leans -- Brave boys! -- The Potomac
closed -- Oh, poor nation! -- Mexico -- McClellan and Scott.

OCTOBER, 1861. 104

Experiments on the people's life-blood -- McClellan's uniform -- The
army fit to move -- The rebels treat us like children -- We lose time
-- Everything is defensive -- The starvation theory -- The anaconda --
First interview with McClellan -- Impressions of him -- His distrust
of the volunteers -- Not a Napoleon nor a Garibaldi -- Mason and
Slidell -- Seward admonishes Adams -- Fremont goes overboard -- The
pro-slavery party triumph -- The collateral missions to Europe --
Peace impossible -- Every Southern gentleman is a pirate -- When will
we deal blows? -- Inertia! inertia!

NOVEMBER, 1861. 115

Ball's Bluff -- Whitewashing -- "Victoria! Old Scott gone overboard!"
-- His fatal influence -- His conceit -- Cameron -- Intervention --
More reviews -- Weed, Everett, Hughes -- Gov. Andrew -- Boutwell --
Mason and Slidell caught -- Lincoln frightened by the South Carolina
success -- Waits unnoticed in McClellan's library -- Gen. Thomas --
Traitors and pedants -- The Virginia campaign -- West Point --
McClellan's speciality -- When will they begin to see through him?

DECEMBER, 1861. 129

The message -- Emancipation -- State papers published -- Curtis Noyes
-- Greeley not fit for Senator -- Generalship all on the rebel side --
The South and the North -- The sensationists -- The new idol will cost
the people their life-blood! -- The Blairs -- Poor Lincoln! -- The
Trent affair -- Scott home again -- The war investigation committee --
Mr. Mercier.

JANUARY, 1862. 137

The year 1861 ends badly -- European defenders of slavery -- Secession
lies -- Jeremy Diddlers -- Sensation-seekers -- Despotic tendencies --
Atomistic Torquemadas -- Congress chained by formulas -- Burnside's
expedition a sign of life -- Will this McClellan ever advance? -- Mr.
Adams unhorsed -- He packs his trunks -- Bad blankets -- Austria,
Prussia, and Russia -- The West Point nursery -- McClellan a greater
mistake than Scott -- Tracks to the White House -- European stories
about Mr. Lincoln -- The English ignorami -- The slaveholder a
scarcely varnished savage -- Jeff. Davis -- "Beauregard frightens us
-- McClellan rocks his