The daily Chattanooga rebel. [volume] (Griffin, Ga.) 1864-1865, 1864-09-08
THE DAILY REBEL.
On.
WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPT. Z, 1864.
inc E,change OF PrIsoners.

The publication recently made by Mr.. Commits
ssousr ould, which appeared in our yesterdays edi'
lion, hTss the responsibility for the failure t. con-
tuue the exchange Of prisoners, where 1t properly
belongs, upon the Yankee government Tens Of
Thousands Of men are now suffering from conhne-
nsnt, or ere heart sick because Of their long sepa-
rstion from their families and friends and yet the
Lincoln government refuses to comply with the ar
raneemsnt to whiCF It Ind solemRly committed IT.
sslE and under which it acted so long as It was lie
Interest TO do so.
Tho reason which prompts them to indulge in
ths bars-fsced rascaity, is, If possible still more
contemplate Our soldiers are esIiated for the
war, and when exchanged return Immediately to
their commands, aud thus swell the ranks Of our
armies Theirs are enlisted for three years, and
tho terms Of the greater proportion Of those We
bold as prsonera, sither has, OF WI shortly, OK
Pife
The Yankee government therefore argues, that II
tta. 5 S==== the exchange now. they will be swap
ping sol6iers for noucombatauts and thus incroage
our armies without benedting their own.
Whatever VIC may think Of the motives of the
Northern people in waging this war upon u.s. no
one can deny that the Yankee soldier has faithfully
complied With his contract at the time Of bis enlist
msnt. flo has endured all of tue hardships and
priyations Of The sode's life, and has permitted
himself on all occasions to be led up like sheep
10 The slaughter, in the maintenance of what he
was taught was the cause of his country. Through
three long years of self denial and Of carnage b,
has upheld the Banner of tho United States, and
slaked his life upon hundreds Of batte-Gelds in it
defence
Il may DO argued that having done these thing
be deserves his fate This is true His punish
nsutis not greater than his sin lie has perInitie
himself to be used as an instrument of oppression
In war prosecuted for he ruin Of people VII
never did him wrong, m were simply lighting 70
principles, which he boast, that he has been strug
Cling to uphold.
But this is not tho poin These men have sery
I'd their government VA fidelity, and for thre
years have bravGd the l,aden storm Of death in il
behalf, and now because their terms Of service hay
expired, or are about To expire, und-they can be
no further use, the government baScly leaves theI
70 perish Ia our Southern prisons, in a climate I
which their constitutions are not adapted, an
whore they are dying Al the raie of one to two hur
drtd per day. The yankee soldier can Judge frol
this treatment the extent Of the gratitude his cour
Try feels for his services. Many Of them hay
doubtless stood between the array Of Gen Lee, an
the Washington despot, and saved his person an
his Capitol from capture and destruction, and no
helsaveS them to die and rot in prisons to whic
they haze found their way in aghting for hi
csuse,
The Confederate Government is ready and anx
lous, and has ever been, to make regul exchange
but ithas encountered duplioity, porddy and doubl
dealing, IN every attoApt II has made ainooth aus
pension Of the cartel y procure resumption Of Ii
ystsm Of exchange. IT. skirts arc clear Of all rc
spondbility and history and the world win 50 Dc
eide.