Union-disunion-reunion: Three Decades of Federal Legislation. 1855 to 1885 - Samuel Sullivan Cox - Google Books

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CONTENTS.

DISREGARD OF NATIONALITY.

THE CAPITOL AT WASHINGTON THE OLD HALLS OF LEGISLATION

THE SENATE OF WORTHIES - DEDICATION OF THE NEW HOUSE

MAIDEN SPEECH THEREIN THE USE OF AN OPPOSITION PARTY

THE PROXIMATE CAUSES OF THE CIVIL CONFLICT

ROMAN POLICY EXCESSES NORTH AND SOUTH FUTILE EF-

FORTS FOR ADJUSTMENT

THE THEORY OF SECESSION - CONSE-

QUENCES OF SECESSION-THE WISDOM OF CIVISM,

PARTY CREEDS AND MODES.

CONSTRUCTION -NEW ENGLAND SLAVE TRADE

THE COTTON GIN AND THE MULE-JENNY COTTON AND SLAVERY

SOUTHERN ANTI-SLAVERY -FIRST FREE SOIL VOTE SLAVERY

IN THE TERRITORIES -THE LOUISIANA AND FLORIDA PURCHASES

-THE MISSOURI QUESTION — THE ANNExation of tTEXAS — THE

KANSAS STRUGGLE THE WHIG PARTY DISBANDS-rise of the

REPUBLICAN PARTY-THE ABOLITIONISTS-JOHN C. CALHOUN,

THE THIRTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.

ITS ORDEAL AS TO SLAVERY EXTENSION

TORIAL QUESTIONS -

KANSAS AND THE TERRI-

QUADRILATERAL CONTEST FOR THE PRESI-

-THE CHARLESTON CONVENTION -THE DOUGLAS MAJOR-

THE SOUTHERN DELEGATES

ITY -THE TWO-THIRDS RULE

MR. LINCOLN ELECTED THE SPECTRE of war,

THE THIRTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.

ITS CHARACTERISTICS, OPINIONS, AND VOTES-CONGRESSIONAL ACTION

LEADING TO DISUNION -THE SENATE LEADERS EFFORTS TO

STAY SECESSION EXTREMISTS DEFEAT THE COMPROMISE

CRITTENDEN'S LAST APPEAL -JEFFERSON DAVIS NOT ANXIOUS TO

SECEDE THE EXTREMISTS IN THE HOUSE THE UNION PHALANX

CLEMENT L. VALLANDIGHAM,

THE IMPENDING CONFLICT.

THE THIRTY-SIXTH CONGRESS -WHAT

BECAME OF THE MEMBERS

HOW THEY ACTED IN THE WAR-NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN CON-

GRESSMEN EMBATTLED—A PARLIAMENT WITHOUT PRECEDENT

WHY THE BATTLE OF BELMONT WAS FOUGHT A CHAPTER OF

WAR, ADVENTURE, AND NECROLOGY - ELY'S "ONWARD TO RICH-

MOND -JUDGE REAGAN'S REPULSE OF THE ENEMY

ATORS AND MEMBERS IN THE FIELD-THEY FOUGHT AS THEY

VOTED- · INAUGURATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN - FIRST GUNS OF

THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF SECESSION.

MR. CALHOUN'S EXPOSITION OF THE DOCTRINE-HE FAVORED nulli-

FICATION BUT NOT SECESSION - JEFFERSON'S VIEWS-THE KEN-

TUCKY AND VIRGINIA RESOLUTIONS-ALIEN AND SEDITION ACTS-

MR. MADISON'S INTERPRETATION-MASSACHUSETTS SHOULDER TO

SHOULDER WITH SOUTH CAROLINA ON STATE RESISTANCE-THE

PERSONAL LIBERTY BILLS OF THE NORTH

LEADING SECESSION MOVEMENTS

ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS'

