class="tdc" colspan="2">LAST SESSION OF THE THIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

Situation of the Country​—​Opposition to the Administration​—​President’s Message 199 CHAPTER XV. THE TIDE TURNED. Military Successes​—​Favorable Elections​—​Emancipation Policy​—​Letter to Manchester (Eng.) Workingmen​—​Proclamation for a National Fast​—​Letter to Erastus Corning​—​Letter to a Committee on Recalling Vallandigham 226 CHAPTER XVI. LETTERS AND SPEECHES. Speech at Washington​—​Letter to Gen. Grant​—​Thanksgiving Proclamation​—​Letter Concerning the Emancipation Proclamation​—​Proclamation for Annual Thanksgiving​—​Dedicatory Speech at Gettysburg 242 CHAPTER XVII. THE THIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Organization of the House​—​Different Opinions as to Reconstruction​—​Provisions for Pardon of Rebels​—​President’s Proclamation of Pardon​—​Annual Message​—​Explanatory Proclamation 263 CHAPTER XVIII. PROGRESS. President’s Speech at Washington​—​Speech to a New York Committee​—​Speech in Baltimore​—​Letter to a Kentuckian​—​Employment of Colored Troops​—​Davis’ Threat​—​General Order​—​President’s Order on the Subject 275 CHAPTER XIX. RENOMINATED. Lieut. Gen. Grant​—​His Military Record​—​Continued Movements​—​Correspondence with the President​—​Across the Rapidan​—​Richmond Invested​—​President’s Letter to a Grant Meeting​—​Meeting of Republican National Convention​—​The Platform​—​The Nomination​—​Mr. Lincoln’s Reply to the Committee of Notification​—​Remarks to Union League Committee​—​Speech at a Serenade​—​Speech to Ohio Troops 285 CHAPTER XX. RECONSTRUCTION. President’s Speech at Philadelphia​—​Philadelphia Fair​—​Correspondence with Committee of National Convention​—​Proclamation of Martial Law in Kentucky​—​Question of Reconstruction​—​President’s Proclamation on the Subject​—​Congressional Plan 298 CHAPTER XXI. PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN OF 1864. Proclamation for a Fast​—​Speech to Soldiers​—​Another Speech​—​“To Whom it may Concern”​—​Chicago Convention​—​Opposition Embarrassed​—​Resolution No. 2​—​McClellan’s Acceptance​—​Capture of the Mobile Forts and Atlanta​—​Proclamation for Thanksgiving​—​Remarks on Employment of Negro Soldiers​—​Address to Loyal Marylanders 314 CHAPTER XXII. RE-ELECTED Presidential Campaign of 1864​—​Fremont’s Withdrawal​—​Wade and Davis​—​Peace and War Democrats​—​Rebel Sympathizers​—​October Election​—​Result of Presidential Election​—​Speech to Pennsylvanians​—​Speech at a Serenade​—​Letter to a Soldier’s Mother​—​Opening of Congress​—​Last Annual Message 325 CHAPTER XXIII. TIGHTENING THE LINES. Speech at a Serenade​—​Reply to a Presentation Address​—​Peace Rumors​—​Rebel Commissioners​—​Instructions to Secretary Seward​—​The Conference in Hampton Roads​—​Result​—​Extra Session of the Senate​—​Military Situation​—​Sherman​—​Charleston​—​Columbia​—​Wilmington​—​Fort Fisher​—​Sheridan​—​Grant​—​Rebel Congress​—​Second Inauguration​—​Inaugural​—​English Comment​—​Proclamation to Deserters 350 CHAPTER XXIV. IN RICHMOND.