Davis, Jefferson, reëlected to United States Senate in 1851, [18];
subject of the compromise measures agitating Mississippi, [18];
division of opinion, [18];
the principles of the Declaration of Independence of more value than the Union, [18];
his position and views, [19];
invited to become candidate for Governor, [19];
not accepted, [20];
active canvass, [20];
nominated again on the withdrawal of the former nominee, [20];
resigns as United States Senator, [20];
his position relative to the Union, [21];
letter to W. J. Brown, [21];
enters the Cabinet of President Pierce, [22];
charge of the Pacific Railroad survey, [23];
charge of the Capitol extension, [23];
charge of changes in the model of arms, [23];
increase of the army, [23];
its officers, [24]; clerkships, [24];
anecdote of General Jesup, [24];
again elected Senator from Mississippi, [25];
no change in President Pierce's Cabinet during his term, [25];
extract from a speech in the Senate on the relation of master and servant in a Territory, [30];
remarks in the Senate on the "Nicholson letter" of General Cass, [37];
offers a series of resolutions in United States Senate, [42];
the resolutions, [42];
discussion and vote in the Senate, [43];
position of the mover shown in extract from his speech, [44-46];
meets with the Congressional representatives and Governor of Mississippi in consultation, [57];
his views, [57];
summoned to Washington, [58];
state of affairs there and his proceedings, [59];
extract from a speech in December, 1860, in the Senate, showing his position, [61-68];
position and feelings at the beginning of 1861, [205];
previous life, [205];
office of Senator, [206];
in the Cabinet, [206];
letter of C. C. Clay, relative to misstatements respecting, [206];
conversation with President Buchanan relative to the forts in Charleston Harbor, [214];
advises him to withdraw the garrison, [215];
his objections, [215];
presents rejoinder of South Carolina Commissioners to President Buchanan in the Senate, [218];
his speech, [219];
notified of the secession of Mississippi, [220];
states the position of the State in his final address to the United States Senate [221-224];
elected President of the Confederate States, [230];
engaged at home, [230];
disappointed, [230];
better fitted for command in the field, [230];
anecdote of W. L. Sharkey, [230];
addresses on the way to Montgomery, [231];
inaugural address, [232];
letter to President Buchanan, [264];
message to Congress on April 28th, [278], [279];
writes to Governor Letcher to sustain Baltimore, [300];
remained in the Senate after Mississippi called her convention, in order to obtain such measures as would prevent the final step, [302];
when her ordinance was enacted the question was no longer open, and her Senator could only retire from the United States Senate, [302];
letter of instructions to Captain Semmes, [311];
message to Congress in April, 1861, [326];
reply to the Maryland Commissioners, [333];
answer to Johnston relative to the rank of the latter, [348];
goes to the Manassas battle-field, [348];
scenes witnessed and described, [348], [349];
arrives at Beauregard's headquarters, [349];
meets General Johnston, [350];
appearance of the enemy, [350];
the field on the left, [351];
meets General Beauregard, [352];
conference with the generals after Manassas battle, [352];
subject of conference, [356];
necessity of pursuit, [356];
condition of the troops, [356];
meets the wounded, [357];
letter promoting General Beauregard, [359];
charged with preventing the pursuit at Manassas, [361];
letter to General Johnston on the subject, [362];
answer of Johnston, [363];
reference to another conference, [363];
letter to General Beauregard relative to the plea of a want of transportation for not pursuing the enemy, [365];
endorsement on the report of General Johnston, [366];
remarks upon it, [366];
letter to Beauregard relative to his report, [366];
the objectionable point reviewed, [367];
the part of the report and objections suppressed by Congress, [367];
the report, [368];
the endorsement of the President, [369];
letter calling for information on the wants of the army, [384];
reply to the letter of the Governor of Kentucky, [390];
anxiety about affairs in Missouri, [426];
letter to John B. Clark, [427];
answer to the request of General J. E. Johnston for reënforcements, [442];
letter to General G. W. Smith on the reorganization of the army, [445];
letter to General Beauregard, [446];
letter to General Beauregard, [447];
letter to General J. E. Johnston, [448];
letter to General J. E. Johnston on enemy's movements, [452];
letter to General G. W. Smith on movements against the enemy, [453];
letter to General J. E. Johnston on inspection of the line between Dumfries and Fredericksburg, [454];
letter to General J. E. Johnston on Jackson's movement in the Valley, [457];
letter to General J. E. Johnston on the order of the Secretary of War for the troops to retire to the Valley, [460];
letter to General J. E. Johnston on the complaint of irregular action by the Secretary of War, [461];
letter to General J. E. Johnston in answer to a letter stating that his position was considered unsafe, [462];
letter to General J. E. Johnston on mobilizing his army, [463];
letter to General J. E. Johnston in answer to a notice that the army was in retreat, [464];
visit to General Johnston's headquarters, [465];
reconnaissance, [466];
extract from the inaugural address in 1862, [484];
message on the employment of slaves in the army, [515].
Debt, Foreign, at the close of the war, [496];
attempts to discredit the Government abroad, [497];
reference to Union bank-bonds, [497].
Delaware, instructions to her delegates to the Constitutional Convention, [93];
her words of ratification of the Federal Constitution, [104].
Delicate truth, A, to be veiled, [101].
Democratic Convention of 1860, disagreement, [50];
adjournment of divisions, [50];
nominations by the friends of popular sovereignty, [50];
nominations by the Conservatives, [50].
Democratic party, dissensions in, [36].
D'Wolf, James, president of a slave-trading company, anecdote of, [84].
Disguise with Confederate Commissioners thrown off on the reduction of Sumter, [297].
Dissolution and secession from the first Union gave existence to the present Union, [171];
the right to withdraw in either case results from the same principles, [171].
Dogma, A new, created at the Chicago Convention in 1860, [49].