Fire-Eater strategy for secession and, 552
Fitzhugh on Lincoln and, 381
The Impending Crisis of the South and, 504
Lincoln and, 381, 383, 384, 390, 391, 394, 396, 460, 532, 533, 560
secession threats and, 238
slave revolts blamed on, 533–34
threats against in Congress, 337
Blaine, James G., 585
Blair, Elizabeth, 242
Blair, Francis P., Jr., xvi, 96, 226, 241, 242, 277, 335, 528, 579, 590
Blair, Francis Preston, xxi, 93, 93, 95–98, 100, 107, 173, 206, 229, 241–42, 277, 501, 523
Christmas summit, Republican Party founded, xi, 98–99
Frémont’s candidacy and, 231, 243, 244, 249
The Impending Crisis of the South and, 500
Republican national convention, 1856, 229–30
A Voice from the Grave of Jackson! and, 100
Blair, Montgomery, xxii, 95, 96, 242, 277, 278, 487
Blood, James, 157
Bloomington, Ill., 197, 249, 254, 370, 423
bolters’ convention in, 253–54
Lincoln’s “Lost Speech,” 50, 201–3, 356, 358
Republican convention, 50, 186–87, 191–92, 196–204
Republican meeting, 433
Bloomington Pantagraph, xvii, 202, 253, 254
Blow, Peter, 274
Blow, Taylor, xxii, 286
Bocock, Thomas, 154
Boerley, Thomas, xx, 480
Bonham, James Butler, 126
Bonham, Jeriah, 422
Bonham, Milledge Luke, 128, 505
Booth, John Wilkes, 490, 613
Boston, Mass., 54–55, 61, 62, 63, 67, 118
Anti-Slavery Society, 73
John Brown’s benefactors, 175–78, 466, 468–77, 479, 484, 493–95
Boston, Mass. (cont.)
fugitive slave guard’s death in, 87–88
fugitive slaves and, 59, 73, 75, 76, 87, 469
Jefferson birthday celebration, 431–32
Parker House Hotel, 175, 476, 507
school segregation and, 73, 107
Sumner and, 57, 59, 64, 66–68, 174–75
Boston Athenaeum, 68
Boston Atlas, 69, 71
Boston Courier, 151
Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, 62
Boston Post, 67
Boston Prison Discipline Society, 66–67
Boston Traveller, 178
Boston Vigilance Committee, 59, 73, 76, 87, 90, 147, 469
Boteler, Alexander R., 484
Botts, John Minor, xix, 90, 245–46, 618
Botts, Mary Mildred, xix, 90–91, 91, 92
Bowen, Henry C., 528
Boyle, Cornelius, 137–38
Bradford, William, 60
Brady, Mathew, xiv, 515, 529–30, 575, 615
Brainard, Daniel, 415
Breckinridge, John C., 214, 281, 292, 540–41, 560, 604–6, 606, 628
as presidential candidate, xiv, 604–9, 613, 616
Breckinridge, Joseph, 605
Breckinridge, Robert J., 605
Briggs, James A., 463
Bright, Jesse, xv, 144, 207, 213, 290, 293, 343, 444, 447, 546
Brinkerhoff, Jacob, 95
British Anti-Slavery Society, 62
Broderick, David C., xiv, xv, 344, 446, 454–56, 560
Bromley, Isaac Hill, 581
Brooklyn Eagle, xix, 246
Brooks, Erastus, 239
Brooks, Noah, 258–59, 530–31, 537
Brooks, Preston S., xvi, 125, 125–31, 133, 139–40, 149, 151–55, 543
slavery, sex, and, 140, 141
slaves sold, 155
Sumner attacked by, xii, 125, 132–41, 143, 145, 148–53, 174, 337, 470, 505
Brooks, Whitfield, Jr., 128
Brooks, Whitfield, Sr., 126, 127, 128, 139, 141
Brown, Aaron V., 209, 452
Brown, Albert Gallatin, 448, 553
Brown, Captain John, 161
Brown, Frederick, 169, 171
Brown, George T., 202
Brown, George W., xviii, 167
Brown, Jason, 168–69, 170, 171
Brown, John, xx, 157, 157–71, 175–78, 465, 465–90, 525, 575, 620
appearance, 160, 471, 473, 476
Battle of Black Jack, 170
Beecher and, 528
Bible and, 160, 161, 166, 169, 475
Boston benefactors, 175–78, 466, 468–77, 479, 484, 493–95
capture of, 482–83
Chatham, Canada, convention, 470–71
Concord speech, 476
“A Declaration of Liberty” by, 477
Douglass and, 159, 163–64, 167, 468, 478, 493
execution of, xiv, 488–90, 489
followers, 159, 468, 471–73, 477–82
