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th any power to make proposals for peace — they were only "in the confidential employ (how we hate that French-Yankee word) of the Government."--President Davis, therefore, is clear of any imputation in connection with the affair. Messrs. Clay, Holcombe, and Sanders are alone responsible for it.--This renders the matter still more curious. What circumstances had been disclosed to these gentlemen that justified them in opening a correspondence with the Federal Government upon a subject which they had no authority to discuss? Mr. Holcombe says: "Exacting no condition but that we should be duly accredited from Richmond," &c., "it seemed to us that the President (Lincoln) opened a door which had been previously shut against the Confederate States, " &c.--Who ever asked Lincoln to open any door for them? Not the Confederate States, most assuredly. If we are not more mistaken than ever we were in our lives, the last Congress of the Confederate States voted down by an immense majority th