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The Correspondence Between Mr. Sew
ard and the Confederate Commissioners
—The Gage of War Thrown Down and
Accepted.
The following is the correspondence between
the Secretary of Slate and the Commissioners
frtm the Confederate States :
Messrs. Forsyth ano Crawtoru to Mu Ss
ward, Opening the Negotiation ard Sta
ting the Case.
Washington, City, Maroh 12, 1861
Hon. Win. II. Seward, Secretary of Stale of
the United States:
Sir—The undersigned have been duly ac*
credited by the government of the Confeder
ate Stales of America as Commissioners lo lbs
government of the Uoiled States, and in pur
suance of their iostruciionehave now tha bon
or to acquaint you with that fact, and to make
known, through you, to the President of the
United Stales, the objects of tboir presence in
this capital.
Seven Slates of the late federal Union, hav
ing. io the exercise of the iaherent right of
every free people to change or reform their
polttioal institutions, and through conventions
of their people, withdrawn from the United
Stales and resumed the attributes of sovereign
power delegated to il, have formed a govern
ment of their oun. The Confederate States
constitute an independent nation, de facto and
dr jure, and posses a government perfect in all
its parts, and endowed with al! (he means of
self support.
Wiih a view to a speedy adjustment of all
questions growing out of this political separa
tion, upon such terms of amity and good will
as tho respective interests, geographical con
tiguity and future welfare of the two nations
may render necessary, the undersigned are
instructed lo make to the government 0 f the
United Stneta overtures for the opening of ne
gotiations, assuring the government of the
United States that the President, Congress,
aod the people of the Confederate Stales ear
nestly desire a peaceful solution of these great
questions, that it is neither their interest nor
their wish to make any demand which is not
founded in strictest justice, nor do any act to
injure their la'e confederates.
The undersigned have now the honor, in
obedience to the instrueiioos of their govern
ment, to tequest you lo appoint os early a
dsy os possible in order that they may pre
sent to the President of the United States the
credentials which they bear and tho objects of
the mission with which they are charged.
We are, very respectfully,
your obedient servants,
JOHN FORSYTH.
MARTIN J. CRAWFORD.
THE REPLY OF HR. SEWARD.
MEMORANDUM.
Department of State, \
Wasuinuotn, March J3, 1801. /
Mr. John Forsyth, of the State of Alabama,
and Mr. Martin J. Crawford, of the Slate of
Georgia, on the 11th inst, through the kind
offices of a distinguished Senator, submitted
to the Secretary of State their desire for an
unofficial interview. This request whs, on
the 12th instant, upon exclusively public cou
siderationg, respectfully declined.
On the 13th instant, while the Secretary was
preoooupied, Mr. A. D. B inks, of Virginia,
ca\)ed at this department and was received by
the Assistant Secretary, to whom he delivered
a scaled communication, whioh he had been
charged by Messrs. Fortyth and Crawford to
present to the Secretary in person.
In that communication Messrs. Forsyth and
Crawford inform the Secretary of State that
they have been duly accredited by tbe gov
ernment of tbe Confederate States of America
aa Commissioners to the governmeal of the
United States, and they set forth the objects
of their attendance at Washington. They ob
serve that seven States of the American Un
ion, in the exercise of a right inherent in ev
ery free people, have withdrawn, through
conventions of their people, from tbe United
States, rgassutned the attributes of sovereign
power, and formed a government of their own,
and that those Confederate States now consti
tute an independent nation de facto and dejure,
and possess a government perfect in all its
parts and fully endowed with all the means of
self support.
Messrs. Forsyth end Crawford, in their
aforesaid communication, thereupon proceed
to Inform the Secretary that, with a view to a
speedy adjustment of all questions growing
out or Ihe political separation thus assumed,
upon suoh terms of amity and good will as tbe
respective Interests, geographical contiguity
and tbe future welfare of the supposed two na
tions might render necessary, they are in
structed to make to the government of tha
United 8tale« overtures for the opening of ne
gotiations, assuring this government that the
President, Congress and people of the Confed
erate States earnestly desire a peaceful solu
tion of these great questions, and that it is
neither their intereet nor their with to make
any demand which is not founded in strictest
justice, nor lo do any act to irjuro their late
confederates.
After making these statements, Messrs.
