Judge Perkins came in to-day and denounced in bitter terms
the insane policy of granting passports to spies and others to leave the
country, when every Northern paper bore testimony that we were betrayed by these
people. He asked me how many had been permitted to go North by Mr. Benjamin
since the expiration of the time named in the President's proclamation. This I
could not answer: but suggested that a resolution of inquiry might elicit the
information. He desired me to write such a resolution. I did so, and he
departed with it. An hour afterward, I learned it had been passed unanimously.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 100
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