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SMITH, E. KIRBY, at battle of Rich-
mond, Ky., 545; defeats Banks, 582;
surrenders to General Canby, 629; 764.
SMITH, TRUMAN, vote of, against the
Soulé Amendment, 220; 599.
SMITH, WILLIAM, of Md.. on Missouri
Compromise Committee, 158.
SMITH, WILLIAM, of Va., at battle of
Manassas, 474; 762.

SMITH, BERNARD, vote of, against
Slavery Restriction on Missouri, 152;
vote of, on the Resolution to admit Mis-
souri, 161.

SMITH, ROBERT, vote of, on Burt's
amendment, 166; vote of, against the
Wilmot Proviso, 169.

SMITH, ROBERT H., deputy from Ala-
bama to Montgomery Congress, 324,
735.

SMITH, GUSTAVUS W., in the council
of war at Manassas, 489; 764.
SMITH, W. N. H., delegate from North
Carolina to C. S. Provisional Congress,
464; 761; 763.

SMYTH, ALEXANDER, speech of, on
admission of Missouri and against the
Slavery Restriction, 144.

SNEAD, THOS. L., Commissioner of Mis-
souri to form an alliance with the C. S.,
484; 763.

SOULE, PIERRE, amendment of, to
Clay's Compromise Bill, 217, 218.
SOUTHARD, HENRY, vote of, on the
Resolution for admission of Missouri,
161.

SOUTH CAROLINA, demands possession
of Sumter, 41; the right of, to demand
possession of Forts, etc., within her ju-
risdiction, after, and even before, Seces-
sion, perfect, 41, 42; 59; attempted in-
surrection in Charleston, 63; act of, for
the better regulation and government of
free negroes, and for other purposes, of
1822, 63; this act Constitutional, 64 to
75; right of, to enact this law based
upon the grounds of Police Regulations,
67; reasons assigned by the Sovereign
Convention of, justifying her Secession,
107, 671; Secession Ordinance of, 108;
Delegation of, to Montgomery Congress,
325; ratification by, of the Permanent
Constitution, C. S., 356.
8OVEREIGNTY and Paramount Authori-
ty, the same, 22; definition of, 22;
not divisible but Sovereign powers are,
23; delegation of, not an alienation, 23;
definition of ultimate Sovereignty, 24.
SPARROW, EDWARD, delegate from
Louisiana to Montgomery Congress, 325;
C. S. Senator, 760, 762.
STAATEN-BUND, the United States
neither a, exactly, nor a Bundesstaat,
according to the classification of Fed-
eral Republies by German Publicists, 18.
STANTON, FRED. P., 187; 214.

STANTON, EDWIN M., report of, show-
ing the relative mortality of prisoners at
the North and South, 507; conduct of,
toward Mr. Stephens while a prisoner,
660, 662; telegrams and orders of, con-
nected with Hampton Roads Conference,
in Lincoln's Message, 793.
STAPLES, WALLER R., delegate from
Virginia to Montgomery Congress, 388;
464; 762, 763.

