Abraham Lincoln

to, 322; Lovejoy's declarations in regard to,
324, 325; prohibition of, in Northwest Ter-
ritory, 324, 599, 600, 603, 604, 606, 627; Ne-
braska policy tended to spread of, 330;
policy of founders of government to pre-
vent spread into Territories, 347; geo-
graphical line of, 347, 406, 530, 531, 561, 562,
589, 614, 620, 621; effect of invention of
cotton-gin on, 347, 480, 511; a constant
source of quarrel and difficulty, 350; Ver-
mont Democratic resolutions in regard
to, 355; power of people of Territory to
exclude it, prior to formation of State
Constitution, 356, 357; effect of "police
regulations" on status, 357, 358; vigor of,
358; extra-judicial decision of Supreme
Court that Territories cannot exclude,
360; Democratic claim that Congress
should not interfere with it in States or
Territories, 367; Douglas's position as to
Congressional interference with, 367; a
violation of declaration of equality, 369;
the leading issue before the country in
1858, 398; a constant source of dispute,
407, 408; radical measures necessary to
stop the agitation, 408; the rule of, 413;
pro-slavery theology, 413, 414; cannot be
excluded from any place by non-action,
415; Douglas's provision in Nebraska bill
to leave question of, to people of States
and Territories, 419, 420; not justified
under any principle, 425; a matter of gen-
eral interest, 425; importance of the issue,
425, 426, 534, 607, 613, 616, 617, 618, 630; in-
fluence of the question on the church,
425, 426; intent of Kansas-Nebraska bill
as to, 427; Lincoln's position as to ex-
isting conditions, and its introduction
into new territory, 439; laws in Mexico,
440; provisions as to slavery in New Mexi-

and Utah when admitted as States,
40; effect of Texas boundary question on,
441; Douglas preparing for nationaliza-
tion of, 447, 448; Lincoln's views as to ac-
quisition of more territory with regard to,
448-450; the one great disturbing element
in United States politics, 449, 450; Doug-
'as's claim that States have right to set-
tle question for themselves, 454; Lincoln's
claim that Dred Scott decision would
carry slavery into free States, 454; effect
of Dred Scott decision on, 459, 460; Judge
Nelson on power of States over, 460; a
disturbing and dangerous element in
the nation, 462; views of Republican
Party on, 462, 463, 465, 508, 509; Republican
ideas on extinguishing, in District of Co-
lumbia, 463; Democratic viewe on, 463-
465, 509-511; effect of compromise of 1850
on, 468; course toward ultimate extinc-
tion or nationalization, 471, 472; rights
of States in regard to, under U. S. Consti-
tution, 472; Speaker Orr's views on, in
Territories, 474; effect of Dred Scott de-
cision on States and Territories as to, 474;
policy of Democratic Party in regard to
non-intervention by Congress with, in
States and Territories, 475, 476; Douglas's
position on slavery in States and Terri-
tories, 475-479; rights of States and Terri-
tories to legislate concerning, 476; Bu-
chanan's views on slavery in States and
Territories, 477, 478; Brooks on, 480; rights
of States as to, 487, 516, 517; how abolished
in Northern States, 488; Lincoln's posi-
tion in regard to slavery in States and
Territories, 488, 489; Douglas's questions
to Lincoln as to admission of States in
regard to, 489; contract with Texas in re-
gard to, 489; principle of the Kansas-Ne-
braska act in regard to, 493; Davis on the

