frage in Mississippi, 19, 20; to Provisional Governor Johnson on repudiating rebel debt of Georgia, 20, 21; to Provisional Governor Perry of South Carolina on ratifying anti-slavery amendment, 22, on annulling ordinance of secession, 23, on Representatives elected to Congress presenting their credentials, 24; to Provisional Governor Marvin of Florida, 25; to Governor Brownlow of Tennessee on sustaining and enforcing the election laws of that State, 27; to Governor Murphy of Arkansas, 28. JOHNSON, ANDREW, thanks of House to, 113; sundry resolutions respecting, 111, 112. JOHNSON, JAMES, appointed provisional governor of Georgia, 12, telegrams from and to, 20, 21. JOHNSTON, JOSEPH E., agreement with General Sherman, 121, 122. JOINT RECONSTRUCTION COMMITTEE, majority and minority reports of, 84-101; various propositions of, and votes upon, 102-106. KELLEY, WILLIAM D., bill to regulate suffrage in District of Columbia, 114. KENTUCKY, Withdrawal of martial law, 15. KIRKWOOD, SAMUEL J., qualified as Senator, note, 107. LEE, R. E, surrender to General Grant, 120, 121. LINCOLN, ABRAHAM, orders for trial and punishment of assassins of, 7; letter of, to Governor Hahn on colored suffrage, note, 20; telegram to General Weitzel forbidding the meeting of the rebel legislature of Virginia, 26. LIST OF CONGRESSMEN AND CLAIMANTS, 107, 108. LONGYEAR, JOHN W., resolutions on public affairs, 111-113. LOUISIANA, J. M. Wells elected Governor, 28; James T. Mon roe mayor of New Orleans, and pardon of, 28, 29; legislation on freedmen, 43, 44; claimants in Congress, 107, 108. MARVIN, Wм., appointed provisional governor of Florida, 12; claimant of seat in Senate, 107. MARYLAND, Unconditional Union platform, 124. MCCULLOCH, HUGH, Secretary of Treasury, 107. MCPHERSON, EDWARD, Clerk of House, 108; telegrams of Provisional Governor Perry, as to action of, 24. MESSAGES OF PRESIDENT JOHNSON, annual, 64-66; on condition of insurrectionary States, 66; vetoes of Freedmen's Bureau, Civil Rights, and Colorado bills, 61-82; on proposed constitutional amendment, 82. MILITARY COURTS, effect of peace proclamation upon, note, 17; order in relation to trials by, 17. MISSISSIPPI, rebel legislature forbidden to assemble, 19; reconstruction steps in, 19, 20; President Johnson's telegram to Provisional Governor Sharkey on colored suffrage, 19, 20; convention of colored people of, 20; laws on freedmen, 29-32; claimants in Congress, 107, 108. MORRILL, LOT M.. amendments to District of Columbia suffrage bill, 115. NEBRASKA, election of 1866, 120. NEW HAMPSHIRE, election of 1866, 120. NEW JERSEY, Senator from, unseated, note, 107. NORTH CAROLINA, provisional governor appointed, 11; steps taken in reconstruction, 18, 19; claimants for seats in Senate and House, 107, 108; convention of colored people of, 18; laws concerning freedmen, 29. OFFICE, President Johnson's order respecting appointments to, 17. ORDERS, MILITARY, of General Sickles, setting aside Freedmen's code for South Carolina, 36-38; of General Terry in Virginia, 41-42; President Johnson declined to interfere, 42; of General Grant to protect loyal persons and suppress disloyal newspapers, 122, 123, 124. OREGON, election of 1866, 120. PARDONED REBELS, order for return of property to, 13. PERRY, BENJAMIN F., appointed provisional governor of PUBLIC DEBT, resolution respecting inviolability of, 109; proposed constitutional amendment respecting, 102, 103; amount of, 126. PUBLIC LANDS, legislation on, 116. RANDALL, SAMUEL J., resolution on public debt, 109. REBEL CRUISERS, proclamation concerning, 9. REBELLION SUPPRESSED, proclamation announcing the, 15, 16. REBELS PARDONED, order for return of property to, 13. REBEL DEBT, proposition to repudiate, 102, 106; resolution concerning, 109; action of legislatures of insurrectionary states on rebel State debt, 19, 21, 23, 24, 28. RECONSTRUCTION COMMITTEE, majority and minority reports of, 84-101; votes upon propositions of, 102-106. REPRESENTATION, proposed constitutional amendment 102-105; census tables on, 125. REPRESENTATION OF INSURRECTIONARY STATES, President Jos son's allusions to, 57-66, 71, 72, 82; concurrent resol tion upon, note, 72; majority and minority reports up 84-101; bills and propositions relating to, 102-108 resolution concerning, 109. REPRESENTATIVES IN THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS AND CLAIMANTS 108, 109. RESOLUTIONS ON POLITICAL SUBJECTS, 109-114. SCHENCK, ROBERT C., propositions on representation, 104, 105; on Fenian resolution, 114; on suffrage in Distric of Columbia, 115. 