INDEX.

Abolitionists, their motto, 50.

Cause of proscription of, 51.
Support of nullification, 63.
Vindicated by loose construc-

tion of the preamble of the
Constitution, 36.

Abolition of slavery, constitu-
tional mode of accomplish-
ing, 322.
Abbott, Josiah G., member
electoral commission, 650.
Proposition in the electoral
commission, 1877, 655.
Abell, E. A., removed from
office by Gen. Sheridan, 544.
Cause of removal of, 544.
Adams, Charles Francis, advo-

cate of measures to allay
slavery agitation, 28.
Efforts in Thirty-sixth Con-
gress to avert war, 64.
Member Thirty-sixth Con-
gress, 75.

Member committee of thirty-
three, 77.
Sketch of, 91.

As minister to Great Britain
takes part in negotiations
respecting the Declaration
of Paris, 270-273.
Instructions from Seward and
Lincoln, 352-3.

Adams, J. H., member of South
Carolina treaty commis-
sion (1860), 110.
Adams, John, causes of his de-
feat for the presidency by
Jefferson, 105.

Course in France respecting
Continental paper, 129.
Adams, John Quincy, secretary
of state, 44.

Adams Samuel, statue of, 26.
Ad interim secretaries, 582-583.
Aiken, the revenue cutter,

Elected governor, 1869, 530.
Elected U. S. senator, 1870, 530.
Inaugural address as govern-
or, 1870, 531.

His idea of state sovereignty,
531.

Aldrich, Cyrus, member Thirty-
sixth Congress, 99.
Alien Acts of 1798, 105.
Aliunde, 653, 658, 660.
Allen, Ethan, statue of, 26.
Allen, Henry W. ., governor
Louisiana, 1864, 295.
Allen, James C., clerk of the
House, 1857, 27.
Alley, John B., member Thirty-

of

sixth Congress, 90.
Allison, Abraham K., governor
of Florida, 1865, 419.
Amendment of the Constitu-
tion, debate respecting power
of, January, 1865, 323-325.
American Anti-Slavery Society,

51.

Senator from Mississippi, 1870,
530.

Elected governor of Missls-
sippi, 1873, 533.

Course as governor of Mis-
sissippi in 1875, 533.

Amnesty proposed by Garrett
Davis, June 9, 1864, 316.
President Lincoln's procla-
mation, 337, 338.
Classes excluded, 338, 346.
President Johnson's procla-
mation, 346.

Classes excepted, 346, 347.

Henry Winter Davis' plan of,
434.

President Johnson's plan of,
435.

Vicissitudes of the question
of, 595-601.

Effect of delay of, in the
South, 596.

Incompleteness of, 597.
General Butler's bill for, 595,
598.

Position of Mr. Blaine re-
specting, 1876, 600.
Established by public senti-
ment, 601.

Anderson, Robert, abandon-

ment of Ft. Moultrie and oc-
cupation of Ft. Sumter, 146.
Declines to surrender, 149.
Attacked, 149.
Surrenders, 149.

Thirty-sixth Congress, 96.
Sketch of, 96.

Anderson, John A., 297.
Antietam, battle of, 188.
Anthony, Henry B., president
pro tem. of the Senate, 86.
Action in Senate Dec., 1865,
350.

Appomattox, surrender at, 578.
Apportionment of representa-

tion the original object of
the census, 695.

The law of 1882 respecting
basis of, 695, 696.
Archer, Stevenson,

member
House committee, 1872, on
difficulties in Louisiana, 557.
Arkansas, convention and ordi-
nance of secession, 119.
Declaration of cause of her
secession, 119.

Delegates sent to Southern
Congress, 119.

Campaign in 1862, 174.
Loyal government of, 341.
Legislation recognizing same,
342.

New state government of, re-
cognized by Johnson, 349.
Steps toward reconstruction
in, 1864, 436.

President Lincoln's plan for
reconstructing, 436.
Ordinance of secession an-
nulled, 436.

Destitution of her people in
1865, 437.

Amnesty act of, 439.

Part of the fourth military
district under the recon-
struction acts, 534.

Provisional legislature

of,

forbidden, April, 1867, to

reassemble, 534.

Registration in, 534.

Convention and constitution,

534.

Fraud at ratification of con-
stitution, 1867, 534, 535.
Act of Congress for readmit-
ting, 535.

