Peirpoint, Francis M., recognized as Governor of Va., under reconstruction, 237; 161.
Pendleton, George H., Congressman, and the "Greenback" movement, 324.
Pennsylvania, opposed to Seward, 103;
in convention of 1860, 106, 107;
in Liberal Republican movement, 374;
election of Oct. 1872, in, 402.
People's party, issues T's speech at Chicago as campaign document, 415;
T. draws resolutions for meeting of, 415-417.
Philadelphia, National Union Convention at, 285, 286.
Phillips, D. L., quoted, 75, 89; 213.
Phillips, Wendell, opposes reëlection of Lincoln, 220;
savagely attacks Johnson, 239, 240;
reproved by N. Y. Tribune, 240,
Piatt, Donn, Memories of Men who saved the Union, quoted, 222.
Pickens, Francis W., Governor, 121, 155, 156, 157, 158.
And see Harvey.
Pierce, Edward L., Life of Sumner, quoted, 292 n., 347 n.; 66.
Pierce, Franklin, President, makes Reeder Governor of Kansas, 49;
removes Reeder and appoints Shannon, 55;
his special message on Kansas affairs, 55; xxi, 37, 52, 54, 65, 73, 83, 246.
Poland, Luke D., Senator, 262, 304.
Pomeroy, Samuel C., Senator, 202, 203.
Poore, Ben: Perley, 342.
"Popular sovereignty," 39.
Porter, Horace, General, 366.
Postage in early 19th century, 7, 20.
Pottawatomie massacre, the, 97.
Powell, Lazarus W., Senator, opposes habeas corpus suspension bill, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202; 116.
Protection, meaning of, in 1871, 354.
Pullman Co., strike of employees of, 413-415.
Randall, Alexander W., Postmaster General, 285.
Randall, J. G., 174 and n.
Randolph, John, of Roanoke, and article 6 of Ordinance of 1787, 25; xxxi.
Raum, Green B., quoted, 67 and n.
Rawlins, John A., General, appointed Secretary of War, 337; 330.
Ray, C. H., quoted, 74, 75, 87, 148, 243, 261; 79, 80, 151.
Ray, P. Ormon, Repeal of the Missouri Compromise, 37 n.
Raymond, Henry J., Congressman, 272.
Read, John M., 108.
Reconstruction, Lincoln's plan of, set forth in proclamation of Dec. 8, 1863, 232;
Lincoln's address on, Apr. 11, 1865, 235;
his plan endorsed by Garrison, 235, 236,
and adopted by Johnson, 237;
in Va., 237;
in Ark., 238;
in No. Carolina, and other seceding states, 238;
Shaffer and Ray on conditions in those States under, 242, 243;
the Nation on Johnson's plan of, 244, 245;
Lincoln's plan of, definitely abandoned, 291;
supplementary measure of, passed by Congress, vetoed, and passed over veto, 294;
drastic provisions of, 294;
further measures of, passed over vetoes, 295;
a failure, 341;
change in T.'s course on, 423, 424.
Reconstruction, House Committee on, inquires into suspension of Stanton, 306;
refuses to recommend impeachment, 308.
Reconstruction, Joint Committee on, members of, 281;
amendment to Constitution proposed to, by Bingham and Stevens, 282;
reports 14th Amendment, 283, 284.
Reconstruction bill (Stevens's) establishing military government in South, 291, 292;
amended by provision for negro suffrage, 292;
passed by Congress, vetoed, and passed over veto, 293, 294.
Reeder, Andrew H., appointed Governor of Kansas, 49;
confirms elections of Whitfield as Delegate to Congress, 49, 50;
and the Missourian invaders, 50, 51, 53, 54;
removed by Pierce, 55; 56, 59, 63, 108, 150.
Religion, T.'s views on, 430, 431.
Republican National Convention (1856), 69;
(1860), nominates Lincoln, 105, 106;
(1868) on negro suffrage, 332, 333;
its negro-suffrage plank too brazen to be long maintained, 338;
(1872), nominates Grant and Wilson, 393;
platform of, 394.
Republican party, first national convention of, 69, 70;
rumored alliance of Douglas with, 78-80;
still inchoate in 1860, 102;
candidate for presidential nomination of, in 1860, 102 ff.;
T.'s views concerning, 103, 104;
T.'s view of duty of, in 1861, 113, 114;
T.'s position in, in campaign of 1866, 273;
control of, shifted to radical wing by veto of Civil Rights bill, 277;
power of that wing of, increased by refusal of South to ratify 14th Amendment, 287;
lead of, in Congress, assumed by Sumner and Stevens, 291;
definitely abandons Lincoln's plan of reconstruction, 291;
generally adopts Sumner's view of impeachment, 312;
treatment of "traitor" Senators by, 322-326;
Henderson alone forgiven, 326;
corruption in, in 1870, 341 ff.;
division in, in Mo., 351 ff.;
both sections of, in Mo., adopt "Anti-tariff" resolution, 352;
defeated in Congressional elections of 1874, 408;
T.'s separation from, 420.
