DAVIS, H. W. 



DAVIS, J. 0. BANCKOFT. 161 



VIII. Senator from Kentucky, 124 ; offers 

 a resolution on the incapacity of the Senate to 

 try impeachment, 146 ; on reconstruction, 147. 



IX. Senator from Kentucky, 120; on the 

 fifteenth amendment, 134, 136-138, 148, 154- 

 156 ; on the bill to strengthen the public credit, 

 186. 



X. Senator from Kentucky, 117; on the 

 Georgia bill, 127 ; on the resolution to admit 

 Virginia, 151 ; offers amendment to enforce- 

 ment bill, 182. 



XI. Senator from Kentucky, 132 ; on af- 

 fairs in Southern States, 171-177 ; relative to 

 the bill to enforce the fourteenth amendment, 

 224. 



XII. Birth, death, 232; career, 232; per- 

 sonal appearance and character, 233. 



DAVIS, H. W. IV. Member of Congress 

 from Maryland, 220 ; offers a resolution rela- 

 tive to the President's message, 220 ; on con- 

 fiscation, 278 ; on the relations of the insurrec- 

 tionary States, 293 ; protest on the proclama- 

 tion of the President relative to the bill of 

 Congress for reorganizing States, 307 ; on ad- 

 mitting a representative from Arkansas, 307 ; 

 resolution relative to Mexico, 314; on the free- 

 dom of slaves in the army, 327 ; on the expul- 

 sion of Alexander Long, 349. . 



^ Representative from Maryland, 205; 

 offers a resolution on foreign affairs, 206 ; on 

 civil prisoners, 238-240; on reconstruction, 

 256; birth, 305; legal and political career, 

 305 ; death, 306. 



DAVIS, JEFFERSON. I. Senator in Thirty- 

 sixth Congress, 166 ; source from which this 

 evil has sprung, 168 ; offers a resolution ex- 

 pressing the claims of the South, 186 ; asks to 

 be excused from serving on the Committee of 

 Thirteen, 175 ; excused, 175 ; motion to re- 

 consider, 175 ; request withdrawn, 175 ; re- 

 marks on withdrawing from the Senate, 198; 

 elected President, 127 ; address on his arrival 

 at Montgomery, 127; inauguration of, 127; 

 cabinet authorized to assume control of mili- 

 tary operations, 130; on the commencement of 

 hostilities, 133 ; proclamation granting letters 

 of marque, 137; copy of letter of marque, 

 137; instruction to privateers, 138; desires 

 peace, 139; letter to the Maryland commis- 

 sioners, 141 ; proclamation respecting alien 

 enemies, 148 ; letter to President Lincoln rela- 

 tive to the treatment of the prisoners captured 

 in the privateer Savannah, 150 ; remarks on, 

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in his message, 150 ; chosen President for six 

 years, 153 ; previously elected by Congress, 

 155; vetoes the act to prohibit the African 

 slave-trade, 160 ; on the events which have 

 taken place, 191 ; proclaims martial law in 

 East Tennessee, 441 ; letter to the Governor 

 of Kentucky, 399. 



II. Message on the capture of Fort Donel- 

 son, 35 ; message to Confederate Congress, 73 ; 

 address to the army after the battle of Fair 

 Oaks, 118; after seven days' battles, 134; 

 message to Confederate Congress on dispatch 

 of General Lee, 135 ; his inauguration at Rich- 

 mond, 241 ; his views, 241 ; recommends a 

 conscription law, 242 ; on its constitutionality, 

 243 ; letter to General Lee respecting retalia- 

 tory measures, 715 ; his inaugural address, 

 732 ; message at the first session of the perma- 

 nent Congress, 734 ; do. at the second session 

 of the permanent Congress, 735 ; retaliatory 

 proclamation, 736. 



III. Proclamation ordering all persons into 

 the army, 16 ; letter to General Lee, 99 ; letter 

 of instructions to A. H. Stephens on a mission 

 to Washington, 214; messages to Congress, 

 782-788 ; letter to the Pope, 820. 



V. Reply to the Virginia Legislature in re- 

 lation to the appointment of General Lee as 

 commander-in-chief, 188 ; memorial of the 

 Georgia Convention for the release of, 397; 

 message to the Congress at Richmond, March 

 13, 1865, 717 ; petition in his favor from the 

 ladies of Abbeville District, S. 0., 766 ; procla- 

 mation offering a reward for the apprehension 

 of, 802 ; resolution of the Virginia Legislature 

 praying his release, 818. 



VI. Resolution in Congress relative to, 

 239, 240 ; resolutions in Florida, 325 ; his caso 

 before the Supreme Court, 513 ; proceedings, 

 513, 514 ; case in Mississippi, 522. 



VII. Petition of, for writ of habeas corpus, 

 507. (See Military Commissions.) 



XI. Speech at Atlanta, Georgia, 750. 



DAVIS, JEFF., privateer. I. Officers and crew 

 convicted of piracy, 151 ; hostages seized by 

 the Confederate Government, 151. 



DAVIS, Mrs. JOHN. XII. Obituary, 604. 



DAVIS, J. C. BANCROFT. XII. (See Diplo- 

 matic Correspondence and Foreign Relations.) 

 Statement, as agent of the United States, of the 

 Geneva arbitration, to Secretary Fish, 239-246 ; 

 appears as agent of the United States before 

 the Geneva Tribunal, 246 ; statement as to the 



