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;