Partisan Rangers.
--There is a stranger for prevalent in respect to this branch of the
Confederate service, which we take occasion to correct.
It is thought by some — and that belief operates to the prejudice of enlistments in these corps — that Partisan Rangers are nothing more or less than guerillas, roving parties, independent of all authority and law, and as such are not entitled to the protection of the code of civilized warfare.
On the contrary an act of Congress has established this branch of the service, of which the officers are regularly commissioned by the
President.
The men are paid and provided as in the regular service, with the addition of receiving the value of the arms and munitions of war which they may capture from the enemy.
They are designed to operates beyond the lines of our armies.
That they will be in constant conflict with the enemy is most likely, and that the warfare they carry on may be very bloody; but it does not follow if they, on their part, observe the rules of civilized warfare, that they will not receive them in turn.
If the enemy shall attempt to deprive our partisan warriors of those advantages which other prisoners are guaranteed by the civilized code, not only may the partisans themselves retaliate upon the enemy, but
President Davis himself would doubts feel called upon to in later pose for their protection Let no one, then, be deterred from enlisting with the partisans under the apprehension that they will be treated as bris or pirates.
They stand upon as high a ground, nay, upon the same ground, as do the regular and provisional armies--
Whig. 
