MCRAE, JOHN J., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Congress, | 49; withdrew, 3; Representative in First Rebel Con- gress, 401.
MEDIATION, 345-348-see "Foreign Mediation." MEMMINGER, CHARLES G., vote on secession ordinance, 399; Secretary of the Treasury of the republic of South Carolina, 2; report in South Carolina Convention, 15, 16; remarks of, 17, 18; Deputy in Rebel Provisional Congress, 11, 400; Secretary of the Treasury under the Provisional Administration, 400, under the Permanent and resignation, 401; political history of. 401. MENEES, THOMAS, Representative in First Rebel Congress, 402; Second, 402.
MENONITES, action of, on the state of the country, 603, C01. MENZI S, JOHN W., Representative in Thirty-Seventh Con-
gress, 122; at interview of Border-State Representa- tives and President Lincoln, 211; views on compensa- ted emancipation, 213-217.
MERCIER, M., Letter of French Minister of Foreign Affairs, to, respecting mediation, 345.
Mercury, Charleston, on Border State Embassies, 3; on
Peace Conference, 41: telegram in, respecting the dis- union conspiracy, 391, 592.
Mercury, Mobile, on the "do nothing" policy, 112. MEREDITH, S. A., Colonel, General McDowell & order to, 251. MEREDITH, WILLIAM M., Member of Peace Conference, 67. MERRYMAN, JOHN, arrest of, 154; proceedings in case, in- cluding Chief Justice Taney's opinion, 151–158. Metropolitan Record, excluded from Department of Mis- souri, 192; Archbishop Purcell MESSAGES, last annual, of President Buchanan, 49, 50; Pres- проп, 503. ident Lincoln's first, 123-129; first annual, 129-136; sc- cond, 136-140, 220-229; third, 141-147; fourth, 555-558; in General Stone's case, 180; on confiscation 197, 198; compensated emancipation, 200; on District of Colum- bia bill, 212, 213; on enrollment act, note, 263; on early proceedings to sive the Capital, 33, 331; vetoing bill authorizing small notes, 359; relative to national banking system, note, 362; on mouarchical intrigues in Central and South America, 343; the French Mex- ican question, 349; the Arguelles case, 351, 355; trans- mitting Hampton Roads Conference, 566-569; on Elec toral College bill, 579; Jeff. Davis's, 610, 612, 616, 618. METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, General Conference of 1800, 494-496; of 1861, 497-499; Baltimore Conference of 1861, 496; protest of members of, 406; Western Visgi- nia Conference of 1861, 496; President Lincoln's re- sponse to resolutions of East Baltimore Conference of 1862, 496. IN INSURRECTIONARY STATES, facts respecting, 516; orders of President Lincoln and Secretary Stanton for occupancy of churches, 521-523; Rev. Dr. J. P. New- man's address at New Orleans, 523, 521; action of Holston Conference, 546.
METHODIST PROTESTANT CHURCH, General Convention of 1862, 499, 500; action of Maryland Annual Conference, West Virginia Conference, and Ninth Street Church in Washington city, 499, 500.
MEXICO, the French occupation of, proceedings of Govern- ment, 348-354; Mr. McDougall's resolution respecting, 348, 349; resolution of the House, and subsequent pro- ceedings, 349-354; Mr. Murray's resolution respecting, in Rebel Congress, 617.
MICHIGAN, Vote for President in 1860, 1; in 1861, 623; mem- bers of Thirty-Sixth Congress, 48, 49; Thirty-Seventh, 122; Thirty-Eighth, 140; personal liberty law, 46, 47; not represented in Peace Conference, 69; vote of legis lature on ratifying the anti-slavery amendment, 599. MIDDLETON, GEORGE, Representative in Thirty-Eighth Con- gress, 140.
MIDDLETON, MR., remarks in South Carolina Convention, 17; vote on secession ordinance, 399. MILES, District Attorney, Charleston, on sequestration, 206.
MILES, WILLIAM PORCHER, Representative in Thirty-Sixth Congress, 49; withdrew, 2; Deputy in Rebel Provis ional Congress, 11, 400; Representative in First Con- gress, 402; Second, 402; vote on secession ordinance, 399; statement respecting forts in Charleston harbor, 32; declaration respecting secession, 53; on Beaure- gard's staff, 401.
MILITARY Arrests, General Augur's order respecting, 87. MILITARY AUTHORITIES, THE, AND THE CHURCHES, 521-543. MILITARY COURTS, orders respecting, 154, 177; proposition to limit the jurisdiction of, 561, 562, 563. MILITARY Governors, letter of appointment, 179; power to suspend the writ of habeas corpus, 179. MILITARY Interference with elections, bill to prevent, 315, 3:6, 566.
MILITARY Legislation, summary of our, 115-117, 563-566. MILITARY Legislation, summary of rebel, 117-121, 611-613,
MILITARY Orders respecting elections, 308-316, 445. MILIA, Bill to reorganize, in District of Columbia, 77 ; Da- vis's opinion of militi
MILLER, H. II., Commissioner from Mississippi to Texas, 11. MILLER, SAMUEL A., Representative in First Rebel Con- gress, 402; Second. 402. MILLER, SAMUEL F., Representative in Thirty-Eighth Con- gress, 140.
MILLIGAN, SAMUEL, Member of Peace Conference, 68. MILLS, BERNARD, arrest of, 153; motions and votes in Mary. land Legislature, 396-338.
MILLER, WILLIAM II., Representative in Thirty-Eighth Con- gress, 140.
MILLSON, JOHN S., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Congress, MILLS, JOUNT, interview with President Lincoln, 424. MILLWARD, WILLIAM, Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con- 49; member of Committee of Thirty-three, 53; ex- tract of letter to James Barbour. 39. gress, 48: damages against, for seizing the West Ches- ter Jeffersonian, 411, 412.
