Daily Index, The (Newspaper) - August 16, 1865, Petersburg, Virginia WEDNESDAY AUG. 1G, 1865. on Tabb under sonic nearly opposite the next door to the Presbyterian A SECRET CHAPTER OF WAR The interesting of oar formed Washington correspondent refers to certain unpublished communications be- tween the late President and Mr. connected with the negotiations for in These letters appear in full in a life 01 ABRAHAM just from the pen of HENRY J. Esq. editor of the New York and they complete the history of a very interesting incident of the as well as furnish conclusive evidence of the pacific disposi tion of the late With the preliminary by which Mr. was informed of the presence of the C. S. readers are Mr. en closing copies of writes to the under date of July 27th, as fol lows I therefore venture to remind you that ou almost dying countr also long for at the of fresh of further and of new rivers of human and a wide-spread conviction that th Government and its prominent supporters ar not anxious for and do not improv proffered opportunities to achieve is doin great harm and is morally un less to do far greater in the ap proaching It is not enough that we anxiously desire G true and lasting we ought to demon and establish the truth beyond The fact that A. Stephens was not permit ted a year ago to visit and confer with th authorities at has done harm which the tone at the late National Conven tion at Baltimore is not calculated to coun I entreat in your own time and man submit overtures for pacification to th Southern which the must pronounce frank and If with a view to the momentous election soo to occur in North and of tho dral to be enforced in the free this be done at I would give the sate con duct required by the rebel envoys at Niaga upon their parole to avoid observation an to refrain from all communication with thei sympathizers in the loyal but yo may see reasons for declining it. But wheth er through them or do I en treat fail to make the Southern peopl comprehend that and all of are am for aud prepared to grant libe ral I venture to suggest the follow PLAS OF 1. The Union is restored and declared per 2. Slavery ia utterly and forever abolish throughout the 3. A complete amnesty of all political with a restoration of all the inhab each State to ail the privileges citizens of the United 4. The Union to pay four hundred dollars in five per cent Unite States stock to the late slave loyal an secession to be rata nc cording to their slave population respectively by the census of in compensation ft the losses of citizens by the tion of Each State to be entitled t its quota upon the ratification by its Legisla ture of this The bonds to be a the absolute disposal of the Legislator 5. The said slave States to be entitle henceforth to representation in tho House on the basis of their instead of their feder al the whole now being 6. A national to be assemble as soon as may to ratify this adjustment and make such changes in the Constitution a may be deemed Mr. I fear you do not realize hoi intently tho people desire any peace tent with the national integrity and honor and bow joyously they would hail its ito With Unite States stocks worth but forty cents in gold pe and drafting atout to commence on tb third million of Union can this b wondered I do not say that a just peace is now attain though I to be so. But I d gay that a frank offer by you to the insurgent of terms which the impartial say ought to b at the prove an immens aod advantage to the It may save us from a Northern in Yours HORACE Hon. A. C though it should bo deome to make an offer of terms to th I insist in any possible it i desirable that aoy offer they may be dispose to make should be and either ac or I beg you to invite thos now at Niagara to exhibit their credential and submit their H. G. To this the President the follow ing D. Joly 7, 1864. Hon. Horace Dear Your letter of the 9th, with in If you can find any pe son anywhere to have any propos tion of Jefferson in for embracing tho restoration of the Union an abandonment of whatever else it say to him he may come to mk wit and that if he really brings such propo he at the least have with tbo paper without publicity if b to the point shall hav met The same if there be two or mer Yours A. Mr. answered this letter as fo lows Office of the New July 10, 1864. My Dear I have yours of yesterday Whether there be persons at Niagara who are empowered to commit th rebels by ia a question but ij there be there is no question all the they would decline to exhibit their credential to much more to open their budget me their bent Green as I may be 1 am not quite so verdant as fo imagine any thing of the I have neither cor desire to be made a far less a in such But I do that the rebel achieved mos avoided advantage in proponing or to A. Stephens as a and being and 1 am anxious that tfic round lost to the national cause by that ike shall somehow be regained m season for fleet on the approaching North Carolina I will see if I can get a look into lie or whomsoever may be at hough that is a project so manifestly hopeless hat I have little heart for still I shall Meantime I wish you would consider tho of somehow apprising tho people uf he especially those of North hat no overture or advance looking to peace and reunion has ever been repelled by mt that such a one would at any time have cordially received and favorably re- and would still HORACE A. This letter failed to reach the President un- after the following one was and was specifically Three days after the above Mr. G iey having received additional