WASHINGTON, D. C., July 9, 1864.
Hon. HORACE GREELEY:
DEAR SIR: Your
letter of the 7th with inclosures received.* If you can find any person
anywhere professing to have any proposition of Jefferson Davis in writing, for
peace, embracing the restoration of the Union and abandonment of slavery,
whatever else it embraces, say to him he may come to me with you; and that if
he really brings such proposition, he shall at the least have safe-conduct with
the paper (and without publicity if he chooses) to the point where you shall
have met him. The same if there be two or more persons.
Yours, truly,
A. LINCOLN.
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* Not Found
SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of
the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series III, Volume
4 (Serial No. 125), p. 486
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