N.

Nash, negro officeholder, 242 (note).

Nation, New York, 180 (note); editorial on post-war church situation quoted, 201 (note); on corruption of government, 226.

National Teachers Association meeting (1865), 208.

National Union party, Republican party becomes, 70; Whigs and Douglas Democrats join, 70-71; convention at Philadelphia, 130; nominates Grant, 168.

Negro Affairs, Department of, 177.

Negroes, as soldiers in South, 21-22; problems of reconstruction, 34 et seq.; health conditions among, 41-42; morals and manners, 42-43; poverty, 44-45; education, 44-45, 209, 211-220; relations with whites, 47-48, 277-278; lawlessness, 48-49; suffrage, 49-52, 58, 66-67, 78, 84, 85, 134, 169, 284-285, 300-301, 304; Lincoln urges deportation of freedmen, 66; legislation concerning, 77-78, 89-90, 93-98, 115-116, 127, 141; status at close of war, 89 et seq.; Freedmen's Bureau supervises, 109; Union League and, 181 et seq.; religion, 201-206; rule in South, 221 et seq.; in Congress, 230, 242; and state offices, 242; and Ku Klux, 258; anti-negro movements, 263; labor, 266, 272; "privileges," 269; advantages, 270-271; as farmers, 271-274; change in condition during reconstruction, 274-275; mixed marriages, 276.

Nelson, counsel at impeachment, 166.

New England, and negro suffrage, 156, 285; Freedmen's Aid Society, 209.

New Orleans, negro soldiers in, 21-22; riots in, 83, 131, 175, 237 (note); Northern teachers in, 210; public debt, 232; Federal officials at, 241.

New York, charity for relief of South, 14; and negro suffrage, 156, 284.

New York City, Union League organized, 177; headquarters for Union League, 181; corruption in, 282.

Nordhoff, Charles, 291; The Cotton States in the Spring and Summer of 1875, cited, 232 (note).

Norfolk, "contraband" camp, 36.

North, free negroes of, 35-36; planters from, 49; capital and labor from, 268; change in attitude toward South, 282; politics, 291.

North Carolina, negro colonies in, 36, 99; Johnson proclaims restoration of, 75; committee on laws for freedmen, 91, 92; courts, 111; negro voters, 152; Union League, 185, 186, 194; carpetbag rule, 221; public debt, 232; negro militia, 236; Democratic in 1870, 260; and enforcement acts, 261; conservatives gain control of, 290.

North Carolina, University of, 216.