That was really a crock of rhetoric. You saw the word EQUITY and you know the meaning.
Enumerate the “demands”.
Lincoln had no intention of negotiating.
It was he who was making all the demands.
Recognition of the legitimacy of the Southern acts of secession.
Lincoln had no intention of negotiating.
Nor did Davis. Not until Lincoln had given in to his ultimatum, and probably not even then.
It was he who was making all the demands.
For example?