...d receive pay for her slaves. Mr. Stephens replied that, if Mr. Lincoln had ever made a proposition of that kind he had never heard of it. I also quote the following from a letter written by the Hon. Frank B. Sexton , in March, 1895, and published in the newspapers at that time, in which he says: On the day after the return of the commissioners from the Fort Monroe conference, I was told by Senator James. ...