Incident at an Antique Store

[L Verge]

Someone said to me awhile ago (can't remember who) that Lincoln went into the Hampton Roads meeting knowing that Davis would not concede on anything and that he would be made to look uncaring in the eyes of the Southern citizens who were begging for peace. Is that a correct assessment?

And yes, I'm too lazy to look this up, but was any mention made of compensating any of the former slaveholders? I know that this was a sticking point with Marylanders earlier in the war.