fallacy of forcing it on a community, 494;
Buchanan on Territorial, 494; Southern
views as to slavery in Territories, 495;
Dred Scott decision portion of scheme to
nationalize, 497, 498; Lincoln's declaration
of non-interference with existing, 499, 517,
539, 540, 559; condition at signing of Dec-
laration of Independence, 501; looked-for
end to agitation about, 502, 503; Lincoln's
views on abolition of, 502-512; magnitude
of agitation in 1858, 503; Lincoln's hope
for its extinction, 504, 505; language of
U. S. Constitution in regard to, 504, 615,
623, 624; the word avoided in U. S. Consti-
tution, 504, 623; agitation not alone spring-
ing from office-seeking, 506; at bottom of
Nullification question, 506; an element
of discord in the Union, 506, 507, 509, 542-
544, 586, 587; climatic conditions as a factor
in, 506, 531, 562, 570-572; Douglas recom-
mends a passive attitude toward, 507;
responsible for church dissensions, 507;
Lincoln's position in regard to slavery
in the Territories, 507, 517, 659, 660, 668,
669; immigration into free States or Ter-
ritories to be rid of, 508; how to deal with
it, 509; discussion of, forbidden, 510;
Brooks's declaration in regard to the
persistence of, 511, 516; Douglas's views on
Lincoln's plan of extinguishing, 517; a
moral, political, and social wrong, 528, 619;
Montgomery and Crittenden measures for
its adoption in Kansas, 530; Douglas's
claim that it must always exist, 530; the
all-important question in 1860, 534; preven-
tion of its spread and nationalization, 534,
535; nationalized by popular sovereignty,
537; repeal of law prohibiting it in Terri-
tories, 540; prohibited in majority of
States, 540,541; controversy between Great
Britain and colonies on, 543; period of
comparative peace with, 543, 587; Hick-
man's views on, 544; not regarded by
Douglas as a moral question, 544-546; a
menace to our political existence, 545;
synonym for the word, 546; prohibited in
Jefferson's draft of ordinance for govern-
ment of Territories, 549; the Ohio River
a boundary line of, 549, 561; effect of Or-
dinance of 1787 in regard to spread of,
555; Democratic haters of, 556; danger of
its revival in the free States, 556; only
hope for peace in connection with sla-
very agitation, 559; U. 8. Constitution
confers no power to interfere with, 559;
a moral and political wrong, 560; the Bible
as authority for, 563; right to have, in Ter-
ritories, 564; attitude of Republican Party
toward, 569, 675; presence in Territory a
hindrance to establishing a free State, 570;
in French settlements, 571; in Illinois, 571,
572; increase of, in Missouri, 572; distin-
guished from hired labor, 574; interference
with, forbidden by U. S. Constitution, 574;
fears of the Republican Party of nationali-
zation of, 585; opposition to nationalization
of, 588; Territorial legislation unfriendly
to, 589, 590; the South weary of agitation,
591; Republican Party deems it a wrong,
591, 615,616; perpetuation of, 593; must not
be disturbed in States where it exists, 593;
impairs the general warfare, 593; question
of power of U. s. government to control it
in Territories, 599 et seq.; its presence in
Louisiana, 601; provision as to, in deeds of
cession of Alabama, Mississippi, and Tenn-
essee,601; provisions regarding,in Missouri
Territory, 601, 602; position of Republican
Party as to power of U. S. Government to
control, in Territories, 605; the guaranties
accorded by the fathers to be fairly main-

Slavery-continued.

INDEX

tion of, 129, 130, 155, 237; how regarded in
Missouri, 133, 134; how regarded in Mary
land, 134; the rights of property growing
out of, 135; the President's feelings in re
gard to, 135; suggestions as to emancipa
tion by purchase, 138; abolition of, in the
District of Columbia, 144, 145; incompati
ble with martial law, 155; the question of
abolition one for the President, 155; tem-
porary measures for relief of, 199; will be
abolished by incidents of war, 204; the
lever of rebellion's power, 204; draft of bill
to compensate, July 14, 1862, 207; effects
on white race, 223; the President's atti
tude between the Union and, 227, 564; cap
tured negroes reduced to, 235; the root of
the rebellion, 235, 271; alleged intention to
make compromise and save, 241; diversity
of opinion regarding, 271; shares of the
North and the South in, 272; the only great
element of national discord, 274; expecta
tions of its being supported by European
nations, 302; letter to Gen. Schofield re
garding gradual emancipation, 357; the
selling of captured colored soldiers into,
378; the President's firm position against,
380, 615, 633; the President refuses to re
turn emancipated slaves to, 380, 455, 615;
a perplexing compound of Union and
420; advocates of gradual and immediate
extinction of, 420; must not be reëstab
lished in Louisiana, 436; constitutional
amendment regarding, in reconstruction
of Arkansas, 472, 475; not the sole issue of
the civil war, 501-503; a wrong, 508; the
President's views on, 508, 509; effect of the
war on, 513; plank of the Union National
Convention in regard to, 529, 530; effect of
restoration of, 562; the Democratic Party'
policy of restoration of, 562; its destra
tion necessary to a restoration of the
Union, 562, 564; question of Confederate
abandonment of, and reunion, 564, 565
extirpation of, in Maryland, 584, 586; pro
posed amendment to the Constitutionab
ishing, 612; abolished by constitutiona
amendment, 633. See also EMANCIPE
TION; FUGITIVE-SLAVE LAW; NEGRO
SLAVES; WILMOT PROVISO.
Slavery dynasty, must be overthrown, I.
Slavery question, demand for its set
ment, I, 617; declared finally settled
Compromise of 1850, 618; the only compr
mise that would settle the, 664; the que
tion of evacuation of Fort Sumter regarded
as a, II, 29.

