personal view of terms of election, 49;
  popular views on 79, 114, 115
  Decision to reinforce Fort Sumter, i. 117, 118, 119, 120;
  and defend Federal forts, 118;
  attitude to Seward’s foreign war policy, 119-20, 136;
  reply to Seward’s “Some Thoughts for the President’s Consideration,”
    119-20, 124;
  modifies Despatch No. 10, 126-7;
  attitude to Schleiden’s Richmond visit, 121 122;
  emergency measures of, 172, 173
  Policy and views of, on:—­
    Blockade proclamation, i. 83, 110, 111, 244. See heading Blockade
    Border State policy of, i. 173, 176, 272 note[1]; ii. 82
    Confiscation Bill, attitude to, ii. 82, 84
    Emancipation Proclamation of, See that heading
    Hampton Roads, Conference at, ii. 252-3
    Intervention, on, ii. 36
    Piracy proclamation, i. 83, 111, 160
    Servile insurrection, ii. 83
    Slavery: 
      inaugural address on, i. 38. 50, 71, 175;
      view of the terms of his election regarding, 49;
      denial of emancipation as an issue, 239; ii. 88;
      reply to Chicago abolitionists on, ii. 49 note[3];
      declarations on, 78;
      conversations with Sumner on, 82;
      attitude to emancipation, 82, 83-4, 96;
      and anti-slavery sentiment, 83;
      denial of, as a cause of the war, 88;
      reply to Schurz on emancipation, 72;
      reply to Greeley, 93, 94;
      orders of, as to liberated slaves, 100
    Trent affair;
      attitude to release of envoys, i. 231 and note[2],
      British view of, in, i. 225, 226, 230
    Union, the: 
      efforts to preserve, i. 49, 121;
      efforts to restore, ii. 82, 83, 93-5;
      reply to Greeley on, 92-3
  Attitude of, to England, i. 301;
    curtails authority of General Butler, 305;
    settles quarrel between Seward and Chase; ii. 72;
    letter to Manchester supporters of the North, 109;
    drafts resolution for use in British public meetings on slavery, 113;
    British addresses to, 288, 290-1
  Re-election, ii. 226, 234, 235, 238;
  expectations of his defeat, 226, 231;
  British Press views on, 234-5, 238;
  Punch cartoon, 239 and note[1];
  complaints of his despotism and
  inefficiency in press, ii. 176, 232;
  his terms to the South, 251, 252
  Assassination of, ii. 257-8, 265;
  political effect of,
    in Britain, 301,
    and in Germany, 301 note[3];
  British sympathy, 259-64
    Appreciations of, ii. 258-61
      British opinion of, during the War, ii. 239 note[1]
        Bright’s confidence in, ii. 255 and note[1]
        Lyons’ view on, i. 51; ii. 258-9
        Press views, i. 38-9; ii. 102-5 passim
      Schleiden’s view of, i. 116
    Influence of Bright’s letters on, i. 232;
      pardons Rubery