The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-06-10
EXCHANGE Of Prisoners.

We would again call the attention OF our
authorities to the suggestion made ty US tie
other day with regard to the exchange Of
prisoners. We do 80 because we are convinced
that it is of the utmost Importance to our
cause, and cannot be neglected without a &C.
rious detriment to that cause.
The indifference which the Lincoln Govern
ment has shown to the captivity OF their sol
diers is siugularly brutal. There are many
thousand of them still in cur possession, and
while that ia go, they have, by a breach Of
faith unknown to the history of any other
Government, doomed them to a prolonged i'm
prisonment The inference is irresistb!e.-
They care nothing for them. They riay suffer
or not suffer, without disturbing their eqla-
Unity in the least. Were the ma ority of them
CT different description, they would be ready
enough to make any arrangement by which
they could be set at ,iborty. Were their cOu-,
uections Influential, or possessed of political
influence were they even Yankees, they
would leave no means untried to procure their
liberation They would be afraid of the terri
hle commotion their heartless indifference
would produce at home among friends and
relatives, and by means of friends and
relatives, through the whole community
Be. the large majority of these prisoners have
NO such advantages They have neither rela
tivea nor influential friends among the Yam.
KEGS. They are for ,he most part, men Of
whom they are desirous to be rid--men whom
they hired to fight their battles, and for whom
they have no farther use, when they are
placed in such situation that they can no
q great measure, Germans and Irish, having
no political influence, and very likely TO use
what little they have against the wishes of
Lincoln aud Seward. 1t ia not to be expect
sd, therefore, that Government, destitute
alike Of faith and humanity, will exchange
the gallant Southern men, taken in our priva-
tsers and at Fort Donelson, for creatures like
,hsse, whom they do not want and who they
think are rendering them a service by remain.
ing In captivity, where they ASSET in coz
.suming Southern provision, and bringing on,
- they hope famine in the South. That is
the way in which the gallant Yankees hope
10 subdue US not by hard lighting.
Now, the state of affairs would he very diff.
ferent were We, whenever we have occaeion
to send pris. GERS OIL on parole or to exchange
them for OIL or prisoners, to give preference
always to tn se Irish and Germans. Let Us keep
the Yankee s-especially the Massachusetts
Yankees-t the very last extremity. Let ut
aiwavs have a reserve Of them en- hand. We
should be GID to he ar that all irish and Ger
man prison. "a were paro.ed on tie spot; but
BY no msana for any consideration whatever
parole Yal xee, Keep them all. Keep every
one, II it cot. half the provisions of the South
to feed them If this policy be strictly pursued
for any Length Of time, cur word for it thai
there will cone up q cry of distress from Yam
kssdom that will compel their Government. to
act with honesty however much against thei
inclination.
We would reserve the Yankee Doodles fol
another reason. The scoundrelo whom Lin
coln has placed ct the head of his piunderine
hordss, threaten to shoot our partisans for de
Tending their own country against their az
gressions. We must retallate severely fol
every murder Of this kind they may choose to
commit. But 1t will not do to hang Irish ahG
have no effect whatever. We mus. hang Yam
KEGS, and the best among them that we Cal
get We must always keep supply Of host
xgss on hand, and they must DO gsauias Yam
KEGS. Hitherto they have scarcely felt tn.
effects Of this war. They have ccnt,ived x
put foreigners, and all ths scum Of their cities
in the front, while, for the most part, the,
ssr. since We cannot, ~ yet, carry the wa
70 their own krssidss. let us make them feel
nsea ~ We can. They will feel it ssverel!
s.asa when We shall have hung dozen o.
s'."As Yankees, In retaliation fer the mur
ger u OUT p.sA.ans. Keep q supply Of Yam
- p!'soasss always ON hand, 10 our maxim
MS ne sofsss way N the world 70 bring tb.
YaAkes Government TO Il. ssr...