p-books.com
History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States
by Wiliam H. Barnes
Previous Part     1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18
Home - Random Browse

STATES rights defined, 228; Civil Rights Bill endangers, 222, 236; answered, 240.

STATES reserved the right to confer citizenship, 265; the number recognized by the President, 335; South and North, their ratio of representation compared, 344.

STATISTICS of Freedmen's Bureau, 154, 182.

STATUTES declaring what the law is, common, 254.

STEWART'S proposition for universal suffrage, 435.

ST. DOMINGO, insurrection in, without a parallel, 68.

STOCKBRIDGE Indians naturalized, 233.

STORY, Justice, as quoted by President Johnson, 500.

SUBJECTS, who are, how made citizens, 232.

SUFFRAGE in the District of Columbia, bill extending, 51; the first act in a political drama, 54; not prematurely proposed, 91.

SUFFRAGE limited by the influence of slavery, 52; negro to be effected by Constitutional Amendment, 327; the proper basis of representation, 335; the right of, Congress may regulate, 364; negro or rebel? 383; impartial, advocated by Mr. Yates, 398; by Mr. Pomeroy, 404; female, advocated and opposed, 488; advocated by Mr. Wade, 490; rejected, 495; its true base, 495.

SUN obscured by Congressional acts, 337.

SUPPLEMENTARY Reconstruction Bill, 550.

SYMPATHIZERS, Northern, with rebellion, 78.

TACTICS, Parliamentary, 418.

TARIFF, subject of the, 554; bill, 555.

TAXATION without representation opposed, 326, 333; proposed exemption of unrepresented negroes from, 386; the principle of, announced, 555.

TEARS for the slave, 192.

TEMPTATION to be friends of the President, 564.

TENNESSEE, efforts of members to gain admission, 17; effect of veto of Freedmen's Bureau on the admission of, 418; right of Congress to inquire into the loyalty of, 424; her reaedmission anticipated, 448; first to ratify the Constitutional Amendment, 473; resolution for restoring representation to, 474; its passage, 476.

TENURE of office, bill to regulate, 559.

TERMS of surrender to be fixed by the President, 319.

TERRITORIAL Government proper for rebel States, 312.

TERRITORIES, democratic doctrine on, fruits of, 442.

TEST Oath, 21; should be modified, 47; resolution to modify the, 480; opposed by Mr. Stokes, 480; by Mr. Conkling; laid on the table, 481.

TEXAS, citizenship conferred on the people by legislation, 198; negroes in, unaware of their freedom, 393.

TIME proper for amending the Constitution, 345, 352, 355.

TOOMBS and his gang make a "hell of legislation," 449.

TOWNSEND'S Sarsaparilla, and suffrage, 530.

TRANQUILLITY impossible while rights are denied a portion of the people, 486.

TREASON, charge, of resented, 284.

TRIBUNES of Borne, their "veto," 278.

TROUBLE with the negro, how ended, 390.

TRUMBULL, Senator, his visit to the President, 262, 283.

UNION Party of 1861, its policy on slavery, 342; its position defined, 443.

UNION to be dissolved by act of Congress, 40; under the Constitution and old confederation, 316; means of having a prosperous, 461.

UNIVERSAL suffrage, its sure triumph, 400.

"VENOMOUS fight," a, 419.

VERBAL details, criticism on, deprecated, 520.

VETO, of the Freedmen's Bureau Bill, 165; bill fails to pass over, in the Senate, 187; Mr. Raymond desirous of avoiding, 235; of Civil Rights Bill, 246; efforts of Congress to avoid, 262; appeal of Senator Andrew Johnson against, 264; power of the Executive, 278; of the second Freedmen's Bureau Bill, 302; of the District of Columbia Suffrage Bill, 500; of Military Reconstruction Bill, 542; of Tenure of Office Bill, 560

VETOES, summary of, 565.

VIRGINIA, her legislation concerning citizenship, 349.

VIRGINIANS, probable effect of negro suffrage upon, 498.

VOTE on appointment of Reconstruction Committee, 35, 48; on Negro Suffrage, 93; on Freedmen's Bureau Bill, 136, 157, 187; on Civil Rights Bill, 219, 243; on veto of Civil Rights Bill, 288, 289; on Reconstruction Amendment, 450; on Basis of Representation, 371, 416; on Military Reconstruction Bill, 535.

VOTES of disfranchised persons in the Electoral College, 329.

VOTERS, objections to, as basis of representation, 351.

VOTERS, qualifications of, under the Military Reconstruction Bill, 550.

VOTING, the mode of in Joint Committees, 39.

VOTING, the right of, not correlative with the duty to bear arms, 493; population in States, old and new, 335.

WADE accused of secession sentiments, 428.

WAR, effects of the, 62; opinions of General Grant and the Attorney General on its termination, 123; results of the, 209.

WAR of races, how produced, 75; how avoided, 383.

WAR power of the Freedmen's Bureau, 125.

WAR, the only remaining means of preserving civil liberty, 519; difficulty of raising soldiers for such a, 521.

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.

"WHITEWASHING," charged against the President, 99, 563.

WISCONSIN, instructions to the Senators of, 286; and South Carolina, their unequal representation, 334; her declaration on negro suffrage, 394; radicals of, Doolittle against the, 533.

WOMEN, crusade against, deprecated, 370.

YOUNG gentlemen in Congress, suggestions to, 529.



THE END.

Previous Part     1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18
Home - Random Browse