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The Daily Dispatch: December 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], The cowardly Despotism at Washington. (search)
prisoner, shut out from air and exercise, and denied all communion with family and friends "Patience is said to be a great virtue," and I have practiced it, to my utmost capacity of endurance. I am told, sir, that upon your ipse dixit, the fate of citizens depends, and that the sign manual of the ministers of Louis the Fourteenth and Fifteenth, was not more potential in their day, than that of the Secretary of State in 1861. I, therefore, most respectfully submit, that on Friday, August 23d, without warrant or other show of authority, I was arrested by the Detective Police, and my house taken in charge by them: that all my private letters, and papers of a lifetime, were read and examined by them: that every law of decency was violated in the search of my house and person, and by the surveillance over me. We read in history, that the poor Maria Antoinette had a paper torn from her bosom by lawless hands, and that even a change of linen had to be effected in sight of