[602] Rhode Island Delegates to Philadelphia convention, 77, 85. Ratification of Constitution, 90, 96, 108, 129. Letter to President and Congress, 97. Constitutional amendment proposed, 125.
Rice, —, 58.
Rich Mountain, Battle of, 293.
Ricketts, Captain, 329.
Rip-Raps, 180.
Rives, William C. Delegate to Peace Congress, 214.
Rochambeau, Count, 139.
Roman, A. B., 239. Commissioner from Confederacy to Lincoln, 212.
Rosecrans, General, 372-73, 375,376.
Russell, Lord, John, 281.
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St. John, General, 276. Head of Confederate niter and mining bureau, 409-10.
Saunders, Colonel, 325, 370.
Scott, General, 234, 238, 289.
Sebastian, Senator, 175.
Secession, 96, 116, 218. Right of states, 50, 52, 60, 142, 144-47, 154, 159, 218-19. Ordinance of South Carolina, 51. Preparation, 60. Earlier propaganda, 60-64. Hartford convention, 63-64. Resolutions of Massachusetts legislature, 64. Slavery not the cause, 65-67. Provision made in Constitution, 86-87. Opposition to armed force against states, 150. Allegiance divided, 154-55. Peaceful remedy, 156. Moral obligations, 156-57. Caucus of Southern senators, 172, 178; resolutions, 175. Seizure of forts and arsenals, 173-75. Remarks by Davis on resigning from Senate, 189-192. Remarks of Northern journals on seces-sion and coercion, 218-21. Not insurrection but a right, 282.
Sectional rivalry, 24. Growth, 26-29, 36, 42, 48, 71. Culmination, 52-53, 58-59. Retrospect, 66-67. Safeguards against, 158-59.
Seddon, James A. Delegate to Peace Congress, 214.
Semmes, Captain, 408. Emissary to North to secure arms for Con-federacy, 270-71.
Seward, W. H., 58, 59. Extract from dispatch to Dayton, 226-27. Relations with Confederate commission, 230-238. Instructions to Dallas, 281-82.
Seymour, Horatio, 220.
Sharkey, William L., 198.
Sherman, Roger, 123.
Shiloh, Battle of, 409.
Sickles, General, 390, 394.
Singleton, O. R., 51-52.
Slavery. Status at adoption of Federal Constitution, 1, 71. Moral considerations, 1, 3-4. Importation prohibited, 2-3. Abolition petition, 2, 29. Extension, 4, 5; to Kansas and Nebraska, 26. Occasion but not cause of conflict, 65-66. Summary up to 1860, 66. Under control of states, 67. Recognition by Constitution, 67-69. Dred Scott case, 70. Regulation (Confederate Constitution), 225-26. Status at beginning of war, 262-63.
Slaves. Distribution, 1, 4. Importation, 1-3, 225-26.
Slidell, John, 175. Seizure from British ship by U. S. officers, 402.
Smith, Gen. E. K,, 305. Gen. G. W., 271, 386. Letter from Davis concerning organization of troops by states, 384-85. Extracts from paper relating to conference at Fairfax Court House, 387-88. Letters of instruction from Davis, 390. William, 9.
South, The, 27-28, 29. Excess of territory, 28. Taxation, 28. Discrimination against, 42.
South Carolina, 260. Early slavery, 2. Secession, 51-52, 60, 181. Instructions to delegates to Philadelphia Constitutional convention, 79. Ratification of Constitution, 93; amend-ments proposed, 93, 125. Compromise of 1833, 161. Property ceded to Federal government, 179-80, 250. Commission to Buchanan, 182-83. Position and action concerning Fort Sumter, 250-53, 540-41. “Combination” to be suppressed, 278. Nullification of tariff act of 1828, 430.
