=Congress of the United States=, passes act organizing
  territory of Illinois, 19;
  fixes number of stars and stripes in the flag, 19;
  admits as States Illinois, Alabama, Maine, and Missouri, 19;
  nullification debate in, 38;
  Lincoln’s service in, 75-90;
  Missouri Compromise, 94-96;
  Democratic majorities chosen in, in 1856, 108;
  agitation over Kansas in, 113;
  Senator Brown’s resolutions, 141;
  official count of electoral votes, 160;
  appoints compromise committees, 167;
  Buchanan’s annual message to, December, 1860, 176, 177;
  convened in special session by President Lincoln, 192;
  Lincoln’s message to, May 26, 1862, 195;
  legalizes Lincoln’s war measures, 206;
  meeting and measures of special session of
  Thirty-seventh Congress, 217-220;
  Southern unionists in, 217;
  Lincoln’s message to, July 4, 1861, 218-220;
  action on slavery, 223;
  special session adjourns, 223;
  House passes resolution of thanks to Captain Wilkes, 246;
  friendly to McClellan, 250;
  Lincoln’s message of December 3, 1861, 257, 321, 322;
  interview of border State delegations with Lincoln, 257, 258, 324, 325;
  Lincoln’s special message, March 6, 1862, 323, 324;
  passes joint resolution favoring compensated emancipation, 325;
  passes bill for compensated emancipation in District of
  Columbia, 325, 336;
  House bill to aid emancipation in Delaware, Maryland, Virginia,
  Kentucky, Tennessee and Missouri, 326;
  slavery measures of 1862, 329;
  President’s second interview with border slave State
  delegations, 329-331;
  President’s annual message, December 1, 1862, 341, 342;
  passes national conscription law, 354, 355;
  act authorizing the President to suspend writ of habeas corpus, 359, 360;
  confers rank of lieutenant-general on Grant, 393;
  admits representatives and senators from States with
  provisional governments, 419;
  President’s annual message, December 8, 1863, 424;
  reverses former action about seating members from “ten-per-cent
  States,” 424;
  bills to aid compensated abolishment in Missouri, 432;
  opposition to Lincoln in, 454;
  action on bill of Henry Winter Davis, 454;
  repeals fugitive-slave law, 457;
  confirms Fessenden’s nomination, 458;
  Lincoln’s message of December 5, 1864, 470-472;
  joint resolution proposing constitutional amendment to prohibit
  slavery throughout United States, 471-476;
  the two constitutional amendments submitted to the States during
  Lincoln’s term, 475, 476;
  Senate confirms Chase’s nomination as chief justice, 491

=Congress=, the, Union sailing frigate, burned by Merrimac, 280

=Constitutional Union Party=, candidates in 1860, 153