Taylor, Elijah, 348
Taylor, Green B., 47
Taylor, Hawkins, 85, 619
Taylor, James, 42–43, 44
Taylor, John, 116–17, 135, 137, 145
Taylor, Zachary, 267, 268, 291, 293–94, 297–99, 301–3, 304–5, 306, 339, 348
death of, 373, 595
intentions of, 276
objections to, 275–76
presidential campaign of, 272–86, 653
Tazewell Whig (Tremont, Illinois), 231, 232
Telegraph and Democratic Review (Alton, Illinois), 71, 119, 193
temperance, 216
advocates, 31–32, 47, 216–17
AL’s speech on, 125–26, 216
AL’s writings and letters on, 31–32
Temple, Wayne C., 197
Terre Haute (Indiana) Wabash Express, 696
Terre Haute and Alton Railroad Company, 335
Texas: annexation of, 229
boundaries of, 266
expansionism by, 224
history of, 267
Thayer, Eli, 564, 612, 709
Thayer, William Makepeace, 19
Thomas, Jack, 12
Thomas, Jesse B., 95–96, 156, 386
Thomas, Rebecca, 349
Thomas, Thomas K., 693
Thompson, Lorenzo Dow, 70
Thompson, P.N., 233
Thompson, Richard W., 267–68, 299, 304, 305, 307, 457, 632, 641, 642, 660, 671, 683
Thompson, Robert Mitchell, 8
Thornton, Anthony, 428, 454
Thornwell, James Henley, 706
Tilson, John, 548
Tilton, Theodore, 368, 638
Todd, Ann, 188
Todd, David, 180
Todd, Eliza Parker, 176–77
Todd, Elizabeth Humphreys (Betsey), 177, 178
Todd, George R.C., 179
Todd, John, 184
Todd, Levi, 176
Todd, Lyman Beecher, 207
Todd, Mary. See Lincoln, Mary Todd
Todd, Robert Smith, 180, 181
defense of, 353–54
fond of AL, 254–55, 353
home of, 255–56
marriages of, 177
second family of, 178
Todd vs. Ware, 349
Tonica and Petersburg Railroad, 334
Toombs, Robert, 519–20, 523
Torrence, William, 313
Trailor, Archibald, 341
Trailor, William, 341
Trapp, A.H., 400
Treat, Samuel H., 175, 318, 323
Trent, Alexander, 77
Trollope, Anthony, 257
Trollope, Frances, 44
Truett, Henry, 132–33
Trumbull, Julia Jayne, 404–5
Trumbull, Lyman, 166, 194, 223, 398, 411, 415–16, 424–25, 430, 455–56, 471, 476–77, 481, 491, 503, 514, 548, 561–63, 574, 578, 581, 594, 595, 655, 709, 713, 724, 729, 732, 741, 746
accusations, 489–90, 512–13, 519–21
AL’s consultations with, 721, 735–36
as AL’s friend, 421, 422, 446–48, 451, 452, 562, 593, 595, 671
on antislavery, 525–26
attacks on, 476
on cabinet appointments, 732–33, 744, 748
on debates, 540, 541
on Dutch plank, 661
election to U.S. senate, 400–404
on Kansas-Nebraska Act, 377–78
on new party, 408–9
political campaigns of, 398, 399–405, 454, 464, 559, 600
recollections of, 472, 579
reelection of, 672–73
speeches, 701–2
Tuck, Amos, 286, 617, 622, 737, 743
Tucker, Nathaniel Beverley, George Balcombe: A Novel, 65
Tuley, Elizabeth, 42
Turner, Caroline A., 256
Turner, Jonathan Baldwin, 63
The Three Great Races of Men, 368
Turner, Thomas J., 398, 599, 754
Turnham, Thomas, 36, 43
Tyler, John, 224, 227, 297
Ullman, Daniel, 639
Underground Railroad, AL and, 380–31
Urquhart, John D., 312–13
U.S. Constitution, 38, 125, 385, 688
U.S. Declaration of Independence, 38, 383, 440, 471, 474, 482, 533
African Americans and, 440, 450
Jefferson and, 562
references to, 612
writing of, 688
U.S. Electoral College, 384
U.S. House of Representatives, 384, 408, 632
acoustics of, 262
building, 261–62
Committee of Thirteen, 746
Committee of Thirty-Three, 708–9, 715, 746–47
