62, on, 341, 342;
President issues final emancipation proclamation, 342-346;
President's views on, 346, 347;
arming of negro soldiers, 348-350;
instructions from War Department about slaves, 349;
contest over slavery clause in new Louisiana constitution, 423;
slavery abolished in Louisiana, 426;
abolished in Arkansas, 427;
abolished in Tennessee, 429;
abolished in Missouri, 434;
abolished in Maryland, 435, 436;
attitude of Democratic party on, 437, 438;
Republican national platform favors constitutional
amendment abolishing, 446;
fugitive-slave law repealed, 457;
constitutional amendment prohibiting, in United States, 471-476;
public opinion on, in certain States, 473;
two constitutional amendments offered during Lincoln's term, 475, 476;
Lincoln's draft of joint resolution offering South $400,000,000, 493;
decline in value of slave property in the South, 501;
effect on Lincoln's character, 551.
See _Emancipation_ and _Negro soldiers_

=Slidell, John=, minister to Mexico, United States senator,
Confederate commissioner to Europe, capture of, 246-249;
last instructions from Confederate Secretary of State to, 501, 502

=Smith, Caleb B.=, member of Congress, Secretary of the Interior,
judge United States District Court,
appointed Secretary of the Interior, 182;
signs cabinet protest, 311, 312

=Smith, E. Kirby=, Confederate general,
commands forces west of the Mississippi, 525;
surrender of, 526, 527

=Smith, Melancton=, rear-admiral United States navy,
at gathering of officials to discuss fight between _Monitor_
and _Merrimac_, 296

=Smith, William F.=, brevet major-general United States army,
service at Chattanooga 389

=Spain=, joint expedition to Mexico, 451

=Spangler, Edward=, imprisoned for complicity in Booth's plot, 544

=Speed, James=, Attorney-General, appointed Attorney-General, 491

=Speed, Joshua F.=, intimacy with Lincoln, 53;
Lincoln's letters to, 64, 65, 68;
marriage, 65

=Spottsylvania=, Virginia, battle of, May 8-19, 1864, 398, 399

=Springfield=, Illinois, its ambition, 26;
first newspaper, 26;
becomes capital of Illinois, 45, 52;
in 1837-39, 53;
revival of business in, 61;
society in, 62;
Lincoln's speech of farewell at, 169;
funeral honors to Lincoln in, 547, 548

=Stanley, Edward=, member of Congress, appointed military
governor of North Carolina, 420

=Stanton, Edwin M.=, Attorney-General,