Any offer of terms made by men within that range, in opposition to that army, is simply nothing for the present, because such men have no power whatever to enforce their side of a compromise if one were made with them.
In this quote, Alexander discusses the futility of peace negotiations without the power to enforce them during the Civil War.
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