ent of, collapses.

Congress,
proposes amendment to Constitution to protect slavery, see vol. i.;
counts electoral votes;
extra session called;
votes to support Lincoln;
creates Committee on Conduct of War;
discusses battle of Shiloh;
passes Crittenden resolution disavowing slavery as cause of war,
see vol. ii.;
passes bill freeing slaves used in war;
refuses to reaffirm Crittenden resolution;
passes bill for emancipation in District;
prohibits officers to return fugitive slaves;
abolishes slavery in Territories, etc.;
passes act freeing slaves of rebels;
passes act to arm negroes;
fails to provide equal pay;
ignores Lincoln's wishes to conciliate Border States;
passes resolution to cooperate with States adopting emancipation;
unpopularity of Lincoln with;
continues in 1862 to oppose Lincoln;
fails to pass bill offering compensated emancipation to Missouri;
character of, in 1863;
accepts Representatives from reconstructed Louisiana;
jealous of Lincoln's plan of reconstruction;
desires to control matter itself;
passes reconstruction bill;
wishes to supplant Lincoln by Chase;
creates lieutenant-general;
refuses to recognize electors from Southern reconstructed States;
fails to adopt thirteenth amendment;
after election of 1864, passes amendment.

Conkling, James C.,
letter of Lincoln to, see vol. ii.

Conkling, Roscoe,
in House in 1861, see vol. i.

Constitution,
slavery compromises in, see vol. i.;
in relation to doctrine of non-intervention;
in relation to slavery in States;
in relation to emancipation;
in relation to popular sovereignty and Dred Scott decision;
attitude of Abolitionists and Republicans toward;
its relation to secession, Buchanan's view;
proposal to amend, in 1861;
its relation to secession, Lincoln's view;
in relation to blockade;
strained by civil war;
war powers of, used by Lincoln;
in connection with suspension of habeas corpus;
makes President commander-in-chief;
in relation to act abolishing slavery in Territories, see vol. ii.;
desire of Abolitionists to ignore;
Lincoln's view of, as forcing issue of war to be the Union;
in relation to emancipation proclamation;
strained by admission of West Virginia;
really in abeyance;
in relation to reconstruction;
justifies "military governors";
in regard to relative powers of executive and Congress in reconstruction;