1, 62, 64

Cleveland, Grover, Toombs' speech on election of, 370

Cobb, Gov. Howell, as a lawyer, 16, 20, 21;
Democratic leader, 51;
member of Twenty-ninth Congress, 56;
elected Speaker of House of Representatives, 69;
position on admission of California, 81;
position on disunion, 82;
nominated for governorship, 86;
characteristics of, 87;
in campaign of 1851, 92;
elected governor, 93;
opinion of Joseph E. Brown, 155;
indorses seceders from Charleston convention, 179;
prominence of, 186;
deputy to Provisional Congress, 215;
president of Provisional Congress, 216;
addresses meeting at Atlanta, 324

Cobb, Thomas R. R., zeal for secession, 212;
deputy to Provisional Congress, 215

Cobb, Thomas W., guardian of Robert Toombs, 7, 8

College discipline, 8, 9

Collins _v._ Central R. R. & Banking Co., case argued by Toombs, 346

Colquitt, Walter T., elected U. S. Senator, 38;
Democratic leader, 51

Columbia County, legal practice in, 15

Columbia River, boundary line of, 57

Commerce, Toombs' views on the power to regulate, 189

Committee on Banking, General Assembly, chairman of, 33

Committee on Internal Improvements, General Assembly, member of, 33;
chairman of, 40

Committee on State of the Republic, General Assembly, chairman of, 33

Committees, views on legislation through, 196

Compromise bill, the, 52

Compromise of 1850, the, 67-82;
indorsed by Whig and Democratic conventions at Baltimore, 97;
Gen. Scott's position on, 103

Cone, Francis H., as a lawyer, 16;
opposed to Toombs at the bar, 25;
quarrel with Stephens, 62

Confederacy, last days of the, 280-284

Confederate commissioners, mission to Washington, 222-224;
sent to Europe, 229

Confederate navy, captures by, 232

Confederate States, preparation of Constitution for, 219, 220;
appointment of Cabinet, 221;
last meeting of Cabinet, 282

Conscription and Impressment Acts, opposition to, 272, 273

Constitutional Union party, 81, 93, 183

Constitutional convention, and the new constitution of Georgia, 337-352

Conventions, Toombs' opinion of, 103, 104, 106

Corporations, attitude toward, 346

Crawford, George W., as a lawyer, 16;
resolution in Whig convention of 1848, 60;
connection with the Golphin claim, 65;
retirement of, 66;
presides over State Sovereignty convention, 209

Crawford, Martin J., deputy to