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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2, Chapter 6: peace propositions. (search)
ee letter of S. K. Bingham to Governor Blair of Michigan, Congressional Globe, Second Session, 36th Congress, Part II., page 1147. Finally the writer changed his policy and recommended that true, unflinching men be sent, who would be in favor of the Constitution as it is, or, in other phrase, oppose any effort at pacification of the contending parties. The other Senator wanted stiff-backed delegates, and added that without a little blood-letting the Union would not be worth a rush. Mr. Z. Chandler wrote that Governor Bingham telegraphed him, at the request of Massachusetts and New York, to send delegates to the Peace or Compromise Congress. Ohio, Indiana, and Rhode Island are coming in, and there is danger of Illinois; and now they beg us, for God's sake, to come to their rescue, and save the Republican party from rupture. See the Congressional Globe, ut supra. A plan was finally agreed upon by the majority of the States present. Its provisions were nearly like the resolu