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LJL at Lincoln's meeting with Confederate peace emmisaries
| German pumo | 10/29/26 |
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Date: October 29th, 2026 11:52 PM Author: German pumo Towards the end of the war some Confederate negotiators came to see if they could get any kind of decent terms from Lincoln- this is how Shelby Foote describes the result:
All this came as a considerable shock to the three rebel listeners, but the shock was mild compared to what followed when Hunter, having recovered a measure of his aplomb, expressed their reaction in a question designed to demonstrate just how brutally intransigent such terms were. “Mr President, if we understand you correctly, you think that we of the Confederacy have committed treason; that we are traitors to your government; that we have forfeited our rights, and are proper subjects for the hangman. Is that not about what your words imply?” There was a pause while they waited for Lincoln’s answer, and presently he gave it. “Yes,” he said. “You have stated the proposition better than I did. That is about the size of it.” |