ABANDONED Lands, restored to rebel owners, 143.

ADAMS, J. Q., Expenses of his Administration, 111.

ADMISSION of Southern Representatives proposed, 279.

AGRICULTURE, Senate Committee on, 27, 31.

ALABAMA, Black Code of, 146.

ALHAMBRA, the betrayal of, 65.

ALLEGIANCE and Protection reciprocal, 257.

AMALGAMATION, not an effect of Negro Suffrage, 75.

AMENDMENT, Constitutional, effect of, 196; confers Civil Rights, 210; the Civil Rights Bill, a sequel to, 225; a warrant for the Civil Rights Bill, 229; confers citizenship, 273.

AMENDMENT, Constitutional, of Basis of Representation, 324;
explained by Mr. Stevens, 325;
failure in passage, 416.

AMENDMENT, Constitutional, for Negro Suffrage proposed, 377;
advocated, 387;
voted down, 415.

AMENDMENT, Constitutional, for Reconstruction, proposed, 435; final passage, 463; ratified by numerous legislatures, 505; then and now, 512.

AMENDMENTS, Constitutional, needed, 312.

AMENDMENT to Freedmen's Bureau Bill, proposed by Mr. Cowan, 136; rejected, 136; to title of the bill, 136; proposed in the Senate, 296.

AMENDMENT to Civil Rights Bill by Mr. Hendricks, 218; by Mr. Saulsbury, 219.

AMENDMENT, the power of, exhausted, 349.

AMENDMENTS, a complicity of, 363.

AMENDMENT, a crablike, 375.

AMERICAN Citizenship, what it amounts to, 257.

ANCIENT Governments, exceptional in their liberty, 206.

ANDERSONVILLE, rebel atrocities at, 101.

ANTHRACITE not suitable material for a Corinthian column, 56.

APPEAL of Mr. Saulsbury, 534.

APPEAL to the people against Freedmen's Bureau Bill, 152.

APPROPRIATION, the Committee on, 29.

ARMY, bill to fix the peace footing of, 553.

ART, in the capital, 571.

ASSAULT upon Mr. Grinnell by Mr. Rousseau, 573.

ATTORNEY General on the trial of Jefferson Davis, 123.

"AUTHORITY and Power" of the Government, distinction between, 445.

BALLOT-BOX to be purified by the angel element, 487, 492; a high court of errors, 497.

BALLOT, the negro's best protection, 162; the great guarantee, 376; the source of safety for the freedman—eloquent extract, 399; dangerous in the hands of the ignorant, 497.

BANCROFT, his eulogy on President Lincoln, 570.

BANKING and Currency, Committee on, 30.

BANKRUPTCY, Committee on, 31.

BANKRUPT LAW, its difference from former acts, 554.

BANNER of Freedom, and the banner of the Democracy, 80.

BARABBAS and the Saviour, 380.

BASIS of Representation, necessity of changing the, 312; proposed amendment of, 324; explained, 325; involves taxation without representation, 326; effects Negro Suffrage, 327; reasons which commend it, 331; bearing on the various States, 332; would allow property qualification, 332; amendment proposed by Mr. Orth, 337; how settled in 1787, 338; its rejection predicted, 338; how its provisions may be avoided, 339; construed as an attack on the President, 343; facts and figures concerning, 344; objections, 346, 347; great opposition to the proposition, 350; its injustice to the African, 352; benefit to the Republican party only, 362; multiplicity of amendments, 363; passage in the House, 371; before the Senate, 374; "not an improvement," 375; what it will accomplish, 381; colored men against it, 392; a party measure, 395; summary of objections, 402; an "abortion," 406; ten objections, 407; good effects of, 411; failure to pass the Senate, 416; regret of Mr. Stevens at its death, 436.

BENEVOLENT features of the Freedmen's Bureau, 179.

BERKELEY'S Metaphysics, 310.

BIRTH confers citizenship, 305.

BLAINE'S Amendment, 527;
combined with Bingham's, 528;
proposed in the Senate, 529.

BLACK-LAWS of Southern States, substance of, 147;
Mississippi and South Carolina, 191;
recently passed, 214.

BLACK skin a badge of loyalty, 53.

BLOOD asked for, 396;
Chandler's explanation, 397.

BOUNTY, additional, bill to grant, 552.

BOYHOOD of Mr. Saulsbury, 193.

"BREAD and Butter Brigade," 521.

BROWNLOW, Governor, his proclamation, 473; his despatch to the Secretary of War, 475; his loyalty and firmness, 480.

BROWN, Senator, of Mississippi, his opposition to the education
of the blacks, 388.

BUCHANAN, President, his veto of the Homestead bill, 255;
his views of secession, 442.

"BY-PLAY" of the Rebel States with Secretary Seward, 313.

CAPITOL, the, character and situation of, 571.

CASPAR HAUSERS, four millions of, 329.

CATO on the Immortality of the Soul, 377.

CAUCASIANS, none save, have become citizens, 199.

CELTIC race distinct from ours, 360.

CENSURE of Mr. Hunter, 515; of Mr. Chanler, 571.

CENTRALIZATION deprecated, 229, 237, 266.

CHAIRMANSHIP of Committees, New England's preponderance in, 401.

CHARITIES not to be given by Congress,148.

