Clay, Henry:  41; his character and career, 42, 48; compromise of 1850 originated by him, 99; his death, 100; Lincoln on him, 101, 122.

Cobb:  185.

Cobden, Richard:  257-8.

Cock-fighting:  63, 69.

Collamer, Senator:  167.

Colonies. See America.

Colonisation. See Negroes.

Columbia, South Carolina:  435.

Columbia, District of:  94, 319.

Columbia River:  28.

Columbus, Georgia:  226-7.

Compulsory Service. See Conscription.

Confederacy, Confederates; see also South; Confederacy of six States formed and Constitution adopted at Montgomery and claims of these States to Federal Government’s forts, etc., or their soil taken over, 199-201; commencement of war by Confederacy, 212-3; area of its country and difficulty of conquest, 214-6; character of population, 216; spirit of independence animating Confederacy, 218-9; other conditions telling against or for its success in the war, 214-27; original Confederate States, viz., South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida, joined subsequently by Texas, and on outbreak of war by Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas, 228-9; capital moved to Richmond, 242; for course of war, see War; for political course of Confederacy, see J. Davis and Congress of Confederacy; attitude of foreign Governments to Confederacy, 256, 261, 302, 313; refusal of Lincoln to treat with Confederacy as an independent state, 403, 432-3; refusal of Davis to negotiate on other terms, 428, 432-3; ultimate surrender of Confederate forces and dispersion of its Government, 445-8.

Congregationalists:  17, 19.

Congress of original American Confederation:  20, 38.

Congress of U.S.A. under the Constitution:  distinguished from Parliament by the severance between it and the executive government, by the limitation of its functions to strictly Federal matters, and by its subjection to provisions of Constitution, 23-4, see also 371, 377-9, 402, 429; for certain Acts of Congress, see Slavery; attempts at pacification during progress of Secession, 192-3; action of and discussions in Congress during Civil War, 246, 253, 263, 265-6, 269, 271, 276, 288, 316-9, 321-3, 324-7, 333-6, 351, 369-70, 379, 380, 382, 388, 389, 400-1, 434.

Congress of Confederacy:  200, 366-7, 431.

Conscription:  in South; 366-7; in North, 364-5, 369-70; superior on grounds of moral principle to voluntary system, 366.

Conservative, the:  119.

Conservatives:  245, 267-8, 328.

Constitution, British:  20, 23, 377.

Constitution of United States:  22-5, 41. See also Amendment of
Constitution.

Contraband:  268, 409.

Cooper Institute; 144, 155.

Copperheads:  382.

Corinth:  283, 338-9.