SELF preservation, a right of the nation, 522.
SEATS, selection of, 23, 24.
SENATE, opening scenes in, 14; supposed division of, 431; its proper business and mischievous business, 460.
SENATOR, the Greek, and the Sparrow, 93.
SENATORS not legislators for their own States alone, 186; republican, as they appeared after a caucus, 456.
SERAPIS, destruction of the statue of, 145.
SEWARD, Secretary, his despatch to Minister Adams, 71; and the nobleman's dog, 509; defended, 512.
SHERMAN, General, his order assigning lands to freedmen, 114, 128.
SHERMAN'S Amendment to the Military Reconstruction Bill, 534.
SLAVE, the, under American law, 197.