418 



UNITED STATES (1861-'62). 



tary Cobb, 700 ; resignation of Secretary Cass, 

 700 ; reason, TOO ; state of public sentiment at 

 this time, 700 ; affairs in South Carolina, 701 ; 

 resignation of Secretary Floyd, 701 ; reason, 

 701 ; correspondence, 701 ; arrival of commis- 

 sioners from Sout]^ Carolina at Washington, 

 701 ; object, 701 ; letter to the President, 702 ; 

 his reply, 702 ; manner of their reception, 702 ; 

 President's views on the movement of Major 

 Anderson, 703 ; reply of the commissioners, 

 703; rejected by the President, 703; Presi- 

 dent's message of January 8th, 703 ; principles 

 governing his conduct, 703 ; resignation of 

 Secretary Thompson, 704 ; correspondence rel- 

 ative thereto, 704; resignation of Secretary 

 Thomas, 704 ; reasons, 704 ; John A. Dix ap- 

 pointed to the Treasury, 704 ; views of the 

 Government at this time, 705; decision re- 

 specting Fort Suinter, 705 ; Commissioner 

 Hayne, of South Carolina, arrives at Washing- 

 ton, 705 ; the proposition to him, 705 ; letters 

 of Senators to the President, 705; reply of 

 Secretary Holt, 705; a final reply to demand 

 for Fort Sumter, 706 ; Virginia peace resolu- 

 tions, 707 ; mission of ex-President Tyler, 

 707; action of the President, 708; armistice 

 charged on President Buchanan, 708; senti- 

 ments of the people, 709 ; close of Mr. Buchan- 

 an's term of office, 709 ; inauguration of Mr. 

 Lincoln, 709 ; the change which had taken 

 place since November, 709 ; the policy of the 

 President declared, 710; commissioners from 

 South Carolina arrive at Washington, 710 ; 

 letter to Secretary Seward, 710 ; his reply, 

 711 ; commissioners' response, 712 ; military 

 movements in New York, 713 ; preparation of 

 transports, 713 ; sail from the port, 714 ; excite- 

 ment, 714 ; affairs at Charleston, 714 ; Virginia 

 commissioners visit the President to inquire as 

 to his policy, 714; his answer, 715; capture 

 of Sumter, 715; proclamation of President 

 Lincoln, 715 ; call for troops by the Secretary 

 of War, 715 ; answers of the Governors of the 

 respective States, 716 : letter of President Lin- 

 coln to the Mayor of Baltimore, 716 ; letter of 

 the Secretary of State to the Governor of Ma- 

 ryland, 717; inter view bet ween commissioners 

 from Baltimore and the President, 717; the 

 blockade proclamation, 717; seizure of tele- 

 graphic dispatches, 718 ; proclamation ordering 

 blockade of Florida, and suspension of habeas 

 corpus writ, 718 ; instructions by the Secretary 

 of the Treasury to collectors of the customs, 



718 ; mails discontinued, 718 ; extra session of 

 Congress, 719; its action, 719; finances, 719; 

 army, 719; navy, 719; act passed to approve 

 and justify the acts of the President, 719 ; its 

 constitutionality, 719 ; military arrangements, 

 719, 720 ; retirement of General Scott, 720 ; 

 promotion of General McClellan, 720; corre- 

 spondence, 720; order of General McClellan 

 on taking command of the army, 721 ; bio- 

 graphical notices of numerous army officers, 

 721-726. 



II. Census statistics of 1860, 777-786; 

 views of the people on the subject of slavery, 

 786, 787; growth of the antislavery senti- 

 ment, 787 ; denunciations on both sides, 787 ; 

 third party success, 787; antislavery almost 

 successful in 1856, 787 ; successful in 1860, se- 

 cession commenced, 787 ; silence of the incom- 

 ing Administration, 787 ; position of President 

 Lincoln at the close of 1861 on the subject of 

 slavery, 788; action of Congress, 788; mes- 

 sage relative to emancipation with compensa- 

 tion, 788 ; views of the people relative to the 

 proposition, 788; explanation of his views, 

 789 ; further remarks relative to the bill for 

 emancipation in the District of Columbia, 789 ; 

 proclamation countermanding the order of 

 General Hunter, 789; views of the people, 

 789; conference of the President with tho 

 border State members, 790; answers of tho 

 members, 790 ; cause of the bitterness of tho 

 war, 790 ; failure of emancipation with com- 

 pensation, 791 ; address of the Governors to the 

 President relative to calling out more troops, 

 791 ; his reply, 791 ; charges made against 

 President Lincoln, 791 ; his reply, 792 ; recep- 

 tion of his reply by the people, 792 ; the watch- 

 word now of the friends of emancipation, 792 ; 

 military necessity, 792 ; conference of the Presi- 

 dent with a deputation from Chicago, 792 ; is- 

 sues his proclamation of prospective emancipa- 

 tion, 793 ; how received, 793 ; address of the 

 Governors at Altoona, 793 ; whom signed by, 

 794 ; was it a military necessity ? 794 ; argu- 

 ment of the Secretary of War to show the 

 military necessity, 794; emancipation procla- 

 mation issued, 794; the consummation of anti- 

 slavery, 795 ; appropriations by Congress, 795 ; 

 tax laws in Southern States, 795 ; pension law, 

 795; treaty with England on the slave-trade, 

 796 ; execution of Nathaniel Gordon for en- 

 gaging in the slave-trade, 796 ; state of affairs 

 at the close of the year, 796. 