CHEROKEES naturalized, 233.

CHICAGO Convention of 1860, its doctrine, 60.

CHILDREN rescued from the burning house, 390.

CHINESE, Civil Rights Bill makes, citizens, 246, 255.

CHOCTAW Indians naturalized, 233.

CHURCHES, colored, in the District of Columbia, 59.

CITIZENSHIP conferred upon the people of Texas, 199.

CITIZENSHIP conferred by U. S. Government, 239; includes State citizenship, 253; does not confer State citizenship, 271.

CITIZEN, what constitutes a, 201.

CIVIL Rights denied to negroes in Indiana, 117,131; all departments of the Government designed to secure, 221; denial of makes men slaves, 224.

CIVIL Rights Bill foreshadowed, 98; introduced, 188; its provisions, 189; necessity for it, 190; a dangerous measure, 192; object of it, 210; odious military features, 211; opposed, 216; explained and defended, 217; have been in the law thirty years, 218; bill passes in the Senate, 219; before the House, 220; recommitted, 233; its beneficence towards Southern rebels, 233; interferes with State rights, 222, 236; amendment proposed by Mr. Bingham, 237; rejected, 242; argued as unconstitutional, 237, reply, 239; passes the House, 243; odious title proposed, 243; as amended, passes the Senate, 244; vetoed by the President, 246; veto answered, 253; passes over the veto, 288, 289; the form in which it became a law, 290; propriety of placing it in the Constitution, 438.

COLFAX, Schuyler, elected Speaker of the House, 20;
vote of thanks to, 576.

COLLOQUY between Chanler and Bingham, 67;
Davis and Trumbull, 136, 199;
Clark and Davis, 201;
Brooks and Stevens, 336;
Higby and Hill, 356;
Dixon and Trumbull, 424;
Doolittle, Nye, and Lane, 457;
Ashley, Conkling, and Stevens, 513;
Doolittle and Wilson, 531;
on specie payments, Stevens, Wentworth, and Garfield, 556.

COLLAR the President's, charge of wearing repelled, 284.

COLOR of a citizen not inquired into in our early history, 51; should not be regarded in our laws, 53; indefiniteness of the term, 360.

COLORADO, reason of the non-admission of, 559.

COMMERCE, Committee on, 27, 30.

COMMISSIONER of Freedmen's Bureau, 140.

COMMITTEES, the importance of, in legislation, 25; difficulty of selecting, 26.

COMMITTEE on Reconstruction, 49; report of, 466; difficulty of obtaining information by, 467; conclusion of, 471.

COMPOUND Interest Notes, attempt to redeem, 558.

COMPROMISE of Moral Principles opposed, 374.

CONCERT of action desired, 37.

CONFEDERATION, the old, and the Constitution, 316.

CONFISCATION discarded by civilized nations, 320.

CONGRESS, no danger to be feared from usurpation by, 501; as described by President Johnson, 561; salutary effect of vetoes upon, 563.

CONNECTICUT, the voice of on negro suffrage, 394.

CONSERVATISM the worst word in the language, 101.

CONSERVATIVES represented by Mr. Raymond, 314.

CONSTITUTIONAL Amendment, what laws may be passed under, 118.

CONSTITUTIONAL Amendments, how they should be made; advice of
Mr. Saulsbury, 405.

CONSTITUTIONAL Amendments in the interests of slavery once
popular, 405.

CONSTITUTIONAL Authority of the President and General Grant, 124.

CONSTITUTIONAL Convention of 1787, 338.

CONSTITUTION, the, powers it confers, 122; violation of, an oft-repeated argument, 149; to be destroyed by the Freedmen's Bureau Bill, 148; unreconcilable with military rule, 176; caused to bleed, 193; does not exclude negroes from citizenship, 203; against State Sovereignty, 319; more liberal before the Rebellion, 327; may be legally amended, 357; as estimated by its makers, 278; not necessary to re-enact it, 380.

CONTRAST between whites and blacks under Kentucky law, 154.

COTTON, export duty on proposed, 312.

"COUNTER PROPOSITION" by Mr. Sumner, 373, 379, 382; rejected, 415.

COURTESY of Senator Wade, as described by Mr. McDougall, 282.

COWAN, Edgar, his radicalism, 489; his seriousness, 490.

DAVIS, Garrett, his programme for the President, 430, 432; struck "dumb," 209; his ability to "hang on," 533.

DAVIS, Jefferson, why not tried, 123; acted "under color of law," 260; not a traitor if rebel States are treated as foreign powers, 317; his proclamation, 480.

DEAD STATES described, 308; impossible, 316.

DEATH-KNELL of Liberty: passage of Reconstruction Bill, 547.

DEATHS of Senators, 569; of Representatives, 570.

DEBATES of the Senate and House, difference, 452.

DEBATE, right of in the Senate, 38.

DEBT, accumulated burden of the public, 147; rebel, how inherited by the United States, 317; must be repudiated, 319.

DEFEAT, the lesson of, 416.

DEFIANCE of the majority by Garrett Davis, 244.

DEFILEMENT of the Constitution, 407; answer to the charge, 410.

DELAWARE, the last slaveholding State, 127.

DELAY needful, 382.

DELAYS of the Senate, protest against, 394; benefits of, 453.

