Russell’s appeal to, 381
Russell’s description of, 317–18
Second Annual Message of, 412–14, 420, 563
second inaugural of, 545–47
selling memorabilia of, 221
75,000 volunteers summoned by, 299, 300, 312
slavery banned in D.C. by, 419
Southern ports blockaded by, 299, 312
Springfield mass meeting remarks of, 472–74
Stanton defended by, 391
third Annual Message of, 455–56
Thirteenth Amendment pushed by, 541–42
in Trent affair, 363–64
Vallandigham exiled by, 424
war telegraphs awaited by, 365, 396
Welton’s imprisonment and, 484
Lincoln, Abraham, wartime press restrictions and:
arrest of Maryland reporters authorized by, 338–39
as beginning after Bull Run, 335–36
call for Chicago Times censorship of, 426, 430
Canning letter and, 428–30
Durrett’s release authorized by, 342
easing during 1864 campaign of, 507–8
after false call for volunteers, 489–97
habeas corpus suspension and, 312–14, 409–10, 504
Jackson as precedent for, xviii, 429
Knox pardoned by, 437–38
lack of records on, 336–37
Stanton’s strict censorship authorized by, 373, 375
Lincoln, Edward, 69, 88, 105, 139, 332
Lincoln, Mary Todd, 84, 88, 139–40, 162, 222, 479, 533, 537, 551, 555
and Annual Message affair, 369, 370, 370, 371, 372
Lincoln’s courting and marriage of, 5, 48–50, 71, 584
“Little Eddie” (poem) and, 597–98
in move to D.C., 69, 70
Russell’s description of, 318
on train to D.C., 284
White House decorations and, 275
Lincoln, Robert T., 69, 105, 222, 262, 273, 441, 442
Lincoln, Thomas (Tad), 140, 196, 548
Lincoln, William (Willie), 139, 196, 332, 370
“Lincoln and Liberty,” 240
Lincoln-Douglas debates, xxix, 176–84, 180, 184, 219, 481
in papers, 178–83, 560
published form of, 184, 216
stenographers at, 179–82
Linebaugh, John, 436
literacy, xvii, xix
“Little Eddie” (Grey), 140, 597–98
Liverpool Mercury, 12
Locke, David R., 547
Loco-Focos, 39, 95
Logan, Stephen Trigg, 88–89
Log Cabin, 52–53
London Morning Star, 321
London Plan, 19, 28
London Spectator, 201, 320, 452
London Times, 316–17, 319, 320, 321, 409, 454
Los Angeles Star, 419
Louialler (journalist), 641
Louisiana:
secession of, 262–63
Unionist press in, 458
Louisville Courier, 341
Louisville Journal, 1, 5, 474
Louisville True Presbyterian, 540
Lovejoy, Elijah, 34–37, 35, 111, 174
Lovejoy, Owen, 174
Lovie, Henri, 282
lynching, 35
Macbeth (Shakespeare), 82, 520
McCalmont, Alfred, 461–62, 465
McClanahan, John R., 435
McClellan, George B., 406, 408, 488, 506, 521, 535, 637
in election of 1864, 502, 503, 527, 529, 530–31, 535–36, 537
emancipation opposed by, 397
firing of, 412
on Peninsular Campaign, 385–88, 390
press control desired by, 361–62, 364, 373, 374
typhus of, 378
McClernand, John A., 82, 177
McCloskey, Henry, 352
McClure, A. K., 205–6, 483, 536
McCormick, Cyrus, 241, 422
McCormick, Joseph “Medill,” 561
McCormick, Richard C., 316
McCormick, Robert R., 561
McDowell, Irvin, 314, 316, 319, 323, 328
McElrath, Thomas, 54, 274
McKee, William, 439–40, 538
McKellar, William, 367
McKim, Mead and White, 560
McLean, John, 98
McMaster, James A., 351
McMichael, Morton, 99
Madison, James, 291
“Major Jack Downing,” 40
Mallison, Francis, 494–95, 496
Manassas, First Battle of, see Bull Run, First Battle of
Manassas, Second Battle of, see Bull Run, Second Battle of
Manifest Destiny, 72
Marble, Manton, 439, 441, 456, 488–89, 489, 496, 506–7, 508, 531, 544, 558, 562, 565
and false call for volunteers, 490–91, 492