108. SENATORS IN THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS, AND CLAIMANTS, 107, SEWARD, WILLIAM H., Secretary of State, 107; certificate of ratification of anti-slavery amendment, 6; telegrams to provisional governors, 21, 23, 24, 25; report on transmission of proposed constitutional amendment, 83, 84. SHARKEY, WILLIAM L., provisional governor of Mississippi 12; action as, 19, 20; President Johnson's telegram on colored suffrage, 19, 20; claimant as Senator, 107. SHERMAN, WILLIAM T., agreement with General Joseph E. Johnston, 121, 122. SICKLES, DANIEL E., order of, setting aside South Carolina's code, 36-38. SOUTH CAROLINA, provisional governor appointed, 12; reconstruction, steps in, 22-24; General Gillmore's order annulling Governor Magrath's call for legislature, 22; President Johnson's and Secretary Seward's telegrams, 22, 23, 24; failure to repudiate rebel debt, note, 24; form of ratifying anti-slavery amendment, 23; laws on freedmen, and order of General Sickles relating thereto, 34-37; claimants in Congress, 107, 108. SPEED, JAMES, Attorney General, 107; order for arrest of Fenians, note, 18. STANTON, EDWIN M., Secretary of War, 107. STEARNS, GEORGE L., President Johnson's interview with, 48, 49. STEPHENS, ALEXANDER H., parole of, 14; claimant in Congress, 107. STEVENS, THADDEUS, allusion of President Johnson to, 61; resolution on representation, note, 72; propositions from Reconstruction Committee, 103-105; resolution on test oath for lawyers, 111; motion not to recognize the North Carolina State government, 113. STOCKTON, JOHN P., Senator, 107; unseated, note, 107. SUFFRAGE in District of Columbia, 114-116; in territories, 116, 117; vote in Connecticut, 120; President Lincoln upon, note, 20; President Johnson, 19, 20, 24, 49, 52-55. SUMNER, CHARLES, allusion of President Johnson to, 61. TABER, STEPHEN, amendment to homestead act, 116 TABULAR STATEMENTS, on representation, tariff, debt, 125, 126. TARIFF, votes on all, since 1816, 126. TENNESSEE, President Johnson's proclamation respecting suppression of insurrection in, 13; franchise acts in, 27, 28, and President Johnson's telegram concerning, 27; legislation on freedmen, 42, 43; joint resolution concerning, 105. TERRITORIES, elective franchise in, 116. TERRY, General, order setting aside vagrant act of Virginia, 41, 42; sustained by President Johnson, 42. TEST OATH, action of North Carolina requesting repeal of, 19; of Mississippi, 20; vote in House on, 110, 111. TEXAS, provisional governor appointed, 12; action of convention, 28; legislation on freedmen, 43. THORNTON, ANTHONY, resolution on elective franchise, 110. TREASON, PUNISHMENT OF, resolution respecting, 109. TRENHOLM, GEORGE A., parole of, 14. VIRGINIA, order to re-establish authority of United States in, 8, 9; call for meeting of rebel legislature, 25; Mr. Lincoln's telegram forbidding it, 25; legislation, &c., in, 26, 27; freedmen's code, and General Terry's order setting aside vagrant act, 41, 42; claimants in Congress, 107, 108. VOORHEES, DANIEL W., Representative in Thirty-Ninth Congress, 108; unseated, note, 108; resolution endorsing President Johnson's policy, 11. WARREN, GOUVERNEUR K., General. telegram of General Canby to, prohibiting the meeting of the rebel legisla ture of Mississippi, 19. WASHBURN, HENRY D., qualified as Representative, note, 108. WELLES, GIDEON, Secretary of the Navy, 107. WEST VIRGINIA, bill, votes on, 116; election of 1866, 120. WILLEY, WAITMAN T, amendment to District of Columbia bill. 115, 116. WILLIAMS, THOMAS, resolution on withdrawal of military force, 111. WILSON, JAMES F., proposition relative to rebel debt, 100, resolution on representation, 109, 110; amendraent to District of Columbia bill, 114. The Elections of 1866. the Confederate States army known as the Armyth of Northern Virginia. