Douglas’s “torrent of falsehoods” in, 387–88
Fell encouraging Lincoln in, 253
“Freeport Doctrine” and, 391, 422, 443, 446
Lincoln convinced to take offensive, 388, 391
Lincoln’s fragment on emancipation, 372–74
Lincoln’s rebuttals, 289, 293, 397–98, 407–10
psychologically revealing statement, 394
publication of, by Lincoln, 417–18, 522
Schurz on Douglas, 404–5
Schurz on Lincoln, 404, 405
stenographers recording of, 387
transcripts published, 387, 527
Trumbull conspiracy theory and, 219, 393, 396
Wallace on Lincoln as speaker, 398
Littlejohn, Dewitt Clinton, 233
Locke, David R., 421, 457–58
Logan, Stephen Trigg, xvii, 577, 578
Loguen, Jermain Wesley, 163
London Times, Howard on Slidell, 211–12
Longfellow, Fanny Appleton, 73
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 59, 62, 68, 70, 71–72, 73, 174, 315, 255, 498
Loring, Ellis Gray, 73
Louisville Journal, 262, 624
L’Ouverture, Toussaint, 160
Lovejoy, Elijah, 190, 275, 505, 622
Lovejoy, Owen, xvii, 100, 190, 199, 200, 204, 234, 249, 251–52, 263, 353–54, 384, 399, 402, 505–6, 520, 615, 621
appearance at bolters’ convention, 253–54
as Illinois Republican candidate, 250–51, 253
Lincoln’s support, 251, 260, 353–54, 527, 621
Lowell, James Russell, 1, 117–18
Lowell, Mass., 73
Lucas, Josiah, 437–38
Lyman, Theodore, 62
Macbeth (Shakespeare), 13, 108, 109, 111
Mack, Polly, xx, 304
Maclean. A. L., 316
Macon, Nathaniel, 4
Madison, Dolley, 291
Madison, James, 61, 207, 292, 311
Magree, John L., 123
Maine, xv, 4, 91, 441, 448, 578, 583, 585, 586, 594, 610
Manifest Destiny, 13, 241, 313, 314, 445, 509
Mann, Horace, 59
Manny-McCormick reaper patent case, 184, 228
Manual of the Patriotic Volunteer (Forbes), 466
Marcy, William L., 10, 22, 208, 311
Marsh, Sylvester, 574
Marshall, John, 62, 226, 272
Marshall, Thomas A., 394–95
Martin, Henry L., 321–22, 505, 506
Marx, Karl, 257, 325, 623
Mason, James M., xv, 77, 87, 89–90, 105, 112–13, 114, 119, 120, 151, 246, 333, 449–50, 484–85, 495, 497–98, 506, 507, 560
Mason, John Y., 267
Massachusetts
antislavery advocates in, 175
antislavery position, 116
convention of the Free Soil Party in, 59
Douglas’s castigation of, 27
Federalists in, 60
lawsuit against South Carolina, 127
nativism bill in, 434, 440
prologue to Civil War, 74–75
Republican Party, 586
Republican Party, Bird Club, 175, 177, 476, 495, 507
school segregation prohibited, 74
slave trade prohibited, 87
state constitution, 73
Sumner as Senator, 28, 175
Sumner attack condemned, 146–47, 149
Sumner family of, 60
Sumner’s view of, 73
Whig Party, 61, 75
Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, 478
Massachusetts Kansas Aid Committee, xxi, 468
Massachusetts State Anti-Texas Committee, 65
Massachusetts State Kansas Committee, 176–77
John Brown and, 176–77, 471–72
Matheny, James H., xvii, 219, 255
Matteson, Joel, 29, 188
McClellan, George B., 213, 370
McClernand, John, 509
McClure, Alexander K., xxi, 148, 270, 478, 582, 590, 594
McCormick, Richard C., 528–29, 530
McCulloch, Hugh, 53–54
McElhone, John J., 321
McLean, John, 225, 226–28
Dred Scott decision and, 277, 280, 284
as Republican presidential hopeful, 225–26, 228, 233, 234, 564–66, 572, 585, 587, 594
McPherson, Edward, 611
Medill, Joseph, xvii, 197, 200–201, 203, 351, 352, 388, 538, 559, 563, 564, 583, 594, 619
Meigs, Montgomery, 131
Melville, Herman, 157
Memminger, Christopher G., xix, 498, 499
Meriam, Francis Jackson, xxi, 478–79
Metamorphoses (Ovid), 114
Mexican Cession, 6, 9
Mexican War, 3, 4, 5–6, 24, 64–66, 70, 127, 128, 138, 139–40, 212, 251, 275, 308, 313
extension of slavery and, 5–6, 68–69
Lincoln opposes, 6, 188, 366, 390, 396, 429
Mexico, slavery abolished in, 312
Miles, R. W., 425
Miller, John Gaines, 134
Miller v. McQuerry, 226
Millson, John S., 501
Milton, George Fort, 447
Milton, John, 116–17, 120
