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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 4. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The peace Commission.-letter from Ex-President Davis. (search)
tance by the Confederacy would arouse. That Mr. Hunter may be a fair exponent of the despondence heent of a law for which it will be remembered Mr. Hunter's opposition was a chief obstacle]; and he dGovernment, on the subject of peace. When Mr. Hunter penned these statements he must have known trd to the instructions to the commissioners, Mr. Hunter notices that they were to treat on the basisconference and comparison of views. Nay, if Mr. Hunter has been correctly reported, he himself was . Yet this is the charge in substance which Mr. Hunter has revived. In his minute account of the oable inconsistency it will be observed, that Mr. Hunter first presents the terms of the instructionsng my draft and your amendment, the cause of Mr. Hunter's statement, which is partially but not enti a motive, and to .this extent, and no more, Mr. Hunter's statenlent is correct; but if the idea conby the Secretary of State for Messrs. Stevens, Hunter and Campbell. [Copy.]Washington, Januar[7 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 4. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The peace Commission-Hon. R. M. T. Hunter's reply to President Davis' letter. (search)
is, perhaps, better that these things should be ventilated by living actors than left to the uncertainties of future discussion. We have published, therefore, Mr. Hunter's first. paper on the Peace Commission and Mr. Davis' letter in reply, and we now publish, without note or comment of our own, Mr. Hunter's rejoinder.] ToMr. Hunter's rejoinder.] To Rev. J. William Jones, D. D., Secretary Southern Historical Society: Dear Sir: In your last issue I observe a letter from the Hon. Jefferson Davis, from which it appears that he takes offence at my letter to the Philadelphia Times, giving an account of the conference at Hampton Roads between Messrs. Lincoln and Seward and the y for peace a little more urgent than he had ever done before? He seems, too, to have taken umbrage at my describing this desire of peace as new. He says: When Mr. Hunter penned these statements he must have known that the inaugural address .of President Davis under the, Provisional Government, delivered four years prior to the p