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Julius Caesar (Shakespeare), 132
Kagi, John Henry, xx, 473, 481, 482
Kalamazoo, Mich., Lincoln campaign speech, 1856, 259–60
Kansas, 16–19, 51, 60, 104, 144, 169, 307, 308
admission as slave or free state, 34, 37, 38, 107–8, 148, 308, 314–15, 321, 330, 332–43
antislavery settlers, 16, 17, 105
antislavery Topeka Constitution, xi, 17, 28, 34, 37, 38, 318, 516
Atchison and, 123, 124
Battle of Black Jack, 170, 477
Battle of Osawatomie, 170–71
Bleeding Kansas, 201, 307, 310, 324, 326, 542
Blue Lodges and Sons of the South in, 16
bogus legislature, 16, 17, 33, 34, 46, 308, 309, 315
Border Ruffians, 16, 17–18, 27, 30, 37, 46, 104
John Brown and, xi, 158, 166, 167–71
Buchanan and, xii, xiii, 310, 314–28, 331–33, 336, 338, 339
Calhoun and, 48, 308, 316, 319, 328, 330, 337–38
“Census Bill,” 309
“The Crime Against Kansas,” 106–13, 148
democracy and, 27, 112
Douglas and, 19, 37, 329, 330, 332–33, 358–59
Douglas’s Kansas report, 22–23, 26–28
Dred Scott decision and, 332
English bill and, xiii, 343–44, 363
first Congressional election, 16
fraudulent elections, xi, xii, xiii, 16, 47, 319, 322, 335, 336–38, 342
free state conventions, xi, 309, 318–19
free state government, Topeka, 167
Free State Party, 17, 18
free-state policy of “non-resistance,” 47
free staters’ treason charge, 123, 124, 167, 308
Geary as governor, 308, 309, 310, 315
Kansas (cont.)
House Special Committee to Investigate the Troubles in Kansas, 45, 46–47, 49
Law and Order Party, 17
Lecompton Constitution, xii, xiii, 321–22, 324, 326, 328, 331–33, 335, 336, 342, 343, 344, 358, 363, 406, 455, 466, 517, 542
Lincoln and, 16–17, 18
Lincoln lecture tour, 1859, 515–16
popular sovereignty and, 17–19, 313, 317, 440
Pottawatomie massacre, xii, 168–69, 308, 466, 476
proslavery militias in, 104
Reeder as governor, xi, 16, 45, 129, 307
Republicans elected in, 517
Robinson as governor, 318
Shannon as governor, 16, 17–18, 307–8, 315
slavery and free blacks banned, 17, 167
Southern Lecompton cabal, 309
Stanton as governor, 327, 335
violence against free staters in, 17–18, 45–50
Wakarusa War, xi, 18
Walker as governor, xii, 314–28, 335
Wyandotte Native Americans in, 16
Kansas A Free State newspaper, 48
Kansas Aid Society, 575
Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, xi, 16, 129, 188, 282, 286, 305, 335, 500, 606
Douglas and, 6, 15–16, 21, 22, 23, 29–31, 33, 48, 87, 105, 193, 293, 313–14, 356, 358, 375, 382, 392, 413, 450, 542, 543, 609
emergence of Republican Party and, 93, 96, 148, 189
Lincoln on, 49, 367
Lincoln’s speech, xi, 93, 189, 385, 526, 527
opposition to, 29, 30, 37, 45–46, 51, 81, 87, 101, 105, 132, 276
popular sovereignty and, 30, 293, 317
repeal of Missouri Compromise and, 81, 212–13, 286
Kearny, Stephen Watts, 242
Keitt, Laurence M., xvi, 125, 130, 130–37, 151, 152, 153–55, 317–18, 337, 501
Sumner attack and, 125, 133–37, 143, 144, 149
Kent, James. 526
Kentucky, 22, 96, 112, 123, 144, 189, 204, 207, 219, 235, 253, 271, 305, 356, 396, 499, 540
Bell and, 618, 628
Clements case, 437
delegation, Baltimore convention, 603
delegation, Chicago convention, 578
Democratic Party and, 312
Fillmore and, 255–56, 262
Frémont vote in, 261
Know Nothing Party in, 31, 190
Lincoln and, 221, 403, 461, 618
Lincoln’s accent and, 185, 530, 572
Lincoln’s Cincinnati speech and, 460–61
Lincoln’s origins and, 189, 234, 577, 618
Miller v. McQuerry and, 226
Opposition Party in, 438
Republican Party and, 361, 505
as Union state, 262, 618
See also Breckinridge, John; Crittenden, John J.