Forbes and, 465–66, 467, 468, 471, 472
funding for, 466, 478–79
Harpers Ferry and, xiv, 159, 166, 464, 466, 473, 474, 477–84
incriminating documents left by, 491, 494
in Kansas, xi, 157–58, 166, 167–71, 473, 474
last note by, 490, 490
League of Gileadites, 166, 168
Lincoln on, 516
martyrdom of, 483, 488, 495, 498
Missouri raids by, 474, 476
names for and aliases, 171, 473, 477
at North Elba colony, 165, 177
oath to end slavery, 161–62
photographs of, 163
Pottawatomie massacre, xii, 168–69, 176, 308, 466, 476
as prisoner, questioning and trial, 484–88
Provisional Constitution of, 468, 470, 471, 479
Republican Party and, 498, 508, 533
reward for capture of, 474
Gerrit Smith and, 165, 166, 167, 171, 177, 466, 468, 471, 475–76
Spartacus and vision of slave revolt, 475
in Springfield, Mass., 162–66
statement, 1859, xxiv
Stearns’s fund for his widow and family, 495
Subterranean Pass Way of, 163, 164, 166, 466
Sumner and, 166, 178
sword stolen from Washington, 480, 482, 483
in Tabor, Iowa, 466
violence advocated by, 159, 164, 167, 169
Brown, John, Jr., 166, 168, 170
Brown, Oliver, xx, 482
Brown, Owen, xx, 161, 466, 478
Brown, Salmon, 158, 162
Brown, Watson, xx, 481, 482
Browning, Orville Hickman, xvii, 191–92, 200, 228–29, 249, 305, 596
Lincoln presidential run and, 523, 524, 569–70, 586, 590–91, 615
Brown v. Board of Education, 74
Bryant, John Howard, 527
Bryant, William Cullen, xix, 68, 524, 526, 527–28, 530, 616–17
Buchanan, James, xv, 22, 101, 103, 104, 155, 205, 206–11, 215, 229, 231, 243–45, 267, 271, 289, 289, 291, 307–28, 336, 545
appointments, 271, 293, 309, 310, 319, 323, 330
as bachelor, 208–9, 291
Breckinridge as vice president, xxii, 604, 606
John Brown’s raids and, 464, 474, 481
character of, 208, 210–11, 268, 310, 330, 331, 452
Cincinnati Platform, 540
Congressional opposition, 452–53
corruption charges, 548, 615
Democratic midterm defeats and, 443, 445
Douglas and, 215, 289–93, 329–47, 381, 427, 444–46, 450, 451, 453, 508, 545, 555, 606
Dred Scott decision and, 279–81, 453
Forney debacle, 268–70, 278
Fugitive Slave Act and, 210
Illinois Democrats and, 344–45
inauguration, 279, 281–82, 282
Kansas and, xii, xiii, 310, 314–28, 331–33, 336, 338, 339
Kansas territorial governors and, xiii, 310–11, 313–28, 335, 343
King and, 208–9, 291
“National Hotel disease,” 279, 281
Northern Democrats defect from, 327
Ostend Mani
festo and, 212, 231, 267
Panic of 1857 and, 324–26
patronage jobs and, 267–70, 290, 292–93, 330
Pennsylvania and, 207, 232, 267–70
pre-inaugural Washington trip, 278–79, 290
presidential election, 1856, xii, 211–13, 222, 238, 249, 255–56, 261, 267–69, 313, 544
presidential nomination of 1860 and, 560
as pro-slavery, 210, 339–40
Republican 1859 sweep and, 462
as the Sage of Wheatland, 210, 215, 267
slavery extension and, 509
Slidell and, 211–12
Southern backers, 206–7, 213, 262
Southern Directorate and, 323, 324, 327, 332, 338, 454, 604
Stevens and, 232, 269
summer White House, 381, 453
Taney collusion, 282, 287, 339, 359
Walker and, xii, 307, 310, 313, 314–28, 446
Bucyrus Journal, 457
Buford, Jefferson, 104
Bulfinch, Charles, 67
Bunn, Jacob, xvii, 435, 523
Bunn, John Whitfield, xvii, 523, 573, 576
Burlingame, Anson, xvi, 121, 151, 154, 272, 333, 335
Burns, Anthony, xix, 87, 469
Burton, Orville Burton, 126
Bushnell, Horace, 21
Bushnell, Nehemiah, 523
Butler, Andrew, xv, 23, 38, 77, 78, 81, 105, 120, 132, 587
lascivious slavery analogy of, 83–85, 110, 114
