whole in Federal control, 196

Missouri, disputes regarding admission of, 85;
admitted as a Slave State, 86;
settlers from, invade Kansas, 143, 150;
defeat of Secessionists in, 176;
becomes a Free State, 203

Missouri Compromise effected, 86;
terms of, 86;
validity of, disputed, 142;
violated by Kansas-Nebraska Bill, 142;
party formed to defend, 143;
declared invalid, 147

Missouri Whisky Ring, 228

_Monitor_, the, duel with the _Merrimac_, 184

Monroe, James, a member of the War Party, 78;
President, 84;
declares European intervention unfriendly to U.S., 88;
last of the Virginian dynasty, 91

Monroe Doctrine, propounded, 88;
keystone of American policy, 88-89;
application to Texas, 118;
Napoleon III. violates, 213

Monterey, defeat of Mexicans at, 120;
Davis wounded at, 140

Morgan, murder of, 112

Napoleon I., obtains Louisiana, 68;
sells to U.S., 68;
Jefferson's attitude towards, 76

Napoleon III., intervenes in Mexico, 213;
withdraws, 214

Nashville, Tennessee, abandoned by Confederates, 184

National Debt, establishment of, 55;
not to be repudiated, 216

"National Republicans," policy of, 84

Navigation Laws, 11, 15

Navy, U.S., successes of, in War of, 1812, 80;
use of, by North, 184;
New Orleans captured by, 186

Negroes, brought to America as slaves, 12;
Jefferson's views on, 75;
Irish antagonism to, 195;
Lee proposes recruitment of, 199;
problem of, not settled by emancipation, 203;
behaviour of, during Civil War, 212;
Southern feeling towards, 212-213;
their desire for freedom, 221;
their political incompetence, 221;
organization of, 221;
conduct of, 222;
thrown over by the Republican Party, 228;
concession to, in Immigration Law, 231

Negro Rule, imposed on the South, 220;
effects of, 222;
resistance offered to, 223;
overthrow of, 224-225;
results of, 225-226

Negro Slavery (_see_ Slavery)

Negro Suffrage, Lincoln's proposals regarding, 204;
provisions of Fourteenth Amendment as to, 217;
Lee on prospects of, 217;
Congress committed to, 218;
imposed on the South, 220

New Hampshire, colonized for New England, 5

New Jersey, acquisition of, 7

New Mexico, acquired by U.S., 122;
open to Slavery, 126

New Orleans, attacked by British, 83;
Jackson successfully defends, 83;
message of Dix to, 165;
captured by Farragut, 186;
racial riot in, 218

New York, origin