24.

SENATE, opening scenes in, 14;
supposed division of, 431;
its proper business and mischievous business, 460.

SENATOR, the Greek, and the Sparrow, 93.

SENATORS not legislators for their own States alone, 186;
republican, as they appeared after a caucus, 456.

SERAPIS, destruction of the statue of, 145.

SEWARD, Secretary, his despatch to Minister Adams, 71;
and the nobleman's dog, 509;
defended, 512.

SHERMAN, General, his order assigning lands to freedmen, 114, 128.

SHERMAN'S Amendment to the Military Reconstruction Bill, 534.

SLAVE, the, under American law, 197.

SLAVEHOLDER, the last in America, 127.

SLAVES have supported themselves and their masters, 70.

SLAVERY, its evil influence, 87;
dead, 102;
its destruction, 145;
abolition of, duty consequent upon, 188;
voted perpetual by Congress, 230;
right of U. S. to prohibit, 319;
not confined to the African race, 348, 349.

SMALL, the negro pilot, 71.

SOUTH, what constitutes the, 57.

SOUTH CAROLINA attempts to keep the slave in bondage, 96;
her laws against the negro, 146;
her representation to be reduced, 331;
and Wisconsin, inequality in representation, 334;
her numbers of whites and negroes, 334;
how she may evade the Constitutional Amendment, 341;
President Johnson's advice to, 562.

SOUTHERN people, their kind feeling towards negroes, 227;
a majority opposed to secession, 446;
their disposition, 470;
advised to strike for liberty, 494.

SOUTHERN States, number of illiterate persons in, 146;
in a better condition than to be expected, 109;
their representatives should be admitted, 355;
the numbers disfranchised by them, 365;
an appeal to their love of power, 369;
anti-republican, 376;
punishment of, 395;
not kept out by New England jealousy, 403;
their losses in the war, 408;
revolution relating to, 417;
their relation to the Union unchanged, 427.

SOVEREIGNTIES, divided, essential to the existence of the nation, 267.

SPEAKER of the House, his influence upon legislation, 576.

SPECIE payments, when to be reached, 556.

STARS of heaven and the constellation of the States, 144.

STATE of the country, unparalleled, 178.

STATESMANSHIP the rule of, 539;