DESPOTISM, establishment of, in the South, 531.

DEMOCRACY, leader of the, confusion concerning, 306.

DEMOCRATIC ascendency, dangers attending, 312.

DEMOCRATIC party against the Government, 399; policy of, traversed, 442.

DEMOCRATS, their new discovery, 358; how they caused the passage of the Reconstruction Amendment, 451; hunting up negro voters, 498.

DEVELOPMENT always slow, 64.

DISFRANCHISEMENT of negroes by whites, 365, 376;
opposed, 387;
of rebels advocated, 443.

DISSOLUTION of the Union in the passage of the Freedmen's Bureau
Bill, 160.

DISUNION, threat of, 161.

DISTRICT of Columbia, Committee on, 28;
under the special care of Congress, 50;
number and character of rebels in, 77.

DISTRICT of Columbia, bill to extend suffrage in, introduced, 51;
motion to postpone, 82;
amendments proposed, 82;
and rejected, 93;
passage in the House, 93;
called up in the Senate, 483;
reason for its occupying so much attention, 485;
why it was not passed before, 491;
its passage, 499;
veto, 500;
passage over the veto, 501;
why it was so long deferred, 564, 565.

DOG, injustice to a, 509.

DOOLITTLE, his position on the Civil Rights Bill, 285; "a fortunate politician," 459; the savior of his party, 469.

DREAM of Thaddeus Stevens vanished, 463.

DRED Scott Decision against civil rights, 198, 264.

DU PONT, Admiral, his mention of the negro pilot, 71.

EARTHQUAKE predicted, 447.

EDUCATION, the Committee on, 30.

EDUCATION of Freedmen, provision for, 145

EDUCATION, an uncertain test, 62; should be made a test, 63; of colored children, a scene in the old Senate, 389; Bureau of, 553.

EDUCATOR, the best, the ballot is, 399.

ELECTIVE franchise, a means of elevation, 57;
the only proper test for its exercise, 61;
its abridgment not authorized by the Amendment of
Representation, 358;
the President's view of his power over, 562.

EMANCIPATION, its effect upon rights, 328.

ENFRANCHISEMENT to be a gradual work, 354; how to bring about, 411; not disfranchisement, the question in reconstruction, 506.

ENGLAND, her paper money and specie payments, 556.

EPOCH in the history of the country, 204.

EQUALITY, political, a "fiendish doctrine," 61.

EQUALITY does not exist, 195.

EQUAL Rights, the blessings of, 377.

EXCITEMENT, the Senate not unfitted for business by, 421.

EXCLUSION from citizenship, a right, 195.

EXECUTIVE obstruction, of Congress, 560.

EXECUTIVE patronage, evils of, 559.

EXPENSE of Freedmen's Bureau, 110; objections to answered, 128; for one year, 145, 147, 100; as presented by the President, 180.

EXPULSION of Garrett Davis prayed for, 572.

FEMALE Suffrage advocated, 487.

FEMALES not a political element, 345.

FINANCE, the Committee on, 27; the subject of, 555.

FISKE, General, his statement, 182.

FLAG, the American, 40.

FLOWERS of rhetoric, from a Senator's speech, 413.

FOOT, Solomon his death, 569.

FOREIGN MINISTERS, penalty for proceeding against, 259, 267, 270.

FOREIGN population, their representatives in Congress, 369, 379.

FOREIGN Relations, Chairman of Committee on, 26.

FOREIGNERS not discriminated against in the Civil Rights Bill, 254.

FOSTER, L. S., as President of the Senate, 23;
retirement from the office, 576.

FREEDMEN, their necessities and numbers, 95;
Committee on, 31, 95;
Senator Wilson's bill to protect, 95;
objections to, 98;
laid over, 103.

FREEDMEN'S BUREAU, a bill to enlarge introduced in the Senate, 105; its provisions, 105; its expense, 111; its military feature, 112; for the negro, against the white man, 119; not designed to be permanent, 121; establishment of schools, 130; passes the Senate, 136; brought up in the House, 138; passage, 157; "a dissolution of the Union," 160; its bounty to the whites, 163; veto of, 164.

FREEDMEN'S BUREAU BILL, the second reported, its provisions, 295; passage in the House, 295; in the Senate, 296; form as it became a law, 298; veto of, 302; passage over the veto, 306; the bill and the veto, 563.

FREEDOM elevates the colored race, 85.

FRIENDSHIP for the negro, Mr. Cowan's, 135.

FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW, its provisions employed in the Civil Rights
Bill, 190, 192;
its re-enactment in the Civil Rights Bill opposed, 212;
and advocated, 213;
used for a good end, 216.

GARBLING, an example of, 572.

GENERAL Government supreme to confer citizenship, 239.

GENEROSITY towards rebels, McDougall's illustrated, 461.

GEORGIA, her avoidance of the Civil Rights Bill, 275; possessory titles of freedmen to lands in, 108.

GERMAN woman, a slave, 349.

GOVERNMENT, all departments of the, designed to secure civil rights, 221.

GOVERNMENT, the need of the South, 516.

GRANT, General, on the Freedmen's Bureau, 119; his order to protect officers from civil prosecution, 123; his order setting aside black laws, 215; his report, 563.

