order, 253; slavery, 59; enrollment act, 270, 271, 564; the objects of the war, 28-290; the prosecution of the War, 250-91; 'perce." 234-26, 27-30. 574, 575; mil- itary orders concerning elections, 315; the relations of the rebellious States to the Government, 322- 20; ar- rest of Mason and Slidell, 43; monarchical intrigues in Central and South America, £5; foreign mediation, 316,317; the French in Mexico, 48, 349; the Arguelles case, 351, 355: taxation, 359; incompatibility of civil and military oflice, 375; declaring certain persons in- eligible to effice, 376; proposed consure of President Lincoln, 386, of ex-President Buchanan, 37, 38, R p-| resentatives Long and Harris, 5×7.383; on furloughing drafted clergymen, 561; on confiscating property of deserters, 564; on constitution 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, €02. RESOLUTION3, rebel, of Congress on independence, 323, 476. 614-616; Legislature of Virginia on guerrillas, 119; Legislature of Georgia, 329, 599, 621, 622; of North Car- olina, 330, 619, 6-0; of Louisiana 332; of Mississippi, 599; of Alabama, 456; of Virginia, 620, 621; of Texas, 616.
REYNOLDS, EDWIN R., Representative in Thirty Sixth Con-
REYNOLDS, JOIN II, 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 18C0, 1; in 1864, 623;
members of Peace Conference, 67; Thirty-Sixth Con- gress, 48: Thirty-Seventh, 122; Thirty-Eighth, 140; personal liberty" law, 46, 47; vote of Legislature on ratifying the anti slavery amendment, 596. RICE, ALEXANDER II., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con- gross, 45; Thirty-Seventh, 122; Thirty-Eighth, 110. RIC HENEY M., Senator in Thirty-Sixth Congress, 48; Thirty-Seventh, 122; member of Committee of Thir- teen, 70; proposition of adjustment, 72.
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, 205, 428, 423-seo "Enquirer." Richmond Eriminer, 114, 805, 330, 599—see “Examiner." RICHMOND MESTI G, resolutions of, after the Hampton Roads Conference, 572.
Richmond Sentinel, 331, 399—see “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,
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,
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 II., 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, 531.
ROMAN, A. B., Rebel Commissioner, 110.
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- politan 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, 110; 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, CS; 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, 312.
RUST, ALBERT, Representative in Thirty-Sixth Congress, 49; member of Committee of Thirty-three, 53; report of, 58; Deputy in Rebel Provisional Congress, 400.
SABBATH, THE, President Lincoln's order on observance of,
SALMON, B. S., arrest of, 153.
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 Lill, 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, 311; 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 Maryland, and report, 9.
SCOTT, ROBERT E., Deputy in Rebel Provisional Congress, 400. SCOTT, T. PARKIN, arrest of. 152; votes and motions in Maryland Legislature, 396–398. SCOTT, WINFIELD, Lieutenant General, President Lincoln's allusion to retirement of, 155; 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 Ordnances, vote on, in South Carolina, 398, 399; Florida, 399; Virginia, note, 7; Tennessee military league, 5; Arkansas, 399; Louisiana, 588-590. SECESSION, right of, Mr. Do little'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 emanci- pation bill, 200.
SEGAR, JOSEPH, Representative in Thirty-Seventh Congress, 125; claimant in Thirty Eighth, and refused, 141; cre- dentials as Senator from Virginia, 587.
SEIZURES of Government property in insurrectionary States, 25; Governor Letcher's proposed attempt on Fortress Monroe, 28.
SEMMS, 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 auti-slavery amendment, 591; oath from members, 603.
Sentinel, Richmond, on reconstruction and on northern tem- per, 331.
SEQUESTRATION ACT, rebel, 203, 201, 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, 151; to Mr. Adams on the Trent affair, 338; to Lord Lyons, 38; on foreign enlistments, 343, 34; to Gov. Hicks on foreign mediation, 345: to Mr. Dayton in re- sponse to letter of M. Drouyn de l'Huys on mediation, 315,346; 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- Intions 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 186, 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, JAMES 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, 48; member of Border-States Committee, 73; proposi- tion of adjustment, 55; resolution respecting slavery in the States, 77.
