This heartless, cruel proceeding found a victim among our white
fellow-citizens. An excellent merchant of Connecticut, praised by all
who know him, was plunged into prison by Baez, where he was immured
because it was feared that on his return to New York he would expose
the frauds of the plotters; and this captivity was prolonged with the
connivance of two agents of the President, one of whom finds constant
favor with him and is part of the military ring immediately about
him. That such an outrage could go unpunished shows the little regard
of the President for human rights, whether in white or black.