Forsyth and Crawford close their communica
tion. aa they any, in obedience to the instruc
tions of their government, by requesting the
Secretary of Slate to appoint as early a day aa
possible, in order that they may present to
(be President of tbe United Stales the credent
tiala which they boar and the objects of the
mission with whioh they are charged.
The Secretary of 8tate frankly confesses
that he understands the events which have re-
firmer occurred, aaJihe oen(Milan t tpolWcaf
affairs which actually exists iu the part of the
Union to Which his attention has thus been
directed, very differently from the aspect in
whioh they.itrt presented by hUaar*. Forsyth
aod Crawford. He io them, not a right*
ful and accomplished revolution and an inde
pendent nation, with an ea'abHabe# govern-
purpoatt
lino,) •
tkotftp
S7S.»
M «f onjnai
ggrcaalon upon
UatrilptkVA
itabU ltd ■■ooDalUn.
o Ika rig&ia aod tha au-
tnsx
ed, for the maintenance of the Union, tbe
preservation of liberty, and the aeourity,
peace, welfare, happiness and aggrandisement
of the American people. The Seeretmry of
State, therefore, avows te Messrs. Forsyth
and Crawford that he looks patiently but oon*
fidently for the cure of evils whioh have re
suited from proceeding so unnecessary, so un
wise, so unusual and so unnatural, not to Ir
regular negotiations, having in view new and
untried relations with agencies unknown te
and noting in derogation of the onnstMution
and laws, but to regular and considerate no
tion of the people of those States*, In co-oper
ation with their brethren in the other States,
through the Coogress of the United States,
and such extraordinary conventions, if there
shall be need thereof, as the federal constitu
tion contemplates and authorizes to be assem
bled.
It if, however, tha purpose of the Secretary
of State on this occasion not to invite or en
gage io any disouaaion of these subjects, but
■imply to set forth bis reasons for declining
to comply with the request of Messrs. Forsyth
and Crawford.
On the 4th of March lost, the then newly
elected President of the United States, in view
of all tbe faota bearing on the present ques
tion, assumed the executive administration of
the government, first delivering, in accordance
with an early and honored custom, ao inaugu
ral address to the people of the United States.
Tbe Secretary of State respectfully submits a
copy of this address to Messrs. Forsyth and
Crawford.
A simple reference toil will be sufficient to
satisfy those gentlemen that tbe Secretary of
State, guided by the principles therein an
nounced, is altogether prevented from admit ting
or assuming that (lie States referred toby the
have, in law or in fact, withdrawn from tbe
federal Union, or that they could do so io tbe
manner described by Messrs. Forsyth and
Crawford, or in any other manner than
the consent and conoert of the people of tbe
United States, to be given through a natioual
convention, to be assembled iu conformity
with the provisions of the Constitution of the
United States. Of course tbe Secretary of
State caunot act upoo tho assumption or in
any way admit that the so called Confederate
States constitute a foreign Power, with whom
diplomatic relations ought to be established
Under these circumstances the Secretary of
Stale, whose official duties are confined, sub
jeot to the direction of the President, to the
conducting of the foreign relations of the
country, and do not at all embrace domestic
questions or questions arising between
several States nud the federal government, is
unable to comply with the request of Messrs
Forsyth and Crawford, to appoint a d-iy oi
which they may present the evidences of their
authority and the objects of their visit to the
President of the United States. On the con
trary, he is obliged to state to Messrs. Forsyth
and Crawford that he has no authority nor is
be at liberty to recognise them as diplomatic
agents, or hold correspondence or other
munioatiou with them.
Fiuaily, the Seoretary of Stale would ob
serve that, although ho has supposed that he
might safely and with propriety have adopted
these conclusions without making any refer
ence of the subject to the Executive, yet ao
strong has been hia desire to practice entire
directness and to act in a spirit of perfeot re
apect and oandor towards Messrs. Forsyth aod
Crawford, aud that portion of tho people of
tbe Union in whose name they present tb
selves before him, that he has cheerfully sub
mitted tbis paper to the President, who coin
cides geueraily in the views it expresses, and
aanotiona the Secretary’s decision dtoliniog of
ficial intercourse with Messrs. Forayth and
Crawford.
April 8, J8G1.
