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The Daily Dispatch: December 29, 1863., [Electronic resource], No Conference to be with Beast Butler on the Exchange question. (search)
No Conference to be with Beast Butler on the Exchange question. The following is a copy Hon. Robert Ould's letter declining to recognize Beast Butler in the capacity Yankee Commissioner of Exchange: Confederate States of America. War Department, Richmond, Va., Dec. 27th, 1863. Major Gen. E. F. Hitchcock, Commissioner of Exchange: Sir --I have this day received from Major Gen. E. F. Butler a copy of a communication to be signed by yourself as Commissioner of the Exchange of Prisoners, in which is stated that by the authority and order of the United States Secretary of War Major. Gen. E. F. Butler was appointed special Agent for the exchange of prisoners war at City Point." You are doubtless aware that by proclamation of the President of the Confederate States, Maj. Gen. E. F. Butler is under the of outlawry. Although we do not present to prescribe what agents your Government shall employ in connection with the cartel, yet when one who has been proclaimed to be
The Daily Dispatch: December 29, 1863., [Electronic resource], Additional from the North. (search)
could perform the feat himself or applaud its performance by others. Mr. Henry A. Hurlbut, who presided, arose after the feast and commenced the ceremony, in which he returned his "most warmest" thanks for the honor conferred on him in electing him to the presidency of the society. Continuing at some length, Mr. Hurlbut referred to some of the distinguished sons of New England, and actually referred to the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers. In reply to "the day we celebrate," Rev. Mr. Hitchcock said: The Puritan element in our American character cannot be ignored. The noblest distinction of our forefathers was not in their political success, but in their probity and fear of God. The Puritan prayed with his knee on the neck of tyrants, but not so intent on choking the tyrants as to intermit prayer. The Puritan must fight his way on to universal liberty. It was an easy thing to criticise the old Puritans.--God Almighty never launched a hero into history but that there
The Daily Dispatch: December 29, 1863., [Electronic resource], No Conference to be with Beast Butler on the Exchange question. (search)
s Landing to be exchanged for the same number from this place. Commissioner Ould sent the like number of Federal prisoners, but at the same time informed Commissioner Hitchcock that the Confederate authorities could hold no communication with Butler, and that no other informal exchange would be allowed. At the same time he said iderable number, represented as prisoners, were not soldiers, but non-combatants, citizens of towns and villages, farmers, &c." judge Ould, in a letter to Commissioner Hitchcock, published in the Enquirer, of yesterday, along with Hitchcock's answer acknowledging the receipt of the same, proposed to exclude from the list of exchanHitchcock's answer acknowledging the receipt of the same, proposed to exclude from the list of exchanges all the classes of persons designated as above, and as Stanton must have had this correspondence before him when he made the statement, the confusion is, that he deliberately lied. The --ole embroilment is peculiarly characteristic of the Yankees. At Gettysburg, they found it very convenient to release their prisoners from pa