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The Daily Dispatch: February 7, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
lation as to the object and purpose of this Presidential "change of base" was universal, and the conclusions arrived at almost as numerous as the speculations. The most generally-entertained opinion, and which seems best substantiated, is that Mr. Blair, while in Richmond, gave a pledge, that if a delegation were sent to confer in reference to a settlement, they should have an audience with the President. The rising storm of indignation on the part of the more radical Republicans against Mr. Blair, and incidentally against the President, for the steps that have already been taken, with a quasi-official endorsement by the venerable diplomatist, rendered the reception of the rebel diplomats at the capital inconvenient and inadvisable. Mr. Seward was accordingly sent to meet them; but they claimed the fulfillment of the promise of a personal interview with the President, and he, to solve the difficulty, went to meet them, instead of allowing them the freedom of Washington. I