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17th (search for this): chapter 170
you. I have the honor to be, gentlemen, Horace Greeley. Messrs. Clement C. Clay, Jacob Thompson, James B. Holcomb, Clifton House, C. W. Clifton House, Niagara Falls, July 18. sir: We have the honor to acknowledge your favor of the seventeenth instant, which would have been answered on yesterday, but for the absence of Mr. Clay. The safe conduct of the President of the United States has been tendered us, we regret to state, under some misapprehension of facts. We have not been accrend will be met by liberal terms on other and substantial and collateral points, and the bearer or bearers thereof shall have safe conduct both ways. Abraham Lincoln. The application to which we refer was elicited by your letter of the seventeenth instant, in which you inform Mr. Jacob Thompson and ourselves that you were authorized by the President of the United States to tender us his safe conduct on the hypothesis that we were duly accredited from Richmond as bearers of propositions look
18th (search for this): chapter 170
y to Hon. Horace Greeley, and to that gentleman has been transmitted. Clifton House, C. W., Thursday, July 21. The following is a copy of the original letter held by me to deliver to Hon. Horace Greeley, and which duplicate I now forward to the Associated Press. Wm. Cornell Jewett. Clifton House, C. W., July 21. To Hon. Horace Greeley: sir: The paper handed to Mr. Holcomb on yesterday, in your presence, by Major Hay, A. A. G., as an answer to the application in our note of the eighteenth instant, is couched in the following terms: Exeutive mansion, Washington, July 18, 1864. To whom it may Concern: Any proposition which embraces the restoration of peace, the integrity of the whole Union, and the abandonment of slavery, and which comes by and with an authority that can control the armies now at war against the United States will be received and considered by the Executive Government of the United States, and will be met by liberal terms on other and substantial and col
20th (search for this): chapter 170
d fully conversant with its views and purposes, they had not the specific powers I required, but would get them, if permitted, and desired, in order to save time, to proceed at once to Washington, and be permitted thence to communicate with Richmond for the purpose. Not feeling at liberty to concede this, I telegraphed to Washington for further instructions, and was duly informed that Major Hay, the President's Private Secretary, would soon be on his way to me. He reached the Falls on the twentieth, and we crossed over to the Clifton, where Major Hay, after mutual introductions, handed Professor Holcombe the following paper, in the handwriting of the President: Executive mansion, Washington, July 18, 1864. To whom it may concern: Any proposition which embraces the restoration of peace, the integrity of the whole Union, and the abandonment of slavery, and which comes by and with an authority that can control the armies now at war against the United States, will be received an
July 12th (search for this): chapter 170
Doc. 92. the Niagara peace conference. Clifton House, Niagara Falis, Canada West, July 12. Dear sir: I am authorized to say that Honorable Clement C. Clay, of Alabama, Professor James B. Holcomb, of Virginia, and George N. Saunders, of Dixie, are ready and willing to go at once to Washington, upon complete and unqualified protection being given, either by the President or Secretary of War. Let the permission include the three names and one other. Very respectfully, Geo. N. Saunders. To Hon. Horace Greeley. Niagara Falls, N. Y., July 17, 1864. gentlemen: I am informed that you are duly accredited from Richmond as the bearers of propositions looking to the establishment of peace; that you desire to visit Washington in the fulfilment of your mission, and that you further desire that Mr. G. N. Saunders shall accompany you. If my information be thus far substantially correct, I am authorized by the President of the United States to tender you his safe conduct in the jour
July 18th (search for this): chapter 170
ent of your mission, and that you further desire that Mr. G. N. Saunders shall accompany you. If my information be thus far substantially correct, I am authorized by the President of the United States to tender you his safe conduct in the journey proposed, and to accompany you at the earliest time that will be agreeable to you. I have the honor to be, gentlemen, Horace Greeley. Messrs. Clement C. Clay, Jacob Thompson, James B. Holcomb, Clifton House, C. W. Clifton House, Niagara Falls, July 18. sir: We have the honor to acknowledge your favor of the seventeenth instant, which would have been answered on yesterday, but for the absence of Mr. Clay. The safe conduct of the President of the United States has been tendered us, we regret to state, under some misapprehension of facts. We have not been accredited to him from Richmond as the bearers of propositions looking to the establishment of peace. We are, however, in the confidential employment of our government, and entir
July 20th (search for this): chapter 170