The foregoing memorandum was filed in
this Department on the loth of Maroh last.—
A delivery of the same, however, to Messrs.
Forsyth aod Crawford was delayed, as was un
derstood with their consent. They have now,
through their Secretary communicated their
desire for a definitive disposition of the sub
ject. The 8acretary of State therefore direots
that a duly verified copy uf the paper be now
delivered.
A true oopy of the original, delivered to me
by Mr. F. W. Seward, Assistant Seoretary of
State of the United States, on April 8, 1861,
at 1. 15 P. M., in blank envelope.
Attest, J. T. PICKETT,
Secretary to the Cemmissiooers.
The com mission brs in reply to Mr. Seward,
accusing the government or deception,
AND ACCtPTINQ A SOLUTION BY THB SWORD.
Washington, April 6, 1861.
Hon. Wm. II. Seward, Secretary of State of
ihe Uaited States, Washington :
The “memorandum ” dated Department of
State, Washington, March 15, 1861, with post
script under date of 8«h inst, haa been receiv
ed through the hands of Mr. T. Pickett, Se
cretary to this Commission, who, by the in
structions of the undersigned, called for It on
yesterday at the department.
In that memorandum you correctly state tbe
purport of the oflicial note uddreaaed lo yon by
the undersigned on the 12th ultimo. Without
repeating the contents oi that note in full, it
is enough to any here that its object was to
Invite the Government of tho United States to
a friendly consideration of the relations be
tween the United States aod the eevea States
lately of ihe Federal Union, but now separa
ted from it by the sovereign will of their peo
ple, growing out of the pregnant and undeoU
able fact that those people have rejected the
authority of the Uoiled States aod established
one of their own. The relations had to be
frieqdly or hostile. The people of the old and
new Govern meats, occupying contiguous terri
tories, had to at and to eaob other in tho ralai ion,
peaoe, and to offer to adjust the queatiooo
pending between them In thh only way to ho
justified by the consciences and common sense
of good msn who had nothing bat tho welfare
of tho people of tho Coafsdoroetoa at heart.
Your Government baa not chosen to meet
the undersigned in the conciliatory and panes
ful spiri tin which they are commissioned.—*
Persistently wedded to those fatal theories of
construction of the Federal constitution al-
waja rejseted by the statesmen of the South,
nod adhered to by those of tho administration
school, uutil they have produced their natural
and often predioted result of the destruction
of the Union, under which we might have
continued io live happily and gloriously togeth
er, had the spirit of the aneeatry who framed
tbe oommon oonstltuiion animated the hearts
of all their sma, you now, with a persistance
untaught and uncured by tbe ruin whioh haa
been wrought, refuse to reoognixe tbe great
fact presented to you a completed and success
ful revolution ; you close your eyes to the ex-
is tence of the Government founded upon it,
and ignore the high duties of moderation and
humanity which attach to you in dealiog with
this great fact. Had you met these issues with
the frankness and manliness with which tbe
undersigned were instructed to present them
to«youand treat them, the ubdersigned bad
not now the melancholy duty to return home
and tell their Government and their country
men that their earnest and ceaselees efforts in
behalf of peaoe had been futile, and that the
Government of the United Slates meant to
subjugate them by force of arms. Whatever
may be the result, impartial history will re
cord the innocence of the Government of the
Confederate States, and place the responsibil
ity of tbe blood aod mourniog that may en
sue upon those who have denied the great
fundamental doctrine of American liberty,
that “ Governments derive their just powers
from the consent of the governed,” and who
have set naval and land armaments in motion
lo subject the people of one portion of thisland
lo tho will of another portion. That that can
never be doue while a freeman survives in the
Confederate States to wield a weapou, the un
dersigned appeal to past history to prove.
These military demonstrations against tbe
people of the seceded States are certainly far
from being in keeping and consistency with
the theory of the Secretary of Slate, main
tained in bis memorandum, that those States
are still component parts of the late American
Union, as the undersigned are not aware of
any Constitutional power in the President of
the United States to levy war, without tbe con
sent of Congress, upou a foreign people, much
less upon any portion of the United States.
The undersigned, like the Secretary of State,
have no purpose to “invite or engage in dis
cuHsion” of the nubject on which their two
Governments are so irreconcilably at varlenoe.
