Politicians realize for the First Time the Indomitable Will of Mr. Lincoln 51 Mr. Seward and Mr. Chase, Men of Opposite Principles 51 Mr. Seward not to be the real Head of the Administration 52 Preparations for Inauguration 53 Introduction by Senator Baker 53 Impression made by Inaugural Address 54 Oath of Office Administered 54 The Call of the New York Delegation on the President 55 CHAPTER IV. GLOOMY FOREBODINGS OF COMING CONFLICT. Geographical Lines distinctly drawn 56 Behavior of the 36th Congress 57 Letter of Hon. Joseph Holt on the "Impending Tragedy" 58 South Carolina formally adopts the Ordinance of Secession 62 Southern Men's Opinion of Slavery 62 Mr. Lincoln imagines Himself in the Place of the Slave-Holder 65 Judge J. S. Black on Slavery as regarded by the Southern Man 66 Emancipation a Question of Figures as well as Feeling 66 Mission to Charleston 68 "Bring back a Palmetto, if you can't bring Good News" 70 Why General Stephen A. Hurlbut went to Charleston 70 Visit to Mr. James L. Pettigrew--Peaceable Secession or War Inevitable 71 "A great Goliath from the North"--"A Yankee Lincoln-Hireling" 72 Initiated into the great "Unpleasantness" 73 Interview with Governor Pickens--No Way out of Existing Difficulties but to fight out 74 Passes written by Governor Pickens 75, 78 Interview with Major Anderson 75 Rope strong enough to hang a Lincoln-Hireling 76 Timely Presence of Hon. Lawrence Keith 77 Extremes of Southern Character exemplified 77 Interview with the Postmaster of Charleston 78 Experience of General Hurlbut in Charleston 79 CHAPTER V. HIS SIMPLICITY. The Ease with which Mr. Lincoln could be reached 80 Visit of a Committee from Missouri 81 A Missouri "Orphan" in Trouble 82 Protection Paper for Betsy Ann Dougherty 83 Case of Young Man convicted of Sleeping at his Post 86 Reprieve given to a Man whom a "little Hanging would not hurt" 87