AMERICAN HISTORY

From the Debates in the British Parliament on the
Colonial Stamp Act (1764-1765) to the Debates
in Congress at the Close of the Taft
Administration (1912-1913)

EDITED BY

MARION MILLS MILLER, LITT.D. (PRINCETON)
Editor of "The Life and Works of Abraham Lincoln," etc.

IN FOURTEEN VOLUMES

EACH DEALING WITH A SPECIFIC SUBJECT, AND CONTAINING A SPECIAL INTRODUC-
TION BY A DISTINGUISHED AMERICAN STATESMAN OR PUBLICIST

VOLUME SIX

THE CIVIL WAR

With an Introduction by HENRY WATTERSON, LL.D.
Editor of the Louisville (Ky.) Courier Journal

CURRENT LITERATURE PUBLISHING COMPANY

NEW YORK

COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY

CURRENT LITERATURE PUBLISHING COMPANY

Press of J. J. Little & Ives Co., New York

(Lincoln's First Inau-

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I. "THE UNION IS PERPETUAL"

gural and the Debate Thereon)

Speeches of President-elect ABRAHAM LINCOLN en route to his

Inauguration.

His First Inaugural Address: "The Chorus of the Union."'

Debate in the Senate on the Inaugural: friendly interpretation

by STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS (Ill).; hostile, by THOMAS L.

CLINGMAN (N. C.), Louis T. WIGFALL (Tex.), JAMES M.

MASON (Va.).

II. THE RIGHT OF SECESSION

Speech of Senator JAMES A. BAYARD, JR. (Del.), on "The

Right of Secession, and the Propriety of Recognizing the

Southern Confederacy. ""

President LINCOLN's virtual reply to the same in his First

Message to Congress: "The Sophistry of Secession."'

III. THE WAR-MAKING POWER: DOES IT LIE IN THE

PRESIDENT OR CONGRESS?

Debate in the House on "Constitutionality of the President's

Military Acts": in favor, WILLIAM S. HOLMAN (Ind.); op-

posed, CLEMENT L. VALLANDIGHAM (0.).

Debate on the same in the Senate: in favor, EDWARD D. BAKER
(Ore.), KINSLEY S. BINGHAM (Mich.), HENRY S. LANE
(Ind.); opposed, JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE (Ky.).

Debate on the Trumbull Bill to suppress insurrection (on war-

making by Congress): in favor, LYMAN TRUMBULL (Ill.),

Senator BAKER; opposed, JAMES A. BAYARD, JR. (Del.), WIL-

LIAM P. FESSENDEN (Me.), Senator BRECKINRIDGE, JACOB

COLLAMER (Vt.).

IV. MILITARY EMANCIPATION

Debate in the Senate on Bill to Punish Army Officers for Re-

turn of Fugitive Slaves: in favor, JACOB COLLAMER (Vt.),

HENRY WILSON (Mass.); amendment to punish officers for

enticing slaves to run away, supported by WILLARD SAULS-

BURY (Del.) and JAMES A. PEARCE (Md.).

Debate on the Bill in the House: in favor, FRANCIS P. BLAIR,

JR. (Mo.), JOHN A. BINGHAM (O.); opposed, ROBERT MAL-

LORY (Ky.), CHARLES A. WICKLIFFE (Ky.), HENRY GRIDER

(Ky.).

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OF SLAVERY IN THE DISTRICT OF

V. ABOLITION

COLUMBIA

Debate in the Senate on the subject: in favor, HENRY WILSON

(Mass.) JOHN P. HALE (N. H.), JAMES HARLAN (Ia.),

CHARLES SUMNER (Mass.); opposed, GARRETT DAVIS (Ky.),

WAITMAN T. WILLEY (W. Va.), ANTHONY KENNEDY (Md.),

WILLARD SAULSBURY (Del.).

President LINCOLN's conference with Border State Delegates.

Debate in the House on the Conkling Bill for Compensated

Emancipation: in favor, ROSCOE CONKLING (N. Y.), JOHN

A. BINGHAM (0.), ALEXANDER S. DIVEN (N. Y.), ABRAHAM

R. OLIN (N. Y.), OWEN LOVEJOY (Ill.), THADDEUS STEVENS

(Pa.), JOHN HICKMAN (Pa.); opposed, WILLIAM A. RICH-

ARDSON (Ill.), CHARLES A. WICKLIFFE (Ky.), DANIEL W.

VOORHEES (Ind.), JOHN J. CRITTENDEN (Ky.).

Debate in the Senate on the Bill: in favor, Lor M. MORRILL

(Me.), JOHN B. HENDERSON (Mo.), JOHN SHERMAN (O.);

opposed, WILLARD SAULSBURY (Del.), JAMES A. MCDOUGALL

(Cal.), LAZARUS W. POWELL (Ky.).

Debate in the House on the Abolition of Slavery in the Terri-

tories: in favor, ISAAC N. ARNOLD (Ill.), OWEN LOVEJOY

(Ill.); opposed, SAMUEL S. Cox (O.), JOHN W. CRISFIELD

(Md.). BENJAMIN F. THOMAS (Mass.) secures amendment

to compensate slave owners.

President LINCOLN's Appeal to the Border States to accept

Compensated Emancipation.

VII. PUNISHMENT OF TREASON

Debate in the Senate on Confiscation of Property of Rebels:

in favor, LYMAN TRUMBULL (Ill.); opposed, EDGAR COWAN

(Pa.), JAMES R. DOOLITTLE (Wis.).

Debate in the House on the same: in favor, THOMAS D. ELIOT

(Mass.); opposed, BENJAMIN F. THOMAS (Mass.), SAMUEL

S. Cox (0.), JOHN LAW (Ind.).

VIII. EMANCIPATION

Addresses of President LINCOLN on Emancipation.

Speech of Representative WILLIAM A. RICHARDSON (Ill.)

against the Emancipation Proclamation:

Whites to Free the Blacks.''

IX. NEGRO SOLDIERS

"Enslaving the

Debate in the House on enlisting negro troops in the Civil

War: in favor, THADDEUS STEVENS (Pa.), JOHN HICKMAN

(Pa.), THOMAS M. EDWARDS (N. H.), ALEXANDER S. DIVEN

(N. Y.); opposed, JOHN J. CRITTENDEN (Ky.), SAMUEL S.

Cox (0.).

X. "THE WAR IS A FAILURE"

Debate in the House on the subject: in favor of the declara-

tion, CLEMENT L. VALLANDIGHAM (O.); opposed, JOHN A.

BINGHAM (0.).

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