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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: February 14, 1865., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Fortress Monroe (Virginia, United States) or search for Fortress Monroe (Virginia, United States) in all documents.
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The New York Herald represents that Lincoln, at Fortress Monroe, presented "to the rebel States the open door of the Union; with all its constitutional guaranties, as their only way of escape from their sufferings and disasters under this terrible war." This in face of the fact that the United States Congress had formally abolished slavery; that the President of the United States announced to our commissioners that there could be no peace except upon the condition of laying down our arms and absolute submission to laws confiscating our property, according the death penalty to our citizens, and such legislation regulating the relations between the two races in the South as the Yankee Congress should adopt!
We were to go into the Union without representation in the making of laws, for Mr. Lincoln told Mr. Hunter that while we could send representatives to the Yankee Congress, yet it rested with that Congress to say whether they would receive them or not!
And this the Herald cal
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