Surrendered by military com-
mander to civil authorities,
535.

Legislation of, 1869, respect-
ing debt of, 536.

Government of, 1868-1875, 535-
541.

Constitution of, 1874, 540.
Financial condition of, 542.
Post, capture of, 195.
Arm-in-Arm convention, 619.
Army at the polls, struggle in

Congress for repeal of laws
permitting, 630-634.
Army of the United States, dis-
qualification for commis-
sion in, 616.

Arrests, arbitrary, 223, 224.
Arthur, Chester A., nominated
for Vice-President by the
Republican party, 1880, 674.
Elected Vice-President, 675.
Becomes President, 676.
Senator Pendleton's civil ser-
vice reform bill the event of
the administration of, 676.
Asboth, Alexander, at Pea

Ridge, 174.
Ashe, Thomas S., candidate for
governor in North Carolina,
1868, 497.

Ashley, James M., calls up thir-
teenth amendment in the
House, Jan. 6, 1865, 321.
Reports reconstruction bill,
Dec. 20, 1864, 342.
Presents articles of impeach-
ment of President Johnson,
583.

Ashmore, John D., member

Thirty-sixth Congress, 94.
Sketch of, 94.
Assassination of President Lin-
coln, 344.

President Garfield, 76.
Atlanta, capture of, 207.

Extent of operations for re-
ducing, 214.

Attorneys, iron-clad oath ex-
tended to, in United States
courts, 615.

Avery, William T., member
Thirty-sixth Congress, 95.
Prisoner at Johnson Island,
95.

Baird, Absalom, proclaims mar-
tial law in New Orleans,
1864, 431.
Baker, E. D., disposition toward
compromise, 64.

Thirth-sixth Con-

Senator
gress, 72.
Sketch of, 90.

Military service and death at
Ball's Bluff, 164.
Baker, William, removed from

office by Gen. Hancock, 549.
Baldwin, Abraham, 303.
Baldwin, Augustus C., votes for
thirteenth amendment, 326.
Ball's Bluff, battle of, 164.
Baltimore, mob in, April 19,
1861, 152.

Banishment. enacted by the

Confederate Congress, 246.
Bank, the United States, 142.
Banks, National, act of 1863,

establishing system of, 141.
Act of 1864, respecting same,
142.

Secretary Chase's suggestions,
142.

Origin of the system, 142.
Bank notes, national, 141.
State, 142.

Issue of, secured by United
States stocks, suggested by
Fillmore, 1849, 143.
Bankruptcy act, repeal of,
1878, 671.

Banks of issue, power of states
to charter, 143, 144.
Banks, Nathaniel P., elected
speaker of the House of
Representatives, 50.
Succeeds General Patterson,
162.

In Shenandoah Valley, 183.
At Cedar Mountain, 187.
Captures Port Hudson, 196.
Red River expedition, 210.
Proclamation of, Jan. 11, 1864,
427.

Barnwell, Robert W., member
of treaty commission (1860)
of South Carolina, 110.
Barrow, Washington, member

of military league commis-
sion of Tennessee (1861), 120.
Bartholdi statue, 699.
Basse Edward, appointed judge
in Texas, 1867, 573.
Baxter, Elisha, elected senator
from Arkansas, 437.
Conflict with Joseph Brooks
for governorship of Arkan-
888, 537-541.

Baxter, Richard, persecution
of, 606.

Bayard, James A., senator in
Thirty-sixth Congress, 71.
Sketch of, 71, 87.

Bayard, Thomas A., member of
committee on the electoral
count, 637.

Remarks by him in the com-
mittee, 642, 644.

Member of electoral commis-
sion, 650.

Proposition in the electoral
commission, 656.

candidate for the presiden-
cy, 1844, 47.

Black, Jeremiah S., one of the
counsel for Milligan before
the supreme court, 230.
Secretary of state, 258.
Effort to prevent foreign rec-
ognition of Confederacy,
258, 259.

Counsel for President John-
son in impeachment trial,

587.

Speech before the electoral
commission, 661-663.
Carpet-baggers described by,
624-626.

Counsel representing Mr. Til-
den before the electoral
commission in the Florida
case, 655.

Blackburn, J. S. C., speech of,
March 2, 1877, 665.
Blaine, James G., moves, June,

1864, to lay the Brown sub-
stitute for the House re-
construction bill on the
table, 340.