Kenyon College, Ohio, 250
Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin, A (Stowe), 92
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 118
King, Preston, xv, 98, 99, 585
King, William L., 253
King, William Rufus, 208, 209, 291
Kinzie, John H., 574–75
Klein, Philip S., 210, 452
Know Nothing Party (American Party), 31, 32, 37, 39, 46, 49, 93, 95, 96, 197, 218, 219, 231, 233, 250, 261, 262, 416, 438, 439, 444, 518, 572, 579, 580, 582, 584, 624
Archer in, 234
Catholic fear-mongering by, 239
Chaffee’s election to Congress and, 276
Democrat defectors to, 269
disintegration of, 100, 368
Douglas support in, 370
elections of 1854 and, 228
emergence of the Republican Party and, 98–99
Fillmore and, xi, 149, 228, 255, 261, 438, 590
Gwin and, 455
Littlejohn and, 233–34
McLean and, 228
nativism and, 368
New York Express and, 239
Old Whigs and, 223, 255
presidential election, 1856, and, 238
presidential election, 1860, and, 578
Republican convention, 1856 and, 232, 233–34
Republicans and, 204, 254–55
Thaddeus Stevens and, 232
36th Congress and, 500
Weekly Native Citizen and, 255
Whigs and, 188–89, 228, 255, 378
Knox, “Old Joe,” 251
Koerner, Gustave, xvii, 256, 257, 305, 377, 413–14, 565, 569, 590–91, 596
Lacon, Ill., 422
Lafayette, Marquis de, 533
Lamon, Ward Hill, xvii, 183, 354, 523, 568, 577
Lancaster Intelligencer, 268
Lane, Eskridge, 279
Lane, Harriet, xxii, 291, 443, 445, 453, 585
Lane, Henry S., xxi, 581, 582, 585, 590, 593, 595, 610–11
Lane, James, 38, 169, 474
Lane, Joseph, xiv, xv, 154, 558, 604
Lanman, Charles, 526
Lanphier, Charles H., 336, 345, 418, 508, 509, 608
Latham, Milton S., 560
Lawrence, Abbott, xviii, 72, 76
Lawrence, Amos A., xviii, 174, 177
Lawrence, Kan., 46, 47, 50, 167, 315, 319
John Brown and, 157–58, 167–68, 473, 474
Free State Hotel, 124, 167
indictments against free staters, 48, 49, 167
sacking, xii, 123–25, 157, 199, 200, 205, 308
Lawrence, Samuel, 72
Lawrence Free State newspaper, 170
League of United Southerners, 496
Leary, Lewis, xx
Leavenworth, Kan., 516, 517
Leavenworth Register, 516, 517
Leaves of Grass (Whitman), xix, 246
Lecompte, Samuel, xviii, 48, 309
Lecompton, Kansas, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 104, 308
constitutional convention in, xii, 319, 321–22, 329, 330, 331
fraudulent election and, 327
Walker’s speech and angry response, 315–16
Lecompton Union, 104, 124
Lee, Robert E., xx, 464, 482
Leeman, Willie H., xx, 481–82
Lewis, Joseph J., 518
Liberator, xx, 61, 63, 65, 620
Liberty Party, 35, 63, 65, 75, 79, 94, 95, 163, 165, 399
Life of Oliver Cromwell, The (Headley), 473, 483
Lincoln, Abraham, 61, 183, 347, 363, 375, 419, 442, 515, 571, 615, 629
abolitionism and, 259, 260, 353–54, 620, 621
anecdote about the realignment of parties, 432
anti-nativism letter, 434
“antithetical character,” 184, 185
appearance, 184, 185, 378, 398, 404, 424, 529
assassination threats against, 624
belief in his destiny, 193
Brady photograph, xiv, 515, 529–30, 575, 615
on John Brown, 516–17
character of, 184–86, 193, 235, 420–21
chess partner, 348
on Douglas, 331, 456–57
Douglas rivalry with, 29, 192–93, 347, 375, 429–31, 463
Douglas’s description of, 346
Douglas speech on Dred Scott and, 294
dubbed “Ranchero Spotty,” 6, 390
emancipation and, 45, 131, 372–74
Emancipation Proclamation, 262, 439
“Favorite Books,” 183
Fugitive Slave Act opposition, 436
German Americans and, 256, 434–35
German language newspaper, xiii, xvii, 434–35
as Illinois legislator, 6, 218–19
innovation of a public campaign, 353
on interracial relationships, 458
Jefferson claimed by, 400, 431–33
Jewish friend of, 305
job as surveyor, 49
Kansas conflict and, 16–17, 18
Kansas lecture tour, 1859, 515–16
Kansas surveyor general Calhoun and, 48–49
known as Lincoln, 183–84
law case of fugitive slave and, 437
law offices, 6, 183
law partners, 49, 183, 191, 220, 257–58, 434–35 (see also Herndon, William Henry)
law practice, 7, 183–85, 188, 193, 195–96, 235, 252, 377, 418, 423, 429, 574, 596
life mask and bust, by Volk, 575–76, 597
Lincoln, Abraham (cont.)
