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Misrepresentation again Non.

No misrepresentation at all, Pea. Read the legislature authorizing the representatives. They were empowered "for the purpose of negotiating friendly relations between that government and the Confederate States of America". So that was that. Unless Lincoln was willing to accept the rebellion as legitimate, and the Davis regime on a equal footing, then there was nothing to talk about. So Lincoln could have discussions if he would surrender. Some option.

"Unless Lincoln was willing to accept the rebellion as legitimate"

There was no rebellion at that time. The Comissioners were following the only legal course that they knew of.

Very late in 1860, the United States House of Representatives proposed the following Constitutional Amendment:

”Whenever a convention of delegates, chosen in any State by the people thereof, under the recommendation of its legislature, shall rescind and annul its ratification of this Constitution, the President shall nominate and, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint commissioners, not exceeding three, to confer with the duly appointed agents of such State, and agree upon the disposition of the public property and territory belonging to the United States lying within such State, and upon the proportion of the public debt to be assumed and paid by such State....it passed.

That is exactly what the states did on several occasions.