DEVELOPMENT always slow, 64.
DISFRANCHISEMENT of negroes by whites, 365, 376; opposed, 387; of rebels advocated, 443.
DISSOLUTION of the Union in the passage of the Freedmen's Bureau
Bill, 160.
DISUNION, threat of, 161.
DISTRICT of Columbia, Committee on, 28; under the special care of Congress, 50; number and character of rebels in, 77.
DISTRICT of Columbia, bill to extend suffrage in, introduced, 51;
motion to postpone, 82;
amendments proposed, 82;
and rejected, 93;
passage in the House, 93;
called up in the Senate, 483;
reason for its occupying so much attention, 485;
why it was not passed before, 491;
its passage, 499;
veto, 500;
passage over the veto, 501;
why it was so long deferred, 564, 565.
DOG, injustice to a, 509.
DOOLITTLE, his position on the Civil Rights Bill, 285; "a fortunate politician," 459; the savior of his party, 469.
DREAM of Thaddeus Stevens vanished, 463.
DRED Scott Decision against civil rights, 198, 264.