_Constitutional Union Convention_ in 1860, its nominations and
resolutions, 60.
_Convention_, the original idea of calling, 98;
its powers merely advisory, 103;
how its work was approved, 103.
_Conventions, State_, representatives of sovereignty, 97.
Cooper, Samuel, resigns in United States Army, 308;
his rank, 308;
appointment in the Confederate Army, 308.
Count of Paris, his travesty of history, 200, 201;
libels the memory of Major Anderson, 283.
Coxe, Tench, words relative to separate sovereignties, 128.
Crawford, Martin J., appointed commissioner to United States, 246;
commissioner to Washington arrives, 246;
describes the incidents and his reception, 265;
other proceedings, 266.
Crittenden, J. C., offers in the Senate a joint resolution proposing
amendments to the Constitution, 60;
how received, 60.
Davis, Jefferson, reelected to United States Senate in 1851, 18;
subject of the compromise measures agitating Mississippi, 18;
division of opinion, 18;
the principles of the Declaration of Independence of more value than
the Union, 18;
his position and views, 19;
invited to become candidate for Governor, 19;
not accepted, 20;
active canvass, 20;
nominated again on the withdrawal of the former nominee, 20;
resigns as United States Senator, 20;
his position relative to the Union, 21;
letter to W. J. Brown, 21;
enters the Cabinet of President Pierce, 22;
charge of the Pacific Railroad survey, 23;
charge of the Capitol extension, 23;
charge of changes in the model of arms, 23;
increase of the army, 23;
its officers, 24; clerkships, 24;
anecdote of General Jesup, 24;
again elected Senator from Mississippi, 25;
no change in President Pierce's Cabinet during his term, 25;
extract from a speech in the Senate on the relation of master and
servant in a Territory, 30;
remarks in the Senate on the "Nicholson letter" of General Cass, 37;
offers a series of resolutions in United States Senate, 42;
the resolutions, 42;
discussion and vote in the Senate, 43;
position of the mover shown in extract from his speech, 44-46;
meets with the Congressional representatives and Governor of
Mississippi in consultation, 57;
his views, 57;
summoned to Washington, 58;
state of affairs there and his proceedings, 59;
extract from a speech in December, 1860, in the Senate, showing his
position, 61-68;
position and feelings at the beginning of 1861, 205;
previous life, 205;
office of Senator, 206;
in the Cabinet, 206;
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