It is this variance that has broken up the old
Union, tbe disintegration of which has only
begun. It is proper however, to advise yon
that it were well to dismiss the hopes you
seem to entertain that, by any of the modes in
dicated, the people of Confederate States will
ever be brought to submit to the authority
of the Government of the United States. You
are dealing with delusions, to j, when you
seek to separate our people from our Govern
ment aod to characterize the deliberate, sov
ereign act of that people as a perversion of a
temporary and paitsan excitement.” If you
cherish these dreams you will be awakened
from them and find them aa unreal and unsub
sianiial as others in which you have recently
indulged. The undersigned would omit tbe
performance of obvious duty were they to fail
to make known to the Government of the Uni
ted States that the people of Confederate
States have declared their independence with
a full knowedgs of all the responsibilities of
of that act, aod with as firm a determination
lo maintain it by all the means with whioh na
ture haa endowed them as that whioh sustain
ed their fathers when they threw off the auth*
ority of the British crown.
The undersigned clearly understand that
you have declined to appoint a day to enable
them to lay the objects oft hejinission with which
they are charged before the President of the
United States, beoause so to do would be to rec
ognize the independence and separate nation-
alii ‘ *
of goad neighbors, each seeking their happi
ness and pursuing their natural destinies in
theic own way, without interference with the
other, or they haa to be rival and hostile na
tions. The Government of the Confederal*
States had no hesitation in electing its choice
in this aUatnMiH* {frankly*nd unreserved
ly, seekipg the good' of the people wke had
eotruetea iBem'with the powei*, in the spirit
of humanity, of ihe Chrtfetian civilization of
tfcerogv; anff of that Americanism whioh re
gards rite true waiters sad happlaeos of tha
pooptfe, ik* Gw*erement of tbe Confederate
Statea, among iu deal note, eommisafeoed
the undersigned to approaek tbe Goverament
of tho Ualtod States with the olive braaok of
ity of the Confederate Slates. This is the
vein of thought that pervades the memoran
dum before us. The truth of history requires
tknt it should distinctly appear upon tbe re
ford that the undersigned did not aak tbe gov
ernment of the United States to reeognise the
independence of the Confederate States. They
only asked audienoe to adjust, in a spirit of
amity and poaoe, the new relations springing
from a manifest and accomplished revolution
In the government of the late federal Union.
Yonr refusal to entertain these overtures for
a peaceful solution, the aotive naval and mili
tary preparation of this government, and a
formal notice to Ihe commanding general of
the Confederate forces in the harbor of Char
lesion that the President Intends to provision
Fort Sumter by forcible met ns, if necessary,
are viewed by the undersigned, and can only
be received by the world, as a declaration of
war against the Confederate Stales: for the
President of tbe United States knows that Fort
8urater cannot be provisioned without the ef
fusion of blood. The undersigned, in behalf
of their government and peeple, accept the
gage of battle tbue thrown down to then ;
and, appealing to God and tbe judgement of
mankind for the righteousness of their cause,
the people of the Confederate States will de
fend their liberties to the last against this fla
grant aod open attoopt at tbeh* subjugation
to sectional power.
This communication cannot be properly
cloevd without adverting to the date ef your
■smorandna. The official note of the under
signed, ef ike 12th Marsh, was delivered to
the Assistant Seoretary of State on the 18th
of that month, the gentleman who delivered
It Informing him that the Seoretary of tbit
Commission would cal! at twelve o’clock, noon,
wo tho noxVdsy, for aa answer. At tho ap-
polated hour Mr PiekoU did tail, end wet in
formed by the Assistant Si erst pry of Stats
that tbe eafafeamett tf the Seoretary ef ffiate
hod prevented him from giving the note hia
nutation. Tbe AeeisteOt Seoretary of State
then asked for tha address of Measi*. Craw
ford aid Fenytlf tha member* or ihe Corns'
afvelee then present is this cHy, took note ef
the address aa » eard, and ehgagad t* aaad
it dated March 15, and waa not delivered on
til April & Why woo It withheld daring the
intervening twenty-three day at la the post
script to your memorandum you any it •• waa
delayed, as wea understood, with their (Messrs.