MINNESOTA, vote for President in 1860, 1; in 1864, 6.3; mem- bers of Peace Conference, 69; Thirty-Sixtli Congress, 48, MISSISSIPPI, Vote for President in 1860, 1; members of 49; Thirty-Seventh, 122; Thirty-Eighth, 140; vote of legislature on ratifying the anti-slavery amendment, 599. Thirty-Sixth Congress, 48, 49; Deputies in Rebel Provis onal Congress, 11, 400; members of First Congress, 401, 402; Second, 402; secession movement iu, 3; inter- State commissioners, 11; legislature on habeas corpus bi, 399; men in the army, 303.
MISSOURI, Vote for President in 1860,1; in 1864, 623; mem- bers of Peace Conference, 67: Thirty-Sixth Congress, 48, 49: Thirty-Seventh, 122; Thirty-Eighth, 140: Depa uties in Rebel Provisional Congress, 11, 400; Members of First Congress, 401, 402; Second, 402, 611; secession movement in, 10, 11; seizures and surrenders of Uni- ted States property, 28; ordinance of convention re- specting elections, 314: military orders respecting elections in, 314, 315, 445; proposed compensated emancipation, 221-226; men in the rebel army, 399; admission into the "Confederacy," 400; vote on abol ishing slavery in, 332; vote of legislature on ratifying the anti-slavery amendment, 599; postponement of elec- tion for Rebel Congressmen, GH1. MITCHEL, CHARLES B., Senator in First Rebel Congress, 401; in Second, and death, 402.
MITCHELL, WALTER, proposed member of board of public MITCHELL, WILLIAM, Representative in Thirty-Seventh safety in Maryland, 9. Congress, 122.
MONARCHICAL intrigues in Central and South America, ac- tion on, 343.
MONTAGUE, ROBERT L., report in Virginia convention, 6; vote on secession ordinance, note, 7; Representative in Second Rebel Congress, 402.
MONTGOMERY, WILLIAM, Representative in Thirty-Sixth MONTANA Territory, Bill to organize, 240, 241; proposed ne- gro suffrage in, 210; prohibition of slavery, 251, 255.
MOODE, JAMES W., Member of bogus Legislative Conncil of Kentucky, 8; Representative in First Rebel Congress, 401; Second, 402.
MOOR, LABAN T., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Congress, MooKE, SYDENHAM, Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con- MOORE, S. McD., vote on secession ordinance, note, 7; com- missioner of Virginia in making military league, 8. gress, 49; telegram south, 37; withdrew, 4. MOORHEAD, JAMES K., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con- gress, 49; Thirty-Seventh, 122; Thirty-Eighth, 140; agency in preventing the removal of heavy guns from Allegheny Arsenal, note, 35; resolution on ineligibility to office, 376.
MOREHEAD, CHARLES S., Member of Peace Conference, 68: MORAVIAN CHURCH, action of, on state of the country, 43. arrest of, 153.
MOREHEAD, JOHN M., Member of Peace Conference, 68; de MORFIT, HENRY M., arrest of, 153; votes in Maryland Legis- puty in Rebel Provisional Congress, 400. Jature, 396-3JS.
MORGAN, EDWIN D., Senator in Thirty-Eighth Congress, 140; amendment to enrollment bill, 265; remarks in open- ing the Baltimore Union Convention, 403; Professor Lieber's letter to, on amending the Constitution, note, 591, 592.
MORGAN, S. II., Representative in Second Rebel Congress,
MORRILL, JUSTIN S., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con- MORKILL, ANSON P., Representative in Thirty-Seventh Con- gress, 122.
gress, 49; Thirty-Seventh, 122: Thirty-Eighth, 140; member of the Committee of Thirty-three, 53: substi tute for confiscation bill, 139; for emancipation bill, 200, 201; resolution on the war, 291.
MORKILL, LOT M., Senator in Thirty-Sixth Congress, note, 48; Thirty-Seventh, 121: Thirty-Eighth. 140; member of Peace Conference, 67; amendment to Washington
city registry bill, 241; resolution on bailing arrested persons, 183.
MORRIS, DANIEL, Representative in Thirty-Eighth Congress, 14); bill repealing fugitive slave laws 37. MORRIS, EDWARD JOY, Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con- gress, 48; adjustment proposition, 55. MORRIS, ISAAC N., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Congress, 49; adjustment proposition, 73; resolution on the Union, 75, 76.
MORRIS, JAMES R., Representative in Thirty-Seventh Con- gress, 122; Thirty-Eighth, 140.
MORRISON Captain, surrender of his vessel to rebels, 28. MORRIS N. WILLIAM R., Representative in Thirty-Eighth Congress, 140; resolution on slavery, 259.
MORSE, FREEMAN II., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con- gress, 48; member of Committee of Thirty-three, 53; of Peace Conference, 67.
MORTON, JACKSON, Deputy in Rebel Provisional Congress, 11, 400; vote on secession ordinance 399. MORTON, OLIVER P., Governor of Indiana, signer of Altoona address, 233.
MOSEBY, JOHN, commission of as major of partisan rangers,
MULATTOES, drafting in rebel States, 282.
MUNNERLYN, J. C., Representative in First Rebel Congress,
MUNROE, THOMAS B., Deputy in Rebel Provisional Congress,
MURPHY, ISAAC, Governor of Free State of Arkansas, 321; votes and action in secession convention, 399. MURRAY, JOHN P., Representative in Second Rebel Con- gress, 402; resolution on Mexican question, 617. MURRAY, United States Marshal of southern district of New York, indicted by the Grand Jury for the arrest of Ar- guelles, 355; proceedings in court upon, 355. MURRETT, ROBERT T., arrest of, 153. MYERS, AMOS, Representative in Thirty-Eighth Congress, 140; resolution relating to the war, 292. MYERS, LEONARD, Representative in Thirty-Eighth Con- gress, 140.
