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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 7. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Official correspondence of Confederate State Department. (search)
Official correspondence of Confederate State Department. [We have a number of letters of interest connected with the Confederate mission to Canada, &c., which have never been published, and we present below our first installment of them. Northern writers have been very abusive of Holcombe and his co-conspirators ; but no one who knew personally our our silver-tongued orator, or competent to appreciate his chivalric character, could doubt for a moment that he was very high above any taint of dishonor. We would cheerfully submit to the world as settling this point his most confidential letters.] Letter from Hon. J. P. Benjamin. Department of State, Richmond, 24th February, 1864. Hon. J. P. Holcombe, Special Commissioner, &c., Richmond: Sir — You will receive herewith the sum of eight thousand dollars, of which five hundred dollars are in gold coin and the remainder in a bill of exchange for 1,546£. 7s. 10d., equivalent to seven thousand five hundred dollars, counting t