lost, 499.

REAM, Miss Minnie, her commission to make a statue of Lincoln, 470.

REBELLION, its surviving strength, 527.

REBELS, their hatred of the negro, 76;
retributive justice to, 77;
what is expected of them, 133;
authority should not be restored to, 122;
should be trusted, 223, 386;
their confidence to be won, 228;
not to be conciliated by the sacrifice of the freedmen, 231;
not to be deprived of citizenship, 233;
called "the nation's dead," 364;
reply, 370;
sufficiently punished, should be reaedmitted, 429;
instructions to, 426;
proposition to disfranchise, 436;
opposed, 438;
the number who would be disfranchised, 440;
their disfranchisement passes the House, 450;
rejected in the Senate, 455;
the most guilty, 448;
in Congress, six years ago, 449;
generosity towards, illustrated, 461;
their conduct gives justice to the negro, 516.

REBEL States, their status, 37, 41, 45;
facts respecting, 46;
cannot destroy the Union, 145;
their treatment of the negro, 153;
their lack of representation no obstacle to legislation, 185;
should not deprive loyal States of the power to legislate, 254;
laws of, oppressive to freedmen, 261;
how their absence affects legislation, 268;
dead, 308;
how restored, 309;
how they lost their existence, 321;
never out of the Union, 314;
how should be treated, 318;
bill to restore to political rights introduced, 502;
Mr. Stevens' labor upon it, 528.

REBEL war, novel theory of, 509.

RECONSTRUCTION, as begun by President Johnson, 14;
resolution to appoint a committee on, 34, 48;
committee on, 49;
their appointment, how regarded, 307;
first report of committee on, 324;
committee on, denounced, 441;
its consummation eloquently portrayed, 448;
Report on, 466;
three modes of, 503;
character of the committee on, 513;
styled "Maelstrom Committee," 519.

RECONSTRUCTION Amendment proposed, 435;
denounced as revolutionary, 437;
passage in the House, 450;
influence of the Democrats in passing, 451;
length of debate on, in the Senate, 453;
amendments and substitutes proposed, 454, 455;
"stupendous mercy," 461;
passage, 462, 463;
its form, 463;