Secession, contemplated at Hartford Convention, 81; talked of in South Carolina, 123; of South Carolina, 158; of Gulf States, 161; motives, of, 163-164; Northern views of, 164; Abolitionists favour, 164; Greeley on, 164; Jacksonians oppose, 165; a popular movement, 166; Lincoln denies right of, 160; Douglas resists, 174; of Virginia, etc., 176 Sedition Law, 63 Seminole Indians, Jackson pursues, 87 Senate, how chosen, 47; Whig majority in, 106; refuses to confirm appointment of Taney, 106; censures Jackson, 106; Censure expunged, 107; Northern majority in, 163 Seven Years' War, outbreak of, 9 Seward, William, Senator, for New York, 139; his speech on Fugitive Slave Law, 139; passed over for Fremont, 145; for Lincoln, 153; Secretary of State, 172; attempt to assassinate, 207; his desire for foreign war, 213 _Shannon_, the, duel with the _Chesapeake_, 80 Shay's Insurrection, 42; Jefferson on, 61 Shenandoah Valley, Johnstone in, 180; Jackson's campaign in, 186; Sheridan in, 201 Sheridan, General, his campaign in Shenandoah Valley, 201 Sherman, Senator John, opposes Negro Suffrage, 218 Sherman, General William T., left in command in the West, 197; wins Battle of Chattanooga, 198; moves on Atlanta, 199; takes Atlanta, 200; his march to the sea, 201; receives surrender of Johnstone, 213; his proposed terms of peace, 213 Slavery, reappears in New World, 3; legal in all English Colonies, 12; difference in North and South, 12; general disapproval of, 40; disappears in Northern States, 40; Jefferson's proposals for extinction of, 41; Constitutional Compromises over, 48-49; opinion on American Fathers regarding, 49, 50, 129; Jefferson on, 50; excluded from North-West Territories, 85; Missouri Compromises concerning, 86; Calhoun's defence of, 111, 118, 134; California decides to exclude, 123; Arizona and New Mexico open to, 126; strengthening of, 129; decline in public reprobation of, 130; debates on, in Virginian legislature, 131; effect of economic changes on, 131; Garrison's view of, 133; Scriptural appeals regarding, 134-135; Douglas's attitude towards, 141; Lincoln's view of, 148-149; Crittenden compromise concerning, 160; not the issue of the Civil War, 162; Lincoln's pledge regarding, 168; not referred to by Davis, 169-170; Stephens on, 170; Lee on, 176; Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, 189-191; destroyed by the War, 199; dead, 203; Thirteenth Amendment abolishes, 203 Slave Trade, in hands of Northern Colonists, 12; condemned in first draft of Declaration of Independence, 49; suffered to continue for 20 years, 49; prohibition of, 49; abolished in District of Columbia, 126 Slidell (_see_ Mason and Slidell) Socialism, character of American, 233 "Solid South, the," 225, 228, 234