Bureau courts in, 113; representatives refused admission to Congress, 119-120; military government in, 144; negro voters, 151, 152, 222, 239; equal rights legislation, 154, 275, 276; schools, 215, 217; carpetbag rule, 221; conservatives, 223; corruption, 225, 233-234, 235; legislature, 226, 227, 240; taxes, 231; public debt, 232; decrease in property values, 233; negro militia, 236-237, two governments in, 239; government over-turned, 240-241, omitted from Federal investigation, 262; labor, 268; and radicalism, 290, 294, 295; elections, 293-294, 297, 298, 299. Louisiana State Seminary, 3. Louisiana State University, 217. Louisville and Nashville Railroad, 7. Loyal League, see Union League. Lynch, negro officeholder, 242 (note). M. McCardle, ex parte, 159-160. McCulloch, Hugh, Secretary of Treasury, and seizure of cotton in South, 9-10; and Johnson, 74, 163. McDowell, General Irvin, commands military district, 141 (note). McPherson, Edward, clerk of the House, 121. Marvin, William, Governor of Florida, on status of negroes, 91, 92, 93. Maryland, disfranchisement in, 25-26; state emancipation in, 36; and negro suffrage, 285. Meade, General G. G., commands military district, 140-141 (note). Memminger, C. G., Governor of South Carolina, on status of freedmen, 90-91, 92-93. Memphis (Tenn.), 185; race riots in, 83, 131, 175; convention of Confederate soldiers and sailors at, 130; surrenders charter, 233. Men of Justice, 245. Methodist Church, 198, 199-201, 202, 203-204, 208. Metropolitan Guard, 237. Michigan rejects negro suffrage, 156, 285. Milligan, ex parte, 159. Minnesota rejects negro suffrage, 156, 285. Mississippi, poverty in, 14; rejects Thirteenth Amendment, 79; negro legislation in, 94, 95-96; treatment of negroes by army in, 99; courts, 111; military government, 143, 144, 157; negro voters, 151, 222; constitution, 153-154, 155; suit against President, 159; reconstruction fails in, 170; and radicalism, 171; schools, 215, 217, 218; conservatives, 223; negroes in legislature, 226; taxes, 231; negro militia, 236; and enforcement acts, 261; permits mixed marriages, 276; unrepresented in Congress, 289 (note); Grant and interference in, 291; elections (1875), 293. Mississippi River, negro colonies along, 37. Mississippi Shot Gun Plan, 263, 294. Mississippi, University of, 216. Missouri, and Confederates, 26; state emancipation in, 36; rejects negro suffrage, 285. Mobile (Ala.), post-war condition, 5; surrenders charter, 233. Montgomery (Ala.), separate organization of Baptist Church in, 203; negro education, 212; Ku Klux proclamation, 257-258. Montgomery Conference on Race Problems (1900), Proceedings quoted, 214-215. Moore, Governor, and negro education, 212. Morgan, E. D., Senator, and Freedmen's Bureau Act, 129. Morton, O. P., of Indiana, 125; on negro suffrage, 300-301. Moses, F. J., Jr., Governor of South Carolina, 224. Moses, Judge, in South Carolina, 225. N.