INDEX

Abolitionism, and Republicanism,

8

,

9

;

end of, 150-156.

Abolitionist movement,

v

.

Abolitionists, hysterical praise of,

1

;

and dissolution of the Union, 1, 2;

effect, 2;

struggles, 3;

and political expediency, 5;

convention at Pittsburgh, 7;

third-party, 7;

vote of, 7;

founders of Republican party, 8;

pro-slavery mobbing, 9;

voting strength, 9;

organization, 10;

lecturers, 11;

stump orators, 11;

newspapers, 11;

preparatory work, 12;

hostility to Union, 13;

disloyalty, 13;

treason, 13;

place in history, 15;

Quakers, 16;

physical courage, 16;

unselfishness of, 16;

motives, 18;

persecution of, 20;

feelings against, 22;

hopefulness of, 26;

first presidential ticket, 28;

prejudice against, 30;

abuse by "gentlemen", 32;

women, 38;

preliminary victory of, 47;

denunciation of early, 49;

leaders, 186-198.

Adams, John Quincy,

21

,

41

;

attempted expulsion of, from Congress, 69-71;

speech in his own defense in Congress, 89.

Altee, Edward P.,

203

.

Altee, Edwin A.,

203

.

"Amalgamation",

35

.

Anderson "Bill",

165

.

Andrew, Governor, of Massachusetts, Peleg's

Life of

,

179

.

Anthony, Susan B.,

102

,

205

.

Anti-Slavery, causes,

2

;

matter excluded from United States mails, 4;

formation of party, 13;

pioneers, 49-58;

lecturers, 76-78;

orators, 88-93;

women, 100-107;

mobs, 108-112;

in Haverhill, 108;

in Nantucket, 109;

martyrs, 113-120;

sentiment, in England, 130.

Anti-Slavery societies, organization,

26

;

in New England, 72, 74, 75, 201;

National, 76, 79, 87, 201.

Anti-Unionist,

13

.

Bacon, Benjamin C.,

201

.

Bailey, Dr. Gamaliel,

100

,

207

.

Ballou, Adin,

205

.

Barbadoes, James,

202

.

Bates, Judge,

161

.

Beecher, Henry Ward,

90

,

142

,

148

;

speech in England, 90-93;

and Lincoln, 92.

Bell,

152

.

Benson, George W.,

203

.

Benton, Thomas H.,

154

.

Birney, Jas. G.,

2

,

5

,

42

,

56-58

,

205

.

"Blacklaws"

35

;

in Ohio, 35.

Black Republic of Texas,

135

.

Blair, Gen. Prank P.,

158

,

186-191

;

and Missouri emancipationists, 161;

and Missouri Abolitionists, 188;

appearance of, 189;

fearlessness, 189;

quarrel with Frémont, 189;

and capture of Camp Jackson, 189-191;

threats against, 190.

Blair, Montgomery,

158

,

161

.

Bonner, Hon. Benjamin R.,

155

.

Border-ruffianism,

153

.

Border Slave-State message, text of,

213-214

.

Boyle, James,

205

.

Bradley, John,

135

.

Breckenridge,

152

;

factions, 11.,

Breckenridge, Judge Samuel M.,

175

.

Brodburn, George,

205

.

Brown, B. Gratz,

155

.

Brown, John,

45

,

113

.

Brown, William Wells,

205

.

Buchanan, James

153

.

Buffum, Arnold,

201

,

203

.

Buffum, James N.,

205

.

Bull Run,

192

.

Burleigh, Charles C.,

205

.

Buxton, Sir Thomas,

132

.

Camp Jackson (St. Louis),

183

;

"affair" at, 186-188;

effect of capture, 191-194.

Campbell, David,

202

.

Campbell, John R.,

202

.

Capron, Effingham C.,

202

.

Carlisle, Earl of,

18

.

Chapman, Mrs. Henry,

33

.

"Charcoals", Missouri,

159

;

delegation to President, 162, 166;

fight for "Free Missouri", 162;

appeal to President for protection, 166-168.

Chase, Salmon P.,

10

,

13

,

14

,

59-61

,

148

,

205

;

financial policy, 60;

espousal of Abolitionism, 61;

and "third party,"64;

election to United States Senate, 206.

Child, David Lee,

204

.

Child, Lydia Maria,

204

.

Chittenden, L.E.,

134

.

Churchill's

Crisis

,

157

.

Civil War,

11

;

due to Abolitionists, 12.

Clay, Henry,

2

,

6

.

