PROCLAMATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN, for troops, 141, 604;
amnesty, 147, 48; blockade, 149, 605; commercial inter-
course, 149, 150; declaring the boundaries of the insur-
rection, 150; suspending 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, 319; of emancipation, 227,
228; pardon to deserters, 604; on equality of rights
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, 249; 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,
436-138; of Major General Palmer, note, 561.
PROCLAMATIONS, REBEL, Davis's of banishment, 121; on con-
scription, 118; martial law, 121; outlawry of General
Butler, note, 283; Governor J. E. Brown on northern
debts, 3; General M. Jeff. Thompson, note, 215, 246.
PROPERTY, rebel regulations for destroying, 117.
PROPOSED censure of officials, proceedings of Congress on,
386-388.

PROPOSITIONS of adjustment-see "Adjustment."
PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH, action of General Conven-

tion of the United States, 483-194; pastoral letter of
Bishops, 486-489; their censure of Bishop Polk, 486,
487; protest of Bishop Hopkins and his rejected ad-
dress, 459-493; President Lincoln's response to the pas-
toral Address, 493; 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 36 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. Davis, 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, 602; Secretary Chase's letter respecting
the redemption of in gold, note, 367; of rebels, 386.
"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.

QUARLES, JAMES M., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Congress,

49.

QUINLAN, Mr., arrest of, 152.

R

RADFORD, WILLIAM, Representative in Thirty-Eighth Con-
gress, 140.

RAISIN, MR., arrest of, 152.

Kaleigh Standard, sensation article of, 38.

KALLS, JOHN P., Representative in First Rebel Congress,
401; Second, 402.

RAMSAY, JAMES G., Representative in Second Rebel Con-
gress, 402.

RAMSEY, ALEXANDER, Senator in Thirty-Eighth Congress,
140.

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RANDALL, SAMUEL J., Representative in Thirty-Eighth Com
gress, 140.
RANDALL, WILLIAM H., Representative in Thirty-Eighth
Congress, 140.
RANDOLPH, GEORGE W., vote on secession ordinance, 7, note;
delegate from Virginia to President Lincoln, 112; de-
clined to receive Creoles into the military service, and
reason for, 282; Provisional Secretary of War, 401; re-
signed and appointed brigadier, 401.

RANDOLPH, 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 II., 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–

402.

REBEL ARMY, strength of, 121, 399, 612.

REBEL COMMISSIONERS, appeal of certain, to Earl Russell,
and reply of latter, 27; correspondence of certain,
with President Buchanan, 29-34; 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.
REBEL FINANCIAL legislation, 368–373, 623, 614.
REBEL INDEPENDENCE, demands and terms, 303-307, 329-
332.
REBEL LEGISLATION, military, 117-120, 611-613; letters of
marque, 117; conscription laws, 118, 119; ou habeas
corpus, 187; sequestration, 203, 613; military employ
ment of colored persons, 281-253, 611; on peace, 303-307,
614-617; reconstruction, 329-332; taxation, 368-373,
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, 397, 398;
of independence, the sine qua non of rebels, 303–307,
329-332, 566-573.
RECONSTRUCTION, proceedings respecting, 317-331; rebel
press and politicans on, 330, 331; George N. Sanders
on terms of, 330; General Grant's letter on, note, 571;
reports, proceedings, and votes in Congress upon, 576,
577, 581-588.

RECONSTRUCTION, views of various rebel leaders, Legisla
tures, Congress, and press upon, 329-332.

RECTOR, Governor, of Arkansas, reply to President's first
call for troops, 115.

REFORMED PROTESTANT DUTCH CHURCH, Action of, 482, 483.
REID, DAVID 8, Member of Peace Conference, 68.
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 organization
to attack the capital, 80-82; of Mr. Dawes on the dis-
position of United States vessels, also respecting res
ignations in the navy, 82-84; and minority, by Mr.
Branch, 84; majority by Mr. Reynolds and minority by
Mr. Branch upon bill to authorize the President to call
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 transier of
arms South in 1859-'60, 34-36; of House Committee of
Thirty-three, 57-62; of Peace Conference, 68; Senate
Committee of Thirteen, 69-73; of John Cochrane on
imports bill, 79, 80; of several on reconstruction,
581-588.

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.

RESOLUTIONS in the Maryland Legislature, 397, 398.
RESOLUTIONS offered at second session of Thirty-Sixth Con

gress, 58-59; in Thirty-Seventh and Thirty-Eighth Con-
gresses, on arrests, 179-183, 560; ou newspaper suppres
siou, 194; compensated emancipation, 209, 210, 226, 665;
́emancipation proclamation, 229-231; Gen. Halleck's

order, 253; slavery, 259; enrollment act, 270, 271, 564;
the objects of the war, 28-290; the prosecution of the
war, 290-294; "peace," 294-206, 297-300, 574, 575; mil-
itary orders concerning elections, 315; the relations of
the rebellious States to the Government, 322-329; ar-
rest of Mason and Slidell, 343; monarchical intrigues
in Central and South America, 343; foreign mediation,
346,347; the French in Mexico,348, 349; the Arguelles
case, 354, 355; taxation, 359; incompatibility of civil
and military office, 375; declaring certain persons in-
eligible to office, 376; proposed censure of President
Lincoln, 386, of ex-President Buchanan, 357, 388, Rep-
resentatives Long and Harris, 387.383; on furloughing
drafted clergymen, 564; on confiscating property of
deserters, 564; on constitutional powers, 573; on addi-
tional guaranties for the liberties of the people, 573;
on the ratification of a constitutional amendment, 591;
on oath of allegiance for lawyers, 602.
RESOLUTIONS, rebel, of Congress on independence, 329, 456,
614-616; Legislature of Virginia on guerrillas, 119;
Legislature of Georgia, 329, 399, 621, 622; of North Car-
olina, 330, 619, 620; of Louisiana 332; of Mississippi,
399; of Alabama, 456; of Virginia, 620, 621; of Texas,
616.
REYNOLDS, EDWIN R., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con-
gress, 48.

