white slaves, 349.

NORTH and South, statesmen of the, 384.

NORTH, the political, what constitutes, 57.

OBJECT of the war, 44.

OFFICE, ineligibility to, as a punishment, 458.

OLIGARCHY, the power of, should be ended, 350.

PACIFIC Railroad, Committee on, 30.

PAINS and penalties of not holding office, 458.

PANEGYRIC on Union and rebel dead, 364;
answered, 370.

PARLIAMENT and the King, 477.

PARTISAN controversy, 442.

PARTY for enfranchisement, how to be raised up, 411.

PARTY man, Mr. Hendricks not suspected to be, 412.

PATENT medicine in the Senate, 162.

PATTERSON, Senator of Tennessee, case of, 478;
admitted to a seat, 482.

PENALTY essential to effectiveness of law, 259;
is not permission, 414.

PENNSYLVANIA does not need the Freedmen's Bureau, 133;
against negro citizenship, 195.

PEOPLE, "the sacred," constitute the States, 327;
their verdict for Congress, 564.

PERRY, Governor, his disloyalty, 562.

PERSIAN Mythology--Gods of Light and Darkness, 277.

PHYSICAL endurance, a question of, 419.

POLICY of Congress shown in legislation for the District of
Columbia, 50;
of the President, 423.

POLITICAL existence alone entitles to representation, 330;
faith maintained in "the worst of times." 532;
rights not conferred by Civil Rights Bill, 256;
society in the South must be changed, 445.

PRECIPITATE action deprecated, 382.

PREJUDICE of the Southern people against the negro, 161.

PRESENT time contrasted with 1787, 338.

PRESIDENT'S right to say who constitute Congress, 431.

PRESIDENCY, negroes allowed to compete for, 222, 229.

PRESIDENT Johnson, duty of Congress to sustain, 41;
Congress not to be bound by his opinion, 42;
reluctance of Congress to break with, 94;
described as whitewashing, 99;
not a "summer soldier," 100;
his character as a witness vindicated, 101;
restores the habeas corpus, 123;
views on good faith to freedmen, 131;
policy of restoring lands to rebel owners, 143;
veto of Freedmen's Bureau Bill, 164;
answered by Mr. Trumbull, 171;
veto of the Civil Rights Bill, 245;
his controversy with Congress, 262;
harmony desirable, 269;
his dictation to Congress opposed, 276;
defended by Mr. Lan