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by Harold Holzer


  Dred Scott v. Sandford, 166–68

  Dubois, Jesse K., 44

  Dubuque Herald, 325

  Durrett, Reuben T., 341, 351

  Dutton, O. H., 281–82

  Early, Jacob M., 45, 583

  Easton (Penn.) Sentinel, 343

  Eckert, Thomas, 496

  Edge, Frederick, 321

  Edinburgh Review, 452

  Edwards, Ninian Wirt, 70, 469

  elections, Illinois:

  of 1832, 11, 13, 14, 16

  of 1848, 88–90

  of 1856, 156–57

  elections, Illinois, of 1858, xxv

  contrast of candidates in, 175–76

  debates in, see Lincoln-Douglas debates

  Douglas’s campaigning in, 175

  Douglas’s securing nomination in, 171

  results of, 182–85

  elections, New York:

  of 1837, 26

  of 1846, 87

  of 1849, 137

  of 1854, 155

  elections, U.S.:

  of 1832, 16

  of 1840, 7, 42–43, 44–47, 52–53, 123

  of 1843, 47

  of 1844, 57, 58, 65, 98

  of 1846, 67–68, 587

  of 1852, 142, 144–45, 151

  of 1856, 162, 163, 215, 332

  of 1862, 410–12

  of 1872, 557–58, 560, 563

  of 1876, 562

  elections, U.S., of 1848, 67, 94, 98

  Lincoln’s campaigning in, 101–3

  slavery in, 99

  elections, U.S, of 1860, xxv, 196

  Bennett’s support for Breckinridge in, 247–48

  cartoons in, 239, 252–53, 253, 254, 255

  Chicago Tribune in, 204

  divisiveness of, xiii

  German Americans in, 187

  Greeley’s stumping in, 251–53, 253

  Staats-Anzeiger’s support for Lincoln in, 191–92

  see also Democratic Convention, 1860; Lincoln, Abraham, in election of 1860; Republican National Convention of 1860

  elections, U.S, of 1864, 411, 456, 496, 498–503, 527–31, 537–40

  Bennett and, 531–37

  Greeley’s desire for replacement for Lincoln in, 497–98, 500

  relaxation of censorship in, 507–9

  Sherman’s capture of Atlanta and, 527–28

  Elliott, Charles Loring, 45

  Ellsworth, Elmer Ephraim, 337

  Emancipation Proclamation, 419, 456, 526, 541, 548

  African-American response to, 408–9

  final, 412, 414–15, 416, 417–18

  legal problem with, 395

  Lincoln’s early plan for, 394–96, 396, 402–3

  Marble’s opposition to, 489

  plans for public announcement of, 396–97

  Preliminary, announcement of, 408, 410, 417

  Emancipator, 139

  Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 60, 404, 631

  Emory, Marcellus, 353

  English, James E., 543

  “Enquirer” (writer to Lincoln), 394

  Equal Rights Party, 563

  Erie Canal, xxi

  Erie Gazette, 8, 498

  Essex County Democrat, 353–54

  Ethiopian Singers, 84

  Evans, T. C., 282

  Evarts, William M., 277, 278

  Everett, Edward, 343, 449, 450, 452, 455

  Ewing, Thomas, Jr., 359

  Fairfield Constitution and Union, 509

  Famous Boys, and How They Became Great Men, 200–201

  Faneuil Hall, 108

  Farragut, David G., 524, 530

  Farrell, Charles H., 300

  Federalist Party, U.S.:

  Democratic-Republicans’ opposition to, xvii

  end of, xxxi

  Fell, Jesse W., 223

  Fessenden, William Pitt, 523, 527

  Fillmore, Millard, 98, 101

  financial downturn of 1830s, 16

  financial panic of 1837, 21

  financial panic of 1857, 166

  fire-eaters, 259, 277

  First Amendment, 336

  First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation, The (Carpenter painting), 396, 466, 518

  Fish, Hamilton, 132

  Fishback, Charles, 341

  Fishback, William, 538

  Fisher, Sidney George, 420, 553

  Fitzhugh, Harrison, 275

  Five Points, 59–60

  Flanders, Francis D., 351, 628

  Florida, 390

  secession of, 262–63

  Unionist press in, 458

  Fogg, George G., 250, 273

  Follett, Foster & Co., 183

  foreign press, xxvii

  Forney, John Wein, xxiii, 53, 78, 257, 308–11, 311, 316, 358, 369, 413, 415, 432, 455, 466, 472–73, 520, 538, 544, 637, 650