REYNOLDS, JOHN H., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con-
gress, 48; member of Select Committee on Military and
Naval Affairs, 80; report of, 85.

RHETT, ROBERT BARNWELL, Sr., Deputy in Rebel Provisional
Congress, 2, 11, 400; report in South Carolina conven-
tion, 12-15; remarks on, 18; views on fugitive slave
law, 18; vote on secession ordinance, 39).
RHODE ISLAND, vote for President in 1860, 1; in 1864, 623;

ROMAN, J. DIXON, Member of Peace Conference, 68.
ROSE, D. G., Proxy of Governor Morton at Altoona meeting,
233.
ROSECRANS, WILLIAM S., Major General, exclusion of Metro-
polilan Record from his department, 192; orders re-
specting the election in Missouri, 445; and religious
convocations, and explanatory letter upon, 538; modi-
fication of said order by General Pope, 554.
Ross, LEWIS W., Representative in Thirty-Eighth Congress,
140; resolution to give pay and mileage to civilians ar-
rested and released without trial, 183.

Ross, ROBERT J., Commissioner to the President from the
Legislature of Maryland, 9; report of, 9.
RosT, P. A., Commissioner to England, letter of, to Earl
Russell, 27; reported conversation with Earl Russell, 27.
ROUSSEAU, LOVELL II., vote for Vice President in Union Na-
tional Convention, 407.

ROYCE, HOMER E., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Congress,
48.
ROYSTON, GRANDISON D., Representative in First Rebel Con-
gress, 401.
RUFFIN, THOMAS, Representative in Thirty-Sixth Congress,
49; telegram sent South, 37; member of Peace Con-
ference, 68; Deputy in Rebel Provisional Congress, 400;
death, 401.

RUGER, Lieutenant Colonel, instructions of General Banks
to, 153, 154.

RUSSELL, CHARLES W., Deputy in Rebel Provisional Con-
gress, 400; Representative in First Congress, 402;
Second, 402; proposition on peace, 456.

RUSSELL, (EARL,) rebel Commissioners' letter to, 27; reply
of, 27; letter of Lord Lyons to, on Foreign Mediation,
347-348; letter of, to Lord Lyons, on the Trent Affair,
338; same to same, on same, 342.

RUST, ALBERT, Representative in Thirty-Sixth Congress,
49; member of Committee of Thirty-three, 53; report
of, 58; Deputy in Rebel Provisional Congress, 400.

RICE, JOHN II., Representative in Thirty-Seventh Congress,
122; Thirty-Eighth, 140; resolution on the war, 294;
proposed militia bill, 279.

RICHARDSON, WILLIAM A., Representative in Thirty-Seventh
Congress, 122; Thirty-Eighth, 122; Senator in Thirty-
Eighth, 123; resolution respecting imprisonment of
citizens of Illinois, 181; amendment to bill to increase
pay of soldiers, 272.

Richmond Enquirer, 5, 114, 305, 428, 429-see “Enquirer.”
Richmond Examiner, 114, 305, 330, 399-see “Examiner."
RICHMOND MEETING, resolutions of, after the lampton
Roads Conference, 572.

Richmond Sentinel, 331, 399-sce "Sentinel."
Richmond Whig, on anti-substitute bill, 121.
RIDDLE, ALBERT G., Representative in Thirty-Seventh Con-
gress, 122.

RIDDLE, GEORGE R., Senator in Thirty-Eighth Congress, 140.
RIDGELY, HENRY, Member of Peace Conference, 68.

RIGGS, JETUR R., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Congress,

48.

RILEY, E. S., arrest of, 153.

RIVES, WILLIAM C., member of Peace Conference, 68; Dep-

uty in Rebel Provisional Congress, 400; Representative
in Second Congress, 402.

ROBERTS, BENJAMIN S., Brigadier General, order concerning
contrabands, 253.

ROBERTSON, Judge, Commissioner from Virginia to South
Carolina, 2.

ROBINSON, CHRISTOPHER, Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con-

gress, 48; member of Committee of Thirty-three, 53.
ROBINSON, JAMES C., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con-
gress, 49; Thirty-Seventh, 122; Thirty-Eighth, 140.
ROBINSON, J. F., Governor of Kentucky, proclamation, 313.
ROBINSON, LUCIUS, Letter on the Cleveland Convention,
413.

RODNEY, GEORGE B., Member of Peace Conference, 68.
ROGERS, A. A. C., claimed seat as Representative from Ar-
kansas, and refused, 141.

ROGERS, ANDREW J., Representative in Thirty-Eighth Con-
gress, 140; resolutions asking for the appointment of
peace commissioners, 299.
ROGERS, ST. GEORGE, Representative in Second Rebel Con-
gress, 402.
ROLLINS, EDWARD H., Representative in Thirty-Seventh
Congress, 122; Thirty-Eighth, 140.

