Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-04-09
ParoIed Rebel Prisoners to Fight.
THAT NEssAGE OF JErr. DAVIS.
LFrOm the Richnoud Examiner, March lsl

lErom tue hichmoud Examiner, March 49,
We learn that yesterday a message from
the President was sent into Congress, in
secret session, recommending that all our
prisoners who had been put on parole by
the Yankee Government be reledSed from he
obligation Of their parole, so as to bear arms
IN our struggle for iHdependence
The recommendation was urged as re-
taliation for the Infamous and reckless
breach of good faith on the part of the
Northern Government with regard to the
exchange of prisoners, and was accompa-
MED by the exposure of this Perfidy in a
lengthy correspondence conducted by the
War Department. We have been enabled
to extract the points of this interesting
correspondence.
1t appears from the correspondence that,
ut the time permission was asked by the
Northern Government for Messrs. Fish aud
Ames to visit their prisoners within the
jurisdiction of the South, our Government,
while denying this permission, sought to
improve tue opportunity by concerning a
settled plan for the exchange ofprisoners.
For the execution of this purpose, Messrs
Conrad and Seddon we're deputed by our
Government as Commissioners to meet
those of the Northern Government under
flag of truce at Norfolk.
Subsequently,, letter from Gen. Wool
was addressed to Gen. Huger, Informing
him that he (Gen. WoOl) had fuH duthority
to settle any. terms for the exchange Of
prisoners, and asking N interview On the
subject. Gen. Howell Cobb was then APP
pointed by the Government to mediate
with Gen. Wool, and to settle permanent
plan for the exchange of prisoners during
the war. The adjustment was considered
to nave been satisfactorily made.
1t was agreed that the prisoners of war
in the hands of each Government should
be exchanged, man for man, the officers as
simulated as to rank, &C.; that our pri-
yateersmeu should be exchanged on the
footing of prisoners of war; that any sur
plus remaining on either side, after these
exchanges, should be released, and that
hereafter, during the whole continuance of
the war, prisoners taken on either side
should be Paroled.
In carrying out this agreement, our Gov
ernment has releG5ed some three HUNDRED priS-
OHeTS above those exchanged 5y tie North,
The balance IN the eonapetiag nuRBers of tris-
oHeTs IN the H1Hds of The ttro GoverHmeats Be.
ing so much N our .faUOr. At thetime, how
ever, of sending North the hostages we
had retained for our privateersmen, Gen.
Cobb had reason to suspect the good faith
OF the Northern Government, and tele-
graPhed in time to intercept the release of
Of a portion ofthese hostages, (amoug. them
Col. COrcOran,) who were en- route from
points further South than Richmond to 90
North under a flag of truce to Norfolk. A
number ofthese hostages, however, had all
ready been exchanged.
1t now appears that, in contraveutiou of
the solemn agreement of the Northern Gov
erumeut, not one Of our pIivatesrsmen hare
been released, and the Fort DOMelson prison.
ers, iVstead Of being Paroled, haze been taken
INTO The interior. lehere they tire StiE confined.
As ajudgmsntupon this open and shame
less per6dy of the North. it is proposed
that our prisoners, who have been paroled
by the Yankees, shall be released from.
their obligations. There is as little donbt
of the honor Of such proposition as there
is of its justice aud meetness as retaIia-
tory measure for an act of fiagrautperidy.