Several were arrested yesterday. Still I doubt whether we
are dealing fairly, even with enemies. They have been encouraged to come
into and go out of the country by the facilities afforded them; and now,
without any sort of notification whatever, they are to be arrested when they
present themselves. I hate all traps and stratagems for the purpose of stimulating
one to commit a wrong; and hence this business, although it seems to afford
employment, if not delight, to Gen. Winder and his Baltimore detectives, is
rather distasteful to me. And when I reflect upon it, I cannot imagine how Mr.
Benjamin may adjust the matter with his conscience. It will soon cure itself,
however; a few arrests will alarm them all.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 90
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