Mississippi, 311, 312, 320, 448, 499, 508, 608
Charleston convention and, 541, 549, 551
Jefferson Davis elected to Congress, 313
Joseph Davis and, 311, 313
Douglas’s plantation in, 25, 414–15, 447, 609
Gwin in, 455
secession and, 326, 499
University of, 320–21
Missouri, 4, 37, 474
Benton-Atchison struggle in, 276
Border Ruffians and, 16, 19
John Brown’s raids in, 474, 476
Dred Scott decision and, 274–78
Missouri Compromise, 3–4, 15, 26, 29, 30, 39, 61, 81, 82, 96, 97, 200, 212, 229, 274, 282
Dred Scott decision and, 277, 278, 280, 281
repeal of, 125, 129, 277, 286, 296, 393, 542
Missouri Democrat, 310, 589
Missouri Republican, 240
Mobile Register, xvi, 452, 541, 614
Monroe, James, 227
Montgomery, William, 343
Moore, Clifton H., 387
Moore, Hugh M., 321, 322
Moore v. Illinois, 280
Morgan, Edwin, xvi, 136, 146, 153, 584
Morris, Gouverneur, 531
Morris, Robert, 73
Morrison, Toni, 112
Munsell, Leander, 199
Murdoch, Francis B., 275–76
Murray, Ambrose, 136
Napoléon Bonaparte, 116, 332
Natchez, Miss., 311
National Democrats, xiv, 129, 604, 616
National Era, The, xx, xxi, 95, 229, 277, 328, 467, 506
National Intelligencer, 337
Lincoln’s Cincinnati speech printed in, 461
McLean’s letter in, 226–27
National Kansas Committee, 177
National Negro Convention, 163
nativism, 188, 218, 220–21, 239, 255, 261, 416, 434, 518, 578, 579–80
Chicago convention resolution against, 588
Illinois Republicans resolution against, 191, 231, 257, 368
Lincoln’s views on, 368, 578
Massachusetts voting bill and, 434, 440
Newby, Dangerfield, xxi, 480–81
New England Emigrant Aid Society, xviii, 16, 17, 27, 28, 30, 59–60, 105, 157, 176, 177, 469, 474, 507
New Hampshire, xv, 8, 9, 38, 298, 440, 507, 538, 545–46, 583, 586
New Jersey Republicans, 583, 588, 589
New Light Calvinism, 158
New Orleans, 614
Douglas attacks Lincoln’s politics in, 444–45
Jonas in, 305–6
Shelby case and, 304–6
Yancey promoting secession and, 613
New Orleans Delta, 448
New Orleans Picayune, 326
New Orleans Times Picayune, 305
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New Salem, Ill., 49
New York
abolitionism in upstate, 34
Anti-Masonic Party, 34
Baltimore Democratic convention and, 605
Democratic Party of, factions, 10, 22, 70, 71, 345, 452, 527
Douglas’s 1860 presidential campaign, 452
emergence of the Republican Party and, xi, 99
Liberty Party in, 35
Lincoln’s election and, 626
nativism in, 518
Republican convention and, 583–85, 592, 593
Republican Party in, 585
Seward as governor, 35
Seward loses presidential nomination, 595
slavery outlawed in, 287
Whig Party in, 34
New York Central Railroad, xix, 22, 206, 452
New York City, 445, 529, 584, 610
Lincoln at Plymouth Church, 528, 538
Lincoln’s Cooper Union speech, 528–38, 560, 620
New York Courier, 427
New York Custom House, 10, 35
New York Daily News, 240
New York Democratic Vigilant Association, 492–93
New Yorker Staats-Zeitung, xix, 419
New York Evening Post, 130, 136, 240, 310
New York Express, 239
New York Herald, xix, 11, 238, 491–92
anti-Lincoln coverage in, 619–20
Bell profiled in, 608
John Brown coverage, 484, 487, 491
Buchanan-Walker letter reported, 549
Charleston convention and, 548, 549, 550
on Constitutional Union Party convention, 559
on Douglas, 296–97, 333, 370, 452, 541
“The Exposure of the Nigger-Worshipping Insurrectionists,” 492
Lincoln’s message to the South and, 618
on Ostend Manifesto of 1854, 231
“The Secession Movement in the South,” 626
on Sherman’s nomination for Speak, 503–4
Gerrit Smith interview, 494
“The South and the Revolutionary Consequences of Lincoln’s Election,” 626
“What is Treason?—Who are Traitors?,” 492
“Wm. H. Seward’s Brutal and Blood Manifesto,” 492
New York Independent, 528
New York Post, 68, 231, 493, 524, 526, 528, 616
Lincoln-Douglas debates, 527
Lincoln’s Cooper Union speech, 530, 538, 616