SHERMAN, JOHN, Senator in Thirty-Seventh Congress, 122; Thirty-Eighth, 140; amendment to confiscation bill, 122; amendments to enrollment bill, 202, 265; amend- ment to bill repealing fugitive slave law, 256; explana- tory remark of vote, note, 243; amendment to bill to employ colored persons in the United States service, 275; amendment to legal tender bill, 358. SHERMEN, SOCRATES N., Representative in Thirty-Seventh Congress, 122. SHERMAN, THOMAS W., Brigadier General, proclamation to the people of South Carolina, 218.
SHERMAN, WILLIAM T., Major General, on the draft of 1864,
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, OHO 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, 406, 467; New School Presbyterian, 469 471; Reformed Presbyterian, (Old School,) 472, 473; Reformed Presbyterian, 473; Cumberland Presbyte rian, 473, 474; United Presbyterian, 474, 507; Baptist 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, 453; 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, C04. IN INSUE- 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, 564, 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,
SLOOPS-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, CALER 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-Seventh 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,
19; adjustment proposition, 54; Representative in First Rebel Congress, 402; resigned to accep' 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, 399. 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.
SNEAD, 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, RUFUS P., Representative in Thirty-Eighth Con- gress, 140; bill to repeal fugitive slave law, 237. SPARROW, EDWARD, Deputy in Rebel Provisional Congress, 11, 400; 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, 203; 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.
STALLO, 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,
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; instructious 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, 561; 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- cond, 402.
STAR OF THE WEST, fired upon by the rebels, 27. Siar, Washington, publication of vote on Virginia secession ordinance, note, 7.
STARR, JOHN F., Representative in Thirty-Eighth Congress,
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 Conference, 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, 446. 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,
STEWART, GEORGE H., of Maryland, proceedings of, 393, and nole, 394.
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, JOSEPn, 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,
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 persous, 241, on exclu- ding them from the cars, 241, 242, on making them witnesses, 242, 213, 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, 577; resolutions on Foreign Mediation, 346, 317, 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 în 1861 and 1864, 468; of Kentucky in 1861, 468; action of South Carolina Synod, in 1860, 508.
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. TARIFP laws of the United States alluded to as a cause of Becession, 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, 36-373, 613, 614, 619.
TAXATION, State, proceedings in Congress respecting, 359. 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 Robel 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 arm, 399. TENNESSEANS, Protest of, against Governor Johnson's elec- tion Proclamation of 1864, 435-441; reply of President Liucoln, 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,
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; Members 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 Con- gress, 122; unseated, 123. THAYER, EL, 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 compen-ate i eman- cipation, 213-217; amendment to the eurollment 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 II., 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, 263. THOMASON, HUGU 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 enrolliment act, 273,
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 siguer of Altoona Ad- dress, 233; vote for Vice President in Union National Convention, 407.
TODD, J. B. S., Delegate from Dacotali, 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
and resignation, and appointed brigadier general, 12, | 400; elected Senator in First Rebel Congress, 401; letter on reconstruction, 331.
TOTTEN, A. O. W., Member of Peace Conference, 68; com- missioner for Tennessee in making a league with Con- federate States, 5. TOWNSEND, DWIGHT, Representative in Thirty-Eighth Con- gress, 559; proposition relative to Peace, 575. TRACY, HENRY W. Representative in Thirty-Eighth Con- gress. 140.
TRAIN, CHARLES R., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Congress, 48; Thirty-Seventh, 122.
TRANSYLVANIA PRESBYTERY of 1861, on the marriage of slaves, 548.
TREAT, AMOS, Member of Peace Conference, 67. TREAT, S. H., Judge, decision on enrollment act, 273. TRENHOLM, GEORGE A., rebel Secretary of Treasury, 401. TRENT AFFAIR, the, 338-313; Secretary Seward to Mr. Adams, 338; Earl Russell to Lord Lyous, 338; Secretary Seward to Lord Lyons, 238-342; Earl Russell to Lord Lyons, 342; comment of the London Times, 342, 343; action of Con- gress on, 343.
TRIMBLE, CAREY A., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con- gress, 49; Thirty-Seventh, 122.
