Crittenden, J. C., offers in the Senate a joint resolution proposing amendments to the Constitution, 60;
how received, 60.
Davis, Jefferson, reëlected to United States Senate in 1851, 18;
subject of the compromise measures agitating Mississippi, 18;
division of opinion, 18;
the principles of the Declaration of Independence of more value than the Union, 18;
his position and views, 19;
invited to become candidate for Governor, 19;
not accepted, 20;
active canvass, 20;
nominated again on the withdrawal of the former nominee, 20;
resigns as United States Senator, 20;
his position relative to the Union, 21;
letter to W. J. Brown, 21;
enters the Cabinet of President Pierce, 22;
charge of the Pacific Railroad survey, 23;
charge of the Capitol extension, 23;
charge of changes in the model of arms, 23;
increase of the army, 23;
its officers, 24; clerkships, 24;
anecdote of General Jesup, 24;
again elected Senator from Mississippi, 25;
no change in President Pierce's Cabinet during his term, 25;
extract from a speech in the Senate on the relation of master and servant in a Territory, 30;
remarks in the Senate on the "Nicholson letter" of General Cass, 37;
offers a series of resolutions in United States Senate, 42;
the resolutions, 42;
discussion and vote in the Senate, 43;
position of the mover shown in extract from his speech, 44-46;
meets with the Congressional representatives and Governor of Mississippi in consultation, 57;
his views, 57;
summoned to Washington, 58;
state of affairs there and his proceedings, 59;
extract from a speech in December, 1860, in the Senate, showing his position, 61-68;
position and feelings at the beginning of 1861, 205;
previous life, 205;
office of Senator, 206;
in the Cabinet, 206;
letter of C. C. Clay, relative to misstatements respecting, 206;
conversation with President Buchanan relative to the forts in Charleston Harbor, 214;
advises him to withdraw the garrison, 215;
his objections, 215;
presents rejoinder of South Carolina Commissioners to President Buchanan in the Senate, 218;
his speech, 219;
notified of the secession of Mississippi, 220;
states the position of the State in his final address to the United States Senate 221-224;
elected President of the Confederate States, 230;
engaged at home, 230;
disappointed, 230;
better fitted for command in the field, 230;
anecdote of W. L. Sharkey, 230;
addresses on the way to Montgomery, 231;
inaugural address, 232;
letter to President Buchanan, 264;
message to Congress on April 28th, 278, 279;
writes to Governor Letcher to sustain Baltimore, 300;
remained in the Senate after Mississippi called her convention, in order to obtain such measures as would prevent the final step, 302;
when her ordinance was enacted the question was no longer open, and her Senator could only retire from the United States Senate, 302;
letter of instructions to Captain Semmes, 311;
message to Congress in April, 1861, 326;
reply to the Maryland Commissioners, 333;
answer to Johnston relative to the rank of the latter, 348;
goes to the Manassas battle-field, 348;
scenes witnessed and described, 348, 349;
arrives at Beauregard's headquarters, 349;
meets General Johnston, 350;
appearance of the enemy, 350;
the field on the left, 351;
meets General Beauregard, 352;
conference with the generals after Manassas battle, 352;
subject of conference, 356;
necessity of pursuit, 356;
condition of the troops, 356;
meets the wounded, 357;
letter promoting General Beauregard, 359;
charged with preventing the pursuit at Manassas, 361;
letter to General Johnston on the subject, 362;
answer of Johnston, 363;
reference to another conference, 363;
letter to General Beauregard relative to the plea of a want of transportation for not pursuing the enemy, 365;
endorsement on the report of General Johnston, 366;
remarks upon it, 366;
letter to Beauregard relative to his report, 366;
the objectionable point reviewed, 367;
the part of the report and objections suppressed by Congress, 367;
the report, 368;
the endorsement of the President, 369;
letter calling for information on the wants of the army, 384;
reply to the letter of the Governor of Kentucky, 390;
anxiety about affairs in Missouri, 426;
letter to John B. Clark, 427;
answer to the request of General J. E. Johnston for reënforcements, 442;
letter to General G. W. Smith on the reorganization of the army, 445;
letter to General Beauregard, 446;
letter to General Beauregard, 447;
letter to General J. E. Johnston, 448;
letter to General J. E. Johnston on enemy's movements, 452;
letter to General G. W. Smith on movements against the enemy, 453;
letter to General J. E. Johnston on inspection of the line between Dumfries and Fredericksburg, 454;
letter to General J. E. Johnston on Jackson's movement in the Valley, 457;
letter to General J. E. Johnston on the order of the Secretary of War for the troops to retire to the Valley, 460;
letter to General J. E. Johnston on the complaint of irregular action by the Secretary of War, 461;
letter to General J. E. Johnston in answer to a letter stating that his position was considered unsafe, 462;
letter to General J. E. Johnston on mobilizing his army, 463;
letter to General J. E. Johnston in answer to a notice that the army was in retreat, 464;
visit to General Johnston's headquarters, 465;
reconnaissance, 466;
extract from the inaugural address in 1862, 484;
message on the employment of slaves in the army, 515.
