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Alternate Title

Report of the commissioners, Richmond, Va., 5th February, 1865; Extract from Mr. Lincoln's message of December last, referred to in the foregoing report�

Description

This pamphlet contains transcripts of Confederate president Jefferson Davis's ""Message of the President : to the Senate and House of Representatives of the Confederate States of America"" in which Jefferson speaks of a meeting with three Union representatives and their refusal to ""negotiate."" The pamphlet also contains the report of the Confederate commissioners report to Jefferson Davis wherein they report that their meeting with Abraham Lincoln was unsuccessful and informs of the end of slavery in the United States. The pamphlet ends with an excerpt of Lincoln's speech wherein he declares there would be no negotiations with insurgents and slavery would never be reinstated under his watch.

Donor

Williams, Frank J.; Williams, Virginia

Date

1865

Measurement Display

1 folded sheet (4 pages) ; 25 cm

Format (Digital)

PDF

Subjects

Confederate States of America--Politics and government; Hampton Roads Peace Conference (1865); United States--Politics and government--1861-1865;

Work Type

pamphlet

Class

ephemera

Rights Management

Copyright protected by Mississippi State University Libraries. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required.

Related Works

Related to: Monaghan's Bibliography 628; Stern's Catalog Number 1175 (https://www.loc.gov/resource/lprbscsm.scsm1303/?sp=128)

Digital ID#

JK9719 .C66 1865 Feb. 6

Repository

Mississippi State University Libraries.

Publisher

Richmond, Va. : publisher not identified

Digital Publisher

Mississippi State University Libraries (electronic version).

Contact Information

For more information about the contents of this collection, email sp_coll@library.msstate.edu.

Message of the President : to the Senate and House of Representatives of the Confederate States of America

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