  Blair’s termination desired by, 450–51

  Boileau’s seizure scorned by, 420

  censorship of, 374

  death of, 564

  drunk Gettysburg speech of, 451

  emancipation urged by, 397

  habeas corpus suspension defended by, 312

  legal trouble of, 374, 386–87

  Lincoln’s first meeting with, 308–10

  money authorized for war news by, 327–28

  patronage requests of, 349, 620

  Russell’s dinner with, 379

  Fort Delaware, 461

  Fort Lafayette, 338, 341, 494, 508

  inspection tour of, 350–51

  Fort Lafayette; or, Love and Secession (Wood), 350

  Fort McHenry, 338, 365, 420, 421

  Fort Monroe, 385, 386, 543

  Fort Sumter, 303, 618, 619

  Confederate attack on, 291, 298–300, 302, 304, 307

  Lincoln’s planned reinforcement of, 272, 291

  Forty-Eighters, 186

  Fourierism, 55, 58, 61, 128, 129

  Fourteen Months in American Bastilles (Howard), 338

  Fox, Gustavus V., 367

  Fox News, xxi

  Foy, Peter, 273

  Francis, Allen, 119

  Francis, Josiah, 11–12, 39

  Francis, Simeon, 11–12, 14, 15, 39, 139, 140, 162, 195

  death of, 559

  in departure from Springfield, 195–96

  in dispute with Harris, 89–90

  Douglas’s fight with, 45–46, 195

  election of 1840 and, 42, 43, 44, 45–46

  election of 1843 and, 47

  Lincoln’s patronage sought by, 118–19, 120, 256

  made army paymaster, 195, 196, 559

  money issues of, 46, 195

  paper sold by, 162, 195

  and plan to get Lincoln into Congress, 68–69

  Frankfort Commonwealth, 475–77

  Frank Leslie’s Budget of Fun, 290

  Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, 198, 201, 282, 354, 364, 460, 647

  Franklin, Benjamin, xvii

  Franklin Gazette, 351

  Frederick Douglass’ Paper, 110, 110

  Freedman’s Savings Bank, 563

  freedom of the press, 12

  Freeman’s Journal, 345, 346

  Free Soil Party, 87, 103, 154, 158, 160

  Frémont, John C., 378, 497, 498, 529

  campaign biography of, 242

  in election of 1856, 162, 163, 164, 215, 332

  slavery banned in Missouri by, 332–33

  French, Thomas, 106

  French Revolution, 222, 348

  Fry, William Henry, 61, 62

  Fugitive Slave Act, 141

  Fuller, Margaret, 59, 60, 61

  Fulton, Charles C., 365

  Gales, Joseph, Jr., 76–77, 77, 95, 106, 117, 401

  on Lincoln’s anti-emancipation bill, 108

  Galesburg, Ill., 179

  Gall, Ludwig, xxi

  Gardner, Alexander, 449

  Garnet, Henry Highland, 416–17, 418, 442

  Garrison, William Lloyd, 109, 478, 505, 631

  attempted lynching of, 108

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p; Liberator founded by, 108

  Gay, Sydney Howard, 327, 394, 403, 437, 439, 443, 491

  gender equality, 59

  General Assembly, Illinois, 193–94, 426

  General Land Office, 118–19

  General Orders No. 10, 365

  General Orders No. 67, 348, 374

  Genesis, Book of, 10

  Georgia, 390

  secession of, 262–63

  German Americans, 186, 187

  Lincoln’s offer of patronage jobs to, 192–93

  Gettysburg, Battle of, 433–34, 448–49, 464

  Gettysburg Address, 448–55, 453, 471, 521, 549, 559, 645

  Gilbert, Joseph Ignatius, 453, 453, 646

  Gilmore, James R., 377–78, 392, 402–3, 405, 444, 448, 497, 508–9, 510

  Glen, W. W., 338

  Gobright, Lawrence, 329, 362, 368, 412–13, 471, 472–73, 472, 475, 551–52, 564

  Godwin, Parke, 528

  Goodell, William, 391

  Gosport Navy Yard, 304

  Gould, Charles, 345–46, 347

  Government Printing Office, U.S., 307

  Graham, Sylvester, 59

  Grant, Ulysses S., 360, 434, 435, 437, 459, 474, 484, 490, 496, 497, 524, 530, 560

