Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Messrs. Clay” in chapter 30, page 665 of Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II.:

... of the United States, and will be met by liberal terms on substantial and collateral points; and the bearer or bearers thereof shall have safe conduct both ways. (Signed) Abraham Lincoln. Messrs. Clay and Holcombe made the most of this in a public manifesto, intended to fire the Southern heart, and to disaffect those in the loyal States who were anxious for honorable peace at the earliest moment....
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