It was shameful and disgraceful, and your lame attempt at obfuscation won't change that.So, the Commissioners requesting meetings with Lincoln is not enough for you. OK.
Here is what another state did:
Taken from US House of Representatives Misc. Documents, 36th Congress, 2nd Session, Document No. 27.
RESOLUTIONS OF THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE RELATIVE TO
The present condition of national affairs, and suggesting certain amendments to the Constitution
-------------------- January 28, 1861. -- Laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed.
-------------------- 1. Resolved by the general assembly of Tennessee, That a convention of delegates from all the slaveholding States should assemble at Nashville, Tennessee, or such other place as a majority of the States co-operating may designate, on the 4th day of February, to digest and define bases upon which, if possible, the federal Union and the constitutional rights of the slave States may be preserved and perpetuated....
That was old news, Pea. The idea of a convention of slave states that would meet and come up with a list of demands that would end the threat of secession was put forward at the very beginning of the rebellion by a political factions known as Cooperationists. Their idea was that if the slave states work together and, if their demands weren't met, seceeded together then it would reduce the chance of the situation degenerating into war. They were completely opposed by the Secessionists and the idea of a convention was voted down in every one of the seven original confederate states that it was proposed in. If you are some how suggesting that this was a serious negotiation attempt with the Lincoln government on the part of Tennessee then you are badly mistaken. The idea was dead by the time Tennessee published this document, killed by secessionists.