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Abolition of Slavery.

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Alexander Johnston, American Orations, III, 187-198; Clement L. Vallandigham, Record on Abolition, the Union, and the Civil War; W. H. Seward, Works, V (Diary); Charles Sumner, Works, V-IX, passim; Henry Winter Davis, Speeches and Addresses; Geo. W. Julian, Political Recollections, Chs. ix-xi; A. G. Riddle, Recollections of War Times; Noah Brooks, Washington in Lincoln's Time. - HUMORISTS: Richard Grant White, New Gospel of Peace; R. H. Newell, Orpheus C. Kerr Papers; Charles F. Browne, Artemus Ward, His Book, and His Travels.

Bibliography.

W. E. Foster, References to the Constitution, 26, and References to Presidential Administrations, 45-49; J. J. Lalor, Cyclopædia, I, 838, II, 434, III, 537, 1101; Woodrow Wilson, Division and Reunion, § 95; A. B. Hart, Revised Suggestions, § 68.

§ 214. Abolition of Slavery, 1861-1865.

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Summary. Status in 1861: free states; border slaves states ; territories; District of Columbia; 1861, February 11, House unanimous resolution; 1861, March 2, Corwin amendment (§ 207); 1861, July, House on the purpose of the war. — Question of slaves of combatants: 1861, May, Butler's "contrabands of war "; August 6, confiscation act; 1862, March 13, return by officers forbidden; July 2, second confiscation act. — District of Columbia: 1862, April 26, compensated emancipation act. Territories: June 19, prohibition act. Negro troops: 1861, December, Cameron's message; 1862, Hunter's regiment; July 17, act authorizing enlistments; 1862-64, enlistments. Slave trade: 1862, June 7, treaty with England; 1864, July 7, domestic trade forbidden. - Emancipation proclamations: 1861-62, pressure on Lincoln; influence of the border states; 1861, August 30, Frémont's order; 1862, May 9, Hunter's order; 1862, August 19, Lincoln's letter on saving the Union; September 22, preliminary proclamation; 1863, January 1, final proclamation; legal effect; political effect. State emancipations: Lincoln's scheme of compensation; 1862, April 10, joint resolution favoring; 1862-63, border states refuse; 1862, March 21, West Virginia abolishes ; 1863, June 24, Missouri emancipates; 1864, October 13, Maryland abolishes; 1865, December, abolition in Kentucky and

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Delaware by Thirteenth Amendment. Fugitive slaves: 1864, June 28, act of 1850 repealed. — Thirteenth Amendment: Lincoln's influence; 1864, June 15, fails in the House; question in the campaign of 1864; 1865, Jan. 31, passes the House; December 18, declared in force.

General. Horace Greeley, American Conflict, II, Chs. xi, xii, xxii; J. W. Draper, American Civil War, II, Ch. Ixiv; James G. Blaine, Twenty Years of Congress, I, Chs. xx, xxi; Geo. S. Boutwell, Constitution of the United States, §§ 706-716; Rossiter Johnson, Short History of the War, Ch. xiii; S. S. Cox, Three Decades, Ch. xvi; American Annual Cyclopædia, 1862, pp. 786–796; J. J. Lalor, Cyclopædia, II, 76– 78, 280; J. N. Pomeroy, Constitutional Law, §§ 109–119; Wm. Whiting, War Powers, Chs. iii, viii.