Advocates in conference
committee power to use
army at the polls, 631.
Secretary of state in Presi-
dent Garfield's cabinet, 675.
His genius for politics, 675.
Contrasted with Grover
Cleveland, 683.

with Jefferson Davis, Jan.
12, 1865, 330, 331.

Beecher Henry Ward, views
respecting restoration of

states to their federal rela-
tions, 570-572.

Bell, John, presidential candi-
date, 1860, 60, 61.
Belmont, Mo., Confederates
attacked at, by General
Grant, 1861, 163.
Benjamin, Judah P., senator
Thirty-sixth Congress, 70.
Sketch of, 70.
Attitude toward the Critten-
den compromise, 79.
In the Confederate cabinet, 88.
In council at Montgomery
upon question of firing on
Fort Sumter, April, 1861, 150.
Bentham, Jeremy, queries re-

specting utility of oath-
taking, 604.
Bentonville, battle of, 212.
Berrien, John McPherson, 303.
Big Bethel, battle of, 154.
Biggerstaff, Aaron, Ku-Klux
outrages upon, 461, 462.
Bigler, William, senator Thirty-
sixth Congress, 76.
Testimony respecting

the

committee of thirteen, 80.
Vote in committee of thir-
teen on Jefferson Davis'
proposition, 115.
Bingham, John A., member

Thirty-sixth Congress, 75.
His eloquence and ardor, 75.
Minister to Japan, 75.
Manager in the impeachment
of President Johnson, 585.
Sketch of, 585.
Bingham, Kinsley S., senator
Thirty-sixth Congress, 89.
Binney, Horace, on the right of

the President to suspend the
writ of habeas corpus, 227.

Second visit of, to Richmond
with respect to peace, 332.
Blair, Jacob B., urges prosecu-
tion of the war, 1865, 314.
Blair, Montgomery, counsel for
the plaintiff in error, in the
Cummings case, 251.
Blockade proclaimed, 152.
Effect of, 242.
Opposition, 263, 273.
Raised, 346.

Blount, William, impeachment
of, 583.

Bocock, Thomas S., attempt to
cut off debate on Lecomp-
ton, 27, 56.

Member Thirty-sixth Con-
gress, 72.

Parliamentary skill of, 74.
Speaker of the Confederate
Congress, 92.

Bonham, Milledge L., member
Thirty-sixth Congress, 94.
Sketch of, 94.

Governor of South Carolina,
1864, 295.

Boozer, Lemuel, elected Lieut.-
Gov. South Carolina, 503.
Border State convention of
congressmen, 28.
Boreman, Arthur I., governor
of West Virginia, 195.
Boteler, Alexander R., member
Thirty-sixth Congress, 73.
Moves for the committee of
thirty-three, 73.
Sketch of, 93.

Botts, John M., leader of mod-

erate Republicans in Vir-
ginia, 488.
Bouligney, J. E., member Thir-
ty-sixth Congress, 94.
Sketch of, 94.

Boutwell, George S., discusses
limits of power to amend
the constitution, January,
1865, 323.

Arraigns Richmond govern-
ment on state rights
grounds, 312.
Boyd, Alexander, murdered by
Ku-Klux, 455.
Boyd, James, testimony of, re-

in

specting the Ku-Klux, 455.
Bradley, Joseph P., chosen
member of the electoral
commission, 650.
Announces his vote in the
electoral commission
the case of Florida, 653.
Bragg, Braxton, campaign in
Kentucky, 1862, 191.
At Stone River, 192.
At Chattanooga, 202.
Branch, Lawrence O'B., mem-

ber Thirty-sixth Congress
from North Carolina, 74.
Distrusts secession as a cure
for Southern ills, 74.
Skill in debate, 74.
Sketch of, 93.

Confederate general at New-
bern, 1862, 167.
Breckenridge doctrine, 55.
Breckenridge, John C., presi-

dential candidate,1860, 60, 61.
Senator, Thirty-sixth Con-
gress, 65.

Personal sketch of, 65.
Vice-President, 86.

On the South Carolina chiv-
alry, 410.

Brewster, O. H., election of, as

speaker in Louisiana legis-
lature, 556, 557.

Briggs George, attitude toward
the Crittenden compromise,
78.

Member Thirty-sixth Con-
gress, 94.