Sumner and, 82–87, 89, 109–11, 114–16, 135, 138, 139, 141, 149, 150, 151, 154
Butler, Benjamin F., 215
Butler, Pierce Mason, 128
Butler, William, 577, 583, 585
Byron, Lady Anne Isabella Noel, 472
Byron, Lord, 193, 469
Cagger, Peter, 540
Calhoun, John (of Kansas), 48, 308–9, 316, 319, 322, 323, 328, 330, 337–38
Calhoun, John C., xviii, 4, 5, 23–24, 24, 26, 73, 77–78, 96, 128, 271, 272, 341, 342, 407, 547, 561
Lincoln and, 48–49
nullification and, 5, 23, 26, 97, 98, 100, 126, 287, 311, 319–20
slavery and, 23–24, 380
slavery as the “peculiar institution,” 27, 277
“state equality” and, 264
tomb inscription, 554
California, 3, 5, 6, 455
Bear Flag Revolt, 230, 242
Democratic Party, Chivalry faction, 455
Cameron, Simon, xv, 269–70, 424, 433, 453, 572, 585, 626
as favorite son, 518, 583, 587, 590, 591, 592
Campbell, Lewis D., 131, 132, 151
Canada
John Brown’s Chatham convention, 470–71
fugitive slaves and, 437, 467, 469, 474, 482
Secret Six flee to, 493, 494–95, 498
Canisius, Theodore, xvii, 434, 435
Carmody, John, 597
Carson, Kit, 230, 241, 242
Cartter, David, 594
Casey, Joseph, 591
Cass, Lewis, xxii, 26, 70, 103–4, 118, 119, 178, 207, 271, 310, 311, 318, 349
Catholicism, 239, 273
Cato, Sterling G., 309, 319
Catron, John, xxii, 279–81, 284, 287
Central Illinois Gazette, “Party Principles,” 433
Cervantes, 110, 111, 116
Chaffee, Calvin C., 276, 286
Channing, William Ellery, 59, 63, 64, 65, 469
Charles I, King of England, 473, 483
Charleston, Ill., 394–95
Lincoln-Douglas debate at, 394–98
Charleston, S.C., 547, 556
bolters convention in, 558–59
secession and, 625
Secession Hall, 628
Charleston, S.C., Democratic convention, 1860, 446, 452, 539, 539–58, 599
Alabama Platform, 542–43, 549, 552, 553, 561
bolters and, 549, 558, 602
Buchanan and, 545–46, 548–49, 555
Cincinnati Platform and, 550, 551
Cushing as chair, 550, 558
Jefferson Davis and, 545–46
deadlock of, 558
delegates, 541
Douglas campaign biography, 539, 542, 547
Douglas camp offers federal jobs, 555
Douglas headquarters, 547
Douglas nominated, 541–42
Douglas opponents, 543, 545–46, 549, 554–55
Douglas stratagem, 552, 557
Douglas supporters, 547–48, 550–52, 557, 562
Kansas fight metaphor for, 551
local hostility and, 547
Louisiana delegation, 546
New York delegation, 557–58
New York Times editorial on, 561–62
North-South split, 550, 556
Pennsylvania delegation, 543, 545–46
platform fight, 550–51, 552, 555, 556, 561, 599
site chosen for party unity, 546–47
slave code platform, 542, 545, 550–51
Southern voting bloc, 541
Southern walkout, 552, 556–57
venue for, 539, 549, 562
Yancey’s speech, 554–55
Charleston Mercury, xix, 129, 145, 262, 448, 547, 554, 557
“The Union Is Dissolved!,” 628
Charleston Standard, 51
Chase, Philander, 250
Chase, Salmon P., xv, 63, 75, 81, 94, 95, 99, 226, 229, 233, 250, 271, 335, 423–24, 463, 500, 528
campaigning for Lincoln, 615
cases on behalf of fugitive slaves, 95
Lincoln correspondence, 435–36, 441, 462
presidential run, 1860, 433, 435–36, 441, 524, 525, 571–72, 585, 594
Republican Party emergence and, 95, 98–99
Chassériau, Théodore, 173
Chesnut, James, 114
Chesnut, Mary Boykin, 114
Chester County Times, 518
Chicago
antislavery sentiment in, 573
Cameron Hotel, 589
Deutsches Haus, German Conference, 579, 580, 622, 623
Douglas moves to, 223–24
Douglas reception, 1860 in, 610
Douglas’s Senate campaign launch, 363–64
The Drake hotel, 576
explosive growth, 223, 572, 573
Free Soil Party and, 573
Great Union Depot, 576
Lincoln and, 572–74
