84 COMMISSIONERS, CONFEDERATE. 



CONFEDERATE STATES. 



annul it, 191 ; its provisions, 191 ; arguments 

 in favor of the treaty, 192. 



V. Provision of the act of July 13, 1861, 

 184; licenses to trade on the Mississippi, 184; 

 appointment of agents, 184 ; order of General 

 Grant stopping trade in Virginia, 184; con- 

 tracts affected by the order, 184; ports de- 

 clared closed by President Lincoln on April 

 llth, 184; restrictions removed by President 

 Johnson, April 29th, 184; Mr. McCullough's 

 trade regulations, 185 ; Confederate cruisers in 

 neutral ports, 185 ; instructions respecting trade 

 regulations, 185; President Johnson's procla- 

 mation raising the blockade, etc., 185 ; further 

 removal of trade restrictions, 186 ; proclama- 

 tion respecting Tennessee, 186 ; final procla- 

 mation removing all restrictions, 186 ; Inter- 

 national Trade Convention at Detroit, 186; 

 proposed enlargement of New York canals, 

 186 ; and of the Welland and St. Lawrence 

 canals, 187. 



COMMISSIONERS, CONFEDERATE. I. Their 

 last letter to Secretary Seward, 135. 



COMMITTEE OF THIRTEEN. I. In the Sen- 

 ate, 175 ; report, 175. 



COMMITTEE OF THIRTY-THREE. I. In the 

 House, 202; report, 207; action on their re- 

 port, 216 ; action on amendments to, 216-218. 



COMMUNIST INSURRECTION, THE. XI. (See 

 France.) 



COMONFORT, TGNACIO. III. Birth, 202; 

 death, 202 ; public services in Mexico, 202. 



COMPROMISE. I. Readiness on the part of 

 Southern statesmen to, 174, 224. 



COMPROMISE MEASURES. I. Vote on, in the 

 Senate, 224. 



CONANT, HANNAH O'BRIEN CHAPLIN. V. 

 Birth, 187; works, 187; death, 187. 

 ; CONCHA, MANUEL de la. XIV. Birth, 143 ; 

 public career, 144 ; death, 144. 



CONDIT, ROBERT W., D. D. XI. Obituary 

 of, 570. 



CONFEDERATE GOVERNMENT. I. Inferior- 

 ity of the negro the corner-stone of, 129 ; er- 

 rors of an opposite opinion, 129 ; entertained 

 at the North, 129 ; a principle in politics as 

 sure to succeed as a principle in physics, 129 ; 

 elements for a successful career, 130; popula- 

 tion of seceding States, 130. 



CONFEDERATE STATES. I. First declaration 

 of disunion, 121 ; occasional agitations of the 

 question of disunion, 121 ; a question to be 

 met, 122; political agitation of slavery, 122; 



grievances of South Carolina, debate in the 

 convention, 122 ; no attempts to relieve the 

 grievances made, 123 ; first public steps tow- 

 ard the formation of the Southern Confed- 

 eracy, 123 ; shipment of arms to the Southern 

 States in 1860, 123 ; views of General Scott 

 on the future, 123, 124; action of Secretary 

 Floyd in furnishing arms to the Confederate 

 States, 124 ; secret meeting in Washington to 

 plan the course of proceeding, 125 ; persons 

 present, 125; note, 125; details -of the pro- 

 ceedings, 125 ; conventions calling for the for- 

 mation of a Southern Confederacy, 126 ; loy- 

 alty in Louisiana, 126; reconstruction, 126; 

 inauguration of President Davis, 127; new 

 questions, 127 ; mouths of the Mississippi Riv- 

 er, freedom of the, 127; policy of the new 

 Government, 128; military preparations, 128; 

 pay of the army, 128 ; military force author- 

 ized, 128 ; commissioners sent to Europe, 131 ; 

 do. to Washington, 181 ; organization of the 

 Confederate Government, 131 ; instructions to 

 collectors of the customs, 131 ; Beauregard 

 ordered to demand the surrender of Fort Sum- 

 ter, 132 ; or to reduce it if not surrendered, 

 132 ; commissioners to Washington refused an 

 audience, 132, military force in the field May 

 1st, 138; subscription to five-million loan, 138; 

 plan of the campaign, 139; plan of the war, 

 how decided, 140 ; auxiliaries relied upon by 

 the Confederates, 140 ; Constitution of, ratified, 

 141 ; business of second session of Congress, 

 142 ; loan of one hundred millions, 144 ; direct 

 tax, 144; States aid the Government, 144; 

 extortions on the people, 144 ; copy of Treas- 

 ury notes, 145 ; effect of President Lincoln's 

 proclamation on the military spirit, 146 ; mili- 

 tary objects of the Government, 147 ; passes an 

 act to prohibit the payment of debts to North- 

 ern citizens, 147 ; amount so due, 147 ; an act 

 to banish all who are not citizens, 147 ; proc- 

 lamation under the act, 148 ; regulations in its 

 execution, 148 ; object of this act, 148 ; act of 

 sequestration, 148 ; instructions to receivers, 

 148 ; interrogatories to garnishees, 149 ; con- 

 stitutionality of the confiscation act contested 

 in South Carolina, 149 ; objections to it, 149, 

 150; post-office arrangements, 151; postage, 

 152 ; stamps, 152 ; Confederate courts organ- 

 ized, 152; force in the field in July, 152; 

 paper-money in, 152 ; embarrassment in finan- 

 cial affairs, 153; presidential election, 153; 

 officers of the Government, 154 ; inflammable 