Debt, Foreign, at the close of the war, 496;
attempts to discredit the Government abroad, 497;
reference to Union bank-bonds, 497.
Delaware, instructions to her delegates to the Constitutional Convention, 93;
her words of ratification of the Federal Constitution, 104.
Delicate truth, A, to be veiled, 101.
Democratic Convention of 1860, disagreement, 50;
adjournment of divisions, 50;
nominations by the friends of popular sovereignty, 50;
nominations by the Conservatives, 50.
Democratic party, dissensions in, 36.
D'Wolf, James, president of a slave-trading company, anecdote of, 84.
Disguise with Confederate Commissioners thrown off on the reduction of Sumter, 297.
Dissolution and secession from the first Union gave existence to the present Union, 171;
the right to withdraw in either case results from the same principles, 171.
Dogma, A new, created at the Chicago Convention in 1860, 49.
Douglas, Stephen A., on the doctrine of squatter sovereignty, 38;
nominated for the Presidency in 1860, 50;
unwilling to withdraw, 52;
his resolution in the Senate recommending evacuation of the forts, 281;
his remarks, 281.
Dred Scott case; the question, 83;
the salient points established, 84;
remarks of the Chief-Justice, 84.
Early, General Jubal, commands regiment at Manassas, 351;
extracts relative to the first battle of Manassas written by him, 372;
sketch of him, 372-378;
remarks on the retreat from Centreville, 468;
do. on the loss of supplies, 468.
Election, Presidential, of 1860, votes and result, 53.
Ellis, Governor, of North Carolina, reply to Mr. Lincoln's call for troops, 412;
sketch of Governor Ellis, 413;
letter to President Buchanan restoring Forts Johnson and Caswell, 413.
Ellsworth, Oliver, views of, on the coercion of a State, 178.
Elzy, General, commands brigade at Manassas, 351.
Endorsement of the President, on the report of the victory at Manassas, by General Beauregard, 369.
Equality of the States a condition of the Union, 180, 181.
Equilibrium between the sections destroyed by the action of the General Government, 32.
Equipments for armies, the supply of, 478;
their manufacture, 478.
Everett, Edward, nominated for the Vice-Presidency in 1860, 50;
his assertions relative to the Constitution, 129;
views on the sovereignty of the States, 148.
Evans, General N. S., his force near Leesburg, 437;
fight at Ball's Bluff, 437.
Expedition, Naval, to reënforce Fort Sumter, 274;
the circumstances, 274;
its arrival delayed by a storm, 274;
dissensions in Mr. Lincoln's Cabinet, 274;
impossible that he was ignorant of the communications of the Secretary, 275;
yet the Secretary was not impeached, 275;
a transaction in the Cabinet, 275;
letter of Mr. Blair, 277;
letters of the Commissioners, 277, 278;
message of President Davis to Congress, 277;
the relief squadron, 284;
correspondence of Major Anderson, 288;
arrival of the fleet off Charleston Harbor, 289;
its failure to relieve the fort, 289;
report of Captain McGowan, 291.
Fairfax Court-House, The conference at, 445;
circumstances, 449;
questions considered at the conference, 449;
a paper relating to the conference, 450;
details respecting it, 450;
position unfavorable for defense, 452;
establishment of a battery near Acquia Creek, 452;
possibilities in the Valley of the Shenandoah, 452;
correspondence, 452;
reference to, 464.
