and slavery, III.
attempted a.s.sa.s.sination of, IV.
and the Trent affair, IV.
Sewing-machines, III.
Seymour, Attorney-General, I.
Seymour, Horatio, IV.
Shafter, Major-General W. R., in the Santiago campaign, V.
Shaftesbury, Lord Ashley Cooper, Earl of, I.
Shays"s Rebellion, II.
Shelburne, Secretary of State in England, opens peace negotiations, II.
Shenandoah Valley, explored, I.
operations in, IV.
Sheridan, General Phil, IV.
"Sheridan"s Ride" IV.
at Five Forks, IV.
at New Orleans, IV.
Sherman Anti-trust law, enactment of, VI.
Sherman, James S., nominated Vice-President, VI.
Sherman, John, his silver bill, IV.
and resumption, IV.
Sherman, General W. T., his words concerning battle of Bull Run. III.
at battle of Shiloh, or Pittsburg Landing, IV.
at Vicksburg, IV.
his movements about Chattanooga, IV.
goes to Knoxville, IV.
his army, IV.
his march to the sea, IV.
takes Atlanta, IV.
takes Savannah, IV.
his message to Lincoln, IV.
marches north, IV.
takes Charleston, IV.
at Columbia, IV.
routs Johnston at Bentonville, IV.
Sherwood, Grace, ducked, I.
Shiloh, battle of, IV.
Ship Subsidy Bill, the, VI.
Shirley, Governor, of Ma.s.sachusetts, in King George"s war, I.
Shoshone Dam, the, VI.
Sibley, Hiram, and telegraphy, III.
Sickles, General, IV.
at Gettysburg, IV.
Silver coinage, III. , IV.
Sherman"s bill, IV., V.
Sinclair, Upton, his novel, The Jungle, VI.
Slater, Samuel, the "father of American manufactures." II.
Slavery, in early Virginia, I.
George Keith against, I.
early history of, III.
Jefferson and the great Virginians against, III.
Quakers against, III.
ordinance of 1787 and, III.
hostility to, in the States, III.
in the North, III.
in the South, III.
pleas for its existence, III.
pro-slavery arguments, III.
anti-slavery opinions, III.
difficulties of the question, III.
Whigs opposed to, III.
and cotton, III.
social and economic evils of, III.
strict laws concerning slaves, III.
feeling for, strengthened, III.
each State sovereign over, in its own boundaries, III.
growing hatred for, in the North, III.
fugitive slave law, III.
expeditions to kidnap free negroes for, III.
domestic slave-trade, III.
renewed hostility against, III.
"a crime," III.
New England anti-slavery society, III.
positions of the North and South on, III.
victory of, III.
att.i.tude of Whigs toward, III.
treatment in Congress of pet.i.tions against, III.