Briggs, George N., member of

Massachusetts constitutional
convention of 1850, 586.
Bright, Jesse D., senator
Thirty-sixth Congress, 72.
Inclination toward the South,
72, 89.

Brooke, John M., 172.
Brooke, J. R., in command of

the city of New Orleans, 568.
Brooks, James, discusses the

peace negotiation, Jan. 10,
1865, 336.
Brooks, Joseph, conflict with

Elisha Baxter for governor-
ship of Arkansas, 537-541.
Brown, Albert G., senator

Thirty-sixth Congress, 69.
Sketch of, 69, 88.
Resigns as senator, 114.
Statement by, respecting af-
fairs in Mississippi, 528.
Brown, B. Gratz. proposes leg-
islation deferring admission
of states to representation
until after suppression of
insurrection, 340.
Supports President Johnson's
administration, 356.
Brown, John, raid, 50.

of martial rule in District
of Columbia in 1865, 232.
One of the counsel against
Milligan in the supreme
court, 230.

Biographical sketch of, 303-
306.

Advice to the people, 1865,
397.
Brown, Neil S., candidate

against Harris, 1856, 297.
Brown, William G., votes for

thirteenth amendment, 326.
Brownlow, William G., elected
governor of Tennessee, 295,
349.

Proclamation of, respecting
Ku-Klux, 474.
Buchanan, Frank, command-
ing Confederate ram Vir-
ginia, 169.

Buchanan, James, Mr. Polk's

secretary of state, 47.
Elected President, 50.
His attempt to defend public
property in the Southern
States, 146.

Buchanan, J. Rev., driven away
by Ku-Klux, 471.
Buchanan, R. C., in command
of the fifth military dis-
trict, 549.

Buckalew, Charles R., 356.
Buckingham, Catharinus

P.,

assistant secretary of war,
192.
Buckner, S. B., Confederate
defender at Fort Donelson,
175, 176.

Buell, Don Carlos, in command
department of Ohio, 1862,

175.

Takes Bowling Green, 176.
At Shiloh, 177.

Drives Bragg out of Ken-
tucky, 191.

Bulger, M. J., candidate for
governor of Alabama, 1865,
406.

Bullock, Rufus B., governor of
Georgia, 510.

Bull Run, battle of, 154-156.
Congressmen at the, 157.
Flight from, 158.

Second battle of, 188.
Burch, John C., member Thirty-
sixth Congress, 99.
Burlingame, Anson, member

Thirty-sixth Congress, 90.
Sketch of, 90.
Burnett, Henry C., member
Thirty-sixth Congress, 72.
Confederate senator, 72.
Member Thirty-sixth Con-
gress, 95.

Confederate senator, 95.
Burnside, A. E., his belief that

Vallandigham would not be
convicted, 83.

His services at Roanoke Isl-
and and Newbern, 1862, 168–
168.

At Fredericksburg, 192.
In command of the depart-
ment of the Ohio, 196.
Butler, Benjamin F., occupies

Relay House and Federal
Hill, Baltimore, 153.
Commanding troops in expe-
dition against Hatteras, 1861,
164-166.

Occupies New Orleans, 193.
His operations against Fort
Fisher, 212.

Rule at New Orleans, 425.
One of the managers in the
impeachment of President
Johnson, 585.

Opens case for managers in
impeachment of President
Johnson, 589.

Amnesty legislation proposed
by, 595, 598.

Butler, M. C., exonerated re-
specting Hamburg massa-
cre, 467.
Candidate

for lieutenant-
governor of South Caro-
Lina, 505.
Calhoun, John C., favors an-
nexation of Texas as neces-
sary to slavery, 46.
Views upon state sovereignty,
822.

Opinion of legitimate result
of emancipation, 364.
Biographical sketch of, 52-54.
His theory of states rights, 101.
California, admission of, 48.
Calvert, Charles B., proposition

of, August 5, 1861, for peace
amendments to the Consti-
tion, 315.
Democratic vote cast for his
proposition of Aug. 5, 1861,
315.
Campaign, political, 1864, 617,618;
1868, 619-624; 1872, 627-628;
1876, 628-629; 1880, 674; 1884,
683.

Campbell, John A., his part in

peace negotiations, 1861,
147, 148.

Confederate commissioner at
the Hampton Roads con-
ference, 333.

