defies North, 205, 206;
hopes to entrap Seward into debate with commissioners, 238;
urged by South to do something, 241, 242;
prefers to make North aggressor, 242;
tries to win over Kentucky, 266, 268;
offers to issue "letters of marque and reprisal," 282;
when secretary of war, sent McClellan to Europe, 303;
sends troops to seize East Tennessee, 353;
wishes to free Kentucky, ii. [154];
his escape wished by Lincoln, [238];