Object of the war, the declaration of Congress, 189.
Objects for which the Government of the United States was instituted, stated in the preamble of the Constitution, 454.
Obstinacy, extreme, observable in the original party of abolition, 4.
Offensive-defensive policy, how inaugurated at Richmond, 132; its successful result, 132.
"Offensively," signification of the word as used by General Grant relative to the exchange of prisoners, 599.
Open brow and fearless tread of the American citizen, all were gone in the Northern States, 488.
Organization of "just powers" the object for which it is done, 452.
Origin of the United States Government, sprang from certain circumstances, which existed in the course of human affairs, 453; the articles of agreement made by certain friendly States proposing to form a society of States, 453.
"Other purposes" the signification of the words explained in an act of the United States Congress, 345.
OULD, ROBERT C, our commissioner for the exchange of prisoners, 595; his proposals to the United States commissioner, 598; no reply ever made, 598; his communication relative to conferences with General Butler, the United States commissioner of exchange, 598.