Union, the, how to be saved, views of President Buchanan, 54;
  declaration of Senator Calhoun, 55.

Union, A perpetual, provided for in the last article of the Confederation, 98;
  a serious difficulty, 98;
  danger of failure, 98.

Union, A, necessarily involves the idea of competent States, 128;
  was not formed to destroy the States, but to secure the blessings of liberty, 176;
  a voluntary junction of free and independent States, 439.

Union of the armies of Johnston and Beauregard, decided at Richmond, 347;
  order sent to Johnston, 347.

United States Supreme Court, decision of, flouted, denounced, and disregarded, 85.

Usurpation, tendency to, in the Federal Government, 176;
  last effort to stay the tide of, 247;
  set on foot by Virginia, 247;
  an effort for adjustment, 247;
  the Peace Congress, 248.

Vattel, his views on the sovereignty of a state, 145.

Vaughn, Colonel, report of the affair near Romney, in June, 1861, 343;
  a notice of Vaughn, 344.

Virginia, made efforts to prohibit the importation of slaves, 4;
  first to prohibit, 5;
  her cession of territory in 1784, 7;
  Ordinance of 1787, 7;
  the occasion of her cession of territory north of the Ohio River, 47;
  instructions to her Commissioners to the Constitutional Convention, 90;
  long debates in her Convention, 108;
  the speakers, 108;
  her terms of ratification, 109;
  her cession of sites for forts to United States, 210;
  act of cession, 211;
  proposes a convention to adjust existing controversies, 247;
  appoints commissioners, 247;
  her ordinance subject to the ratification of the people, 299;
  forms a convention with the Confederate States, 299;
  prompt to reclaim the grants she had made on the appearance of President Lincoln's proclamation, 298;
  passes an ordinance of secession, 299;
  liable to be invaded from north, east, and west, 300;
  the forces assembled in, 340;
  divided into three armies, 340;
  their positions, 340;
  junction possible between first and second, 340;
  her history a long course of sacrifices for the benefit of her sister States, 440;
  her efforts to check dissolution, 440;
  her mediations rejected in the Peace Congress, 440;
  required to furnish troops for subjugation, or reclaim her grants to the Federal Government, 440;
  one course left consistent with her stainless reputation, 440;
  the forces of the enemy around her, 440;
  Richmond threatened, 441.

Volunteers, sufficient secured during the first year, 505;
  laws relating to the military service, 506.

Walker, L. P., Secretary of War under Provisional Constitution, 242.

Walworth, Chancellor, remarks on the coercion of the Southern States, 255.

War of the Revolution, its causes were grievances inflicted on the Northern colonies, 148;
  the South had no material cause of complaint, 48.

War, the late bloody, the theory on which it was waged, 160;
  proposition in the Convention to incorporate it in the Constitution, 160;
  not seconded, 160.

War between the Slates, who was responsible for? 440;
  the probability of, discussed by the people, 227;
  opinion that it would be long and bloody, 230.

War-cry, the, employed to train the Northern mind, 29;
  its success, 30.

Washington, the great effort of invasion to be from that point, 337;
  accumulation of troops, 337.

Washington, George, his use of the word "compact" as applied to the Constitution, 138;
  repeatedly refers to the proposed Union as a confederacy, 164;
  extracts from his letters, 164.

Washington, John A., killed on a reconnaissance, 436.

Webster, Daniel, remark of, at the death of Mr. Calhoun, 17;
  first to revive refuted misconceptions, 128;
  a remark of his, 134;
  denies the Constitution to be a compact, 135;
  on the word "accede," 136;
  his concessions, 137;
  denied what Massachusetts and New Hampshire affirmed, 139;
  on the sovereignty of the Government, 151;
  his inconsistent ideas, 152;
  his views in 1819, 166;
  his speech at Capon Springs, 167;
  on the omission of a State to appoint Senators, 179.

Welles, Gideon, statement of proceedings in Mr. Lincoln's Cabinet, 276.

Wise, General Henry A., sent to western Virginia, 433;
  his success, 433.