The Baltimore detectives are the lords of the ascendant.
They crook a finger, and the best carriages in the street pause, turn round,
and are subject to their will. They loll and roll in glory. And they ride on
horseback, too — government horses, or horses pressed from gentlemen's
stables. One word of remonstrance, and the poor victim is sent to Castle
Godwin.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 123