tained, 605; purpose of Republican Party
not to interfere with, where it exists, 607,
608, 611, 612, 619, 620; Jefferson on the grad-
ual extinction of, 608; revolts of slaves a
natural result of, 608; powers of U. S. Gov-
ernment as to restriction of, 608, 609; na-
tional feeling against, 609; declarations of
free-State constitutions that it is a wrong,
612, 629; called a right by the South, 612,
629; the question supposed to reach a set-
tlement through the Lecompton Constitu-
tion, 613, 617; influence of value of slaves
- as property on, 613; antiquity of the ques-
tion, 613; a wrong to whites and free la-
bor, 613; proved a wrong by natural the-
ology, 613; a question of dollars and cents,
613, 621, 622; a menace to the Union, 613,
619; likened to a venomous snake, or
a wen, 614; abolition of, in seven States,
615; prevention of spread of, in Territories,
615; difficulty of dealing with, 615; South-
ern views on, 615; Brooks on early extinc-
tion of, 615; Democrats demand cessation
of opposition to, 616; no middle ground be-
tween right and wrong, 616; the claim of
the Democratic Party to have settled the
question, 617; no wrong, 618, 619, 630; policy
toward, on idea that it is right, 619, 620;
views of Republican Party as to, in Terri-
tories, 619, 620; as dependent on soil, 620;
policy toward, on idea that it is wrong,
620; policy of indifference toward, 620-622;
tender handling of the question, 622, 623;
prohibited in the Territories, 623; desire of
Republican Party to place it where the
fathers placed it, 623; Jay's views on, 624;
Monroe's views on, 624; Washington's
views on, 624, 627; one reason for opposi-
tion to, 625; proposal to maintain in the
Territories through the judiciary, 627;
proposed Congressional legislation for, in
the Territories, 627; the root of the diffi-
culty, 629; obstacle to settlement of ques-
tion, 630; American people desire settle-
ment of the question, 630; views on, in the
North, 630; policy of indifference toward,
631; only two policies regarding, can be
maintained, 631; no power to bring it into
Territories, 636; abolition of, from nation-
al territory, 636; dogma that the Constitu-
tion carries slavery into Territories,
condemned by Republican National Con-
vention of 1860, 636; a cause of the Lincolns'
removal to Indiana, 639; tendency of pro-
mulgation of Abolition doctrines toward,
642; Congress has no power to interfere
with, where it exists, 642; founded in in-
justice and bad policy, 642; resolutions of
legislature of Illinois regarding, 642: pro-
test against, filed in the "Illinois House
Journal," 642; a peculiar view of the "ne-
cessity" of, 649; Lincoln's opposition to
compromise regarding extension of, 657,
658; in District of Columbia, 659 (see
also DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA); clause in
Republican platform regarding, II, 1;
Lincoln's position in regard to interfer-
ing with, 1, 296; limitations of the Con-
stitution in regard to Territorial, 4, 5;
the only substantial dispute, 5; proposed
amendment of Constitution regarding
Federal interference with, 6; Southern
belief regarding Northern policy touch-
ing, 20; advisability of substituting the
Union or disunion issue for that of, 29;
civil war a divine instrument to root out,
90; proposed bill for compensated abolish-
ment of, in Delaware, 91; disclaimer of
right of Federal government to interfere
with, within the States, 129; gradual aboli-