New York Times, 35, 98, 141, 237, 474, 581, 606
on the Albany Regency’s “ruin,” 608
on John Brown and Osawatomie, 170–71
Charleston convention and, 548–49
on Constitutional Union Party convention, 559
“The Disruption of the Democratic Party,” 561
on Douglas, 21, 102–3, 334, 507
editor and Republican platform, 100
giving Lincoln national exposure, 370
on Kansas violence, 124–25
on Keitt’s temper, 153
Seward and, 334
Seward’s “Irrepressible Conflict” speech, 511
on Sumner, 88, 90, 91, 135
“The Trial of the Insurgents,” 487
“Triumph of Douglas,” 427
on Walker, 310–11
New York Tribune, xix, xxi, 28, 47, 51, 91, 91, 104, 153, 270, 466, 530, 544, 581, 619
John Brown coverage, 158, 170, 178, 474–75
Charleston convention and, 549
Cooper Union address text in, 538
on Douglas, 333, 334, 428–29
Dred Scott decision and, 286
Frémont’s candidacy and, 230, 246
giving Lincoln national exposure, 370
on Helper’s book, 504
Howe’s denial in, 494
The Impending Crisis of the South reprint, 500
Lincoln-Douglas debate transcripts in, 387
Lincoln reading, 194
Lincoln’s speeches in, 361, 528
Marx and, 325
Pike on Dred Scott case, 273–74, 282
report on Republican convention, 1856, 234
on Seward’s “Irrepressible Conflict” speech, 1860, 509–10, 511, 512–13
Sumner covered in, 90, 92, 144–45, 146, 174
New York Vigilance Committee, 492
Nichols, Roy Franklin, 211
Nicolay, John G., 197, 256, 353, 417–18, 626
Niles, Nathaniel, 202, 519
North American Review, 62, 69
North Elba black colony, 165, 171, 177, 494–95
North Star, 34, 164
Northwestern University, 575
Northwest Ordinance of 1787, 26, 30, 39, 69, 78, 97, 431, 458, 526
Norton, Jesse O., 250
Novum Organum (Bacon), 194
nullification, nullifiers, 97, 128, 129, 319–20, 342
Calhoun and, 5, 23, 26, 97, 98, 100, 126, 287, 311, 319–20, 342
Oberlin College, 161
Oglesby, Richard J,, xvii, 567, 568, 593
Ohio
Chase vs. Brinkerhoff race, 95
Douglas stumping in, 1859, 456, 457–58
Fugitive Slave Act and, 440–41
Lincoln Cincinnati speech, 1859, 460–62
Lincoln clubs in, 462
Lincoln in Hamilton, 460
Lincoln stumping in, 1859, xiv, 456, 457–63
Lincoln supporters in, 625
Republican Party in, 95, 435–36, 440–41, 456
Republican sweep of, 1859, 462
Republican wins in, 1860, 610
Ohio and Mississippi Railroad, 213
Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Company, xii, 324–25
Oliver, Mordecai, 46, 47, 49
O’Neal, Ellen, 292
“On the Duty of Civil Disobedience” (Thoreau), 127
Opposition Party, 438, 444
Oregon Farmer, 617
Orr, James L., xvi, 149, 155, 406, 541
Osawatomie, Kan., 166, 167, 170–71
Ostend Manifesto of 1854, 212, 231, 267
Otis, Harrison Gray, 62
Ottawa, Ill., 381–82
Hossack arrest for aiding a fugitive slave, 437
Lincoln-Douglas debate at, 372, 381–88
Ovid, 114
Oxford, Miss., 320
Paine, Thomas, 60
Palfrey, John G., 69, 71
Palmer, John M., xvii, 220, 425, 569, 574, 586
Panic of 1837, 232, 312
Panic of 1857, xii, 324–26
Paradise Lost (Milton), 116–17, 120
Parker, John, 55
Parker, Richard, 487, 488
Parker, Theodore, xviii, 51, 54–55, 59, 68, 76, 89, 150, 178, 191, 260, 335, 347, 350–51, 355, 375, 426, 437, 469–70
John Brown and, 176, 494
death of, 621
Herndon and, 51, 191, 347, 350, 355, 375, 426–27, 437, 620
“incipient civil war” sermon, 147
Parks, Samuel C., 577–78
Pathfinder, The (Cooper), 230
Payne, Henry B., 542–43, 552
Peace Society, 64
Pearce, James, 144
Peck, Ebenezer, xvii, 204, 425, 519, 523
Pennington, William, 504, 509, 572
Pennsylvania
Buchanan and, 207, 232, 267–70, 545
Charleston convention and, 543, 545–46
Democratic Party and, 94–95, 207, 213, 267–70, 545
Douglas presidential nomination and, 451
Know Nothings in, 231–32, 233, 518
Lincoln’s election and, 626
Lincoln’s presidential nomination and, 518, 522, 572, 583, 585–86, 587, 590, 591
McLean supporters in, 231
Pennsylvania (cont.)