GREAT SPEECH FOR THE UNION - JEFFERSON DAVIS' PROPOSITION

-ACTION OF TEXAS

THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY IN MONT-

FEDERAL AND CONFEDERATE CONSTITUTIONS

TESTS AGAINST SECESSION DE FACTO IF NOT DE JURE GOVERN-

MENTS IN THE SOUTH - A LINE OF HOSTILITY BETWEEN TWO

GREAT COMMUNITIES THE CRITTENDEN RESOLUTIONS-SECES-

SION AND SLAVERY SUBORDINATE TO THE LINCOLN POLICY FOR

THE UNION-THE ANOMALOUS SECESSION OF WEST VIRGINIA FROM

OLD VIRGINIA-VARIOUS THEORIES AS TO THE INSURGENCY -ALL

MERGED IN LINCOLN'S POLICY -THE FINALE OF SLAVERY AND OF

ITS INCIDENT, SECESSION,

CONTENTS.

FINANCIAL SUPPORT OF THE UNION.

THE MEXICAN WAR FINANCES-THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR FINANCES

-STATE AND CONTINENTAL BILLS OF CREDIT EARLY REVENUE

RESOURCES CUSTOMS, EXCISES AND DIRECT TAXES—THE CIVIL

WAR FINANCES- THE CIVIL WAR DEBT-THE ISSUES OF BONDS

AND TREASURY NOTES -UNITED STATES NOTES-LEGAL TENDER

NOTES-DUTIES ON IMPORTS UNDER THE MORRILL TARIFFS-THE

INTERNAL REVENUE SYSTEM-THE PLAN FOR A NATIONAL PAPER

CURRENCY ITS ORIGIN AND CONSTITUTIONALITY AMERICAN

ABILITY TO SUSTAIN TAXATION,

THE LEADING MOVEMENTS OF THE WAR-1861-1862.

WHAT ARE ACTS OF WAR?- SEIZURE OF FEDERAL FORTS AND PROP-

ERTY SUMTER AND ITS FATE- -DIPLOMACY AND ITS FAILURE

JUDGE CAMPBELL AND MR. SEWARD THE EXCITEMENT NORTH

AND SOUTH BLOOD SPRINKLING IMPULSES - JERRY CLEMENS

PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S PROCLAMATION-EXTRA

SESSION, 1861 PREPARATIONS FOR HOSTILITIES

RESPONSE TO CALL FOR TROOPS-BALTIMORE IN A FERMENT

MASSACHUSETTS AROUSED-THE MOUNTAIN UNIONISTS

STATES SECESSIONISTS- ELLSWORTH'S DEATH-THE ARMY ABOUT

THE ADVANCE TO RICHMOND BULL RUN, ITS

HUMORS AND TRAGEDIES - BALL'S BLUFF AND ITS DISASTER

MISSOURI CAMPAIGN - LYON'S HEROISM GENERAL BAKER AND

STONE PASHA-THE OUTRAGE UPON THE LATTER -EXPEDITIONS

TO SOUTH AND NORTH CAROLINA- THEIR SUCCESSES -BATTLE IN

HAMPTON ROADS THE MARVEL OF HISTORY,

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CONQUESTS ON SOUTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA COASTS MISSOURI RE-

