Lincoln2012

Ulysses S. Grant:
Gentlemen, I suggest you work some changes to your proposal before you give it to the President.

R.M.T. Hunter:
We're eager to be on our way to Washington.

Alexander H. Stephens:
Did Mr. Lincoln tell you to tell us this?

Ulysses S. Grant:
It says, 'securing peace for our two countries'. And it goes on like that.

Alexander H. Stephens:
I don't know what you–

Ulysses S. Grant:
There's just one country. You and I, we're citizens of that country. I'm fighting to protect it from armed rebels. From you.

Alexander H. Stephens:
But Mr. Blair told us, he, he told President Jefferson Davis we were–

Ulysses S. Grant:
A private citizen like Preston Blair can say what he pleases, since he has no authority over anything. If you want to discuss peace with President Lincoln, consider revisions.

Alexander H. Stephens:
If we're not to discuss a truce between warring nations, what in heaven's name can we discuss?

Ulysses S. Grant:
Terms of surrender.