GREATNESS of America, 360.

GROUND-SWELL, danger of, after the war, 62.

GYPSIES, their birth and citizenship, 246, 255.

HABEAS Corpus, restored to loyal States, 123; its suspension an evidence that the war had not closed, 177.

HAPPINESS of statesmen who died before recent legislation, 194.

HAYTI, her blow for liberty, 69.

HIGHWAYMAN, his weapons restored, 122.

HOMES for Freedmen, the purchase of, 115.

HOMESTEAD Bill, Southern, 553.

HOUSE of Representatives, scene at the opening of, 16.

HOWARD, General, placed at the head of the Freedmen's Bureau, 139; his operations, 142.

HUNGARY, why revolutionary, 383.

IGNORANCE among colored people rapidly disappearing, 54; the nation chargeable with, 62; in the South, 146.

IMPEACHMENT proposed, 566;
report of Committee on, 567.

INDIANA, negro suffrage not necessary in as in the South, 77;
liable to be placed under the jurisdiction of Freedmen's Bureau, 110;
military rule in, 112;
civil-rights denied to negroes in, 117;
marriage in, 131;
not in rebellion, 125.

INDIANA and Massachusetts, prejudice against color and against
ignorance, 337.

INDIANS, appropriations voted to feed and clothe, 120;
excluded from civil rights, 201;
becoming extinct, 410.

INDICTMENT substituted for Writ of Error, 274.

INDIVIDUALS, not States, commit treason, and are punished, 316.

INDUSTRIAL interests promoted by negro suffrage, 494.

INTELLIGENCE should be required of the negro voter, 73, 81.

IOWA, zeal and patriotism of her colored people, 73; vote on negro suffrage in, 74.

IRELAND, cause of her troubles, 383.

JAMAICA, insurrection in, cause of, 75.

JEFFERSON as quoted by President Johnson, 500.

JESUS CHRIST, the spirit of, 223, 224.

JOHNSON, Andrew, becomes President, 13; his amnesty proclamation, 14; how the odium against would be shared by Congress, 519; "the late lamented Governor," 437.

JOHNSON, Senator, Andrew, his reply to Buchanan's veto, 255, 264.

JOHNSON, Doctor, and the leg of mutton, 406.

"JOHNSONIAN, new converts," 439.

JUDICIAL authority under Freedmen's Bureau, 130.

JUDICIAL Department, the only hope, 512.

JUDICIARY Committee of the Senate described, 28; of the House, 31; subjects properly referred to it, 38; report on impeachment, 567.

JURY Trial not given under martial law, 175.

JUSTICE should be done to white and black, 119.

KANSAS, her protest against the denial of rights, 89;
in 1856, 90;
surrendered to the machinations of slave masters, 99.

KENTUCKY, Union party in, 152; necessity for Freedmen's Bureau in, advocated and opposed, 134; members from, their opposition to the Freedmen's Bureau, 149; her opposition to the Government, 153; laws of, relating to whites and blacks, 154; during the war, 211; will submit, 343; the United States, an appendage to, 362.

KILLING an official, opinion as to when it should be done, 151.

"KING can do no wrong," a bad maxim, 260.

KOH-I-NOOR of blackness, 407.

LADIES, their supposed opinions on female suffrage, 492.

LAERTES, his language endorsed, 529.

LANDS not taken from owners by Freedmen's Bureau, 182.

LANE, James H., his suicide, 569.

LAW, "under color of," explained, 258, 260.

LAWS in Kentucky for whites and blacks, 211.

LAWYER "abating the statesman," 208.

LEADER, of the democracy, confusion concerning, 306; of the House, 575.

LEE acted "under color of law," 260.

LEGISLATURE of Tennessee, Constitutional Amendment in, 473.

LEGISLATURES do not constitute States, 327.

LEGISLATIVE power, danger of its abuse, 500.

LIGHT from the House not needed in the Senate, 44.

LINCOLN, Abraham, his assassination, 13; how he closed a chasm, 230; his language, 323; his death "no loss to the South," 562; celebration of his birthday, 570.

LION, the prostrate, 71.

LOAN Bill, the, 558.

LOYALISTS, Southern, never lost their right of representation, 427.

LOYALTY impossible if States are foreign powers, 317.

"MALE," the word should not be placed in the Constitution, 370.

MANHOOD of the negro race recognized, 91.

MANUFACTURERS, Senate Committee on, 27; House, 31.

MARIUS upon the ruins of Carthage, 287.

MARSHALL, Chief Justice, decision pronounced by, 253.

MARYLAND, necessity for Freedmen's Bureau in, 135.

MASSACHUSETTS, her law of suffrage, 63; her character, 74; her example not to be quoted, 92; crimes are perpetrated in, 97; prejudice against ignorance in, 336; Senator Sumner advised to leave, 336.

MAYOR of Washington, his remonstrance against negro suffrage, 486.

MCCLELLAN'S proclamation against the slaves, 67.

MCCULLOCH, circumstances under which he should receive great credit, 558.

MCDOUGALL, his habits and talents, 277.

MCPHERSON, Edward, Clerk of the House, 16; his conduct in the organization, 17; strictures on, 431.

MEMORIAL from colored men, 393.

METAPHYSICAL argument for female suffrage, 493.

