Index

Abolition Societies in the South, 25 Abominations, tariff of, 50, 163 Æsop's Fables, 290, 297, 316 "Adam Bede," 148 Adams, Charles F., 54, 243 Adams, John, 83, 121 Alabama, secession, 189 Alabama, the, 225, 238, 245 Albemarle, the, 245 Albert, Prince Consort, 226 Aldersen, Judge, 107 Alva, Duke of, 15, 264 American Tract Society, 296 Ames, Fisher, 213 Andersonville, 269, 270 Anne, Queen, 18 Anti-Slavery epoch, importance of, 6, 7, 13 Arab slave-hunters, 30 Athens, 14, 41, 212 Atlanta and Sherman, 249 Austin, James T., 81 Bach, John S., 301 Bacon, Lord, 110 Bailey, Kentucky editor, 140 Bancroft, George, 104, 282 Bates, Edward, 184 Beauregard, P. G. T., 192, 244 Beecher, Henry Ward, 49, 69, 91, 181, 204; Chapter IX, The Appeal to England, 212-241; reasons for European trip of, 214-216; no official embassy, 217; interview of, with Lincoln, 218; breakfast to, in London, 219; speech at Manchester, 227-230; at Glasgow and Edinburgh, 231, 232; in Liverpool, 232, 234; in London, 235; triumph at home, 235, 239; raises Sumter flag, 241; and Lincoln, 212, 218, 304-305 Beecher, Lyman, 138 Bell, John, 184 Bishop of New Jersey, 296 Bowen, Henry C., 181 Breckenridge, J. C., 184 Bremer, Frederika, 144 Bright, John, 222, 225 Brown, John, Chapter VI, 136-159; in Springfield, 149; North Elba, 150; Iowa, 150; Kansas, 151-154; Virginia, 154; Harper's Ferry, 155; trial and death, 155-158; his fanaticism overruled, 159 Brown-Sequard, Dr., 114 Bryant, Wm. C., 182 Buchanan, Com. Franklin, 245 Buchanan, James, 189 Buckle, Thomas, 204 Bunyan, John, 325 Burns, Anthony, 84-87 Burns, Robert, 310 Burnside, Gen. A. E., 252 Byron, Lord, 84 Calhoun, John C., 12; early career, 46, 47; nullification, 51; government and sovereignty, 52; mistakes of, 59; influence on non-slaveholding South, 196; political doctrine of, in church affairs, 204-205 Carlisle, Lord, 144 Carlyle, Thomas, 100, 107, 236-238, 31-3121 Carpet-baggers, 259 Cervantes, 325 Channing, Wm. E., 74, 75, 81, 104 Charles I, 23, 42 Charles II, 23 Chase, Salmon P., 141 Christian Commission, 272 Clay, Henry, 52, 61, 289 Cobden, Richard, 222, 238 Columbus, Christopher, 291 Columbus, Ky., 253 Congregationalism and State sovereignty, 204-205 Constitution, the, 206 Convention of 1776, 23 Cooper, Peter, 182 Cotton, 26-29, 49, 222-224 Cushing, Lieut. W. B., 245 Dante, 95, 251, 290, 318, 325 Darwin, Charles, 291, 301 Davis, Jefferson, Stephens' opinion of, 203; early career, 206; as Confederate president, 206 De Bau on slave trade, 20 Declaration of Independence, 25 Demetrius, 87 Democracy, advance of, 5 Demosthenes, 14, 213 Dickens, Charles, novels of reform, 139; praises "Uncle Tom's Cabin," 143; predicts Confederate success, 238 Donelson, Fort, 246 Douglass, Frederick, 34 Douglas, Stephen A., as orator, 69; early career, 165-166; supports Polk, 167; proposes "squatter sovereignty," 169; loses prestige, 170-172; challenged to debate by Lincoln, 173; compared with Lincoln, 174-177; the great debate, 178-181; nominated for presidency, 184; supports Union, 185; death, 185; and Northern Democrats in 1861, 193 Dutch revolt, 264 