STEPHENS, ALEX. H., reply of, to Mr.
Greeley's attack upon positions assumed
in the First Volume, 5 to 15; definition
by, of Sovereignty, 22; also of ultimate
Sovereignty, 24; 58; on Slavery, 84;
upon the acquisition of Louisiana, Flori-
da, etc., 90; on a division of the public
domain between the Sections, 155; on the
admission of California, 200, et sequen
tes; 203; 204; on the passage by the
Senate of the Soulé Amendment, 218;
on Missouri Compromise, so-called, 254;
reasons of, why he opposed Secession as
a redress of wrongs, 263 to 309; corre-
spondence of, with Abraham Lincoln,
266; Union speech of, in 1860, 279;
speech of, in Ga. Secession Convention,
305; 312; votes against Secession, 315;
elected a delegate to Montgomery Con-
gress, 322; 325; account of, as to how
Mr. Davis and he came to be chosen
President and Vice-President, 329; on
appointment of Cabinet Ministers by
President, 338; appointed Commissioner
to Virginia, 376; negotiates an alliance
with Virginia, 378; first acquaintance
of, with Gen. Lee, 380, 384; opinion of,
as to what Mr. Lincoln ought not to
have done, and what he ought to have
done, 415; his opinion of Mr. Lincoln,
445; re elected Vice President C. S.,
483; opinion of, why Generals Johnston
and Beauregard did not push on to
Washington after the rout of McDow-
ell's army, 488; on the war and the fail-
ure of Confederate embassies in Europe,
490; personal relations of, with Mr.
Davis, 500, 568; advises the release of
Federal prisoners on parole, 516, et re-
quentes; views of, as to the policy to be
pursued toward Northern States, 521;
corner-stone speech of, 522; upon what
terms willing to make peace during the
war, 525; endorsement by, of Georgia
Peace Resolutions of 1864, 536; account
of the proposed mission to Washington
in 1863, its character and object, 538;
military status when undertaken, 539:
also the political status at the North,
550; letter of, to Mr. Davis, offering to
act as commissioner to secure an ex-
change of prisoners, 558; differed with
Mr. Davis on matters of Internal policy,
568; views of, on the use of cotton and
other resources for carrying on the war,

STEPHENS, ALEX. H. (continued),
on martial law, suspension of the_privi-
lege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus,
and conscription, 571, 781, 786 788,
790; nature of differences with Mr.
Davis, 575; substance of a speech to,
C. S. Senate in secret session, 587; ob-
jects of the Hampton Roads conference
and how he became connected with it,
590; his impressions of Gen. Grant at
their first meeting, and opinion of him,
596; his interview with Mr. Lincoln in
Hampton Roads, 599; his subsequent
interview with Mr. Davis, 619; actual
results of the war discussed, 631, et se-
quentes; the Cause lost at Appomattox,
651; personal relations of, with Gov-
ernor Brown, and his opinion of him,
654, 664; a prisoner in Fort Warren
and how treated there, 659; the cause of
the South the cause of all, 666; letter of,
on the rupture in the Democratic party
at Charleston, 677; letter of, on the
rupture at Baltimore, 685; speech of, at
Augusta, advocating the election of
Douglas and Johnson, 691; Rules re-
ported for the government of the Mont-
gomery Congress, 710; letter of authori-
ty from Mr. Davis to, to establish
Cartel in 1863, 779; speech of, on the
use of cotton in carrying on war, etc.,
781; letter of, to Mayor Calhoun, on
Martial Law, 786; report of the Hamp-
ton Roads Commissioners to President
Davis, 792.

STEPHENS, LINTON, Resolution of, in
Georgia Secession Convention to secure
unanimity of action, and declaring the
position of those in the Convention who
voted against the Ordinance 315; letter
of, to Hon. Eli H. Baxter, showing the
sentiments and views of the Union Party
of Georgia, 317; Resolutions of, known
as the "Georgia Peace Resolutions" of
1864, 531, 532; Resolutions of, in
Georgia Legislature, on suspension of
the privilege of the writ of Habeas Cor-
pus, 788.

STEVENS, JAMES, vote of, against
Slavery Restriction on Missouri, 152;
vote of, on the admission of Missouri,
161.

STEVENS, THADDEUS, 229.
STORRS, HENRY R., 137; vote of, against
the Slavery Restriction on Missouri, 152;
vote of, on the Resolution to admit
Missouri, 161.

STORY, JOSEPH, on the fugitive sla-
very clause of the Constitution, 26.
STUART, ALEX. H. H., 367; address of,
to the people of Virginia, 388; 389.
STURGEON, DANIEL, vote of, on Doug.
las's amendment to Oregon Territorial
bill, 173.

SUMMERS, GEORGE W., delegate to
Peace Congress from Virginia, 366.
SUMNER, CHARLES, 52; 134; 243;
245; amendment of, to Nebraska bill,
247;
manifesto of, referred to, 248;

249.
SUPREME COURT, UNITED STATES,
decision of, on the power of a State to
regulate or interdict the entrance of cer-
tain persons into her territory, 68; de-
cision of, affirming the Constitutionality
of the Louisiana acquisition referred to,
89; decision of, on the Constitutionality
of the Missouri Restriction referred to,
260.

