The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-13

OOnleaefAI4 States4'
 There on Fools Brand.
 Mir. Stephens's comment was
 Gentlemen, we are on a fools errand."
 Soon after this President Lincoln and MT. Seward came aboard the boat which bore the Confederate commissioners Dr. Green graphically portrayed the prelimi- isa nariss to the real real conference and quoted ter witnessing Mir. Stephens take off his great amount of superfiuous clothing. whispered to MT. Seward:
 Seward, did you ever see so small a nubbin for so much shuckT'
 Soon after this came the first of the two celebrated remarks of President Lincoln.
 PresidentLincoln's Proposition.
 Gentlemen, to make a long matter short, I will say right here that will take this paper and write on one side: The Union must be preserved. and YOU may then take 1t and write on the other side the conditions to please yourselves"
 pr. Green. after quoting these as Judge CampbelPs recollections of President Lin- coins words. referred to the controversy as to whether they were ever used:
 From his (Judge Campbells) lips, I first heard that Mr. Lincoln did so speak. although I have often heard 1t since, MT, Hunter bore testimony to the same fact. and Mir. Stephens declared the same thing. as General Gordon and others have testified
 MT Stephens. according to Judge Camp bell. then said:
 MT. President. suppose we should write on the other side of that paper that the seceding States shall resume their places in the Union on the same footing with the other States and with no pains nor penalties attached to their act of seces- sion?'
 If you did not put that in," replied Mir. Lincoln, T would. for 1t would be no Union of equal States without it. I want the Union just as 1t was"
 Nigger shan't Stand in the Way.
 Dr. Green then took up Judge Camp bells account of the conference's discus sion of slavery. and quoted him as say ing that President Lincoln's remark was: Well the niger shan't stand in the
 Finally. MT. Stevens felt obliged to tell President Lincoln that under their in- structions they could not consider any conditions of peace. The Confederate commissioners were absolutely tied by their instructions
 "A look of distress came over Mir. Lin coins face. and he said:
 " If that is the case. we need not waste any more words over this matter.
 Tied by MT. Davis's Instructions.
 Dr. Green quoted this notable comment on the effect of President Davis's instruc- tions:
 q mean to say that if Mir. Davis could not handicapped our negotiations with in- structions to demand our independence If he had given us power plenipotentiary to treat with the representatives of the United States Government and to obtain the best terms possible for our people in tho settlement of he whole war question we could have obtained anything within the bounds of reason"
 Judge CampbelPs closing comment was In connection with the rank in the army, whom he said were ragged and hungry. "but were not whipped and didn't intend to be-"
 ''If we had made terms of surrender at Hampton Roads. however favorable the conditions, ten to one they would have seized us, as soon as we reached the Con- nearest limb as trators. Any terms of peace at that time would have been un- to the South and left the seeds of another war. The war had to go on to It's natural and inevitable end"