9-301;
services of Negroes in the Army of the Potomac, 335.

United States Congress, proceedings on the memorial of Colored
citizens of Philadelphia, against the slave-trade on the coast
of Guinea, 2;
American ships prohibited from supplying slaves from the United
States to foreign markets, 3;
action on the memorial of Indiana Territory for a modification of
the ordinance of 1787, 4-8;
importation of slaves prohibited, 8;
slaves illegally imported, to be forfeited, 8;
Act in regard to persons engaged in the slave-trade, 9;
memorials against the slave-trade, fugitive-slave act amended,
premium to informer for imported slaves seized within the
United States, 10;
President Monroe's message to, on the question of slavery, 12;
debate on the bill to admit Missouri, 14;
the Missouri controversy, 16-20;
Garrison petitions, for the abolition of slavery in the District
of Columbia, 39;
Sumner's speech on slavery, 46;
bill establishing a line of war-steamers to the coast of Africa,
suppression of the slave-trade, promotion of commerce, and the
colonization of free Negroes, 53-55;
organization of the 31st, 100;
motion for the admission of California and New Mexico, 100, 101;
has no authority to prohibit slavery, resolutions of Henry Clay
for the adjustment of slavery, 101, of Senator Bell, 102;
speech of Jefferson Davis in favor of slavery, 102;
John C. Calhoun's speech, 103-105;
fugitive-slave law, 1850, 106;
bill to organize Nebraska Territory, 107;
to repeal the Missouri compromise, speech of Stephen A.
Douglass, 108;
reply of Salmon P. Chase, 109;
Act to organize the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, 110;
opposed to civil and military interference with slaves, 244;
conservative policy of, 252;
passes Act to confiscate property used for insurrectionary
purposes, 263;
Act to make an additional Article of War, 267;
of 1860, 1862, 269;
resolution in regard to the enlistment of Negroes, 279;
action on the proposed amendment of the army appropriation
bill to prohibit the enlistment of Negroes, 288;
investigates the Fort Pillow massacre, 361-375;
Act to establish a bureau for the relief of freedmen and
refugees, 379;
methods of, for reconstructing the South, 381;
Negroes in, 382