Slaves, provision for purchase of, by United
States, I, 148; contrasted with hired labor
ers, 179, 581; shipment of, to Liberia, 18:
relation of master to, 196; freedom of
will of, as decided by Supreme Court of
Virginia, 268; placed by Taney on footing
with other property, 368; question of
right of property in, 442, 445, 446, 474.
494, 510, 512, 518, 552-554, 557, 566, 567, 610,
618, 619, 630, 636, II, 397; Clay's views ou
ultimate emancipation of, I, 448; limita
tion of power of Congress to prohibit in
portation of, 504; the word avoided in the
U.S. Constitution, 504, 610, 623, 624; charge
against Republicans of stirring up insur
rections among, 607-609; affection for mas
ters, 608; revolts of, a natural result of
slavery, 608; hindrance to insurrections
by, 608; Jefferson on gradual deportation
of, 608; gradual emancipation of, 608, 615,
623; value of, in United States, reckoned
as property, 613, 618; proportion of, in
population of United States, 613, 618, 60;
are human beings, 619, 630; as a basis of
representation, 623; runaway, 628; Lin-

coln's position on, 652; Lincoln's position
on employment of, in arsenals and dock-
yards, 659; Lincoln's attitude toward
slaves and slave-owners in the South, 661;
jurisdiction of States or Congress over
fugitive, II, 2; protection to alleged fugi-
tive, 2; question of liberating those
of traitorous owners, 77; change in Gen.
Frémont's proclamation regarding liber-
ation of, authorized, 78, 79; liberation of,
a political measure, not military, 81;
Fremont's proclamation regarding liber-
ation of, discussed, 81, 82; proposed sys-
tem of apprenticeship for minors born
in Delaware of slave mothers, 91; lib-
eration of, 102; emancipation of, by pur-
chase, 129; question of cost of emancipa-
tion of, 132; annoyance from, in the army,
133; temporary measures for relief of, 199;
proposal to issue bonds for emancipation
of, 207; power of Congress to liberate, 210;
provisions regarding liberation of, 210;
military necessity dictates actions regard-
ing, 216; flock to New Orleans to be fed,
234, 235; escaped, to be deemed captives
of war, 238; compensation for loss of, by
loyal citizens, 238, 274; the liberation of, a
destruction of property, 272; proclaimed
free by proclamation of Jan. 1, 1863, 285,
287, 288; apprenticeship for, 296; trouble
with, in Missouri, 297; arrest of, in Mis-
souri, 374; instructions to Gen. Schofield
regarding, 417; liberation of, declared by
Congress, 442; proclamations of liberation
of, 443; transformed into United States
troops, 454; return of, to loyal owner, 500;
Southern interest in, the cause of the war,
657; Confederates propose to arm the, 662;
provisions for reclamation of fugitive, see
FUGITIVE SLAVES, FUGITIVE-SLAVE LAW,
U.S. CONSTITUTION; share in Declaration
of Independence, see DECLARATION OF
INDEPENDENCE; NEGROES.

Slave States, question of their admission,
I, 363; failure to respond to the call for
volunteers, II, 58; unanimity of sentiment
among, 129; the President's attitude to-
ward, 133.

Slave trade, Clay on, I, 175; in District of
Columbia, 185; abolished in District of
Columbia, 190, 441; obligations of free to
slave-holding States, 197; prohibition of
outgoing, 202; declared piracy, 203; power
of Congress to abolish, 273; Lincoln ques-
tioned as to his position on, 280; Lincoln's
position in regard to prohibition of, be-
tween different States, 306,308, 659; demand
of Republican Party for its suppression
between States, 337; dangers of reviv-
ing the African, 423; Republican pledge
as to prohibition of inter-State, 465; aboli-
tion of, 480; existed at formation of the
Constitution, 623; suppression of, II, 101;
capital conviction of Gordon for partici-
pation in, 122; foreign slave-traders should
be prevented from acquiring domicil or
facilities for trade in the United States,
606. See also INTER-STATE SLAVE TRADE;
SLAVERY.

Slidell, John, in Europe, II, 597.

Slocum, Maj. Gen. Henry W., question of
forming his cavalry into reserve corps
for Army of Potomac, II, 293; relations
with Gen. Hooker, 414; sent to reinforce
Rosecrans, 414.

Smith, Lieut.-Comdg. Albert N., recom-
mended for thanks of Congress, I, 152.
Smith, Benjamin G., order annu ng the
sentence against, March 18, 1865, 1, 563.
Smith, Caleb, reasons for his Cabinet ap-
pointment, II, 9; Secretary of the Inte-
VOL. II.-48.

rior, opinion on Fort Sumter, 18-20; opin-
ion on relief of Fort Sumter, 27.
Smith, Enos W., I, 354.

