CONTENTS OF VOLUME V.

THE DIPLOMATIC HISTORY OF THE WAR FOR THE UNION.

MEMOIR.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL:

Mr. Seward, Secretary of State

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- Frederick W. Seward, Assistant - William
Hunter, Second Assistant - Officers, Clerks and Subordinates of the Department of
State Minister and Consuls - Despondency of Ministers and Friends Abroad-
Mr. Seward Never Despairs — A Similar Feeling in 1776 — John Adams — Treaties,
Large Number and Important - Naturalization Russia China - Isthmus Canal
- Rebel Emissaries - Memorandum - Fort Sumter - A Cabinet Opinion - Napo--

leon Threatens to Interfere - An Unofficial Mission to Europe - Mr. Seward's Posi-

tion in the Cabinet and in Politics- W. W. Seaton's Interview - Pro-Slavery In-

fluences Eradicated - Emancipation in District of Columbia - The Trent Affair-

Dangers Averted-Mr. Seward's Wise Diplomacy - Treaty for Suppression of Slave

Trade - Its Success New Orleans Under General Butler, a Provisional Court of

Justice Instituted - Emancipation Proclamation of September, 1862- Amend-

ments Suggested by Mr. Seward Adopted in Cabinet — Proclamation of January 1

1863- Resignation Offered - Senatorial Caucus - Presidential Election of 1864
Alabama Claims Instituted - Mediation Offered and Sought in Rebel Interest - Ex-
tradition — Slave Traders - Arguelles The Assassination and Calamities of 1865
Tributes of the Nations-Remarkable Thanksgiving Proclamation Impeachment
- William M. Evarts - Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments- Reconstruction

- Alaska - Immigration - The Monroe Doctrine - Mexico - France - Presiden-

tial Election of 1868- Speeches Voyage to West Indies - Annexation of San

Domingo and Danish Islands -Treaty with China - Private life- Visits Alaska,

Pacific Coast, and Mexico — 1869-Journey Round the World — 1870-1 — Auto-

biography - Book of Travels - Interoceanic Canal Treaties - Nicaragua - Da-

rien - Colombia - Intercontinental Telegraph - Russian Telegraph — Atlantic Ca-

ble - Mr. Seward's Death, October 10, 1872 - Funeral - Tomb - Inscription —

The Legislature of New York, Ceremonies, 1873 — Charles Francis Adams - John

A. Dix Eulogies Statue in New York City -- Presentation Ceremonies, 1876-

Conclusion.

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DIARY, OR NOTES ON THE WAR:

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1862

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Sedition Shows Itself Insurrectionary Movements - Fort Sumter - No Idea of a

Dissolution of the Union - Bull Run — Panic-Manassas Effect in Europe A

Lesson Captain Wilkes Boards a British Steamer- The Trent Affair -Diplo-

- Vigor of our Government

Campaigns The French in Mexico

Slaves Emancipated by our Armies An Emancipating Crusade - Success in the

West

Burnside and Pope's Victories - Earl Russell's Opinion Slave Trade

Treaty - Lord Lyons - Important Strokes in the West Hostile Attitude of Eng-

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land — Blockade Successful — Army Movements and Successes - Fremont, Banks,
McClellan and Sherman Magnitude of Union Forces - Corinth and Richmond
Capture of New Orleans -Effect on France and England - Chickahominy - Farra-
gut, Halleck, Goldsborough - Seven Days' Battles - General Butler in New Orleans
-Military Situation Large Preparations-Threatening Action of Great Britain
Antietam Foreign Intervention Rejected- War on the Ocean Contemplated —
Recognition Threatened -Alabama Claims Mooted, Nov., 1862 — Armies Advan-
cing, Slavery Retreating Grant, Rosecrans, Curtis-Garibaldi - Proclamation of
Freedom-1863-Policy Unchangeable Burnside and Hooker's Repulses — Sher-
man at Vicksburg — Congress Diligent — Confidence Reviving — European Credul-
ity-Neutrality Laws Persistently Violated by Great Britain Gettysburg -
Vicksburg Charleston- General Meade - Draft Riots - The Situation
sumé- Negro Soldiers - Efforts to Induce British Government to Prevent Sailing
of "Iron Rams" Our Prospects, Contrasted with those of Europe - Will soon be
no Slavery to Contend with - Absurdity of Building a State on Human Bondage -
Mediation of England —Value of Slaves — A New Campaign — Navy Increasing —
Farragut Recognition — Emigration from the South to the Territories - Public
Impatience Amendment of Constitution - General Grant in Command - General
Banks on the Mississippi — Mexico - The Wilderness — Chancellorsville — General
Butler-Eighth Day of very heavy Fighting - General Sherman in Georgia —
General Sheridan — General Averill - Red River - Army of the Potomac - Severe
Conflicts General Sigel - General Hunter General Canby - Assaults on Peters-
burg Congress - Destruction of the Alabama by the Kearsarge - Comments
Invasion of Maryland - General Wadsworth The Capital Threatened-6th and