LIEVED -GENERAL SAMUEL R. CURTIS AT PEA RIDGE

DID SERVICES AND VICTORIES- BATTLES IN KENTUCKY -FALL OF

FORTS HENRY AND DONELSON FLOYD AS A GENERAL AND A FAIL-

URE TENNESSEE OPENED NASHVILLE OCCUPIED, AND ANDREW

JOHNSON GOVERNOR SHILOH AND ITS RESULTS OPERATIONS

IN TENNESSEE HALLECK SUBORDINATES GRANT―VIRGINIA CAM-

PAIGN MCCLELLAN IN COMMAND — HIS DIFFICULTIES IN FRONT

EMBARRASSMENTS AT WASHINGTON- - CHANGE OF BASE TO THE

JAMES RIVER NORFOLK OCCUPIED -THE AUTHOR'S PERSONAL

HON. JOHN S. MILLSON AT HOME- THE BIG RAM

"VIRGINIA" BLOWN UP-FITZ JOHN PORTER'S MOVEMENTS — MC-

CLELLAN, MCDOWELL, POPE, BANKS, FREMONT, SUMNER, JOSEPH

E. JOHNSTON, LONGSTREET, JACKSON, EWELL, THE HILLS, AND

OTHER GIANTS IN THE FIELD

SLAUGHTER MALVERN HILL BATTLE

MCCLELLAN REMOVED

MANOEUVRES AND DISASTERS

SECOND BULL RUN MARCH

INTO MARYLAND-WASHINGTON THREATENED MCCLELLAN RE-

CALLED ANTIETAM-SURRENDER OF HARPER'S FERRY—BATTLE

OF CHATTANOOGA -KIRBY SMITH IN KENTUCKY FRANKFORT

TAKEN AND CINCINNATI THREATENED THE SQUIRREL CAMPAIGN

AND A RACE FOR CONGRESS BRAGG FORAGING IN KENTUCKY-

VAN DORN AND CORINTH ROSECRANS AND BRAGG AT STONE

RIVER — GENERAL STUART'S CAVALRY INVADE PENNSYLVANIA

GREAT BATTLE AT FREDERICKSBURG -BURNSIDE DEFEATED

FARRAGUT AND BUTLER ON THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI -NEW OR-

LEANS CAPTURED,

THE END OF THE WAR.

VICKSBURG CAMPAIGN OF 1863 - OTHER MOVEMENTS OF GRANT

BANKS AT PORT HUDSON BURNSIDE SENT WEST-HE ARRESTS

VALLANDIGHAM— HIS WONDERFUL STRATEGY IN CAPTURING THE

DEMOCRATIC ORATOR-THE TRIAL-'

-THE AUTHOR'S EVIDENCE

HOOKER DEFEATED IN VIRGINIA-LOSS OF STONEWALL JACKSON·

POPULAR CLAMOR FOR A MOVEMENT VINDICTIVENESS OF THE

RADICALS AND STANTON MEADE IN COMMAND LEE MOVES

NORTH-A BOLD DESIGN ON THE CAPITAL AND NORTHERN CITIES

-GETTYSBURG A WATERLOO-OTHER BATTLES IN TENNESSEE

ATLANTA FALLS-SHERMAN MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA — THE

CAMPAIGN OF 1864-'65—the TENDENCY TO CONCENTRATE ALL

FORCE FOR THE GRAND DENOUEMENT -RICHMOND FALLS-APPO-

MATTOX-RESOURCES AND COST OF THE WAR-THEIR IMMENSITY

AND THE COMPENSATION,

PERSONAL LIBERTY ABUSED AND VINDICATED.

A WAR FOR THE CONSTITUTIONAL UNION

PERSECUTIONS BY ANTI-SLAVERY RADICALS GENERAL GRANT'S

LETTER OF 1861 - HIS DOCTRINE OF NON-INTERFERENCE WITH

SLAVERY — A WAR OF SUBJUGATION- -THE EXTREMES SOUTH AND

NORTH- PROCLAMATION OF MARTIAL LAW IN 1861-ARBITRARY

ARRESTS IN 1862 AND AFTERWARDS-HABEAS CORPUS SUSPENDED

-OUTRAGEOUS ORDERS OF SECRETARIES STANTON AND SEWARD

ARRESTS- MARSHALS, SPIES, AND COMMISSIONS-STANTON DICTA-

TOR -GRAND EFFORT OF DANIEL W. VOORHEES IN CONGRESS

DARK HOURS FOR THE REPUBLIC-CAPITAL FATTENING ON CON-

TRACTS AND SPOILS, AND LEAGUED WITH FANATICS-GOVERNOR

SEWARD IN HOME AFFAIRS PERSONAL LIBERTY DISCUSSED

BINNEY'S PAMPHLETS AND THE RESPONSES THE MILLIGAN CASE

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CONTENTS.