NAVY, disposition of vessels in, during 1860, report on, 8. NEBRASKA, enabling act for, 377.
NEGOTIATION, John D. Baldwin's resolution against, with rebels, 298, 299; Niagara Falls, 301-303. NEGRO SUFFRAGE, Bills to authorize, in Montana Territory,
and Washington city, amendments to and votes upon, 240, 241; vote on proposed, in New York and Illinois, note, 241; former in Tennessee, 383; proposed in re- constructed States, 577.
NEGROFS, enrollment of in "rebeldom,” 282, 283, 427, 428; draft of for military service, 282; to work on fortifica- tions, 282; impressment of, in Georgia, 282; changing sentiment in the Rebel Congress respecting the em ployment of, in military service, 282; in the army, 282, 283; act of Rebel Congress respecting, 283; General Magruder calls for, 283; legislation concerning negro prisoners, 283; Richmond Inquirer on, 428, 429; the Negro Soldier bill, and General Lee's letter, 611, 612. NELSON, HOMER A., Representative in Thirty-Eighth Con- gress, 140.
NELSON, THOMAS A. R., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con-
gress, 49; member of Committee of Thirty-three, 53; report of 55; one of the Tennessee protesters, 438-441. NESMITH, JAMES W., Senator in Thirty-Seventh Congress, 122; Thirty Eighth, 140.
NEVADA TERRITORY, bill to organize, 89, 90: admission of,
as a State, 460; Senators and Representatives from, 559; voto of legislature on ratifying the anti-slavery amendment, 600; vote at Presidential election of 1864,
623. NEW ENGLAND, proposition of Garrett Davis to divide,259. NEW HAMPSHIRE, voto for President în 1860. 1; in 1861, 625; members of Peace Conference, 67; Thirty-Sixth Con- gress, 48; Thirty-Seventh, 121; Thirty-Eighth, 140; "personal liberty" law of, 44; Democrats of, Rich- mond Sentinel's response to resolution of, 331. NEW JERSEY, Vote for President in 1860, 1: in 1864, 623; members of Peace Conference, 67; Thirty-Sixth Con- gress, 48; Thirty-Seventh, 122; Thirty-Eighth, 140; "personal liberty" law, has no, 46; vote of legislature on ratifying the anti-slavery amendment, 597. NEWMAN, J. P., Rev. Dr., address of, at New Orleans, 523, 524.
NEW MEXICO, proposed admission of, 53. NEW ORLEANS, open to trade, 119; loyalty of Episcopal and Pre-byterian Churches in, 543-545.
NEW PAPLES, exclusion and uppression of, 187; proceed- ings, orders, presentments, reports, letters, arrests, charges, resolutions, and decision respecting, 188-191, 411, 442; rebel limitations upon privileges of, 177. NEW YORK, vote for President in 1860, 1; in 1864, 623; members of Peace Conference, 67: Thirty-Sixth Con- gress, 48: Thirty-Seventh, 122; Thirty-Eighth, 140: of "personal liberty law, 46; negro suffrage in, note, 241; vote of legislature on ratifying the anti-slavery amend ment, 596, 597.
NEW YORK CITY, Mayor Wood's recommendation that it be- come a free city, 42-44.
NEW YORK CONGRE SMEN, adjustment proposition of, 74. NEW YORK DEMOCRATS, Lor1 Lyons's statement of views of, respecting foreign mediation, 347; correspondence with President Lincoln respecting Vallandigham's re- lease, 167-175.
NEW YORK (Grant) Meeting, President Lincoln's letter to,
New York News, C. L. Vallandigham's letter to, 423. New York Sun, adjustment proposition of, 75. New York Times, on the disunion programme, 392. New York Tribune, on the prospect of peace, 303. NIAGARA FALLS PEACE NEGOTIATIONS, 301-03. NIBLACK, WILLIAM E., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con- gress, 49: adjustment proposition of, 51. NICHOLAS, Judge, of Kentucky, proposition to amend the Constitution, 255, 256.
NICHOLSON, A. O. P., Senator in Thirty-Sixth Congress, 48. NISBET, EUGENIUS A., Deputy in Rebel Provisional Congress, NIXON, JOHN T., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Congress, 48; Thirty-Seventh, 122; member of Border-States Com- mittee, 73.
NOBLE, WARREN P.. Representative in Thirty-Seventh Con- gress, 122; Thirty-Eighth, 110; resolution of, respect- ing the purposes of the war, 286; amendment of, to the loan bill, 260.
NOELL, JOHN W., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Congress, 49; Thirty-Seventh, 122; adjustment proposition of, 51; on compensated eniancipation in the border States, 211, 217, 218; bill to promote emancipation in Mis- souri, 224, 225.
NORFOLK opened to trade, 149.
North American Review, President Lincoln's letter to pub- lishers of, 336.
NORTH CAROLINA, vote for President in 1860, 1; members of Peace Conference, 9; Thirty-Sixth Congress, 48, 49; Deputies in Rebel Provisional Congress, 400, when elected, 401; Members of First Congress, 401, 402; Second, 402, 611; secession movement in Convention and Legislature, 4; seizures and surrenders, 28; Supreme Court refuse writs of habeas corpus to persons who had furnished substitutes, 120: peace propositions in legis lature, 304, 305,619; resolutions on peace, 330; adjust- ment proposition of “distinguished citizen," 75; men in the armiy, 399.
NORTHWESTERN CONFEDERACY, Cincinnati Gazette upon the intrigue for, 42.
NORTON, ELIJAH II., Representative in Thirty-Seventh Con-
NORTON, JESSE O., Representative in Thirty-Eighth Con-
NORTON, N. L., Representative in Second Rebel Congress,
NOYES, WILLIAM CURTIS, Member of Peace Conference, 67. NUGEN, ROBERT II., Representative in Thirty-Seventh Con- gress, 122.
NYE, JAMES W., Senator in Thirty-Eighth Congress, second session, 559.