  in election of 1872, 557, 563

  Lee’s surrender to, 550

  Missouri newspapers suppressed by, 340, 340

  Vicksburg captured by, 438, 460–61

  Gray, John Chipman, 464

  Great Britain, in Trent affair, 362–63

  Great Exhibition, The, 253, 254, 255

  Great Metropolis, The (Browne), 92

  Greeley, Horace, xxvi, 9, 16, 32, 62, 151, 160, 302

  accused of trying to run war, 314, 315

  advice to Lincoln on cabinet and patronage, 276–77, 279–80, 329–30

  alleged involvement with Brown raid, 213

  ambition of, 60–61

  apparent end of Lincoln’s career lamented by, 115

  appearance of, 3, 9–10, 57, 62, 63, 91

  “Association” reform promoted by, 55–56, 58

  autobiography of, 104–5

  background of, 3–5, 7–8

  Bates supported by, 235, 237, 268, 378

  Bennett’s circulation bet with, 85–86, 90

  Bennett’s desire to partner with, 24, 51

  Bennett’s feud with, 56–59, 64, 170, 184–85, 201, 206, 212, 234–35, 261, 350, 410

  Bennett’s suggestion of cabinet position for, 257

  in bid for Post Office contract, 64–65, 64

  book purchase bill of, 112

  bran-heavy diet of, 58

  Buchanan opposed by, 174

  Bull Run loss deplored by, 329

  cabinet position sought by, 276–77

  in campaign of 1864, 528–30

  cartoons of, 63, 64–65, 64, 252–53, 253, 254, 255, 290, 315, 380

  Clay admired by, 65, 98–99

  confronted by Southerner, 289, 289

  congressional lethargy denounced by, 104

  congressional seat given to, 103–4

  Cooper’s libel suits against, 63

  at Cooper Union speech, 218

  Davis’s bail bond signed by, 557

  death of, 558

  denounced in Southern papers, 212

  Douglas mocked by, 240

  on Douglas’s intelligence, 165

  Douglass’s criticism of, 224–25

  Douglass’s praise for, 40

  Douglas supported by, 169, 171–72, 174, 178, 185, 210

  Dred Scott decision denounced by, 166

  early newspaper reading of, 7–8

  early resolve of, 7, 8

  education of, 4, 5, 7–8

  at 1848 Whig Convention, 98–99

  at 1860 Republican Convention, 227–29

  elected chairman of editors group on censorship, 427

  on election of 1862, 411–12

  and election of 1864, 537

  elective office sought by, xxiii

  on Emancipation painting, 396

  Emerson’s dinner with, 60

  end of congressional career of, 115–16

  at Erie Gazette, 8–9

  faddish causes and radicalism of, 55–56, 59–60, 63, 91, 123, 124, 128, 129–30, 134, 136, 148, 205, 486, 487, 557

  failed printing business of, 50

  family home left by, 3–4, 7, 21

  first newspaper job of, 8

  Forney criticized by, 310

  Frémont supported by, 163, 164

  government suppression of newspapers supported by, 350

  governorship desired by, 155

  Hay employed by, 557

  Herald attacked by, 54–55

  Herndon’s meeting with, 171

  homestead bill of, 112

  “House of Industry” promoted by, 59–60

  idealistic bills introduced in Congress by, 104

  Kansas-Nebraska bill opposed by, 150

  knee injury of, 314

  Lamon attacked by, 388–90, 389

  Lincoln reminiscences of, 104–5

  Lincoln’s antislavery bill denounced by, 107

  Lincoln’s appeal on abolition plan to, 383–84

  on Lincoln’s Border Sate compensation plan, 413

  Lincoln’s breach with, 518

  Lincoln’s call for volunteers criticized by, 300

  Lincoln’s campaign supported by, 233, 237–38, 246, 247, 251–53, 253, 255, 256, 262

