instructed to watch Maryland legislature, 286;

authorized to suspend writ of habeas corpus, 287;

has difficulties with McClellan, 310;

retires, 310.

Seaton, William W.,

promises to help Lincoln's emancipation bill, i. 80.

Secession,

mention of, avoided by Douglas and Lincoln, i. 157;

question of its justification in 1860, 158-160;

process of, in 1860-61, 182-187;