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19th Corps Siege of Petersburg and Richmond Rebel Emissaries on the Canada
border Election of 1864 - Atlanta - General Logan Mr. Seward Visits Gen--
eral Grant- Malvern Hill -- General Hancock Mobile - Admiral Farragut
Captain Winslow - Rumors Cabinet Armistices Enlistments Numerous
Shenandoah Valley - Public Credit Good Loans Freely Taken The Atlantic
Cable Completed - Brighter Prospects The Rebel Steamer Georgia Captured —
Winchester-General Sheridan - Gold Falls 30 per cent. Staunton Jefferson
Davis-General Meade - Elections - Steamers Chesapeake, Philo Parsons, and
Island Queen St. Albans Raid - Canadian Conduct - Notice to Great Britain
Sheridan's Ride - Cedar Creek - General Rosecrans Rebel Government Consid-
ering emancipation and Arming of Negroes - General Thomas - The Rebel Florida
Sunk-Union policy as to Slavery - Counter Revolution Considered - Rebel In-
trigues - Army Successes - Downfall of Slavery Manifest Savannah- Admiral
Porter-Fort Fisher- Henry S. Foote - Francis P. Blair, Senior, Visits Rich-
mond, Results - Interviews, Conferences - Stephens, Hunter, and Campbell, Rebel -
Commissioners-Amendment of the Constitution - General Terry - Admiral Dahl-
gren - General Schofield - Army of the Potomac - Rebel Debt Delusion-Mili-
tary Convention, Grant and Lee Overtures - General Stoneman - Richmond
Falls General Weitzel - Flight Surrender - Collapse - Assassination of Pres-
ident Lincoln
Attempt on Secretary Seward - Mr. Frederick W. Seward
Wounded - Mr. Hunter Mr. Adams - Passports for Rebels - Pardons.

Secretary Black's View of the Late Election - Mr. Seward's Instructions to Bu-
chanan's Ministers The Paris Declaration - Privateering - Maritime War — In-
structions to Mr. Judd — Nature of the Union - Mr. Sanford - Counteracting the

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Efforts of Rebel Agents in Europe - Mr. Sanford's Selection as Minister to Brus-
sels-Free Trade - The New Tariff — Rebel Arguments in Europe - Mr. Adams
-Exhaustive View of the Situation -The late Election - Buchanan's Adminis-
tration Union and Disunion Contrasted - A Physical Impossibility -The Presi-
dent's View and Duty - Loyalty and Diligence of Mr. Adams- His Grandfather,
John Adams - Recognition - Intervention - War-Position of Great Britain —
Civilization. Mr. Burlingame — Austria - Vienna - The Union - Reply to Rebel
Arguments Lincoln's Administration — Forbearance and Conciliation — Mr. Day-
ton-France