Smith, Franklin W., order annulling the
sentence against, March 18, 1865, II, 663.
Smith, Green Clay, defeats Mr. Menzies for
Congress, II, 382.

Smith, Rev. John C., II, 106.

Smith, Gov. J. Gregory, letter to, II, 638, 639.
Smith, Lisle, I, 155.

Smith, Comdr. Melancton, recommended
for thanks of Congress, II, 151.

Smith, Brig. Preston, killed at Chicka-
mauga, II, 412.

Smith, Samuel, views on slavery in Terri-
tories, I. 475.

Smith, Truman, letter to, I, 654.

Smith, Victor, collector of customs, Puget
Sound district, II, 335; charges against,
335; removal of, 335.

Smith, Lieut.-Comdg. Watson, recommend-
ed for thanks of Congress, II, 152.
Smith, Gen. W. F., letter to, II, 283; plan
of operations for the Army of the Poto-
mac, 283; major-generalship of, 314; fail-
ure to arrive at Gettysburg, 369; the
President's feelings regarding the con-
duct of, after Gettysburg, 369.
Smithson,, case of, II, 500; referred to
Secretary Stanton, 600, 601.
Snicker's Gap, Va., II, 247.

Society of Friends, letter from those of
Rhode Island, II, 139.

Soil, not a factor in slavery question, I, 571;
cultivation of the, 578-580, 583; slavery as
dependent on, 620.

Soldiers, amnesty to those absent without
leave, II, 314, 315; distribution of patron-
age among, 374, 375; merit due to the, 500;
rights of, 534; voting by, 614. See also
TROOPS; U. S. ARMY; VOLUNTEERS.
Soldiers' Fair, at St. Louis, II, 524; at
Philadelphia, 526; letter to a, at Springfield,
Dec. 19, 1864, 619.

Soldiers' Home, the President's sojourn at,
II, 480.

Somers, J. W., letters to, I, 246, 631.

Sons of Temperance, address from, II, 415;
reply to, 415, 416.

Sorghum, despatch from Sherman concern-
ing, II, 577.

South, the, mob law in I, 10; Lincoln's ab-
sence of prejudice toward, 186, 288; domi-
nation of self-interest in, 223; Douglas's
influence in, 277; attempts to array against
the North, 286, 292, 293; no natural antag-
onism against the North, 291, 292; does
not take hold of principles of Republican
Party, 439; opinion in, as to slavery in
Territories, 495; threatened secession of,
in event of election of a Republican Pres-
ident, 569, 610; numerical inferiority of,
to North, 570; Presidential timber in the,
575, 576, 591; possibility of a Union ticket
in 1860, 591, 592; opinion of the Republi-
can Party in, 605; charges sectionalisin
against the Republican Party, 605, 606;
threatens to destroy the Union, 610; de-
mands of, from the Republican Party, 611,
612; public opinion of, as regards slavery,
613; Republicans never made war upon,
616; Republican Party charged with in-
vading, 624, 625, 628; duty of the Republi-
can Party to conciliate, if possible, 628;
not likely to break up Union, 648; assur-
ance given to people of, through A. H.
Stephens, of Lincoln's feelings toward,
661; apprehensions in, regarding a Repub-
lican administration, II, 1; opinion of
Northern courage in, 20; feelings of Union-
ists in, regarding Fort Sumter, 29; Seward

advises maintaining every fort in, 29;
Union feeling in, 77; expectations of, of
help from the North, 103; measure of its
responsibility for slavery, 272; question
of sending representatives to Congress,
280, 281; alleged purpose of the President
to enslave or exterminate the whites of,
296; influence of colored troops in, 321.
South America, scheme for negro coloniza-
tion in, II, 205; communication with, 269;
States of, support proposed overland
telegraph through Russia, 605.
South American Republics, Clay's support
of, I, 174.

Southampton, slave insurrection at, I,
608.

South Anna, seizure of, by Federal forces,
II, 170; inquiries concerning condition of
railroads crossing the, 335.

