And who called them that? The confederate congress didn't call them that when they passed the legislation recommending a delegation be sent. Davis didn't call them that in his letter to Lincoln. The delegation didn't call themselves that when they communicated with Seward. The title 'Peace Commission' is a bit of post-rebellion Southron revisionism, circa late 20th century. Peace was not their purpose, recognition of the legality of their actions was.
Wish that Lincoln could have been known as the “Peace President”.
He could have gone down in confederate history as that by surrendering to Davis' demands. Instead he did the right thing and opposed secession and the armed rebellion the South initiated to further their aims.
You know that that was a contrivance created by the Lincoln administration to give their warship expedition cover from public opinion.
It is well documented.
Well, it seems that everyone was calling duly appointed Confederate officials desiring to obtain peace by that title “Peace Commissioners”, beginning with the newspapers. Here from the Staunton (Va) Vindicator are two uses of the term in March of 1861 regarding the Virginia Peace conference:
Judge Jno. Brockenbrough, one of the Commissioners from Virginia to the Peace Congress, passed through Staunton on the 4th, on his way to his home in Lexington. In a brief conversation with the Judge, he expressed it as his opinion that there was very little hope of an adjustment of our national difficulties. He regards the amendment to the Constitution proposed by Mr. Corwin, and the report of the Peace Commissioners, as mere patch work, and falling immeasurably short of a remedy, or a just and fair basis of settlement. The Judge seemed to feel exceedingly despondent for the country, and loth to contemplate the sad disasters which loom up in the future for the only truly free government in the world.
Staunton Vindicator March 1861
Judge John W. Brockenbrough.
On Saturday evening last, about ten o'clock, it having been ascertained that Judge Jno. W. Brockenbrough was at the Virginia Hotel, Turner's Cornet Band, at the request of a number of our citizens, complimented him with a serenade. In response, Judge B. made a few remarks on the condition of our country. Having but recently returned from Washington, he gave a succinct, yet interesting allusion to the efforts of the Peace Commissioners sent by Virginia (of whom he was one) to devise some means by which the Constitutional rights of the South might be more fully assured, and, as a consequence, the Union preserved. Those efforts having failed of all desirable issue, he saw no other course for Virginia to pursue with honor, than to immediately separate from the Northern States, the animus of whose every action is intense hostility to the institutions and equality of the South.
Staunton Vindicator, March 29, 1861
Now of course, your next argument is to say that the term was in use only in the South, which of course, again is not true. Here is a another document of the period on sale from a collector.
Report of the Committee on Federal Relations, with the Report of the Peace Commissioners appointed to wait on Presidents Lincoln and Davis by the General Assembly. Document H
Maryland State Senate
ISBN: NA Price: $269.16
Publisher: Frederick: Beale H. Richardson, printer Date Published: 1861
Here is another document for sale on the Internet:
Leslie's Illustrated News. 4/13/61. Front cover has the CSA Peace Commissioners to avoid a Civil War. Full issue with events leading up to the war that would start in less than one week. Free shipping. - Price: $50. Available here: http://openlibrary.org/b/OL6546301M/Report_of_the_Committee_on_federal_relations_with_the_report_of_the_peace_commissioners_appointed_to_wait_on_Presidents_Lincoln_and_Davis_by_the_General_assembly.
The title 'Peace Commission' is a bit of post-rebellion Southron revisionism, circa late 20th century.
Again, not true and a prevarication on your part.
As you can see, all four references above are from 1861, not "circa late 20th Century"
What a pants load.