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-THE SUPREME COURT AS A BREAKWATER-MILLIGAN SENTENCED

TO DEATH-VALLANDIGHAM'S CASE PARALLEL -HIS PROTEST

THE TRUMBULL LAW-GRAND ARRAY OF COUNSEL IN MILLIGAN

CASE-LOGIC OF THE DECISION THE MRS. SURRATT TRAGEDY

VIOLATIVE OF THE DECISION-GENERAL BUTLER DENOUNCES IT

-MILITARY ARRESTS IN CONGRESS GALLANT FIGHT OF HENRY

WINTER DAVIS FOR PERSONAL LIBERTY -HE SUCCEEDS-LIBERTY

DEATHLESS -MAGNA CHARTA - DAVIS ITS CHAMPION SKETCH

OF HIS LIFE AND SERVICES THE OLIVE-BRANCH NOT OFFERED

YET-LESSONS OF HISTORY SPURNED-THE WAR LIKELY TO END

WITH PRACTICAL DISUNION-THE SECOND DECADE BEGINS WITH

RECONSTRUCTION OF DISMANTLED STATES HOPE FOR THE

PEOPLE -BEAUTY FOR ASHES,

PROSCRIPTION OF PERSONS AND PROPERTY.

LEGISLATIVE AND EXECUTIVE MODES NON-INTERCOURSE -THEORY

AND PRACTICE-WAS SECESSION WAR OR NOT-IT WAS A PRAC-

TICAL FACT — DILEMMA AS TO "PIRATES" AND PRISONERS OF

WAR LINCOLN'S SOLUTION ANOMALOUS RIGORS, NORTH AND

SOUTH -HIGHER LAW NEWLY APPLIED ESOP'S SATYR -AFTER

FOLLY OF NON-ACTION SOUTH

TROUBLE MIGHT HAVE BEEN AVERTED RADICAL PROSCRIPTIONS

UNCONSTITUTIONAL-RATIFICATION OF AMENDMENTS-CONFISCA-

TION ACTS-ATTAINDER AND EX POST FACTO LAWS-BELLIGERENT

STATUS VIOLATED TEST OATHS

PERMOLI CASES—IN RE GARLAND —JUSTICE FIELD'S DECISIONS

A BILL OF ATTAINDER ITS MON-

FORCE BILL AND ITS FATE LIBERTY ECLIPSED

TEST OATH REPEALED IN 1884-RAPINE BY LAW

PROTESTS AGAINST OSTRACISM AND TYRANNY,

FOREIGN RELATIONS DURING THE CIVIL WAR.

GREAT BRITAIN RECOGNIZES THE CONFEDERACY-BELLIGERENT RIGHTS

CONCEDED JUDGE BLACK'S CIRCULAR LETTER-MR. BUCHANAN'S

ADMINISTRATION VINDICATING NATIONAL JURISDICTION-MR. SEW-

ARD SPEAKING FOR PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S ADMINISTRATION—AP-

PREHENSIONS A FEATHER IN THE SCALE THE SWITZERLAND

EARLY TREATIES WITH EUROPE RECOGNIZING OUR IN-

DEPENDENT AND SOVEREIGN STATES THE SPANISH AMERICAN

STATES FREEDOM OF THE SEAS MEDIEVAL RULES OF MARI-

TIME LAW-PIRACY-CONTRABAND OF WAR TREATIES AS TO

CONTRABAND -THE MARCY PROPOSITIONS-THE PARIS CONFER-

ENCE OF 1856 AND ITS DECLARATION — THE UNITED STATES

AMENDMENT OF THE DECLARATION-THE AUTHOR'S RESOLUTIONS

AND SPEECH -THE DEMOCRACY OF THE SEA EARL RUSSELL'S

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