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, U. S. GRANT, Lieut. Gen., Commanding Armies of the United States APRIL 7, 1865. GENERAL: I have received your note of this date. Though not entirely of the opinion you express of the hopelessness of the further resist ance on the part of the Army of Northern Vir ginia, I reciprocate your desire to avoid a useles effusion of blood, and therefore before considering your proposition I ask the terms you will offer on condition of its surrender. R. E. LEE, General. To Lieut. Gen. GRANT, Commanding Armies of the United States. APRIL 8, 1865. General R. E. LEE, Commanding C. S. A.: GENERAL: Your note of last evening, in reply to mine of same date, asking conditions on which I will accept the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, is just received. In reply I would say that peace being my first desire, there is but one condition I insist upon, viz: That the men surrendered shall be disqual ified for taking up arms again against the Govern NEW HAMPSHIRE-Smyth, Union, 35,018; Sin- ment of the United States, until properly ex clair, Democrat, 30,176. CONNECTICUT-Hawley, Union, 43,974; English, Democrat, 43,433. RHODE ISLAND-Burnside, Union,. 8,197; Pierce, Democrat, 2,816. OREGON-Wood, Union, 327 majority. At the special election in CONNECTICUT, in the fall of 1865, on suffrage, the vote stood: For colored suffrage, 27,217; against, 33,489. majority against, 6,272. In WEST VIRGINIA, a vote was taken in May, on ratifying this constitutional amendment: No person who, since the 1st day of June, 1861, has given or shall give voluntary aid or assistance to the rebellion against the United States, shall be a citizen of this State, or be allowed to vote at any election held therein, unless he has volunteered into the military or naval service of the United States, and has been or shall be honorably discharged therefrom." The majority in its favor is 6,922. In the Territory of NEBRASKA, a vote was taken, with this result: For the proposed State constitution, 3,938; against it, 3,838. CongressMarquette, Union, 4,110; Brooke, Democrat, 3,974. Governor-Butler, Union, 4,093; Morton, Democrat, 3,948. Correspondence between General Grant and General Lee. APRIL 7, 1865. Gen. R. E. LEE, Commanding C. S. A. : GENERAL: The result of the last week must convince you of the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the Army of Northern Virginia in this struggle. I feel that it is so, and regard it as my duty to shift from myself the responsibility of any further effusion of blood, by asking of you the surrender of that portion of I will meet you, or designate officers changed. to meet any officers you may name, for the same purpose, at any point agreeable to you, for the which the surrender of the Army of Northern purpose of arranging definitely the terms upon Virginia will be received. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, APRIL 8, 1865. GENERAL: I received, at a late hour, your note of to-day, in answer to mine of yesterday. I did not intend to propose the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, but to ask the term of your proposition. To be frank, I do not think the emergency has arisen to call for the surren der of this army; but as the restoration of peace should be the sole object of all, I desire to know whether your proposal would tend to that end. I cannot, therefore, meet you with a view to surrender the Army of Northern Virginia; but as far as your proposition may affect the Confed erate States forces under my command, and tend to the restoration of peace, I should be pleased to meet you at 10 A. M. to-morrow, on the old stage road to Richmond, between the picket lines of the two armies. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, R. E. LEE, General, C. S. A. To Lieut. Gen. U. S. GRANT, Commanding Armies U. S. A. APRIL 9. General R. E. LEE, Commanding C. S. A.: GENERAL: Your note of yesterday is received. As I have no authority to treat on the subject of peace, the meeting proposed for 10 A. M. to-day could lead to no good. I will state, however, General, that I am equally anxious for peace GENERAL: I received your note of this mornng on the picket line, whither I had come to neet you and ascertain definitely what terms vere embraced in your proposition of yesterday with reference to the surrender of this army. I now request an interview in accordance with the offer contained in your letter of yesterday for hat purpose. