The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1862-04-02
PERFIDY OF THE NORTH
Message from President Davis IN Secret Ses-
zion of Congress.


zion Of Congress.
The Examiner Of the 2Dti says: We learn
that yesterday 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 CO.
vernment be released from the obligation OF
their parole, so as to bear arms III nur strug.
gle for independence.
The recommendation was urged as re-.
taliation for TIE infamous and rec cklsss breaJ Ii
of good faith on the par oi lha Northern
Cove nment with regard - tie exchange Of
prisoners, and was accompanied ~ the ex-
posture Of this perfidy IN lengthy CORES
p"ndence conducted by the War Dspaft-
ment. We have been enasled tO extract the
points oi this interesting eorre, ,puhdence.
II appears from The corre>p >ppndenee that,
al the time permission was asked by ihp
Northern Government for Messrs. Fish and
Ames to visit heir prisoners within the iu.
r,sdlct,sn OF The South. nur government.
While denying this per:nsslnR sought TO
mprovt the opportunity bt concerning set
tied plan for the exchange Of prisoners. For
the execution Of this purpose Messrs. on
vernment a. cnmml, sioners t. meet lhose OF
the Northern Government under flag Of
truce al Norfolk.
Subsequently letter from Gen. Wool
was addressed 10 Gen. Huger, informing I'm
that he, Gen. Wool, had FIJI authority ID set
tie any terms f,r the exchange OF PRISONERS,
and asking an interview on the subject
Gen. Howell Cobb was then appointed BY
the government 10 mediate with Gen. Woo,
aud to settle a perm nent plan for the ex-
change OF prisoners during the war Thr
adjustment was considered TO have been
satl,lac torily made.
1t wss agreed that the prisoners Of war
in thu hands Of each government should be
exchanged, man for man, the officers being
assmllated as to rank, &C.. that our priva-
feer.men should be exchanged on the foot
ing Of prisoners of var that any surplus re-
naming pn either ii IL. alter thes- ex.han.
ge-, shnald be recessed, and tai hereafter,
1---. 49,. ..i.i.- i4...a..s,s.. af fi,a war
prlsnnrrs taken on either SIDE should De r.
roied.
In carrying nut thi. agreement. our 90
sernment has released ,0ne fhtee hundred
prisoners a0,,e those exchanged Ds he North,
the balance IN rnt competing n1nDets ui
prisoners i, the h,nd- nf the two cavern
mpnts BENG - much III nur taYar. At the
time. however. of sensing Nlrfh the hostages
we had retained for nur pri,ateer,men, zen
praI abb hal reason 70 suspect the gnnd
faith It the Nnrhrrn 4; ,erntnent, and tel.
pgraphed ~ time "a ihtrrrept thr release oi
pa ton IL ths,r hostages (tmnng them
nlnn. Cnrcaan.l Ullo Wers en- route from
pn,ni, turtber South than Rlrh 0nd IL q
North under Az truce i Mort lk. 4
number ol these hostages, hoMetrr. had al
ready been discharged.
Il nav appears that, ~ cnntraNention q
the solemn agreement Of the Norihern 60
sernmenl. not one Of our privateersmeu hav,
been released. aud the Fort Dunelson prl
soners, instead Of being paruled, haze beer
taken into the interior, where they are stil
cnnlined
As Judgment upnn this open and shame
less pellid, 1t the North. il i proposed tina
our prisoners, who have bren parolri BY th'
Yankees, shall be released IRON their obll
g,tlons. There i as Intle daubt ol tHi
honor Of such proppsitiot A. there = q 4
Jus ness and meetness as q retaliatory mea
sure Tor an act II flagrlnl psrfiiy