illimitable vista of private misery and public calamity which stretches before them, we pray that in their bosoms a resolution may be quickened to reclaim the abused authority and vindicate the outraged civilization of their country. For the solicitude you have manifested to inaugurate a movement which contemplates results the most noble and humane, we return our sincere thanks, and are most respectfully and truly, your obedient servants, C. C. Clay, Jr., Jas. P. Holcomb. Clifton House, July 20. Col. W. C. Jewett, Cataract House, Niagara Falls, New York: sir: We are in receipt of your note advising us of the departure of Honorable Horace Greeley from the Falls; that he regrets the sad termination of the initiatory steps taken for peace, in consequence of the change made by the President in his instructions to convey the Commissioners to Washington, for negotiation unconditionally, and that Mr. Greeley will be pleased to receive any answer we may have to make through you. We ava
July 21st (search for this): chapter 170
rday, to be delivered to the President of the United States. This communication was accepted as a response to the letter of Messrs. Holcomb and Clay to Hon. Horace Greeley, and to that gentleman has been transmitted. Clifton House, C. W., Thursday, July 21. The following is a copy of the original letter held by me to deliver to Hon. Horace Greeley, and which duplicate I now forward to the Associated Press. Wm. Cornell Jewett. Clifton House, C. W., July 21. To Hon. Horace Greeley: sir:July 21. To Hon. Horace Greeley: sir: The paper handed to Mr. Holcomb on yesterday, in your presence, by Major Hay, A. A. G., as an answer to the application in our note of the eighteenth instant, is couched in the following terms: Exeutive mansion, Washington, July 18, 1864. To whom it may Concern: Any proposition which embraces the restoration of peace, the integrity of the whole Union, and the abandonment of slavery, and which comes by and with an authority that can control the armies now at war against the United Stat
July 17th, 1864 AD (search for this): chapter 170
se, Niagara Falis, Canada West, July 12. Dear sir: I am authorized to say that Honorable Clement C. Clay, of Alabama, Professor James B. Holcomb, of Virginia, and George N. Saunders, of Dixie, are ready and willing to go at once to Washington, upon complete and unqualified protection being given, either by the President or Secretary of War. Let the permission include the three names and one other. Very respectfully, Geo. N. Saunders. To Hon. Horace Greeley. Niagara Falls, N. Y., July 17, 1864. gentlemen: I am informed that you are duly accredited from Richmond as the bearers of propositions looking to the establishment of peace; that you desire to visit Washington in the fulfilment of your mission, and that you further desire that Mr. G. N. Saunders shall accompany you. If my information be thus far substantially correct, I am authorized by the President of the United States to tender you his safe conduct in the journey proposed, and to accompany you at the earliest time t
July 18th, 1864 AD (search for this): chapter 170
een staying with us since our sojourn in Canada. international Hotel, Niagara Falls, N. Y., July 18, 1864. Gentlemen: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of yours of this date, by the hanessrs. C. C. Clay, G. H. Holcomb, Clifton House, C. W. Clifton House, Niagara Falls, C. W., July 18, 1864. To Hon. Horace Greeley, Niagara Falls, New York: We have the honor to acknowledge the re. C. Clay, Jr. To Hon. Horace Greeley, International Hotel. Executive mansion, Washington, July 18, 1864. To whom it may Concern: Any proposition which embraces the restoration of peace, the inte eighteenth instant, is couched in the following terms: Exeutive mansion, Washington, July 18, 1864. To whom it may Concern: Any proposition which embraces the restoration of peace, the inte following paper, in the handwriting of the President: Executive mansion, Washington, July 18, 1864. To whom it may concern: Any proposition which embraces the restoration of peace, the int
July 19th, 1864 AD (search for this): chapter 170
owledge the receipt of your note of this date by the hands of Colonel Jewett, and will await the further answer which you promise to send to us. Very respectfully, &c., C. C. Clay, Jr., J. H. Holcomb. international Hotel, Niagara Falis, July 19, 1864. Gentlemen: At a late hour last evening, too late for communication with you, I received a despatch from the President, informing me that further instructions left Washington last evening, which must reach me, if there be no interruption, to answer definitely your note of yesterday morning. Regretting a delay which I am sure you will regard as unavoidable on my part, I remain, yours truly, Horace Greeley. To Hon. Messrs. Clay and J. P. Holcomb, Clifton House. Clifton House, July 19, 1864 sir: Colonel Jewett has just handed us your note of this date, in which you state that further instructions from Washington will reach you by noon to-morrow, if there be no interruption. One, or possibly both of us may be obliged to leave
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