Greeley insulted by, 505–6, 506
Lincoln’s press suppression denounced by, 493–94, 495
Miscegenation advertised by, 504–5
Marchant, Edward Dalton, 415
marketing, xxiii
Markland, Absalom H., 530
“Marmion” (Scott), 178
marriage, 59
Marryatt, Frederick, 32
Marx, Karl, 412
Maryland, 312, 333, 347, 509, 541
Confederate invasion of, 406, 407–8
reporters arrested in, 338–39, 356
Mason, James, 363, 367
Mason, James M., 212
Mason-Dixon line, 207
Massachusetts, anti-immigration bill in, 187
Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, 109
Matheny, James, 15
Matson Slave Case, 593
Maverick, Augustus, 199
Mazzini, Giuseppe, 561
Meade, George Gordon, 433, 434–35, 484, 642
Medary, Samuel, 424
Medill, Joseph, 162, 173, 203–4, 544, 600, 609, 644
Chicago Tribune taken over by, 159
death of, 560
Douglas denounced by, 204
Douglas supported by, 170
on emancipation, 516
on hostility to draft, 441
Lincoln-Bennett neutrality deal attempted by, 246–47
Lincoln’s administration choices as viewed by, 275
Lincoln’s first meeting with, 161–62
Lincoln’s meeting on conscription with, 467–68, 649
Lincoln’s Ohio speaking tour encouraged by, 204
on Lincoln’s revocation of Frémont’s abolition order, 333
Lincoln supported by, 204, 222, 226, 230, 275
newspaper business learned by, 159–60
stenographer hired by, 180
see also Chicago Tribune
Memphis Daily Appeal, 435–36
Merchant’s Hall, 109
Mexican War, 65–66, 67, 68, 72, 93, 96–97, 99, 117, 119, 120, 144, 315
correspondents in, 72–74
Douglas’s support for, 76, 82–83, 84, 120–21
end of, 74–75
Lincoln’s “Spot” resolutions on, 80–85, 97, 177
newspapers and, 72–75, 76–80
pact ending, 76
start of, 72
troop supplies in, 74, 83
Meyers, David, 463
Michigan Republican, 273
Miller, Stephen, 265
Milwaukee Sentinel, 273
Miscegenation: The Theory of the Blending of the Races (Croly and Wakeman), 504–5
Mississippi, secession of, 262–63, 268
Missouri, 347, 509, 541, 636
on brink of secession, 339
Frémont’s banning of slavery in, 332–33
newspaper suppressed in, 339–41, 340
under martial law, 339
Missouri Compromise, 94, 157
repeal of, 151, 224
Missouri Democrat, 15, 169, 180, 226, 227, 244, 245, 273, 282, 283, 333, 439–40, 488, 538
Missouri Republican, 260, 267, 509, 636
Mobile Bay, Battle of, 524
Mobile Register, 210, 333
Monitor, USS, 387–88, 430, 462
Monroe, James, 592
Montgomery (pseud.), 73, 588
Montgomery, Ala., Confederacy created in, 275–76
Morehead, Charles S., 341
Morgan, Edwin D., 484, 499
Morris, Mowbray, 317
Morse, Nathan, 352–53
Morse, Samuel F. B., 74
MSNBC, xxi
Mudd, Samuel, 564
Municipal Art Society, 560
Murdoch, Rupert, 561, 582
“My Childhood Home I See Again” (poem) (Lincoln), 244
Napier printing press, xxi
Nashville Democrat, 259
Nashville Gazette, 542
“Nation, The” (Greeley), 376–77, 378–79, 380, 381, 382
National Era, 107, 111, 139, 149, 308
nationalism, in newspapers, xxiv
National Republican Party, U.S., xxxi, 16
launch of, 308
National Union Party, 498, 511, 522–23
Executive Committee of, 525
National-Zeitung, 352
Navy Department, U.S., 523–24
Neely, Mark E., xx, 46
Nevada, 72
Newark Evening Journal, 352
New Brunswick Times, 352
New England, 215
New Jersey, 352, 411
New Mexico, 72
New Orleans, Battle of, xviii, 429
New Orleans, La., press freedom in, xviii, 419, 429
New Orleans Picayune, 73
New Orleans True Delta, 419
New Salem, Ill., 7, 10–11, 14
Newsboy, 146
newsboys, 92
