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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 20: Peace conference at Hampton Roads.--the campaign against Richmond. (search)
presided, it was resolved they would never lay down their arms until their independence was won. They expressed a belief that their resources were sufficient for the purpose, and they invoked the people, in the name of the holiest of all causes, to spare neither their blood nor their treasure in its support. It has transpired that at that time, Davis and his fellow-Conspirators had strong hopes of the support of foreign armies. Jones, in his Rebel War Clerk's Diary, under date of January 24th, 1865, in recording the presence of Blair, in Richmond, says:--The Northern papers say he is authorized to offer an amnesty, including all persons, with the Union as it was — the Constitution as it is, my old motto in the Southern Monitor in 1857); but gradual emancipation. No doubt some of the people here would be glad to accept this; but the President will fight more, and desperately yet, still hoping for foreign assistance. Henry S. Foote, a member of the Confederate Congress (once Un