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The Field of Blood

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by Joanne B. Freeman


  laws against

  and Northerners

  and Northern gumption

  and personal explanations

  and personal reputation

  and privilege of debate

  Pryor-Potter challenge

  and Randolph

  rules for

  sectional complications of

  and sectional differences

  and street fights

  and Sumner caning

  and Thirty-sixth Congress

  and working conditions

  see also Cilley-Graves duel; honor, code of

  Duer, William

  Duer-Meade fight

  Duncan, Alexander

  Dunn, William

  Edmundson, Henry

  education

  emotion

  Ely, Alfred

  Everett, Edward

  Fairfield, John

  Farnsworth, John

  Fashions and Follies of Washington Life (Preuss)

  Fessenden, William Pitt

  Field, Alexander P.

  fighting men

  see also noncombatants

  Fillmore, Millard

  financial panics

  First Amendment, see free speech; right of petition

  Fisher, Charles

  Fletcher, Richard

  Foltz, Jonathan M.

  Foote, Henry

  and bullying

  character of

  and Compromise of 1850

  and Confederate Congress

  fights of

  and Hale

  as political combatant

  see also Benton-Foote conflict

  Forney, John

  Forsyth, John

  Fort Sumter, Battle of (1861)

  Frederick Douglass’ Paper

  free speech:

  and Compromise of 1850

  and gag rule debate

  and Kansas-Nebraska Act

  Northern rights

  and presidential election (1860)

  significance of

  and Sumner caning

  see also words, dangerous

  Fremont, John C.

  French, Benjamin

  French, Benjamin Brown

  and Adams

  and alcohol

  and Andrew Johnson

  and armed combat in Congress

  arrival in Washington of

  biography of

  and Bleeding Kansas

  on Carter’s death

  character of

  on Cilley

  and Cilley-Graves duel

  Cilley-Graves duel responses of

  and Civil War

  as clerk

  and clerkship election of 1849

  and Compromise of 1850

  and concern for Union

  and congressional violence

  and Constitution

  in conversation with slaveholders

  death of

  Democratic Party role of

  diary of

  and disunion threats

  as doughface

  early life and education of

  and 1852 presidential campaign

  funeral of

  and gag rule debate

  on gallery-sitters

  and Gettysburg

  and Giddings

  and history

  on honor code

  and Jackson

  and Johnson

  and Kansas claims

  and Kansas-Nebraska Act

  and Know Nothings

  later life of

  and Lincoln

  and livelihood of

  and Mary Todd Lincoln

  and Masons

  New England perspective of

  and New Hampshire

  and Northern appeasement of Southerners

  on Northern honor and rights

  and Pierce

  political rise of

  political transition of

  and press

  private life of

  and poems and songs

  and Reconstruction

  and Republican Party

  and rules of order

  and secession

  and sectional differences in violence

  and sectional rights

  and slavery

  and Southerners

  and Southern pastimes

  and speakership election of 1839

  and Sumner caning

  and telegraph

  violent impulses of

  and Webster

  and Wilmot Proviso

  and Wise-Stanly fight

  as witness

  French, Daniel

  French, Daniel Chester

  French, Elizabeth “Bess” Richardson

  French, Frank:

  and “Barbarism of Slavery” speech

  birth of

  diary of

  and French’s death

  marriage of

  and political parties

  and Sumner caning

  French, Henry

  French, Mary Ellen Brady

  Fugitive Slave Act

  gag rule debate

  and Adams campaign

  Adams’s oratory in

  and bullying

  costs of

  and dueling

  and 1852 presidential campaign

  end of

  and free speech

  French’s response in

  and Giddings

  and Northern appeasement of Southerners

  origins of

  press coverage of

  public response to

  and right of petition

  and rules of order

  and sectional rights

  and slaveholder anger

  and violence

  Speaker role in

  Gales, Joseph, Jr.

  gallery-sitters

  Garfield, James

  Gayle, John

  Gettysburg

  Gholson, Samuel

  Giddings, Joshua

  and Adams

  and antislavery activity in Congress

  as “antislavery toreador”

  and bullying

  censure of

  and Compromise of 1850

  Dawson’s conflict with

  French’s admiration of

  and gag rule debate

  and Kansas-Nebraska Act

  on Know Nothings

  and Northern appeasement of Southerners

  as political combatant

  and Republican Party

  and slavery in Washington, D.C.

  and speakership election (1855)

  Gill, E. H.

