Interesting correspondence.
One readers will recollect that some time go the newspapers reported that two Confederate officers had been shot, by
Burnside, for offence of recruiting in
Kentucky, a State by the
Confederacy and also by the
Yankees.
As all the
Confederate States stand precisely the same footing with
Kentucky--that , are all claimed by the
Yankee Government to admit the fight of
Burnside to recruiting officers in
Kentucky, was to his right to do the same thing to
Virginia or
South Carolina.
As that was , the
Confederate author opened a correspondence with the
Federal authorities, demanding the charge and specification against these men.--The answer was that they were tried as spies.
A copy of the record was then demanded, and appeared from it that they were tried not as last for recruiting in
Kentucky.
Resolved to ,
President Davis had a couple of
Captains selected by lot, as we stated the other day. But, in the meantime, he thought the best to try the effects of negotiation, especially as there were various other points to state.
The correspondence in another column between
Vice-President Stephens and certain Yankee officials explains the whole matter, and we refer the curious reader to it.
There is nothing meaner than the genuine
Yankee, and
Lincoln is one of these.
Stated by the
fall of Vicksburg, he will listen to no terms.
Let
Lee give
Meade another sound drubbing, and he will be glad enough to negotiate.
This is a repetition of the old game.--But it will not do.