Illinois General Assembly and, 92, 93
U.S. Speaker of the House, 143, 162–64, 743
U.S. Supreme Court, 356, 441, 459, 464–65
role of, 486
rulings of, 480
Usrey, William J., 412
Vallandigham, Clement L., 209, 717
van Alen, James H., 713
Van Buren, Martin, 96, 109, 111, 112, 138, 139, 143, 165, 225, 280, 281, 282–83, 284, 738
criticisms of, 282
as presidential candidate, 110, 148–61
on slavery, 107–8, 110, 154–55
subtreasury plans of, 143–44, 150–52
war record of, 159–60
Van Deren, Dumas J., 462
Van Dyke, John, 423
Vance, John, 63
Vance, Mariah, 757
Vandalia (Illinois): as capital city, 92–94, 114, 118–19, 137
social life within, 93–94
Vandalia (Illinois) Free Press, 120
Veatch, James C., 228, 608–9, 740
Vermilion County (Illinois) Press, 325
Verree, John P., 730
Villard, Henry, 496–97, 550, 685–86, 703, 710
on AL, 576, 695, 704, 740, 749
on debates, 502, 508–9, 514, 542
reports, 720–21
Vinton, Samuel, 264
Wade, Benjamin F., 259, 366, 462, 464, 559, 613, 634, 744
candidacy of, 619, 623, 629
on debates, 541
Walcott, Elihu, 232
Walker, Cyrus, 149
Walker, George, 370
Walker, Isaac P., 106, 158, 293
Walker, Richard S., 119
Walker, William, 346
Wallace, Joseph, 186
Wallace, Lew, 519–20
Wallace, W.H.L., 488
Wallace, William, 196, 294
Walters, William, 107–8, 111, 137
Warnick, Polly, 50, 98
Warnick, William, 49, 87
Washburn, C.C., 564
Washburn, Israel, 670, 740
Washburne, Elihu B., 185, 249, 296, 303, 306, 402, 422, 448, 455, 522, 641, 642, 661, 734
aid of, 394–98, 415
AL and, 403, 422, 449, 457, 692, 709
on cabinet appointments, 727–30, 737, 755
as candidate, 454
on debates, 496, 508, 515, 553
Washington, D.C., 126–27, 256, 490
AL’s bill to emancipate slaves in, 289–92
antislavery in, 284, 502
black population, 259
escape of slaves, 287
residents, 284
AL: arrival, 257–61
description, 256–59
life, 263–64
move to, 253–56
offices, 263
popularity, 261–63
Washington, George, 176, 756
biographies of, 36, 53, 274
as wrestler, 70
Washington National Era, 446
Washington Star, 568
Washington Temperance Society, 216
Washington Union, 492, 505, 507–8, 511, 535
Waters, Lewis H., 347
Watkins, Joe, 200
Watkins, Nelson, 343–44
Watkins, Thomas, 60, 62, 81
Watson, Peter, 339–41
W
ead, Hezekiah Morse, 129, 185, 272
Webb, Edwin Bathurst (Bat), 121, 198, 454
AL’s colleague, 329, 330–31, 425
Webb, Henry L., 117–18
Webb, James Watson, 694–95, 723
Weber, George R., 107, 108, 150
attack on, 133–34
editor, 133
Weber, Jacob, 133–34
Weber, John B., 133–34, 150, 211, 225
Webster, Calvin C., 590
Webster, Daniel, 141, 148, 298, 303, 306, 370, 418, 435, 587, 604, 636
as lawyer, 356, 590
physical appearance of, 317
remarks/replies of, 458, 461, 463, 624
Webster, Noah, American Spelling Book, 36
Weed, Thurlow, 201, 283, 422, 453, 465, 678
AL’s presidential campaign and, 603, 605–6, 607, 617, 619, 620, 622–25, 643–46, 647, 663, 670, 672, 678, 694–95, 697, 700, 708, 720, 721, 724, 727, 728–29, 735, 737, 741, 742, 744, 746
on cabinet appointments, 722–23, 743
on Crittenden Compromise, 712
Weems, Mason, 36, 37
Weik, Jesse, 15, 423
Welch, Benjamin, 676
Weld, Theodore Dwight, 259–60
Weldon, Lawrence, 241, 347, 355–56
