ments Seward, 39; calls south-
ern Unionists "white crows,'
40; chooses his own Cabinet,
43 n., 44; urges Seward to coun-
termand his withdrawal, 44;
inaugural address, 93; attitude
toward the forts, 93, 94; how
regarded in March, 1861, 95;
requests opinions of Cabinet
respecting Fort Sumter, 97;
sarcastic remark, 121; Cabinet
meeting concerning Fort Pick-
ens, 123; requests Scott to use
all possible vigilance for the
maintenance of all places, 125;
period of inaction, 134; re-
plies to Seward's "Thoughts,"
137, 138; conflict of orders as
to the Powhatan, 139, 144; de-
cides in favor of Welles, 139;
effect of rejecting programme
proposed by Seward, 157; proc-
lamation of April 15th, 163;
proclaims blockade of southeru
ports, 163; modifies Seward's
instructions to Adams of May
21st, 173 and n., 174; proc-
lamations that were declara-
tions of intention, 205; disa-
grees with Seward on Trent
affair, 234; warned and criti-
cised, 255, n.; attitude toward
writ of habeas corpus, 256; mes-
sage to Congress, 257; anti-
slavery policy operates against
intervention, 315; changes ef-
fect. of Frémont's proclamation,
319; proposition for reimburs-McClellan, George B., in Peninsu-
ing owners and providing for
emancipated slaves, 326; gov-
ernmental pay for voluntarily
emancipated slaves, 327; re-
vokes Hunter's order against

programme, 356; jest about
Weed and Greeley, 357; relations
with Seward, 357, 358; difficul-
ties with factions, 358, 359; re-
mark to some assailants of Sew-
ard, 363; treatment of attempt
to remove Seward, 366-369;
speech at Gettysburg, 403; re-
elected, 408; attitude toward
peace negotiations, 409-412;
at Hampton Roads conference,
412-414; favors compensated
emancipation, 414; last call on
Seward, 417; assassination of,
418.
Lincoln-Douglas debate, i., 454;
wide-spread interest in, 456; cen-
tral idea of, 457.
"Loco-focos,” i., 59.
Log Cabin, i., 75.

Lovejoy, Owen, i., 506.
Lowell, James Russell, i., 551, ii.,
460, 462; on Seward's despatches,
504 and n.
Lyons, Lord, communications with
Confederacy, ii., 197; compli-
mented by Seward, 201; re-
ports to Russell leading features
of blockade, 206; writes to
Seward concerning Charleston
blockade, 207; in the Trent af-
fair, 226; communicates instruc-
tions in Trent affair, 233, 334;
characteristics of, 298

MCCARTHY, JUSTIN, on Seward as
a despatch writer, ii., 502.

lar campaign, ii., 286, 296; at
Antietam, 304, 305; removed
from command, 311; retains
confidence of conservatives, 359;
Democratic candidate, 1864, 407.

slavery, 327; plan of compen- McIlvaine, Bishop, ii., 221.
sated emancipation, 332, 333; | McLeod incident, ii., 111–116.
gives notice of intended emanci-Macaulay, Thomas Babington, ii.,
pation proclamation, 332, 333; 75.

letter to Greeley, 339; favors | Maffit, J. N., ii., 383.

colonizing free negroes, 345-Mann, A. Dudley, ii., 165, 166; on
347; vetoes part of Seward's Trent affair, 227; reports sup-

posed intentions of French Em-Mexico, disorder in, ii., 419; for-

peror, 283; on English opinion
of slavery, 330.

Marchand, J. B., ordered to over-
haul the Nashville, ii., 213; er-
roneous assumption as to in-
structions of, 224.

eign claims against, 420; Brit-
ish, French, and Spanish expe-
ditions against, 420, 421; McDon-
gal's resolutions against French
intervention in, 428; House of
Representatives resolutions
against French intervention in,
428, 429.

Marcy, William L., i., 44, 46, 54,
55; reply to political test ques-
tions, 71; compared with Sew-Miller, Elijah, i., 11.
ard, ii., 90; declaration of Paris
could not be accepted by the
United States, 187, 188.
Martineau, Harriet, ii., 75.
Mason, James M., ii., 212; suc-
cessfully runs the blockade, 213;
in Trent affair, 223; imprisoned,
223; why hated by the North,
227, 228; released, 245; recep-
tion in England, 293; presents
formal request for recognition of
Confederacy by Great Britain,
293; unfavorable reply, 293; on
Great Britain's expected oppo-
sition to the slave-trade, 331,
332; mission to end, 342; on
English antislavery opinions,
342.

