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AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED
STATES-Continued.

on federal citizenship, III, 418, 419.

his amendment rejected by the House, III, 419.

the House passes the Boutwell amendment, III, 419,
420.

the amendment discussed in the Senate, III, 420.

the question of sovereignty, III, 420, 421.

opinions of the minority, III, 421.

necessity for speedy action, III, 422.

discussion of the language of the amendment, III, 422.

power of Congress over the suffrage, III, 423.

George E. Williams' amendment, III, 423, 424.

should Congress be blamed for enacting the amend-
ment? III, 424.

policy of the opposition, III, 425.

Charles Sumner on the amendment, III, 426.

Senator Vickers' plea for "a white man's govern-
ment," III, 426, 427.

Sumner's reply to Vickers, III, 427.

the main purpose of the amendment, III, 427, 428.
attitude of Horatio Seymour, Samuel J. Tilden and
the Democrats toward the negro, III, 429.
Senator Buckalew wishes to make the amendment
an issue at the polls, III, 429.

Anomalous position of the United States as to the
right to vote, III, 429, 430.

attitude of the Republicans toward the negro, III, 430.
Thomas A. Hendricks on the right to vote, III, 430.
Senators Edwards and Hendricks on the rights of the
negro, III, 431.

Howard's amendment rejected by the Senate, III, 432.
revival of the Stewart amendment, III, 433.

various objections to the amendment, III, 433, 434.
Substitutes offered, III, 434.

Senators Conklin and Henry Wilson on negro suf-
frage, III, 435, 436.

Buckalew's policy of delay, III, 436.

the resolution (amendment) engrossed, III, 437.

the amendment in conference, III, 438.

The Suffrage (Fifteenth) Amendment revived and passed
by Congress: (See Judiciary.)

the amendment fails to pass, III, 438, 439.

Senator Stewart revives the amendment, III, 440.

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AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED
STATES-Continued.

Senator Howard's substitute, III, 440-442.

passed by the Senate, III, 442.

discussed by the House, III, 442.

Bingham, Butler, Boutwell, Shellabarger and Wood,
ward on the amendment, III, 442, 444.

the House passes the amendment and requests a con-
ference, III, 444.

differences between the Senate and the House resolu-
tions (amendments), III, 444.

the resolutions in conference, III, 445.

the amendment carried, III, 445, 446.

famous supporters of the amendment, III, 445, 446.
the amendment marks the culmination of a political
movement, III, 446.

its relation to the Civil Rights bill, III, 446.
Ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment:

prospect of its ratification, III, 446, 447.

Mississippi ratifies, III, 451.

Virginia ratifies, III, 451.

Texas ratifies, III, 452.

ratified by Nevada, West Virginia, North Carolina,
Louisiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Massa-
chusetts, Maine, South Carolina, Pennsylvania,
Arkansas, III, 452.

Rejection, withdrawal of, ratification of, and inaction on,
the Fifteenth Amendment: (See U. S. Constitution.)
New York ratifies and withdraws its ratification, III,
452, 453.

Ohio rejects and then ratifies, III, 453.

ratified by Indiana, Connecticut, Florida, New Hamp-

shire, Vermont, Alabama, Missouri, Rhode Island,
Kansas, Georgia, Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, III,
453-455.

proclaimed by Secretary Seward, III, 455.

not acted on, or rejected by, California, Delaware,
Kentucky, Maryland, Tennessee and Oregon, III,
455, 456.

(See Suffrage, and Constitution of the United States.)
AMERICAN HERALD, THE,

II, 39.

AMERICAN REVOLUTION, THE, (See Revolution.)`

AMES, FISHER,

member of the Massachusetts Ratifying Convention, II, 41.
and first ten amendments, II, 222, 223, 224, 250.

on the Jay treaty, II, 341.

as author of the Constitution, III, 510.

ANDROS, SIR EDMUND,

commissioned Captain-General and Vice-Admiral of New
England, I, 4.

his instructions, I, 5.

imprisonment, I, 9.

ANNAPOLIS CONVENTION,

origin and character of, I, 272, 277.

proceedings, I, 282, 283.

ANTI-FEDERALISTS,

policy of, II, 8, 17, 18.

(See also the several Ratifying Conventions under the orig-
inal States and Vermont.)

ARKANSAS, (See Negroes; Slavery, Reconstruction.)

its relations with the Southern Confederacy, III, 1.
John S. Phelps, military Governor of, III, 35.

