420 



UNITED STATES (1865-'67). 



Chase, 801 ; appointment of Mr. Fessenden, 

 801 ; resignation of Postmaster Blair, 801 ; ap- 

 pointment of ex-Governor Dennison, 801 ; col- 

 ored emigrants, 801. 



V. Antislavery amendment passed, 796; 

 speech of President Lincoln, 796 ; Confederate 

 movement for arming slaves, 796 ; speech of 

 President Lincoln in relation to the arming 

 of slaves, 796; second inauguration of Mr. 

 Lincoln, 797; cabinet, 797; passports for 

 Canada, 797; crisis in military affairs, 797; 

 policy of President Lincoln, 797; proposition 

 of Judge Campbell, 797; order of President 

 Lincoln to General Weitzel at Richmond, 

 797; extract from the Richmond Whig, 798; 

 address of members of the Legislature, etc., 

 to the people of Virginia, 798; meeting of 

 citizens in Richmond, 798 ; speech of Presi- 

 dent Lincoln, April llth, on the restoration of 

 the Union, 798-800 ; drafting and recruiting 

 stopped, 800 ; letter of the cabinet to Vice- 

 President Johnson announcing the death of 

 President Lincoln, 800 ; remarks of President 

 Johnson on taking the oath of office, 800 ; re- 

 marks to a delegation of citizens from New 

 Hampshire, 800 ; to delegations from Indiana 

 and Ohio, 801 ; reply to a delegation of exiles 

 from the South, 801 ; to a delegation of colored 

 persons, 802 ; to a delegation from South 

 Carolina, 802 ; proclamation appointing a day 

 of humiliation, 802; proclamation offering a 

 reward for the apprehension of Jefferson Davis 

 and others, 802; proclamation in relation to 

 restoration of Southern States, 802, 803 ; oath 

 to be taken by Confederates, 803 ; classes of 

 persons excepted from the benefits of the proc- 

 lamation, 803 ; President Johnson's reconstruc- 

 tion policy, 803 ; opinion of Attorney-Genera^ 

 Speed as to the light of Confederate officers to 

 reside in Washington, 804 ; movement toward 

 securing equal rights to negroes, 804 ; remarks 

 of Mr. Phillips on negro suffrage, 804, 805 ; 

 address of President Johnson to a delegation 

 from Southern States, September llth, 805, 

 806 ; release of prominent Confederates on 

 parole, 806 ; views of President Johnson rela- 

 tive to the colored race, 807 ; oath to be taken 

 by all persons elected to office, 808; President 

 Johnson on the condition of affairs in the 

 Southern States, 808 ; letter of General Grant 

 on his tour of inspection, 809 ; amendment of 

 the Federal Constitution adopted, 810; con- 

 ventions of colored people, 810 ; great mortali- 



ty among the Southern negroes, 810 ; taxation, 

 810 ; movement to reduce hours of labor, 810. 



VI. Disapprobation of the people with the 

 President's measures, 748 ; universal suffrage 

 and universal amnesty proposed, 748; views 

 of the President stated to Senator Dixon, 748 ; 

 do. to a colored delegation, 749 ; do. to a com- 

 mittee of the Virginia Legislature, 750; do. 

 on February 22d, 751 ; decision of Supreme 

 Court on test-oaths, 752 ; action of the Re- 

 publican National Committee, 752 ; declaration 

 of "Wendell Phillips, 752 ; public meetings, 

 752 ; determination of the President, 752 ; 

 speech to a delegation from Kentucky, 753 ; 

 organization of the National Union Club, 753 ; 

 proceedings, 753 ; members of the cabinet in- 

 terrogated, 753 ; replies, 753 ; call for a Na- 

 tional Union Convention, 754 ; the call, 754 ; 

 address to the people by Democratic members 

 of Congress, 754; its effect, 754; views of 

 Secretary Seward on the convention, 755 ; do. 

 of Secretary Welles, 755; do. of Attorney- 

 General Speed, 755* do. of other members, 

 756 ; do. of A. Stephens, 756 ; call for a South- 

 ern Unionist Convention, 756 ; the call, 756 ; 

 meeting of the National Union Convention, 

 767 ; organization, 757 ; resolutions, 757 ; 

 views of the President on the acts of the con- 

 vention, 757 ; action of the Loyal League in 

 Philadelphia, 758 ; Southern Unionist Conven- 

 tion, 758 ; proceedings, 758 ; resolutions, 759 ; 

 address, 759 ; Soldiers' Convention at Cleve- 

 land, 759 ; message from convention at Mem- 

 phis, 759 ; reply, 759 ; Soldiers' Convention at 

 Pittsburg, 760; resolutions, 760; Working- 

 men's Convention, 760. 



VII. Restoration of Southern States, 734 ; 

 constitutional amendment, known as Article 

 XIV., 734 ; States which have ratified the amend- 

 ment, 734 ; public meetings of colored people 

 relative to elective franchise, 734 ; Equal Rights 

 League Convention, 734; the resolutions of 

 that body, 735 ; action of Congress relative to 

 elective franchise, 735 ; bills for the admission 

 of Colorado and Nebraska, 735 ; the Presi- 

 dent's vetoes of these bills, 735 ; the recon- 

 struction act of March 2d, 735 ; the provision 

 of the act relating to franchise, 736 ; the Presi- 

 dent's veto of the act, 736 ; the supplementary 

 bill, 736 ; leading provisions of this measure, 

 736 ; the President's veto, 736 ; the districts 

 and commanders, 736 ; an address setting forth 

 the congressional policy, 736 ; report of execu- 



