“An Augusta Georgia,
Chronicle interview with”
Alexander H. Stephens,
Vice-President
of the Confederate States of America,
is cited in Carl Sandburg’s book:
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
The Prarie Years and
The War Years.
Pages 534 - 535.
“The Confederate commissioners
were put in a rowboat
and taken to their steamer.
Then a rowboat
with a Negro at the oars
headed for their steamer;
he reached their deck
with a basket of champagne
and a note
with the compliments of Mr. Seward.”
(William H. Seward,
Secretary of State)
“The commissioners waved their handkerchiefs
in acknowledgement.
Then they saw Mr. Seward, and
speaking through a boatswain’s trumpet,
his words came clear:
‘keep the champagne,
but return
the negro!
’ ”
“Thus ran the final
informal words of the Hampton Roads
conference.”
February 5, 1865,
President Lincoln
proposed “a message
and proclamation
to go to the Senate and House,”
to pay $400 million,
“to be distributed among”
Southern “States
pro rata
on their respective slave populations,
shown by the census of 1860”.
This compensation for Slaves
would only be paid if:
“all resistance
to national authority shall be
abandoned
and cease,”
before the first day
of April, 1865.
This resolution was sought
“with other propositions,
in a proclamation
looking to peace and re-union.”
“On the back of the manuscript”
“under date of February 5, 1865,
Lincoln wrote: ‘To-day these papers,
which explain themselves, were drawn up and submitted
to the Cabinet & unanimously disapproved
by them.’
He signed his name
as thought it was history
and should be of record.”
Page 535. “Welles
with his colleagues saw the President
in this a schemer
rather than a solid statesman.”
Page 191.
Gideon Welles
was Secretary of the Navy,
and former editor of the Hartford Times,
Connecticut newspaper.
“Lincoln put him at the head of
all of Uncle Sam’s seagoing vessels,
and later made jokes about
Uncle Gideon’s
not knowing
bow from stern.”
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