vol. i.

South,
its early sectionalism, see vol. i.;
demands political equality with North;
its inferior development;
gains by annexation of Texas;
enraged at organization of California as a free State;
threatens disunion;
demands Fugitive Slave Law;
asserts doctrine of non-intervention in Territories;
not satisfied with Compromise of 1850;
fails to secure Kansas;
applauds Brooks for his assault on Sunnier;
enraged at Douglas's opposition to Lecompton Constitution.;
reads Douglas out of party;
its policy described by Lincoln;
fairness of Lincoln toward;
demands that North cease to call slavery wrong;
question of its justification in seceding;
its delegates disrupt Democratic party;
scatters vote in 1860;
process of secession in;
agitation of dis-unionists in;
State loyalty in;
justified by Greeley and others;
threatens North;
repudiates Peace Congress;
its leaders in Congress remain to hamper government;
forms Confederacy;
expects Scott to aid;
wishes to seize Washington;
impressed by Lincoln's inaugural;
its real grievance the refusal of North to admit validity of slavery;
its doctrine of secession;
"Union men" in;
makes secession, not slavery, the ground of war;
irritated at failure of secession to affect North;
purpose of Lincoln to put in the wrong;
rejoices over capture of Sumter;
compared with North in fighting qualities;
elated over Bull Bun;
its strength overestimated by McClellan;
expects aid from Northern sympathizers;
hopes of aid from England disappointed;
after Chancellorsville, wishes to invade North and conquer a peace,
see vol. ii.;
welcomes Vallandigham;
economically exhausted in 1863;
reconstruction in;
applauds McClellan;
evidently exhausted in 1864;
hopes of Lincoln to make its surrender easy.

South Carolina,
desires secession, see vol. i.;
suggests it to other States;
secedes;
sends commissioners to treat for division of property with United States;
refusal of Buchanan to receive;
refuses to participate in Peace Congress;
besieges Fort Sumter.

Spangler, Edward,
aids Booth to escape, see vol. ii.;
tried by court martial;
condemned.

Speed, Joshua,
letter of Lincoln to, on slavery, see vol. i.;
goes with Lincoln to Kentucky.

Spottsylvania,
battle of, see vol. ii.

Sprague, Governor William,
of Rhode Island, see vol. ii.

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