MILITARY affairs, Committee on, 31.

MILITARY feature of the Civil Rights Bill opposed, 216; explained and defended, 217; has been the law 30 years, 218; nothing unusual, 225.

MILITARY governments in the South, colloquy concerning, 530.

MILITARY protection of Freedmen's Bureau opposed, 112; explained and advocated, 126, 172.

MILITARY Reconstruction Bill, discussion of a previous proposition, 502; the measure proposed, 516; its form, 517; explained, 518; danger in not providing for civil governments, 523; a police bill only, 528; Blaine's amendment of, 527; passes the House, 529; Sherman's amendment, 534; passes the Senate, 535; amended in the House, 541; final passage, 524; vetoed; passes over the veto, 547, 548; final form, 548.

MILITARY should not supersede civil authority, 524.

MILL, John Stuart, in favor of female suffrage, 488.

MISSISSIPPI, black code of, 146; distinctions in against blacks, 191; numbers of whites and negroes in, 334.

MISSOURI injured by making voters the basis of representation, 366.

MONOPOLY, Southern, of human rights, 376.

MONTGOMERY Convention committed treason "under color of law," 261.

MURDER, being unlawful, can not be committed, 310;
answer, 315.

NAME, ability to read and write the, as a qualification for
voting, 496.

NAPOLEON not liable to execution if taken in war, 317.

NATIVE-BORN persons not subjects for naturalization, 200, 201;
the position opposed, 203;
advocated, 208.

NATURALIZATION Act as constituted by Congress, 203;
may be changed, 204;
its nature, 232.

NATURALIZATION of races, authorities, instances, 233, 238, 254.

NEBRASKA admitted into the Union, 559.

NEGRO brigade, charge of at Port Hudson, 71.

NEGRO, Cuvier's definition of, enlarged, 484.

NEGRO competition not to be feared, 229.

NEGRO equality does not exist in nature, 144.

NEGRO race, a mine or a buttress, 86; dying out, 408; answer, 409.

NEGROES have no history of civilization, 55; content with their situation, 55; their wealth in Washington, 58; should have citizenship, but not suffrage, 63; their inferiority, 67; became soldiers under discouraging circumstances, 70; their property and patriotism, 71; of Iowa, their patriotism, 73; danger in the influence of politicians over, 79; elevated by freedom, 85; their manhood recognized, 91; laws against them in the South, 147; prejudice against in the South, 161; citizens before the Constitution in North Carolina, 200; in New Hampshire, 201; allowed to compete for the Presidency, 222, 229; our allies, should not be deserted, 234; their services in the war, and subsequent wrongs, 282; competent to vote, 387; eligible to the highest offices, 387; their heroic deeds, 391; their enfranchisement should be gradual, 393; enormities practiced against, 504.

NEGRO suffrage, evil effects of, 60; would humble the white laborer, 65; chronology of in several States, 73; a necessity for the South, 76; retributive justice to rebels, 77; best obtained by indirect means, 412; history of the legislation for, 483; course of Mr. Yates on, 484; passage over the veto, 501.

NEUTRALITY in Kentucky, 152.

NEW ENGLAND, undue preponderance of in the Senate, 401;
answer, 403;
her happiness in not being despised, 413.

NEW ENGLAND Senators not silent during the war, 402.

NEW HAMPSHIRE, negroes citizens in, 201.

NEW YORK and Mississippi, inequality in their representation, 329; not affected by change in the basis of representation, 332.

NEW YORK Times, editorial in the, 444.

NORTH CAROLINA, negroes citizens in before the Constitution, 200; legislation of, concerning white slaves, 349.

NORTH and South, statesmen of the, 384.

NORTH, the political, what constitutes, 57.

OBJECT of the war, 44.

OFFICE, ineligibility to, as a punishment, 458.

OLIGARCHY, the power of, should be ended, 350.

PACIFIC Railroad, Committee on, 30.

PAINS and penalties of not holding office, 458.

PANEGYRIC on Union and rebel dead, 364; answered, 370.

PARLIAMENT and the King, 477.

PARTISAN controversy, 442.

PARTY for enfranchisement, how to be raised up, 411.

PARTY man, Mr. Hendricks not suspected to be, 412.

PATENT medicine in the Senate, 162.

PATTERSON, Senator of Tennessee, case of, 478;
admitted to a seat, 482.

PENALTY essential to effectiveness of law, 259;
is not permission, 414.

PENNSYLVANIA does not need the Freedmen's Bureau, 133;
against negro citizenship, 195.

PEOPLE, "the sacred," constitute the States, 327;
their verdict for Congress, 564.

PERRY, Governor, his disloyalty, 562.

PERSIAN Mythology—Gods of Light and Darkness, 277.

PHYSICAL endurance, a question of, 419.

POLICY of Congress shown in legislation for the District of
Columbia, 50;
of the President, 423.

POLITICAL existence alone entitles to representation, 330; faith maintained in "the worst of times." 532; rights not conferred by Civil Rights Bill, 256; society in the South must be changed, 445.

PRECIPITATE action deprecated, 382.

PREJUDICE of the Southern people against the negro, 161.

PRESENT time contrasted with 1787, 338.

PRESIDENT'S right to say who constitute Congress, 431.