SUMTER, FORT, position of affairs when
bombarded, 36, 37; correspondence be-
tween Gen. Beauregard and Major
Anderson relative to evacuation of. 38;
bombardiment and fall of, 39; terms ac.
corded the garrison upon their surrender,
39; the United States had no right to
hold, after the demand of South Carolina
for its possession, 40 et seq.
SWINTON, WILLIAM, works of, on the
War, 311; on the battle of Murfreesboro
or Stone River, 546; on Grant's losses
in his progress from the Rapidan to
Cold Harbor, 584.

T.

TABLE, showing the depreciation of Con-
federate currency, 569.

TANEY, ROGER BROOKE, (Chief Jus-
tice,) 32; 260; decision of, in the case
of John Merryman, 414, 748.
TALLMADGE, JAMES, amendment of,
to the Missouri bill, 136.
TAYLOR, JOHN W., 138; on Conference
Committee upon disagreeing votes on
the Maine bill, 151.
TAYLOR, WALLER, vote of, against the
Thomas amendment, 150.

TAYLOR, ZACHARY, 199, 220, 266, 599.
TAYLOR, RICHARD, defeats Banks, 582;
surrender of, 629; 764.

TAYLOR, THOMAS, 431, 433.
TENNESSEE, action of, upon the ques-
tion of Secession, previous to Lincoln's
war proclamation, 365; popular vote in,
for and against calling a Convention,
365; action of, after the promulgation of
Lincoln's proclamation, 389, 391, 392;
popular vote in, for and against Seces-
sion, 392; delegation of, to Provisional
Congress, 464; ratifies the 14th Amend-
ment, so-called, 642.
TERRITORIAL QUESTION, THE, posi-
tion of Southern States on, 88, 167.
TERRY, ALFRED H., 624.
TEXAS, Secession of, 33, 312; delegation
of, to Montgomery Congress, 325; rati-
fication by, of the C. S. Permanent Con-
stitution, 356.

THOMAS, JESSE B., amendment of, to |
the Maine Missouri Bill, 149; this the
Missouri Compromise, so-called, 149;
vote on this, 150.

THOMAS, GEORGE H., supersedes Rose-
crans, 580; defeats Hood, 586.
THOMAS, JAMES, H., delegate from
Tennessee to Provisional Congress, 464.
THOMASON, W. F., delegate from

Arkansas to Montgomery Congress, 393.
THOMPSON, JACOB. 223.
TOMLINSON, GIDEON, on the Missouri
Compromise Committee, 158.
TOOMBS, ROBERT, reasons assigned by,
in a speech in the Senate, 7th Jan.,
1861, justifying Secession, 109; his ob-
iect was the perpetuation of that liberty
and equality established by the Con-
stitution, 126, 127, 128, 129; 171; 179;
position of, on organization of the
House in 1849, 181; on the power of the
House to adopt Rules before its organiza-
tion, and on the Plurality Resolution,
187, et sequentes; 196; 202; 203; speech
on the admission of California and sla-
very in the Territories, 204; speech of,
on admission of California, arraigning
the North for her repeated breaches of
faith, and demanding equality for the
South in the Territories, 214; 216; 217;
218; 226; 227; 239; 243; 283; 285;
288; 289; a Delegate to Montgomery
Congress, 325; the choice of Georgia for
President of the Confederate States, 329,
330, 331, 333; 338; appointed Secretary
of State by Mr. Davis, 344; resigns and
enters the army, 464; 487; 500; 599;
761.

TOTTEN, A.0.W., Commissioner of Tenn.
to form an alliance with C. S., 391.
TOUCEY, ISAAC, 243.
TRENHOLM, GEORGE A., appointed
Secretary of the Treasury, 626.
TRENT (British Steamer), Mason and
Slidell captured on board of, 482.
TYLER, JOHN, 308; President of Peace

Congress of 1861, 366; 378; 379; Dele-
gate to C. S. Provisional Congress, 464;
761.

