant General.
True Copy.
J. DIMMIcE.
Colonel LIST ARTILLERY. Comd'g Fort.
Fort Warren, Nov. 81, 1862