Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-03-15

separate from you" asked him il th,
officers were to stand aside on both sii les
would the men settle the matter2 "Set
tie it'll they're just like brothers on picket
and it's damned shame they should have
to shoot each other So" Iasked him Whal
he thought of JEFF Davis his answer was
damn old JeR, you may hang him for all
me-" OF course these men try 10 make q
favorable impression. They appear to be
mach gratiied at the treatment they re-
ceive, and say if it was Known how they
were treated, Lees whole army would
come over. Their officers had told them
they would be treated like dogs. Ono said
the conscripts believe them, but We old
vets know they lie like hell" asked the
South Carolina man how he felt about
what he had been doing. Said he, ~ am
sorry, but did not know any better q we
have AZ fought Yaliantly for our pdspepdsaee
Whent thpnght We ought to have q, and
have done nothing that Fam 6shaf "a b. "a
-SeNefe Attack on nsSofotarS, StG1t s5al.
The New York Tribune prints long let
ter from J. H. Brown, it's correspondent
who has just been released from long i'm.
prisonment in the South, in which he
throws the guilt Of stopping exchanges upon
Secretary Stanton, and blames him in no
measured terms. He says:
"Agnin, and again, and again bas the
story been told, circulated and believed,
that general exchange of our prisoners
would soon be made. From May 80, 1863,
when the cartel was interrupted, to the
present, this statement has been put forth,
usually just before draft, or when il was
necessary to stife the natural clamors of
the people. Aud to serve this very need.
tul purpose, some hundreds, aud ouce or
twice some thousands, usually the sick sud
wounded, have been exchanged by spe.
ciRl arrangement. But nothing like a gen.
eral exchange has been begun, aud am
free to say, in my judgment, was ever con.
templated at Washington. For the refusal
to exchange, and for the darkness that en-.
shrouds the entire question of the exchange,
we are, to the best of my inform alton, in.
debted to the Secretary of War. It is, have
understood, his settled conviction not TO ex.
change at all; that we can far bet OF afford
to do without our prisoners than the south
erners can without theirs, and that our
best policy is to retain all our cap,ives and
let the foe retain all of his until the end of
the war. Regarded outside of the light of
humanity, | think this view correct and
wise; but when the secretary gives, as has
been alleged, as one of his reasons that the
time OF many of our soldiers held in the
South has expired, while those in our
hands are enlisted for the war, there must
be few who will not be shocked at the
gross injustice. done to our brave defenders,
and at the entire cold bloodeness Of the
man capable Of arriving at such couclu-
sion.
"The loyal people of tho Republic are
not Children nor TOOLS They can bear to
be fairly dealt With; they eau comprehend
matters of policy perhaps as vel! as some.
81 tss1a eseR,ss-s.Aof- III; c&btheiS and they
certainly have no relish 20 be blinded and
bullied by al incompetent Aecretary, as
others high in Office are said to be, into
measures that are neither opt nor adrun-
tageous. Let us have no more shufEing on
the subject of the exchange. Let it be uu
derstood who is responsible for the thous.
ands OF deaths OF our prisoners. Let sec.
retary Stanton discharge his duties dtly, or
let him resign."