ROLLINS, JAMES S., Representative in Thirty-Seventh Con-

gress, 122; Thirty-Eighth, 140; on compensated eman-
cipation, 213-217; resolutions relating to the prosecu-
tion of the war, 280; to compensation of loyal slave
owners, 591.

ROMAN, A. B., Rebel Commissioner, 110.

605.

SALMON, B. S., arrest of, 153.

S

SALOMON, EDWARD, Governor of Wisconsin, signer of Al-
toona address, 233.

San Francisco Bee, upon a Pacific republic, 42.
SANDERS, GEORGE N., Letter to Governor Seymour and
others, on reconstruction, &c., 330; Niagara Falls Con-
ference, 301-303.

SANGSTON, LAWRENCE, arrest of, 152.
SARGENT, AARON A., Representative in Thirty-Seventh Con-
gress, 122.
SAUERWEIN, PETER G., emancipation resolutions offered by,
and adopted in Baltimore City Union Convention in
1862, 226.
SAULSBURY, WILLARD, Senator in Thirty-Sixth Congress, 48;
Thirty-Seventh, 122; Thirty-Eighth, 140; member of
Border-States Committee, 73; resolutions on arrests in
Delaware, 181, and release of prisoners, 182; amend-
ments to bill repealing the fugitive slave laws, 236,
237; to the bill creating a new article of war, 238; to
freedme.'s bill, 260; to army appropriation bill, 283;
to tax bill, 375; and to resolution of censure of Ex-
President Buchanan, 387; joint resolution for peace
commissioners, 296; proposed constitutional amend-
ment, 257; amendments to bill to secure the freedom
of colored soldiers' families, 563, and to resolution of
inquiry for Hampton Roads Correspondence, 563.
Savannah News, December 24, 1860, publication of Senator
Toombs's address to Georgia, 37.

SCHENCK, ROBERT C., Major General, orders, &c., concerning
elections, 309, 311; reply to Governor Bradford, 11;
orders respecting churches in Baltimore, 524, 526, and
letters respecting, 525.

SCHENCK, ROBERT C., Representative in Thirty-Eighth Con-
gress, 140; resolution upon eligibility of, 375; resolu-
tion on the war, 294; resolution to censure Benjamin
G. Harris, 375; amendments to the enrollment bill,
265, 266, 268; proposition relative to courts-martial,
561; resolution for the rescinding of the order requir
ing that colored persons leaving the District of Colum-
bia shall have passes, 594.

SCHNABLE, ELLIS B., arrest of, 153.
SCHOFIELD, JOHN M., Major General, orders concerning elec
tions, 314,315; reply to Rev. Dr. McPheeters, 535.
SCHOOLS, colored, legislation respecting, 244.
SCOFIELD, GLENNI W., Representative in Thirty-Eighth Con-
gress, 140.

SCOTT, CHARLES L., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con-
gress, 49; for a Pacific republic, 41.
SCOTT, JOHN G., Representative in Thirty-Eighth Congress,
140.

SCOTT, OTHO, Commissioner to President Lincoln from the
Legislature of Marylaud, and report, 9.

SCOTT, ROBERT E., Deputy in Rebel Provisional Congress, 400. |
SCOTT, T. PARKIN, arrest of, 152; votes and motions in
Maryland Legislature, 396-395.
SCOTT, WINFIELD, Lieutenant General, President Lincoln's
allusion to retirement of, 125; letter relative to quotas
of arms, 35, 36; order to Col. Martin Burke, relative
to military prisoners, 152; President's orders to, re-
specting suspension of habeas corpus, 177.
SCRANTON, GEORGE W., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con-
gress, 48.

SEBASTIAN, WILLIAM K., Senator in Thirty-Sixth Congress,
48; member of Border-States Committee, 73.
SECESSION movement developed, 2–47.
SECESSION Ordinances, vote on, in South Carolina, 308, 399;
Florida, 390; Virginia, note, 7; Tennessee military
league, 5; Arkansas, 399; Louisiana, 58S-390.
SECESSION, right of, Mr. Doolittle's amendment respecting,
63; Thomas E. Franklin's, in Peace Conference, and
David Dudley Field's, 69; President Buchanan's opin-
ion, 49.

SECRET ASSOCIATIONS, J. Holt's report on, 445-454.
SEDDON, JAMES A., Member of Peace Conference, 68; report
on its proposition, 6; adjustment proposition, 69; Dep-
uty in Rebel Provisional Congress, 400; rebel Secretary
of War, 401; declined to receive creoles into the mili-
tary service, and the reason given, 282.
SEDGWICK, CHARLES B, Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con-
gress, 48; Thirty-Seventh, 122; substitute for emauci-
pation bill, 200.

SEGAR, JOSEPH, Representative in Thirty-Seventh Congress,
123; claimant in ThirtyEighth, an i refused, 141; cre-
dentials as Senator from Virginia, 587.

SEIZURES of Government property in insurrectionary States,
28; Governor Letcher's proposed attempt on Fortress
Monroe, 28.

SEMMES, THOMAS J., Senator in First Rebel Congress, 401;
Second, 402; on Declaration of Independence, 614.
SENATE Committee of Thirteen, 70; proceedings of, 70–72.
SENATE, UNITED STATES, resolution respecting the Presi

dent's approval of the anti-slavery amendment, 591;
oath from members, 603.