Dwight, President Yale College, 46 Dyer, Oliver, 48 Edwards, Jonathan, 21 Eliot, George, 146, 148 England, 26, 49; source of American principles, 218; as to wars, 220; why favourable to South, 221-224; non-voters of, favoured North, 225; Beecher in, 218-221, 227-235, 239-241 English Anti-Slavery Society, 227 Emerson, Ralph W., 68, 96, 236, 285 Everett, Edward, 69, 106, 315 Ewell, Gen. Richard S., 245 Faneuil Hall, 81, 85 Farragut, Admiral David, 196, 246-247 Fillmore, Millard, 101 Florida, secession, 189 Floyd, John B., 189 Foote, Admiral Andrew H., 246 Fort Fisher, 247 Forts Donelson and Henry, 246 Fort Sumter, 191, 208, 241 Franklin, Benjamin, 34 Frémont, Gen. J. C., 215, 246 Fugitive Slave legislation, 36, 87, 214 Fulton Street prayer-meeting, 162 Garrison, Wm. Lloyd and W. Phillips, Chapter III, 68-94; the pen for abolition, 68; early career, 69; begins agitation with Lundy, 70; starts Liberator, 1831, 71; accused of Turner uprising, 72; organized American Anti-Slavery Society, 74; mobbed in Boston, 76; satisfied with Lincoln's emancipation, 93 Geneva Arbitration, 225 George III, 24 Gladstone, W. E., 225 Gordon, Gen. J. B., 271, 285-286 Government contracts, 282-283 Grant, Gen. Ulysses S., 246, 248; early career, 252; rapid promotion, 253; Columbus, Donelson and Vicksburg, 254; military genius, 255; final campaign, 250; Appomattox, 257-258; President, 259; political and financial problems, 259-260; unwise speculation, 261; authorship, 261; character and death, 261-262 Great men, era of, 292-293 Great Rebellion, the, 11-13; war of the, 265 Greeley, Horace, 54, 182, 183; Chapter V, 117-135; early career, 122-126; founds N. Y. Tribune, 126; extremist as reformer, 129; "On to Richmond," 129; evokes Lincoln letter, 130; peace commissioner, 131; draft riots, 131; bails Davis, 132; Democratic presidential candidate, 133; dies, 134-135; and Lincoln, 299, 305 Greenback craze, 260 Greene, Mrs. Nathanael, 27 Grinnell, James B., 150 Grote, George, 107 Halleck, Gen. H. W., 253 Hampden, John, 42, 83 Hancock, John, 83 Hastings, Warren, 213 Hay, John, 218 Hayne, Robert Y., 41, 51, 56, 163 Hayti, 69 Heine, Heinrich, 144 Helper, Hinton Rowan, 197 Helps, Arthur, 144 Henry, Fort, 246 Henry, Patrick, 68, 191, 213 Hessian troops, 268 Higginson, T. W., 85 Hill, Frederic T., 242 Hill, Gen. A. P., 245 Hill, Gen. D. H., 245 Holland, 15, 41, 264 Homer, 326 Hooker, Gen. Joseph, 251 Howe, Dr. Samuel G., 104 "Imitation of Christ, The," 143 "Impending Crisis, The," 197 Irving, Washington, 74 Jackson, Andrew, 293 Jackson, Thomas J. (Stonewall), 200-202, 244, 245, 268 Jamestown, Va., 17 Japanese sanitation in war, 272 Jefferson, Thomas, 20, 24, 25, 53, 191 Jeffrey, Lord, 107 Jesus, parables of, 315; martyrdom of, 325 Johnson, Samuel, 312 Johnston, Gen. A. S., 244 Johnston, Gen. J. E., 242 Kansas-Nebraska Bill, 88, 169, 172 Kearsarge, the, 246 Kemble, Fanny, 32 Kenesaw Mountain, 242 Kentucky, 196 Kingsley, Charles, 144 Laud, Archbishop, 42 Lawless, Judge, 79 Lee, Robert E., honour to Virginia, 194; early career, 199; as strategist, 244; final campaign against Grant, 