"Claybanks",

159

;

exclusion from National Convention, 169.

Coffin, Joshua,

201

.

Coffin, Levi,

197-198

;

"President of 'The Underground Railroad'", 197.

Colonization,

128-135

;

Society, 128;

and England, 130-132;

Lincoln's opinion, 133;

experiments, 133-134.

Colonizationists, pretended friendship for negroes,

130

.

Compromise of 1850,

6

.

Conover, A.J.,

205

.

Cotton-gin, invention of,

31

.

Cox, Abram L.,

203

,

205

.

Crandall, Prudence, persecution of,

116-117

.

Crandall, Dr. Reuben,

117-118

.

Crisis, The

,

157

.

Cross Keys, battle of,

184

.

Curtis, Geo. William,

88

,

179

.

Curtis, Gen. Samuel R., and military control of Missouri,

163-164

;

charges against, 163.

Democratic party, division of,

11

.

Democrats,

4

,

7

;

Anti-Nebraska, 9;

of New York, 9.

Denison, Charles M.,

203

,

205

.

Dickinson, Anna E.,

205

.

Dissolution of Union, petition for,

2

.

"Doughface",

4

.

Douglas, Stephen A.,

12

;

dislike of, by slaveholders' factions, 11;

defeated for President, 94-99;

and Abolitionists, 153;

hated by slave-owners, 153.

Douglass, Fred.,

112

.

Drake, Hon. Charles D.,

167

.

Dred Scott decision,

45-46

;

too late for South's purpose, 47.

Dresser, Amos, whipped,

119

.

Emancipation proclamation,

137-138

;

due to Abolitionists, 12;

story of, 139;

moral influence of, 146;

Lincoln's reasons for, 146;

ineffective, 148;

text of, 211-213.

Ewing, Gen. Thomas,

194

;

repulsion of General Price, 195.

Field, David Dudley,

179

.

Fish, W.H.,

205

.

Fletcher, Thomas C.,

155

.

Fort Donelson, capture of,

184

,

192

.

Fort Henry, capture of,

184

.

Foss, A.T.,

205

.

Foster, Daniel,

205

.

Foster, Stephen,

39

.

"Free-Soil" party,

65

.

Frémont, General,

151

;

and western command, 184-185;

financial bad management, 184;

defeats Stonewall Jackson, 184;

removal, 185;

freedom proclamation, 185.

Frost, John,

203

.

Frothingham, O.B.,

204

.

Fugitive Slave Law,

5

,

121

.

Fuller, John E.,

201

.

Fussell, Bartholomew,

203

.

Gamble, Hamilton R.,

160

;

and emancipation ordinance of, 163;

and military control of Missouri, 163.

Garrison, William Lloyd,

13

,

21

,

26

,

201

,

202

;

Dragged through streets of Boston, 32;

imprisonment for libel, 54;

reception in England, 131-132;

speech at Exeter Hall, 131.

Genius of Universal Emancipation, The,

51

.

Giddings, Joshua R.,

2

,

6

,

205

.

Gillinghamm, Chalkly,

203

.

Goodell, William,

203

,

205

.

Grant, General,

44

;

And "Charcoals", 172;

Nomination by Missouri Radicals, 174-176;

capture of Fort Donelson, 192.

Greeley, Horace,

142

,

148

,

178

,

179

.

Green, Beriah,

203

.

Green, William, Jr.,

203

.

Grimké sisters,

38

,

103-106

,

204

.

Hale, John P.,

10

,

205

.

Hall, John B.,

201

.

Hall, Robert B.,

203

.

Hallock's Order Number Three,

141

.

Harrison, Wm. Henry,

5

.

Hay, John,

136

.

Henry, Patrick, Williamsburg speech,

88

.

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth,

204

.

Hints toward Emancipation in Missouri

,

158

.

Hollie, Sally,

205

.

Hopper, Isaac,

205

.

How, John,

155

.

Howland, Joseph A.,

205

.

Hudson, Professor,

35

,

112

,

205

.

Hudson, Frederic,

89

.

Hume, John,

208-210

.

Hutchinsons, the,

141

.

Ile a'Vache,

133

.

Indiana, introduction of slavery into,

5

.

Jackson, Claiborne F.,

186

;

attempt to make Missouri secede, 186-188;

outwitted by Nathaniel Lyon, 188.

Jackson, Stonewall, defeat of,

184

.

Jewitt, Daniel E.,

202

.

Johnson, Andrew,

171

,

180

.

Johnson, Oliver,

73

,

201

.

Johnson, Samuel,

205

.

