South, The, growth of overweening confidence in, [314].
Southern manifestations, cause of, after the Presidential election of 1860, [53];
their deliberate action, [54].
Southern people, in advance of their leaders throughout, [199];
their grounds to hope there would be no war, [257];
their conservative temper, [258];
the prevailing sentiment, a cordial attachment to the Union, [301].
Southern States, only alternative to seek security out of the Union, [85];
what course remained for them to adopt, [192];
over sovereigns there is no common judge, [192];
their defenseless condition in 1861, [228];
their calamities a result of their credulous reliance on the power of the Constitution, [228];
satisfied with a Federal Government such as their fathers had formed, [439];
against the violations of the Constitution they remonstrated, argued, and finally appealed to the undelegated power of the States, [439];
years of fruitless effort to secure from their Northern associates a faithful observance of the compact, [439];
a peaceful separation preferred to a continuance in a hostile Union, [439];
pleas for peace met deceptive answers, [440].
Sovereignty resides alone in the States, [26];
assertion of Story, [141];
increased the unnecessary confusion of ideas, [141];
definition of Burlamaqui, [141];
sovereignty seated in the people, [141];
they can exercise it only through the State, [141];
the States were sovereign under the articles of Confederation, [142];
never been divested of it, [142];
paradoxical theories in the United States, [142];
if the people have transferred their sovereignty, to whom was it made? [143];
declaration of Motley, [143];
refutation by articles of Confederation, [143];
action of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, [143];
declarations of Madison, Hamilton, and others, [143], [144];
views of others, [145];
reservations in the tenth amendment, [146];
its meaning, [146];
views of the States on signification of it, [147], [148].
Sovereign will, two modes of expressing known to the people of this country, [153];
an effort to make it clear beyond the possibility of misconception, [153];
propositions clearly established, [157], [158].
Special friends of the Union, claim arrogated by the abolitionists, [34].
Springfield, Missouri, the battle at, [429].
Squatter sovereignty, responsibilities of the authors of, [31];
its origin, [36];
when fully developed, [38];
the theory in its application to Territories, [40].
Star of the West, attempts to reënforce Fort Sumter, [217];
the result, [218].