The following is a fair sample of the hostile criticism against Winder's administration: “The Baltimore detectives [Winder's police] are lords of the ascendency. They crook a finger, and the best carriages in the street pause, turn around and are subject to their will. They loll and roll in glory. . . . One word of remonstrance, and the poor victim is sent to Castle Gordon.” A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, I, 123. See also Rhodes, History of the United States, III, 603. The popular opposition was such that the bill was eventually modified. Journal, V, 235.