presidential election of 1856 and, 259, 267
Republican Party in, 582
Republican wins in, 1860, 610
Stevens and, 232
Underground Railroad in, 210, 232
Walker and, 311
Pe
oria Journal, 202–3
Peoria Star, 202–3
Perkins, Simon, 162
Perry, Benjamin F., 130
Perry, Caroline Slidell, 212
Perry, Matthew C., 212, 587
Pettit, John, 407
Phelps, Samuel, 272
Philadelphia
Douglas given hero’s welcome, 445
Musical Fund Hall, 229
Republican convention in, 229–35, 580
Philadelphia Bulletin, 585
Philadelphia Press, 270, 326, 381, 451, 453
Phillips, Wendell, xx, 59, 62, 176, 348, 381, 402, 494, 498, 619–20, 621
Phillips, William A., 47, 474
Piatt, Donn, 120, 625–26
Pickens, Francis W., 128
Pickett, Thomas J., 433, 521, 586
Pierce, Benjamin, 8
Pierce, Edward L., 70, 107
Pierce, Franklin, xi, xv, 3, 7–11, 13, 22, 24–25, 37, 38, 76, 87, 96, 104, 148, 155, 223, 237, 268, 271, 338, 339, 359, 540, 541
Buchanan and, 208, 281
Jefferson Davis and, 10, 313, 543, 546
Democratic convention 1856, 205–7, 213–15
Douglas and, 214
Dred Scott decision and, 285
election of 1860 and, 605
Kansas appointments, xi, 48, 308, 309
Kansas-Nebraska Act and, 22
Kansas troubles blamed on, 206
King as vice president, 209
loss of popularity, 11, 100, 101, 129, 205
presidential nomination, 321
Slidell and, 212
Walker and, 313
Whitman on, 246
Pierce, Jane Appleton, 8, 9
Pike, Frederick Augustus, 91
Pike, James S., xix, 91, 144, 273, 282, 286, 512
Pike, Mary Hayden Green, 91
Pike County Free Press, 417
“Plea for John Brown, A” (Thoreau), 495
Plessy v. Ferguson, 74
Plitt, George, 445–46
Poindexter, George, 311–12
Polk, James, 573
Polk, James K., 5, 6, 22, 64, 96, 107, 208, 212, 215, 242, 272, 311–13, 321
popular sovereignty doctrine, xiv, 15, 15, 18, 23, 25–27, 30, 117, 206, 264, 277, 286, 293–94, 296, 313, 330, 333, 343, 364, 365, 380, 382, 389, 392, 403, 406, 411, 453–54, 458, 459, 529, 532, 542, 561
Dred Scott decision and, 286, 293–94, 330, 542
Kansas and, 17–19, 313, 317, 440
Portent, The (Melville), 157
Pottawatomie massacre, xii, 168–69, 308, 466, 476
Potter, John Fox, 337, 505, 595
Prentice, George D., 262, 624–25
“Present Crisis, The” (Lowell), 1, 117, 118
Preston, Francis, 242
Preston, J. T. L., 489
Prigg v. Pennsylvania, 226, 272–73
Prince, Ezra M., 254
Pryor, Anne Whiting, 241
Pryor, Roger, xvi, 291, 504, 505
Pryor, Sara, 291, 292
P.T. Barnum’s American Museum, 529, 572
Pugh, George E., 555
Pugh, J. C., 251
Putnam, George H., 527
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