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To: 4CJ
You mean this is false: 'in fact they did, but Lincoln wouldn't receive the Southern commissioners'?

No I mean false in the fact that there was no offer to accept responsibility for the southern share of the national debt. Also no offer to pay for federal property appropriated.

406 posted on 08/21/2006 1:51:47 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur
No I mean false in the fact that there was no offer to accept responsibility for the southern share of the national debt. Also no offer to pay for federal property appropriated.

Bwahahahahahahahaha! I guess you have some Clintonian view of the word 'all'. The Confederate commsisioners were not limited to enumerated powers, Davis wrote Lincoln that they were charged 'to agree, treat, consult, and negotiate of and concerning all matters and subjects.' The provisional Congress had commissioned them 'for the settlement of all questions of disagreement between the two governments upon principles of right, justice, equity, and good faith.'

407 posted on 08/21/2006 3:47:40 PM PDT by 4CJ (Annoy a liberal, honour Christians and our gallant Confederate dead)
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