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- Misunderstanding by the Imperial Government - The Agents of
the Confederacy in Paris- An Elaborate Statement of the Case - Unanswerable
Arguments- The Crisis- Fort Sumter Attacked - Surrender Slavery Consid--
ered A Revolution - Foreign Interference-Extent, Progress, and Termination
of the War-Mr. King-Rome - Sedition and Aliens - Mr. Wood - Denmark —
The Cabinet a Unit - Mr. Dayton - France - Our Policy - Mr. Adams- Great
Britain-A Permanent Policy Developed Mr. Clay-Russia - Slavery the Cause
of the War-Mr. Marsh - Italy - The Union a Necessity - Mr. Fogg - Switzer-
land-Recognition to be Prevented - Mr. Dayton - France - Mr. Pike - Nether-
lands - Mr. Adams - Great Britain - Mediation Inadmissible Mr. Dickinson-
Nicaragua Foreign Intervention - Mr. Adams- The Queen's Proclamation -
Mr. Dayton - France - Mediation Declined - The United States Sovereign - Mr.
Adams-British Views Inadmissible - Foreign War - The Blockade - Mr Adams
Lord John Russell — Reservation-Congress of Paris -The Trent Affair Inter-
national Law - Lord Lyons - Captain Wilkes- Mr. Mercier- Mr. Thouvenel
Mr. Hulseman — Mr. Motley — Austria - An Emancipating Crusade - Mr. Wood
Despondency Faith Mr. Sanford - Belgium -Slavery and Cotton - Re-
view of the Situation - Foreign Intervention- Mr. Dayton - French Scepticism—
Intervention Slavery and Colonization - Mr. Adams-Slavery Discussed - In- -
tervention Considered - Mr. Cameron-Foreign and Domestic Affairs- - Procla-
mation of September, 1862 — Emancipation — Immigration — Limit_to_Civil War
Volunteers in Excess- Mr. Dayton Details of a Conspiracy The Situation
Reviewed Emancipation Policy - Mr. Pike The Higher Law The Slavery
Question the experimentum crucis of Politics. Proclamation of January 1, 1863-
France and the Union - Mediation - Sympathy of British Artizans — Russia
Mr. Dayton
Our Policy of Non-Intervention - The British Courts - The Alex-
andra- British Aggressions - Indemnities -
Adams-A Crisis - War with Great Britain
Consequences Serious Topics Discussed

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The Emperor The "Moniteur." Mr. Adams Rebel Cruisers - Earl Russell
Our Navy The Alabama, 1863 Claims Presented Maximilian Mr.
Pike-Negro Emigration - The Conduct of the War, 1864 - The War our own
Affair England and the Irish - Religion - Mr. Bigelow - France and Mexico -
Mr. Adams Death of the President - Tributes Montholon Intervention
French Views Monarchy in Mexico - Maximilian Our Views - Mr. Drouyn
de l'Huys Mr. Kilpatrick, Chili - Mr. Wright, Prussia - Naturalization — Mr.
Adams Alabama Claims - Reply to Lord Stanley - The Rebel Cruisers - Inter-
national Law. The Relations of the United States and Great Britain Reviewed at
Length Mr. Adams - The Alabama Claims- Lord Stanley - A Joint Commis-
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matic Duties - Alabama Claims, delay — The Irish People - Maximilian's Capture

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Naturalization

-Juarez - Mr. Campbell - Intercession for Maximilian - Mr. Johnson, Minister
to England Instructions - Unsettled Questions Considered
Serious Complaints - The Irish - The Alabama Claims

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OCCASIONAL SPEECHES AND MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS:

Occasional Speeches — The Fall of Vicksburg, July 7, 1863 — The Progress of the

War The Cemetery at Gettysburg, November 18, 1863 - The Fall of Atlanta,

September 3, 1864 The Allies of Treason

Perseverance in the

War - Election - Auburn, November 7, 1864 - Chicago, London, and Richmond

Niagara St. Albans The Assurance of Victory- Reëlection of President

Lincoln Assassination, 1865 - President Johnson and his Cabinet

Restoration of Union - The President's Message - The Nervous Man

Joint Committees Joint Resolutions - The Freedmen's Bureau - The Situation

and the Duty, 1868- Mexico Reconstruction Reconciliation - The Thir-

teenth Amendment - A Hopeful View - Alaska Speech at Sitka August 12,

1869 The North Pacific Coast- - British Columbia - Our North Pacific States-

Speeches in Mexico - Reception of the Chinese Embassy - Mr. Burlingame - The

Darien Canal - · A Corporation — Peter Cooper — A Visit from Syracuse Friends,

April, 1870-The Destiny of America.

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MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS:..

Proclamation of Emancipation, 1863 - Amendments of Constitution
"Thirteenth Amendment" Correspondence with Governors of Reconstructed
States Repudiation of Rebel Debts - Provisional Governors - The Fourteenth
Amendment - Fugitive Slaves in 1861 and General McClellan - TREATIES — Nat-
uralization - Alaska - Chinese Suppression of Slave Trade - Darien - Cabinet
Paper on the Reinforcement of Fort Sumter, the Argument - Governor Hicks-
Rebel Emissaries - John Forsyth — Immigration, Rights of Aliens — The Union
and the Church - A Vindication - Dr. Thompson The Clerks of the Depart-
"SEWARD."

MEMOIR.