WASHINGTON City thriftless under the rule of slavery, 52; schools and churches of colored population in, 59; negroes in, their property and patriotism, 71; its situation, 571.

WASHINGTON, George, on alterations of the Constitution, 358.

WAYS and Means, Committee on, 29.

WELFARE, public, subserved by passage of Freedmen's Bureau Bill, 149.

WHIPPING negroes to disfranchise them, 504.

"WHITE-MAN'S Government," this is not exclusively, 57, 61; the idea opposed, 207; eloquent passage concerning, 391; answer to, 396.

"WHITE," mistake of Colorado in using the word, 559.

WHITE people, civilized governments intended for, 60; sometimes vote wrong, 79; never legally slaves, 370; not discriminated against, 258; recipients of bounty of Freedmen's Bureau, 163; General Fiske's statement, 182.

WHITE population to be crowded out by blacks, 150.

WHITE soldiers did more than black, 66.