OATH OF ALLEGIANCE, bill requiring from lawyers, 602; from Senators, note, 603.
OCHILTREE, WILLIAM B., Deputy in Rebel Provisional Con- gress, 11, 400.
O'CONOR, CHARLES, Letter of George N. Sanders to, 330. ODELL, MOSES F., Representative in Thirty-Seventh Con- gress, 122: Thirty-Eighth, 140. OFFICE, certain persons ineligible to, act declaring, 576. OFFICE, Civil and military, incompatibility of, 575. Omo, vote for President in 1860, 1; in 1864, 623; members of Peace Conference, 68; Thirty-Sixth Congress, 43; Thirty-Seventh, 122; Thirty-Eighth. 140; no “personal liberty law, 47: vote of legislature on ratifying the anti-slavery amendment, 598.
OHIO DEMOCRATS, Correspondence with President Lincoln relative to Mr. Vallandigham's return, 167-175. OLDHAM. WILLIAM S.. Deputy in Rebel Provisional Congress, 11, 400; Senator in First Rebel Congress, 401; Second,
402; views on sequestration, 205; resolutions respect- | PARKE, JOHN G, Major General, despatches at Hampton ing peace, 616.
OLDEN, CHARLES S., Member of Peace Conference. C7. OLIN, ABRAHAM B., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con- gress, 48; Thirty-Seventh, 122; opinion in habeas cor- pus case, 562.
O'NEILL, CHARLES, Representative in Thirty-Eighth Con- gress, 140.
O'NEILL, JOHN, Representative in Thirty-Eighth Congress, 140.
OPINIONS of the Attorneys General-J. S. Black, upon the powers of the President, 50-52; Edward Bates, on the power of the President to make arrests and suspend the writ of habeas corpus, 158-161; Caleb Cushing, on inviolability of United States mails, 159, 190; Edward Bates, on pay of colored chaplains, 279, 280; on pay of colored soldiers, 384, 385; on citizenship of colored persons, 378-384.
ORD, EDWARD O. C., Major General, despatches at Hamp- ton Roads Conference, 567.
ORDERS, military, respecting elections, 308-316, 445. ORDERS of Abraham Lincoln-see "Lincoln, Abraham." ORDERS RESPECTING A DRAFT, of Secretary Stanton in 1862, 272; in 1864, note, 604.
ORDERS RESPECTING ARRESTS, of Secretary Cameron in Mary- land Legislature, 153; General McClellan, 308, 309; Secretary Stanton, 154; General Augur, 187; Generals Butler and Wild respecting Rev. S. II. Wingfield, 553,
554. ORDERS RESPECTING CHURCHES, of War Department con- cerning churches in the insurrectionary States, 521, 522; of Gen. Veatch in Memphis, 522; Gen. Schenck in Baltimore, 524, 525; Generals Curtis and Schofield in St. Louis, 533, 534, 535, 537; Generals Rosecrans and Pope in St. Louis, 538, 564; Col. B. G. Farrar and Gen. Brayman in Natchez, 538, 541; Generals Butler and Bowen in New Orleans, 542, 543; Gov. Andrew John- son in Nashville, 542; Gen. Wild in Norfolk, 542. ORDERS RESPECTING COLORED TROOPS, Secretary Stanton to
Gov. Andrew, 279; of Major General Palmer respect- ing freedom of families cf, note, 564. ORDERS RESPECTING ELECTIONS, of General McClellan at Maryland election of 1831, 308, 309; Generals Dix, Schenck, Fry, and Tyler and Lieut. Col. Tevis, 309, 311, 312; Generals Burnside, Asboth, and Shackleford, and Lieut. Col. Johnson, and Colonels Foster and Mundy in Kentucky, 313, 314; Generals Hall, Schofield, and Rosecrans in Missouri, 314, 315, 445. ORDERS RESPECTING FUGITIVE SLAVES, of Gen. Mansfield, 245;
Washington City Provost Marshal, (Brig. Gen. Andrew Porter,) 245; Gen. Fremont, 246, Gen. Wool, 248; Gen. Halleck, 248, and proposed censure of, 253, 251; Gen. Hooker, 250; Gen. Doubleday, 250; Gen. T. Williams, 251; Lient. Col. Anthony, 251; Secretary Stanton to Gen. Saxton, 252; Gen. J. M. Tuttle, 253; Gen. Roberts, 253; Gen. Grant, 443, 444. ORDERS RESPECTING IMPRESSMENT AND PROTECTION OF PROP-
ERTY, of Gen. McDowell in Virginia, 251; Generals Hartsuff and Boyle in Kentucky, 315. ORDERS RESPECTING SALE OF FIRE-ARMS, of Gen. Heintzelman in Columbus, note, 418.
ORDERS, REBEL, of Col. W. M. Churchwell, 121; Judah P. Benjamin on bridge burning and arrests, 187; respect- ing emancipation, 118; for enrollment of persons be- tween 17 and 50, 427; for enrollment of negroes in Louisiana, 428; for revocation of details, 428. OREGON, Vote for President in 1860, 1; in 1864, 623; not represented in Peace Conference, 49; members of Thirty- Sixth Congress, 48, 49; Thirty-Seventh, 122, 123; Thirty- Eighth, 141.
ORR, JAMES L., commissioner to Washington, 2; correspond- ence with President Buchanan, 29–32; commissioner from South Carolina to Georgia, 11; received by Con- vention, 3; Senator in First Rebel Congress, 401; Sec- ond 402; objections to bill repealing substitute law, 121; vote on secession ordinance, 399,
ORR, JOHN A., Representative in Second Rebel Congress, 402. ORTIL, GODLOVE S., Member of Peace Conference, 65; Repre-
sentative in Thirty-Eighth Congress, 140; amendment to the enrollment bill, 269.
OWENS, JAMES B., Deputy in Rebel Provisional Congress, 11, 400; vote on secession ordinance, 399.
