Slidell, John,
seized by Wilkes, see vol. i.;
imprisoned in Fort Warren;
released.
Smith, Caleb B.,
delivers votes to Lincoln in convention of 1860, see vol. i.;
secretary of interior;
opposes relieving Sumter.
Smith, General C.W.,
praised by Halleck, see vol. i.
Smith, General W.F.,
favors McClellan's plan of campaign, see vol. i.
Smoot, Coleman,
lends Lincoln money, see vol. i.
South,
its early sectionalism, see vol. i.;
demands political equality with North;
its inferior development;
gains by annexation of Texas;
enraged at organization of California as a free State;
threatens disunion;
demands Fugitive Slave Law;
asserts doctrine of non-intervention in Territories;
not satisfied with Compromise of 1850;
fails to secure Kansas;
applauds Brooks for his assault on Sunnier;
enraged at Douglas's opposition to Lecompton Constitution.;
reads Douglas out of party;
its policy described by Lincoln;
fairness of Lincoln toward;
demands that North cease to call slavery wrong;
question of its justification in seceding;
its delegates disrupt Democratic party;
scatters vote in 1860;
process of secession in;
agitation of dis-unionists in;
State loyalty in;
justified by Greeley and others;
threatens North;
repudiates Peace Congress;
its leaders in Congress remain to hamper government;
forms Confederacy;
expects Scott to aid;
wishes to seize Washington;
impressed by Lincoln's inaugural;
its real grievance the refusal of North to admit validity of slavery;
its doctrine of secession;
"Union men" in;
makes secession, not slavery, the ground of war;
irritated at failure of secession to affect North;
purpose of Lincoln to put in the wrong;
rejoices over capture of Sumter;
compared with North in fighting qualities;
elated over Bull Bun;
its strength overestimated by McClellan;
expects aid from Northern sympathizers;
hopes of aid from England disappointed;
after Chancellorsville, wishes to invade North and conquer a peace,
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