Border States,
necessity of retaining in Union, i. [255];
dealings of Lincoln with, in 1861, [265]-[268];
their neutrality policy explained in annual message, [292];
both pro-slavery and Unionist, ii. 3;
desire to conciliate controls Lincoln's policy, 3;
with their slave property guaranteed by North, 3;
oppose bill freeing slaves used in war, 5;
oppose other anti-slavery bills, 11-15;
irritated by congressional policy, 18, 19;