Thanks for posting.
[Bubba Ho-Tep] The South Carolina commissioners were a separate and earlier delegation from the confederate commissioners.
So what??!!!
The POINT is, the South offered to negotiate on the national debt!
DAMN! Make a point and you guys want to quibble about the size of Mickey Mouse's ears!!!
So like their successors, the South Carolina negotiators began with pre-conditions.
Again, so what?! All negotiations begin with positions and demands for preconditions or postconditions or suppositions or suppositories.
Grow a pair and give the point -- The South offered to negotiate the national debt, they did NOT "walk away" from it!
They did not "steal" anything!
POINT, dammit!
The point, which appears to have escaped you, is that South Carolina's inclusion of the national debt in their portfolio of negotiating points, does not mean that the confederate commissioners were likewise offering to negotiate that point.
Maybe you weren't aware of this, but the government of South Carolina in December 1860 was not at all one and the same as the government of the confederacy in March of 1861.
As to the preconditions, it's obvious that both delegations came from a position of "We're taking this, and you can either accept a price that we'll offer, or you'll get nothing." Or, as the Godfather put it, either your signature or your brains are going to be on that contract. Buchanan refused to negotiate under that threat and so did Lincoln.
The only point you’ve demonstrated thus far is the one on top of your gourd. No wonder you have to resort to huge font.