New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-12-09
I'LL, CAPTIVE E,eT,aE:Hs.


Rebel sheet issued Northwest OF the ONO, III
spite Of the best efforts of The Cincinnati En-
grirer and The Dubuque Heroid. II ~ thoroughly |
Pro-Slayery and utterly unscyupGlous' wh-.c il
is generally vel, posted, especially with regard
TO the counses and plans Of the Rebels. when
ii states, therefore, that the whole controversy
respecting the exchange of prisoners grows ou'
of The determination OF tho Rebel chiefs to muir
der the officers and ensla5c or Kill the pTiyales
Of our colored regiments, we believe II tells the
truth. The sub,lety Of Ould and the compare
tive SIMPLICITY of Gen. Meredith have consprea
to obscure that truths but we trust our Govern
ment viii take care that it is made plan 10 III
mankind.
The Rebel, long ago passed acts and issued
procamations enbodying ond announcing their
determination to treat the officers ana priyaies
Of our black regiment rs above stated. AID
there can be no rational doubt that they are as
bad as their word Before we had q black com
ps.y in the field, they kidnapped the driven oil
carriages sent down in August. 1862. +, the
battIe-held OF cen Ropes Bui n.,.: ~; ~; Tee'l
for our wounded, and swept them oil into Slav-
cry. They did the same with those betrayed
into their hands by M.less ircachery at Harper
terIy Last June, rs ,lcy swept ocros7 Mary
aut aud MP INTO Southern Pennsylvania, they /
caught quite O number OF blacls-sOmo Of them,
doubtless. Gqtiyos from Rebel owners, bat
many frce-born-and carried chem al of into
bondage. And, up To this hour, after meeting
our black soldiers in fair fight at least a dozen
times. wherein they have always had the advan-
age oyer Us in position or in numbers, they
have never yet exchanged one single prisoner,
White Or black, belonging to colored regiment,
aud We presume they are resolved that they
never will And they are torturing and stary-
ing our captured brothers in order to compel
our Government to exchange for whites only, |,
and leave officers and priyates Of our oolored
rsGment, 70 be enslayed or murdered without
resistance on our part.
You have only TO read their journals to mark
how thoroughly iendi'h the Rebel leaders have
become in their maligniy. more especially since
the refusal Of Great Britain and # France 70
AXE Their part ha, overwhelmed them with de- =
spGir They arc losing all regard for the public
opinion Of Christeudon For many months, they 4,
have been on the watch for preieIt for inaugu.
rating 8 Wholesale butchery OF those Unionisis
whom the chances of war throw into their .
bands. Their journals have recently narrated
DO hyh glee the laci that some prisoners recently
captured by them were identified n having
formerly served in their ranks probably under
cOnscrpiion); whcreupOn they were at once
put 10 death. Suppose, now, that We were to
capture Lee, Beauregard, Johnston, Magruder
Pemberion, and the rest Of their Major
Gcnerals-nearly all deseriers from orr army
and we're to.try and hang or shoot them az such
how would they like it, Yet their precedent
giyes ms full license TO do 50.
They recently eepturtd virginian who holds
the nominal post OF ala 20 GOV. rierpont. AT
once, some Of their leading journals clamored
for bis execution as traitor 10 Vuginia. We
do not know that they have been gratiiied; but
+, i IN The direct line of Rebel progress that /,
they should be. ID
But let Us consider what The chicago Times.
through the letter Of is Special Corre4pon-
dent" at Washington, say- on the general
subject s
.rbe exchange IL prisoners WAS proceeding regulory
undo. tie terms II The cartel agreed upon by MAJ Ina
low and Col Oud. undor the sanction 81 both Govern
lncnts wien II suddenly stopped by MI. stanton,
r the order he says, OF the Presidents md on this
occasou believe he tells the truth Why was this +
order uromufgatcd " not promulgated until after
Mr. Lincoln had osccraincd definitely thst the Confed
crate Government did not recognize our niggefs In uni
torn or rather t,iT Diggcrs stolen rom tbeH( As sol
deis: WOud not treat cm or their oIcers on pcriec,
eajiV with our white officers and soldiers; ana would
r6t exchange either them or their officers u cap
iued These alarming facts were INST di'cov'
cred by Tie Dotoiious Higgnson ana MCnigOm
orf and sent hy them 10 senators SUMMER ana Nlsph !
and commuIic ated by the latter. IN turn. 10 Mr. LIN
coin The President was unwilling TO believe them;
bat .aiiscd himself finally that they Aore really true
The AbOhllOnIss ana Radicals VINO control blm ana
who really the supreme power IA the state had ~
The mean time persuaded him to assure 10 the negroes
WHO would cnlsi the same protection from the Federal
Government which The latter extended To their white
soldiers IN other words they persuaded tho Admins
trat!on 10 huih0Izo them % make the Official DECLARE
ton and it has boe4 made aud officially promulgated
that gro sOldrs and their officers on footing or
perfect equality IN oil things with white j
inen and their officers and shnll receive q
the same protection from the Government
The blame lies upon the Administration u
and the Republican party-hrsi, for oansns me at
all second for investing II with is present features Of
ferocity; third for preventing medicines being sent to
the South and fourth. for conducting tho war In nuch
d manner 10 prOOng IL.
"In the mean time fifteen thousand 0f0ur brave men
who left comfortable homes and happy fsmes IN order
10 fight as they supposed for the Union ore now IAN
gushing in Southern prisons. and there they will
tinue 10 langgish. Why Simply because the Admin
istraon is determined 10 adhere TO its pct Of
dulge the wlm3 oil Greeley and Sumner on this point
those brave men will be lett 70 langnsh and die by in
chess trctng their lives away day by day ia hopeless
agony u. tue thought .ba. n' sea' VI O'ms i"d An