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To: Non-Sequitur
And who called them that (Peace Commissioners)?

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.

655 posted on 03/07/2010 3:06:32 PM PST by PeaRidge
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To: PeaRidge
The references were to the so-called "Peace Commission" organized by Governor Letcher of Virginia and which met from February 6th until around the 1st of March. This is quite different from the men Davis sent to Lincoln to deliver his ultimatum. Nobody during that period ever referred to them as a "Peace Commission". The Judge Brockenborough mentioned in your post was not one of the men Davis sent. In fact, those men didn't even reach Washington until March 12th. You've managed to confuse the two.

.What a pants load.

It certainly was, but on your part alone.

659 posted on 03/08/2010 12:42:00 PM PST by Non-Sequitur
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