Forsyth and Crawford's) consent.” This is
true; but life also true that on tho 16th of
Marsh, Messrs. Foreyth and Crawford were
assured by a peraoe occupying a high ofiioial
position in tha government, and who, ne they
believed was speaking by authority, that Fort
Sumter would be evaouated within a very few
dnye, and that no measure changing the exist
log etatu* prejudicially to thu Confederate
States, aa repeoin Fort Pickens, waa then con
templated, and tbeee assurances were subse
quently repeated, with the addition that any
contemplated change aa respects Pickena would
be notified to us. On tbe 1st of April we were
again informed that there might be ao attempt
(o eupply Fort Sumter with provision*, but
that Governor Pieken* should have previous
notice of this attempt. There was do sugges
tion of any reinforcement. The undersigned
did not hesitate to believe that these assur
ances expressed the intentions of the admin
istration at the time, or at all events of prom
inent members of that admi nisi ration. Thin
delay was aasented to for tbs express purpose
of attaining the great end of the mission of
the undersigned, to wit:—A paoifip solution
of existing complications. The inferenoa do-
ducible from the data of your memorandum,
that the undersigned bad, of their own voli
tion and without cause, consented te tbis long
hiatus in the grave duties with wbieb ibey
were obargrd, ia therefore not consistent with
a just exposition of the facia of the case. The
intervening twenty three days were employ
ed in active unofficial efforts, the object of
which was to smooth tbe path to a pacific so
lution, the distinguished personage alluded to
co operating with the undersigoed, and every
step of the effort is recorded in writing, and
now in possession of the undersigned and of
their government. Il wss only wten all these
anxious effort* for peace had been exhausted,
and it became clear that Mr. Lincoln bad de
termined to appeal to the sword to reduce the
people of the Confederate States to tbe will
of the section or psrty whose President he is,
that tbe undersigoed resumed tbe official ne
gotiation temporsrily suspended, and sent
their 8ecre'ary for a reply to their official
note of March 12.
It is proper to add that, during these twen
ty-three days, two gentlemen of official dis*.
fiction as high as that of the personage hith
erto alluded lo, aided the undersigned aa in
termediaries in these unofficial negotations
for peace.
The undersigned Commissioners of the Con
federate 8ta<es of America, having thus made
answer to all they deem material in the mem
orandum filed in the Department on the 16th
of March last, have the honor to be,
JOHN FORSYTH,
MARTIN J. CRAWFORD,
A. B. ROMAN.
A true copy of the original by ooe deliver
ed to Mr. F. W. 8eward, Assistant Secretary
of State of tbe United States, at tight o’clock
in the evening of April 9. 1861.
Attest, J. T. PICKETT,
Secretary, &c , Ac.
Mr. Seurard, in Reply to the Commietionert, Ac
knowledges the Receipt of their Letter, but De
clines to A newer it.
Dspaxtmint or State, 1
Washington, April 10, 1861. j
Messrs. Forsyth, Crawford and Homan,
having been apprised by a memorandum whioh
ban been delivered to them that the Secretary
of 8tate is not at liberty to hold offioial inter
course with them, will, it ia presumed expeot
no notice from him of the new communication
which they have addressed to him under date
of tha 9»h instant, beyond the simple acknowl
edgement of tbe receipt thereof, which he here
by very cheerfully give*.
A true copy of tbe original received by the
Commissioners of the Confederate 8tates, tbis
10th day of April, 1861. Attest,
J. T. PICKETT, Seuratary, Ao., Aa.
DENTISTRY.
H. HUNTINGTON, M. D„
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ATLANTA, GBOBUIA,
OFFICE in Rawaoufr nuw build
ing, corner Whitehall and Hunter 8treset.—
Residence first house to the left of Col. Yan-
itaraRiNcas: Hon. R. F. Lyon, Mr. E E.
Raweon, Messrs. Beach A Root, Rev. Mr. Rog
ers, Dr. Logan, Atlanta; Rev. a M. Irwin, D.
A. Vason, Esq., Col. Naloon Till, Col. W. J.
Lawton, Henry Tarver, Albany. Jan H.) |
E. J. A a. IV. CRAffBJf.
HAKE removed to their new
aod splendid room ia Potass's
lito Beach A Roots, where they are
wait on all who may wiah their
Ministers, who are pattern charged half*
“ ianoe al tea dad a with
price. Calls from a disi
promptness.
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