[House of RErREsENTATiVEs.] 
 
 HOUSE OF BEPRESENTATIVFS, December 16, 1864.-Order- 
 ed to be printed. 
 
 [By Mr. Turner of North Carolina.] 
 
 ^ RESOLUTION 
 
 Tendering negotiations for peace and a mitigation of the 
 horrors o( the war. 
 
 1 R( solved. That the President of the Confederate States, by 
 
 2 and with tlie advice and consent of the b'enate be, and he is hcre- 
 
 3 by requested, to appoint thirteen commissioners, one from each of 
 
 4 the Confederate States, to tender to the government of the 
 
 5 United States, a conference for negotiating an honorable peace; 
 
 6 and failing in thip, the commissioners beinptiucted to use all 
 
 7 proper efforts to obtain an immediate exchange of prisoners; 
 
 8 and if possible, to come to such understanding with the enemy 
 
 9 regarding the future conduct of tlie war as maj tend, in some 
 10 degree, to mitigate its horrors and atrocities. 
 
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