  Gist, William

  Globe, see Congressional Globe

  Granger, Amos

  Graves, William J.

  background of

  character of

  and gag rule debate

  and press

  reelection of

  see also Cilley-Graves duel

  Greeley, Horace

  Green, Duff

  Green, James

  Grinnell, Josiah

  Grow, Galusha A.

  Grow-Branch fight

  see also Keitt-Grow fight

  Hale, John Parker:

  and Compromise of 1850

  and conventional image of Congress

  and Foote

  and gag rule debate

  and Northern appeasement of Southerners

  as political combatant

  and Republican Party

  and sectional rights

  and slaveholders

  and working conditions

  Hall, Willard

  Hamlin, Hannibal

  Hammond, James Henry

  Hannegan, Edward

  Harpers Ferry raid (1859)

  Harrison, William Henry

  Haskin, John

  Hawes, Richard

  Hawthorne, Nathaniel

  Hazard, E. W.

  Helper, Hinton Brown

  Herbert, Philemon

  H
ickman, John

  Hill, Benjamin

  Hill, Isaac

  Holmes, Isaac

  honor, code of:

  and Benton-Foote conflict

  and Cilley-Graves duel

  and cross-sectional party bonds

  and doughface epithet

  and Northerner cowardice charges

  and Northern ignorance of

  Northern version of

  and political parties

  and Southerner anger at antislavery advocacy

  and speakership conflict (1859)

  and verbal abuse

  see also dueling and duel challenges; sectional rights

  House of Representatives, U.S.

  clerkship election of 1849 in

  and gag rule debate

  interaction tone in

  and nature of Speaker

  physical conditions in

  rules of order in

  Speaker role in

  speakership election of 1839 in

  speakership election of 1849 in

  speakership election of 1855 in

  speakership election of 1859 in

  House of Representatives, U.S., Senate vs.:

  bullying and

  caricature of

  interaction tone in

  physical conditions of

  and rules of order

  Houston, Sam

  Howard, Volney

  humor

  Impending Crisis, The—How to Meet It (Helper)

  Intelligencer, see National Intelligencer

  Iverson, Alfred, Sr.

  Jackson, Andrew:

  and Andrew Johnson

  assassination attempts on

  and Benton

  and bullying

  and Democratic Party

  and dueling

  and French

  and Isaac Hill

  passionate nature of

  and Polk

  and Union

  Jackson, James

  Jameson, John

  Jarvis, Leonard

  Jefferson, Thomas

  Jenifer, Daniel

  Johnson, Andrew

  and Henry Wise

  Johnson, Cost

  Jones, George W.

  Julian, George

  Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854):

  and bullying

  and Campbell’s resistance campaign

  and Cutting-Breckenridge fight

  Douglas proposal for

  and French’s political transition

  and predictions of congressional violence

  and press

  and Republican Party

  and sectional distrust

  and sectional rights

  see also Bleeding Kansas

  Keitt, Laurence M.

  and armed combat in Congress

  and Edmundson-Hickman fight

  and 1859 speakership conflict

  and 1860 presidential election

  and French

  as political combatant

  and predictions of congressional violence

  and Sumner caning

  see also Keitt-Grow fight

  Keitt, Susanna

  Keitt-Grow fight (1858)

  Kelley, William

  Kelley-Field fight

  Kellogg, William

  King, John

  Knapp, Chauncey

  Knights Templar of the United States

  see also Masons

  Know Nothings

  Ku Klux Klan

  Lander, Frederick

  Lane, James

  lawyers

  Lecompton constitution

  letter-writers

  Lewis, Dixon

  Lieber, Francis

  Lincoln, Abraham:

  assassination of

  in 1860 presidential election

  and French

  nomination of

  and reconstruction plan

  Lincoln, Mary Todd

  Lincoln Memorial

  Linn, Lewis

  liquor, see alcohol

  lobbyists

  Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

  Lovejoy, Elijah

  Lovejoy, Owen

  Lowell Daily Citizen

  Lynch, Anne

  McClelland, Robert

  McConnell, Felix Grundy

  McDougall, James

  Magnetic Telegraph Company

  Mangum, Willie

  manhood

  Mann, Ambrose Dudley

  Mann, Horace

  Manual of Parliamentary Practice

  Marryat, Fredrick

  Marsh, George P.

  Marshall, Thomas

  Marshall-Webb duel

  Martineau, Harriet

  Mason, James

  Masons

  Massachusetts Spy

  Maury, Abram

  Meade, Richard Kidder

  Medill, Joseph

  Menefee, Richard H.

