Seward's proposed foreign wars to prevent disunion, i. [276]-[278];
recognition of Southern belligerency by England and France, [371], [372];
instructions of Seward to Adams, [373]-[375];
difficulties over English privateers, [376];
message of Lincoln on foreign relations, [377], [378];
the Trent affair, [380]-[387];
the Oreto affair, ii. 171;
the Alabama affair, 172.
District of Columbia,
bill to emancipate slaves in, advocated by Lincoln, i. [80], [81];