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Peace Congresses.
In 1782 Prince Kaunitz agreed with Vergennes that, in a proposed peace congress at Vienna, the United States government should be represented, so that direct negotiations between it and Great Britain might proceed simultaneously with those of the European powers.
The proposition was pronounced by the able Queen of France to be a masterpiece of political wisdom.
But England refused to negotiate for peace with France until that lower should give up its connection with the American rebels.
This proposition was embodied by Kaunitz in the preliminary articles which he prepared for the peace congress.
He cast the blame of its ill-success on the unreasonable pretensions of the British ministry.
On Jan. 19, 1861, a series of resolutions were adopted by the Virginia legislature recommending a national peace convention or congress to be held in the city of Washington on Feb. 4, for the purpose of effecting a general and permanent pacification; commending the Critt