UNITED STATES, THE (continued),
among prisoners at the North and South,
507; Surgeon General Barnes's report of
number of prisoners captured in all on
both sides, 508; violations of the usages
of civilized warfare by the Authorities
of, 509; a judicial decision of the ques-
tion of treason so far eschewed by the
Authorities of, 659, 663.

V.

VALLANDIGHAM, C. L., nominated for
Governor, 558; 579.

VAN BUREN, MARTIN, 308.
VAN DYKE, JOHN, 189.
VASON, W. J., commissioner from Georgia
to Louisiana, 324.
VATTEL, on power of the Sovereign to
forbid the entrance of his territory, 70;
cited by Toombs on rendition of fugitives
from justice, 122; on a "civil war," 425.
VENABLE, A. W., delegate from N. C.
to C. S. Provisional Congress, 464.
VERMONT, act of, nullifying the Fugitive
Slave clause of the Constitution, 45.
VINTON, SAMUEL F., 223.
VIRGINIA, an informal Congress of the
States called by, 45, 366; the Legislature
convened in extra session, 365; delega-
tion sent to Peace Congress, 366; not
passed calling a Sovereign Convention,
366; effect of Mr. Lincoln's inaugural
upon the Convention, 367; delegation
sent to confer with Mr. Lincoln, 367;
passage by Convention of an Ordinance
of Secession, and vote upon it, 376;
committee appointed to confer with C.
S. commissioner, and form an alliance,
378; Convention between Confederate
States and, 378; the articles ratified by
the Convention of, 380; Gen Lee ap-
pointed Commander-in-Chief of the mili-
tary forces of, 381; ordinance of Con-
vention ratifying C. S. Provisional Con-
stitution, 387; delegation elected to the
Montgomery Congress, 388; popular
vote on the ratification of the Secession
Ordinance, 388; delegation of, to Rich-
mond Congress, 464; Federal forces in,

466.

VOGDES, MAJOR, (U. S. A.,) 433.
W.

WADE, BENJAMIN F., 6, 7.

UDREE, DANIEL, vote of, on the admis-
sion of Missouri, 161.
UPHAM, WILLIAM. amendment of, to
the Three Million bill, 168; vote of, on
the Soulé amendment, 220.
UNITED STATES, THE, neither a Staa-WALDEN, HIRAM, 222.
ten-bund exactly, nor a Bundesstaat,
but a Federal or Confederated Republic,
18; a Nation, but a Confederated Nation
or Nation of Nations, 21: the War inan-
gurated by the Authorities of, 34; the
title of, to Fort Sumter, 42; the Authori-
ties of, alone responsible for whatever
sufferings endured by their prisoners at
the South, 501, et sequentes; Secretary
Stanton's report of the relative mortality

WALKER, ISAAC P., vote of, on the
Soulé Amendment, 220.
WALKER, L. POPE, order of, to Gen.
Beauregard to demand the evacuation of
Sumter, 38; telegram of, in reply to
Gen. Beauregard's communicating Major
Anderson's answer to his demand, 38:
344; speech of, at Montgomery, after
the fall of Sumter, 415, 421, 422, 424;
487.

WALKER, RICHARD W., deputy from | WHYTE, WILLIAM P., 368.

