The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-07-11
HOUSTON DAILY Posn SUNDAY MoRN1Ne. JUDY IL 1897.

Hampton Roads conference on the It'll day
OF January. four days after the confer euce.
wrote to Mr.. Adams, then the minister
OF the United States Mt the court OF Lon
don, England. giving him an account OF
what occurred NJ that conference. tSee
McPherSon's History OF the Rebellion.
pages 570-57i.)
In this account Mr.. Seward says tina,
President Lincoln announced 10 the Con-
fedcrate commissioners that we can agree
10 10 cessation or suspension OF hostlIties
except ON the basis OF the disarmament
OF the insurgent forces and the restoration
OF the National authority throughout all
the states in the Union Thus showing
that instead OF an effort to buy peace. the
president demanded unconditional euTren-
der as tine basis OF peace
And Mr.. Seward, In his letter TO Mr..
Adams. aided. Cola; ,rAny and IN eutor-
dlnation TO the proposition which ras thus
announced, the anti-siaYcry pdicy OF the
United States was thu. reviewed in all Its
bearings. and the president de,landcl that
he must OF be expected 70 depart from the
positions he had heretofore assumed in
his procla nations of emancipation and
CHER documents, as these positions were
reiterated in his last message Che mes
sage o. De cember 8, 1851
And THAI: ut was further declared ~
the presi6 mt that the complete rcstora-
ton of the National authority every where
was an Ind lspensable condition to any as
peace might be proposed
Followiai; the submission OF the recor; OF
the Confederate commissioners the tall
was made for the great auhle meeting
which wasaheld In the Broad Street African
church in Richmond, and which MAS ad-
dressed By President Davis. by Mr., Beuja-
min. the secretary Of state and ly "A num-
Der Of the members Of the Confederate SEN
ate and htnse q representatives, IN which
the people were advised thai nothing re
manned 10 Them after that conference hut
unconditional surrender or 20 fight on in
the hone OF a better result. THIS shows
the Feuse 4, which that report was re-
ooived hy the authorities pn1 people Of the
Coutederacy.
have mad the foregoing quotations ana
statements. i'm the first place, to show the
authority | l. ad for saying in my address
at Nashville that no offer was made by
President LA icoln at the Hampton Roads
conference 10 pay $500 GOO 600 for the slaves
N order 10 end the war or a means OF
restoring peace; and In the second place
they are ulhSis 10 put at rest three ques-
lions, which TO a greater or less extent
have affected the minds and views of the
Southern people since the war. me hrst
Of those is N at there never was any foun-
dation IN truth for The statement that the
Ccnfederates were offered GQ,0o0OOO by
President Lin ,oln, or any other sum, to Sc
cure the ttrm nation OF the war The Gee
ond is. to al ow that the statement, pre-
tended to be- made On the authority of Nice
President StcT hens that President Lincoln
said to Mr.. Ste qhens: ALLOW me to write
Union at the bottom Of a sheet Of paper,
and YOU may write any conditions you
please above I tat TO end the war" is as
baseless in fact as It is lufcrous and false
Third IS. 20 81 ow that at the time of the
Hampton Roads conference no other condi-
lions Tor ending the war were offered or
could be obta ined by the conference than
unconditional surrender.
The foolish and false statements which
have here cont Diverted. had their origin.