PACIFIC Republic, intrigues for, 41; Shasta Herald upon, 41; San Francisco Bee, 42.
PAINE, E. T., Colonel, arrested for declining to return fugi- tive slaves, 251.
PALMER, JOHN M., Member of Peace Conference, 68; Major General, order announcing freedom of families of col- ored soldiers, note, 564.
PALMER, GEORGE W., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con- gress, 48.
PARK R, JO. EPH, bearer of Peace address from Great Brit- ain, correspondence with Secretary Seward, 450. PATTERSON, JAMES W., Representative in Thirty Eighth Con- gress, 140.
PATTERSON, Judge, East Tennessee, Benjamin's order of ar- rest, note, 187.
PATTERSON, LOBERT, Major General, proclamation, 244. PATTON, JOHN, Representative in Thirty-Seventh Congress, PAY of colored soldiers, Opinions of Attorney General upon, 270, 200, 384, 385; proposed prohibition of pay to,
PAY of soldiers increased, 116, 272.
PEAC, Alexander II Stephens's letters on, 430, 431, 458, 459; Wm. W. Boyce's, 451-433, 457; Herschel V. John on's, 433, 434; General Grant on, 434; Benjamin to Mason, 455; Davis in his last messages, 455, 456, 611; Alabama legislature on, 456; Rebel House of Representativeson, 455; Address from Great Britain, 456: Hampton Roads Conference, 566-572; correspondence of Generals Grant and Lee on military convention, 572, 573; Garrett D.- vis's proposition for, 573, 574; resolutions of Messrs. Cox, Fernando Wood, Ingersoll, Townsend. Dawson, and Williams, 674, 575: Niagara Falls Peace Negotia- tions, 301-303, and Horace Greeley's letter upon, C03; propositions in Rebel Congress; 614-616; movements in legislatures of North Carolina, Virginia, Alabama, and Georgia, 619–622.
PEACE CONFERENCE, Propositions of, rejected in Virginia Convention, 7; Washington telegram of Charleston Mercury respecting. 41: delegates to, officers of, pro- ceedings, and propositions, and votes in, 67-69; Con- gressional votes on proposition of, 69, 70.
PEACE PROPOSITIONS IN CONGRESS, 294–300, 574, 575; corres- pondence between President Lincoln and Fernanao Wood, 296, 297; Niagara Falls Conference, and New York Tribune on prospects of peace, 301-303; Rich- mond Examiner on, 899.
PEACE PROPOSITIONS, REBEL, in their Congress, and debate, 303-307, 614-616; in Senate of Virginia, 304; Legisla tures of North Carolina, Virginia, Alabaina, and Georgia, 364, 350, 619-622; Richmond press upon, 305. PEARCE, JAMES ALFRED, Senator in Thirty-Sixth Congress, 45, Thirty-Seventh, 122; death, 123. PEARSON, Judge, of North Carolina, opinion on habeas cor- pus, 120.
PENDLETON, GEORGE H., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Congress, 49, Thirty-Seventh, 122; Thirty-Eighth, 140, resolutions relative to Baltimore Police Commissioners, 180, alleged proposition of release to prisoners, 182, arrest of Mr. Vallandigham, 182, and the objects of the war, 2-6; remarks on newspaper exclusion from the mails, 191, 192: nomination of, for Vice President at Democratic National Convention, and remarks on ac- cepting, 420; speech at Dayton, 421; in New York, 422: letters, 423.
PENNINGTON, WILLIAM, Representative in, and Speaker of House, Thirty-Sixth Congress, 48.
PENNSYLVANIA, vote for President in 1860, 1: in 1564. 623; members of Peace Conference, 67: Thirty Sixth Con- gress, 48; Thirty-Seventh, 122: Thirty-Eighth, 140; per- sonal liberty law, 46, 47: decisions of Supreme Court on eurollment act, 273, 274; of Judges on “ legal ten- der," 455: vote of legislature on ratifying the anti- slavery amendment. 597.
PENROSE, SAMUEL, arrest of, 153. PENSACOLA, port of, opened to trade, 149. PEOPLE'S COMMITTEE, address of, 410. PEREA, FRANCISCO, Delegate from New Mexico, declaration of, note, 530.
PERILAM, SIDNEY, Representative in Thirty-Eighth Congress,
PERKINS, JOHN, JR., Deputy in Rebel Provisional Congress, 11, 400; Representative in First Congress, 401: Secord, 40 reported offered and declined Secretaryship of the Navy, 400
PERRY, JOSEPH J., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Congress, 48; Member of Peace Conference, 67. PERRY, M. S., Governor of Florida, message of, 2. PERRY, NEHEMIAH, Representative in Thirty-Seventh Con- gress, 122: Thirty-Eighth, 140. PERRYMAN, JOHN D., one of the Tennessee protesters, 438- 441. PERSONAL liberty laws of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Pennsylvania. Michigan, Iowa, and Wisconsin, with movements to modify or repeal, 44-47; complained of in South Carolina Convention, 16; Alexander 11. Ste- phens upon, 24, 25; propositions in Senate Committee of Thirteen, 70; resolution in House, 58, 75; remarks of Senator Simmons upon, 47.
PETIGRU, JAMES L., argument on sequestration, 205, 206.
PETTIT JOAN U., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Congress, 43. member of Border-State Committee. 73. PETTUS, E W, Commissioner from Alabama to Mississippi, 117; received by Convention, 3
PYTO, BAILIE, National Intelligencer's statement respect- ing in 1835, 390; one of the Tennessee protesters, 498- 441
PEYTON, ROBERT L. Y., Senator in First Rebel Congress, 402; withdrawal, 402.
