age of the Reconstruction Amendment, 451;
hunting up negro voters, 498.

DEVELOPMENT always slow, 64.

DISFRANCHISEMENT of negroes by whites, 365, 376;
opposed, 387;
of rebels advocated, 443.

DISSOLUTION of the Union in the passage of the Freedmen's Bureau
Bill, 160.

DISUNION, threat of, 161.

DISTRICT of Columbia, Committee on, 28;
under the special care of Congress, 50;
number and character of rebels in, 77.

DISTRICT of Columbia, bill to extend suffrage in, introduced, 51;
motion to postpone, 82;
amendments proposed, 82;
and rejected, 93;
passage in the House, 93;
called up in the Senate, 483;
reason for its occupying so much attention, 485;
why it was not passed before, 491;
its passage, 499;
veto, 500;
passage over the veto, 501;
why it was so long deferred, 564, 565.

DOG, injustice to a, 509.

DOOLITTLE, his position on the Civil Rights Bill, 285;
"a fortunate politician," 459;
the savior of his party, 469.

DREAM of Thaddeus Stevens vanished, 463.

DRED Scott Decision against civil rights, 198, 264.

DU PONT, Admiral, his mention of the negro pilot, 71.

EARTHQUAKE predicted, 447.

EDUCATION, the Committee on, 30.

EDUCATION of Freedmen, provision for, 145

EDUCATION, an uncertain test, 62;
should be made a test, 63;
of colored children, a scene in the old Senate, 389;
Bureau of, 553.

EDUCATOR, the best, the ballot is, 399.

ELECTIVE franchise, a means of elevation, 57;
the only proper test for its exercise, 61;
its abridgment not authorized by the Amendment of
Representation, 358;
the President's view of his power over, 562.

EMANCIPATION, its effect upon rights, 328.

ENFRANCHISEMENT to be a gradual work, 354;
how to bring about, 411;
not disfranchisement, the question in reconstruction, 506.

ENGLAND, her paper money and specie payments, 556.

EPOCH in the history of the country, 204.

EQUALITY, political, a "fiendish doctrine," 61.

EQUALITY does not exist, 195.

EQUAL Rights, the blessings of, 377.

EXCITEMENT, the Senate not unfitted for business by, 421.

EXCLUSION from citizenship, a right, 195.

EXECUTIVE obstruction, of Congress, 560.

EXECUTIVE patronage, evils of, 559.