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Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States. (search)
gston says (Letter of Livingston to Madison, Annals of Congress, 1802-3, p. 1126): I told him no; that our wishes extended only to New Orleans and the Floridas; that the policy of France should dictate to give us the country above the river Arkansas, in order to place a barrier between them and Canada. Mr. Monroe, who had sailed March 8th, reached Paris April 12th, the day after Napoleon's conference with Marbois, and at once entered into conference with Mr. Livingston. On the night of the 12th, Marbois made to Livingston the informal overtures, as directed by Napoleon. (Annals of Congress, 1802-3, pp. 1128-9, 30, 31, 32.) Mr. Livingston details the interview in a letter to Mr. Madison. He received the overtures with caution and took occasion to repeat the assurance which he had frequently given: I told him the United States were anxious to preserve peace with France; that, for that reason, they wished to remove them to the west side of the Mississippi; that we should be perfec
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), The civil history of the Confederate States (search)
, appoint one immediately, and renew the effort to enter into conference with the view to secure peace to the two countries. Jefferson Davis. With this important letter Mr. Blair returned to Washington, and showing it to President Lincoln, obtained from him a communication designed to be read by the Confederate President. This letter, also addressed to Mr. Blair, and dated at Washington, January 18, 1865, was as follows: Sir: You having shown me Mr. Davis' letter to you of the 12th instant, you may say to him that I have constantly been, am now and shall continue ready to receive any agent whom he or any other influential person now resisting the national authority may informally send to me with the view of securing peace to the people of our one common country. Abraham Lincoln. Thus far the preliminaries seemed to gratify Mr. Blair, It was well you wrote me that letter, he said to Mr. Davis when he reached Richmond, on his second visit bearing the letter from Mr. Linc