Miller, Frances, i., 11, 12. See Mrs.
W. H. Seward.

Mining privileges, ii., 53; Seward
on, 53, 54; Dawson ou, 53; Fré-
mont on, 53; Foote on, 53, 54;
Dodge on, 54.

Maximilian (Ferdinand Maximil-
ian Joseph) becomes Emperor,
ii., 424; difficulties, 431, 432;
execution of, 440.
Maynard, William H., i., 37;

op-

poses resolutions of 1831, 42.
Medill, Joseph, on Seward and his
political rivals, i., 530 n.-531 n.;
letter to Colfax about Seward,
ii., 363, 364.

Miramon, Miguel, ii., 420.
Missouri compromise, repeal of, i.,
333-362; Atchison on, 335; Dix-
on on, 337, 351; Douglas on,
338, 340-342, 353-357; appeal of
the Independent Democrats on,
339; Chase on, 342; Seward on,
346-350, 357-359; House vote
on, 356 n.; Senate vote on, 361 ;
how received, 361.
Monroe doctrine, violated, ii., 428;
not referred to by Seward, 441.
Morehead, Charles S., political
prisoner, ii., 266–268.
Morgan, Christopher, i., 182.
Morgan, William, story of his ab-
duction, etc., i., 25–27.
Morris, Gouverneur, i., 86.
Moss, W. D., letter to Seward,
Appendix C.

Motley, John Lothrop, ii., 153,
154, 440.

Meigs, Montgomery C., ii., 129.
Mercer, Samuel, ii., 138, 139.
Mercier, Henri, announces to Sew-Murray, Robert, ii., 278.

Mure, Robert, connection with
Bunch case, ii., 199.

ard his opinion of the South, ii.,
297; his tendencies and limita-
tions, 298; Seward's opinion of,
298 n.; trip to Richmond, 299,
371, 372; attitude of France,
299-301.

Merryman, John, case of, ii., 256,
257.

Mexican War, i., 155, 156.

NAPOLEON, Louis, proclamation of
neutrality by, ii., 176; reason
for receiving Confederate com-
missioners, 178 and n., 179 n. ;
national policy, by what con-
trolled, 281; tries to gain co-
operation of Great Britain, 285;
would soon act independently,

285; grants interview to Slidell, | Pendergrast, G.J., proclaims block-

291, 292; his plans and aims,
297, 298; his duplicity, 298; per-
plexity of, 305; prefers an ar-
mistice of six months, 306; in-
vites co-operation of Great
Britain and Russia, 307; his
dilemma, 310, 311; thoughts in
January, 1863, 312; complex
motives as to intermeddling,
315; attitude regarding war-
ships, 394, 398; purposes of his
Mexican expedition, 422, 423;
relations with Maximilian, 431,
432; decision as to war with the
United States, 438; wishes to
postpone withdrawal of French
troops from Mexico, 439.
Native-American party, i., 136.
"Know-Nothing" party.
Nebraska, extent and position of,
i., 334, 335.

See

Nelson, Justice, ii., 113.
Neutrality, proclamation of, by
Great Britain, France, Spain,
the Netherlands, Prussia, and
other nations, ii., 176, 179.
Neutrals, property of, safe from
capture when not contraband
of war, ii., 181.

ade of Virginia and North Caro-
lina coasts, ii., 206, 207.
Pendleton, John, letter to Seward,
Appendix D.
People's party, i., 16.
Peterhoff, the, ii., 378.
Petigru, J. L., ii., 107.
Pickens, Governor, ii., 36.
Pierce, Franklin, i., 304, 305; an-
nual message of, 1855, 401, 402,
484; issues proclamation against
lawlessness in Kansas, 402; last
annual message of, 432; Sew-
ard's mistreatment of, ii., 271–
276.

Pierrepont, Edwards, ii., 278.
Pinkerton, Allan, ii., 278.
Pius IX., ii., 76.
Polk, James K., i., 144.
Pope, John, ii., 296.

Porter, David D., ordered to com-
mand relief of Fort Pickens, ii.,
129, 130, 139, 480 n.
Powhatan, the, ii., 130, 139, 143,
144.

Prentice, George D., efforts in be-
half of political prisoners, ii.,
265 ff.

Price, Sterling, ii., 296.

Newcastle, Duke of, Seward's re- Prisoners, political, ii., 254, 258;

mark to, ii., 225, 226.

Nott, Eliphalet, i., 4.

OFFICE-SEEKERS, ii., 94.

