Northrop, Colonel L. B., placed at the head of the subsistence
department, 303;
his experience and capacity, 303;
rank, 310;
his efforts to provide for present and future supplies, 315;
lack of transportation, 315.
_Nullification_ and _secession_, distinction between, 184.
_Oath_ required by the Constitution, some took it and made use of the
powers and opportunities of the offices held under its sanctions to
nullify its obligations, 81.
_Object of the war_, our subjugation by the North, 321.
_Obstacles_ to the formation of a more perfect Union, 31.
"_On to Richmond_," changed at Manassas to "off to Washington," 351.
_Order of pursuit_, after the victory at Manassas, details of, 353, 354;
not sent, 355;
another order sent, 355.
_Ordinance of Virginia_ in 1787, its articles, 7;
urged as a precedent in support of the claim of a power in Congress to
determine the question of the admission of slaves into the
Territories, 10;
its validity examined, 10, 11.
Orr, James L., Commissioner from South Carolina to Washington, 213.
_Pandora's box_, the opening of, 15.
_Paradoxical theories_, relative to sovereignty in the United States,
142;
no government is sovereign, 142.
_Patriot army of_ Missouri, description of, 425.
Patterson, William, arguments for the Jersey plan in the Constitutional
Convention, 206.
Patterson, Major-General, commands force at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania,
337;
its object, 338.
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