256; Appomattox, 257-258; quoted, 285-286 Liberator, the, 71-73 Lincoln, Abraham, new force, 163; challenges Douglas to debate, 173; compared with Douglas, 174-176; "divided-house speech," 177; the great debate, 177-180; Cooper Institute speech, 181-183; presidential nomination, 183; election and inauguration, 186-187; inaugural address, 190; calls for 75,000 troops, 193; applauds Beecher, 212; interview with Beecher, 218; quoted, 286-287; the Martyred President, Chapter XII, 288-326; Americanism, 288-289; three books, 290; career, in brief, 296-298; opposes Seward, Stanton and Greeley, 299; ancestry, 300-303; opposes Phillips, Greeley and Beecher, 304-306; honesty, 307-308; literary style, 309-315; concentrated culture, 314-315; with Everett at Gettysburg, 315; made great by great events, 317-318; characteristics, 319-320; religious faith, 321-323; death, 325 Lincoln and Douglas, the Great Debate, Chapter VII, 159-186 London, 16, 18, 235 Log Cabin, the, 125 Longfellow, H. W., 104, 273 Longstreet, Gen. James, 244 Loring, U. S. Commissioner, 84 Louisiana, secession, 189 Lovejoy, Rev. E. P., murder of, 78-80 Lowell, James R., 94, 99-102, 282, 284 Lundy, Benjamin, 69-70 Luther, Martin, 115 Macaulay, T. B., 107, 280 McClellan, Gen. G. B., 250-252 Machiavelli, 307 McKinley, William, 289 Mammonism, 6 Mann, Horace, 63, 106 Mansfield, Lord, 24 Marshall, Thomas, 46 Martineau, Harriet, 113 Mason, James M., 225 Medill, Joseph, 179 Merrimac, the, 245 Mexican War, 167, 252 Michael Angelo, 318 Milton, John, 16, 93, 318, 326 Mississippi, secession, 189 Missouri Compromise, 169 Mobile Bay, 247 Monitor, the, 245 Morton, Governor of Indiana, 273 Moses, 36 Motley, John L., 75, 96 Napoleon, 242 National Era, the, 143 Negro, as faithful servant, as soldier, 259-260; as voter, 281 New Orleans taken, 247 Newspapers, in 1861-1865, 118, 119 Newton, Isaac, 291 New Yorker, the, 125 New York Tribune, 126-128 Northern officers of Southern birth, 196 Northern resources, 274-279 Nullification, 51, 54 Nurses, 272-274 Otis, James, 83 Palestine, 41 Panic of 1857, 160-161 Parke, Judge, 107 Parker, Theodore, 84, 85 Parliament House of Peace, 110 Paul, the Apostle, 326 Penn, William, 22 People at Home during the war, Chapter XI, 263-287 Philip of Macedon, 15, 213 Philip of Spain, 15 Phillips, Wendell, 63; Chapter III, 68-94; early career, 75; aroused by mobbing of Garrison, 76; Lovejoy's murder, 78; Faneuil Hall meeting, 81-83; Burns' rescue party, 85, 86; agitation against Fugitive Slave Law, 87, 88; Phillips' lecturing, 89; oratory, 90; defiance of mobs, 91-92; influence, 93; Lowell's poem, 94; quoted, 285 "Pilgrim's Progress, The," 143 Plymouth Church, 91, 163, 181, 204, 218, 235 Plymouth Rock, 17 Popular sovereignty, 170 Porter, Admiral D. D., 247 Port Hudson, 247 Portuguese slave-traders, 19 Postal affairs, during Revolution, 120; in Jackson's time, 121 Presbyterianism and Federal government, 205 Prescott, Wm. H., 96, 106 Prison-ship martyrs, 264 Prison sufferings, 269-271 Pym, John, 42 Quincy, Josiah, 53, 83, 213 Randolph, John, 32 Raphael, 318 Religious sentiment increased, 284 