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The Daily Dispatch: August 26, 1864., [Electronic resource], The late peace interview in Richmond — circular from the State Department. (search)
Northern papers, an account of another conference on the subject of peace, which took place in Canada, at about the same date, between Messrs. C. C. Clay and J. P. Holcombe, Confederate citizens of the highest character and position, and Mr. Hornce Greeley, of New York, acting with authority of President Lincoln. It is deemed not improper to inform you that Messrs. Clay and Holcombe, although enjoying, in an eminent degree, the confidence and esteem of the President, were strictly accurate in their statement that they were without any authority from this Government to treat with that of the United States on any subject whatever. We had no knowledge of t by them to the President, are in exact conformity with the offensive paper addressed to "whom it may concern," which was sent by Mr. Lincoln to Messrs. Clay and Holcombe by the hands of his private secretary, Mr. Hay, and which was property regarded by those gentlemen as an intimation that Mr. Lincoln was unwilling that this war
The Daily Dispatch: August 26, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
d but a short time. Our loss was small. For several days past the enemy has been picketing in front of Bermuda Hundred with negroes. In front and on the line of the Weldon railroad there is little or no change. The enemy has been engaged to-day shifting forces from their right to their left. Butler's cavalry engaged the enemy's cavalry nine miles below here night before last, and repulsed an effort they were making to drive in our picket lines. Our loss was small. Heavy firing has for the last hour been heard some distance down the line of the Weidon railroad; cause unexplained. [Second Dispatch.] Petersburg, August 25. --The New York Herald of the 12d has a letter from Niagara Falls, which says Judge Black, Attorney-General under Buchanan, and Hay, Lincoln's private secretary, have had another interview with Clay, Holcombe & Co., and that Lincoln is about to offer an armistice, and propose a meeting of commissioners in Baltimore or some other border city.