PRESIDENCY, negroes allowed to compete for, 222, 229.

PRESIDENT Johnson, duty of Congress to sustain, 41; Congress not to be bound by his opinion, 42; reluctance of Congress to break with, 94; described as whitewashing, 99; not a "summer soldier," 100; his character as a witness vindicated, 101; restores the habeas corpus, 123; views on good faith to freedmen, 131; policy of restoring lands to rebel owners, 143; veto of Freedmen's Bureau Bill, 164; answered by Mr. Trumbull, 171; veto of the Civil Rights Bill, 245; his controversy with Congress, 262; harmony desirable, 269; his dictation to Congress opposed, 276; defended by Mr. Lane, of Kansas, 280; wearing his collar, 181; as Moses of the negroes, 282; not infallible, 283; his defection and its effect, 294; his invitation to Congress, 314; the Constitutional Amendment construed as an attack upon, 343; speaks through an "unusual conduit," 366; effect of his dictation, 372; effect of his speech, 419; description of, 423; effect of his opposition to reconstruction, 451; his patriotic duty, 459; eulogy on, 460; charged with responsibility for the state of the country, 463; taking "ministerial steps," 464; his influence in Tennessee, 473; his protest against a preamble, 477; veto of the Suffrage Bill, 500; his usurpations, 508; how long he governed the South, 519; his greatness, 520; hope for harmony with, 524; hope only in the removal of, 526; his course rendering military reconstruction necessary, 527; how he executed the law for two years, 536; his terms towards Congress, 561; his 22d February speech, 563; before the people, 564; his vetoes, impeachment proposed, 566; resolution complimentary to, 571.

PRESIDENT of the Senate, the office vacated and assumed, 576.

PRIVILEGES and immunities of a Member of Congress, 575.

PROGRESS, in six years,—a scene in the Senate, 389.

PROGRESS, the tide of, cannot be stayed, 400.

PROPERTY qualification may be restored in South Carolina, 332.

PROSPECTS, brilliant, before the country, 394.

PUBLIC justice slow, but sure, 287.

PUBLIC Lands, Committee on, 30.

PUNISHMENT and reward, Mr. Hendricks and Mr. Sumner, 413.

PUNISHMENT of the Southern States, 395.

QUALIFICATION of Members decided upon by each House separately, 39.

RACES, differences in, cannot be obliterated, 56; diversity of opinion concerning, 360.

RADICAL bull taken by the horns, 314.

RADICAL and Conservative policy contrasted, 320; different in details, not in essence, 322.

RADICALISM, no danger of shipwreck from, 462.

RADICAL majority, its ranks strengthened, 294.

RADICAL principles indestructible, 428.

RADICALS, their purpose to be rational, 489.

RAIL-SPLITTER and tailor-boy, 400.

READING and writing as a qualification for voting, 487;
Mr. Dixon's proposition, 495;
lost, 499.

REAM, Miss Minnie, her commission to make a statue of Lincoln, 470.

REBELLION, its surviving strength, 527.

REBELS, their hatred of the negro, 76;
retributive justice to, 77;
what is expected of them, 133;
authority should not be restored to, 122;
should be trusted, 223, 386;
their confidence to be won, 228;
not to be conciliated by the sacrifice of the freedmen, 231;
not to be deprived of citizenship, 233;
called "the nation's dead," 364;
reply, 370;
sufficiently punished, should be reÄdmitted, 429;
instructions to, 426;
proposition to disfranchise, 436;
opposed, 438;
the number who would be disfranchised, 440;
their disfranchisement passes the House, 450;
rejected in the Senate, 455;
the most guilty, 448;
in Congress, six years ago, 449;
generosity towards, illustrated, 461;
their conduct gives justice to the negro, 516.

REBEL States, their status, 37, 41, 45;
facts respecting, 46;
cannot destroy the Union, 145;
their treatment of the negro, 153;
their lack of representation no obstacle to legislation, 185;
should not deprive loyal States of the power to legislate, 254;
laws of, oppressive to freedmen, 261;
how their absence affects legislation, 268;
dead, 308;
how restored, 309;
how they lost their existence, 321;
never out of the Union, 314;
how should be treated, 318;
bill to restore to political rights introduced, 502;
Mr. Stevens' labor upon it, 528.

REBEL war, novel theory of, 509.

RECONSTRUCTION, as begun by President Johnson, 14; resolution to appoint a committee on, 34, 48; committee on, 49; their appointment, how regarded, 307; first report of committee on, 324; committee on, denounced, 441; its consummation eloquently portrayed, 448; Report on, 466; three modes of, 503; character of the committee on, 513; styled "Maelstrom Committee," 519.

RECONSTRUCTION Amendment proposed, 435; denounced as revolutionary, 437; passage in the House, 450; influence of the Democrats in passing, 451; length of debate on, in the Senate, 453; amendments and substitutes proposed, 454, 455; "stupendous mercy," 461; passage, 462, 463; its form, 463; transmitted to the States, 465.

REEL in the bottle, 415.

REFUGEES, their stories, 523.

RELIGION, appealed to, 458.

REMARKABLE combination of Senators, 415.

REPRESENTATION, Constitutional Amendment concerning, proposed, 324.

