]
[Footnote 127: Statutes at Large, Provisional Government, Confederate
States of America, p. 92.]
[Footnote 128: Statutes at Large, Provisional Government, Confederate
States of America, pp. 36-38.]
[Footnote 129: Ibid., p. 38.]
CHAPTER VIII.
The Peace Conference.--Demand for "a Little Bloodletting."--Plan
proposed by the Conference.--Its Contemptuous Reception and
Treatment in the United States Congress.--Failure of Last
Efforts at Reconciliation and Reunion.--Note.--Speech of General
Lane, of Oregon.
While the events which have just been occupying our attention were
occurring, the last conspicuous effort was made within the Union to stay
the tide of usurpation which was driving the Southern States into
secession. This effort was set on foot by Virginia, the General Assembly
of which State, on the 19th of January, 1861, adopted a preamble and
resolutions, deprecating disunion, and inviting all such States as were
willing to unite in an earnest endeavor to avert it by an adjustment of
the then existing controversies to appoint commissioners to meet in
Washington, on the 4th of February, "to consider, and, if practicable,
agree upon some suitable adjustment." Ex-President John Tyler, and
Messrs. William C. Rives, John W. Brockenbrugh, George W. Summers, and
James A. Seddon--five of the most distinguished citizens of the
State--were appointed to represent Virginia in the proposed conference.
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