"Faith as to Sumter fully kept"—the written answer of Secretary Seward, 273;
official notification of reënforcement served on Governor Pickens on the same day, 274.
False representations made of us at the close of 1860, 77.
Federal Constitution, how the term was freely used, 93.
Federal Government, the tendency to pervert the functions delegated to it, and to use them with sectional discrimination against the minority, 32.
Federalist, The, its use of the word "sovereign" as applied to the States, 144.
"Fighting in the Union," what was meant by it, 225.
Financial system of The Confederacy adopted from necessity, 485;
its operation during eighteen months, 485;
issue of notes and bonds, 486, 487;
efforts to fund Treasury notes, 487;
provisions of Congress relative to, 488;
measure to reduce the currency, 489;
a review of the financial legislation, 489;
a war-tax, 490;
internal taxation a partial failure, 490;
compulsory reduction of the currency, 491;
its success, 492;
financial condition of the Government at its close, 492;
amount of the public debt, 493;
taxation, 493.
"Firing on the flag," the disingenuous rant of demagogues, 292.
"Flaunting lie, A," the compact of Union, 326.
Florida withdraws from the Union, 220.
Floyd, General John B., resigns as United States Secretary of War, 214;
his reason, 214;
advances to the support of General Wise, 433;
his skirmishes with the enemy, 433;
defeats them, 435;
assailed by General Rosecrans, 433;
Rosecrans falls back, 433.
Foote, Samuel A., states the true issue relative to the admission of Missouri to the Union, 12.
Foreign relations, efforts at recognition, 469;
seizure of our commissioners on board the Trent, 469;
indignation in England, 469;
their restoration, 469.
Forsyth, John, appointed commissioner to United States, 246.
Forts and arsenals, course of United States Government relative to, 281;
resolution, 202;
do. taken possession of by the Southern States, 202;
assertion made that the absence of troops was the result of collusion, 202;
this absence was the ordinary condition of peace, 203;
as defenseless now as in 1861, 203;
some exceptions, 203;
the situation long maintained at Pensacola Bay, 203;
conditional cession to United States, 209;
condition of the cession of Massachusetts, 209;
do. of New York, 209;
do. of South Carolina, 210;
stipulations made by Virginia in ceding the ground for Fortress Monroe, 210;
act of cession, 211.
Fox, G. V., his plan to reënforce and furnish supplies to Fort Sumter, 271;
describes the details, 271.
Framework of the Government, how constructed, 97.
Franklin, Benjamin, his use of the word "sovereignties" as applied to the States, 144.
Freedom and slavery, terms misleading the opinions and sympathies of the world, 6.
Fremont, General John C., his confiscation proclamation in Missouri, 430.
Frost, General D.M., commands militia at Camp Jackson, 415;
surrenders to Captain Lyon, 415;
efforts for release, 415;
his letter to General Harney, 415, 416.
Fugitives, law for the rendition of, occasion of its passage, 16;
tended to lead other States to believe they might evade their constitutional obligations, 16;
action of the States which had passed personal liberty laws, 16;
the rendition of, not the proper subject for the legislation of Congress, 81;
how it was in early times, 82.
Garnett, General Robert, killed at Rich Mountain, 338;
biographical notice, 338.
General Government, its claim of a right to judge of the extent of its own authority, 191.
Georgia, efforts to prohibit importation of slaves, 4;
instructions to her deputies to the Constitutional Convention, 91;
her ratification of the Federal Constitution, 106;
withdraws from the Union, 220.
Gerry, Elbridge, objects to the provision for nine States to ratify, as a virtual dissolution of the Union, 100;
his use of the word "compact," 137.
Gorgas, General, appointed chief of ordnance, 310;
states the growth of his department, 481;
statement relative to the charge against Secretary of War Floyd, 482.
Government, The United States, exalted above the States which created it, 127;
no such unit as United States ever mentioned, 127;
instances, 127;
words of Tench Coxe, 128;
forgotten misconceptions revived by Daniel Webster, 128;
his assertions in debate, 128;
specimen of views of sectionists, 129;
assertion of Edward Everett, 129;
do. of J. L. Motley, 129;
most remarkable of these assertions, 130;
Constitution mentions the States as States seventy times, 130;
what authority ordained and established the Constitution, 131;
statements of Everett and Motley, 131;
question of Story and its answer, 132;
views of Madison on the nature of the ratification, 133;
legislation can not alter a fact, 134;
its treatment of citizens of Kentucky, 398;
not supreme, but subject to the Constitution and laws, 151;
accepted of sites for forts on the conditions prescribed by the State, 211;
confounded with the oath to support the Constitution, 151.
