Memminger, C. G., as a lawyer, 21; Secretary of Treasury of Confederate States, 221 Merriweather, ----, Whig leader, 51 Mexican war, fruits of, 60 Mexico, defense of, in Texas question, 53; Toombs' opinions on conquest of, 59; the Clayton Compromise, 61; troubles over territory acquired from, 67; Toombs favors purchase of, 195; French schemes in, 233 Might against right, 112 Milledge, Gov. John, 7 Milledgeville, Toombs in General Assembly at, 17; Toombs' practice in, 22, 123; doctrine of States' Rights, affirmed at convention of 1833, 52; convention of 1850 at, 86; call for State convention in 1860 at, 179; meeting of State Sovereignty convention at in 1861, 209 Miller, Andrew J., 16 Mirabeau, Toombs compared with, 46, 70 Mississippi, position in secession question, 97; delegates leave Charleston convention, 177; secession of, 213 Mississippi River, views on appropriations for, 189-191 Missouri, sends settlers to Kansas, 115, 159; representation at Baltimore convention, 182; partial secession measures of, 233; government control of railroads in, 346 Missouri Compromise, refusal to extend the line of, 67; Sumner's claims for, 108; denounced by Toombs, 114; Fillmore on the repeal of, 115 Mobile, Ala., escape through, 301-303 Monopolies, hatred for, 26, 348, 349 Monroe, Fortress, McClellan's arrival at, 244; Stephens imprisoned at, 298 Monroe, James, position on internal improvements, 188 Montgomery, Ala., Provisional Congress at, 216 Morris Island fires on Sumter, 227 Morton, Oliver P., 314 Moses, R. J., Toombs' commissary general, 237; account of dispute between Toombs and Gen. Hill, 256, 257 Moultrie, Fort, fires on Fort Sumter, 227 Mount Pleasant battery fires on Fort Sumter, 227 Munson's Hill, Toombs' position at, 238 Naples, visit to, 126 Nashville, convention at, 85 National debt, views on, 197 National Democratic party, defeated, 327; nominates Greeley for Presidency, 332 Neahmatha, insurrection of, 32 Negroes, Toombs on the status of, 133-137; Toombs' treatment of his, 138, 139; decision of Dred Scott case, 159; Toombs' position toward, after the war, 341 New Mexico, bill to organize, 65; acquisition of, 67; question of organizing Territory, 79, 80 New Orleans, fall of, 245; escape through, 304, 305 Newspaper criticisms and misrepresentations, 365, 366 _New World_, return to America on the, 313 New York City, speech for Taylor in 1848, 64 New York State, power of Abolitionists in, 109 _New York Express_, on Boston lecture, 131, 132 Nicholls, Col. John C., messenger from Toombs to Brown, 335 Nisbet, Eugenius A., offers secession resolution, 209; deputy to Provisional Congress, 215 Norfolk, loss of, 245 North Carolina, supports Jackson, 29; secedes, 233 Northern Circuit of Georgia, the bar of, 16 "Notes on the Situation," 185, 326 Nullification, 51, 52