Impending War
In early 1861, Campbell served as a mediator between William H. Seward, Simon Cameron, and the three Confederate commissioners Martin Crawford, Andre Roman, and John Forsyth, Jr.. The Confederate mediators attempts at diplomatic negotiations were spurned by Seward. According to John G. Nicolay, one of Lincoln's private secretaries and a later biographer of the Civil War president, "Failing in this direct application, they made further efforts through Mr. Justice Campbell of the Supreme Court...who came to Seward in the guise of a loyal official, though his correspondence with Jefferson Davis soon revealed a treasonable intent."
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