Sentinel, Richmond, on reconstruction and on northern tem-
per, 331.

SEQUESTRATION ACT, rebel, 203, 204, 613; Judge Magrath's
decision on constitutionality of, 206.

SEWARD, WILLIAM H., Senator in Thirty-Sixth Congress, 48;
on Committee of Thirteen, 70; proposition therein, 71,
also respecting armed invasion, 71.

SEWARD, WILLIAM II., Secretary of State, 108; letters to com-
missioners of the Southern Confederacy, 108-111; to
Daniel Lord and Governor Washburn respecting arrests,
154; to Mr. Adams on the Trent affair, 338; to Lord
Lyons, 338; on foreign eulistments, 343, 314; to Gov.
Hicks on foreign mediation, 345: to Mr. Dayton in re-
sponse to letter of M. Drouyn de l'IIuys on mediation,
345,346; letters of, and Mr. Dayton respecting the
French in Mexico, 349, 350; to the President on the
Arguelles case, 355; declining to receive peace address
from Great Britain, 460; to Mr. Adams on the Hampton
Roads Conference, 570. Letters of: in response to reso-
lutions of the Synod of New York and New Jersey,
468; New School Presbyterian Assembly of 1862, 470;
West New Jersey Baptist Association, 476; Philadelphia
Baptists of 1862, 476; Vermont Congregationalists of
1862, 481; Congregational Welsh of Pennsylvania of
1862, 481; Pastoral Letter of Bishops of Protestant
Episcopal Church, 493.

SEXTON, FRANK B., Representative in First Rebel Congress,
402; Second, 402.

SEYMOUR, HORATIO, Governor of New York, letters to Dis-
trict Attorney Hall respecting the suspension of the
Journal of Commerce and World newspapers, 192, 193;
and the draft in New York city, 274; remarks as chair-
man of Democratic National Convention, 418, 419.
SEYMOUR, THOMAS II., vote for Presidential candidate in the
Democratic National Convention, 420.
SHACKLEFORD, JAM: 8 M., Brigadier General, orders respect-
ing elections, 313, 314.

SHANKS, JOHN P. C., Representative in Thirty-Seventh Con-

gress, 122; resolution respecting return of fugitive
slaves, 238.

SHANNON, THOMAS B., Representative in Thirty-Eighth Con-
gress, 140.

Shasta (Cal.) Herald, on Pacific republic, 41.
SHEFFIELD, WILLIAM P., Representative in Thirty-Seventh
Congress, 122.

SHELLABARGER, SAMUEL, Representative in Thirty-Seventh
Congress, 122; resolution on the war, 230.
SHERIDAN, PHILIP H., Major General, vote on resolution of
thanks to, 566.

SHERMAN, JOHN, Representative in Thirty-Sixth Congress,
45; member of Border-States Committee, 73; proposi-
tion of adjustment, 55; resolution respecting slavery in
the States, 77.

435.

SHEWMAKE, J. T., Representative in Second Rebel Con-
gress, 402.

SHIEL, GEORGE K., Representative in Thirty-Seventh Con-
gress, 123.
SHORTER, JOHN GILL, Deputy in Rebel Provisional Congress,
11, 400; elected Governor of Alabama, 400.
SICKLES, DANIEL E., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con-
gress, 48; adjustment proposition, 54; report in fugi-
tive slave case, 250.

SIMMONS, JAMES F., Senator in Thirty-Sixth Congress, 48;
Thirty-Seventh, 122; resigned, 123; remarks on “per-
sonal liberty" laws, 47.

SIMMS, WILLIAM E., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con-
gress, 49; Senator in First Rebel Congress, 401; Second,
402.

SIMPSON, WILLIAM D., Representative in First Rebel Con-
gress, 402; Second, 402.
SINGLETON, OTHO R., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con-
gress, 49; telegram south, 37; withdrew, 3; declara-
tion respecting secession, 52; Representative in First
Rebel Congress, 401; Second, 402.
SLAUGHTER, THOMAS C., Member of Peace Conference, 68.
SLAVERY, TESTIMONY OF CHURCHES ON, Old School Presbyter

ian, 463, 465, 466, and attempted censure of in New
York Synod, 466, 467; New School Presbyterian, 469-
471; Reformed Presbyterian, (Old School,) 472, 473;
Reformed Presbyterian, 473; Cumberland Presbyte
rian, 473, 474; United Presbyterian, 474, 507; Captist
Meeting at Brooklyn, the West New Jersey Associa
tion, and the New Jersey, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
New York, and Ohio, and American Baptist Missionary
Union, 474-478; Lutheran General Synod, 480; Con
gregational, 480-482; Congregational Welsh of Penn-
sylvania, 481, 482; Reformed Protestant Dutch, 483;
Moravian, 483; Protestant Episcopal Convention of
Pennsylvania, 493; Methodist Episcopal General Con-
ference of 1860 and 1864, 494-499, and Baltimore Con-
ference of 1861, 496; Methodist Protestant Conference,
499, 500; Free Methodist Conference of New York, 501;
Wesleyan Methodists, 546-548; Evangelical Associa
tion, General Conference, 501, 502; Quaker Yearly
Meeting, 503; Unitarian Associations, 504, 548; East
Pennsylvania Conference of United Brethren, 504;
General Conventions of Universalists, 505, 506; Young
Men's Christian Association, 506; American Board of
Foreign Missions, 507; Menonites, 603, 604. IN INSUR-
RECTIONARY STATES: Old School Presbyterian, 508-513;
Baptists, 513-515; Protestant Episcopal, 515, 516; Ad-
dress of the "Confederate" Clergy, 517-521.