  Mercer, Charles Fenton

  Mexican War

  Milwaukee Sentinel and Gazette

  Missouri Compromise (1820)

  see also Kansas-Nebraska Act

  Morris, Thomas

  Morse, Samuel

  National Aegis

  National Era

  national expansion

  National Intelligencer

  national landscape:

  and alcohol

  and education

  localized nature of

  Northern slavery in

  and political parties

  and violence

  nativism

  Newark Daily Advertiser

  New England

  New Hampshire

  New Hampshire Patriot

  New Hampshire Spectator

  New Hampshire Statesman

  New London Chronicle

  New Mexico

  newspapers, see press

  New York Courier and Enquirer

  New York Day Book

  New York Express

  New York Herald

  New York Times

  New-York Tribune

  Noncombatants

  see also fighting men

  Nisbet, Eugenius

  Northern appeasement of Southerners

  and Cilley-Graves duel

  and clerkship election (1849)

  and doughface epithet

  and gag rule debate

  and honor

  and Pierce

  and presidential campaign (1852)

  technical strategies for

  Northern culture, see sectional differences

  Northerners in Congress

  increasingly violent

  see also doughfaces

  Northern gumption:

  and Compromise of 1850

  and dueling

  and free speech

  and Kansas-Nebraska Act

  and Republican Party

  Nullification Crisis (1832–33)

  oratory

  of Adams

  of Buncombe

  of Clay

  of Webster

  see also specific speeches

  “Orgies in Hell, over Secession” (French)

  Outlaw, David:

  on alcohol

  and armed warfare threats

  and Benton-Foote conflict

  and Compromise of 1850

  on congressional violence

  and conventional image of Congress

  and disunion threats

  on Foote

  and sectional differences

  Parker, Theodore

  parliamentary rules, see rules of order

  party politics, nature of

  Pennington, William

  performative representation

  see also congressional violence: and representation

  personal explanations

  petitioning

  Peyton, Balie

  Whitney fight and

  Phillips, Wendell

  photography

  phrenology

  Pickens, Francis
r />   Pierce, Franklin

  and alcohol

  on American violence

  and anti-dueling law

  and Cilley

  and Cilley-Graves duel

  and Civil War

  on dueling

  in 1852 presidential campaign

  and French

  and gag rule debate

  on gallery-sitters

  and Kansas-Nebraska Act

  and Know Nothings

  and Northern appeasement of Southerners

  reelection of

  reputation of

  and slavery

  and son’s death

  Pike, James Shepherd

  Plug Uglies

  Poindexter, George

  “political friends”

  political parties:

  and Cilley-Graves duel

  and Compromise of 1850

  and congressional violence

  and cross-sectional bonds

  decline of

  and honor code

  and Jackson

  loyalty to

  nature of

  personal impact of

  and press partisanship

  see also Democratic Party; Northern appeasement of Southerners; Republican Party; Whig Party

  Polk, James K.

  popular culture

  see also Congress, U.S.; press

  Portland Weekly Advertiser

  Potter, John “Bowie Knife”

  Potter, Robert

  Potter-Pryor fight

  Prentiss, Samuel S.

  presidential campaign (1852)

  French’s role in

  and Jackson

  and press

  presidential elections:

  of 1828

  of 1860

  press:

  and amplification of congressional violence

  and Benton-Foote conflict

  and bullying

  and Cilley-Graves duel

  congressmen’s attempts to control

  conspiracy theories

  and cycle of stridency

  and disunion

  and 1852 presidential campaign

  extent of coverage by

  French’s presence in

  and gag rule debate

  and gallery-sitters

  and Grinnell caning

  humor in

  and importance of Congress

  and Kansas-Nebraska Act

  and Keitt-Grow fight

  and letter-writers

  national reach of

  New York City newspapers

  and Northern appeasement of Southerners

  and obscuring of congressional conflict

  partnership of

  partisan nature of

  political power of

  and reporters

  rise of independent

  as source

  and Sumner caning

  violence against

  see also specific newspapers

  Preston, William Campbell

  Preuss, Henry Clay

  privilege of debate

  Pryor, Roger

  Punch

  railroads

  Randolph, John

  Raymond, Henry

  Reconstruction

  Reed, Thomas B.

  Register of Debates

  Republican Party:

  and antislavery advocacy

  and aggression

  and Bleeding Kansas

  and 1860 presidential election

  French’s role in

  ideology of

  and Northern gumption

  public response

  and Reconstruction

  rise of

  and speakership conflict of 1859

  and speakership election of 1855

  and Sumner caning

 

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