Newsday, 561
Newspaper Row, 199–200, 443, 559
newspapers and reporters, xiv–xvi, xxiv, 258–62
abolitionism denounced in, 208
Adams’s sedition law against, xvii
arrests of, 351
pro-peace, banning of, 336–37
Brown’s raid in, 210–11
in campaign of 1860, 240–43
destruction of offices of, 352–54
in German, xv, xxii–xxiii, 187–94, 190
government vs., xvi
Jefferson’s insult of, xvii
lack of access to official information complained by, 297
letters hidden in, 17
Lincoln’s Cooper Union speech in, 219–23
Lincoln’s first inaugural in, 291
on Lincoln’s train to D.C., 281–87
as local, xx
McClellan’s desired control of, 361–62, 364, 373, 374
Mexican War and, 72–75, 76–80
number of, in Civil War, 324, 329
as official organs, 307–8
opposed to Adams, xvii
opposed to Washington, xvii
as party “organ,” xiv, xvii–xxii, 23, 24, 34, 38–39, 43
patronage jobs given to reporters, 273–75
political debates exacerbated by, xxiv, 74–75
politicians connected to, xxiii
secession urged by, 258, 259
section differences in, 197
suppression of press applauded by, 354–56
unaligned, xxi
see also Civil War, U.S., newspapers in; New York newspapers; specific newspapers
New York, 411
in election of 1860, 215, 256
in election of 1864, 537–38
New York, N.Y., xxvi
black people in, 197–98
draft riots in, 441–48, 491, 532
in election of 1864, 537–38
Lincoln’s train arrival in, 284–85
newspapers in, see New York newspapers
plague in, 16
population growth in, 135
in secession threat, xxiv, 303
signs in, 91–92
Southern trade with, 198
urban sprawl in, 198
Wood’s advocation of secession of, 303
New York American, 22
New York Anglo African, 333
New York Aurora, 31
New York Caucasian, 352, 422, 426, 430
New-York Columbian, xxi
New York Commercial Advertiser, 20, 22
New York Courier, 16, 19, 22, 23
New York Courier and Enquirer, 16, 19, 23–24, 29, 30, 31, 74, 127, 131, 138, 303, 488
in AP, 146
end of, 311
Herald blamed for sectional agitation by, 213
slavery editorial in, 131
as Whig paper, 130
New York Daily Argus, 426
New York Daily News, xxii, xxiv, 221, 285, 302, 345, 346, 348, 350, 351, 355, 420, 441–42, 489, 505, 561, 627
Lincoln’s peace terms denounced by, 514
shipped to Confederacy, 347
New-York Daily Times, see New York Times
New York Day-Book, 302, 345, 346, 348, 351–52, 409
New-Yorker, 50–51, 55, 123
circulation of, 51
Raymond’s work at, 124–25, 127
New York Evening Post, 20, 175–76, 218, 242, 251, 273, 408, 419, 466, 508, 515–16, 528, 537, 560, 561
arming of building of, 443
editors’ declaration and, 427–28
on Emancipation Proclamation, 406
Lincoln’s abolition plan praised in, 382
Lincoln’s Cooper Union speech and, 215, 221
Polk’s eulogy in, 117
New York Evening Star, 30
New York Examiner, 336
New York Express, 146, 302, 419, 491
New York Gazette and General Advertiser, 16
New York Harbor News Association, 74
New York Herald, xxvii, 29, 54, 436, 437, 466, 481–82, 528
Acton’s criticism of, 148–49
advertising in, 25, 27, 60, 86, 206
in agreement with Dred Scott, 168
as allegedly independent, xxvi
in anti-Democratic caricature, 26
anti-English sentiment in, 363–64
in AP, 146
arrest of correspondent of, 418
battlefield reports of, 326–27
Brown’s plot and execution reported in, 207, 212–13
Bull Run Battle in, 316
bundling of, 31
Butler’s contraband order and, 332
campaign of 1860 in, 248–51, 256
circulation and popularity of, 29, 30, 32, 56, 63, 85–86, 90, 135, 259, 271, 300, 334