information from gome wrote to the President again as Office of tie July 12, My Dear I have now information on which I can rely that two persons duly com- missioned and empowered to negotiate for peace are at this moment noi far from Xia gara in and are conferring with or with as you may appoint empower to with Their names given in con are Hon. Clement C. of Ala and Hon. Jacob of If you should prefer to meet them ii they require safe-conduct lor them and for N. who wil accompany Should choose to em power one or more persons to treat with thon iu they will of course need no safe but they cannot be expected to ox hibit credentials save to commissioners powered as they In negotiating with all grounds of cavil would b and you would be enabled ai times to act upon the advices of ffi military You of un that I know nothing and pro posed nothing as to and that nothing i conceded or taken for granted hy of persons empowered negotiate police that is assumed is a mutual ter minate this wholesale slaughter a o adjustment can iie mutually agreed am it seems to me high time that an effort to thi end should be I of quit other than sanguine that a peace can now b but I am quite sure that a ear anxious effort to terminate the war o honorable terms would immensely strength en the government in case of its an would help us in the eyes of the civilize which now accuse ua of obstinacy and indisposition even to a peaceful so lution of our devastating Hoping to hear that you have revived to ac in the and to act so promptly tha a good influence may even yet be exerted o the North Carolina election next I re main HORACE GR Hon. A. On the 12th, the day before the letter was Mr. George Sanders ha written to Mr. a5 CLIFTON Niagara Canada July 12, Dear I am authorized to say lion Clement C. of Jam P. of and of are ready willing go at once to upon ar unqualified protection being given either b the President or Secretary of th permission include the three names and on Very To Hon. HORACE This letter of Sanders does not have been communicated to the but on the receipt of Mr. letter the 13th, he immediately answered it by i following EXECUTIVE July 15, 1S-J4 j Hon. Horace Sew I suppose you received my letter of the Htl I have just received yours of the an aai disappointed by it. I was not you to send me a but to me or Mr. Hay goes to m answer to yours of the 13th. A. The answer which Maj. Hay carried wa as EXECUTIVES July 15, j If Horace Mr DEAR Yours 13th if ju and I am that yr have not already reached riere If they would 9th show that and this M they will come on the in t bring I nut a Mr cere effort for intend shall tint it is Yours A. When Major Hay arrived at 1 delivered to Mr. thn letter Irom and telegraphed its result ti. an U. S. MILITARY WAR Y. 9A.M. July Bu f States Arrived this mum ing at 0 A. and d' livered your letter a few A though he thinks Home one known create leas and ed by public ho if ho can hav an F- duct for four persons to bo iiin Your letter lie does not think gi them from and with only letter he would have to explain t any officer wbo might t'i hinder them If this meets with your I ca write the order in your A. A. you can it by n at JOKX A. A. G. Tho President once answered by as July 1'i. 1-V01. f John York Yours Write the Conduct a you without an from me. If there is or is the I wish ty know it aary A. Major Hay accordingly armed with Mr. betook himself at once to Niagara Kails Tho President of tlie Unite 1 direct that tho four persons whoso names Hon. CLEMENT C. Hon. JACOB Prof. JAMBS GEORGE N. shall safe conduct to the city of ington ifi company with the Hon. Horace and shall be exempt from or annoyance of any kind from any of tbo United during their journey to the city of liy order of the JOHN Major and A A.O. At this point the whole so Why Mr. AYMOND charges that some of the President's for the and some f the intended by them for Mr. and that in mutual f each other's wishes the Commissioners were not presented by Mr. with this safe or the President was to a substantial withdrawal of it. former wo believe to be the A great deal of obloquy was cast on Mr. LINCOLN for this alleged indisposition to reat for and he desired to publish he whole except those ences in Mr. first letter quoted which apeak of the condition of the Northern and the effect hoped to ow in the elections in North as will be by the Aug. 15, j Henry J. My Dear have proposed to Mr. Groc ey that the correspondence be pub suppressing only the parts of his let ters over which the red pencil is drawn in tin copy which I herewith He his consent publication of Ilia letters these parts be published will the I have concluded that it is belter for to for the to the es of tlie false position in which I con Mder he has placed than subject the to the consequences of publishing these discouraging and injurious send you and the accompany tug nut for but merely to explain and that you may preserve them unu their proper time shall ABRAHAM Commenting upon these proceeding Mr. in his public statement of the facts uf is by the author due to the meui ory of Mr. He has been widely ecu lured for entering into agents at but this correspondence shows that Mr. Greeley's and his had made it necessary for either to open the way fur peace or reject the which of the most influential lenders of his own party thus assured him was for an termination of the He iras witb having finally insisted certain concessions as the basis of an inter- after having first promised it. but this correspondence that these conditions were distinctly stated at the verv but wero by