Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-08-11
rrom ,bo Rlehnend Enquirer, July So.

us into all the most stroclous eA'E
Of barbaric warfare, from when every nu
man and cbiyalrous feeling OF our hAsu
revolts. We have earnestly ussNG
carry on this war-since war IneIe w.
TO be-on those regulated t
which civilized and Christian natous uas
adopted and established.-Hltner1o, u sn
face of grievous proVocations Suu u
ly outrspes, the Confederate GoVernmen.
has s.eedily. pursued this course, outGu
seems that will no longer be allowed US
The Yankee Government, strong IN l's
present excess of prisoners aud knowing
that onr citizens are more valuable TO US
in ever way than their Hessians are 70
them. has stopped exchanges altogetneF'
after frst, fraudulentIy inducing our Com
missioner to give them up several thous-
and prisoners without equivalent
They evidently adopt this policy, prin-
cipally. with view of keeping out OF the !
Confederate service the large NUMBER OF
prisouers now in their hands; and many OF
these are to be kept out toreVer-!O'O0O
Confederates are now pinlng anu dying III
the unwholesome dungeons OF Fott Oele-
ware, where they perish fast. But there IS
also another reason, or rather pteteA'' lot
putting an end to the cartel OF e&enauees'
it ia to have ample means OF Illuminating
our government from carrying out its de-
clared policy of treating officers, VINO com
mand hordes of iusurgent negroes, as Grim
iual under our laws. The New YORK Irl-
bune, of the 23rd says:
awe should be glad to see some eXPla
nation of the course which Gen. Grant was
nermitted to take in paroling the officers
who surrendered to him at Vicksburg.-
Previously to that surrender, the Rebel
Commissioners of Exchange had been mo-
tilted that this Government meant TO pro-
tect all officers aud soldiers under its flag,
without regard to color, and since the reo'
els persisted in refusing to exchange COL
Streight and his officers on the pretence
that they were in command OF some negro
troops, our Government stopped al! eG
changes If the authorities at Washing
ton did not notify Gen. Grant to detaln 9is
prisoners, it is desirable to know why
they did not"
This means that the enemy accepts with
delight the issue raised by the order OF
President Davis with regard to the treat
meut of those rufian Yankees who put
themselves at the head of iuSurgent ne
groes to excite serVile war. They are de-
termined to insist upon our using SUCH
rufian Wofficers" and their bands OF black
brigands as honorable enemiesi and are
happy to make the action of our Govern
ment An excuse or occasion for putting to
death Confederate officers and soldiers
They hail with pleasure the opportunity OF
showing that they rate the white master
lighting for his cOuntry's independence
exactly at the same value with his insnrg-
ent slaves, and this they will call hne
moral effect.
In this, and all other matters, they in
tend 10 force us to adopt their theory OF
the war, and accept their appreciation OF
the combatants; aud they rely upon their
excess of prisoners, aud the high value
which they know we place upon our cap
tive brethren, as the means of subduiug us
to their will.
And hitherto they have actually succeed
ed in lettering our Government from meas
ures of retaliation, by the simple method
of announcing that they will not regard
your acts as retaliatory At all, but as an or
igiuaI outrage, which they will then have
to avenge teufold. We have hanged none
of their officers 10 retribuhon for the hang
ing of MIR. Muuford in New Orleans. We
have never taken auy vengeance for the
massacre of ten citizens of Missouri, on
pretence that they murdered man who
was not murdered at all.
The two officers who drew the lot for ex-
ecution several weeks ago as retaliation
for the execution of two of our officers IN
Kentucky have not been hanged. We do
not saw that this execution is held in sus-
peuse on account of the most iusolent
threat of the enemy that if they shall be
put to death the captive sous OF two of our
respected Generals shall be murdered. But
the present state of the case must certain
ly give occasion to that superstition. 1t
will be said that we are afraid to retaliate
in single case and that in order TO de-
eide what outrages justify retaliation, we
wait for the judgment of the enemy; that
ia. accent the Yankee estimate of Yankee
outrage.
II is not to be supposed that our enemy
is blind, or iratteutive to his advantage
which we have given him over US. Ac-
cordingly it is apparent that the Lincoln
Government now means to use that adVan-
tage to the uttermost-to be bound by the
cartel of exchange just so far and so long
as may salt that Government itseit-for
every captured slave restored to his mas
ter, to hang q white mau-for the first act
of long threatened and well-merited retail
iation we may venture to commit, to re-
spoud with a new outrage of tenfold afro
city-to thin and waste our armies by
keeping our brave soldiers in pestilential
dungeons, making it sure that they wifi
never more charge in Confederate line, nor
wave Confederate battle flag.
If we threaten to do even so to the pris-
ouers in our hands, they will make US
welcome to do 80; they cau get Hessians
in plenty. In short, they wish to provoke
US TO this most hateful aud abominable
contest in sort of emulation Of savage
~. They dare us 70 it and in order to
leave us no alternative, they show us too
clearly that tbeirintention is to ride rough
shod over us- They say plainly by their
actions that they-as they are merely sup
pressing rebellion and enforcing obedi-
euce to the 'rlaWs"-haTe all the rights,
and we have none. Il is for them to pluu-
der towns and houses-for this is only a
wholesome severity to make the people |
sensible that resistance is useless.
II is for them TO shoot or haBg such |
nri.nnara o. thar nleasR heranse fheH are