Clay opposed by, 74
Columbia, S.C., harassment of reporter from, 260
credit for Taylor’s presidency taken by, 99
decline of, 556
as Democratic paper, 26, 53, 56, 65, 94, 500
Dicey on, 334
double-sheet Tuesday editions of, 148
Douglas praised in, 94, 184–85
Douglass denounced in, 214
draft riots and, 442, 443, 446
draft supported by, 441
dwindling of Southern readership in Civil War, 337
editors’ declaration ignored in, 427
in 1856 election, 164–65
European circulation of, 303–4
fall of Richmond in, 547
false call for volunteers placed in, 490, 491
field journalists of, 463
fire at, 28–29, 61
first-issue declaration of, 25–26
flag flown at, 301, 302
foreign news in, 29
Gettysburg Address absent from, 454–55
Greeley insulted in, 91, 98
Greeley’s antislavery lecture rebuked in, 379
Greeley’s attack on, 54–55
on Greeley’s Senate bid, 279
Green’s statement on Lincoln in, 270–71
headquarters of, 199–200
influence of, xxviii, 531–32
interviews in, 29, 212
launc
h of, 21, 24–25, 565
Lincoln criticized in, 233–34, 249–51, 283
Lincoln’s abolition plan praised in, 382–83
on Lincoln’s assassination, 553
Lincoln’s Cooper Union speech reported in, 221
Lincoln-Scott meeting in, 393
Lincoln’s first Annual Message in, 369–72
Lincoln’s first inaugural in, 291–92
Lincoln’s “lynching” remark published in, 249–51
Lincoln’s preliminary remarks on Gettysburg in, 449
Lincoln’s reaction to Lee’s surrender in, 550
Lincoln’s Richmond visit in, 549
Lincoln’s trip through Baltimore reported in, 286, 287
major fire in, 136
Mexican War supported by, 85, 120
“Money Market” column of, 24–25
money spent on telegraphy by, 326
moral war against, 30–31
overhaul of War Department demanded by, 390–91
Polk endorsed by, 57, 65
price of, 28
profit of, 60, 532
read by soldiers, 464
Russell criticized in, 320–21
on secession crisis, 261
secessionist expressions in New York papers deplored by, 345
size of, 25
steam-driven press at, 29, 31
telegraph installed at, 74
Tribune accused of military leaks by, 387
Tribune ads in, 206
Tribune’s suppression advocated by, 350
U.S. defended by, 56–57
Vallandigham’s nomination for governor announced in, 424
Zacharie armistice mission story in, 482
see also Bennett, James Gordon
New York Herald Tribune, 565
New York Illustrated News, 198, 258, 285, 289, 290, 316
New York Independent, 215, 217, 218, 242, 426–27, 466, 471, 478, 499, 556, 563
New York Irish American, 427
New York Jewish Messenger, 427
New York Journal American, 565
New York Journal and Advertiser, 16, 17
New York Journal of Commerce, 10, 16, 29, 146, 302, 345, 348, 355, 402, 426, 562
false call for volunteers in, 490, 491–92, 493, 494
New York Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin, 562
New York Mechanics’ Advertiser, 16
New York Mercantile Advertiser, 16, 22
New York Morning Enquirer, 22–23
New York Morning Post, 10, 50, 55
New York Morning Star, 19
New York National Advocate, xxi, 22
New York newspapers, xvii, xxii
anti-administration prejudices of, 507
anti-Lincoln administration, 345–48, 351–52
business model of, 18–19
D.C. delivery of, 487–88
fights among journalists of, 20
growing number of, 198
headquarters of, 198–99
limited circulation of, 16
Lincoln administration’s lack of faith in, 486
penny papers, 19–21, 34
profitability of, 16–17
reach of, xxvii–xxviii, 16
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