Sovereignty of the State government, the representative and the constituted agent of the inherent sovereignty of the individual, 452.
Spanish provinces of South America, their independence recognized by the United States, 276.
"Spare neither men nor money," orders of the Secretary of the Navy to complete ironclads at New Orleans, 227.
Spottsylvania Court-House, twelve days of skirmish and battle at, between Lee and Grant, 523.
State, A, rent asunder and a new one formed of the fragment, 2.
State governments, the subjugation of, 450; a revolution unlike any other that may be found in the history of mankind, 451; an assertion often made during the war, 451; objects for which the State governments were instituted, 451; where must the American citizen look for the security of the rights with which he has been endowed by his Creator? 451; to the State government, 451; the powers of the State government are just powers, 451; is the citizen's life in danger? the State guarantees his protection, 451; is the citizen's personal liberty in danger? the State guarantees it, 451; duty of the State government to give its citizens perfect and complete security, 452; necessarily sovereign within its own domain, 452; its entire order founded on the free consent of the governed, 452; this consent gives just powers, 452; all else are usurpations, 452; how these powers are organized, 452; its object, 452; subversion and subjugation of a State government, how accomplished, 452; the commission of such a subversion and subjugation fearlessly charged upon the Government of the United States as a monstrous crime against constitutional liberty, 453; distinction in nature and objects between the Government of the United States and the State governments, 453.
States, The, the principles upon which they were originally constituted and upon which the Union was formed explained, 368.
STEPHENS, A. H., sent as commissioner relative to the exchange of prisoners to Washington, 591; not allowed to come to Washington, 595; appointed to confer with Mr. Lincoln, 617.
STEVENS, THADDEUS, his remark, "Who pleads the Constitution against our proposed action" of confiscation? 8; declaration in Congress on the admission of West Virginia, 308.
STEVENS, Lieutenant, commands the Arkansas at Baton Rouge, 244.