ors who by sacred memories were forbidden ever to be foes.
The nomination of the members of the commission was made on February 25—within a week after my inauguration—and confirmed by Congress on the same day. The commissioners appointed were A. B. Roman of Louisiana, Martin J. Crawford of Georgia, and John Forsyth of Alabama.
Roman was an honored citizen and had been governor of his native state; Crawford had served with distinction in Congress for several years; Forsyth was an influential junder appointment of Pierce near the close of his term, and continued so under that of Buchanan.
These gentlemen, moreover, represented the three great parties which had ineffectually opposed the sectionalism of the so-called Republicans.
Ex-Governor Roman had been a Whig in former years, and one of the Constitutional Union, or Bell-and-Everett party in the canvass of 1860; Crawford, as a state-rights Democrat, had supported Breckinridge; Forsyth had been a zealous advocate of the claims of D
ee Democratic party).
Reynolds, Lt. Governor of Missouri, 361.
Rhett, —, 205, 206.
Rhode Island, 63.
Rhode Island Delegates to Philadelphia convention, 77, 85.
Ratification of Constitution, 90, 96, 108, 129.
Letter to President and Congress, 97.
Constitutional amendment proposed, 125.
Rice, —, 58.
Rich Mountain, Battle of, 293.
Ricketts, Captain, 329.
Rip-Raps, 180.
Rives, William C. Delegate to Peace Congress, 214.
Rochambeau, Count, 139.
Roman, A. B., 239. Commissioner from Confederacy to Lincoln, 212.
Rosecrans, General, 372-73, 375,376.
Russell, Lord, John, 281.
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St. John, General, 276. Head of Confederate niter and mining bureau, 409-10.
Saunders, Colonel, 325, 370.
Scott, General, 234, 238, 289.
Sebastian, Senator, 175.
Secession, 96, 116, 218.
Right of states, 50, 52, 60, 142, 144-47, 154, 159, 218-19.
Ordinance of South Carolina, 51.
Preparation, 60.
Earlier propaganda, 60-64. Hartford conventi