PEYTON, SAMUEL O., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con- gress. 49
PHELAN, JAMES, Senator in First Rebel Congress, 401. PHELPS. JOHN S., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Congress,
49; Thirty-Seventh, 122; member of Committee of Thirty-three, 53; report, 58; views on compensated emancipation, 213-217; vote for Vice President in Democratic National Convention, 420.
PHELPS, TIMOTHY G., Representative in Thirty-Seventh Congress, 122
PHILADELPHIA FAIR, President Lincoln's remarks at, 337. PHILLIPS County, (Arkansas,) purchase of United States arms by, in 1860, 35.
PHILLIPS, WENDELL, Letter to Judge Stallo, 411; to Cleve- land Convention. 412.
Picayune, New Orleans, on fall of Sumter. 114.
PICKENS, Colonel, of East Tennessee, Benjamin's order of arrest, 187
PICKENS, FRANCIS W., Governor of South Carolina, 2; cabi- net, 2; proclamation announcing independence, 2; deputation of, and instructions to Isaac W. Hayne, commissioner to Washington, 32; course in caucus of 1835, 3J0.
PICKETT, J. T., secretary to rebel commissioners, 109, 110.
PIERCE, FRANKLIN, Letter to Jeff. Davis, January 6, 1860, 391; named in Chicago Convention for nomination and withdrawn, 420.
PIERPOINT, FRANCIS II., Governor of Virginia and signer of Altoona address, 233.
PIKE, FREDERICK A., Representative in Thirty-Seventh Con-
gress, 122; Thirty-Eighth, 140; amendment to extend enrollment to include persons of fifty years of age, 268. PINCKNEY, J., request for special session of Maryland legis- lature of 1861, 8.
PITTS. CHARLES H., arrest of, 152; offer of negroes to Bal- timore Police Commissioners, 393; motions and votes in Maryland Legislature, 306–398.
PITTSBURG, excitement in, on attempted removal of guns from. Allegheny Arsenal. 35. PLATFORMS, of Baltimore Convention, 406; of Cleveland Convention, 413; of Union League. 410; of Democratic National Convention, 419, 420; Vallandigham's letter upon, 423; Conservative National Union men, 423. POLICE Commissioners, Baltimore, arrest of, and reasons, 152; application to Congress, 179, 180; minutes of, 393, 394
POLICEMAN DAVID DANEKER, of Baltimore, refusal to "conde- scend to pull down the American flag, and resigna- tion, 394; William T. Butler resigned, 394.
POLLOCK, JAMES, Member of Peace Conference, 67. POLA, LEONIDAS, Bishop, pastoral letters of, 515; commis
sioned Major General Confederate" Army, with Bish- op Meade's advice to, and Bishop Burgess's opinion of, note, 515; allusion to in pastoral letter, 486; and death of, note, 515.
POLK, TRUSTEN, Senator in Thirty-Sixth Congress, 48; Thirty-Seventh, 122; telegram to Missouri, 39; amend- ment to resolution on the cause of the war, 286; ex- pulsion of, 123.
POLYGAMY, to prohibit in Utah, 376.
POMEROY, SAMUEL C., Senator in Thirty-Seventh Congress,
122; Thirty-Eighth, 140; proposition relative to repre- sentation in the Electoral College, 578; relative to the return of Arkansas to the Union, 586.
POMEROY, THEODORE M., Representative in Thirty-Seventh Congress, 122; Thirty-Eighth, 110; substitute for loan bill, 360; amendment to national currency bill, 361. POOL, JOHN, resolutions on Peace in North Carolina legis- lature 619
POPE, JOHN Major General, modification of General Rose- cratis's Church, Order, 554..
POPE, The, reply of to the Rebel Commissioners, 517. PORTER, ALBERT G., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con-
gress, 49; Thirty-Seventh, 122: motion and proposi- tion on emancipation bill, 200, 201. PORT KOYAL opened to trude, 149. POSTMASTERS GENERAL, Opinions of, 188-191. POSTON, CHARLES L., Delegate from Arizona, declaration of,
POTTER JOHN F., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Congress, 49; Thirty-Seventh, 122; Member of Peace Confer- ence 68.
PUTTER R. B., Genera', President of the Vallandigham mili- tary coart, 162
POTTLE, EMORY B., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Congress, POWELL, LAZARUS W., Senator in Thirty-Sixth Congress, 48; Thirty-Seventh, 122; Thirty-Eighth, 140; chair- man of Committee of Thirteen, 70; amendment to Crittenden proposition, 65, 66; resolution on arrest of Baltimore Police Commissioners, 179; arrests in Ken- tucky, 180; dispersion of convention, 181; amendment to indemnity bill, 185; propositions to abolish fishing bounties, 375, 376; to amend the Constitution, 255, 256; amendment to enrollment bill, 265; amendments to bill to increase the pay of soldiers, 272; to bill to sup- press insurrection. 275; to engineer bill, 276: to bill for emancipation in Missouri, 225; to national cur- rency bill, 361; bill to prevent interference in elections, 315, 316, 506; protest against the bill to punish con- spiracies, 377, 378; declined as candidate for nomina- tion for Vice President at Democratic National Con- vention, and vote for Vice President, 420; proposed resolution and bil respecting churches, 543; resolu- tions relative to release of prisoners, 559, to arrests in Kentucky, 560, to compensation of loyal slave-owners, 565; amendment to bill to allow bail in certain cases, 562; to bill to secure freedom of colored soldiers' families, 565.
POWERS of the President, opinion of Attorney General Black, 50-52; Chief Justice Taney, 155-158; Attorney General Bates, 158-161.
