REBELS, their hatred of the negro, 76;
retributive justice to, 77;
what is expected of them, 133;
authority should not be restored to, 122;
should be trusted, 223, 386;
their confidence to be won, 228;
not to be conciliated by the sacrifice of the freedmen, 231;
not to be deprived of citizenship, 233;
called "the nation's dead," 364;
reply, 370;
sufficiently punished, should be reädmitted, 429;
instructions to, 426;
proposition to disfranchise, 436;
opposed, 438;
the number who would be disfranchised, 440;
their disfranchisement passes the House, 450;
rejected in the Senate, 455;
the most guilty, 448;
in Congress, six years ago, 449;
generosity towards, illustrated, 461;
their conduct gives justice to the negro, 516.
REBEL States, their status, 37, 41, 45;
facts respecting, 46;
cannot destroy the Union, 145;
their treatment of the negro, 153;
their lack of representation no obstacle to legislation, 185;
should not deprive loyal States of the power to legislate, 254;
laws of, oppressive to freedmen, 261;
how their absence affects legislation, 268;
dead, 308;
how restored, 309;
how they lost their existence, 321;
never out of the Union, 314;
how should be treated, 318;
bill to restore to political rights introduced, 502;
Mr. Stevens' labor upon it, 528.
REBEL war, novel theory of, 509.
RECONSTRUCTION, as begun by President Johnson, 14; resolution to appoint a committee on, 34, 48; committee on, 49; their appointment, how regarded, 307; first report of committee on, 324; committee on, denounced, 441; its consummation eloquently portrayed, 448; Report on, 466; three modes of, 503; character of the committee on, 513; styled "Maelstrom Committee," 519.
RECONSTRUCTION Amendment proposed, 435; denounced as revolutionary, 437; passage in the House, 450; influence of the Democrats in passing, 451; length of debate on, in the Senate, 453; amendments and substitutes proposed, 454, 455; "stupendous mercy," 461; passage, 462, 463; its form, 463; transmitted to the States, 465.
REEL in the bottle, 415.
REFUGEES, their stories, 523.
RELIGION, appealed to, 458.
REMARKABLE combination of Senators, 415.
REPRESENTATION, Constitutional Amendment concerning, proposed, 324.