Absolute lie.
[You] Absolute lie.
Where do you get off, saying something like that?!
Jefferson Davis appointed commissioners briefed to discuss all open matters between the South and the United States. Said commissioners pressed for over a month, from March 6th to April 11th, 1861, for meetings with the new Republican administration. Lincoln instructed Seward to have nothing to do with them or with any other Confederate commissioner, in order to refuse any recognition that the Southern States had, in fact, exercised their right to leave the Union.
What the hell do you mean, "absolute lie"?
You mean this is false: 'in fact they did, but Lincoln wouldn't receive the Southern commissioners'?
So he DID receive them?