AL’s presidential campaign and, 602
Welles, Gideon, 592, 617, 618, 645, 722, 724, 742–44
Wells, David A., 682
Wentworth, John, 193, 284–85, 394, 452, 454, 455, 458, 562, 581, 595, 618, 638, 655, 694
as congressman, 414, 447
correspondence of, 449, 452
criticisms by, 553
endorsement of, 608
plans of, 673
quarrels, 578–79
Wentworth, Mark F., 618
Westbrook, Theodore R., 665
Whig Executive Committee of Congress, 279–80
Whigs, 36–37, 71–75, 92, 375, 408
1835-1836 Illinois Legislature special session, 108–9
1839 national convention, 148–49
deserters, 215
discrimination amongst, 52
Federalists, 155
Illinois, 147–48, 150, 272–73
leaders, 89, 105, 112–13
Massachusetts, 280–82
Northern, 288
papers, 64, 94–95, 120
Sangamon County, 161, 215–17
Southern, 288
spokesmen, 71–72, 149
Springfield, 376
vision of government, 71–72
White, Horace, 372, 387, 391, 466, 478–82, 517, 729, 754
on AL, 685
on debates, 500, 523, 533, 540, 555
White, James B., 337
Whiteside, Samuel, 67, 68, 192
Whitmore, Josh, 456
Whitney, A.M., 610
Whitney, Henry C., 5, 24, 35, 45, 47, 65, 74, 118, 181, 209, 268, 310, 325, 327, 329, 334, 341, 342, 417, 423, 442, 528, 550, 600, 610
advice to AL, 528
on AL’s defeat, 550
AL’s friend, 194, 348–52, 356, 361, 376, 391, 416, 443
AL’s humor, 53
AL’s presidential campaign and, 615
cases of, 335–36, 354
clients of, 437–38
criticisms of, 389–90
on debates, 496, 511, 516
remarks by, 45–47, 49, 317, 322
on Times allegations, 466–67
Wickizer, John H., 554
Wigfall, Louis, 690–91
Wilcox, Nathaniel G., 299, 301–3, 422
Wilder, Abel Carter, 577
Wiley, Ben L., 579
Wiley, Edmund R., 149
Williams, Archibald, 111, 301, 402, 421
AL’s colleague, 329–30, 409, 417, 436
campaigns of, 398
Williams, John, 424
Wilmot, David, 278, 379, 464, 593, 596, 611, 614, 727
as senator, 731, 733, 734
Wilmot Proviso, 505, 612
circumvention of, 293
controversy over, 285
hostility towards, 276–78
support for, 278
Wilson, Charles L., 452, 453, 458, 727
Wilson, Henry, 280, 284, 446–47, 450, 453, 464, 526, 559, 744
AL and, 597, 663
on antislavery, 637
debates, 548, 696
Wilson, John, 661
Wilson, Richard L., 391
Wilson, Robert L., 101, 105
on internal improvement bill, 112–13, 117–18, 120
Winchester (Illinois) Chronicle, 412
Winn, Timothy, 618
Winthrop, Robert C., 264, 284, 291
Wisconsin: AL speaks in, 571–72
Wise, Henry A., 541, 597
women: AL’s distrust of, 173
AL’s relations with, 41–42, 97–98, 105, 130
divorces and, 314–15
sale of, 252
suffrage of, 103–5
Wood, Elizabeth, 42
Wood, William, 21, 31–32, 35, 42, 44
Wooldridge, David, 132, 133
Worcester (Massachusetts) Spy, 618
Wright, Benjamin G., 649
Wright, Elizur, 638
Wright, Erastus, 236, 349
Wright, George F., 658
Wright, Peter, 236
Yancey, William L., 673, 689
Yates, Richard, 222, 223, 263, 272, 753
AL and, 374–75, 376, 378, 401, 409, 424, 430, 547, 578, 580, 598, 651, 677, 742, 753–54
AL’s presidential campaign and, 602, 680
campaigns of, 392–94, 398, 415
reelection bid of, 532
rumors about, 390
Yates, Mrs. Richard, 263
Young, John Russell, 371, 372
Young, Richard M., 215, 296, 298
Young, William H., 321
Young Men’s Republican Union of New York, 583
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