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Special. Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, IV, Chs. xxii, xxiv, V, Ch. xii, VI, Chs. vi, viii, xvii, xix, xx, VIII, Chs. xvi, xx, X, Ch. iv; E. L. Pierce, Charles Sumner, IV, Chs. xlviii-l: Garrisons, Life of William Lloyd Garrison, IV, Chs. i-vi; Henry Wilson, Slave Power, III, Chs. xvii-xli; Comte de Paris, Civil War, II, 706-747; Isaac N. Arnold, History of Lincoln and the Overthrow of Slavery; F. Wharton, Commentaries, §§ 20, 360, 400, 584-593; J. N. Pomeroy, Constitutional Law, §§ 116-118; T. M. Cooley, Story's Commentaries, II, §§ 19231927; J. F. Rhodes, History, III, 446-476, IV [in preparation]; A. Wilcox, Powers of the Federal Government over Slavery; Jefferson Davis, Confederate Government, II, 158-193, 460-476; S. G. Fisher, Trial of the Constitution, Ch. iv; Augustin Cochin, Results of Emancipation; J. E. Cairnes, Slave Power, Ch. ix; G. W. Williams, Negro Race, II, Chs. xiv-xviii; Marion G. McDougall, Fugitive Slaves, §§ 85105, Appendix C; Mary Tremain, Slavery in the District of Columbia; biographies of Lincoln (see §§ 25, 208), Chase, Sumner, Ben Wade, Thaddeus Stevens, W. L. Garrison, Seward (§ 25).

Sources. DEBATES: Congressional Globe, 37 Cong., 38 Cong., 39 Cong. I sess.; daily newspapers, especially New York Tribune, Times, Herald, Boston Advertiser, Chicago Tribune (see § 27). — Documents: Senate Exec. Docs., 37 Cong. 2 sess. V, No. 42, VI, No. 68; 39 Cong. I sess. II, No. 55; Senate Reports, 37 Cong. 2 sess. No. 12; 38 Cong. I sess. Nos. 8, 17, 24, 25; 38 Cong. 2 sess. I, No. 137; House Exec. Docs., 37 Cong. 2 sess. V, No. 69 (emancipation); X, Nos. 133, 143 (black troops); 38 Cong. I sess. IX, No. 42 (District of Columbia); 38 Cong. 2 sess. VIII, No. 38 (troops); House Reports, 37 Cong. 2 sess.

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III, No. 58, IV, Nos. 120, 148; 38 Cong. I sess. I, No. 2; 38 Cong. 2 sess. No. 9; House Miscellaneous, 38 Cong. 2 sess. (state resolutions). American Annual Cyclopædia, 1861, pp. 641-645 (slaves); 1862, pp. 720726 (Lincoln's plans), 752-759 (slaves), 736 (emancipation proclamation); 1863, pp. 268 (negro troops), 304-321 (emancipation in states), 425-431 (freedmen), 831-835 (Lincoln on emancipation); 1864, pp. 219353, passim, (Congress), 387; 1865, pp. 205-217 (Thirteenth Amendment), 370-378 (freedmen). — Edward McPherson, History of the Rebellion, 195– 261; Frank Moore, Rebellion Record, V-XI, and Supplement I, passim. CONTEMPORARY WRITINGS: Abraham Lincoln, Complete Works, II; Charles Sumner, Works, VI-IX, passim; John Sherman, Recollections, I, Ch. xiv; A. G. Riddle, Reminiscences, 129-163; Geo. S. Boutwell, Speeches and Papers; Garrisons, Life of William Lloyd Garrison, IV, Chs. i-vi; Frederick Douglass, Life and Times, Chs. xi, xii; Samuel A. Goddard, Letters on the American Rebellion; Noah Brooks, Washington in Lincoln's Time, Ch. vi; A. K. McClure, Lincoln and Men of War Time, 88-104; F. B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House; Elizabeth H. Botume, First Days Among the Contrabands.- PERIODICALS: List in § 26a; indexes in § 16c; especially Liberator, Independent, New York Tribune.

Bibliography.-J. J. Lalor, Cyclopædia, II, 78, 280; Marion G. McDougall, Fugitive Slaves, Appendix E; Indexes to Public Documents (see § 16e); Bartlett, Literature of the Rebellion; Robert Desty, Federal Constitution, 277, 278, 326.

INDE X.

[In this index will be found references to subjects, persons, and books, in one
alphabet. An asterisk indicates a page on which the title of the work is cited in full,
with the place and date of publication. Titles are commonly entered only on the page
in which they first appear].