PRATT, JAMES T., Member of Peace Conference, 67. PRATT, THOMAS G., request for special session of Maryland Legislature of 1861, 8; proposed member of board of public safety, 9; Senator Mason's desired interview with, 393. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, CUMBERLAND, deliverances of 1863, 473, 474.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, (NEW SCHOOL,) deliverances of 1961, 1862. 1863 and 1864, 463-472; remarks of President Lincoln to Committee of, in 1863, 471; Secretary Stan- ton's order for occupation of churches in insurrec- tionary States, 522.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, (OLD SCHOOL,) deliverances of 1861, 1862, 1863, and 1864, 461-406; reaffirming the testi- mony of 1818 on slavery, 465; dissent of the Presby- tery of Louisville, 522. IN INSURRECTIONARY STATES, 505-513; action of General Assembly in 1861, 508-512; of 1862 and 1864, 512, 513; Union of old and new schools, 513: on religious instruction of slaves. 5 3, 518: an East Tennessee church, 513; Secretary Stan- ton's order for the occupation of churches in insurrec- tionary States, 522.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, Reformed, resolutions of General Synod in 1563 and 1864, 473.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, REFORMED, (OLD SCHOOL.) Address to President Lincoln in 1862, 472; resolutions of Synod in 164, 472, 473.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, UNITED, deliverances of 1861 and 1862, 474 of 1863 and 1864, 507, 508; orders of Secre- tary Stanton relative to churches of, in insurrectionary States, 521, 522.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES, in New Orleans, loyalty of, 544, 545; in East Tennessee, 546; Cumberland Presby- terian, 546.
PRESBYTERY, TRANSYLVANIA, of 1861, action respecting mar- riage of slaves, 458.
PRESIDENT, ELECTION OF, Propositions to change the mode and term, 54, 55, 57, 73, 87, 255, 256, 573. PRESIDENT, powers of the, Attorney General Black, 50–52; Chief Justice Taney, 155-158; Attorney General Bates, 158-161.
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, of 1860, 1; of 1864, 623; Mr. Lin- coln's estimate of actual result, 558, 623.
PRESS, freedom of the, Justice Story upon, 188; other pro- ceedings respecting, 117, 188–194, 441, 442, 562. PRESTON, JOHN S., Commissioner from South Carolina to
Virginia, 11; received by Legislature, 6; his denuncia- tion of the Union, 6; telegram to Judge Hopkins, 40. PRESTON, WALTER, Deputy in Rebel Provisional Congress, 400; Representative in First Congress, 402; Second, 402. PRESTON, WILLIAM BALLARD, vote on secession ordinance, 7; Commissioner of Virginia in making military league, 8; delegate from Virginia Convention to President Lia- coln, 112; Deputy in Rebel Provisional Congress, 400; Senator in First Congress, 401; retired, 401. PRICE, HIRAM, Representative in Thirty-Eighth Congress, 140; resolution relative to furloughing drafted clergy- men, 564.
PRICE, RODMAN M., Member of Peace Conference, 67; let- ters of, in 1860, found in Fredericksburg, Va., 330. PRICE, THOMAS L., Representative in Thirty-Seventh Coa- gress, 123; views on compensated emancipation, 213- 217; proposed resolution of, at Democratic National Convention, 418.
PROCEEDINGS of the Government in relation to the secession movement, 48-90.
PROCLAMATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN, for troops, 141, 604; amnesty, 147, 48; blockade, 149, 605; commercial inter- course, 14, 150; declaring the boundaries of the insur- rection, 150; su-pending the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus, 177, 178; under confiscation act, 208;| rescinding General Hunter's proclamation, 251; respect- ing reconstruction bill, 318, 519; of emancipation, 227, 228; pardon to deserters, 601; on equality of nights with all maritime nations, 605. PROCLAMATIONS of General McClellan in Western Virginia, 244; General Patterson, 244; General Fremont on emancipation, 245, 246; of General Thomas W. Sher- man, 248; of General John A. Dix, 248; General Burn- side in North Carolina, 219; General Halleck, 250; General Hunter on emancipation, 250; of Governor Bradford, 309, 310; of Governor Cannon of Delaware, 312; of Governor J. F. Robinson, of Kentucky, 313; Governor Andrew Johnson for election in Tennessee, 456-438; of Major General Palmer, note, 564. PROCLAMATIONS, REEEL, Davis's of banishment, 121; on con- scription, 115; martial law, 121; outlawry of General Butler, note, 253; Governor J. E. Brown on northern debts, 3; General M. Jeff. Thompson, note, 245, 246. PROPERTY, rebel regulations for destroying, 117. PROPOSED Censure of officials, proceedings of Congress on, 386-258.
PROPOSITIONS of adjustment-see "Adjustment.” PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH, action of General Conven-
tion of the United States, 483–494; pastoral letter of Bishops, 486-469; their censure of Bishop Polk, 486, 487; protest of Bishop Hopkins and his rejected ad- dress, 489-493; President Lincoln's response to the pas- toral Address, 495; protest of Pennsylvania Episcopa- lians against Bishop Hopkins's defence of slavery, 493, 494: action of Pennsylvania Diocesan Convention, 493, IN INSURRECTIONARY STATES: Alabama Diocesan Con- vention, 515; General Convention of 1861, 515; of 1862, and pastoral letter of Bishops, 515, 516; Bishop Polk's pastoral letters, assumption of military duties, and death, 515; loyalty of New Orleans churches, 543, 544. PROTESTS, of 38 members of House of Representatives against the indemnity bill, 184, 185; of nine Senators against the bill to punish conspiracies, 377; of Tennesseeans against Governor Johnson's proclamation, 438-441; re- ply of President Lincoln, 425; of Pennsylvania Episco- palians against Bishop Hopkins's defence of slavery, 493, 494; of members of Baltimore Methodist Episcopal Con- ference of 1861, 496.
PROVISIONAL Cabinet of Jeff. Divis, 12, 400.
PROVISIONAL Constitution, Rebel, adopted, 12; particulars of, 12.
PROVISIONAL Congress, Rebel, names of deputies and officers, 11, 400: proceedings of, 12.
PRUYN, JOHN V. L., Representative in Thirty-Eighth Con- gress, 140; resolution relative to the seized newspa- per offices in New York, 194.
