[WhiskeyPapa]

As a representative of the Federal Government, of Lincoln and the Executive branch of government, the responsibility stills falls to Lincoln.

Seward tried to play Lincoln, but Lincoln played Seward instead.

Seward had been the front runner for the presidential nomination in 1860. Lincoln was the dark horse and he wound up winning. Seward communicated with these commissioners on his own. If Lincoln knew about it -- I don't know.

But what is known is that, as I posted, Lincoln told the rebels exactly what he planned to do, and nothing in the record suggests he had any other plan. He put the onus of opening hostilities on the rebels and they followed the course of action most disastrous for themselves.

Walt

[4CJ]

If Lincoln knew about it -- I don't know.

Yep, that was ol massa Abe all right, just settin' up in that ol' White house, sipping a cup of tea. The same President that was near the battlefields himself, that sent thousands and thousands of telegrams directing the war, that replaced generals left and right, that ordered the arrests of thousands of 'alleged' traitors, that ordered the closing of hundreds of newspapers, &C, &C, didn't know what his cabinet members were doing?

ROTFLMAO! I knew you left of the sarcasm tag right?