ABBOTT, B. V., United States Digest,

Abbott, C., Primitive Industry, 231.
Abdy, E. S., Residence and Tour, *78.
Ableman vs. Booth, case of, 393, 394.
Abolition movement, 376; anti-abolition
mobs, 377; societies, 377; petitions, 378;
in Civil War, 425. - See Annexation,
Emancipation, Free-Soil Party, Fugi-
tives, Liberty Party, Petitions, Slavery,
Slave-Trade.

Aborigines. - See Indians.

Acadia, settlement of, 242; ceded to
England, 242, 281.
Acadians, removal of, 281.
Acrelius, New Sweden, 262.

Adair, J., American Indians, 233.
Adams, Abigail (with John), Letters, 336.
Adams, Brooks, Emancipation of Massa-
chusetts, *62.

Adams, C. F. [1st], biography, *87; (with
J. Q. Adams) John Adams, *87; min-
ister to England, 421.

Adams, C. F. [2d], Braintree and Quincy
(Mass.), *63; Massachusetts Historians,
*62, 273; Three Episodes, *62, 146, 269;
Charles Francis Adams [1st], *87; R.
H. Dana, *89; (with H. Adams) Es-
says, 251 Old Planters, 269; Massa-
chusetts Towns, 271; Welde's Short
History, 273; Railroads, 366.
Adams, C. K., Manual of Historical Lit-
erature, *30, 35; on methods, 23.
Adams, D., English Party Leaders, 301.
Adams, F. C., Uncle Tom at Home, 376.
Adams, Hannah, Memoir, *127.
Adams, Henry, History, 34, 46; Albert
Gallatin, 90; John Randolph, *97;
New England Federalism, *132; (with
C. F. Adams 2d) Essays, 251.
Adams, Henry C., Public Debts, 332;
Taxation, 332.

Adams, Herbert B., Study of History,

*30; History in Colleges, 32; Methods,
32; Jared Sparks, *98; Germanic Ori-
gin, 271; Maryland's Influence, 305.
Adams, John, biographies, *87; Works,
*124; (with Abigail) Familiar Letters,

*87;

127; selected biography of, 291; Presi-
dent, 340; in French crisis, 340; trouble
with cabinet, 340; Hamilton's attack
on, 343; defeated in 1800, 343.
Adams, John Quincy, biographies,
(with C. F. 1st) John Adams, *87;
Madison and Monroe, *95; Memoirs,
107, 127; Jubilee of the Constitution,
327 President, 364; opposition to, 364;
contest with Georgia, 364; and Jackson,
367; anti-slavery leader, 378; attempts
to censure, 378; against Texan annexa-
tion, 385.

Adams, N., Portsmouth, *65
Adams, Nehemiah, South Side View, 376.
Adams, Samuel, biographies, *87; writ-
ings, 289, 290.

Adolphus, John, England, *46, 284.
Agassiz, E. C., Louis Agassiz, *87.
Agassiz, Louis, biography, *87.
Agnew, D., Pennsylvania, *72.
Agreement of the People, The, 290.
Agriculture of North America, 227. - See
Cotton, North, South.
Aid to Students, 195.

Akins, T. B., Selections from the Public
Documents, 109.

Alabama, histories, *57; admitted, 360;
secedes, 406; suggests Confederacy,

421.

Alabama, The, sunk by Kearsarge, 415;
Confederate cruiser, 421; resulting
claims, 421.

Alabama Historical Society, publications,
*122.

Alaska, histories, *57; annexation of, 309.
Albach, J. R., Annals of the West, *55.
Albany, Annals, *113; Congress of, see
Congress of Albany.

Albany Institute, Transactions, 123..
Albemarle, Lord, Marquis of Rocking-
ham, *97, 235.

Alcott, L. M., Hospital Sketches, *137.
Aldrich, P. E., New England Towns,

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