Yes, sir. Our people want Peace. Your people do. We have come to ask how it may be brought about?
Davis
Very simply. Withdraw your armies from the South, let us alone and Peace comes at once.
Jacquess
But we cannot let you alone so long as you seek to divide the Union.
Davis
I know. You deny us, what you exact for yourselves—the right of self-government.
Jacquess
Even so, Mr. Davis, we cannot fight forever. The war must end sometime. We must finally agree on something. Can we not find the basis of agreement now, and stop this slaughter?
[Vaughan takes notes rapidly.]