South Carolina, political eccentricities and
heresies in, 1, 174; former extension of
territory, 181; contrasted with Maine in
national legislation, 198; conditions con-
trasted with those of New Hampshire,
283; "invasion" and "coercion" as ap-
plied to, 673; Union feeling in, II, 12; in-
itiates the revolution, 13; hostile atti-
tude, 18; expected to resist attempt to
provision Fort Sumter, 18; insurrection
in, 19, 35, 55; seizes government property,
19; act of war by, 22; the head and front
of the rebellion, 27; obstruction of U. S.
laws in, 34; blockade of ports of, 35, 38,
39, 485, 670; notification to the governor of,
that Fort Sumter would be provisioned,
57; declared in state of insurrection, 75,
195, 285, 288, 321, 322; Capt. Du Pont's ser-
vices on the coast of, 140; proclamation
of martial law in, by Gen. Hunter, 155;
provision for reconstruction of, 443.
Southern,

kills a recruiting-officer in
Maryland, II, 499, 500.
Southern mail, remarks in U. 8. House of
Representatives, Jan. 5, 1848, on detention
of, I, 98, 99.

II, 602; asked for opinion as to duties of
Secretary of the Navy, II, 623.
Speed, Joshua F., I, 39, 41; letters to, 48-51,
54-57, 64-68, 71, 79, 81, 82, 88, 89, 151, 216-219;
signs call for Whig State Convention, 54;
position on slavery question, 216.
Speed, Mrs. Lucy, mother of J. F. Speed
I, 64, 82.

Speed, Miss Mary, letter to, I, 52.
Speer, W. S., letter to, I, 652.
Spencer County, Ind., Lincoln's education
in, I, 596; wild features of, 596; removal of
Thomas Lincoln from Kentucky to, 596,639.
Spies, II, 125, 407.

Sprague, William, governor of Rhode Is
land, letter to, II, 45; telegram to, 78;
elected to U.S. Senate, 200; introduced to
Halleck, 200.

Spriggs, Capt., contemplated execution of,
II, 185.

Springer, Francis, letter to, II, 341.
Springfield, Ill., proposition to remove seat
of government to, I, 8; address before
Young Men's Lyceum, Jan. 27, 1837, 9-15;
dull life in, 15; sundry speeches by Lin-
coln at, 21-37, 226-235, 260-273, 418, 502, 647,
648; call for Whig Convention at, 53, 54;
address before Washingtonian Temper
ance Society, 57-64; duelling fever in, 71:
Whig meeting at, March 1, 1843, 72; Li
coln boards at Globe Tavern at, 82; Lin
coln's residence, 117, 177; recommendation
of Walter Davis for receiver of land office
at, 152; recommendation of T. R. King
for register of land office at, 152, 153; ree
ommendation of A. Y. Ellis for postmas
ter at, 153; cholera at, 165; eulogy of
Henry Clay at, 167-176; discussions with
Stephen A. Douglas at, I, 204, 210, 275, 256
Republican conventions at, platforms
etc., 279, 287, 341, 439, 456, 485; Lincoln's
speech at, to convention nominating him
for the Senate, 282, 283; Douglas's criti
cisms of Lincoln's speech at, 291-293; co
vention of National Democrats in, 351.
anti-Nebraska meeting at, 401; Dongiss
perverts Lincoln's position in speech at
419; Douglas's attack on Lincoln in regar
to convention at, 443-445; Douglas's attack
on Lincoln in regard to convention at, 452
Lincoln's speech on his nomination. 488.
Lincoln's statement, in speech at, in re
gard to negro citizenship, 497, 498; lecture
on Discoveries, Inventions, and Improve
ments, delivered at, 522-528; practise of
law in, 597; rendezvous for flatboat trip
to New Orleans, 640; Douglas speaks at
State Agricultural Fair at, 644; meeting
at, to celebrate Lincoln's election, 655,
farewell address at, Feb. 11, 1861, 672; B
pointment of quartermaster and commi
sary at, II, 341; proposed meeting of un
conditional Union men at, 396.
Springfield, Mass., letter to Soldiers' Fair
at, Dec. 19, 1864, II, 619.
Springfield, Mo., question of railroad con
struction at, II, 221; completion of rail-
road to, urged, 303; McClernand at, 406;
Pacific railroad at, 494.