Republicans of the first period, xxiii.
Republicans, Eastern, favor Douglas's re-election to Senate, 86;
and the Lincoln-Douglas campaign, 91, 92;
in Ill., distrust Douglas, 86,
and prefer Lincoln for Senator, 86;
those opposed to Lincoln, nominate Frémont and Cochrane (1864), 219, 220.
Retrenchment, Joint Committee on, report of, 362, 363;
and the Leet and Stocking case, 364 ff.
Revenue reform, an element in Liberal Republican movement, 352, 353;
conference of advocates of, 353, 354;
in the Cincinnati convention, 381, 382.
Reynolds, John, Governor, and the pro-slavery attempt to amend the constitution of Ill., 26;
Rhode Island, opposed to Seward, 103.
Rhodes, James F., History of the U. S., quoted on "anti-impeachment" Senators, 322;
on La. returning board, 408;
cited, 406 n.
Richardson, William A., Senator, 10, 197, 201, 427.
Riddle, A. G., Recollections of War-Time, quoted, 228 n.; 219.
Robbins, Henry S., T.'s partner, 407;
quoted, on T.'s character, 425.
Robertson, Thomas J., 359.
Robeson, George M., appointed Secretary of the Navy, 337;
action in the Secor case, 396, 397, 398.
Ross, Edmund G., Senator, immortalized by his vote against impeachment, 322;
his later years, and death in poverty, 322; 299, 314, 317.
Russia, Cameron appointed Minister to, 186, 187-189.
San Domingo treaty, opposed by Sumner, 342, 343;
Wade commission, 343,
and its report, 386;
attempt to secure ratification of, 360.
Sands, Mahlon D., convokes conference of revenue reformers, 353.
Saulsbury, Willard, Senator, 201, 228, 249, 250, 267, 268, 272.
Scates, Walter B., Judge, quoted, 213; 21, 375.
Schenck, Robert C., Congressman, 165, 166, 167.
Schurz, Carl, Senator, report of, in his Southern tour, 253-255;
his report has great influence, 254;
his later doubts as to his conclusions, 254 n.;
succeeds Henderson in Senate, 351, 352;
a leader in Liberal Republican movement, 352;
opposes Ku-Klux-Klan bill, 356, 358;
his speech a masterpiece, 358;
on Leet and Stocking case, 365, 366;
chairman of Cincinnati Convention, 383;
his view of nomination, 384, 385;
how connected with course of Blair and Brown, 385 and n.; his attitude toward Greeley's candidacy, 391, 392;
urges him to decline, 391;
Godkin and Godwin remonstrate with, 392, 393;
in the campaign, 399;
Greeley's farewell letter to, 403; 107, 189, 343, 344, 353, 359, 363, 369, 371, 373, 377, 378, 389, 402.
Scott, Dred, not consciously a party to suit brought in his name, 82, 83.
And see Dred Scott case.
Scott, Thomas A., censured by House Committee, 184, 185; 172 n., 186.
Scott, Winfield, General, has authority from Lincoln to suspend habeas corpus, 190; 121, 122, 128, 171.
Scripps, John L., 87.
Secession movement, history of, 125 ff.
Secors, the, and the Navy Dep't, 397, 398.