Government, Confederate, seat of, removed to Richmond, 340;
reasons for the removal, 340.
Governments only agents of the sovereign, 142;
responsible to it, and subject to its control, 154.
Grant, General, attempts to capture the garrison at Belmont, 403;
his defeat, 404;
became willing to exchange prisoners, 405.
Grants to the Federal Government, not surrenders, says Hamilton, but delegations of power, 163.
Great Britain, charge preferred against the Government of, in the Declaration of Independence, 82.
Green, James S., offers a resolution in the United States Senate relative to preserving peace between the States, 61.
Grievance, the intolerable, 83.
Hamilton, Alexander, his use of the word "sovereignty" as applied to the States, 144;
on the supremacy of the Constitution, 150;
on a confederated republic, 162;
extract from "The Federalist," 162;
further views, 162;
his views on the coercion of a State, 178;
on the omission of a State to appoint Senators, 179.
Harney, Major-General, removed from command in Missouri, 421.
Harper's Ferry, burned and evacuated, 328;
President Lincoln expresses his approbation, 328;
destruction caused, 329;
an important, position for military and political considerations, 340;
its occupation needful for the removal of machinery, 341.
Harris, Governor of Tennessee, reply to Mr. Lincoln's call for troops, 413.
Harrison, William Henry, Governor of Indiana Territory, 8;
letter to Congress with resolutions requesting the suspension of the ordinance prohibiting slavery, 9.
Hartford Convention, proceedings relative to a dissolution of the Union, 74.
Hayne, I. W., Commissioner from South Carolina to Washington, 219.
Hemp, bales of, used for a breastwork, 430.
Henry, Patrick, asks what right had they to say, "We the people," 121;
his objection to "one people," 174.
Hicks, Governor of Maryland, his declarations, 331;
his proclamation, 331.
Hill, Colonel A. P., orders the affair near Romney, 343;
sketch of, 344.
Hill, Colonel D. H., afterward lieutenant-general, 342;
report of the combat at Bethel Church, 342.
Honor of the United States Government, how maintained relative to the forts in Charleston Harbor, 217;
a point easy to concede, 217.
Hope of reconciliation, the last expires, 250.
Hostile expedition, the, made the reduction of Sumter necessary before it should be reënforced, 297.
Howard, Charles, arrest and imprisonment by General Banks, 335.
Huger, General, commands a force at Norfolk, 340.
Hurlburt, a captive prisoner, 361;
his career, 361.
Huse, Major Caleb, sent to Europe for the purchase of munitions of war, 311;
our agent in Europe, 482;
his letter relative to the shipment of supplies, 482.
Immigration, causes which combined for its direction to the Northern States, 32.
Inaction of the Army of the Potomac, the President alleged to be responsible for it, 449;
the question for consideration at the Fairfax conference, 449;
a paper relative to the conference, 450;
proceedings at the Conference, 451, 452;
correspondence, 452, 453;
application of General Jackson, 454;
correspondence relative to, 455, 456;
further correspondence, 457, etc.
Inaugural address of the author as President of the Confederate States, 232.
Incendiaries, trained in scenes of Kansas strife, 31.
Independence of North Carolina and Rhode Island while not members of the Union, 112;
relations between them and the United States, 112;
letter from the Governor of Rhode Island, 112.
Indiana Territory, petitions for the suspension of the Ordinance of 1787, prohibiting slavery, 8;
action on the petitions, 8;
subsequent action and resolutions, 9.
Insurrection, An, was it? 325.
Introduction, The, 1.
Irrepressible conflict, how the declaration of, arose, 34.
"Is thy servant a dog?" its use in the United States Senate, 34.
Invasions of States, no right in the Federal government to, 411;
words of the Constitution, 411;
deemed a high crime, 411;
response of Governors to President Lincoln's call for troops, 411.
