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uary 8, 1861, 598 ; inaugural of President Lin- 

 coln, 600 ; message of President Lincoln, July 

 4, 1861, 603 ; do. December, 1861, 607 ; inau- 

 gural of President Davis, 612 ; message of 

 President Davis, April 29, 1861, 614 ; do. July 

 20,1861,619; do. November 18, 1861, 622; 

 proclamation of neutrality by Queen Victoria, 

 624 ; decree of the Queen of Spain, 626 ; de- 

 cree of the King of Portugal, 626 ; views of 

 the Emperor of Kussia, 626 ; constitution of 

 the Confederate States, 627. 



II. Message of President Lincoln to Con- 

 gress on the emancipation of slaves and com- 

 pensation to the owners, 720 ; proclamation 

 countermanding the order of General Hunter 

 relative to slaves, 720 ; message of President 

 Lincoln to Congress on emancipation with com- 

 pensation, 720 ; appeal to the border State 

 members of Congress in behalf of emancipa- 

 tion with compensation, 721 ; reply of a ma- 

 jority of the members, 722, 723 ; reply of the 

 minority, 724 ; reply of Mr. Maynard, of Ten- 

 nessee, 725 ; proclamation of President Lin- 

 coln relative to future emancipation of slaves, 

 725 ; message of President Lincoln at the third 

 session of the Thirty-seventh Congress, 730 ; 

 inaugural address of Jefferson Davis, 732 ; do. 

 message at the first session of the Confederate 

 Congress, 734 ; do. message at the second ses- 

 sion of the Confederate Congress, 734; eman- 

 cipation proclamation of President Lincoln, 

 736 ; retaliatory proclamation of Jefferson Da- 

 vis, 737 ; overtures of France and the replies 

 of Great Britain and Kussia on mediation in 

 the affairs of the United States, 738; treaty 

 between the United States and Great Britain 

 for the suppression of the African slave-trade, 

 741. 



III. Message of President Lincoln to Con- 

 gress, December 7, 1863, 777; do. amnesty 

 proclamation, 781 ; message of Jefferson Davis 

 to Confederate Congress, January, 1863, 782; 

 do. at the second session, 788 ; correspondence 

 of President Lincoln with the committee at 

 Albany, relative to the arrest of Vallandigham, 

 799 ; correspondence with the Ohio committee 

 in the same case, 803 ; letter to the Uncon- 

 ditional Union Meeting in Springfield, 808. 



IV. Message of President Lincoln, 687; 

 message of Jefferson Davis in May, 691 ; do. in 

 November, 693 ; plan of the Canadian Confed- 

 eration, 698 ; encyclical letter of Pope Pius 

 IX., 701; syllabus, 704 ; instructions to Con- 



federate cruisers, 707 ; proceedings relative to 

 peace, 710 ; letter of Mr. Seward to Mr. Ad- 

 ams on the same subject, 713 ; report of Messrs. 

 Stephens, Hunter, and Campbell, relative to 

 peace negotiations at Fortress Monroe, 714; 

 do. of Mr. Lincoln, 714. 



V. Inaugural Address of President Lincoln, 

 March 4, 1865, 710; message of President 

 Johnson at the first session of the Thirty-ninth 

 Congress, 710 ; message of Jefferson Davis to 

 the Congress at Richmond, March 13, 1865, 

 717; report of Lieutenant-General Grant for 

 1864-'65, 719-742. 



VI. President's message at the second ses- 

 sion of the Thirty -ninth Congress, 630 ; veto 

 of the act to establish a bureau for the relief 

 of freedmen, refugees, and abandoned lands, 

 635 ; civil-rights bill, 638 ; veto of, 640 ; majority 

 report of the joint committee on reconstruction 

 to the two Houses of Congress, 643 ; minority 

 report of the joint committee on reconstruc- 

 tion to the two Houses of Congress, 650 ; an 

 act for the union of Canada, Nova Scotia, and 

 New Brunswick, and the government thereof, 

 as passed by the British Parliament, 657. 



VII. Message of President Johnson to Con- 

 gress, December 2, 1867, 633 ; veto of the bill 

 to regulate the elective franchise in the Dis- 

 trict of Columbia, 642 ; veto of the bill for the 

 admission of Colorado, 646 ; veto of the Ne- 

 braska bill, 648 ; the bill, 649 ; veto of the bill 

 to regulate the tenure of civil offices, 650 ; ve- 

 to of the bill " to provide for the more efficient 

 government of the rebel States," 652 ; the bill, 

 657 ; veto of the supplementary reconstruction 

 bill, 658 ; official opinion of the Attorney-Gen- 

 eral on reconstruction, 659; message of the 

 President in answer to inquiries of the Senate, 

 665 ; veto of the second supplementary recon- 

 struction bill, 666. 



VIII. Message of the President at the sec- 

 ond session of the Fortieth Congress, 641-648 ; 

 correspondence with General Grant relative to 

 the office of Secretary of War, 648-651 ; letter 

 to members of the cabinet, and their replies 

 as to the conversation between the President 

 and General Grant, 653; letter of General 

 Grant on the same, 656 ; message of the Pres- 

 ident on the removal of Secretary Stanton, 

 657 ; message of President Johnson suggesting 

 changes in the Constitution, 659. 



IX. Message of President Grant to Con- 

 gress at the commencement of the second ses- 



