The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-04-14
The Niagara Falls Peace Negotiations
CURIOUS LETTER FROM MR.. HORACE GREELEY.


CURIOUS LETTER FROM Mr.. HORACE GREELEY.
Correspondence of the Manchester Examiner and
sav = G. W2sHNGros. Feb. 22 1865.
have just come into possession Of
very curious document, and one too which
| am confident will be peculiarly interest
ing to your readers, because it sheds so
much light upon the connection which Mr..
Horace Greeley, editor of the New York
Tribune had with the famous Niagara Falls
peace negotiations Of last July, in which he
figured so prominently, together with, Cor
nell Jewett, and Messrs. Sanders, Clay and
Holcomb. Apparently this letter, which, I
need not say has never been published
here, was the initial movement in the ne
gotiations referred to. Here it is: : gs4I
.Nls.aa..} - y NRw York, July z, 1861
Ny DEAR SIR: l venture to inclose you
letter and telegraphic dispatch that received
yesterday from our irrepressible friend Colombo
Jewett at Niagara Falls. I think they deserve
attention. Of course I do not indorse Jewett's
positive ayerment that his friends at the Falls
have " full powers from ]. D., though I do
not doubt that he thinks they have l let that
statement stand as simply evidencing the anxi-
ETY. of the COnfederates everywhere for peace.
SO much is beyond doubt. }NEoI.A
And therefore Iventure to remind you that
our bleeding, bankrupt, almost dying country
also longs for peace-shudders at the prospect
of fresh conscnptions, of further wholesale
devastatiOns, and of new rivers of human blood;
and widespread conviction that the Govern
ment and its prominent supporters are not anx-
ious for peace, and do not improve proffered
opportunities to achieve it, is doing great harm
now, and is morally certain, unless removed, to
n for tor in no oil
IL is not enough that we anxiously desire
true and lasting peace; we ought to demon
strate and establish the truth beyond caViI.
The fact is that A. II. Stephens was not per-
mitted q year ago to visit and confer with the
authorities at Washington has done harm.
which the tone. at the late National Conyen-
ton at Baltimore is not calculated to counter.
act. tst-'--- - I
entreat you in your own time and manner.
to submit overture for paciication to the
Southern insurgents, which the impartial must
pronounce frank and generous. If only with
view to the MOmentOus election soon to oc.
cur in North Carolina, and of the draft to be
enforced in the Free States, this shohld be done
at once. would give the safe conduct re-
quired by the rebel ENJOYS at Niagara, upon
their parole to avoid observation and to refrain
from all communication with their sympathi-
Zers in the loyal States but you may see rea-
sons for declining it. But whether through
them or otherwise, do not, entreat you, fail
to make the Southern people comprehend that
you, and all OF us, are anxious Tor peace, and
prepared to grant liberal terms. l venture to
suggest the following
''""..'' PLAN OF ADJUSTMENT. 80. - :.
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-, i. Inc onion Is restored ana declared per-
petual; = s-l - l,a.
2. Slavery is utterly and perpetually abol-
is9eo sn nong1s 1ne same; 81 ro,,,,...
ces with ~ All the iOhaStaOs of
each STATE to all the privileges of citizens of
tne oniteo SoSes. 80, !s
dollars Cs4oo, ooo. oo0 in five per cent. o. 8.
STOCK TO the iate slave states, loyal and seces-
sion aiiKe. 10 De apportioned pro rata, accord
ing TO their slave population respectively 6y the
census OF lo60, IN compensation Tor the Losses
Oh tnelr l0y% citizens Dy me aooiinon OF
slavery Eaea State 20 1e antlea 70 lts quota
upon tne ratlncatlon oy us LEGISLATURE OF ths
aaJustment. Inc D0nds 70 De at the absolute
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