"The Peace That Almost Was: The Forgotten Story ..." Topic
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Tango01 | 23 Dec 2014 10:56 p.m. PST |
…of the 1861 Washington Peace Conference and the Final Attempt to Avert the Civil War. "A narrative history of the 1861 Washington Peace Conference, the bipartisan, last-ditch effort to prevent the Civil War, an effort that nearly averted the carnage that followed. In February 1861, most of America's great statesmen—including a former president, dozens of current and former senators, Supreme Court justices, governors, and congressmen—came together at the historic Willard Hotel in a desperate attempt to stave off Civil War. Seven southern states had already seceded, and the conferees battled against time to craft a compromise to protect slavery and thus preserve the union and prevent war. Participants included former President John Tyler, General William Sherman's Catholic step-father, General Winfield Scott, and Lincoln's future Treasury Secretary, Salmon Chase—and from a room upstairs at the hotel, Lincoln himself. Revelatory and definitive, The Peace That Almost Was demonstrates that slavery was the main issue of the conference—and thus of the war itself—and that no matter the shared faith, family, and friendships of the participants, ultimately no compromise could be reached." See here link Do you consider that the peace conversations have any chance? Or it was born died? Amicalement Armand |
Dan Cyr | 24 Dec 2014 10:03 p.m. PST |
None. Southerns wanted slavery, feared Lincoln and would have only settled for "independence". Like many in a divorce, the south wanted to leave, but to keep all the federal forts, ports, arms, etc., in southern states and wanted the northern states to go along with the robbery. Lincoln would not be president until March, but had already made his feelings known as to his presidential responsibilities…maintaining the Union. Most folks don't even know that Lincoln was not even allowed to be on the ballot in the southern states in 1860, that South Carolina had voted to leave the Union even before Lincoln had been acknowledged having won in the House and that the final break would most likely not have happened if the residing president had been a Jackson instead of the existing one, Buchanan who lacked any spine and may have been in on the entire revolt. Dan |
Tango01 | 24 Dec 2014 11:17 p.m. PST |
Many thanks for the comments and the info my friend. Amicalement Armand |
guineapigfury | 25 Dec 2014 12:29 a.m. PST |
Dan Cyr, Your spot on with the shameful conduct of President Buchanan. Whenever I hear someone blathering about "Worst President Ever", I always think of Buchanan. Noone else comes close. |
donlowry | 25 Dec 2014 9:30 a.m. PST |
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Dan Cyr | 25 Dec 2014 10:02 p.m. PST |
Still rereading your ACW series, Don, thanks for all the years of enjoyment. Still miss your magazines and store too (smile). Dan |
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