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Saulsbury, and Powell. - Adopted. Basis of law. - Ignored by slavery.

-Laws against colored witnesses. — Mr. Wilson's bill.—Sumner's amend-

ment. Amendment to the Civil Appropriation Bill, and speech. - Oppo-

sition. Saulsbury. - Disqualifications for carrying the mails. — Mr.

Sumner's bill. - Adopted. — In the House. Report by Mr. Colfax.

Failed. New bill. — Collamer, Powell, Hendricks. — Passage

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CHAPTER XXXVII.

Difficulties great and manifest. Not provided for.

Questions. Measures proposed but not acted on. - President's annual

message and proclamation. Terms proposed. - Sharply criticised.

Committee of Nine: Winter Davis's bill. His speech. Smithers.

Debate. - Prominence of the emancipation feature. Beaman, Sco-

field, Donnelly, Boutwell. Opposed by Pendleton, Wood, Yeaman, and

Kernan. Substitute and passage. Senate and conference. Bill

passed. - Not signed by the President. - President's proclamation.

Condemned. Address of Wade and Davis.

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The President's desire. — General Banks's proclamation to the people of Lou-

isiana. Response.- Arkansas. — Lane's bill and failure. - Trumbull's

bill. Report. - Debate. - Sumner's amendment. -Powell in opposi-

tion. Davis. - Republican opposition. - Sumner, Howard. - What is

a State?-Wade. - Bill defended. - Henderson. House. — Ashley's

bill. - Debate. — Dawes, opposition of. Wood. - Substitute. — H.

Winter Davis. - Amendments proposed. — Bill laid on the table. —

J. F. Wilson's bill for supremacy of Constitution. - Substitute. - Brief

debate. - Laid upon the table

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Persistent adhesion of Northern Democrats to the South. - Republican

weariness of the war, criticisms, and divisions. - Serious opposition to

the President. — Fomented by Rebel emissaries. Union successes and

growing confidence. - General Grant. - Cleveland convention. - Presi-

dent severely condemned. — Wendell Phillips's letter and speech.

Garrison's reply. - Republican convention. - Robert J. Breckinridge's

speech.-Resolutions. - Unanimous nomination of Mr. Lincoln. — An-

drew Johnson. Letter of acceptance. — Northern conspiracy. — Judge

Holt's report. O. A. K. — Its annual meeting simultaneous. with the

Democratic convention.— Large numbers implicated, and its wide ex-

tent. - Voorhees. Democratic complicity. - Diabolical oaths and pur-

poses. Slavery the source. - Rebel emissaries and plans. — Burning

Northern cities. Language of Southern papers. Attempted rising in

the Northwestern States. General Price. Proposed release of Rebel

prisoners. Vallandigham's representations at the South. - Rebel clerk's

diary.R. J. Sanders. Meeting at Niagara Falls.

President's letter. Failure. Rebel trick. Pressure on the party. -

Visit of Jaques and Gilmore to Richmond. — Davis's defiant response.

Favorably affects the Union cause. - Democratic convention. - Proposed

release of prisoners.-Seymour presides. — Vallandigham the ruling

spirit. - Resolutions. The war a "failure," and its cessation demanded.

-McClellan and Pendleton nominated. The country startled. - Sew-

ard's speech. Fremont's withdrawal.

- Sumner's speech. - Gratulations

of the Southern press. - Vigorous canvass. - Results.

CLOSING SESSION OF XXXVIIITH CONGRESS. MESSAGE. — ATTEMPTED

Prelude. Auspicious events. Republican victory. Previous suspense.

-Great rejoicing. — President indorsed. - New York "Times." - New

revolution. Message of Davis. - Impressment of slaves. - Proposed

change of policy. Confederate Congress. Miles, Gholson, Foote.

Opposition. Richmond "Whig." - South Carolina. Resolutions.

Governor Smith. How viewed by the Federal government. - Lincoln's

Recommends constitutional amendment.

antislavery policy.

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Confederate commissioners. President sends Mr. Seward. Goes him-

self. Rebel propositions. - Rejected. Rebel account. - Presidential

wit. Failure..-Coincidence. Davis's boastful and defiant words. -

Rebel surrender

MR. LINCOLN'S SECOND INAUGURATION.

Special interest. - First inauguration. Great uncertainty and anxiety. -

Great change. Slavery destroyed. Freed from compromise. — Re-

ligious aspects of the case. Both parties disappointed. The retrib

utive judgments of God to be feared. - Charity. — Inaugural highly

commended. Its influence very great. Mr. Johnson's unseemly course.

-General disgust. Meeting of Republicans. Cause of estrange.

MR. LINCOLN'S ASSASSINATION.

Appalling intelligence. - Ford's Theatre. The President shot.

sin's escape. - President's death. — Assault on Mr. Seward. - Concerted

plan. Wide-spread impression. - Feeling of personal loss.

bered virtues. Political fears. — Confederate leaders suspected. - Re-

wards offered. Probable solution. - Prompt and vigorous pursuit. -

Success. Booth's death. - Trial and execution of conspirators. — Uni-

versal mourning. - Funeral cortége and incidents. — Springfield. — His

character. Closing scenes. Demonstration in other countries. - Dis-

raeli. London "Times" and "Daily News."- General estimate.

Inadequate apprehension of reconstruction

MR. JOHNSON'S POLICY. - INHUMAN LEGISLATION.

Mr. Johnson takes oath of office. Remarks and replies to delegations.

Vigorous policy promised. Republican hopes and expectations.

Change in the President's views and policy. Interview with colored

delegation. — Claims. — Announces an unfriendly policy. — Emigration.