Southern States, secession of, II, 55.
Southside railroad, torn up by Wright, II,

667.

Southwest, services of hundred-day troops
in the, II, 583.

"Sovereignty," definition of, II, 62.
Spain, treaty of 1819 with, I, 102, 105; revo-
lution of Mexico against, 105, 183; acquires
Texas, 183; Cassius M. Clay proposed as
Minister to, II, 10; Seward advises de-
manding explanations from, 29; Seward
advises declaring war against, 29; ques-
tion of incorporating the Dominican Re-
public, 66; correspondence with, relating
to the bark Providencia, 118; proposition
to, for international convention to settle
disputed questions, 262; relations with,
263; question of jurisdiction of, in Cuban
waters, 445; threatened war with Peru
averted, 605.
Spanish-American

Republics, protest
against the colonization of negroes in
their territories, II, 262, 263.
Sparta, Va., Lincoln family at, I, 177.
Speaker, election of a, II, 316.

Special commissions, regarding State pris-
oners, II, 127; "to revise the enrolment
and quotas of the City and State of New
York," 488.

Specie, question of collecting revenue in, I,
22-24; amount in United States, 23.
Specie payments, suspension of, II, 186,
264; necessity of speedy return to, 264.
Speech, on the use of, I, 524-527; freedom of,

605.

Speed, James, appointed attorney-general,

Springfield resolutions, Douglas's purpose
in quoting them, I, 467; Lincoln's reply to
Douglas in regard to, 484, 485.
Squatter sovereignty, I, 241, 242, 248, 249, EUL,

535.

Stafford, E., 'etter to, I, 632.
Standing ar y, reason for, I, 178.
Stanley, dward, military governor of
North Carolina, II, 175; letter to, 243.
Stanton, Edwin M., correspondence with,
II, 73, 117-119, 138, 139, 141, 212, 217, 222, 229,
289, 305-307, 312, 335, 336, 343, 355, 357, 371, 872,

reëstablishing national authority in west-
ern, 384; provision for reconstruction of,
443; Banks thanked for operations in, 466;
Banks not to withdraw from, 466.
Thanks and rejoicing, orders of, Sept. 3,
1864, II, 572, 573.

Thanksgiving, proclamation recommend-
ing, April 10, 1862, II, 143, 144; proclama-
tion for, July 15, 1863, 370; proclamation
for, Oct. 3, 1863, 417, 418; for Union suc-
cesses in East Tennessee, 442; recommen-
dation of, May 9, 1864, 519; proclamation
of, Sept. 3, 1864, 571, 572; proclamation of,
Oct. 28, 1864, 587; preparation of a call for
a national, 672.
Thayer,
II, 84.
Thayer, Maj.-Gen. J. M., presides at court-
martial on Thomas W. Knox, II, 317; at
Fort Smith, 482; communication to, re-
garding reconstruction in Arkansas, 482.
Thirteenth Amendment. See U. S. CONSTI-

-, consul-general at Alexandria,

TUTION.
Thomas,, recommended for office of
U. S. marshal, I, 151, 152.
Thomas, E. M., II, 222.

Thomas, Gen. George H., force at Camp
Dick Robinson, II, 83, 84; to watch Zolli-
coffer and Buckner, 84; proposed cavalry
movement for, toward Knoxville, 126;
satisfactory news from, 494; despatch to,
announcing probable rebel raid into Ken-
tucky, 589; at Nashville, 589, 617; national
thanks to, for services, 617; good news
from, 619; services in Georgia, 622.
Thomas, Adjt.-Gen. L., letter to Gen. Har-
ney, May 27, 1861, II, 52, 53; statements
by Carl Schurz regarding subordinates
of, 258; at Harrisburg, 367; urged to hurry
his forces in pursuit of Lee, 367; instru-
mental in raising colored troops, 372; to
raise colored troops in the Mississippi
Valley, 384; directed to see to contraband
and leasing business on Mississippi River,
489; at Louisville, 489, 490, 532; letter to,
March 1, 1864, 490; instructions to, regard-
ing Mr. Lewis, 512; jurisdiction in case of
Gen. Hurlbut,518; instructions to, regard-
ing enlistment of negroes, 532, 533.
Thomas, R. S., appointment of, as aide-
de-camp, desired by Gen. Rosecrans, II,

316.

