The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-05-19
J. D. on Exchanges.

That the Southern Confederacy is a
stupendOus fraud-rooted and grounded
in elaborate and systematic falsehoOd-
has been often enough demonstrated.
After all the States that could be had
been bullied into declaring themselves
out of the Union, these were found too
few to stand alone, and it became neces-
sarv TO lie out large number more;
and this was achieved through the
wicked, wanton cOmmencementO of hos
tilities. Then the traitor Governors of
Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee,
Missouri etc, with their lellOW-conspi-
rators, told their people that LiHc0k,
and ne Ab0Ht0aiSfy had declared uapre-
g0kcd lcar upon the South; and that they
had no alternative but to arm and fight
in defence Of their homes and families
And these gigantic falsehOods-all con
tradiction being stifled-have ever since
been the basis and motive power Of the
rebellion.
jeff Davis has just put forth a fresh
manifesto to the dupes he is impOver-
ishing, starving, and virtually killing,
in the course of a Message to his Con-
gress, dated May I'd In this Message,
he says;
" On the subject Of the exchange of
prisoners, 1 greatly regret to be unable
to give you satisfactory information
The Government Of the United States,
while persisting in failure to execute
the terms Of the cartel, make occasional
deliveries Of prisoners, and then sus-
pend action without apparent cause. j
confess my inability to comprehend
their policy or purpose. The prisoners
held by US, in spite Of human care, are
perishing from the inevitable effects Of
Imprisonment and the home-sickness
produced by the hOpelessness of release
from confinement The spectacle of
their suffering augments our longing
desire to relieve from similar trials our
own brave men, who have spent so many
weary months in a cruel and useless
Imprisonment, endured with heroic con-
stancy The delivery, after suspen-
sion of some weeks, has just been re
sumed by the enemy; but, as they give
no assurance Of intent to carry out the
cartel, an interruption of the exchange
may recur at any moment
The blOody-minded villain knows eV-
cry word of this to be false rs though
it came direct from the Father of Lies
knows that our Government has been
hard at work all Winter to effect the
exchange he processes to desire; and has
been baified by his persistent determi-
nation nof to exchange, and his repeat
ed refusals to give man for man so long
as he had one of our men to give. Our
Government has been more than will
ing-has been eager and anxious-to
give a Rebel prisoner Of equal grade for
every Union soldier he holds in cap
tivity-so anxious that it has repeated
ly sent boat-lOads of prisoners to the
very gates Of his capital, and has been
told by his agent that, ifany more were
sent, they should be returned without
exchange All we ask-all we have eV-
er asked--is man for man, grade for
grade, until one party or the other
should have been drained Of its last
prisoner, and this he has steadily re-
fused US First, he quarreled with our
agent, Gen. Meredith, who had 10 be
withdrawn; next, he would have no Of
fetal intercourse with Beast Butler"
and when our Government submitted
to that insult, and substituted still an
other agent, it was found that he would
exchange no man not Of approved com
plexion.
So weary months have dragged on
we waving all formulas, and asking
simply that our captured men might
be returned 10 US for an equal number
Of Rebel prisoners remaining ia our
hands We have asked and wished
nothing more, and this we could by no
means get In all the exchanges hith-
erto made, down 20 the last week no
single Black soldier has ever been re-
turned 10 Us, even when-as at Fort +.
Wagner-there had been a special I
agreement made Cor a fun exchange Of (
the wounded prisoners. The rebels /.
readily consented TO this bat having I
secured the Liberation Of their men,
repudiated with the refreshing coolness /
Of JEFF own State OF Mississippi f
Yet We have journals printed IN the 4
loyal States that are now circulating T.
the villains calumnies on our Govern 4
nent, and VIII never print any refuta-
ion Of them They call themselves
Democratic, and wonder why we can 4
lot have Peace IN J. 1fibine