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

The New York Commercial Advertiser
administers what we consider a much
needed tebdke 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, paradiug 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.
Pryor deserve at our hands more than is
accorded to the humblest and meanest tag
gler of the bel rank and Gle, that he should
be first furnished with 9, State room in
Fort Warren, instead of q ground floor cell
at JOhpsou's island or Camp Chase, and
then released on parole, allowed couple
of days at the New York Hotel, secession,
hesdquasters,) and, finally, at his leisure
and by easy stages, landing ia Washington
at the private residence of Col" Forney.
Our 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.
est attacks upon free society that we have
ever read. 1t was precisely the sort of
"stuff With which the ohivalry was re-.
called by fre.eaters for years before the re.
bellion, and which fred the Southern heart,
and so precipitated the war. Pryor may
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 "iuferiors as a military
necessity.
No one can doubt that the President
" means we'll " in extending these favors
to prominent rebel, but be certainly does
not do we'll, and he will gain neither con-
hdencs at home nor respect in rebellion,
by giving the freedom of the White House.
or OF Washington and New York to a pet.
ted prisoner. The tortured victims of
ADdersOnVille cry out against this wasted
and misplaced philanthropy.
The Commercial AdUertiser sums up its
remarks in regard to Pryor as follows: o.
We may observe that the return of Prvo,
and the feting be receives, are an insuit -
every loyal citizen of the United StateS
aud burning shame and disgrace in yiew
OF the horrid suferings to which our moo
! lei 10 rebel prisons are subjected. -
"hlle me Senate discusses retaliation anal
Loyal League Clubs are hot with indiona..
tton at the treatment of our men nv reSeI.
mere 10 found maWkish sympatbv n
n'gn places for these traitors, that should
make one tremble for future in wh;ch
faVors shall be heaped upon the bes %n'C 20
the chiefs of. rebellion, The treatroont
henry SIFoote and of Correspondent poIt
Iard are cases in point, where our Govern-
IN ment mas shown a discreditable lenienn.,
ne 1''oune correspondent escaped 'iIn1t
OF the jaws of death, out of the ga SS
OF nell land found protection and ssfeo
y uuder the Union flag. Roger a
rFyor viii return to rebeldom font
Of the gates" of the White Ho1ss ..o
sneer at the vacillation and weakness wb1cG
n nave been of 80 much advantage TO him IVY
Sa.I Sumner 0 protests against a bust Of The
G Geaa Chief Justice fancy in the Sunreme
w" t;. Room. Let him reserve his firs for
5To .ime when statutes shall be votEd n
H. Ts snG JEFF. Davis and the Rhstt fami:
6srD aGe lion and the lamb are already nTe.
PA sIasa 10 ne down together. -
l., 0 no.s:1 Is essentially bloody and cruel
y possesses no element of civiIi,Sti %U
;ommon gratitude, for it accont soe even