Thomasson, William P., recommended as
agent of Goose Creek salt-works, II, 307.
Thompson, Ambrose W., financial scheme
of, II, 507; letter to, 507.
Thompson, Gideon H., II, 617.
Thompson, Jacob, Peace Commissioner from
Confederate States, II, 549.

Thompson, Mrs. Nancy, charges against,
II, 617.

Thompson, R. W., indorses J. A. Wright for
Terre Haute district, II, 218; telegram to,
525; desires to place his son on Gen. Hun-
ter's staff, 525.

Thompson, Col. Samuel M., I, 5.
Thornton, Capt. S.B., captured by Mexicans,
I, 121.

Three-months men, to be discharged unless
they reënlist, II, 69.

Tillman, J. W., letter to, I, 667.

Title to soil, not a simple fact, I, 101.
Tobacco, provisions for forfeiture of, II,

322.

Todd, Dr., on committee of resolutions in
favor of Hungarian freedom, I, 158.

Todd, Gen., emissary from Gov. Curtin in
regard to exemptions from the draft, II,

593.

Todd, Mary, Lincoln married to, 1, 642. See
also LINCOLN, MRS. ABRAHAM.

Todd, Robert S., father of Mrs. Lincoln, I,
642.

Tonnage duties, levy of, by States, I, 124,
128.

Toombs, Robert, introduces bill in regard
to admission of Kansas, I, 372, 387, 392; re-
ply to Douglas, 317, 332, 454.

Tortugas, the, order regarding the suspen-
sion of habeas corpus at, II, 45.
Totten, Maj.-Gen. Joseph G., opinion on pro-
visioning Fort Sumter, II, 15, 16, 18.
Townsend, E. D., Assistant Adjutant-Gen-
eral, II, 86, 229, 254, 306; Gen. Meade writes
to, asking court of inquiry, 506.

Trailor, Archibald, accused of murder, I,
48-50.

Trailor, Henry, accused of murder, I, 48-50.
Trailor, William, accused of murder, I, 48–50.
Treason, contemplated, I, 636; success in
the field, II, 124; the whole government
pervaded by, 124; in branches of govern-
ment, 165; bill to punish, 209; under the
Constitution, 346; personal liability for,

472.

Treat, S. H., opinion on Illinois election
law, I, 176; asked for report on Coles
County riot cases, II, 540.

Treaties, veto power of U. S. Senate in re-
gard to, I, 492; commercial, II, 95; with
New Granada, Dec. 12, 1846, 299; with New
Granada, Dec. 5, 1861, 299; with Great
Britain for suppression of African slave-
trade, 445; with Great Britain for settle-
ment of claims of British-American com-
panies, 496.

"Trent" affair, the, scheme of arbitration
in, II, 108, 109; correspondence with Great
Britain and France regarding, 110; corre-
spondence with Austria regarding, 113;
correspondence with Prussia concerning,
117; correspondence with Great Britain
regarding, 120; correspondence with Rus-
sia regarding, 127; correspondence with
Italy regarding, 128. See also SAN JA-
CINTO; WILKES.

Trial by jury, right of, not affected by mili-
tary arrests in time of rebellion, II, 350,

351.

Trimble, Gen. Isaac R., captured at Gettys-
burg, II, 434; status as a voter in Mary-
land, 434.

Triplett, Capt., contemplated execution of,
II, 185.

Troops, Congress asked for 400,000 men, II,
60; offer faster than they can be employed,
61; intelligence and education among,
64; response to call for, 96; from Missouri,
103, 104; provision for transportation of,
164; necessity for, 190; call for, June 30,
1862, 192, 193; relative value of old and
new, 198; value of rapid levies of, 198, 212;
delay in raising, 242; payment of, 264;
question of using colored, for garrison
purposes, 298; recruiting, 426; Gen. Ull-
man's enlistment of colored, 318, 319; rais-
ing of colored, in the North, 342, 343; en-
rolling and calling out, 449; offers of,
from various States, 514, 515; Kansas offers
to furnish, 522; Gen. Sherman objects to
Northern recruiting near his camps, 551;
despatch to Gen. Grant respecting call
for, 551; right of voting, 581, 582; order of
thanks to hundred-day, 583. See also SOL-
DIERS; VOLUNTEERS.

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