History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States

by William Horatio Barnes

DEFIANCE of the majority by Garrett Davis, 244.

DEFILEMENT of the Constitution, 407; answer to the charge, 410.

DELAWARE, the last slaveholding State, 127.

DELAY needful, 382.

DELAYS of the Senate, protest against, 394; benefits of, 453.

DESPOTISM, establishment of, in the South, 531.

DEMOCRACY, leader of the, confusion concerning, 306.

DEMOCRATIC ascendency, dangers attending, 312.

DEMOCRATIC party against the Government, 399; policy of, traversed, 442.

DEMOCRATS, their new discovery, 358; how they caused the passage of the Reconstruction Amendment, 451; hunting up negro voters, 498.