Mr. the knowledge the rebel It is due to as in w Mr. that so injurious and so false should no longer How much of life and liberty might have been saved if there had been frank dealing on all sides OQ thus it is now less to The Fates willed TIW LATE IX The Sate State election in Kentucky was a melancholy travesty of Even the warmest friends of the Administration have been compelled to denounce and dis- claim sympathy or responsibility for tiie outrages by which it was The military in most cases took absolute of the and drove or silenced by menace those who desired to deposite votes against the ment These are nnd we admit the obligation to prove them beyond cavil aud by ble Tho Cincinnati a can journal of the highest influence in a defender of military a in its feels con- to denounce tlie remarkable con- duct of Gen It Tho of our correspondent indicates a disgraceful in August 7. W. W. louden The of election should be entirely ree from any military dictation or military has no right to interfere unless chen called upon to support tho authority nd decision of thy officers of Any to the action of the officers if by the is in violation of and punishable by the the and by the act of With tho arrest f neither the officers of election iOr myself have any thing to What tlie Constitution ami laws of lay down as the rule is the 10 lie If prevented from these I would not proceed vitli the It should be and to or not at T. K. Governor of Another writing from of the proceedings in that and soldiers in the United uniform were stationed tit the polls at every voting place in the in full operation with the abolition took trol directed who should and should of the best who purposed to vote tho were ordered and actually driven from the at uf tho At the Cold Spring mon were assaulted their hands tied behind them and then they were bound with their backs to Our so suffered in that from S o'clock ii tho until about 7 o'clock in about thirty minutes res pito lit j n Jt intrusion stinging him in tho without the the pait and flies and Majorities ayt always vas in a minority HI nd Lot was c in tiul t was the majority also thai out ify him of the greatest nf the may be flow from a Union is m from the of the Beloved tho naturally two 1. The of e ion from 2. The blessings of peace bo when peace Q. U. D. I. S. of was in and on iu Viral to a full H Aug. IK It a ai 1 particulars uf a occurred on in this re- tal a pun in h bruther in the killing uf ionner The u the way having iu iho ese for the r and uf not them but the Abolition and the repeated curs aud course aim so uf the Captain i on UHY at that election pre voung thus b 1 is an American citizen 1 never in any of the land that he is awar the displeasure of some of t are at a loss which to deplore the outrages of the military or the the civil authority in in a a State whose prevents any who ever aided tho rebellion from where the civil authority was entirely in loyal and tands that had never been but there WAS not the shadow of a reason to ferir that tho loyal side any question would not a show nt the we find the taken voters a sheriff every furin and of freedom in the until the loyal Governor of the State forced to to nf the highest civil officers of the NUT PROCEED THE of an ul- tra lie pub He an journal writes upon of freedom in from may be expect incline to the hope that the u cause of despotism from which in to have taken wo of SOBIC of the of Constitutional and their f the military power to rai hits if wo are correctly in- the of the to that the were If SIR remained at his headquarters and to his business we havo no iho result of the election would have boon more The dispatch to which it alludes ia aa Aug. 7. The flagrant attempts were made this to carry the election by the military A of had madn out hy of Public and w tw iu tlie of a military of- name in it wm if he appeared tho was appeal from the nnd n ti tho test oath of Governor did not Pave tho in many the only in- of the S utterly had every guarantee of doin been stricken down in that the Sheriff of the county felt compelled to to the Governor of the fur We subjoin the reminding the that both are not only loyal but in favor of tho political aide in whose interest these flagrant violations of and August T. To T. K. A military force occupies both places arrested three one fur and two in tho intending to the tho in one precinct declined to go on with the election under military The Sheriff at one precinct was ar- to while in thn of hin The of Stjuli 10 of thuir unon thoir lato and tn of ERRY PAIN i S F. Ira J. t to Hnt uml I- A- mo HAKE US MARTIN LIMB AND for LIGHT J have the fret 3x'l 1'i 1 MO fcK with smaller For call rUi S. the have moved from the two where they ill be glad to accommodate their old customers id i REAT CLOSING SALE J No. IOC Sycamore W. ROBINSON CO. sell at public without on W and to cry article in their to lo their new CO ft general of Crockery aud 12 oases and and Sacks Plated Clocks splendid styles Hoop Skirts a line lot of Letter Ironing ami Portable Strives ith a VM of other a slock of ud ii line lot FANCY ii full of and Fainting Auction fur un t 10 o'clock A. at directly Dr. 2w day niy son and F. T. under the style find for the jt I return my thanks to my many old he rally 1'or and ask for the now concern all other Noi th. o will keep on and fill of oar tis tube had in the by strict attention to lo share public Our on cent. U. F. T. r 1. K V TROM V COAT 0 my 1'OCKKT drawn hv U. F. of for the 20th of All are trading lor IIH but been Jt M. 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