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To: PeaRidge

Absolutely - Lincoln refused to meet with Southern peace delegation. They spent 3 or 4 days in DC and Lincoln refuse to acknowledge them.


238 posted on 02/20/2010 10:32:43 AM PST by stainlessbanner
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To: stainlessbanner
Absolutely - Lincoln refused to meet with Southern peace delegation. They spent 3 or 4 days in DC and Lincoln refuse to acknowledge them.

Meet for what? They weren't there to negotiate anything, just deliver an ultimatum.

247 posted on 02/20/2010 1:04:36 PM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: stainlessbanner

With regard to Confederate efforts to peacefully conclude an agreement, South Carolina issued a formal letter to the administration in late January of 1861 offering compensation for Union facilities on SC soil.

Shortly thereafter, Jefferson Davis offered the same to the Buchanan administration from all the seceded states.

On March 2, the first Confederate peace commissioner arrived in Washington to meet with Lincoln to discuss peace and compensation that had been authorized by the Confederate government.

They stayed in Washington for nearly five weeks, waiting to be seen by the new administration.

Lincoln refused.


264 posted on 02/21/2010 6:43:45 AM PST by PeaRidge
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