tice, decision pronounced by, 253.

MARYLAND, necessity for Freedmen's Bureau in, 135.

MASSACHUSETTS, her law of suffrage, 63;
her character, 74;
her example not to be quoted, 92;
crimes are perpetrated in, 97;
prejudice against ignorance in, 336;
Senator Sumner advised to leave, 336.

MAYOR of Washington, his remonstrance against negro suffrage, 486.

MCCLELLAN'S proclamation against the slaves, 67.

MCCULLOCH, circumstances under which he should receive great
credit, 558.

MCDOUGALL, his habits and talents, 277.

MCPHERSON, Edward, Clerk of the House, 16;
his conduct in the organization, 17;
strictures on, 431.

MEMORIAL from colored men, 393.

METAPHYSICAL argument for female suffrage, 493.

MILITARY affairs, Committee on, 31.

MILITARY feature of the Civil Rights Bill opposed, 216;
explained and defended, 217;
has been the law 30 years, 218;
nothing unusual, 225.

MILITARY governments in the South, colloquy concerning, 530.

MILITARY protection of Freedmen's Bureau opposed, 112;
explained and advocated, 126, 172.

MILITARY Reconstruction Bill, discussion of a previous
proposition, 502;
the measure proposed, 516;
its form, 517;
explained, 518;
danger in not providing for civil governments, 523;
a police bill only, 528;
Blaine's amendment of, 527;
passes the House, 529;
Sherman's amendment, 534;
passes the Senate, 535;
amended in the House, 541;
final passage, 524;
vetoed; passes over the veto, 547, 548;
final form, 548.

MILITARY should not supersede civil authority, 524.

MILL, John Stuart, in favor of female suffrage, 488.

MISSISSIPPI, black code of, 146;
distinctions in against blacks, 191;
numbers of whites and negroes in, 334.

MISSOURI injured by making voters the basis of representation, 366.

MONOPOLY, Southern, of human rights, 376.

MONTGOMERY Convention committed treason "under color of law," 261.

MURDER, being unlawful, can not be committed, 310;
answer, 315.

NAME, ability to read and write the, as a qualification for
voting, 496.

NAPOLEON not liable to execution if taken in war, 317.

NATIVE-BORN persons not subjects for naturalization, 200, 201;
the position opposed, 203;