The southern aegis, and Harford County intelligencer., 1863-02-20

| for the office OF United States Senator -
He rcjoiced that one, at least, of those
Judges had remained faithful to the Con-.
stitution and the laws of bis count "
true to his oath of ofice--and fearle Is in
he discharge of his duty. He held that
the refusal of Judge TO grant this writ
was an offence that demanled investiga-
tion. The Revised Statutes compel the
issue of this writ and impose penalty of
me thousand dollars upon the Judge who
shall refuse it to an applicant. 1t is the
only compulsory writ-the writ of right.
Judge Dean here read from the Revised
Statutes in relation to the writ, aud said:
He desired to refer very briefly to the
case of Mrs. Brinsmade, to which some
notoriety had been given through the pub
lie priats. This young lady, twenty-tAree
years of age, stranger, and he believed
virtuous woman, had come within the
city of New York. No sooner had she ar.
rived there, than on the shallow pretence
Of some idle words spoken in the course of
ii chance conversation, a policeman in the
pay of the metropolitan Police of the city,
body erected by the laws of the State,
was placed upon her track as secret spy
He followed her like her shadow, hung
around her at her hotel, dogged her steps
wherever she went, was close behind her
as she jnurnied to Washington, and came
back with her, holding her in his custody,
after her arrest at the National Capital
When carried back to New York, the
great commercial city Of loyal State, she
was confined in Station House of the
Metropolitan Police for forty days-shut
'ut from the world-retused csmmunica-
tion of any kind with her friends-kept
apart from any companion except man
nal-ed Baker, special provost marshal Of
the Federal Government, who had come
on from Washington after her transfer to
New York, for "a purpose that can be read
lily coHceiyed. .lt-had been shown in the
testimony taken in the case, that this Ba-
ker had made infamous overtures to the
unfortunate lady, prisoner within his
power and unable to resist bis advances
that he had proposed to her, as a condition
Tor her release from her weary and degra.
ding imprisonment, that she should 60
with him to Philadelphia, and remain
there privately in his company for ten
days. And this man still remainsin the
service of the General Government, and
1t is for purposes as vile ami criminal as
this that the Station Houses in the city of
New York are used
The case of Tracy, charged with buy
ing claims against the Government, was
another instance of the injustice of this
system of arbitrary arrests, and of the ne
cessity for investigation. This person was
arrested without process, carried to Fort
Lafayette to avoid the service of the
writ Of habeas corpus in New York, was
taken in boat to New Jersey, and from
thence hurried off to the Capitol prisons
at Washington. His counsel, on applca-
ion, was refused an interview with him
there. The vilest criminal confined under
our laws in common Jail, a man who has
been guilty of the crime of mur3er-can
have intercourse with his counsel. But
this right, secured to the malefactor, was
denied the political prisoner. Judge
Gould, of this State, addressed letter to
the President, asking that the case might
be enquired into; and his letter, which
uas been published and read throughout
the State, is an able and ananswerable ex-
posure of the injustice of the system Of
which Tracy was victim. He (Judgc
Dean) could say as Counsel for Tracy,
that every statement Of Judge Gould was
1true, but that they did not 60 far
enough, for he did not know all the facts.
The prisoner was denied even an inter-
j. view or any communication with his wife.
i He (Judge Dean) desired for one. mo-
l,nent to speak rs to the necessity for an
Investigation of this kind. In any COM
,nunty except one like that Of the State
lnf New York, where the people are loyal
md respect the laws, any act such as he
uad cited would have occasioned a rey6lu-
lion. But the citizens OF this State are
llaw-abiding men, who believe that what.
ever is wrong can be righted at the ballot
box, and who have confidence that their
!, servants in tn, legislature Of the State viii
see that their rights are protected. But
at the time of these occurrences, Govern
" Morgan, the Commander ia-Chief Of
the militia of the State, was a Major Gen.
ersl holding his commission from the
Federal Government, SIN ,on Draper, the
President OF the Board Of Public CHARITIES
,ud Corrections ia the city of New York,
was Provost Marshal General Of the Uni
It'd States. John "A, Kennedy, Superin-
II ,.ndant of thr Matronolitau pnlica. was