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MARCH, 1861. 13

Inauguration day -- The message -- Scott watching at the door of the Union -- The Cabinet born -- The Seward and Chase struggle -- The New York radicals triumph -- The treason spreads -- The Cabinet pays old party debts -- The diplomats confounded -- Poor Senators! -- Sumner is like a hare tracked by hounds -- Chase in favor of recognizing the revolted States -- Blunted axes -- Blair demands action, brave fellow! -- The slave-drivers -- The month of March closes -- No foresight! no foresight!

APRIL, 1861. 22

Seward parleying with the rebel commissioners -- Corcoran's dinner -- The crime in full blast! -- 75,000 men called for -- Massachusetts takes the lead -- Baltimore -- Defence of Washington -- Blockade discussed -- France our friend, not England -- Warning to the President -- Virginia secedes -- Lincoln warned again -- Seward says it will all blow over in sixty to ninety days -- Charles F. Adams -- The administration undecided; the people alone inspired -- Slavery must perish! -- The Fabian policy -- The Blairs -- Strange conduct of Scott -- Lord Lyons -- Secret agent to Canada.

MAY, 1861. 37

The administration tossed by expedients -- Seward to Dayton -- Spread-eagleism -- One phasis of the American Union finished -- The fuss about Russell -- Pressure on the administration increases -- Seward, Wickoff, and the Herald -- Lord Lyons menaced with passports -- The splendid Northern army -- The administration not up to the occasion -- The new men -- Andrew, Wadsworth, Boutwell, Noyes, Wade, Trumbull, Walcott, King, Chandler, Wilson -- Lyon jumps over formulas -- Governor Banks needed -- Butler takes Baltimore with two regiments -- News from England -- The "belligerent" question -- Butler and Scott -- Seward and the diplomats -- "What a Merlin!" -- "France not bigger than New York!" -- Virginia invaded -- Murder of Ellsworth -- Harpies at the White House.

JUNE, 1861. 50

Butler emancipates slaves -- The army not organized -- Promenades -- The blockade -- Louis Napoleon -- Scott all in all -- Strategy! -- Gun contracts -- The diplomats -- Masked batteries -- Seward writes for "bunkum" -- Big Bethel -- The Dayton letter -- Instructions to Mr. Adams.

JULY, 1861. 60

The Evening Post -- The message -- The administration caught napping -- McDowell -- Congress slowly feels its way -- Seward's great facility of labor -- Not a Know-Nothing -- Prophesies a speedy end -- Carried away by his imagination -- Says "secession is over" -- Hopeful views -- Politeness of the State department -- Scott carries on the campaign from his sleeping room -- Bull Run -- Rout -- Panic -- "Malediction! Malediction!" -- Not a manly word in Congress! -- Abuse of the soldiers -- McClellan sent for -- Young-blood -- Gen. Wadsworth -- Poor McDowell! -- Scott responsible -- Plan of reorganization -- Let McClellan beware of routine.

AUGUST, 1861. 78

The truth about Bull Run -- The press staggers -- The Blairs alone firm -- Scott's military character -- Seward -- Mr. Lincoln reads the Herald -- The ubiquitous lobbyist -- Intervention -- Congress adjourns -- The administration waits for something to turn up -- Wade -- Lyon is killed -- Russell and his shadow -- The Yankees take the loan -- Bravo, Yankees! -- McClellan works hard -- Prince Napoleon -- Manassas fortifications a humbug -- Mr. Seward improves -- Old Whigism -- McClellan's powers enlarged -- Jeff. Davis makes history -- Fremont emancipates in Missouri -- The Cabinet.

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