Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1863-11-24
EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS.

The exchange will probably be renewed
It turns out that Meredith, supposed to be
Yankee commissioner for exchange, vas not
the commissioner. but an dgrnt. Tho real
commissioner is Gen. III: ,E,c0ck The cores
poaGence Of Judge On!I aGd Meredith has
terminated ,,y an offensive and scurrilous
letter written by the latter which Judge
Ou:d very properly reru-ncd. A new c"rres>
ponacucc has c, ln:nencea with Hitchcock.
IT roull seem ,has the Yankee plot to keep
our prisoners frco1 she fell, and leave theirs
in our hands, to he treated rs we please, does
not satisfy the people of the North. The
very falschoods so freely promulgated about
!arbar;ties ard outrage inflicted on the Yam
kcc prisoners at Richmond, Gavc defeated
their own object. Instead of inspiring Il
burning Tassicn f4r u rcsistless crusade to
sweep from the face of the earth that den Of
demons, Richmond, TO liberasc The prisoners
by force Of arms, and deliver he city to their
merc;es. the effect 5as been tn create press
urc on the gn7ornncnt to rescue them by the
reasonable process of exchange. The New
York "Times" cxrcunda the matter thus:
"Thcsc noble defenders Of the Union must
not be left longer . their agonies. 1t will be
q crime before humanity and high Heaven for
our Governments 10 allow this thing to go on.
At anv cost. at any sacrifice, 1t must be end
ed. We cannot reason these demons into any
lust EXCHANGE, a,'i it is useless again to att
temrt il. TO undertake to frighten them into
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prisoners is impossible, for it would but make
us devils also. We have 10 way bat to yield.
Give them their demands. Conccde ANYTHING.
everything. no matter what, if it will only
ra.som thes4 heroes from the gripe Of their
tormenters while life yet fiickcrs. We can
afford it. The world will take account of the
contrast in tho spirit of the two parties to this
war, and twill enure vastly to toe mor"l power
nf the national cause Every soldier in the field
will also rake account cf it, and his n@vcs
will be strung to ye5 k"cHcr rig6r for q just
retribution upon these enemies of himself and
his country.
I'VE ad;urc 'lc government to deliver those
thirteen thousand Richmond prisoners. In
the name of their gallant deeds for their cOun-
trv's hae--in tho name of the mothers anu
wives, and sisters and children. whose hearts
are wruae with TIE tiings of their suffs.ings
in the name Gf the sensililities Of every
inval man in Tho Renublic-in the name Of.
ciTilization--ia thu name Of humanity-in
tho name of God-wo demand that these vic>
TINS of Confederate fendistness shall be res
cued, at whatever cost"
As to the CONTRAST in the spirit of the two
parties" which the world is called on to take
account Of the world will take good care not
to form its opinion uron'the statements OF our
enemies. The comrortis, that nobody believes
Yankees now.
On the resumption os exchange, we may
loaIs for new aud cver.varying schemes Of
fraud. Judge 0uld will have to look sharp.
II is satisfactory, too, to find that even in
Yankceland the aulacious liars have not tic
story all their own way. The world" says
elitorially that the stoppagc of the exchange
Of prisoners has been solely the weTS OF the
Federal Government.
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