The people sublime! -- Congress -- Lincoln
visits Scott -- McDowell -- Pope -- Disloyalty in the departments.

JULY, 1862. 233

Intervention -- The cursed fields of the Chickahominy -- Titanic
fightings, but no generalship -- McClellan the first to reach James
river -- The Orleans leave -- July 4th, the gloomiest since the birth
of the republic -- Not reinforcements, but brains, wanted; and brains
not transferable! -- The people run to the rescue -- Rebel tactics --
Lincoln does not sacrifice Stanton -- McClellan not the greatest
culprit -- Stanton a true statesman -- The President goes to James
river -- The Union as it was, a throttling nightmare! -- A man needed!
-- Confiscation bill signed -- Congress adjourned -- Mr. Dicey --
Halleck, the American Carnot -- Lincoln tries to neutralize the
confiscation bill -- Guerillas spread like locusts.

AUGUST, 1862. 245

Emancipation -- The President's hand falls back -- Weed sent for --
Gen. Wadsworth -- The new levies -- The Africo-Americans not called
for -- Let every Northern man be shot rather! -- End of the Peninsula
campaign -- Fifty or sixty thousand dead -- Who is responsible? -- The
army saved -- Lincoln and McClellan -- The President and the
Africo-Americans -- An Eden in Chiriqui -- Greeley -- The old lion
begins to awake -- Mr. Lincoln tells stories -- The rebels take the
offensive -- European opinion -- McClellan's army landed -- Roebuck --
Halleck -- Butler's mistakes -- Hunter recalled -- Terrible fighting
at Manassas -- Pope cuts his way through -- Reinforcements slow
incoming -- McClellan reduced in command.

SEPTEMBER, 1862. 258

_Consummatum est!_ -- Will the outraged people avenge itself? --
McClellan satisfies the President -- After a year! -- The truth will
be throttled -- Public opinion in Europe begins to abandon us -- The
country marching to its tomb -- Hooker, Kearney, Heintzelman, Sigel,
brave and true men -- Supremacy of mind over matter -- Stanton the
last Roman -- Inauguration of the pretorian regime -- Pope accuses
three generals -- Investigation prevented by McClellan -- McDowell
sacrificed -- The country inundated with lies -- The demoralized army
declares for McClellan -- The pretorians will soon finish with liberty
-- Wilkes sent to the West Indian waters -- Russia -- Mediati