Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: journment of Congress, the President of the Convention sent a copy of the proposed compromise to Vice-President Breckin- ridge, who submitted it to the United States Senate. It was referred to a committee of five who reported next day. Mr. Crittenden reported the Convention propositions. Mr. Seward. in behalf of himself and Mr. Trumbull, submitted a substitute providing for a Convention of the States to consider amendments to the Constitution. The Guthrie plan was postponed after a sharp debate, and the Senate concurred in a resolution adopted by the House of Representatives to the effect that "no amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize Congress to interfere within any State with the domestic institutions thereof. All other propositions being also rejected the Peace Congress efforts utterly failed, and the public at large disappointedly found themselves once more face to face with war. Another abortive attempt to effect a separate understanding had also been made by South Carolina. Messrs. B. W. Barn- well, Jamrs H. Adams and James L. Orr, styling themselves " Commissioners " from the State of South Carolina, arrived in Washington on the 26th of December, 1860, and prepared to establish themselves as a diplomatic body. On the 28th of December they sent a formal letter to President Buchanan proposing to treat with the Government of the United States for the delivery of the forts, magazines and other public property in South Carolina, and generally to negotiate a treaty between the Commonwealth of South Carolina and the General Government. JEFFERSON DAVIS. ATTEMPTED CONFEDERATE DIPLOMACY. They submitted as their basis of recognition the Secession Ordinance. They also referred to the events in Charleston Harbor (hereafter to be related) and req...
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