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, APRIL 9. General R. E. LEE, Commanding C. S. A.: Notice sent to me on this road where you Memorandum, or Basis of Agreement, made this 18th day of April, A. D. 1865, near Durham's Station, in the State of North Carolina, by and between General Joseph E. Johnston, commanding Confederate army, and Major General William T. Sherman, commanding Army of the United States, both being present: 1. The contending armies now in the field to maintain the status quo, until notice is given by the commanding general of any one to its opponent, and reasonable time, say forty-eight hours, allowed. 2. The Confederate armies now in existence to be disbanded and conducted to their several State capitals, therein to deposit their arms and public property in the State arsenal, and each officer and man to execute and file an agreement to cease from acts of war, and to abide the action of both State and Federal authorities. The number of arms and munitions of war to be reported to the Chief of Ordnance at Washington city, subject to the future action of the ConCommanding Armies of United States.gress of the United States, and in the meantime to be used solely to maintain peace and order within the borders of the States respectively. 3. The recognition by the Executive of the United States of the several State governments, on their officers and legislatures taking the oath prescribed by the Constitution of the United States; and where conflicting State governments have resulted from the war, the legitimacy of all shall be submitted to the Supreme Court of the United States. APPOMATTOX C. H., April 9, 1865. General R. E. LEE, Commanding C. S. A.: In accordance with the substance of my letter to you of the 8th instant, I propose to receive the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia on the following terms, to wit: Rolls of all the officers and men to be made in duplicate, one copy to be given to an officer designated by me, the other to be retained by such officer or officers as you may designate. The officers to give their individual paroles not to take arms against the Government of the United States until properly exchanged, and each company or regimental commander sign a like parole for the men of their commands. The arms, artillery, and public property to be parked and stacked, and turned over to the officers appointed by me to receive them. This will not embrace the side-arms of officers, nor their private horses or baggage. This done, each officer and man will be allowed to return to their homes, not to be disturbed by United States authority so long as they observe their parole and the laws in force where they may reside. Very respectfully, U. S. GRANT, Lieut. Gen. 4. The re-establishment of the Federal Courts in the several States, with powers as defined by the Constitution and laws of Congress. 5. The people and inhabitants of all these States to be guaranteed, so far as the Executive can, their political rights and franchise, as well as their rights of person and property, as defined by the Constitution of the United States, and of the States respectively. 6. The Executive authority of the Government of the United States not to disturb any of the people by reason of the late war, so long as they live in peace and quiet, and abstain from acts of armed hostility, and obey the laws in existence at the place of their residence. 7. In general terms, the war to cease, a general amnesty, so far as the Executive of the United States can command, on the condition of the disbandment of the Confederate armies, dis tribution of arms, and the resumption of peace- General,. Commanding C. S. A. in N. C. The following official dispatch to the Associated Press gives the particulars of its disapproval, and the supposed reasons therefor: WASHINGTON, April 22.