Incident at an Antique Store

[Linda Anderson]

(08-19-2014 02:58 PM)L Verge Wrote:  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.

This is from Our One Common Country.

After the Conference was finished, "Richmond's Sunday morning was clear and cold as Judge Campbell composed the commissioners' report. Hunter and Stephens endorsed it, and a messenger brought it to Davis. There was no invective in it, just a stark recitation of Lincoln's terms."

"Nothing was said of Lincoln's confession about a shared responsibility for slavery, his support for an immediate restoration of the Southern states' rights, his tolerance for a gradual emancipation, or a $400 million payment for the slaves."