Conference of the President and generals, after the victory at Manassas, [352];
order to pursue the enemy, [353];
letter of the President respecting, [353];
answer from General Beauregard, [354], [355];
subjects considered, [356];
second do. of the President and generals, after the victory at Manassas, inquiry as to what more it was practicable to do, [360];
fortifications said to exist at Washington, [360];
subsequent reports, [360];
at variance with the information then possessed, [360];
why an advance was not contemplated to south bank of Potomac, [360];
returns to Richmond to increase army, [361];
charge of preventing the pursuit, [361].
Congress of the Confederation, its distinction from the United States Congress, [26];
language of its resolution for a revision of its articles, [88];
its recommendation, [89];
instructions to the commissioners to the Constitutional Convention by the several States, [89];
early acts of, [243];
laws of United States not inconsistent continued in force till altered, [243];
financial officers continued in office, [243];
early steps required to be taken for a settlement with United States, [244];
act relative to free navigation of the Mississippi River, [245];
coasting trade opened to foreign vessels, [245];
resolutions after the victory at Manassas, [383].
Congress, Provisional, of seceding States assembles at Montgomery, [220];
resolution to remove the seat of government to Richmond, [339].
Congress of the Confederation and that of the United States, difference between, [10], [11].
Congress, United States, decision on first abolition petition, [5];
prohibits importation of slaves, vote on the bill, [5];
its action on the petition of Indiana Territory for the suspension of the ordinance prohibiting slavery, [8];
report of the committee, [8];
future action on resolutions, [10];
has only delegated powers, [26];
action in the Senate in 1860-'61, [68];
action of its committee, [69];
failures of adjustment in the House, [70].
Connecticut, instructions to her delegates to the Constitutional Convention, [92];
her ratification of the Federal Constitution, [107].
"Constitution, The, a covenant with hell," use of the expression, [56];
signification of the word, [88];
the seventh article, a provision for secession, [101];
not established by the people in the aggregate, nor by the States in the aggregate, [101];
delegates were chosen by the States as States, and voted as States, [102];
object for which they were sent, [102];
terms used then in the same sense as now, [102];
a national Government distinctly rejected, [102];
final words of the Constitution, [102];
not adopted by the people in the aggregate, [114];
the assertion a monstrous fiction, [114];
as British colonies they did not constitute one people, [114];
confused views of Judge Story, [115];
exposition of them, [115];
some facts, [115];
local confederacies, [115];
the form of the first, [115];
its existence, [115];
assertion of Edward Everett, [116];
unsustainable, [116];
his quotations, [117];
letter of General Gage to Congress in 1774, [117];
extract, [117];
a citation from the Declaration of Independence, [118];
a palpable misconception, [118];
as united States Independence was achieved, [118];
as united States they entered into a new compact, [119];
in no single instance was the action by the people in the aggregate or as one body, [119];
facts, [119], [120];
by what authority was it ordained? [131];
denied by Webster to be a compact, [135].
Constitution, Confederate, the permanent of the Confederate States, prepared and ratified, [258];
remarks of Mr. Stephens, [258];
followed the model of the United States Constitution, [259];
some of its distinctive features, [259], [260];
term of the President's office, [259];
removals from office, [259];
admission of Cabinet officers to seats on floor of Congress, [259];
protective duties prohibited, [260];
two-thirds vote for appropriations, [260];
impeachment by State Legislature, [260];
the States make a compact for improvement of navigation, [260];
amendments obligatory by convention, [260];
provisions relative to slavery, [261];
other provisions, [261];
words of Mr. Lincoln, [262];
words of "New York Herald," [263].
Constitution, Provisional, for the Confederacy, adopted, [229];
officers elected, [230].
Constitutional Convention, the original, rejected the doctrine of the coercion of a State, [56];
conclusions drawn from the instructions of the States to their delegates, [93];
assembling of the Convention, [94];
the work takes a wider range than was contemplated, [94];
diversity of opinion among the members, [95];
Luther Martin's description of the three parties in the Convention, [95];
the equality of the States, how adjusted, [96];
plan of government of Edmund Randolph, [96];
how the word "national" was treated, [97].