Counsel for Mr. Tilden in the
Louisiana case before the
electoral commission. 655.
Cameron Simon, senator Thirty-
sixth Congress, 64, 72.
Attitude toward the Critten-
den compromise, 79.
Sketch of, 87.

Canby, Edward R. S., com-
mander of the first recon-
struction district, 296, 492.
Commander second military
district, Sept. 5, 1867, 296, 496.
Capitol, the, description of, 25.
Old halls of legislation, 26.
Statuary hall, 26.
Carpenter, Matt. H., counsel in
ex-parte Garland. 256.
Counsel for Mr. Tilden in the
Louisiana case before the
electoral commission, 655.
Extract from his speech be-
fore the commission, 655.
Carpenter, R. B., candidate for
governor of South Caro-
lina, 505.
Carter, George W., leader of
faction in Louisiana, 554.
Career and enterprises of, 555,
560, 561.
Cardoza, Francis L., secretary

of state, South Carolina, 503.
Cardoza, J. W., sup't of educa-
tion, Mississippi, 532.
Carpet-baggers, application of
the term, 453.

Rule in the South, 624, 626.
Carthage, Mo., engagement at,
1861, 163.

customs, New Orleans, 554.
Enterprises of, 560, 561.
Cass, Lewis, Democratic candi-

date for the presidency,
1848, 48.

Cedar Mountain, battle of, 187.
Census, the system in the
United States, 685-689.
Object of constitutional pro-
vision, 685.

Sketch of legislation, 685, 686.
Author's bill for census of
1880, 686.

Importance and excellence of
results of census of 1880, 687.
Character of census of 1870,
687.

Statistics of population, 687,

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Secretary of the interior, 89.
Demands the thirteenth |

amendment, 311.
Charleston, evacuation of, 212.
Chase, Salmon P., resists en-

forcement of fugitive slave
act in Ohio, 61, 62.
Attitude respecting doctrine
of states rights, 62.
Views as to expediency of
coercion of seceded states,
63, 64.

Attitude toward the Critten-
den proposition, 78.
Opinion in Veasie Bank vs.
the collector, 144.
Dissents from the opinion of

the supreme court in the
Cummings case, 252.
Demands the thirteenth
amendment, 811.
Presides at the trial of the im-
peachment of President
Johnson, 586,588.

Chase, Samuel, impeachment
of, 584.

Chattanooga, battle of, 202,
Chickamauga, battle of, 201.
Choate, Rufus, member Massa-
chusetts constitutional con-
vention of 1850, 586.
Churchill, John C., member of
committee of investigation
preliminary to impeach-
ment of President Johnson,
581.

Church and the military, con-
flict between, in Alabama,
408.
Civil officers, attempt by mili-
tary commander to remove,
in North Carolina, 495.
Removal of, in Louisiana,
1867, 544-549.

Civil Rights bill, its relation to
states rights, 628.

a Democratic measure, 676.
Influence of the measure

upon selection of Demo-
cratic presidential candi-
date, 1884, 776.

Civil War, the, proximate
causes of, 28.
Efforts to avert, 32.

Slavery agitation the cause
of, 56.

Could it have been avoided?
78-80.

Civism, wisdom of, 34.
Clark, Daniel, senator, Thirty -
sixth Congress, 72.
Amendment to the Crittenden
compromise measure, 78-80.
Clark, Horace F., member of
Thirty-sixth Congress, 91.
Governor of North Carolina,
295.

Clark, John B., member Thirty-
sixth Congress, 96.
Confederate general, 96.
Clark, J. S., his testimony in re-

gard to Ku-Klux in Ala-
bama, 469.
Clarke, Charles, governor of
Mississippi, 1864, 295.
Clarksville, capture of, 176.
Clay, Clement C., senator Thir-
ty-sixth Congress, 70.
Sketch of, 70, 88.

Part taken by, in the Niagara
peace negotiations, 317.
Clay, Henry, resists attempt to
prohibit extension of sla-
vers, 45.

Presidential candidate, 1844,

47.
Clayton, Powell, inaugurated
governor of Arkansas, 1868,
535.

His administration de-
nounced, 536.

Elections of, as senator, 536,
537.

His quarrel with Lieutenant-
Governor Johnson, 536, 537.
Clemens, Jeremiah, statement
of purpose of Confederate
government in attacking
Fort Sumter, 150.
His loyalty, 150.
Clemens, Sherrard, member of
Thirty-sixth Congress, 73.
Union zeal of, 73.
Cleveland, Grover, his party
not sectional, 679.
Nominated for President by
the Democratic party, 682.
Platform upon which nomi-
nated, 682.

