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If this bo so, and you are so willing to exchange these 278 SUPPLEMENT. colored men claimed as slaves, and you will so officially inform the Government of the United States, then, as I am instructed, a principal difficulty in effecting exchauges T\'ill be removed. As I informed you personally, in my judgment, it is neither consistent with the policy, dignity, or honor of the United States, upon anj' consideration, to allow those Avho, by our laws solemnly enacted, are made soldiers of the Union..., and who have been duly enlisted, enrolled and mus- tered as such soldiers, who have borne arms in behalf of this country, and who have been captured while fighting in vin- dication of the rights of^ that country, not to be treated as prisoners of war, and remain unexchanged, and in the service of those who claim them as masters ; and I cannot believe that the Government of the United States will ever be found to consent to so gross a wrong. Pardon mc if I misunderstood you in supposing that your acceptance of our proposition does not in good faith mean to include all the soldiers of the Union, and that you still intend, if your acceptance is agreed to, to hold the colored soldiers of the Union unexchanged, and at labor or service, because I am informed that very lately, almost contempo- raneously with this offer on your part to exchange prisoners- and which seems to include all prisoners of war, the Con- federate authorities have made a declaration that the negroes heretofore held to service by owners in the States of Dela- ware, Marjdand, and Missouri are to be treated as prisoners of war, wlien captured in arms in the service of the United States.
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