Lovejoy and, 251, 260, 353–54, 527
marriage of, 195, 420
McClellan’s candidacy 1864 and, 213
McClure and rise of, 148
mentor and surrogate father, 187
Mexican War opposition, 6, 188, 429
national recognition, 376, 423, 435, 457
Nebraska Act and, 49, 93, 189, 193
political ambitions, 6–7, 186–87, 193–94, 419–20, 421, 424, 433
political backers, 253, 256–57, 353
on “popular sovereignty,” 349
prescience of, 421
as “a Proviso man,” 5, 6, 75
reading by, 194–95
Republican campaigning by, 1856, 257–60
Republican Party, Bloomington convention, 50, 186–87, 191–92, 196–204
Republican Party and, 30, 93–94, 125, 186–87, 189, 190–92, 223–24, 252, 265, 348
rescue of captive black man, 304
Right Hand, cast by Volk, 597
Sargent’s third party run offer, 438–39
second inaugural, 54
Seward and, 348, 350, 352, 527
Shakespeare and, 6, 360
Shelby case and, 304–6
slavery, positions on, 189, 190, 191, 259, 367–68, 369, 401, 410, 422, 431, 458, 460
speaking invitation, Beecher’s church, 463, 463–64
stumping for Ohio Republicans, 1859, xiv, 456–62
Sumner and, 54, 78, 79
Trumbull and, 29, 188, 226
Tyler campaign and, 187
as U.S. Congressman, 5, 6, 45, 71, 184, 187–88
U.S. Senate run, 1855, xi, 188, 189, 219–221, 375–76
vice presidential try, 1856, xii, 234–35
Webster and, 5
Weed and, 596
Whig Party and, 6–7, 29, 71, 94, 187, 218, 225–26, 618
Whig Party speaking tour, 1848, 435, 527
Whitney’s observations of, 185–86
Lincoln, Abraham, 1858 senatorial campaign, 21, 256–57, 263, 293, 297, 346, 363–414, 578
abolitionism issue and, 292–93, 369–70, 371, 384, 389–90, 399, 402–3, 405–6, 412
Black Republicanism charge against, 381, 383, 384, 390, 391, 394, 396
Buchaneers for, 365–66, 388, 391, 392
campaign strategy, 374, 376–77
Chicago Tremont Hotel speech, 1858, 366–70, 379, 399, 402
Crittenden betrayal, 378–79, 414, 415, 416
debates (see Lincoln-Douglas debates)
Donati’s Comet and, 394
Douglas as liar, 393–94, 397
Douglas’s character attacks, 380
Douglas’s Chicago launch and, 365
Douglas’s moral hollowness, 380
Douglas’s Republican support, 350–52
Dred Scott and, 364, 380, 386, 405, 407, 411–12
election results, xiii, 414–18, 421, 422, 423, 578
entrance to events, 370, 389, 395, 399
Fillmore votes and, 395
“Freeport Doctrine” and, 391, 392, 422, 443
German Americans and, 256–57, 368–69, 404–5
Greeley’s support, 385–86
Herndon’s fact-finding tour for, 349–51
House Divided Speech, xiii, 355–56, 358–61
House Divided Speech as campaign issue, 361–62, 364, 366, 371, 379, 381, 383, 386, 389, 393, 396, 399, 402–3
Judd and, 361, 370, 371, 520, 521
last campaign speech, 414
national reputation gained, 376, 423
nativism as issue, 368
newspapers opposing, 366, 370, 371
newspapers supporting, 366, 370, 378, 380, 388
as “the next Senator from Illinois” and, 262–63
Old Whigs and, 376, 377, 378, 380, 395, 422
Petersburg rally, 419
racial equality and, 364, 369, 370, 379–81, 384–86, 388, 389, 390, 393, 394, 395, 397–401, 403, 407, 414, 415, 458–59
Republican concern about extremism, 370
Republican emergency meeting on, 371
slavery and the Declaration of Independence, 369, 386, 400, 401, 403, 407
slavery as moral issue, 366–69, 401, 410–11
Springfield speech, July 17, 1858, 371
as step toward the presidency, 365, 376, 391
tactic to stalk Douglas, 365, 370, 371, 376, 381
Trumbull stumping for, 372