Contrasted with James G.
Blaine, 683.

Sketch of life, 683.
Compared with Silas Wright,
683.

A Cato, 683.

ber Thirty-sixth Congress
from Alabama, 74.
Distrustful of secession as a
remedy, 74.
Sketch of, 97.

Cochrane, John, member Thir-
ty-sixth Congress, 76.
Sketch of, 91.

Coercion of a state, power for,
146.

Coffroth, Alexander, he votes
for thirteenth amendment,
326.

Coin, public faith pledged in
act of March 18, 1869, to
payment of bonds in, 136.
Provisions of act of April 2,
1792, respecting, 670.
Standard under that act, 670.
Standard by act of January
18, 1837, 670.

Weight of fractional silver,
reduced, act of Feb. 21, 1853,
670.

Question of meaning of term,
under act of Jan. 1, 1879, 671.
Coinage act of 1873, 671.
Colfax, Schuyler, member Thir-
ty-sixth Congress, 75.
Afterwards speaker, 75.
Colonies, slavery in the, 37-39.
Collamer, Jacob, statue of, 28.
Senator Thirty-sixth Con-
gress, 64, 72, 86.

Vote in committee of thir-
teen on Jefferson Davis'
proposition, 115.
Colquitt, Walter T., 303.
Columbia, S. C., occupation of,
212.
Compromise, author's plea for,
in 1861, 31.
Missouri, 45.

Crittenden, proposition, 66, 67.
Commission of seven citizens

proposed July 29, 1881, for
peace negotiations, 315.
Commissioners' treaty from

South Carolina, December,
1860, 146.

Confederate, treaty, 1881, 146,
147.

Confederate, to England and
France, October, 1861, 275.
Confederate peace, January,
1865, 327, 328.

Confederate, attendance at
the Hampton Roads confer-
ence, 333.
Report of, 334.
Commission, electoral, see
electoral commission.
Committee with respect to

peace amendments to the
Constitution, proposed by
the author, July 20, 1881, 14.
Of House of Representatives
1872, to investigate diffi-
culties between United
States and state officials in
Louisiana, 557.
Of House of Representatives,
to investigate election of
1874 in Louisiana, 569.
Committees on the electoral
count of 1876, constitution
of, 637.

Plans and proceedings of, 638-
648.

Report of, 648.
Conciliation, efforts toward,
29-32, 64, 66.

Ancient Roman policy of, 31.
Confederacy, surrender of the
armies of, 214.

Confederacy, cause of final de- |
feat of, 215.

Occasion for its organization,
241.

Recognition by foreign pow-
ers, 242, 258.

Severe measures of, 247.
Justification for, 248.
The recognition of, by foreign
powers the purpose of Ma-
son and Slidell, 275.
Geographical limits of, 1864,

309.

Conference, the Hampton
Roads, 333.

Confiscation acts of the Thirty-
seventh Congress, in effect
bills of attainder, 249.
Confiscation in Louisiana, 434.
Confiscations enacted by the
Confederate Congress, 246.
Congress, the Thirty-sixth,
December session, 1860, 61.
Its men and work, 62-80.
After life of some of its
prominent members, 86-99.
Congress, special session of,
1861, 122.

Congressional action, true rule
for, 373.
Congress, U. S. S., fight with
the Virginia, 169.
Roscoe,

Conkling,

member
Thirty-sixth Congress, 75.
Rare gifts, 75.

His extensive fame, 91.
Member of committee on the
electoral count, 637.
Favors "lot" plan, 641.
Course in committee, 643.
Advocates electoral commis-
sion bill in the Senate, 649.
Refrains from voting in the
Senate upon decision of
electoral commission in the
Florida case, 656.
Connecticut, states rights in,
106.

Conover, Simon B., senator

from Florida, sketch of, 523.
Conscription, correspondence

between Seddon and Brown
respecting, in Georgia, 305.
Constitution of the United
States, fidelity of Demo-
cratic party to, 35.
Construction of preamble of,
35-36.