Lincoln’s “Sandbar” case, 574–75, 576
Lincoln’s victory speech, 1856, 263–65
political power and, 223
protection of fugitive slaves, 573
Republican celebration banquet, 1856, and Lincoln speech, 262–63
Republican Party and, 224
Richmond House, 589
River and Harbor Convention, 573
Tremont House, 262, 364, 574, 576, 586, 589, 590, 591, 592, 594
Chicago, Republican national convention, 1860, xiv, 524, 527, 572, 576–96
anti-nativist resolution, 588
balloting, 593–94, 596
Bates and, 578–81, 586, 589, 590–91, 594, 596, 622
bribery and, 585
chair for, 587
Committee of Twelve, 589, 591
Connecticut delegation, 585
Fillmore men at, 578
German Americans and, 579–80
Illinois delegation, 576–78, 585, 586, 589–90, 592–93
Indiana delegation, 582–83, 585, 588, 589–93
Judd and choice of city, 576
Judd and seating arrangement, 587–88
Lincoln supporters, 576–79, 582–83, 586, 587, 590–93
Lincoln vs. Seward, 578–79, 585, 587, 589–90, 593–94
Lincoln wins nomination, 594–95
New Jersey delegation, 583, 588, 589, 591
New York delegation, 583, 584–85, 592, 593
Ohio delegation, 594
patronage jobs and deals, 583–84, 590, 591
Pennsylvania delegation, 583, 585–88, 590–94
platform, 588
“Republican Wigwam,” 587, 588, 592
Seward and, 578, 581, 583–90, 592, 593, 594
size of crowds, 576
vice presidential nomination, 591, 594
Wisconsin delegation, 584
Chicago Academy of Design, 575
Chicago Congregational Herald, 370
Chicago Democrat, 519–20
Chicago Democratic Press, xvii, 200, 257, 392
Chicago Journal, 352, 358–59, 388, 398, 576
Lincoln’s “House Divided” text, 361
Chicago Press and Tribune, 422, 428–29, 446, 458, 559, 569, 578, 583, 594, 619
book of Lincoln-Douglas debates and, 522
Cooper Union address published by, 563
“Every Body for Lincoln,” 569
Lincoln letter to Canisius in, 434
Lincoln’s anonymous letter in, 621
Lincoln’s presidential nomination and, 538, 563–64, 570, 577, 578, 591, 592
“The Presidency–Abraham Lincoln,” 525
the “Republican Wigwam,” 587
“The Winning Man–Abraham Lincoln,” 578
Chicago Times, xvii, 22, 215, 327, 344, 370, 371
as Douglas paper, 22, 327, 330, 344–45, 366, 415, 437
Douglas Senate race and, 366, 370, 371
Hossack trial and, 437
Lincoln-Douglas debates, 387, 417
Sheahan and, xvii, 22, 330, 370, 415, 451, 539
Chicago Tribune, xvii, 28, 197, 201, 235, 331, 334, 336, 351, 354, 363–64, 366, 380, 382
aligned with Judd, 520
exposé of Douglas’s plantation, 414–15, 447
Lincoln article in, as “A Republican,” 354–55
Lincoln-Douglas debates advocated by, 371
Lincoln-Douglas debate transcripts in, 387, 417
Lincoln’s “House Divided” speech and, 361
Lincoln support by, 388
“Negro Equality,” 394
“Poor Little Dug,” 398–99
Ray as editor, xvii, 329, 334–35, 417
Child, Lydia Maria, xx, 63, 68, 243, 272, 469
Childe Harold (Byron), 193
Choate, Rufus, 511
Christiana Riot, 210, 232, 280, 518
Cicero, 70, 72, 116
Cincinnati Commercial, 103, 547
Cincinnati Daily Gazette, 461
Cincinnati Enquirer, 103
Cincinnati Gazette, 103
Civil War
John Brown’s prediction, 474
collapse of the Charleston convention and, 562
Jefferson Davis on blame for, 288
Douglas charges Lincoln with advocating, 364
firing on Fort Sumter, 618
Lincoln’s election and, 614
Meriam in, 479
mobilization of the Wide-Awakes and, 617–18
Seward’s prediction, 340
South Carolina Colored Volunteers, 479
Tocqueville’s prediction, 179
Clark, John B., 500–501
Clark, Myron, 146
Clark, William, 241
Clay, Cassius M., 499, 505, 528, 571, 594, 615
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