See also Lincoln-Douglas debates
Lincoln, Abraham, 1860 presidential campaign, 423, 615, 615–26
abolitionists and, 619–21
American South and, 618–19
autobiographical sketch for, 517–19
Brady photograph and, 529–30
Bryant and, 527
campaign biography, 620
candidacy declared by, 566
Chicago convention and, 576–96
Cooper Union address and, 463–64, 526–37
Decatur convention and, 566–70
Douglass and, 493
Douglas’s attacks on, 444–45
Douglas’s strategy deduced, 456
election results, xiv, 626–27
events leading to, 419–42
financial backers, 523, 573, 576
first suggestion he might be president, 204
German American support, 569, 591, 615, 622–23
Greeley and, 537
Judd and, 524–25, 564–65, 566
Judd-Wentworth conflict and, 519–21
New England speeches, 538
Old Whigs and, 438, 583, 586, 591
Pennsylvania and, 518, 522
positioning himself for, 525
Prentice letter to, 624–25
as The Railsplitter, xiv, 567, 563, 568, 593, 597
remaining in Springfield during campaign, 615
Republican nomination, xiv, 516, 518, 523–25, 563–64, 567–69, 580, 589–91, 594–97
Sewa
rd’s meeting with, 623–24
Southern secession and, 609
supporters, 521, 522, 523, 527, 567, 569, 574, 576–78, 582, 583, 625
surrogate speakers for, 615
Weld’s Republican Manual and, 621–22
Wide Awake Clubs and, 615–16, 617, 622
Lincoln, Abraham, speeches, 384, 537
“All the powers of earth” speech, June 26, 1857, xii, xxiii–xxiv, 297–304
Bloomington “Lost Speech,” xii, 50, 201–3, 356, 358
Chicago speech, after Senate loss, 430
Chicago speech, Tremont hotel, 1856, 263–65
Chicago speech, Tremont Hotel, 1858, 366–70
Cincinnati speech, 1859, 356, 460–62
construction of speeches, 195, 526
Cooper Union address, 1860, xiv, 82, 231, 454, 463–64, 526–37, 560
Fourth of July address, 1856, 527
“a house divided, half slave, half free” phrase used, 203, 349, 355–57, 578
House Divided Speech, 1858, xiii, 349, 355, 358–61, 508
Kalamazoo campaign speech, 1856, 259–60
Lincoln’s research for, 526
Lincoln’s voice, 201, 358, 404, 530
oratorical method, 195
Peoria anti-Nebraska bill speech, 1854, xi, 93, 189, 385, 526
political rally, June 10, 1856, 217–18
Princeton campaign speech, 1856, 251
Second Inaugural address, 458
speaking style, 530–31
Springfield Lyceum Address, 1838, 191
Springfield speech, July 17, 1858, 371
Sumner’s influence, 82
Lincoln, Levi, Jr., 61
Lincoln, Mary Todd, xxii, 54, 184, 185, 188, 218, 220, 420, 520, 528, 597, 606
anger at Trumbull and wife, 188, 220, 420
Lincoln’s election and, 628
Lincoln’s political career and, 420, 522
Lincoln’s presidential nomination and, 596
politics and social attitudes of, 221, 420, 621
Lincoln, Nancy Hanks, 186, 516
Lincoln, Robert Todd, xxii, 538
Lincoln, Thomas, 186
Lincoln, Thomas “Tad,” xxii
Lincoln, William “Willie,” xxii, 574
Lincoln-Douglas debates, 43, 371–414
First Debate, Ottawa, Ill., xiii, 372, 381–88
Second Debate, Freeport, Ill., xiii, 388–92
Third Debate, Jonesboro, Ill., xiii, 392–94
Fourth Debate, Charleston, Ill., xiii, 394–98
Fifth Debate, Galesburg, Ill., xiii, 399–401
Sixth Debate, Quincy, Ill., xiii, 401–5, 402
Seventh Debate, Alton, Ill., xiii, 405–13
Chicago Tribune as advocate for, 371
debate format, 382
Douglas’s drinking during, 398, 404–5
Douglas’s lack of control during, 401
Douglas’s physical decline, 398, 399, 413–14
Douglas’s reluctance to participate, 371–72