REPRESENTATION, modes of, considered, 330; the old rule of, arbitrary, 344; of Southern States, resolution concerning, 417; passage, 433; "straw in a storm," 422; "useless, yet mischievous," 432.

REPRESENTATIVES, seats of, 25.

REPRIMAND of Mr. Rosseau, 574.

REPUBLIC, American idea of, historical summary, 375; its overthrow lamented, 507.

REPUBLICANISM, its meaning, 477.

REPUBLICAN Government denied to the District of Columbia, 90; how guaranteed, 311; what constitutes, 356; inconsistent with denial of right of suffrage, 340; opinion of the fathers concerning, 385.

REPUBLICAN Party, its success or failure, 88; Rousseau's remark upon, 151; its responsibility, 306; declared by Mr. Stevens not responsible for his opinions, 308; its demands, 323; its negro capital, 361; alone benefited by change in Basis of Representation, 362; how it may retain power, 395; history and triumph of, 429; its "scheme," 442; its position defined, 443; its desire, 510.

REVOLUTION, a Constitutional and peaceful, 206; produced by Civil Rights Bill, 287, 288.

"RICH man's war, and poor man's fight," 446.

RIGHTS, danger of denying, 88; of voting essential to the enjoyment of other rights, 92; as affected by emancipation, 328.

ROUSSEAU and Grinnell, affair of, 151, 572.

ROME, her treatment of conquered Latium, 314;
her noble "bloods" lost, 338;
she rebukes America, 392.

RUSSIA, an example of, 99;
Czar of, his example cited, 155.

SAVIOUR of the world found his followers among the poor, 88.

SARSAPARILLA and the ballot, 163.

SCHOOLS for freedmen should be provided by Government, 130; of colored people in the District of Columbia, 59.

SCHURZ, General, evidence of his report, 76, 563.

SCOTT, General, his death, 459; funeral and statue, 570.

SECESSION, Ordinance of, a nullity, 314.

SELF government, a right, 61.

SELF preservation, a right of the nation, 522.

SEATS, selection of, 23, 24.

SENATE, opening scenes in, 14; supposed division of, 431; its proper business and mischievous business, 460.

SENATOR, the Greek, and the Sparrow, 93.

SENATORS not legislators for their own States alone, 186; republican, as they appeared after a caucus, 456.

SERAPIS, destruction of the statue of, 145.

SEWARD, Secretary, his despatch to Minister Adams, 71; and the nobleman's dog, 509; defended, 512.

SHERMAN, General, his order assigning lands to freedmen, 114, 128.

SHERMAN'S Amendment to the Military Reconstruction Bill, 534.

SLAVE, the, under American law, 197.

SLAVEHOLDER, the last in America, 127.

SLAVES have supported themselves and their masters, 70.

SLAVERY, its evil influence, 87;
dead, 102;
its destruction, 145;
abolition of, duty consequent upon, 188;
voted perpetual by Congress, 230;
right of U. S. to prohibit, 319;
not confined to the African race, 348, 349.

SMALL, the negro pilot, 71.

SOUTH, what constitutes the, 57.

SOUTH CAROLINA attempts to keep the slave in bondage, 96; her laws against the negro, 146; her representation to be reduced, 331; and Wisconsin, inequality in representation, 334; her numbers of whites and negroes, 334; how she may evade the Constitutional Amendment, 341; President Johnson's advice to, 562.

SOUTHERN people, their kind feeling towards negroes, 227; a majority opposed to secession, 446; their disposition, 470; advised to strike for liberty, 494.

SOUTHERN States, number of illiterate persons in, 146; in a better condition than to be expected, 109; their representatives should be admitted, 355; the numbers disfranchised by them, 365; an appeal to their love of power, 369; anti-republican, 376; punishment of, 395; not kept out by New England jealousy, 403; their losses in the war, 408; revolution relating to, 417; their relation to the Union unchanged, 427.

SOVEREIGNTIES, divided, essential to the existence of the nation, 267.

SPEAKER of the House, his influence upon legislation, 576.

SPECIE payments, when to be reached, 556.

STARS of heaven and the constellation of the States, 144.

STATE of the country, unparalleled, 178.

STATESMANSHIP the rule of, 539; what constitutes, 532.

STATESMEN of the North and South, 384.

STATE sovereignty, the doctrine destroyed, 319.

STATES rights defined, 228;
Civil Rights Bill endangers, 222, 236;
answered, 240.

STATES reserved the right to confer citizenship, 265;
the number recognized by the President, 335;
South and North, their ratio of representation compared, 344.

STATISTICS of Freedmen's Bureau, 154, 182.

STATUTES declaring what the law is, common, 254.

STEWART'S proposition for universal suffrage, 435.

ST. DOMINGO, insurrection in, without a parallel, 68.

STOCKBRIDGE Indians naturalized, 233.

STORY, Justice, as quoted by President Johnson, 500.

SUBJECTS, who are, how made citizens, 232.

SUFFRAGE in the District of Columbia, bill extending, 51; the first act in a political drama, 54; not prematurely proposed, 91.

SUFFRAGE limited by the influence of slavery, 52; negro to be effected by Constitutional Amendment, 327; the proper basis of representation, 335; the right of, Congress may regulate, 364; negro or rebel? 383; impartial, advocated by Mr. Yates, 398; by Mr. Pomeroy, 404; female, advocated and opposed, 488; advocated by Mr. Wade, 490; rejected, 495; its true base, 495.

