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The Daily Dispatch: August 31, 1864., [Electronic resource], The alleged Stoneman Outrage. (search)
The peace rumors. --A telegram from Washington, dated Thursday, August 25th, says: "It has been ascertained upon undoubted authority that all idea of sending peace commissioners, or attempting negotiations for the suspension of hostilities, has been abandoned by the Administration. It is feared that any such action would be taken as an indication of weakness on the part of the Government, and would only tend to still further strengthen the rebel authorities in their resistance, and would be rejected by them. As a political movement, it is thought that it would strengthen the opposition, who would point to its rejection as an evidence that no settlement of the difficulties could be had under Mr. Lincoln's administration. At the same time there is no doubt but that duly accredited commissioners from the rebel authorities, or any propositions for an armistice from them, looking to a settlement of existing difference by a convention of the States, would be received and duly