SLAVERY, the avowed cause of secession, 17; Crawford's res-
olution respecting the Constitution and, 76; Sherman's
resolution on non-interference with, in the States, 77;
proposed constitutional amendment to protect, in
States, 59, 60; other propositions, 63-75; Davis's prop-
osition respecting, in Senate Committee of Thirteen,
71; proceedings to prohibit in the Territories, 254, 255;
Isaac N. Arnold's bill and substitute, 254; proceedings
to so amend the Constitution as to prohibit, 255–259,
590; Aaron Harding's resolution on, 259; William R.
Morrison's resolution on, 259; characteristic incidents
of, 548.

SLAVES, bill to prohibit employment of, in dock-yards, 238;
resolution respecting, and vote, 238.

SLAVES to be enrolled and drafted, 274; the master to re-
ceive bounty of $100, 275; if drafted to be free, 275;
proposed tax on, 361; families to be free, 561, 565.
SLAVES, rebel employment of, 281, 282; draft of, for military
service, 282; views of Legislature of Alabama, 282;
tax imposed in 1861, 370; enrollment of, 428, 611, 612;
tax on, 614.

SLAVES, RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION of, "Confederate" Presby-
terians on, 513; Georgia Baptists, on marriage of, 515;
"Confederate" Episcopalians upon, 516; South Carolina
Episcopalians, Georgia Baptists, and Bishop Verot of
Savannah upon, 548; Transylvania Presbytery of 1861
upon, 548.

SLAVE TRADE, African, treaties and legislation concerning,
150-152.

SLAVE TRADE, coastwise, repeal of laws regulating, 243, 244.
SLIDELL, JOHN, Senator in Thirty-Sixth Congress, 48; with-
drew, 4; intermediary between Col. Hayne and Presi

dent Buchanan, 327; correspondence respecting sur-
render of to Great Britain, 338, 342; comments of the
London Times, 342, 343; votes in Congress on arrest of,
343; allusion to by Mr. Dayton, 350; member of com-
mittee of secret disunion caucus, 392.
SLOAN, A. SCOTT, Representative in Thirty-Seventh Con-
gress, 122.

SLOAN, ITHAMAR C., Representative in Thirty-Eighth Con-
gress, 140; propositions for constitutional amendments,
592.

ELOOPS-OF-WAR, construction of, authorized, 89.
SMALL NOTES, proposed legislation, 363-365; President Lin-
coln's veto of bill for, 359.
SMALL, ROBERT, bill for relief of, 239.
SMITH, CALEB B., Member of Peace Conference, 68; Secre-
tary of the Interior, 108, and resigned, 108.
SMITH, CHARLES, elected Free State Senator from Louisiana,
436; vote in Louisiana Convention on abolishing
slavery, 332.

SMITH, EDWARD H., Representative in Thirty-Soventh Con-
gress, 122.

SMITH. E. KIRBY, General, order for enrollment of negroes,
428.

SMITH, GREEN CLAY, Representative in Thirty-Eighth Con- |
gress, 140; resolutions relating to the war, 292, 293,
298.

SMITH, JAMES C., Member of Peace Conference, 67.
SMITH, JAMES M., Representative in Second Rebel Congress,
402.

SMITH, ROBERT H., Deputy in Rebel Provisional Congress,
11, 400.

SMITH, WILLIAM, Representative in Thirty-Sixth Congress,

49; adjustment proposition, 54; Representative in
First Rebel Congress, 402; resigned to accept military
commission, 402; elected Governor of Virginia, 402;
views on reconstruction, 331.
SMITH, WILLIAM E., Representative in Second Rebel Con-
gress, 402.

SMITH, WILLIAM N. H., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con-
gress, 49; Deputy in Rebel Provisional Congress, 400;
Representative in First Congress, 402; Second, 402;
statement of strength of rebel army, 121, 599.
SMITH, WILLIAM R., Representative in First Rebel Con-
gress, 401; Second, 402.

SMITHERS, NATHANIEL B., Representative in Thirty-Eighth
Congress, 140; amendment to enrollment act, 268; re-
port on Louisiana case, 582-586.

STEAD, THOMAS L., Representative in Second Rebel Con-
gress, 40.

SNow, WM. D, credentials of as Senator in Thirty-Eighth
Congress, 588.

SOLDIERS, bills to increase pay, 116, 271, 272; homesteads
for, 284.

SOLDIERS, COLORED, legislation concerning, 274-279, 564, 565;

proposed prohibition of payment to, 283, 284; rebel
facts concerning, 281-283, 611, 612-see "Colored Sol-
diers."

