Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1864-07-22
Second Edition
FOUR O'CLOCK. P. M.
THE PEACE" QUESTION
GREELEY SOLD ny COLORADO
JEwETT.
The President Too Much for the Canada
Rebel Delegates 20 the Chicago Con-
vention-JsG Davis snubs the Self
Constituted Giimors-Jseques DeleEa
tIon q Richmond.

tion - Richmond.
The Canadian rebel peace commissioner
humbug, which we do not propose at present
to discuss at length, will develope the following
facts:
lst. That Colorado Jewett humbugged Hor-
ace Greeley into believing that the bona tde
agents Of JefI. Davis were at the Clifton House,
Niagara Falls canada slde), with full power
10 negotiate a peace with the Government of
the United States.
I'd. That Mr.. Greeley being thus humbugged,
appealed to the President to give the rebel
commissioners a hearing, assuring him that q
large class Of good people sincerely believed
that our Government did not desire peace.
Sd. That the President informed Mr.. Greeley
that If be could find any person, anywhere, at
any time, representing Jefferson Davis, who
desired, and was empowered to negotiate for
an honorable peace, upon the terms Of a restor-
alton cCms Union WIthom slavery, that he would
give such person safe conduct TO Washington,
with Mr.. Greeley, and that such person or per.
sons should have a fair hearing.
4th. That Mr.. Greeley having "got his foot
In It" was bound to test the sincerity of the
rebels in Canada, and the truthfulness OF Colo
rado Jewett's statement, and accordingly went
to Canada.
5th. That upon his arrival in Canada Mr..
Greeley had an interview with Jewett, Sanders,
Holcomb Il Co., and Immediately discovered
that they had no authority iohdtever TO act for
JcG. Davis or anybody else IN Richmond having
power over the organized rebel armies now
arrayed against this Government.
9th. That Greeley communicated this fact
to the President, and also the statement Of the
rebels themselves, that If the President would
allow them to come to Washington and go by
the most direct route to Richmond that they
believed they could arrange matters with the
rebel government.
7th. That the President thereupon addressed
to Horace Greeley, and "To whom 1t may con-
cern," his ultimdtum on the subject, a copy of
which appears elsewhere.
sth. That the reply of the President was read
by Mr.. Greeley to the Commissioners" SO.
called, and they spit upon the proposition, just
in the same sense that q certain political editor
once spit upon political platform.
9th. Tha. Greeley returned to New York sat-
isfled that the President Is ready to negotiate
an honorable peace at any time, with any per-
son authorized to do so, but that the rebels
are not ready to do so; and also satisfied that
Colorado Jewett is a humbug, and that Horace
Greeley ought to have known better than 10 be
fooled by such a fellow; much less, after being
fooled himself, to attempt to fool the President.
1t will also turn out that the mission Of Gil.
more and Jacques to Richmond, made by them
in the sincere hope Of obtaining peace, had
no connection whatever with the Greeley
Jewett affair at Canada; that the trip to Rich
mond was exclusively their own; that, through
some arrangement between the commander
of the armies, they were allowed to pass tht
lines and proceed to Richmond, where theI
were entertained by prominent rebels, wht
evidently believed that Washington ant
Baltimore were then about to fall, ant
that our Government vdS frightened and dnriou
10 negotiate a settlementj that JEFF Davis conSid
cred the subject two days before he would ALLOW
them to call upon him; that when they di
call, finding they had no authority TO o0tr term
from our Government, Davis Informed then
that he had none to offer them, and would &C
cept none from any source short Of an dcknotD
edqmsnt Of the independence Of the conJsderdc,
for whieh they mere dghtingj that Gilmore an
Jacques left Davis with very large flea in eac
one of their ears, as Mr.. Greeley LEFT his frien