  Lincoln’s Cooper Union speech and, 215, 219

  Lincoln’s file on, 481

  Lincoln’s first meeting with, 4, 96

  Lincoln’s letter on emancipation to, 400–402, 403–4, 405–6, 407, 428, 448

  Lincoln’s oratory praised by, 474

  Lincoln’s revocation of Frémont’s abolition order denounced by, 333

  Lincoln’s “score to settle with,” 196

  Lincoln’s second inaugural disparaged by, 546–47

  and Lincoln’s Senate bid, 615

  on Lincoln’s timidity, 335

  on Lincoln’s train to D.C., 284

  Lincoln visited at Willard’s by, 289–90

  Marble’s criticism of, 505–6, 506

  marriage of, 5

  Massachusetts anti-immigration bill denounced by, 187

  Mexican War opposed by, 80, 85

  on national lecture tour, 155

  newspaper pay bill opposed by, 112–13

  New-York Daily Times sabotage work of, 136

  Nicolay recommended for job with, 244

  “Old Philosopher” nickname of, xxviii

  on patronage positions given to Tribune reporters, 274

  peace negotiations of, 510–19, 512, 529–30, 532, 540, 544

  political relationship with Weed and Seward terminated by, 153–56

  Political Text-Book published by, 243

  poor handwriting of, 147–48, 578

  poor oratory of, 104, 130

  profits eluded by, 52, 54, 60

  public appearances of, 62

  Raymond praised by, 122

  Raymond’s criticism of, 123, 235–37, 239

  Raymond’s first meeting with, 124

  replacement for Lincoln desired by, 497–98, 500

  in run for presidency, 557–58, 560

  Russell criticized by, 317, 320, 321

  Russell’s dinner with, 379

  rustic clothes of, 9–10, 205, 450

  Rust’s beating of, 165

  Scott supported by, 144, 145

  secession as viewed by, 261, 266, 330–31, 377

  as self-righteous reformer, xxvii

  Senate bid of, 257, 277–78

  Seward and Weed’s halt to exclusive news for, 137

  Seward’s nomination opposed by, 224, 225, 229, 234–35, 236, 237, 277

  similarities with Bennett, 63–64

  slavery opposed by, 60, 144, 150, 156, 166, 205, 225, 228–29, 376–77, 378–79, 380, 381, 382, 392, 399–406, 399, 415, 417, 428, 485, 511, 517, 518–19

 
; soldier recruitment bill of, 112

  in split with Raymond, 122, 126–30, 596

  Springfield visit of, 276–77, 279, 288

  statues of, 558

  Thirteenth Amendment and, 543

  and threat to Tribune building, 443, 444

  travel expense bill of, 113–15

  Tribune launched by, 53–54, 155

  unpredictability of, 484–85

  U.S. name change bill of, 112

  Washington antislavery talk of, 376–77, 378–79, 380, 381, 382

  wealth of, 201

  Webb’s disputes with, 63, 90–91, 127–28, 213

  Weed’s recruiting of, 51–52

  Whig campaign speech of, 58

  Whig politics of, 51

  Wilmer’s dislike of, 200

  work ethic of, 10, 61

  see also New York Tribune

  Greeley, Mary Cheney:

  death of, 558

  marriage of, 5

  Green, Duff, xviii, xix, 23, 24, 38, 70, 106

  Confederacy supported by, 270, 271

  Herald statement of, 270–71

  Lincoln recommended conciliation of South by, 269–70

  Wilmer’s dislike of, 200

  Green Bay Advocate, 518

  Green Port Watchman, 351

  Grey, Ethel, 140

  Grinnell, Josiah, 155

  Griswold, A. W., 282

  Guadalupe Hidalgo, Treaty of, 84

  Gurowski, Adam, 319, 404

  Guthrie, James, 342

  habeas corpus suspension, 504

  Marble’s opposition to, 489

  on route from New York to Washington, 312–14

  widening of, 409–10

  Hackett, James, 482–83

  Hale, David, 16

  Hale, John P., 111

  Hall, Oakey, 494

  Hall, Thomas W., 365

  Halleck, Henry W., 360, 634

  Hallock, Gerard, 16, 345

  Halpine, Charles G., 465

  Halstead, Murat, 225, 227–28, 230, 272, 360

  Hamilton, Alexander, 20, 561

  Hamlet (Shakespeare), 420

  Hamlin, Hannibal, 409

  as newspaper compositor, xxiii

  Hammand, Jabez Delno, xx

  Hampton Roads conference, 544–45

  Hand-Writing on the Wall, The, 427

  Hannibal Evening News, 339

  Hanscom, Simon P., 251, 366

  Harbor News Association, 146

  Hardin, John J., 88, 119

  Harding, Jesper, 349

  Harding, William W., 432

  Harlan, James, 533

  Harper & Brothers, 241

  Harpers Ferry, Va.:

  Brown’s raid at, 206–7, 207, 208–9, 210–14, 219

  surrender of, to Confederacy, 304

  Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, 215–16, 218, 314

  Harper’s Weekly, 150, 198, 242, 287, 321, 446–47, 447, 460, 539, 539

  Harris, Ira, 278

  Harris, Thomas, 89

  Harrisburg, Pa., 286

  Harrison, William Henry, 27, 43, 44

  Greeley’s support for, 52–53

  Hartford Times, 274, 353, 619

  Harvey, James E., 274

 

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