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and the Emancipation Proclamation, III, 72.
reconstruction in, III, 72-74.

abolishes slavery, III, 75.

its delegates denied seats in Congress, III, 76, 77.
ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment, III, 161.
rejects the Fourteenth Amendment, III, 319, 320.
reconstruction of, III, 351.

condition of the negro in, III, 352.

novelty of negro suffrage in, III, 353.
freedom a curse to the negro in, III, 354.

hostility to Congress in, III, 355.

the counter-revolution in, III, 365.

justice to the negro in, III, 357.

new Constitution of, III, 358.

ratifies the Fourteenth Amendment, III, 359, 387.
readmission of, III, 388.

ratifies the Fifteenth Amendment, III, 452, 453.

ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION,

proposed by Franklin, I, 134, 135.

reported by Dickinson, I, 216-220.
debated, I, 221-228.

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ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION-Continued.

amendments proposed, I, 229-232.

adopted by Congress, I, 233, 234.

the articles sent to the Legislatures, I, 234.
amendments proposed by the States, I, 235, 236.
ratified, I, 237, 238.

proclaimed, I, 242.

character of, I, 243.

an experiment, I, 245.

amendments proposed, I, 275.

contained no provision for amendment, I, 305.

(See Federal Convention and Ratifying State Conventions
under the original States and Vermont.)

ASHLEY, JAMES M.,

votes against the proposed amendment of 1861, II, 639, 678.
and the Thirteenth Amendment; proposes the amendment,
III, 126.

votes against it for parliamentary reasons, III, 141.

revives the amendment, III, 143-146, 150.

votes for the Fourteenth Amendment, III, 445.

ASSEMBLY, THE,

its place in the American political system, how first deter-
mined, I, 9.

of Massachusetts, I, 12.

contest with proprietors, I, 13.

efficiency of unimpaired, I, 13.

most important civil factors at close of the seventeenth cen-

tury in America, I, 14.

contest of with Colonial Governors, I, 14, 15.

exclusive right of taxation by a fundamental principle in
America, I, 15.

response to Congress, I, 100.

ASSOCIATION OF 1774,

origin, character and enforcements, I, 89, 90, 91, 107, 144.

ATHERTON, JOSHUA,

opposes the Constitution in the New Hampshire ratifying
convention, II, 74.

BACKUS, ISAAC,

opposes any religious test in the Constitution; member of
the Massachusetts Ratifying Convention, II, 51.

BAKER, E. D.,

opposed to proposed amendment of 1861, II, 671,

BALDWIN, ABRAHAM,

member of the Federal Convention, I, 304.

of Committee of Eleven, I, 420, 540.

on the taxation of slaves, I, 544; II, 177, 224.
supports the Eleventh Amendment, II, 329.
disapproves the Twelfth Amendment, II, 329.
BALTIMORE CONVENTION, THE,

Democratic National, (1860), II, 555, 556.
Republican National, (1864), III, 141, 142.

BANK,

a United States suggested by Hamilton, I, 254.

BANKS, GENERAL N. P.,

in Louisiana, III.

Lincoln's instructions to, as to reconstruction, 82, 83.

his plan for reorganizing the State, III, 84.

arranges for the elections, III, 85.

opinion of Governor Hahn's authority, III, 86.

his "educational order," III, 87.

BAPTISTS, THE,

religious freedom of in New England, I, 7.

BARBOUR, PHILLIP,

effort to fix the slave-soil line at 40° north latitude, II, 367.

BARRE, COLONEL,

author of the phrase, "sons of liberty," I, 48.

BARTON, WILLIAM,

member of the Rhode Island Ratifying Convention, II, 189.
anti-slavery opinions of, II, 190.

BARRETT, CHARLES,

member of the New Hampshire Ratifying Convention, II, 74.
BASSET, RICHARD,

member of the Federal Convention, I, 300.

a Senator from Delaware, II, 176.

BAYARD, JAMES A.,

member of Congress, II, 305.

BAYARD, JAMES F.,

and the Fifteenth Amendment, III, 441.

BEDFORD, GUNNING,

member of the Federal Convention, I, 300.

on the executive term, I, 323.

on small States and large, I, 349.

his alarming speech on foreign alliances, I, 418, 423.
member of Committee of Eleven, 420.

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