n generals;
unable to supply troops;
appoints Fremont to command Department of West;
tries to guide Fremont;
appealed to by Mrs. Fremont;
removes Fremont, his reasons;
sees military importance of Cumberland Gap;
urges construction of a railroad there;
urges Buell on;
annoyed by Buell's refusal to move;
death of his son;
discusses plan to capture New Orleans;
suddenly obliged to consider foreign affairs;
his corrections on Seward's instructions to Adams;
his statement of foreign relations in message of December, 1861;
avoids either timidity or defiance;
objects from beginning to seizure of Mason and Slidell;
proposes to arbitrate the matter;
thinks England's claim just;
wisdom of his course in surrendering the envoys;
unable to prevent slavery from entering into war, see vol. ii.;
disapproves of Fremont's order freeing slaves of rebels;
by rescinding it, makes an enemy of Fremont;
revokes order of Hunter freeing slaves;
takes responsibility of matter upon himself;
prevents Cameron from urging arming of negroes;
advises recognition of Hayti and Liberia;
in message suggests compensated emancipation and colonization;
approves bill abolishing slavery, with compensation, in District;
signs bill prohibiting return of fugitive slaves;
signs bill abolishing slavery in United States Territories;
signs bill to emancipate slaves of rebels;
slow to execute bill to enlist slaves;
finally recognizes value of black troops;
his conciliatory policy not followed by Congress;
his reasons for advocating compensated emancipation;
hopes to induce Border States to emancipate voluntarily;
sends special message urging gradual emancipation;
practically warns Border State men;
denounced by both sides;
tries in vain to persuade Border State representatives;
his plans repudiated;
repeats appeal in proclamation;
his scheme impracticable, but magnanimous;
sees future better than others;
refrains from filling vacancies on Supreme Bench with Northern men;
agrees to McClellan's peninsular campaign;
still worried over safety of capital;
neglects to demand any specific force to protect it;
forced to detach troops from McClellan to reinforce Fremont;
nearly orders McClellan to attack;
his plan better than McClellan's;
orders McDowell to return to Washington;
alarmed at condition of defenses of capital;
question of his error in retaini