SUN obscured by Congressional acts, 337.

SUPPLEMENTARY Reconstruction Bill, 550.

SYMPATHIZERS, Northern, with rebellion, 78.

TACTICS, Parliamentary, 418.

TARIFF, subject of the, 554; bill, 555.

TAXATION without representation opposed, 326, 333; proposed exemption of unrepresented negroes from, 386; the principle of, announced, 555.

TEARS for the slave, 192.

TEMPTATION to be friends of the President, 564.

TENNESSEE, efforts of members to gain admission, 17; effect of veto of Freedmen's Bureau on the admission of, 418; right of Congress to inquire into the loyalty of, 424; her reÄdmission anticipated, 448; first to ratify the Constitutional Amendment, 473; resolution for restoring representation to, 474; its passage, 476.

TENURE of office, bill to regulate, 559.

TERMS of surrender to be fixed by the President, 319.

TERRITORIAL Government proper for rebel States, 312.

TERRITORIES, democratic doctrine on, fruits of, 442.

TEST Oath, 21; should be modified, 47; resolution to modify the, 480; opposed by Mr. Stokes, 480; by Mr. Conkling; laid on the table, 481.

TEXAS, citizenship conferred on the people by legislation, 198; negroes in, unaware of their freedom, 393.

TIME proper for amending the Constitution, 345, 352, 355.

TOOMBS and his gang make a "hell of legislation," 449.

TOWNSEND'S Sarsaparilla, and suffrage, 530.

TRANQUILLITY impossible while rights are denied a portion of the people, 486.

TREASON, charge, of resented, 284.

TRIBUNES of Borne, their "veto," 278.

TROUBLE with the negro, how ended, 390.

TRUMBULL, Senator, his visit to the President, 262, 283.

UNION Party of 1861, its policy on slavery, 342; its position defined, 443.

UNION to be dissolved by act of Congress, 40; under the Constitution and old confederation, 316; means of having a prosperous, 461.

UNIVERSAL suffrage, its sure triumph, 400.

"VENOMOUS fight," a, 419.

VERBAL details, criticism on, deprecated, 520.

VETO, of the Freedmen's Bureau Bill, 165; bill fails to pass over, in the Senate, 187; Mr. Raymond desirous of avoiding, 235; of Civil Rights Bill, 246; efforts of Congress to avoid, 262; appeal of Senator Andrew Johnson against, 264; power of the Executive, 278; of the second Freedmen's Bureau Bill, 302; of the District of Columbia Suffrage Bill, 500; of Military Reconstruction Bill, 542; of Tenure of Office Bill, 560

VETOES, summary of, 565.

VIRGINIA, her legislation concerning citizenship, 349.

VIRGINIANS, probable effect of negro suffrage upon, 498.

VOTE on appointment of Reconstruction Committee, 35, 48; on Negro Suffrage, 93; on Freedmen's Bureau Bill, 136, 157, 187; on Civil Rights Bill, 219, 243; on veto of Civil Rights Bill, 288, 289; on Reconstruction Amendment, 450; on Basis of Representation, 371, 416; on Military Reconstruction Bill, 535.

VOTES of disfranchised persons in the Electoral College, 329.

VOTERS, objections to, as basis of representation, 351.

VOTERS, qualifications of, under the Military Reconstruction Bill, 550.

VOTING, the mode of in Joint Committees, 39.

VOTING, the right of, not correlative with the duty to bear arms, 493; population in States, old and new, 335.

WADE accused of secession sentiments, 428.

WAR, effects of the, 62;
opinions of General Grant and the Attorney General on its
termination, 123;
results of the, 209.

WAR of races, how produced, 75; how avoided, 383.

WAR power of the Freedmen's Bureau, 125.

WAR, the only remaining means of preserving civil liberty, 519; difficulty of raising soldiers for such a, 521.

WASHINGTON City thriftless under the rule of slavery, 52; schools and churches of colored population in, 59; negroes in, their property and patriotism, 71; its situation, 571.

WASHINGTON, George, on alterations of the Constitution, 358.

WAYS and Means, Committee on, 29.

WELFARE, public, subserved by passage of Freedmen's Bureau Bill, 149.

WHIPPING negroes to disfranchise them, 504.

"WHITE-MAN'S Government," this is not exclusively, 57, 61; the idea opposed, 207; eloquent passage concerning, 391; answer to, 396.

"WHITE," mistake of Colorado in using the word, 559.

WHITE people, civilized governments intended for, 60; sometimes vote wrong, 79; never legally slaves, 370; not discriminated against, 258; recipients of bounty of Freedmen's Bureau, 163; General Fiske's statement, 182.

WHITE population to be crowded out by blacks, 150.

WHITE soldiers did more than black, 66.

"WHITEWASHING," charged against the President, 99, 563.

WISCONSIN, instructions to the Senators of, 286; and South Carolina, their unequal representation, 334; her declaration on negro suffrage, 394; radicals of, Doolittle against the, 533.

WOMEN, crusade against, deprecated, 370.

YOUNG gentlemen in Congress, suggestions to, 529.

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