acts of Congress affecting, 11-15;
Emancipation Proclamation against, 110-119, 130;
regard for, hinders War Democrats from supporting Lincoln, 272;
not touched as an institution by Emancipation Proclamation, 316;
necessity of a constitutional amendment to abolish, 317;
desire of Copperheads to reëstablish, 319, 320.
Slaves,
during Civil War, called "contraband" by Butler, ii. 5;
escape to Northern armies, 6;
declared free by Fremont, 6;