baby" -- Fancy army equipment -- McClellan and
his chief of staff sick in bed -- "No satirist could invent such
things" -- Stanton in the Cabinet -- "This Stanton is the people" --
Fremont -- Weed -- The English will not be humbugged -- Dayton in a
fret -- Beaufort -- The investigating committee condemn McClellan --
Lincoln in the clutches of Seward and Blair -- Banks begs for guns and
cavalry in vain -- The people will awake! -- The question of race --
Agassiz.

FEBRUARY, 1862. 151

Drifting -- The English blue book -- Lord John could not act
differently -- Palmerston the great European fuss-maker -- Mr.
Seward's "two pickled rods" for England -- Lord Lyons -- His pathway
strewn with broken glass -- Gen. Stone arrested -- Sumner's
resolutions infuse a new spirit in the Constitution -- Mr. Seward
beyond salvation -- He works to save slavery -- Weed has ruined him --
The New York press -- "Poor Tribune" -- The Evening Post -- The Blairs
-- Illusions dispelled -- "All quiet on the Potomac" -- The London
papers -- Quill-heroes can be bought for a dinner -- French opinion --
Superhuman efforts to save slavery -- It is doomed! -- "All you
worshippers of darkness cannot save it!" -- The Hutchinsons --
Corporal Adams -- Victories in the West -- Stanton the man! --
Strategy (hear!)

MARCH, 1862. 165

The Africo-Americans -- Fremont -- The Orleans -- Confiscation --
American nepotism -- The Merrimac -- Wooden guns -- Oh shame! -- Gen.
Wadsworth -- The rats have the best of Stanton -- McClellan goes to
Fortress Monroe -- Utter imbecility -- The embarkation -- McClellan a
turtle -- He will stick in the marshes -- Louis Napoleon behaves nobly
-- So does Mr. Mercier -- Queen Victoria for freedom -- The great
strategian -- Senator Sumner and the French minister -- Archbishop
Hughes -- His diplomatic activity not worth the postage on his
correspondence -- Alberoni-Seward -- Love's labor lost.

APRIL, 1862. 180

Immense power of the President -- Mr. Seward's Egeria -- Programme of
peace -- The belligerent question -- Roebucks and Gregories scums --
Running the blockade -- Weed and Seward take clouds for camels --
Uncle Sam's pockets -- Manhood, not money, the sinews of war --
Colonization schemes -- Senator Doolittle -- Coal mine speculation --
Washington too near th