SOMES, DANIEL E., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Congress,
48; member of Peace Conference, 67.
SOUTH, Overtures of, to the Northwest, 42.
SOUTH CAROLINA, vote for President in 1860, 1; members of
Thirty-Sixth Congress, 48, 49; deputies in Rebel Pro-
visional Congress, 11, 400; members of First Congress,
401, 402; Second, 402; secession movement in, 2; rati-
fied Confederate Constitution, 3; Convention rejects
co-operative action, proffered by Virginia, 2; resolu-
tions relative to, 2; inter-State commissioners of, 11;
declaration of independence, 12; seizures and sur-
renders in, 27: letter of commissioners of, to Mr.
Buchanan, 29; Gov. Pickens of, demands the surrender
of Fort Sumter, 32; Fort Sumter surrendered, 27; se-
cession of, not the work of a day, but maturing for
thirty years, 18; Convention of, sends despatch to
Mayor of Macon, 38; also to Mayor of New Orleans,
39: personal liberty laws, subject of complaint in con-
vention of, 16, 17; report of Judge Withers to Conven-
tion of, 19; vote on secession ordinance of, 398, 399;
men in the army, 399.

SOUTHERN Congress, Rebel Provisional, officers, and pro-
ceedings of, 12, 400; tariff act passed, 12: commissioners
admitted from North Carolina, 12; Constitution of Pro-
visional Government adopted, 12; assumes charge of
all questions and differences between the sovereign
States of the Confederacy," and the United States Gov-
ernment, 12; Texas deputies received, 12; Jefferson
Davis, of Mississippi, elected President, 12; Alexander
H. Stephens, of Georgia, elected Vice President, 12.
SOUTHERN manifesto, 37.
SPAIN, A. C., Commissioner from South Carolina to Ar-
kansas, 11; vote on secession ordinance, 399.
SPALDING, KUFUS P., Representative in Thirty-Eighth Con-
gress, 140; bill to repeal fugitive slave law, 237.
SPARROW, EDWARD, Deputy in Rebel Provisional Congress,
11, 100; Senator in First Congress, 401; Second, 402.

SPAULDING, ELBRIDGE G., Representative in Thirty-Sixth
Congress, 48; Thirty-Seventh, 122.
SPEED, JAMES, Attorney General, 108.
SPENCER, WILLIAM A., Letter for Convention in Maryland, 9.
SPINNER, FRANCIS E., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con-
gress, 48.

SPRAGUE, WILLIAM, Governor of Rhode Island and signer of
Altoona address, 233; Senator in Thirty-Eighth Con-
gress, 140.

SPRATT, L. W., Commissioner from South Carolina to
Florida, 11; received by Convention, 3; vote for seces-
sion ordinance, 399.

SPRINGFIELD Mass Convention, President Lincoln's letter
to, 335, 336.

STALLÓ, Judge, Letter of Wendell Phillips to, 411.
STALLWORTH, JAMES A., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con-
gress, 49; sent telegram South, 37; withdrew, 4.
STANLEY, EDWARD, Military Governor of North Carolina,
179.

STANTON, BENJAMIN, Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con-
gress, 49; bill to re-organize the militia of the District
of Columbia, 77; to suppress insurrection, 77; report
on transfer of United States arms South, in 1859-'60, 34.
STANTON, EDWIN M., Attorney General, 28; Secretary of
War, 108; orders on military arrests, 154; form of ap-
pointment of military governor, 179; instructions to
General Saxton, 251, 252; letter to General Butler on
the latter's controversy with General Phelps, 252; or-
ders, &c., enforcing the draft, 272; letter on commuta-
tion clause of enrollment act, 263; to Governor An-
drew respecting colored enlistments, 279; reply on
alleged foreign enlistments, 343; on release of prison-
ers, 559, 560; on furloughing drafted clergymen, 564;
despatches touching Hampton Roads Conference, 567-
569; order in case of Robert Taylor, of Tennessee,
charged with the murder of his slave, 549, 550.
STANTON, MRS. E. CADY. Letter to Fremont Club, 411.
STAPLES, WALLER R., Deputy in Rebel Provisional Con-
gress, 400; Representative in First Congress, 402; Se-
coud, 402.
STAR OF THE WEST, fired upon by the rebels, 27.
Star, Washington, publication of vote on Virginia secession
ordinance, note, 7.

STARR, JOHN F., Representative in Thirty-Eighth Congress,
140.

STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA, bill to erect, 377, 378.
STATE TAXATION, on United States bonds and national
banks, 358, 359, 360–364.

STATES, militia of, part of the army of the United States,
Jefferson Davis's opinion, 37.

STEBBINS, HENRY G., Representative in Thirty-Eighth Con-
gress, 140; resigned, 559.

STEELE, FREDERICK, Major General, President Lincoln's let-
ter to, 322.

STEELE, JOHN B., Representative in Thirty-Seventh Con
gress, 122; Thirty-Eighth, 140.

STEELE, WILLIAM G., Representative in Thirty-Seventh Con-
gress, 122; Thirty-Eighth, 140.

STEPHENS, ALEX. H., Deputy in Rebel Provisional Congress,

11,400; commissioner for Confederate States in making
the league with Virginia, 8; elected rebel Provisional
Vice President, 12; permanent, 401; speech before the
Georgia Legislature in 1860, 20-25; fishing bounties
discussed by, 21; prediction of universal emancipation,
25; extract from speech in Georgia State Convention,
25; extract from address in 1859, 25, 26; "Confederate"
Constitution expounded by, 103, 104; correspondence
with Secretary Welles, respecting pass to Washington,
note, 307; views of, on reconstruction, 331; Letters on
Peace, 430, 431, 457-459; at Hampton Roads Conterence,
567, 568, 569, 571.

STEPHENS, LINTON, peace resolutions of, in Georgia Legisla-
ture, 621, 622.