Senate of U. S., debates Kansas-Nebraska bill, 34,
and passes it, 37; T. takes his seat in, 48;
debates on affairs in Kansas in, 55 ff., 63, 64, 65, 76 ff., 81, 82, 83;
passes Lecompton bill, 83,
and substituted English bill, 84;
debate on popular sovereignty in, 94;
debate on Davis's anti-Douglas resolutions in, 95, 96,
and on John Brown raid, 98-100;
J. Davis's last speeches in, 110, 114, 115;
debates Crittenden Compromise, 115-117,
and rejects it, 117;
passes proposed amendment to constitution forbidding interference with slavery, 117;
Douglas's death announced to, by T., 152, 153;
struggle in, over confirmation of Cameron as Minister to Russia, 187-189;
debate in, on arbitrary arrests, 190 ff.;
passes bill concerning political prisoners, 197;
debates habeas corpus suspension bill, 198 ff.;
Democratic filibuster thereon, 200-203;
debates 13th Amendment, 223 ff.;
debates Louisiana bill, 233, 234;
Sumner's attack on Johnson in, 246, 247;
debate on Wilson bill in, 247-250;
calls for Schurz's report on Southern affairs, 253;
debates Freedmen's Bureau bill, 258-260,
but fails to pass it over veto, 261;
Stockton election contest in, 261-265;
debates Civil Rights bill, 265-270,
and passes it over veto, 272;
passes 14th Amendment, 283;
passes bill admitting Texas, 284;
amendment looking to negro suffrage offered in, 287;
adopts Sumner's negro-suffrage amendment to Reconstruction bill, 292,
and passes bill over veto, 293, 294;
pass bills readmitting divers States, 296, 297;
debates Georgia bill, 298, 299;
debates Tenure-of-Office bill, 301, 302,
and passes it over veto, 303;
non-concurs in removal of Stanton, 305, 306;
trial of Johnson impeachment in, 309-314, 318-320;
acquits him on three counts, 320, 321;
debate on T.'s connection with McCardle case, 331, 332;
debates and passes 15th Amendment, 338-340;
debate in, on ousting Sumner from Foreign Affairs Committee, 343 ff.;
debates Ku-Klux-Klan bill, 356-358,
and Hodge resolution, 362-364;
orders inquiry into Leet and Stocking scandal, 365, 366;
discusses make-up of committee, 366, 367;
T.'s speech on Mo. convention of 1872, 376;
Sumner's anti-Grant speech in, 387, 388;
orders investigation of La. election, 405;
T.'s last speech in, 405.
Seward, William H., speech of, on Kansas affairs, 64;
the "logical candidate" in 1860, 102;
opposition to nomination of, 102, 103;
too radical for some states, 103;
T. and Lincoln on candidacy of, 103, 104, 105;
his inclusion in Cabinet opposed, 139 ff.;
State Dep't. offered to, 141;
and Cameron's appointment, 143;
and the Harvey despatch to Gov. Pickens, 155 ff.;
and Harvey's appointment to Portugal, 155, 157;
his assurance to Confederate envoys as to evacuation of Sumter, 156;
his purpose, to defeat relief of Sumter, 157;
had induced Lincoln to agree to evacuation to prevent secession of Va., 158;
sends Magruder to Va. convention, 161;
and Douglas, in April, 1861, 163, 164;
his aims patriotic but futile, 164;
assumes power to order arbitrary arrests, 190 ff.;
his dispatches of Apr. 1861, and July, 1862, to Adams, 210 ff.;
his attitude toward Lincoln's war policy, 210;
unjustly blamed for non-success of Union arms, 210, 211, 212;
committee of Republican Senators urge Lincoln to demand his resignation, 211;
Lincoln's comment thereon, 212;
on real date of emancipation, 222;
his construction of 13th Amendment confirmed by Supreme Court, 229;
on Johnson as a speaker, 246;
opinion of, on matter of territorializing States, 290;
prepares Johnson's veto message of Tenure-of-Office bill, 303; 48, 79, 82, 84, 86, 88, 106, 107, 108, 112, 116, 118, 119, 145, 146, 147, 150, 151, 170, 172, 181 n., 182, 197, 238, 307, 430.
Seymour, Horatio, elected Governor of N. Y., 197;
Democratic nominee for Pres. (1868), 333; 355.
Shaffer, J. W., quoted, on conditions in seceding states, 242, 243.
Shannon, Wilson, succeeds Reeder as Governor of Kansas Terr., 55.
Sheahan, James W., 79.
Sheridan, P. H., General, 221.
Sherman, John, Senator, on Tenure-of-Office bill, 301, 302, 303;
his view of impeachment, 309, 310;
and evidence of Johnson's intent, 313;
on Sumner and the Foreign Affairs Committee, 344, 345;
on Caucus secrets, 345, 346; 102, 248, 249, 292, 316, 320, 363, 371, 409.
Sherman, William T., General, quoted, on conditions in La. (1859), xxxv, 165, 166, 221, 257, 308.
Shields, James, Senator, 39, 43.
Shiloh, battle of, 334.
Simpson, Matthew, Methodist bishop, and the impeachment trial, 317, 320.
Slave trade, extension of, deemed a vital necessity in the South, xxxiv.
Slavery, how involved in the War, xxi, xxii;
history of, in the U. S., xxvii ff.;
change in Southern view of, xxxii, xxxiii;
in Ill., early history of, 23 ff.;
provisions of Ordinance of 1787 concerning, violated by legislature, 25;
prohibited by State Constitution, 25;
attempts to perpetuate in Ill., 28-30;
and the Kansas-Nebraska bill, 34 ff.;