-Yesterday evening a bearer of despatches arrived from General SherAn agreement for a suspension of hostilities, and a memorandum of what is called a basis for peace, had been entered into on the 18th inst., by General Sherman with the rebel General Johnston, the rebel General Breckinridge being present at the conference. man. A Cabinet meeting was held at 8 o'clock in the evening, at which the action of General Sherman was disapproved by the President, the Secretary of War, by General Grant, and by every member of the Cabinet. General Sherman was ordered to resume hostilities immediately, and he was directed that the instructions given by the late President, in the following telegram, which was penned by Mr. Lincoln himself, at the Capitol, on the night of the 3d of March, were approved by President Andrew Johnson, and were reiterated to govern the action of military commanders. took It is reported that this proceeding of Genera Sherman was disapproved for the following among other, reasons: 1. It was an exercise of authority not veste in General Sherman, and on its face shows tha both he and Johnston knew that General Sher man had no authority to enter into any such arrangement. 2. It was a practical acknowledgment of the rebel government. 3. It undertook to re-establish the rebel Stat governments that had been overthrown at the sacrifice of many thousand loyal lives and im mense treasure, and placed the arms and munitions of war in the hands of the rebels at their respective capitals, which might be used as soon as the armies of the United States were dis banded, and used to conquer and subdue the loyal States. 4. By the restoration of rebel authority in their respective States they would be enabled to re-establish slavery. 5. It might furnish a ground of responsibility by the Federal Government to pay the rebel debt, and certainly subjects the loyal citizens of rebel States to debt contracted by rebels in the State. 6. It would put in dispute the existence of loyal State governments, and the new State of West Virginia, which had been recognized by every department of the United States Govern ment. laws, and relieved the rebels, of every degree, 8. It gave terms that had been deliberately, Lincoln, and better terms than the rebels had repeatedly, and solemnly rejected by President ever asked in their most prosperous condition. 9. It formed no basis of true and lasting peace, but relieved the rebels from the pressure of our victories, and left them in condition to renew their efforts to overthrow the United States Government and subdue the loyal States whenever their strength was recruited and any opportunity should offer. General Grant's Orders. On the night of the 3d of March, while President Lincoln and his Cabinet were at the Capi: tol, a telegram from General Grant was brought to the Secretary of War, informing him that General Lee had requested an interview or conference to make an arrangement for terms of peace. The letter of General Lee was published in a message of Davis to the rebel Congress. General Grant's telegram was submitted to Mr. Lincoln, who, after pondering a few minutes, up his pen and wrote with his own hand the following reply, which he submitted to the Secretary of State and Secretary of War. It was then dated, addressed, and signed by the Secre- [General Orders, No. 3.] tary of War, and telegraphed to General Grant: WASHINGTON, March 3, 1866, 12 P. M.-Lieutenant General Grant: The President directs me to say to you that he wishes you to have no conference with General Lee, unless it be for the capitulation of General Lee's army, or on some minor and purely military matter. He instructs me to say that you are not to decide, discuss, or confer upon any political question. Such questions the President holds in his own hands, and will submit them to no military conferences or conventions. Meantime, you are to press to the utmost your military advantages. EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War. After the Cabinet meeting last night, General Grant started for North Carolina to direct operations against Johnston's army. EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War. WAR DEPARTMENT, TO PROTECT PERSONS AGAINST IMPROPER CIVIL Military division and department commanders, whose commands embrace or are composed of any of the late rebellious States, and who have not already done so, will at once issue and enforce orders protecting from prosecution or suits in the State, or municipal courts of such State, all officers and soldiers of the armies of the United States, and all persons thereto attached, or in any wise thereto belonging, subject to military authority, charged with offences for acts done in their military capacity, or pursuant to orders from proper military authority; and to protect from suit or prosecution all loyal citizens, or persons charged with offences done |