And you obviously don't know history at all.
MONTGOMERY, February 27, 1861. The President of the United States: Being animated by an earnest desire to unite and bind together our respective countries by friendly ties, I have appointed M. J. Crawford, one of our most settled and trustworthy citizens, as special commissioner of the Confederate States of America to the Government of the United States; and I have now the honor to introduce him to you, and to ask for him a reception and treatment corresponding to his station and to the purpose for which he is sent. Those purposes he will more particularly explain to you. Hoping that through his agency. &c. [sic.]
JEFF'N DAVIS.For the purpose of establishing friendly relations between the Confederate States and the United States, and reposing special trust, &c., Martin J. Crawford, John Forsyth, and A. B. Roman are appointed special commissioners of the Confederate States to the United States. I have invested them with full and all manner of power and authority for and in the name of the Confederate States to meet and confer with any person or persons duly authorized by the Government of the United States being furnished with like powers and authority, and with them to agree, treat, consult, and negotiate of and concerning all matters and subjects interesting to both nations, and to conclude and sign a treaty or treaties, convention or conventions, touching the premises, transmitting the same to the President of the Confederate States for his final ratification by and with the consent of the Congress of the Confederate States.
Given under my hand at the city of Montgomery this 27th day of February, A.D. 1861, and of the Independence of the Confederate States the eighty-fifth.
JEFF N DAVIS.
ROBERT TOOMBS, Secretary of State.
No mention of compensation - only a Pelosi-esque "You have to sign it to know what's in it" snare. No one would ever be foolish enough to bite on that...well, other than you perhaps.
No mention of compensation - only a Pelosi-esque “You have to sign it to know what’s in it” snare. No one would ever be foolish enough to bite on that...well, other than you perhaps.
Ah so Lincoln could claim he was not specifically offered compensation because he refused to meet with the delegates sent! Pelosi-esque indeed.
Of course one would have to be awfully foolish - like you - to buy into this line of argument.
“Davis sent a commission to Washington with an offer to pay for any federal property on Southern soil, as well as the Southern portion of the national debt, but Lincoln refused to meet with the commissioners.”
Jefferson Davis, American William James Cooper