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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Peace conference [from the Richmond, Va., Dispatch, February 25, 1900.] (search)
The Peace conference [from the Richmond, Va., Dispatch, February 25, 1900.] In Hampton Roads, January 31, 1865. Lincoln did not offer to pay for our slaves. To the Editor of the Dispatch. Did Abraham Lincoln, at the Hampton Roads conference, offer any compensation whatever for slaves? R. C. W. The above inquiry having been referred to me, I answer with pleasure. On January 29, 1865, the Confederate commissioners—Stephens, Hunter and Campbell—left Richmond to meet the Federal commissioners at Fort Monroe. There, on January 31st, they met in conference President Lincoln and Mr. Seward, Secretary of State. The conference lasted four hours, and Mr. Stephens, Vice-President of the Confederate States, has left on record a detailed report of the discussion there. Mr. Stephens pressed for a secret military convention between the two belligerents, with the object of uniting the people of the whole country in the defense of the Monroe doctrine, by expelling th