Revival of religion in 1857, 161-162 Rhodes, J. F., 60, 162, 202 "Romola," 146 Ruskin, John, 310 Russo-Japanese War, 210 Sand, George, 144 Sanitary Commission, Christian Commission, 272 Savonarola, 325-326 Scheffer, Ary, and Christ the Emancipator, 296 Scott, Winfield, 196 Secession, first threatened by Massachusetts, 52, 53; reasons for, Chapter VIII, 188-211; of South Carolina and other States, 189; why not accepted by North, 207-209; early rebellions of, 294-295 Semmes, Com. Raphael, 245 Seward, Wm. H., 128, 183, 184, 217, 299 Shaftesbury, Lord, 144, 145 Shays' rebellion, 293 Shenandoah Valley, 250 Sheridan, Gen. Philip, 248, 250 Sherman, Gen. W. T., 242, 248-249 Slavery, American, Chapter I, 11-39; Calhoun's view of, 55; controlled government in 1860, 188; attacked by North Carolinian, 196; destroyed vigour of South, 210; to be paid for by war, 287 Slave-trade begins, 17 Slidell, John, 225 Smith, Sidney, 107 Socrates, 263, 301 South Carolina, and the tariff, 50; nullification doctrine of, 51; attacked Sumter, 191 Southern destitution, 267 Southern officers of Northern birth, 195 Southern resources, 279, 280 Southern women, 266-268, 281 Spanish slave-traders, 19 "Squatter sovereignty," 169 Stanton, Edwin M., 235, 240, 299 Stead, William, 99 Stephens, Alexander H., 201; opposes secession, 202; Confederate vice-president, 203; opinion of Davis, 203 Story, Joseph, 75, 104 Stowe, Calvin E., 139 Stowe, Charles E., 139 Stowe, Harriet Beecher, Chapter VI, 136-148; daughter of Lyman Beecher, 138; married, lived in Cincinnati, 139; wrote death of "Uncle Tom," 141; "Uncle Tom's Cabin," 143-148 Stowe, Lyman Beecher, 139 Stradivarius, 301 Sumner, Charles, 54, 75; Chapter IV, 95-116; succeeds Webster in United States Senate, 102; early career, 104-110; oration on war, 107-109; boldly attacks slavery, 110-113; beaten by Brooks, 113; characterization, 114-116 Surgeons, 272-274 Taney, Roger B., 186 Tariff, the, 48-50 Texas, secession, 189 Thackeray, W. M., 148 Thomas, Gen. G. H., 196, 248 Times, the London, 230 Tombs, Robert, 137 Trent, the, 225 Tribune Almanac, 128 Tribune, The New York, 126-128 Tribune reporter and John Brown, 153 Turner, Nat, 34 "Uncle Tom," death of, 141 "Uncle Tom's Cabin," 143-148 "Vanity Fair," 148 Van Zandt, frees slaves, 140 Vaughan, Judge, 107 Vicksburg, 247 Victoria, Queen, 146, 226 War, good and evil influence of the, 281-285 Washburne, E. B., 179 Washington, George, 24, 191; contrast with Lincoln, 288-289 Watt, James, 110, 291 Webster and Calhoun, Chapter II, 40-67 Webster, Daniel, 12; early career, 44, 45; answers Hayne, 56-58; answers Calhoun, 60, 61; 7th of March speech, 61-63; Lincoln approves, 64; Webster dies, 66; as orator, 69, 164, 292; banner of, 295 Wellington, 242 Whiskey rebellion, 293 Whitefield, George, 21 Whitney, Eli, 27-29, 45 Whittier, John G., 63, 69, 96, 106, 285 Winchester and Sheridan, 250 Winslow, Admiral John A., 246 Winthrop, Robert, 273 Wirtz, Henry, 270 Wise, Governor of Virginia, 155-156 Worden, Admiral John L., 245 Wordsworth, Wm., 107 Xenophon, 264

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