STEVENS, R. F., reply to J. Holt's report, note, 416.
STEVENS, THADDEUS, Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con-

gress, 48; Thirty-Seventh, 122; Thirty-Eighth, 140; in-
demnity bill of, 184; propositions to amend the Consti-
tution, 258; substitute for the enrollment bill, 266,
267; amendment to, 268; bill for enlistment of 250,000
colored soldiers, and modification, 276; joint resolution
offering to free all slaves who leave their masters or aid
in suppressing the rebellion, 287; resolution relative to
the war, 288; amendment to "legal tender" bill, 358;
letter of Secretary Chase to, on "legal tenders," 358,
359; substitute for loan bill, 360; substitute for na
tional currency bill, 363, 364; resolution of inquiry for
Hampton Roads Conference, note, 566.

STEVENS, WILLIAM H., Member of Peace Conference, 68.
STEVENSON, JOHN W., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con-
gress, 49; adjustment proposition, 54.
STEVENSON, WILLIAM E., motion in Baltimore Convention,

405.

STEWART, GEORGE H., of Maryland, proceedings of, 393, and
note, 391.

STEWART, JAMES A., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con- |
gress, 49; adjustment proposition, 55.
STEWART, WILLIAM, Representative in Thirty-Sixth Congress,
48; Thirty-Seventh, 122.

STEWART, WILLIAM M., Senator in Thirty-Eighth Congress,
559.

STILES, JOHN D., Representative in Thirty-Seventh Con-
gress, 123; Thirty-Eighth, 140.

STOCKTON, ROBERT F., Member of Peace Conference. 67.
STOKES, WILLIAM B., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con-
gress, 49.

STONE, CHARLES P., Brigadier General, resolution respecting
arrest of, 179; President Lincoln's reply, 180.
STORY, JOSEPH, Justice, upon freedom of the press, 188.
STOUT, LANSING, Representative in Thirty-Sixth Congress,
49; member of Committee of Thirty-three, 53; report
of, 58.

STOVELL, B. L., Speaker of Tennessee rebel Senate, 281.
STRATTON, JOHN L. N., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con-

gress, 48; Thirty-Seventh, 122; member of Committee
of Thirty-three, 53.

STRICKLAND, HARDY, Representative in First Rebel Con-
gress, 401.

STRONG, WILLIAM, Justice, opinion on enrollment act, 273,
STROUSE, MYER, Representative in Thirty-Eighth Congress,

140.

STRYKER, THOMAS J., Member of Peace Conference, 67.
STUART, ALEXANDER H. H., vote on secession ordinance,
note, 7; adjustment proposition, 74; delegate from Vir-
ginia to President Lincoln, 112.

STUART, JOHN T., Representative in Thirty-Eighth Con-
gress, 140.

SUBSTITUTION, votes on abolishing, 264, 266, 563, rebel
abolition of, 119.

SULLIVAN, ALGERNON S., Letter of Secretary Seward on ar-
rest of, 154.

SUMMERS, GEORGE W., vote on secession ordinance, note, 7;
member of Peace Conference, 68.
SUMNER, CHARLES, Senator in Thirty-Sixth Congress, 48;

Thirty-Seventh, 122; Thirty-Eighth, 140; resolution
respecting arrests, 180; proposition in Thirty-Second
Congress to repeal the fugitive slave law, 234, 235; prop-
ositions on suffrage to colored persons, 241, on exclu-
ding them from the cars, 241, 242, on making them
witnesses, 242, 243, 442, and on repealing the laws
regulating the coastwise slave trade, 243; proposed
constitutional amendment, 255; freedmen's bill, 260;
on equalizing the pay of soldiers, 277; amendments to
the reconstruction bill, 318, the Missouri bill, 225, 226,
to the national currency bill, 365, to letters of marque,
377, and West Virginia bill, 377; resolutions on Foreign
Mediation, 346, 347, on the prosecution of the war, 231,
and the relations of the insurrectionary States, 322,
323, 326, 327; letter respecting the President and eman-
cipation, 233; resolutions relative to the insurrectionary
States, 320, to the Rebel debt, 575, to representation in
the Senate, 588, of inquiry for the Hampton Roads
Conference, note, 569; proposition in the Louisiana
case, 580; resolution relative to the ratification of a
constitutional amendment, 591; proposed constitutional
amendment respecting representation, 592; new rule
of the Senate, note, 602.
SUMTER, Fort, surrendered, 27; correspondence pending
bombardment, 113, 114; spirit of the rebel press, 114;
Jeremiah Clemens's statement respecting, 112.
SUPREME Court of the United States, President Lincoln's
recommendation concerning, 131; Vallandigham's case
in, 175.

SURRENDERS of Government property in the insurrectionary

States, 28.

SWAIN, DAVID L., Commissioner from North Carolina to
Provisional Congress, 12.

SWAN, WILLIAM G., Representative in First Rebel Congress,
402; Second, 402.

SWEAT, LORENZO D. M., Representative in Thirty-Eighth
Congress, 140.

SWIFT, W. C. N, purchase of Government arms, in 1860, 35.
SYNOD, PRESBYTERIAN, proposed action of New York, in

1864, 466, 467; action of, in 1861, and reply of Secretary
Seward, 467, 468; of Missouri in 1861 and 1864, 468; of
Kentucky in 1864, 468; action of South Carolina
Synod, in 1860, 508.

T

TANEY, ROGER B., Chief Justice, opinion of, in Merryman
case, 155-158; remarks on General Cadwalader's refusal
to obey his writ, 155.