Jones, David,

203

.

Joselyn, Simeon,

203

.

Julian, Geo. W.,

Political Recollections

,

177

.

Kansas-Nebraska Bill,

44

.

Kedzie, James,

208-210

.

Kelly, Abby,

38-39

.

Kendrick, John,

205

.

Kentucky,

21

.

Kimball, David T., Jr.,

202

.

King, Leicester,

205

.

Kingsley, Alpheus,

203

.

Knapp, Isaac,

201

.

"Know-Nothings",

9

.

Lafayette,

17

.

Lane, James H.,

194-197

;

canvas for U.S. Senator, 196-197;

attitude on slavery, 197.

Lawrence, city of, capture by Quantrell,

165

;

butchery of inhabitants, 165.

Leavitt, Joshua,

205

.

Lewis, Evan,

203

.

Lewis, Samuel,

205

.

Liberal party,

2

,

3

,

7

,

8

,

65

.

Liberator

,

21

;

first issue, 55;

South Carolina and Georgia offers reward for its circulation, 55-56;

excluded from U.S. mails, 56;

office wrecked by mob, 56;

opposed to separate party action, 64.

Lincoln, Abraham,

2

,

8

,

11

,

41

;

election of, 11, 48;

Gettysburg speech, 88;

and Douglas, 94-99;

debate of 1858, 94;

and slavery, 96, 97;

preferred by slaveholders, 98;

Recollections of, 134-135;

and emancipation, 136-149;

and Missouri Compromise, 139;

message to Minister Dayton of Paris, 140;

proposed constitutional amendment, 144;

special message to Congress, December, 1863, 144;

emancipation policy, 145;

and Abolitionists, 147;

and Free-Soilers, 172;

Congressional sentiment toward, 177;

antagonism to, 177-180;

Life of, by I.N. Arnold, 177.

Lincoln, Sumner,

205

.

Longhead, Joseph,

203

.

Lovejoy, Elijah P., shooting of,

32

,

89

,

114-115

,

161

.

Lowell, Ellis Gray,

204

.

Lundy, Benjamin,

27

,

50-54

;

meeting with Garrison, 54.

Lyon, Nathaniel,

188

.

McCrummil, James,

203

.

McCullough, John,

203

.

McKim, John,

203

.

Mace, Enoch,

203

.

Manumittal, arguments against,

34-35

.

Marshall, "Tom",

70

.

Massachusetts Legislature and slavery,

105

.

May, Samuel J.,

203

.

May, Rev. S.T.,

Recollections

,

108

.

Mexican War,

44

.

Missouri,

157-185

;

Compromise, 6, 12, 139-140;

admission to Union as slave State, 43;

slavery contest, 67;

and the Union, 159-160;

Radicals, 159;

Conservatives, 159;

"Charcoals", 159;

"Claybanks", 159;

military control of, 163-166;

guerrilla bands, 165;

pacification of, 168;

Radicals, opposition to Lincoln, in National Convention, 168-169;

delegation to Lincoln, 169-171;

Germans, attacks on, 181-182;

loyalty of, 182-183.

Missouri Democrat, The

,

157-158

;

and Louis Snyder, 158-159;

opposition to Lincoln, 180;

support of Johnson, 180.

Monroe, James,

205

.

Moody, Loring,

205

.

Morris, Senator,

205

.

Mott, Mrs. Lucretia,

38

,

102-103

.

Mott, James,

203

.

National Anti-Slavery Advocate

,

204

.

National Era, The

,

100

,

207-208

.

Negroes, prejudice against,

in North, 35;

in Ohio, 36;

stronger in North than in South, 36;

suffrage, 80;

failure as freemen, 80-81.

Newcomb, Stillman E.,

201

.

Nicolay, J.C.,

136

.

"Nigger Hill",

26

,

73

.

"Nigger-pens",

31

.

Noyes,

179

.

Oberlin College,

207

.

O'Connell, Daniel,

131

.

Ohio, pro-slavery,

21

;

Abolitionists of, 21.

Opdyke,

179

.

Ordinance of '87,

5

.

Otis, James F.,

202

.

Parker, Theodore,

204

.

Parkhurst, Jonathan,

203

.

Pennsylvania Hall, firing of,

30

.

"Peonage",

80

.

Phelps, Amos,

202

,

204

.

Philippine Islands,

82-87

;

slavery in, 82;

massacres in, 83;

abuses in, 82-84;

spoliation of, 85.

Phillips, Wendell,

142

;

speech in Faneuil Hall, 88-89.

