Y64 



INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



Buffalo by water, 108 ; transport of the New York Cen- 

 tral railroad, 108 ; quantities and values left at tidewater 

 on the New York canals in 1861, 109 ; Western grains 

 exported from New York, 110 ; imports and exports at 

 New York, 110 ; reversal of the trade in specie, 111 ; de- 

 cline in the price of bills, 111 ; leading articles of domes- 

 tic export, 111 ; vessels entered and cleared at New York, 

 111; coastwise tonnage, 112; exports from Baltimore, 

 112 ; do. from Philadelphia, 112 ; trade of St. Louis, 112 ; 

 tonnage of New York, 112 ; leading articles of export, 

 112; trade of St. Louis, 112; receipts from the inte- 

 rior, 113; exports of leading crops from New Orleans, 

 114 ; railroads of the States, 115 ; canals and railroads in 

 New York, 115 ; quantities and value of domestic ex- 

 ports of the United States, 117 ; exports of wheat and 

 corn, 118; tonnage in each district of the United States, 

 119 ; indirect trade of the United States, 120 ; foreign 

 vessels trading with the United States, 120. 



Commissioners, Confederate, their last letter to Secretary 

 Seward, 135. 



Committee of Thirteen in the Senate, 175 ; report, 175. 



Committee of Thirty-three in the House, 202; report, 207; 

 action on their report, 216 ; action on amendments to, 

 216-218. 



Compromise, readiness on the part of Southern statesmen 

 to, 174, 224. 



Compromise measures, vote on, in the Senate, 224. 



Confederate Government, inferiority of the negro the 

 corner-stone of, 129 ; errors 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; population of seceding 

 States, 130. 



Confederate States, first declaration of disunion, 121 ; occa- 

 sional agitations of the question of disunion, 121 ; a ques- 

 tion 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 towards the formation of the Southern 

 Confederacy, 123 ; shipment of arms to the Southern 

 States in 1S60, 123; views of Genera Scott on the future, 

 123, 124 ; action of Secretary Floyd in furnishing arms to 

 the Confederate States, 124 ; secret meeting in Washing- 

 ton to plan the course of proceeding, 125 ; persons pres- 

 ent, 125; note, 125; details of the proceedings, 125; 

 conventions calling for the formation of a Southern Con- 

 federacy, 126 ; loyalty in Louisiana, 126 ; reconstruction, 

 126 ; inauguration of President Davis, 127 ; new ques- 

 tions, 127 ; mouths of the Mississippi Eiver, freedom of 

 the, 127 ; policy of the new Government, 128 ; military 

 preparations, 128 ; pay of the army, 128 ; military force 

 authorized, 128 ; commissioners sent to Europe, 131 ; 

 do. to Washington, 131 ; organization of the Confederate 

 Government, 131 ; instructions to collectors of the cus- 

 toms, 131 ; Beauregard ordered to demand the surrender 

 of Fort Sumter, 132; or to reduce it if not surrendered, 

 132 ; commissioners to Washington refused an audience, _ 

 132 ; military force in the field May 1st, 138 ; subscrip- 

 tion to five million loan, 138; plan of the campaign, 139 ; 

 plan of the war, how decided, 140; auxiliaries relied 

 npon 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 treasury notes, 145; effect of President Lin- 

 coln's proclamation on the military spirit, 146; military 

 objects of the Government, 147 ; passes an act to prohibit 

 the payment of debts to Northern citizens, 147; amount 

 BO due, 147 ; an act to banish all who are not citizens, 

 147 ; proclamation under the act, 148 ; regulations in Ita 



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

 tion, 148 ; instructions to receivers, 148 ; interrogatories 

 to garnishees, 149 ; constitutionality of the confiscation 

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

 149,150; post-office arrangements, 151; postage, 152; 

 stamps, 152; Confederate courts organized, 152; force 

 in the field in July, 152 ; paper money in, 152 ; embar- 

 rassment in financial affairs, 153; Presidential election, 

 153 officers of tne Government, 154; inflammable 

 state of public feeling, 182; telegraphic despatches to, 

 182. 



Confiscation Act before Congress, 247-250. 

 Congress, Confederate. Convenes at Montgomery, 154; 

 members, 154 ; chairman, 154 ; his speech, 144 ; rules, 155 ; 

 Provisional Government reported, 155 ; its features, 155 ; 

 tariff clause, 155; proceedings after its adoption, 155; 

 first election of Davis and Stephens, 155; permanent 

 Constitution, 156 ; all questions between the States and 

 United States, 156; provisions for officers resigning ia 

 the United States army and navy, 156; national flag, 

 156; Texas admitted, 157; Federal officers continued in 

 office, 157 ; goods to be admitted duty free, 157 ; depart- 

 ments organized, 157 ; export duty on cotton, 157 ; officers 

 of Confederate Government nominated and confirmed, 

 157 ; free navigation of the Mississippi declared, 157 ; loan 

 of fifteen millions, 157 ; postal system adopted, 158; Con- 

 federate courts not to have cognizance of civil cases in 

 which citizens of the United States are a party, 158; bill 

 to raise a force of 100,000 men passed, 158 ; permanent 

 Constitution adopted, 158 ; compared with the Federal 

 Constitution, 158, 159, 160; commissioners to Europe ap- 

 pointed, 160 ; act to prohibit African slave trade passed, 

 160 ; vetoed, 160 ; vote on the vetoed bill, 161 ; other acts 

 passed, 161. 



Second session of Congress convenes, 161 ; reasons for 

 its meeting, 161 ; message of President Davis, 161 ; act 

 recognizing a state of war passed, 161 ; the act, 161 ; Vir- 

 ginia admitted as a member of the Confederacy, 162 ! 

 acceptance of volunteers authorized, 162 ; act to establish 

 a patent office passed, 162 ; fifty millions bonds to be 

 Issued, 162 ; bill to prohibit the payment of Northern 

 debts passed, 162 ; the bill, 162 ; tariff bill passed, 162 ; 

 Congress adjourned to meet at Eichmond, 162. 



Third session of Congress convenes, 163; members 

 present, 163 ; report of the Secretary of War, 163 ; act to 

 control the telegraph passed, 163; the act, 163; act to 

 provide for the public defence, 163; two other commis- 

 sioners to be appointed, 164 ; act to aid Missouri passed, 

 164; the substance of the act, 164; Governor Jackson 

 recognized, 164 ; sequestration act passed, 164; war tax 

 imposed, 164 ; approval of the declaration of the Con- 

 gress of Paris, 164; act of sequestration, 165. 



Fourth session convenes, 165 ; its acts, 165 ; Kentucky 

 and Missouri admitted, 165 ; appropriations, 165. 



Assumes charge of all questions between the sev- 

 eral States of the Confederacy and the United States, 

 130; President Davis authorized to assume control of 

 all military operations between the Confederate States 

 and foreign powers, 130; appropriation made, 182; 

 authorizes oue hundred thousand men to be raised, 133; 

 adjourns to meet at Richmond, 140 ; second session con- 

 venes, 141 ; authorizes enlistments in Kentucky, 399. 

 Congress, United States. Convenes December 3d, 1860, 

 166; its members, 166; cause of trouble to the country, 

 166, 167; better look the matter in the- face, 167; this 

 state of affairs looks to two things, 167; all that is 

 asked, is to be allowed to depart in peace, 168; repeal 

 all the personal liberty laws, and it will not stop this 

 revolution, 168 ; we intend to leave this Union then 

 bring us back, 168 ; Delaware the first to adopt the Con- 



