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488 Slavery—Continued

slaveholding States a necessity for, 128; homestead bills voted down, 129; National laws must favor agriculture, 130; progressive spirit of the North, 131; contrast between slave-labor and free, 133; meaning of Constitution determined by interests, 136; policy of Bell and Everett, 137; of the Democratic party, 138; Douglas's expedient to save the Union, 139; program of the slave-power, 142; of the Republicans, 145; reasons for dissolving the Union, 147; why the South could have neither commercial nor industrial independence, 148; the futility of warring against the North, 152; certainty of slavery's end, 156; tribute to Missouri, 160

Slavery, The treason of, I., 225; three lines of policy, 226; extent of revolutionary movements dependent upon strength of opposition, 229; primary object of the civil war, 230; abolition of slavery a logical expedient, 231; the negro as a soldier, 234; emancipation won the sympathy of European nations, 236; restoration of Union “as it was,” 238; Republicans and Democrats contrasted, 243; the restoration of slavery, 245; see Douglas and popular sovereignty.

Slave States, I., 59

Slidell, John, I., 137, 140, 237

Sloan, Scott, I., and the chief justiceship of Wisconsin, 108, 111, 112, 114, 115

Sloane, Wm. M., V., 133

Slocum, General, I., 269, 271, 275, 293

Smith, A. D., I., 108, 112

Smith, Adam, II., and the gold standard, 525, 526; IV., discussed political economy with Franklin, 330

Smith, Caleb, III., 391

Smith, Charles Sprague, VI., to, 429

Smith, Charles Stuart, V., from, 411

Smith, Edwin Burritt, VI., to, 199; to, 200; courses of action suggested by, commended, 204; manager National Sound Money League, 268; to, 275; did not attend Bryan dinner, 276

Smith, General, VI., 294

Smith General, Kilby, I., 290, 304, 329

Smith, Gerrit, I., to, 35

Smith, Goldwin, V., from, 529; to, 529; VI., from, 120

Smith, J. Q., IV., 55

Smith, Wm. Henry, IV., 479

Smythe, II., collector of the port, 135

Soft-money, III., 262, 265, 274, 275, 279, 320, 324, 336; IV., 44

Sound-money business men, Democratic and Republican, V., to start an independent Presidential movement, 259; Schurz appealed to, to help in campaign, 404

Sound-money Democrats, V., voted in 1895, for McKinley, 421; VI., against him in 1899, 122

South, I., Schurz's mission to, 263 n., 264, 265, 266, et seq., 374 n.

South, the, after the war, V., 71, 72

South, Report on conditions in the, I., 279-374; Johnson's “policy of reconstruction,” experimental, 279; Southern cities visited by Schurz and plan for securing reliable information, 280; condition of things immediately after the close of the war, 281; collapse of Confederacy and apprehensions of the conquered, 282; North Carolina proclamation, returning confidence, preliminaries of reconstruction entrusted to former rebels, 283; philosophy or discontent the Southern mental attitude, 284; four classes in the South, 285; impossibility of secession, 286; returning loyalty, 287; oath-taking, 287-289; hostility to Northern soldiers, Northerners and Unionists, 289-294; only ex-Confederates advanced politically, 294-299; Louisiana schools wholly under ex-Confederate influences, 299-302; expediency, not loyalty, 303; brigandage, 304; levying of taxes distasteful, 305; change from slavery to freedom, 306-309; Southern estimate of the negro, 309-311; restoration of slavery