MARCH 19, 1864:
The Georgia State Legislature passes two bills
into law --- The first is a clear-cut vote of confidence in the leadership of
President Jefferson Davis. The second is far more Machiavellian: It requires
that the Confederacy offer peace terms after each Confederate military victory.
The basic premise of the peace terms are independence for the Confederate
States and self-determination for the Border States. Though there is no chance
that the Lincoln Administration will ever consider disunion, the Georgia bill
does leave a back door ajar for eventual peace negotiations between the two warring
States of America. The passage of the bill marks a definite schism in the
Confederate approach to the war.