PRYOR, ROGER A., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Congress, 49; address to the people of Virginia, 40; adjustment proposition of, 73; resolution on coercion, 76; on bom- bardment of Sumter, 112; Deputy in Rebel Provisional Congress, 400; Representative in First Congress, 402; retired, 402.
PUBLIC CREDIT under Buchanan, 365, 366. PUBLIC DEBT-Statements of amount at different periods,
365-368, 601, 002; Secretary Chase's letter respecting the redemption of in gold, note, 367; of rebels, 356. "PUBLIC SAFETY" bill in Legislature of Maryland, 398. PUGH, GEORGE E., Senator in Thirty-Sixth Congress, 48; ad- justment proposition, 63, 64.
PUGH, JAMES L., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Congress, 49; his purpose in taking his seat, 392; declaration respecting secession, 53; sent telegram South, 37; with- drew, 4; Representative in First Rebel Congress, 401; Second, 402.
PURYEAR, ROBERT C., Deputy in Rebel Provisional Con- gress, 400.
RANDALL, SAMUEL J., Representative in Thirty-Eighth Con gress, 10. RANDALL, WILLIAM II., Representative in Thirty-Eighth Congress, 140. RANDOLPH, GEORGE W., vote on secession ordinance, 7, note; delegate from Virginia to Presivert Lincoln, 112; de- clined to receive Creoles into the 'litary service, and reason for, 282; Provisional Secretary of War, 401; re- signed and appointed brigadier, 401.
RANDOLPHI, JOSEPH F., Member of Peace Conference, 67. RANSOM, M. W., Commissioner from North Carolina to Rebel Provisional Congress, 12. RATIFICATION OF THE ANTI-SLAVERY AMENDMENT, Mr. Sum- ner's resolution concerning, 591; votes of Legislatures, 595-600.
RAYMOND, HENRY J., report of, in Baltimore Convention, 406.
READ, HENRY E., Representative in First Rebel Congress, 401; Second, 402. READ, JOHN M., Justice, opinion on enrollment, 273. REAGAN, JOHN H., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Congress, 49; Deputy in Rebel Provisional Congress, 11, 400; Postmaster General in Provisional and Permanent ad- ministration, 400, 401.
REBEL ADMINISTRATION, names of persons composing, 400-
REBEL ARMY, strength of, 121, 299, 612.
REBEL COMMISSIONERS, appeal of certain, to Earl Russell, and reply of latter, 27; correspondence of estain, with President Buchanan, 29-54; intercourse of cer tain, with Secretary Seward, 108-110.
REBEL CONGRESSES, names of members and officers, 400-102 REBEL DEBT, 368; resolution respecting, 375, 576. REBEL ENROLLMENT ORDERS, of persons between 17 and 50, 427; of negroes, 428.
REDEL FINANCIAL legislation, 368-373, 63, 614. REBEL INDEPENDENCE, demands and terms, 303-307, 329– 332. REBEL LEGISLATION, military, 117-120, 611-613; leiters of marque, 117; conscription laws, 118, 119; on habe18 corpus, 187; sequestration, 203, 613; military employ ment of colored persons, 281-253, 611; on peace 309–37, 614-617; reconstruction, 329-332; taxation, 613, 614.
REBEL STATES, electoral vote of, 318, 319, 577, 578; resolu tions on their relations to the Government, 322-329; reconstruction of, 317-322, 435-437, 576-588. RECOGNITION, of Hayti and Liberia, recommendation of President Lincoln, 130; bill for, 239; of rebel independ ence demanded by Legislature of Maryland, 337, 255; of independence, the sine qua non of rebels, 303-007, 329-332, 566–573. RECONSTRUCTION, proceedings respecting, 317-331; rebel press and politicans on, 350, 351; George N. Sarders on terms of, 330; General Grant's letter on, net, S71; reports, proceedings, and votes in Congress upon, 576, 577, 581-588.
RECONSTRUCTION, views of various rebel leaders, Legisla tures, Congress, and press upon, 329-352.
RECTOR, Governor, of Arkansas, reply to President's first call for troops, 115.
REFORMED PROTESTANT DUTCH CHURCH, Action of, 482, 453. REID, DAVID S, Member of Peace Conference, €8. REID, JOHN W., Representative in Thirty-Seventh Con- gress, 122; expelled, 123.
REPORT to the South Carolina Convention of Mr. Rhett, 12- 15; of Mr. Memminger, 15, 16; of Mr. Withers, 19: of Major Anderson to the Secretary of War, 114; of committee and Secretary Holt on secret organizativa to attack the capital, 80-82; of Mr. Dawes on the uis- position of United States vessels, also respecting pe iguations in the navy, 82-84; and minority, by Mr. Branch, 81; majority by Mr. Reynolds and minerity by Mr. Branch upon bill to authorize the President to cad out the militia, 85; of committee on the correspond ence between the President and the "special envoy” of South Carolina, 85; of Committee on Judiciary respect- ing suppression of newspapers, 188-191; on transir of arms South in 1859-'60, 34-36; of House Committee of Thirty-three, 57-62; of Peace Conference, 6; Sebate Committee of Thirteen, 69-73; of John (ochraus on imports bill, 79, 80; of several on reconstruction, 581-558.
REPRESENTATION, APPORTIONMENT OF, proposed constitu- tional amendment to change, 591, 592. RESIGNATIONS in the navy-see" Report." RESOLUTIONS for protection of slave property in the Terri- tories, 90.
RESOLUTIONSs in the Maryland Legislature, 397, 398. RESOLUTIONS offered at second session of Thirty-Sixth Con- 4 gress, 55-9; in Thirty-Seventh and Thirty-Eignth Con- gresses, on arrests, 179-183, 560; on newspaper sup; res sion, 194; compensated emancipation, 200, 210, 126, 595; ⚫ emancipation proclamation, 229-231; Gen. Hallocks
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