Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1864-07-30

answer your note. OF yesterday morning
Regretting . delay which I am sure Sbh
will regard Ms unavoidable on my part.
remain yours truly. -. ~. :.
TO Hon. M.s.p. O. G. Chg and ., y, fi,iosmb. A'l''
f-g. 6Lryfos HoUsr July 10, 1854.
SiR:-Col. Jewett has Just handed us
your note OF this date in which you state
that farther Instructions from Washington
will reach you BY noon tomorrow IL there
be no Interruption. One or possibly both
OF us may be obliged TO leave the Fails 10.
day, but will return in time to receive the
communication which you promise tomor4
-" ). ?. Hslcs.sr,
To Hon. Hor.e. Grssy. nov .. TnIernatonsi Ho .i.
Crnrbs HvusK, Jsly %,
Col. W. G. Jewett, Cataract House. Nj.
agsrs Falls. New York.
SIRs We are jn receipt OF your pote
advising as Of the departing Of Hon. H.
Greely from the falls, that he regrets the
sad termination of.tbe initiatory steps taken
for peace in Consequence Of the change
made by the President Ia his instruc-
tions to convey commissioners to Wash
ington for negotiation unconditional, and
that Mr.. Greeley will be pleased to re.
eeive any answer We may have to make
through you. We avail ourselves of this
offer to enclose letter to Mr. dreely, which
you will oblige us BY delivering.
We cahhot tske leAye Of you without ex-
pressing our thsnks for your courtesy and
kind Offices ~ the intermedissy through
whom oar correspondence with Mr.. Gree
ly has been continued, aud assuring you
that we are,
Very respectfully, {o%Sr = % g OBJ servi's.
/" oiiosoi.Ei iss I. hEioLcoxBE.
CLIFTON HOGAN, C. W., July Il, 1855.
The following is . copy Of the original
Ist,er held by me to deliver to Hon. Hor-
arce Greeley, aud which duplicate / now
furnish 10 the Associated Press.
WIN. CoNNttL dkwtTr.
70 Hon HORACE GRkKLEf: ~ - "' ''' -'' ''''
SIR:-Ths paper handed to Mr.. Hol
combe yesterday 10 your presence BY Major
Hog, A. A. g., as 90 answer to the appi.
cation In our note Of the 18th lust. is
couched 10 the following tsrmsi--
. ExscrrIvs MANSION, wAsHxorts,
July IS, 1854.
To waun If NAT coSoEnA,4s
Any ptopositiun-whieh embraces the res
toration Of peace, the integrity Of the whole
Union and the abandon ment Of slavery,
and which comes by aud with an authority
that can control the aftniss now ut war
against the United States. will be received
aud considered by the Executive govern
ment of the United States, and will be met
BY liberal terms on substantial and collat.
eral points, and the bearer or bearers there.
Of shall have safe conduct both wsys
r ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Major Hay would respectfully inquire
whether Professor Holcombe and the gen.
tlemen associated with him desire to send
to Wasblngton by Major Hay, any mes
sagea id reference to the communication
delivered to him on yesterday, and inthat
case when he may expect to be favored with
such message. " '''.' - ~ i' r
IxrxRsArIoSAL HorrL,
fla SD ar- Thursday July q, 1894 J
Mr.. Holcombe presents his compliments
to Major Hay, and greatly regrets il bis
return to -Washington has beet DELAYED by
any expectations OF su answer to the com
munication which Mr.. Hoicombe received
from him yesterday. to be delivered 10 the
President Of the United etstes. That
Communication was accepted as the response
10 letter Of Messrs. Clay and Holcombe
to she Hon Horace Greeley. asd TO that
gentiemsn an shs1er has been transmitted
The application TO which We refer was
elected by yoar letter of the lTtb Of July,
In which yog inform Mr.. Jacob Thompson
aud ourselves thss you vas authorized hJ
the President Of The United States to ten.
der us bis safe conduct on the hypothesis
that We were duly accredited from Rich
mond as BEARERS of proposition looking
to the establishment OF peace, and desired
to visit WsshiugtoH 10 The fulalment Of
This assertion to which We thea gave.
ssd still do, entifs efedehes wss accepted
by us, as the evidence OF sn unexpected but
most gratifying chsnge In the policy OF the
President-s change which wefeis author
lied to hope might tsrmissts Ia the sooclu-
sion Of peace, mat nstly. just. honorable.
and advantages 70 the North and South.
cxscting no condition bat that We could be
daly accredited from Richmond as bearers
Of propositions looking 10 the establish
ment of peace; thus proposing basis for
con ference as comprehensive % we could
desire; II seemed to vs that the President
opened door which had previously closed
against the Confederate States for the foil
excbspge Of sentiment. free discussion Of
opinion, ssd usttsmselfsd effort 10 rshsose
all cause Of coutrossrsy b. hSersf nesotia-
tios. a o2al Dag ctHo)
We indeed could not claim the benefit Of
safe cosdpct, which had been extended
| to us ia q enssssset ws have 10 right to
assume and had usser aEscted 70 possess.
The uniform declarations Of our Executive
and Congress, their thrIcs repested and as
vften repulsed atteppts to open uegotia-
tiousf fnrnishsd Q ssficisnts pledge that
this coneilistory msnifsstatioa on the par,
of the President of ths United States.
would be met by them 10 temper Of equal.
msausnimity. We had therefore no hesi-
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