nts, how they should be made; advice of
Mr. Saulsbury, 405.

CONSTITUTIONAL Amendments in the interests of slavery once
popular, 405.

CONSTITUTIONAL Authority of the President and General Grant, 124.

CONSTITUTIONAL Convention of 1787, 338.

CONSTITUTION, the, powers it confers, 122;
violation of, an oft-repeated argument, 149;
to be destroyed by the Freedmen's Bureau Bill, 148;
unreconcilable with military rule, 176;
caused to bleed, 193;
does not exclude negroes from citizenship, 203;
against State Sovereignty, 319;
more liberal before the Rebellion, 327;
may be legally amended, 357;
as estimated by its makers, 278;
not necessary to re-enact it, 380.

CONTRAST between whites and blacks under Kentucky law, 154.

COTTON, export duty on proposed, 312.

"COUNTER PROPOSITION" by Mr. Sumner, 373, 379, 382;
rejected, 415.

COURTESY of Senator Wade, as described by Mr. McDougall, 282.

COWAN, Edgar, his radicalism, 489; his seriousness, 490.

DAVIS, Garrett, his programme for the President, 430, 432;
struck "dumb," 209;
his ability to "hang on," 533.

DAVIS, Jefferson, why not tried, 123;
acted "under color of law," 260;
not a traitor if rebel States are treated as foreign powers, 317;
his proclamation, 480.

DEAD STATES described, 308;
impossible, 316.

DEATH-KNELL of Liberty: passage of Reconstruction Bill, 547.

DEATHS of Senators, 569;
of Representatives, 570.

DEBATES of the Senate and House, difference, 452.

DEBATE, right of in the Senate, 38.

DEBT, accumulated burden of the public, 147;
rebel, how inherited by the United States, 317;
must be repudiated, 319.

DEFEAT, the lesson of, 416.

DEFIANCE of the majority by Garrett Davis, 244.

DEFILEMENT of the Constitution, 407;
answer to the charge, 410.

DELAWARE, the last slaveholding State, 127.

DELAY needful, 382.

DELAYS of the Senate, protest against, 394;
benefits of, 453.

DESPOTISM, establishment of, in the South, 531.

DEMOCRACY, leader of the, confusion concerning, 306.

DEMOCRATIC ascendency, dangers attending, 312.

DEMOCRATIC party against the Government, 399;
policy of, traversed, 442.

DEMOCRATS, their new discovery, 358;
how they caused the pass