TAPPAN, MASON W., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con-
gress, 48; Thirty-Seventh, 122; member of Committee
of Thirty-three, 53; report of, 57.

TARIFF acts of 1861, 1862, and 1864, enactment of, 361, 362.
TARIFF laws of the United States alluded to as a cause of
secession, 17.

TARIFF, rebel, 12.

TAX, INCOME, special war, 357.

TAX ON SLAVES, proposed, and votes, 361, 362; rebel, laid in
1861, 370.
TAXATION, our, 357, 361–368.

TAXATION, rebel, 368-373, 613, 614, 619.
TAXATION, State, proceedings in Congress respecting, 350,
360, 364.

TAYLOR, BAYARD, chargé d'affaires, intercepts Confederate
despatch, 151. -

TAYLOR, JOSEPH W., adjustment proposition of, 74, 75.
TAYLOR, MILES, Representative in Thirty-Sixth Congress, 49;
withdrew, 4; member of Committee of Thirty-three, 53;
report of, 58.

TAYLOR, ROBERT, of Tennessee, court-martial of, 548, 549.
TELEGRAPH, how it aided secession, 37.

TEN EYCK, JOHN C., Senator in Thirty-Sixth Congress, 48;
Thirty-Seventh, 122; Thirty-Eighth, 140; resolution
relating to the war, 288; proposition in Louisiana case,
578.
TENNESSEE, Vote for President in 1860, 1; members of Peace
Conference, 68; Thirty-Sixth Congress, 48; Thirty-
Seventh, 122; admission to the "Confederacy," 401;
Deputies in Rebel Provisional Congress, 11, 400; Mem-
bers of First Congress, 401, 402; Second, 402; secession
movement in Legislature of, 5; vote on adopting the
league with the Confederate States, 5; reconstruction
in, and abolition of slavery, 332.

TENNESSEE, act of rebel Legislature of, for enrollment of
free persons of color into the military service of the
State, 281; men in the army, 399.
TENNESSEANS, Protest of, against Governor Johnson's elec-
tion Proclamation of 1864, 438-441; reply of President
Lincoln, 425.

TERRITORIES, bill passed settling disputed questions con-
cerning, 89, 90; to prohibit slavery in, 254, 255; to pro-
hibit polygamy in Utah, 376; enabling act for Nebraska,
377.

TEVIS, Lieut. Col., order of, respecting Maryland election,
his arrest and release, 311.

TEXAS, vote for President, in 1860, 1; members of Thirty-
Sixth Congress, 48, 49; admission to the "Confederacy,"
401; Deputies in Rebel Provisional Congress, 11, 400;
Menibers of First Congress, 402; Second, 402; secession
movement in Convention and Legislature of, 4; ratified
confederate constitution, 4; seizures and surrenders in,
28; men in the army, 399.

THAYER, ANDREW J., Representative in Thirty-Seventh Cor-
gress, 122; unseated, 123.

THAYER, ELI, Representative in Thirty-Sixth Congress, 48;
proposition of adjustment, 53.

THAYER, M. RUSSELL, Representative in Thirty-Eighth Con-
gress, 140.

THOMAS, BENJAMIN F., Representative in Thirty-Seventh
Congress, 122.
THOMAS, FRANCIS, Representative in Thirty Seventh Con-
gress, 122; Thirty-Eighth, 140; on compensated eman-
cipation, 213-217; amendment to the enrollment bill,
269; on disunion caucus of 1835, 390.
THOMAS, J. A., Assistant Secretary of State, letter on citi-
zenship of colored persons, note, 382.
THOMAS, JAMES H., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con-
gress, 49; Deputy in Rebel Provisional Congress, 400.
THOMAS, J. HANSON, arrest of, 152.
THOMAS, JOHN, Deputy in Rebel Provisional Congress, 400.
THOMAS, PHILIP F., Secretary of the Treasury, and resigna-
tion, 28; bids for public loan under, 363.
THOMASON, HUGH F., votes in Secession Convention of Ar-
kansas, 399; Deputy in Rebel Provisional Congress, 400.

THOMPSON, JACOB, Secretary of the Interior, and resigua

tion, 28; commissioner from Mississippi to North Caro-
lina, 11; received by letter, 5; in Canada, 301.
THOMPSON, JAMES, Justice, decision on enrollment act, 273,
274.
THOMPSON, PHILIP B., Member of bogus Legislative Council
of Kentucky, 8.

THOMSON, JOHN R., Senator in Thirty-Sixth Congress, 48;
Thirty-Seventh, 122; dea.h, 123.

TIBBS, WILLIAM G., Representative in First Rebel Congress,

402.

TOBACCo, rebel regulations for destroying, 117.
TOD, DAVID, Governor of Ohio, and signer of Altoona Ad-
dress, 233; vote for Vice President in Union National
Convention, 407.

TODD, J. B. S., Delegate from Dacotah, declaration of, note,
590.
TOLEN, JOHN, Major, report of, In fugitive slave case, 250.
TOMPKINS, CYDNOR B., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con-
gress, 49.

TOOMBS, ROBERT, Senator in Thirty-Sixth Congress, 48; on
Senate Committee of Thirteen, 70; propositions in, 71;
despatch to L. M. Keitt, 37; telegraphic manifesto and
sensational despatch of, 37, 38; Deputy in Rebel Provi-
sional Congress, 11, 400; provisional Secretary of State