TRIMBLE, ISAAC G., in command at Baltimore, and subsequent career, 393, and note.
TRIPLETT, GEORGE W., Representative in Second Rebel Con- gress, 402.
TRIPPE, ROBERT P., Representative in First Rebel Congress, 401.
TROWBRIDGE, ROWLAND E., Representative in Thirty-Seventh Congress, 122.
TRUMBULL, LYMAN, Senator in Thirty-Sixth Congress, 48; Thirty-Seventh, 122; Thirty-Eighth, 140; amendment to Jeff. Davis's bill for sale of United States arms, 36; report on Baltimore police commissioners, 179; reso- lution respecting arrests, 179; proposition to repeal joint resolution of July 17, 1862, on confiscation, 203- see 260, 562; joint resolution proposing amendments to the Constitution, 256; proposition to repeal the commu- tation clause of enrollment bill, note, 261; resolution on unemployed generals, 285; amendment to resolution respecting the cause of the war, 286; proposition to enforce the laws in all the States, 291; substitute for bill to encourage emancipation in Missouri, 225, 26; reports on Arkansas Senators, 320, 588; proposition rel- ative to courts-martial, 562; bill to allow bail in certain cases, 562, and relative to representation in the Elec- toral College, 578.
TUCK, AMOS, Member of Peace Conference, 68; proposition for a Convention, 69.
TURNER, JOSIAH, JR., Representative in Second Rebel Con- gress, 402; resolutions on peace, 614, 615. TURNER, LEWIS C., Judge Advocate, instructions to United States Marshals, &c., 272.
TURNER, THOMAS J., Member of Peace Conference, 68. TURPIE, DAVID, Senator in Thirty-Seventh Congress, 123. TUTTLE, JAMES M., Brigadier General, orders at Natchez, respecting contrabands, 253.
TWENTY-NEGRO exemption law, rebel, and repeal, 120. TWIGGS, DAVID E., Major General, surrender by, of his com- mand in Texas, 28.
TYLER, ERASTUS B., Brigadier General, order, respecting an election in Delaware, 312.
TYLER, JOHN, Sr., Member of Peace Conference, 68; elected President, 68; report of Peace Conference, 6; commis- sioner for Virginia in making a league with the "Con- federate States," 8; Deputy in Rebel Provisional Con- gress, 400.
UNDERWOOD, JOHN C., Judge, opinion of, on confiscation act, 206, 207; on colored persons as witnesses, 442, 443; credentials as Senator from Virginia, 588. UNDERWOOD, JOSEPH R., Letter of Brig. Gen. Buell to, 250. UNDERWOOD, J. W H., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con- gress, 49; sent telegram South, 37; withdrew, 3. UNDERWOOD, LEVI, Member of Peace Conference, 67. UNEMPLOYED GENERALS, proceedings in Congress concern- ing, 285-see "Generals."
UNION, preservation of national, resolutions concerning, 75, 285.
UNION LEAGUE, platform of 1864, 410.
UNION NATIONAL CONVENTION, proceedings of, 403-410. UNITARIAN CHURCH, resolutions of Western Unitarian As-
sociation, 504; other facts concerning, 504; of Spring- field Convention of 1863, 548.
UNITED BRETHREN CHURCH, resolutions of East Pennsylva- nia Conference, 504; President Lincoln's and Secretary Stanton's order for the occupation of churches in the insurrectionary States, 522.
UNITED STATES FLAG, to be suppressed in Baltimore, note, 394; Policeman Daneker's refusal to "condescend" to pull it down, and resignation of place, 394; William T. Butler's resignation, 394.
UNIVERSALIST CHURCH, resolutions of General Conventions of 1861, 1862, 1863, and 1864, 505, 506.
UPSON, CHARLES, Representative in Thirty-Eighth Con- gress, 140; report on Louisiana case, 582-586. UPTON, CHARLES H., Representative in Thirty-Seventh Con- gress, 122; unseated, 123.
USHER, JOHN P., Secretary of the Interior, 108; report of, on colonization experiment, note, 212. UTAH, polygamy in, act to prohibit, 376.
