Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-02-28

i BE new 1OEk SOHbHleECt06 AuVGEItSI
administers what We consider a much
needed tebIke to the authorities at Wash
ington who have released Roger A. Pryor.
the doughty FIRE eating duellist and rebel,
who along with Henry A. Wise, did as
much as any two men in Virginia to bring
about this rebellion. He is now in Wash
ington, Parading the Avenue on parole; re-
ports daily at Forney's newspaper Office,
and reads overthe exchanges, and between
times visits the President, as we see it
stated, in company with Forney himself.
This is delightful way of being pris-
oner of war, quite different from the article
measured out to our boys at Salisbury,
Andersonville and Libby. What consid-
GRAFTON does such a wretch as Roger A.
accorded to the humblest and meanest tag
gler of the rebel rank aud file, that he should
be first furnished with State room in
Fort Warren, instead of ground floor cell
at JObnson's island or Camp Chase, and
then released on parole, allowed a couple
of days at the New York Hotel, secession
headquarters,) and, finally, at his leisure
and by easy stages landing in Washington
at the private residence of COL" Forney.
Oar readers have not forgotten that in
1860 this bloody conspirator boosted in his
Atheneum speech here that in the event of
MIR. Lincoln's election he was ready to
play the role of Brutus, and plant dagger
in the Presidents heat. When Pryor was
editor of the South, in 1857, an article
appeared in that paper taking the
ground that the settlement of the
slavery question could not restore harmony
between the North and the South, because
the superior race could not possibly live in
union with the inferior, and this sage re-
mark was the prelude to one of the bitter
eat attacks upon free society that we have
ever read. 1t was precisely the sort of
stuff" with which the Chivalry was re-.
called by fre.eaters for years before the re-.
belliOn, and which fred the Southern heart,
and so precipitated the war. Pryor NAV
have changed; but if he has, it is the most
remarkable conversion since that Of St.
Augustine. Possibly for the nonce, he
holds bis opinions in allegiance, and asso-
ciates with his "inferiors " as a military
necessity.
No one can doubt that the President
"means we'll in extending these favors
to prominent rebel, but he certainly does
not do we'll, and he will gain neither con-
6dence at home nor respect in rebeldom,
by giving the freedom of the White House.
or of Washington and New York to a pet.
ted prisoner. The tortured victims of
AndersonVille cry out against this wasted
and misplaced philanthropy.
The Commercial AdUeTtiser sums MP Its
remarks in regard to Pryor as follows: 1
We may observe that the return of Pryor.
and the teting be receives, are an insult ~
every loyal citizen of the United Statea
a1n burning shame und disgrace in view
OF the horrid sufferings to which onr noor
fellows IN rebel prisOps are subiected -,
WhlIe the Senate discusses retaliation Qua.
Loyal League Climbs are hot with indiono1
ton at the treatment of our men bv rebeI.
mere 10 found maWkish symnatbv n
high places for these traitors, that sboniS
make one tremble for future in wbinL
taVors shall be heaped upon the head. -
the chiefs Of. rebellion, The treatment of
henry Foote and of correspondent Poi.
lard are cases 10 point, where our Govern-
m ment has shown a discreditable lenisnc1
The Tribune correspondent escaned isogt
OF the jaws of death, out of the oates
OF hell" and found protection and ssfes
y uuder the Union Tag. Roger a
Pryor will return to rebeldom font n
OF the gates" of the White House tol
sneer at the vacillation and weakness wb1cG
nave ma been of 30 much advantage TO hin
Mr, Sumner GI protests against bust Of the
G Geaa Chief Justice fancy in the Snnreme
T ~" Room. Let him reserve his -f;re for
E 4%e time when statutes shall be votsd tn ~
10 ma ana T. JET. Davis and the Rhstt fami:
n.y. me 10 lion and the lamb are already pre-.
pA sIa 10 lie down together. F -
:, slavery n ia essentially bloody and crnsI
~ ~ possesses no element of civiIi,S t .iOn
Christianity or humanity. It l seRs svsn
common gratitude, for it accent atAt soS even