INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



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lation, 250 ; members of Congress, 250 ; election in, 250 ; 

 Message of the Governor, 251 ; acts of the Legisla- 

 ture, 251 ; militia law, 251 ; first regiment, 251 ; peace 

 meetings, 251 ; proclamation of the Governor, 251 ; sec- 

 ond Message of the Governor, 252 ; loan of two millions, 

 202 ; regiments furnished during the year, 252. 



Contention Commercial meets at Memphis, 146; action of, 

 146. 



COXWAT, "WiLiAM, quartermaster in the United States navy, 

 252; refuses to obey his superiors and haul down the 

 United States flag at the Peusacola navy yard, 252L 



CORCOBAN, Colonel, held as a hostage in prison, 151. 



Cotton, consumption in 1861,252; cotton enterprises in In- 

 dia, 252; export from the United States, 253; qual- 

 ities of, 253; Surat cotton, 253; supplies from other 

 sources than the United States, 253; imports to Great 

 Britain from all countries, 254; its culture in Turkey, 

 254; do. Greece, 254; do. Cyprus, 254; do. Asia Minor, 

 254; do. Egypt, 254; do. Tunis, 254; do. Madeira, 254; 

 do. Sierra Leone, 254; do. Sherbo, 254; do. Lagos, 254; 

 do. Eiver Niger, 255 ; do. other places, 255. 



Recommendation to burn it, to prevent seizure, 142; 

 export of prohibited, 165; importation of into Great 

 Britain in 1S61, 350. 



Cotton Loan proposed, 142 ; instructions to planters, 142 ; 

 views of the Government, 143. 



Cotton Planters, doings of convention of, 144, 



Court-houses and Post-offices in seceded Slates, their 

 eizure, 315-320. 



Cox, General, enters Charleston, Va., 103. 



Cox, SAMUEL S., Member of Congress, 166; infidelity to the 

 Union, 209 ; submits propositions relative to secession, 

 209. 



CKITTEXDEX, Jons J., Senator in Thirty-sixth Congress, 

 166; proposes amendments to the Constitution, 172; 

 the amendments, 173 ; territory to be divided under 

 them, 174; modifications of his resolutions, 176; extra- 

 ordinary condition of the country makes it necessary to 

 resort to this extraordinary measure, 176; appeals to, 

 the Senate to act on the Peace Conference propositions, 

 220 ; on the Compromise proposition, 223 ; offers a reso- 

 lution on the object of the war, 244; on the confiscation 

 bill, 248, 249 ; first to bring a regiment of troops into 

 Kentucky, 401. 



Currency. (See Banks.) 



CUETIH, Governor A. G., Inaugural, 569 ; Message April 

 9th on military affairs, 569, 570 ; proclamation conven- 

 ing Legislature in extra session, 571. 



CUETIS, SAMUEL E., Member of Congress, 166 ; on the con- 

 stitutional power of the Government to protect itself, 

 215. 



Custom-houses in seceded States, their seizure, 315-319 ; 

 location and cost, 319, 320. 



i, Prince, his birth, 255; education, 255; sent 

 as hostage to Eussia, 255 ; becomes Minister of For- 

 eign Affairs, 255; ne confidence in Napoleon, 255; offi- 

 cial position in Poland, 255; retires, 255; escapes to 

 Paris, 255 ; residence at Paris, 256. 



DAVIS, JEFFEESOX, Senator in Thirty-eixth Congress, 166; 

 source from which this evil has sprung, 168 ; offers a 

 resolution expressing the claims of the South, 1S6 ; asks 

 to be excused from serving on the Committee of Thir- 

 teen, 175: excused, 175; motion to reconsider, 175; re- 

 quest withdrawn, 175; remarks on withdrawing from 

 the Senate, 193; elected President, 127; address on his 

 arrival at Montgomery, 127 ; inauguration of, 127 ; cabi- 

 net authorized to assune control of military opera- 



tions, 130; on the commencement of hostilities, 183; 

 proclamation granting letter* of marque, 137 ; copy of 

 letter of marque, 137; instruction to privateer*, 188; 

 desires peace, 139; letter to tho Maryland Commis- 

 sioners, 141 ; proclamation respecting alien enemies, 

 143 ; letter to President Lincoln relative to the treat- 

 ment of the prisoners captured in the privateer Savan- 

 nah, 150; remarks on in his message, 100; chosen 

 President for sir years, 158; 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 ; let- 

 ter to the Governor of Kentucky, 8W. 



Davis, Jeff., privateer, officers and crew convicted of piracy, 

 151 ; hostages seized by the Confederate Government, 

 151. 



Delaware, its boundaries, 256; population, 256; Govern- 

 ment, 256; Legislature addressed by the commissioner 

 from Mississippi, 256 ; its decision, 256 ; proclamation of 

 the Governor, 256 ; orders of do., 256 ; volunteers during 

 / the year, 256 ; views of the people, 256 ; Peace Conven- 

 tion, 257; tho speakers, 257 ; Legislature convenes, 257; 

 Message of the Governor, 257. 



Instructions of Legislature to Commissioners to Peace 

 Congress, 564. 



DEXXISOX, Governor, Message of, 556 ; proclamation of, 

 557; decides that Ohio debt is legal, 55?. 



DEBBT, GEOBGE II., his birth and death, 257; education, 

 257; wounded at Cerro Gordo, 257; rank in the army, 

 257; his writings, 257. 



Despatch, to the President o the Virginia State Conten- 

 tion, on the attack upon Sumter, 137. 



Diplomatic Correspondence of the Confederate States; 

 interview of the commissioners with Lord John Bussell, 

 273; their letter to Lord John EusselL, 2TS; his reply, 

 279 ; further correspondence, 279. 



Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States; Senator 

 Black's circular to all the American Ministers, 253; 

 Senator Seward's do., 253; correspondence with the 

 Minister to Prussia, 260; correspondence with the Min- 

 ister to Belgium, 261 ; correspondence with the Minister 

 to Mexico, 262; correspondence with the Minister to 

 Great Britain, 262 ; correspondence with the Minister to 

 France, 26S ; correspondence relative to the seizure of 

 Mason and Slidell from the British steamer Trent, 276. 



DIVEX, ALEXAXDER S., member of Congress, 226 ; on the 

 Confiscation bill, 249. 



Drx, JOHX A., appointed Secretary of Treasury 704 ; jpeech 

 at Union Square, 705 ; letter to the Collector at Kew 

 Orleans on the seizure of the marine hospital, 320; 

 proclamation to inhabitants of Accomac and North- 

 ampton Counties, Va., Nov. 17, 644 ; biographical notic 

 of, 722. 



Dixox, JAMES, Senator Thirty-sixth Congress, 166: the first 

 thing to be done to avoid the crisis, 168 ; on the conduct 

 of the war, 236. 



DOOLITTLE, JAMES B-, Senator in Thirty-seventh Congress, 

 166; on slavery restriction in Arizona, 1S8; on the 

 Mexican law, 189; member of the Senate, 225; on the 

 cause of the war, 24-3. 



DOUGLASS, Sir HOWARD, his birth, 280; military career, 

 2SO ; writings, 280. 



DOUGLASS, STEPHEX A^ Senator in Thirty-sixth Congress, 

 168; country before party, 163; nine-tenths of the com- 

 plaints about the non-execution of the fugitive slave law 

 are unfounded, 171 ; speech on the state of affairs, 175 ; 

 war means disunion, 175; further remarks, 1S1; there isa 

 deliberate plot to break np this Union, under a pretence 

 of preserving it, 219 ; one of two things must be done, 

 219. 



