CHAPTER IX. THE NEW ADMINISTRATION AND THE WAR. Visit to Mr. Lincoln--Closing Months of Mr. Buchanan's Administration --Efforts to avoid War--Character of Buchanan--Lincoln's Inauguration --His War Policy--The Grand Army of Office-seekers--The July Session of Congress--The Atmosphere of Washington--Battle of Bull Run-- Apologetic Resolve of Congress--First Confiscation Act--Gen. Fremont's Proclamation and its Effect--Its Revocation--Regular Session of Congress--Secretary Cameron--Committee on the Conduct of the War--Its Conference with the President and his Cabinet-- Secretary Stanton and General McClellan--Order to march upon Manassas. CHAPTER X. THE NEW ADMINISTRATION AND THE WAR (CONTINUED). The Wooden Guns--Conference with Secretary Stanton--His Relations to Lincoln--Strife between Radicalism and Conservatism--Passage of the Homestead Law--Visit to the President--The Confiscation Act and Rebel Land owners--Greeley's "Prayer of Twenty Millions," and Lincoln's Reply--Effort to disband the Republican Party--The Battle of Fredericksburg and General Burnside--The Proclamation of Emancipation--Visit to Mr. Lincoln--General Fremont--Report of the War Committee--Visit to Philadelphia and New York--Gerrit Smith-- The Morgan Raid. CHAPTER XI. INCIDENTS AND END OF THE WAR. Campaigning in Ohio--Attempted Repeal of the Fugitive Slave Law-- Organized Movement in Favor of Chase for the Presidency--Confiscation of Rebel Lands--Fort Pillow, and the Treatment of Union Soldiers at Richmond--Mr. Lincoln's Letter to Hodges--Southern Homestead Bill, and Controversy with Mr. Mallory--Nomination of Andrew Johnson --Enforcement of Party Discipline--Mr. Lincoln's Change of Opinion as to Confiscation of Rebel Lands--Opposition to him in Congress-- General Fremont and Montgomery Blair--Visit to City Point--Adoption of the XIII Constitutional Amendment--Trip to Richmond, and Incidents --Assassination of the President--Inauguration of Johnson and Announcement of his Policy--Feeling toward Mr. Lincoln--Capitulation of Gen. Johnston. CHAPTER XII. RECONSTRUCTION AND SUFFRAGE--THE LAND QUESTION. Visit of Indianans to the President--Gov. Morton and Reconstruction --Report of Committee on the Conduct of the War--Discussion of Negro Suffrage and Incidents--Personal Matters--Suffrage in the District of Columbia--The Fourteenth Constitutional Amendment-- Breach between the President and Congress--Blaine and Conkling-- Land Bounties and the Homestead Law. CHAPTER XIII. MINERAL LANDS AND THE RIGHT OF PRE-EMPTION. The Lead and Copper Lands of the Northwest--The gold-bearing Regions of the Pacific, and their Disposition--A legislative Reminiscence --Mining Act of 1866, and how it was passed--Its deplorable Failure, and its Lesson--Report of the Land Commission--The Right of Pre- emption, and the "Dred Scott Decision" of the Settlers.