The President and Mr. Seward have gone to Hampton Roads to have an
interview with the Rebel commissioners, — Stephens, Hunter, and Campbell. None
of the Cabinet were advised of this move, and without exception, I think, it
struck them unfavorably that the Chief Magistrate should have gone on such a
mission.
SOURCE: Gideon Welles, Diary of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the
Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson, Vol. 2: April 1, 1864 — December 31, 1866,
p. 235