Conflict with the law of na-
tions considered, 244.
Author's proposition July 29,

1861, for amendment of, in
order to restore peace and
union, 314, 315.
Amendment of, proposed by
Mr. Calvert, of Maryland,
and Senator Saulsbury, 315.
Views of the author expressed

in Congress respecting the
power to amend, 321, 322.
Remarks of President Lin-
coln respecting essentials to
validity of amendment to,
344.

Position of parties respecting
construction of, 356, 357.
Respect paid to, by the gov-
ernment throughout the
war, 364.

Amendments to, proposed by
Thaddeus Stevens, 366.
Constitution, state, adopted
under the reconstruction
acts in Virginia, 489.
Submitted to vote, 492.
North Carolina, 496.

Alabama, 513.
Submitted, 514.

Florida, 517.
Mississippi, 527.
Vote on, 28.

New election ordered, 529.
Ratified, 529.
Arkansas, 534.

Fraud in election charged,
534, 535.
Louisiana, 548.
Ratified, 549.
Texas, 575.
Ratified, 576.

Revised, of Missouri, 1865, 250,
251.

Amended, of Tennessee, 1864,
382.

Texas, 1866, 400.
Ratified, 401.

New, of Arkansas, 1870, 540.
Amended, of Louisiana, 1870,
554.

Texas, 1876, 575.
Constitution of Southern Con-

federacy, 117, 118.
Continental Congress, powers
of, 127.

Continental bills of credit, 128.
Contraband of war, what are,

265.

Convention, proposed by Gar-
rett Davis, June 9, 1864, to
reconstruct the Union, 316.
Convention, Secession, South
Carolina, 110.
Georgia, 111.
Mississippi, 114.
Florida, 115.
Louisiana, 115.
Alabama, 115.
Texas, 116.
Arkansas, 119.
Virginia, 119.

North Carolina, 120.
Tennessee, 121.
Convention, Tennessee, under
provisional government,

January 9, 1865, 882.
North Carolina, Oct. 2, 1865,384.
Mississippi, 1865, 392.
Georgia, 397.
Texas, 1866, 401.
Alabama, 1865, 404-406.
South Carolina, 1865, 412.
Florida, 1868, 419.
Louisiana, 1864, 428.
Arkansas, 1864, 436.

Held under the reconstruc-
tion acts, in Virginia, 489.
North Carolina, 496.
South Carolina, 502.
Georgia, 509.
Alabama, 513.
Florida, 517.

Mississippi, 526, 529.
Arkansas, 534.
Louisiana, 549.
Texas, 575, 578.
Conway, Thomas W., attempts

to establish mixed schools
in Louisiana, 432.
Cooper and Cary, popular vote

for, as candidates of the
Greenback party, 1876, 675.
Corcoran, Michael, Col., held as

hostage by the Confederate
authorities, 243.
Corinth, capture of, May, 1862,
178.

Attack on, October, 1862, 191.
Corwin, Thomas, seeks to allay
slavery excitement, 28.

Thirty-sixth Congress, 74.
His eloquence, 75.

Member committee of thirty-
three, 77.

Humor of, 365.

Coste, M. L., revenue cutter
Aiken surrendered by, 146.
Cotton, effects of cultivation of,
on slavery, 39, 41.

Its relation to the blockade,
263.

The supply of, from foreign
sources, 264.

Cotton-gin of Whitney, rela-
tion of, to cotton produc-
tion, 38.

Coushatta, La., massacre near,
August, 1874, 565.

Cowan Edgar, champion of
President Johnson's admin-
istration, 356.

Craige, Burton,member Thirty-
sixth Congress, 93.
Sketch of, 93.

Craig, James, member Thirty-
sixth Congress, 96.
Sketch of, 96.
Crandall, Prudence,effort in be-

half of the colored race, 41.
Crane, Joseph, Lt.-Col., killed
by E. M. Yerger, 531.
Crapo, W. W., debates in the

House, the electoral com-
mission, Louisiana action,
657.
Crawford, Martin J., member
Thirty-sixth Congress, 74.
Favoring secession, 74.
Sketch of, 96.

Crawford, William H., 113, 303.
Crawford, William J., peace

commissioner from the Con-
federacy, 146.

Credit, Public, causes of its
soundness, 131.

Crime in Texas, 1865-'68, statis-
tics of, 574.

Crittenden, George B., Confed-
erate general, at Webb's
Cross Roads, 174.
Crittenden, John J., advocate
of measures tending to allay
irritation caused by slavery,

28.