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hat he has offered, through Gen. Meredith, to send 12,000 or more Confederate prisoners South in exchange for the same number, which the Confederate Commissioner refused, but said he would agree to a general exchange, the effect of which undoubtedly would be to cancel the excess of prisoners in our hands by a delivery of about 40,000 for about 13,000; to leave to the rebel authorities the entire disposition of such colored troops and their white officers as they might capture; to expose Captains Sawyer and Flyun to their fate under orders in Richmond, which have never been countermanded; to turn loose again certain notorious guerilla leaders to renew their ravages in Kentucky and Missouri, (neither of which States have ever united with the so called Southers Confederacy to put into the field a fresh army of rebels, to be recaptured; and, in short, we should deliberately neutralize or throw away a chief part of the power of the Government at this time, through which there may be some