Phillips, Mrs.,

106-107

.

Pillsbury, Parker,

204

.

Pleasanton, General,

168

.

Pointdexter,

165

.

"Popular sovereignty,"

153

.

Powell, Aaron M.,

205

.

Prayer of Twenty Millions, The

,

142

;

text of, 214-215.

Prentice, John,

203

.

Presidential campaign of 1844,

7

.

Price, General Sterling,

160

,

195

.

Prohibitionists,

2

,

3

,

14

.

Purviss, Robert,

203

.

Putnam, George M.,

203

.

Quantrell,

165

.

Rankin, John,

203

.

Raymond, Henry J.,

Life of Lincoln,

177

.

Redmond, C.L.,

205

.

Republican party,

2

,

3

,

7

,

8

;

elements of, 10;

lack of policy, 10;

and election of Lincoln, 11;

existence due to Abolitionists, 12;

and negro rights, 81;

and Philippine Islands, 82;

and Abolitionism, 150-151.

Republican Party, History of the

, Curtis,

136

.

Rise and Fall of the Slave Power

,

142

.

Roosevelt, Theodore, and Abolitionists,

1-14

.

Rosecrans, General,

168

.

Russell, Earl,

137

.

Schofield, Gen. John M., and military control of Missouri,

163-164

;

charges against, 164;

relieved from command, 168.

Secession, pretext for,

48

.

Sewell, Samuel E.,

204

.

Sharp, John, Jr.,

203

.

Shipley, Thomas,

203

.

Sigel, General,

183

.

Slave-owners, mastery of,

32

.

Slave power, submission to,

5

;

northward march, 13.

Slave production in Northern States,

31

.

Slavery, destruction of,

1

;

overthrow of, 3;

in ante-bellum days, 20;

and Biblical authority, 22;

a State institution, 27;

condemned by Washington, Jefferson, and Henry, 31;

Northern support, 33-35, 68;

spread of, 42;

introduction into Territories, 43-44;

practical extirpation, 138.

Sleeper, John R.,

203

.

Smith, Gen. A.J.,

168

.

Snelling, William J.,

201

.

Southard, Nathaniel,

202

.

South Carolina "black horse",

192

.

Southmayd, Daniel,

202

.

Southwick, Joseph,

202

.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady,

102

,

204

.

Stanton, Henry Brewster,

204

.

Stebbins, Giles B.,

205

.

Sterling, John M.,

203

.

Stevens, Thaddeus,

148

,

177

.

Stewart, Alvin,

205

.

Stillman, Edwin A.,

203

.

Stockton, Henry K.,

201

Stone, Lucy,

205

.

Stone, Thomas T.,

205

.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher,

11

,

101

,

102

.

Sumner, Charles,

148

,

179

.

Sutliff, Levi,

203

.

Sutliff, Milton,

203

.

Tappan, Arthur,

34

.

Tappan, Lewis,

34

,

203

.

Taussig, James,

172

.

Taylor, Gen. Z.,

6

.

Texas, annexation of,

44

.

Thatcher, Moses,

201

.

Thirteenth Amendment,

138

;

vote on, 143-144.

Thompson, Edwin,

205

.

Thoughts on African Colonization

,

129

.

Thurston, David,

202

.

Toombs, Robert,

13

.

Torrey, Charles Turner,

118-119

.

Townsend, Dr.,

205

.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

,

100

,

208

.

Underground railroad,

121-127

;

confession of John Smith, 121-127.

United States in Far East,

85

;

Army increase of, 85;

Navy increase of, 85.

Van Buren, Martin,

4

;

"doughface", 4;

Free Soiler, 5.

Van Zant case,

61

.

Vickers, Anson,

203

.

Virginia,

21

.

Wade, Benjamin F.,

44

,

179

,

205

.

Wakefield, Horace P.,

202

.

Walker, Jonathan, branded,

119

.

Washington, Booker,

136

.

Watkins, Frances E.,

205

.

Weld, Theodore W.,

103

,

204

.

Wheeling, Va., slavery traffic in,

50

.

Whigs,

2

,

5-7

,

9

.

White, James,

203

.

Whitney, Eli,

31

.

Whitney, Nathaniel,

205

.

Whitson, Thomas,

203

.

Whittier, John G.,

202

.

Wilkes,

179

.

Winslow, Isaac,

202

.

Winslow, Nathan,

202

.

Wise, Henry A.,

70

.

Wright, Elizur, Jr.,

203

.

Wright, Henry C.,

205

.