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CONTENTS OF VOLUME V.

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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-

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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- 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
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 — Re-
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
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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
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.

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SELECTIONS FROM DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE:

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

Maritime War-In-

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

Mr. Burlingame-Austria Vienna - The Union - Reply to Rebel

Lincoln's Administration - Forbearance and Conciliation Mr. Day-

ton - France 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
Foreign Intervention Mr. Dayton - Erench Scepticism

Intervention Slavery and Colonization - Mr. Adams- Slavery Discussed — In-

tervention Considered Mr. Cameron

Procla-

Foreign and Domestic Affairs

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 - Review - Mr. Marsh Italy - Mr.
Adams A Crisis - War with Great Britain - Alliance of France and England
Consequences Serious Topics Discussed Mr. Dayton - France and Mexico
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-

Mexico-France- Mr. Camp-

Mr. King Surratt Diplo-

Maximilian's Capture

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

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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 - Politics - 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 Subjuga.
tion 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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