VALLANDIGHAM, CLEMENT L., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Congress, 49; Thirty-Seventh, 122; propositions of ad- justment, 55, 73; arrest and trial, 162; refusal of Judge Leavitt to grant writ of habeas corpus, and his opinion, 162; order, directing that he be sent beyond the lines, 162; letter on retaliation, 175; case in United States Supreme Court, 175; correspondence concerning, 167-175; return and address at Hamilton, 175; at Dayton, 176; notices by the press, 177; amend- ment to army appropriation bill, 253; resolutions re- lating to the war, 288; peace resolution, 296; resolu- tion respecting the Trent affair, 343; resolution of cen- sure of President Lincoln, 386; motion to make Gen. McClellan's nomination unanimous, 420; allusion in his Sydney speech to the Chicago Platiorm, note, 421; letter to the New York News, 423.
VAN BUREN, JOHN, letter of George N. Sanders to, 330. VANCE, ZEBULON B., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con- gress, 497; correspondence with Jefferson Davis on peace, 306, 307; views on reconstruction, 331. VANDEVER, WILLIAM, Representative in Thirty-Sixth Con- gress, 49; Thirty Seventh, 122; member of Peace Con- ference, 68; of Border States Committee, 73; resolu tion on the war, 201.
VAN HORN, BURT, Representative in Thirty-Seventh Con- gress, 122.
VAN VALKENBURGH, ROBERT B., Representative in Thirty- Seventh Congress, 122; Thirty-Eighth, 140. VAN WINKLE, PETER G., Senator in Thirty-Eighth Congress, 140.
VAN WYCK, CHARLES H., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Congress, 48; Thirty-Seventh, 122.
VEATCH, JAMES C., Brig. Gen., order respecting the Metho- dist Episcopal Churches in Memphis, 522, 523. VENABLE, ABRAM W., Deputy in Rebel Provisional Con- gress, 400.
VERMONT, Vote for President in 1860, 1; in 1864, 623; mem- bers of Peace Conference, 67; Thirty-Sixth Congress, 48; Thirty-Seventh, 122; Thirty-Eighth, 140; "personal liberty" laws, 44, 47; voto of Legislature on ratifying the anti-slavery amendment, 596.
VERREE, JOHN P., Representative in Thirty-Sixth Congress, 48; Thirty-Seventh, 122,
VESSELS, United States, disposition of-see "Report." VEST, GEORGE G., Deputy in Rebel Provisional Congress,
400; Representative in First Rebel Congress, 402; Second, 402; Senator in Second, 611. VIBBARD, CHAUNCEY, Representative in Thirty-Seventh Congress, 122.
VICKSBURG, President Lincoln's remarks on fall of, 334, 335. VILLERE, CHARLES J., Representative in First Rebel Con- gress, 401; Second, 402.
VIRGINIA, Vote tor President in 1860, 1; members of Peace Conference, 67; of Thirty-Sixth Congress, 48, 49; Thirty-Seventh, 122; Thirty-Eighth, 141, 587, 583; Governor Letcher's purchase of arms prior to secession, 35, 36; address of members of Congress to the people, 39; answer of President Lincoln to the delegation from, 112; resolution of Convention, 112; reconstruction movement and abolition of slavery in, 321; vote of Legislature on ratifying the anti-slavery amendment, 598; bill to erect West Virginia out of parts of, 377, 378. IN REBELLION: Proposal to co-operate with South Carolina, 2; secession movement in, 5-8; vote on ordi- nance of secession, note, 7; league with the Rebel States, 8; admission to the "Confederacy," 401; Depu- ties in Rebel Provisional Congress, 400; members of First Congress, 401, 402; Second, 402; action of Legis lature on guerrillas, 119; peace resolutions and dis- cussion in Legislature of, 304, 620, 621; men in the army, 399; bill for the employment of slaves, note, 612. VOORHEES, DANIEL W., Representative in Thirty-Seventh Congress. 122; Thirty-Eighth, 140; vote for Vice Presi dent in Democratic National Convention, 420. VOLUNTEERING, rebel restrictions upon, 120. VOLUNTEERS, the several calls for, 114, 115, 270. VROOM, PETER D., Member of Peace Conference, 67.
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