- Inferior race. Disseverance from and hostility to his party. - Rea-

"Swinging around the circle.". Bitter reproaches against Con-

Results. - Revival of Rebel spirit. Proclamation to North

Carolina and other States.-Colored people excluded from suffrage.

Persecution of white Union men. - Unfriendly and cruel legislation.

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Important epoch.—Mr. Colfax. — Momentous problem. -- Intrinsic and ex-

trinsic difficulties. - Southern attitude. — Implacable hostility.—Mr.

Johnson's position. Defines his policy.

ecutive assumption. — Meeting of Congress.

Fessenden. Representative opinions. Stevens's resolution. In the

Senate. Anthony's amendment and remarks. — "Lincoln-Johnson poli.

cy." Doolittle's speech. - Fessenden's defence of Congress. Howe's

resolution and speech. - Vigorous debate in the House. - Improved tone.

- Indefiniteness of views. - Debate on referring message.

Spaulding, Shellabarger, Bingham.

Supposed origin in Tennessee.

THE KU-KLUX KLAN.

Incipient movements.

dencies. - Secrecy. - Pretended designs. — Testimony of General Forrest.

- Report of Congressional Committee. — Testimony of army officers.

Whippings and murders in South Carolina. - Outrages in Alabama and

Mississippi. — Attacks on teachers and clergymen. - Extent of the order.

Effect on elections. - Passage of Enforcement Act.

President's proc-

FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT.

Oppressive legislation. Stevens's bill. — His speech. The bill a com-

promise. Severe criticism. - Defeated resolution. - Plan of Robert Dale

Owen. -Reason for rejection. - Facts and principles involved in the effort.

Democratic arguments. - Boyer, Eldridge, Rogers. — Republicans sup-

port it for different reasons. Schenck, Raymond, Eliot, Boutwell, Dawes,

Banks. President's policy criticised and defended. — Phelps, Ingersoll.

Resolution adopted. — Senate. —Amendments offered. - Caucus. — Amend-

ment as finally adopted. - President's message.—Mr. Seward's certificate.

- Action of the Senate.

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Fourteenth Amendment defective. - Mr. Boutwell reports resolution in the

House and opens the debate. Democratic reply. - Eldridge, Kerr, Beck.

- Amendments offered by Bingham, Ward, Shellabarger, and speeches. -

Boutwell's rejoinder. - Speech of B. H. Butler. - Resolutions adopted.

False accusations of partisanship. Patriotic purposes of the Republicans.

-Resolutions reported to the Senate. - Speech of Stewart. - Senate reso-

lution adopted. House resolution reported. - Amendments and substi-

tutes proposed. -Speeches of Ferry, Dixon, Morton. - Woman suffrage.

-Mr. Sumner opposes the resolution. - Too sanguine. - Mr. Willey's

speech. Republican opposition. - Dixon, Doolittle, Norton. - Twenty-

four hours' debate. Speech and amendment of Mr. Wilson. - Defence

of Republican policy. - Vote and conference. Adoption of amendment.

- Ratification by the States. - - President's special message

Forces involved.

CHAPTER XLVIII.

PERSONAL FREEDOM. CIVIL RIGHTS.

- Ex-Rebel purpose to defeat the Amendments.

- Mr. Wilson's bill and speech. Speech of Mr. Sumner.

Johnson, Sherman, Trumbull, Saulsbury, Cowan, Wilson. - Bill laid

aside.Trumbull's bill. - Debate and radical purpose.

Difficulties and

diversity of opinion. -Trumbull, Howard, Morrill. - Democratic oppo-

sition. Hendricks, Cowan, Davis. - House debate. — Bingham, Delano,

Raymond, Broomall, Wilson, Shellabarger. Bill passed.

Debate. Johnson, Trumbull, Wade, Henderson.

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INFLUENCE OF CHRISTIAN CHURCHES AND ASSOCIATIONS.

South not united for secession. - Appeals to churches.-R. L. Stanton. —

Arraignment of Southern clergy. Proofs. Thornwell, Palmer.

dress. Damaging testimony. - Amazing record. - Defection and its

causes. -Synod of Mississippi. -Southern argument. - Leaders. -Clergy

led the way. Thornwell, Ross, Smythe, Hopkins, Seabury, Adams.

South Side view. — Fisk, Stuart, Tyler, Bacon, Beecher. - Indorsement

of Webster's 7th of March speech. - Presbyterian Church. - Benevolent

associations. A. B. C. F. M. - Ecclesiastical odium and social ostra-

cism. Lewis Tappan, Leonard Woods, Jr. Humiliating attitude.

Cincinnati Christian Convention. - Albert Barnes, John Jay. - North-

ern fellowship. Its cost and protests. - Causes of defection. - Grave

difficulties of the situation. Christian antislavery effort. - Painful

struggles. - Small success. - Appeals to missionary associations. - For-

mation of new societies on an antislavery basis. —American Missionary

Association. Church Antislavery Society. Republican party. — Min-

isters and members of churches largely Republican. Conclusion. 697-724

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General survey. - Purpose of the History. - Subsidiary topics. — Exponents

of similar principles. - Easy repeal of slave-laws. - Voluntary and suicidal

relinquishment of power. Mr. Lincoln in a minority. - Popular senti-

ment largely proslavery. Divine method. Repeal of slaveholding laws.

— Peonage. — Attempted legislation. - Border slave-States. — Leadership.

Hostility to the Republican policy. Protests of Kentucky and Mary-

land. Impeachment and trial of President Johnson. - Act of fundamen-

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