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;

slave trade in, abolished, 91;