"Ostend Manifesto," i., 471, 472.

PACIFIC, commerce in, ii., 66–68.
Pacific Railroad, ii., 58–60.
Palmerston, Lord, ii., 75, 209; in
regard to Trent affair, 226; on
Federals at Bull Run, 303; after
second battle of Bull Run, 304;
reason for change of mind, 307;
on slavery and Morrill tariff,
330.

Paris, declaration of, ii., 187.

Parker, Theodore, i., 433.

Parton, James, ii., 480 n.

Peerless, incident of the, ii., 225.

Seward's system, 259-263; sam-
ple cases, 263 n.; correspond-
ence in the Pierce case, 271-276;
none brought to trial, 276; gen-
eral policy toward, 277; treat-
ment of, 277, 278; system criti-
cised, 278, 279; Stanton takes
charge, 279; the result, 280;
"little bell" story, 280.
Privateers, to be treated as pi-
rates, i., 171; employment of,
lawful only in time of war, 175;
French commerce threatened by,
175, 391.

Public lands, extent of, ii., 51;
how controlled and disposed of,
51; Seward on, 52-57; Foote on,
52; Douglas on, 52; Dawson on,
51 n., 52.

RAMS, English ironclad, ii., 389;
French, 394.
Rappahannock, the, ii., 385.
Rassloff, ii., 481, 482.

Raymond, Henry J., i., 367, 368,
371, 417, 532; blamed Greeley for
Seward's failure to be nominated
in 1860, 540, 541; on Seward's
reply to Drouyn de Lhuys, ii.,
313, 314; defends Seward, 370.
Raynor, Kenneth, ii., 39.
Rechberg, ii., 77.

Recognition by Great Britain
would be intervention and war,
ii., 162; rumors that the Con-
federacy offered emancipation
for recognition, 331.
Reconstruction, ii., 443 ff.; real
difficulties of, 443; progress of,
451; dissatisfaction with re-
sults of the presidential plan
of, 452; act of March 2, 1867,
463, 464; reconstruction, con-
gressional, ii., 463, 464; Repub-
lican platform, 1868, on success
of, 466, 467; Democratic plat-
form on, 466, 467.

Reeder, Audrew H., i., 383, 384.
Registration law, i., 116, 117.
Removals from office, i., 14.
Republican party, birth of, i., 364;
first large convention of, 364;
Free Soilers, anti- Nebraska
-
Democrats, and Whigs cannot
agree on any other name, 364,
365; Whig party absorbed by,
386, 387; important additions
to, in the Congress of 1855-6,
400; conventions of 1856, 417-
421; objects of, announced, 417,
418; modifies its policy to gain
votes, 419; grateful to Douglas
for defeating Buchanan and the
South on the Kansas question,
455; convention of 1860, 528
ff.; adopts platform, 533, 534;
dilemma in winter of 1860–61,
ii., 6; alone could not save the
Union, 35; Seward and Chase
factions, 41; responsibilities

after March 4, 1861, 91; con-
vention of 1864, 406.
Republican radicals, ii., 358; try
to organize a party at Cleve-
land, 405, 406.

Reunion convention at Philadel-
phia, August, 1866, 459, 460.
River and harbor improvements,
ii., 60, 61.

Rives, William C., ii., 30.

Roman, A. B., ii., 107, 120. See
Confederate commissioners to
Washington.

Root, of Ohio, efforts to exclude

slavery from California and New
Mexico, i., 208.

Rost, Pierre A., ii., 165, 166, 184.
Russell, Lord John (afterward
Earl), ii., 75; assures our Min-
ister no advantage will be
taken of domestic troubles in
United States, 168; announces
intention to be neutral, 168; ac-
quiesces in expediency of disre-
garding mere rumors, 176; un-
der no obligation to postpone
decision, 177; letter to Everett,
exposition of opinions of British
government, 177 n., 178 n.; does
not expect to see the Coufeder-
ate commissioners again, 179;
says that ports in the possession
of the enemy cannot be closed
by the other belligerent, except
by blockade, 185; attitude to-
ward conditions proposed by
United States for signing dec-
laration of Paris, 189 ff.; argu-
ment in Bunch case, 202; sends
to Lyons ultimatum in Trent
affair, 226; modifies ultimatum,
226; subsequent private instruc-
tions, 226; reply to Seward's
argument in Trent affair, 250
n.; contrasts objects of North
and South, 303; after second
battle of Bull Run, 304; reason
for change of mind, 307; less
friendly toward the South, 322;
reply to Seward about blockade