New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-08-11

oJ he AVOIDED and Vol would be enabled at ali times
10 act upon the freshest ady,ces OF the mntaiy
situation. You viii Of UNDERSTAND tnat Nov
nothing an0 nave proposed morning. ~ % W. .ba
that nothing is conceded taken for granted oy lo
meeting eli persons empowered 20 negotiate Tor peat
that il assumed Is mutual desire u terminate 'ts
wholesale Slaughter If basis ~ Adjustment OHD
mutually agreed on; and It soeUs to nie nlgh t.ne e
effort 20 this end should ~ made am VI go be
cutie o.her than ganguinc that peace can hcN Do
made; hut am Ccitc smo thu; Trade earnest 49,
effort 10 terminate the war on honoftOo terms ~
immensely strengthen The Government IN oaSo NJ
faligIo and would help IL ~ the .Jes o' ~ 49,;
world witch nc,s accuses Us OF ohstinacy anu 1usl
sItion SEX peaceful solution o. our sa"s u,S
devastating CONFLICT. Hoping 70 n,S.I wa" !"u . -
solved to eet j. tie Trerises aDd - ae 30 pI'npu!
In, Good influence may even yet DO exerted on the
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Hon. A. LINCOLN. Washington.
On the 18th. The day before the foregoing letter
we, sent. Mr. George y. Sanders had written 10
Nh Greeley as follows:
CLIFF on HOUSE,, NIAGARA FAI1s.
CANAuA WEST July ~. 1864.
DEAR SIP: ! nm authorized 10 say that Honorable
Clement C. CLAY Of Alabama Professor james =. Ho
connie Of Virginia, aud George n. Sanders OF NXe
arc ready and wiling TO 20 at once 10 Washington
upon complete ard unqualified protection being given
either by Tie President or Secretary OF War jct int
permission include the three names and one other.
Very respectfully, GEORGE N. SANDkhs'
TO Hon HORACE GREELEY.
This letter of Mr.. Sanders does not seem 20 have
been communicated to the President, but, on the
receipt of M Greeloys letter of the 18TH, he i'm
mediately answered 1t by the following telegram:
EXECUTIVE MANSION WASHINGTON Jolly 10 isoi,
| Hon. HORACE GREELEY. New-York: suppose yon
received my letter Of the 9th. have just received
yours of the iStb and am disappointed ny ~: was
not expecting you to send letter, but to bring me
man. or MIR. hay goes 10 yoa with my answer u
yours OF the 18th. IA hiN@"@N'
The answer which Major Hay carried was as
follows:
EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON. July IS, 1865.
My DEAR sIR Yours of the 18th Is just received and
| am disappointed that You have not already reached
here with these commissioners II they WoulG eols
TO come being shown my letter 10 You OF the sih III
slant show that and this 10 them. and II they WIZ Ino
on tue terms stated III the former. bring then. nor
only intend sincere effort for peace out in'ehu 'N"'
ou shall be personal witness 'Ha' " Is n"D fyoo,y
When Major Hay arrived at New-hork; nc uen''
cred 10 Mr.. Greeley this letter from the President
and telegraphed It's result TO the President as
| follows:
UNITED STATES MILITARY TELEGRAPH,
WAR DEPARTMENT, NEW foEs, 9 a. NJ
July 10, le65.
hi. E1eeueaey A. LINCOLN, President Of The U""ea
Arrived this morning at a. m. and delivered your
letter few minutes efter. Although he thinks some one
less know II would create less excitement and be less
embarrassed by public curiosity st he VIII start IN
mediatey he can have an absolute safe conduct ioI
four persons TO be named by lin. Your letter le does
not think viii guard them from arrest, and with only
those letters he would have ~ expaine Whoe matter
| TO any officer who might choose to hinder theh' II
this meets with your appreciation, can write the order
in your y. :. e.. or you con send 1t by mall
JOHN HAY. A. A. g.
| The President at once answered by telegraph as
follows:
JOIN HAY .astor Hoass Noc-iOk'
Yours received. Wine tie ssfe-conduct as You pro
pose, without waiting for ono b. mail from me III
there is is anything in the affair wish 10 Emo"
1t without unnecessary delay. A LN'oiS
Major Hay accordingly wrote The following safe
conduct armed with which Mr. Greeley beloOE
himself al once 70 Niagara Falls:
EXECUTIVE MANSION. WAsHECTos, ID. G.
The President of the tnlfcd states directs that tue
four persons whose MINES follow. to wit; non teuenI
G. Clay. Hon. Jacob ThOmpson, Prof James H. hoi-
combe George y. Sanders. shall have sae.conduet 10
| the City Of Washington III company with the Hon
Horace Greeley ard shall be exempt from arrest or
annOya Of any kind from any oihcer Of the United
States during their journey to the said City OF wash
ington by order oil tue President:
JOHN Hay, Major and A. A. G..
Here follow the letters and messages inter
changed at Niagara, with the account thereof that
the Confederate Commissioners saw lit TO set before
the public; which it is not necessary 10 repro
duce; then Mr.. Raymond proceeds and concludes
as follows:
In their note of July co. TO Mr. Jewett, inclosing
their final letter TO Mr. Greeley, the Rebel enissG-
res acknowledge the assurance received from Mr.
Jewett that Mr. Greeley "regres the sad terInins-
ton Of the initiaory steps taken for peace in con-
sequence of the change made by the President in
his instructions 70 convey Commissioners 10
! Washington for negotiations unconditlonal!y.'
The Commissioners must have mieunders God Mr.
Jewett, or MIR. Jewett must have misrepnsented
Mr.. Greeley, in this report Of the ground Of his
regrets" or else Mr.. GreeHy must have taken 3
position quite 81 variance with the facts OF the
case. Mr. Greeley could scarcely have believed
that the President had " changed his instructions
in the least degree; aad lie must have known that
the result Of the attempted negotiation Was due to
a wholly different cause.
The first response made by the President 10 Mr.
Greeleys urgent entrcatv that Peace Comm ssoners
should be received, was dated July7, and said:
IF you find any person protesting TO have any
proposition OF Jefferson Davis in writing, for peace
embracing The rstoroti0a Of de Union, and abandonment
Of SlarDH whatever else it embraces Say TO him that
lie may come TO me-"
At the very outset, therefore, the President dis
tinctly specified the conditions on which he would
receive the pretended Commissioners they must
bring rTltteH propositions Of peace fpDm DAVIS,
and those prOpOsi ions must embrace two OF the
things which Mr.. Greeley himself had suggested
the restoration Of the Union aud the abandonment
of Slavery. so far as appears Mr.. Greeley neltLer
showed this letter of the President to the pretended
agents Of the Rebel Government, aid he inform
| them in any way OF the conditions on which alone
they would be received. But in his letters Of July
| 10 and Is, to the President, without making any
reference to these conditions, he reiteratcs his
| pressing ontreaty that the negotiations may be
encouraged and that the Rebel agents may be
received at Washington. To this the President
replied, expressing bis disappointment that the
commissioners had not already arrived and saying,
| d" II they would consent TO come, on being shown ~!
letter 10 you OF the 9th inst IN which the conditions 81
their coming distinctly stated, sh0r at aud this
10 Mea and if they III come the terms stated IN ls
| Joraatr, bring them
Notwithstanding these explicit and peremptory
instructions, it does not appear that Mr.. Greeley
gave the Rebel agents any Information whatever as