almost unexampled in history,--that twenty millions of people, brave,
highly intelligent, and mastering all the wealth of modern
civilization, were, if not virtually overpowered, at least so long
kept at bay by about five millions of rebels.

GUROWSKI.

WASHINGTON, NOVEMBER, 1862.

CONTENTS.

MARCH, 1861. 13

Inauguration day -- The message -- Scott watching at the door of the
Union -- The Cabinet born -- The Seward and Chase struggle -- The New
York radicals triumph -- The treason spreads -- The Cabinet pays old
party debts -- The diplomats confounded -- Poor Senators! -- Sumner is
like a hare tracked by hounds -- Chase in favor of recognizing the
revolted States -- Blunted axes -- Blair demands action, brave fellow!
-- The slave-drivers -- The month of March closes -- No foresight! no
foresight!

APRIL, 1861. 22

Seward parleying with the rebel commissioners -- Corcoran's dinner --
The crime in full blast! -- 75,000 men called for -- Massachusetts
takes the lead -- Baltimore -- Defence of Washington -- Blockade
discussed -- France our friend, not England -- Warning to the
President -- Virginia secedes -- Lincoln warned again -- Seward says
it will all blow over in sixty to ninety days -- Charles F. Adams --
The administration undecided; the people alone inspired -- Slavery
must perish! -- The Fabian policy -- The Blairs -- Strange conduct of
Scott -- Lord Lyons -- Secret agent to Canada.

MAY, 1861. 37

The administration tossed by expedients -- Seward to Dayton --
Spread-eagleism -- One phasis of the American Union finished -- The
fuss about Russell -- Pressure on the administration increases --
Seward, Wickoff, and the Herald -- Lord Lyons menaced with passports
-- The splendid Northern army -- The administration not up to the
occasion -- The new men -- Andrew, Wadsworth, Boutwell, Noyes, Wade,
Trumbull, Walcott, King, Chandler, Wilson -- Lyon jumps over formulas
-- Governor Banks needed -- Butler takes Baltimore with two regiments
-- News from England -- The "belligerent" question -- Butler and Scott
-- Seward and the diplomats -- "What a Merlin!" -- "France not bigger
than New York!" -- Virginia invaded -- Murder of Ellsworth -- Harpies
at the White House.

JUN