Invention exhausted itself in the creation of imaginary "cabals," "conspiracies," and "intrigues," 200;
examples, 209.
Jackson, General T. J., skill and daring in checking the enemy's forces in June, 1861, 344;
character, 454;
letter proposing a movement into the Shenandoah Valley, 455;
letter of the President, 457.
Jackson, Governor of Missouri, reply to Mr. Lincoln's call for troops, 412;
issues a call for fifty thousand volunteers, 421;
words of the Governor, 421;
his efforts to preserve the peace, 422;
his declarations, 422;
demands of the Federal officers, 422;
his march, 459;
its results, 459.
Jersey Plan, The, States rights, and opposed to national, as proposed in the Federal Constitutional Convention, 105;
arguments for it, 106.
Johnston, General Albert Sidney, resigns in United States Army, 308;
rank, 308;
appointment in Confederate Army, 309;
his early career, 405;
resigns in United States army, 406;
assigned to the command of the Confederate Department of the West, 406;
destitution at Nashville, 406;
his movements, 406;
his military positions, 406;
takes command at Bowling Green, 406;
his force, 407;
force of the enemy, 407;
efforts to procure arms and men, 407;
letter to the Governor of Alabama, 407;
letter to the Governor of Georgia, 407;
telegram to Richmond, 407;
answer of the Secretary of War, 407;
aid from the Governor and Legislature of Tennessee, 408;
measures taken to concentrate and recruit his forces, 408;
the result, 408;
resolves on a levy en masse, 409;
letters to the Governors of States, 409;
reënforced from Virginia, 410.
Johnson, Herschel V., nominated for the Vice-Presidency in 1860, 50.
Johnston, General Joseph E., commands army near Harper's Ferry, 340;
desires to retire, 341;
official letter addressed to him, 341;
apparent effort of the enemy to detain him in the Valley of the Shenandoah, 344;
his junction with Beauregard becomes necessary, 344;
extract from official letter, 345;
urged to join General Beauregard, 345;
correspondence lost, 346;
telegram sent to, by General Cooper, 346;
confidence reposed in him, 346;
the meaning of an order, 347;
the junction made with marked skill, 347;
answer to telegram to join Beauregard, 347;
his telegram asking his position relative to Beauregard, 348;
answer, 348;
his rank in the Confederate Army, 348;
letter relative to obstacles to the pursuit of the enemy at Manassas, 363;
his report, and the endorsement put on it by the President, 366;
remonstrates against the movement of General Jackson in the valley, 454;
letter, 456;
reconnaissance, 465.
Johnson, John M., chairman of committee of Kentucky Senate on military occupation, 393;
letter to General Polk, 393.
Jordan, Colonel Thomas, letter respecting the pursuit of the enemy after battle at Manassas, 354;
his order, 355.
Judiciary, The Federal, views of Marshall on the power of, 166.
Justification, A, efforts of President Lincoln to make out his, 322;
words of his message, 322;
his question, 322;
its answer very plain, 322;
his supposed answer, 322;
nothing more erroneous than such views, 323;
the beginning and end of all the powers of government are to be found in the instrument of delegation, 323;
for what purpose must he call out the war power? 324;
his blockade proclamation, 324;
its scheme, 324;
how based, 324;
its assumption of an insurrection, 325;
was it an insurrection? 325.
Kane, Police Marshal, arrested and imprisoned at Baltimore, 334.
Kansas and Nebraska Bill, some facts connected with it, 26;
declaration of 1850, 26;
its discussion, 27;
proceedings relative to, 28;
not inspired by President Pierce's Cabinet, 28;
true intent and meaning of the act, 28;
its terms, 29.
Kansas Territory, its organization, 26.
Kenner, Duncan F., letter on the election of Provisional President, 238.
Kentucky, the principles announced by her, 385;
resolutions, 385;
her position in the conflict, 386;
the question of neutrality, 386;
how could it be maintained, 386;
correspondence between Governor Magoffin and President Lincoln, 387;
correspondence with President Davis, 389, 390;
advance of General Polk, 391;
the occasion of it, 390;
correspondence between General Polk and the authorities of Kentucky, 392;
resolutions of the Legislature relative to the occupation of points in the State by troops, 392;
treatment of her citizens by United States Government, 398.