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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Peace conference [from the Richmond, Va., Dispatch, February 25, 1900.] (search)
ependence to us, and told him so. I do not remember what he said about the Monroe doctrine, but I am very clear about the armistice. If we can get them to stop fighting, said he, for six months, three months, one month, the war will stop. Both sides are tired of it. They now know what war is, and they'll stop it. A general truce, to include all the armies and the whole country, will inevitably force peace. When Henry IV of France got a truce —an armistice—a cessation of fighting between Catholics and Protestants—he secured permanent peace and the kingdom for himself. I did not know much about Henry IV, in truth, except that he was a gentleman who swapped his religion for a kingdom, saying, a crown is worth a mass, so I said what I thought—that a man who would change his faith for pay was a poor pattern to follow, and I had no idea of making professions to secure profits. But Stephens laughed, and said it would be perfectly justifiable to profess submission to the laws if thereb