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