Alabama to Montgomery Congress, 324;
735.
WALLIS, S. TEACKLE, 369; "Prayer
for Peace" of, written while imprisoned
at Fort Warren, 513, 774.
WAR, THE, character of, 360; not a Re-
bellion, or Insurrection, or Civil War,
but a War between States, 361, 425;
426; object of the Confederates through-
out, 426; object of the Federals, 427;
conduct of, on both sides, 509 to 516,
and 766; a necessity with the Republi-
cans or Centralists for their continued
hold on power. 527, et sequentes; the
actual results of, thus far, considered,
631 to 670; first, Mr. Johnson's disap-
proval of the Sherman-Johnston Conven-
tion, 633; second, Mr. Johnson's Pro-
clamation of Amnesty and Pardon, 635;
third, Mr. Johnson's North Carolina and
other similar Proclamations, 636; as-
sembling of the 39th Congress in Dec.,
1865, and its action, 638; fourth, the
adoption by Congress of the Reconstruc-
tion Measures, so-called, 643; fifth, the
Centralists have not yet openly proclaimed
their ultimate object, much less acted in
anything yet done, upon any claim of the
actual consummation of that object,
which is Consolidation and Empire, 650;
the Cause lost at Appomattox C. H., not
the Federative Principle, 651.
WARD, G. T., 465.

WARNER, HIRAM, 511.
WASHINGTON, GEORGE, styles the
present Union a "Confederated Repub-
lic," 21; 308; 461.

WATKINS, W. H., deputy from Arkansas
to Montgomery Congress, 393.
WATTS, THOMAS H., 626, 760.
WAUL, THOMAS M., deputy from Texas
to Montgomery Congress, 325; 735.
WEBSTER, DANIEL, 44; 197; his 7th
of March speech referred to, 211; on
Compromise Committee of 1850, 212;
Secretary of State under Fillmore, 221;
his connection with the preparation of
the Resolutions adopted by the Whig
Convention in 1852, 237; death of, 242;
345; on the power of the President to
blockade Ports or employ the military
force, 404; 412; 415; 420; 551.
WELSCH, ARISTIDES, one of Mr. Da-
vis's sureties, 663.
WENTWORTH, JOHN, 223, 227, 228.
WHEELER, HENRY W., his report of
Mr. Toombs's speech in 1819 in the
Horise, 195.

WHELCHEL DAVIS, 316.

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WICK, WILLIAM W, vote of, against
the Wilmot Proviso, 170.

WIGFALL, LOUIS T., deputy to Mont-
gomery Congress from Texas, 325; 464;
735; 761, 762; 764.
WILCOX, OLIVER B., 433.
WILKES, CHARLES, captures Mason and
Slidell, 482.

WILLIAMS, COM., (British Navy,) 482.
WILLIAMSON, HUGH, on the three-
fifths clause, 100.

WILMOT, DAVID, 165; proviso of, to
exclude slavery from the whole public
domain, 168.

WILSON, HENRY, 660, 661.
WILSON, JAMES, resolution of, in Fed-
eral Convention, to fix the basis of
popular representation, 95, 96, 101.
WILSON, JAMES H., 510.
WILSON, W. S., deputy from Mississippi
to Montgomery Congress, 325; 785.
WINTHROP, ROBERT C., Whig nomineo
for speaker in 1849, 179; defeated for
speaker, 196.

WIRT, WILLIAM, opinion of, on the S.
C. law of 1822, for the better regulation
and government of free negroes, otc., 66,
67, 69.

WIRTZ, HENRY, 504, 505, 506.
WISE, HENRY A., 465, 764.
WITHERS, THOMAS J., deputy from
South Carolina to Montgomery Congress,
325; 735.

WOLCOTT, OLIVER, on three-fifths clause
in Congress of the Confederation, 100.
WOOD, A. M., 433.

WOODRUFF, COL.. (U. S. A.,) 433.
WOODWARD, GEORGE W., decision of,
on the Federal Conscript Act of 1863,
574, 790.

WOOL, JOHN E., 487.
WRIGHT, AMBROSE R., Commissioner
from Georgia to Maryland, 324, 368;
765.

WRIGHT, AUGUSTUS R., deputy from
Georgia to Montgomery Congress, 325;
329; 735.

Y.

YANCEY, WILLIAM L., 127; C. S.
Commissioner to Europe, 359; returns
from Europe and is elcoted C. S. Senator
483; 682; 760.

Z.
ZOLLICOFFER, FELIX K., letter to
public after Lincoln's War Proclamation
favoring Secession, 390; 406; 465:
killed at battle of Fishing Creek, 481.

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