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could not give his consent to any proposition of that sort on the basis suggested.
The settlement of existing difficulties was a question of supreme importance, and the only basis on which he would entertain a proposition for a settlement was the recognition and reestablishment of the national authority throughout the land.
As the commissioners had no authority to give any such pledge, the conference seemed to be at an end.
According to an understanding between the commissioners before entering into the conference that if they failed in securing the armistice, they would then endeavor to ascertain upon what terms the Administration at Washington would be willing to end the war. Judge Campbell inquired in what way the settlement for a restoration of the Union was to be made.
He wished to know something of the details.
Mr. Seward then said he desired that any answer to Judge Campbell's inquiry might be postponed until the general ideas advanced by Mr. Stephens might be more fully developed.
There was a general acquiescence in this suggestion, and Mr. Stephens proceeded to elaborate his views more fully.
They were substantially as follows:
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Memoir of
Jane
Claudia
Johnson
.
A paper read by
Charles
M.
Blackford
, of the
Lynchburg Bar
, before the
Tenth
annual meeting of the
Virginia State Bar Association
, held at old
Point Comfort, Va.
,
July
17
-
19
,
1900
.
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