Abolitionists, adverse influence of,
upon anti-slavery sentiment in
Virginia, 43, 48, 51, 59; char-
acter of assaults of, upon slavery
and Virginians, 48, 49; views
of Thomas Jefferson Randolph
upon, 51; views of George Tuck-
er upon, 51, 52; views of Henry
Ruffner upon, 53; views of
William Ellery Channing upon,
53; views of Abraham Lincoln
upon, 54, 55; views of Daniel
Webster upon, 55; views of
Stephen A. Douglas upon, 56;
views of Thomas Ewing upon,
56; views of George Lunt upon,
57; views of George Ticknor
Curtis upon, 57; views of Theo-
dore Roosevelt upon, 58; vicws
of William Henry Smith upon,
58; attitude of, contrasted with
that of Republicans, 194, 195;
efforts of, to defeat fugitive
slave law, 200, 201; purpose
and methods of, 210, 212; dis-
union sentiments of, 213; con-
tended that Union alone pro-
tected slaveholders, 219; see
John Brown, Thomas Went-
worth Higginson, William Lloyd
Garrison, Theodore Parker,
Wendell Phillips.

Abolition of Slavery in Virginia,
petition for, from citizens of
Staunton, 128, 129.

Adams, Charles Francis, estimate of

Virginians at Gettysburg, 139,
140; estimate of racial diffi-
culties, 181; his analysis of
Virginia's grounds of secession,
249; records effects of Virginia's
declaration for union, 253; on
coercion as the issue, 255; views
as to Virginia's unchanged al-
legiance to state sovereignty,
294.

Adams, John Quincy, on action of
anti-slavery societies, 1835, 174;
not an Abolitionist, 195; views
as to right of secession, 290.
Adams, Reverend Nehemiah, on

assaults upon Virginia by Aboli-
tionists, 48, 49; on feeling in
Virginia regarding slave traders,
141; on reactionary effects of
Abolitionists, 176.
African Slave Trade, early opposi-

tion to, in Virginia, 16; letter of
Colonel William Byrd against,
16; petition of Virginia House
of Burgesses against, 1772, 18;
arraignment of in original draft
of Declaration of Independence,
19; Virginia Colonial Convention
1774, hostile to, 21; declaration
against in Continental Congress,
1774, 21, 22; Virginia's statute
abolishing, 1778, 25; George
Mason's denunciation of, 30;
efforts of Virginians in Congress
to suppress, 33; President Jeffer-
son's message, 1806-07 on sup-

pression of, 34; President Madi-
son's message, 1810, recom-
mending more stringent laws
against, 35; act of 1819 against,
36; joint resolution of Congress,
1823, against, 36; "Right of
Search" in suppression of, ad-
vocated by President Monroe,
1824, 37; President Tyler's mes-
sage against, 1841-42, 38; ap-
peal of Henry A. Wise against,
1845, 38-39; President Taylor's
message against, 1849, 39.
Agriculture in Virginia, injurious

effects of slavery upon, 127-137.
Amalgamation of blacks and whites,
Governor James McDowell on,
163; William C. Rives on, 163-
164; M. de Tocqueville on, 164;
Stephen A. Douglas on, 165;
General William T. Sherman on,
165; William H. Seward on,
165; Abraham Lincoln on, 165-
166.
American Anti-Slavery Society, its
organization, 1833, 200; dis-
union resolutions of, May, 1844,
213.
American Civil War, character of,

1-3; parties to, 2, 3; causes of,
3-5; objects for which it was
waged, 5-9.
American Colonization Society, its

organization, 1816, 61; estab-
lishes colony of Liberia, 1819,
62, 63; organization of auxiliary
societies to, in Virginia, 63;
work of, impeded by pro-slav-
ery men and Abolitionists, 65.
Amendment to constitution, pro-
posed by Congress, 1861, safe-
guarding slavery, 192; ratified
by Ohio and Maryland, 192.

Annapolis, convention assembles at,
1786, to amend Articles of
Confederation, 238.
Anti-Slavery sentiments, of promi-
ment Virginians, 82-101.
Apportionment, basis of, for repre-
sentation in Virginia Legisla-
ture, 144, 172.
Arkansas, secedes because of Lin-
coln's call for troops, 226.
Bacon, Reverend Leonard, estimate
of condition of free negroes,

1831, 160.

Baldwin, John B., a Union leader
in Virginia Convention, 1861,
255; urges President Lincoln to
abandon coercion, 266; on posi-
tion of Union men in Virginia
after her secession, 297.
Ballagh, J. H., on Virginia's primacy

in prohibiting African slave
trade, 25; on slavery debate in
Virginia's Legislature, 1832, 46;
on estimate of number of slaves
freed in Virginia, 102.
Bancroft, George, on Virginia's ef-
fort to prohibit importation of
slaves, 17; on Virginia's Bill of
Rights, 23; on Ordinance of
1787, 27; on injurious effect of
slavery on Virginia, 127; esti-
mate of Virginia's action in
calling for intercolonial com-
mittees of correspondence, 235;
estimate of Virginia's action in
securing Convention at Phila-
delphia, 1787, 239.

Banks, Governor N. P., addresses
Legislature of Massachusetts,
January, 1861, on "personal
liberty laws," 205.

Barton, D. W., emancipates slaves,
70.

Darton, Robert T., letter to author
regarding above, 70, 71.

Bates, Edwin, his reply as Attorney

General to President Lincoln's
request for opinions on pro-
visioning Fort Sumter, 282 and
284.
Baylor, George, remarks in Virginia.
Convention, 1861, on secession
and coercion, 261; on coercing
Cotton States, 289.
Berry, Henry, anti-slavery senti-
ments, 93.

Bill of Rights, Virginia's, on inherent
rights of men, 22-23.
"Black Belt" in Virginia, its white
and slave population, 125.
Blackburn, Samuel, will emancipat-
ing slaves, 113.

Blaine, James G., on slavery in the

territories, 185; on action of
Republicans in Congress, 1861,
abandoning their position on
the subject, 185; on protection
afforded to slavery by the
Union, 222.

Blair, Montgomery, replies, as Post-

master General, to President
Lincoln's request for opinions
on provisioning Fort Sumter,
282 and 284.

Bland, Theodoric, efforts in first
Congress, to tax importation of
slaves, 33.

Bolling, Philip A., anti-slavery senti-

ments of, 95; on injurious ef-
fects of slavery, 130.
Bonner, Jesse, will emancipating
slaves, 107.

Booth, Sherman M., convicted by

Federal Court, and discharged
by State Court of Wisconsin,
203.

315

Branch, Thomas, remarks of, in
Virginia Convention, 1861, on
President Lincoln's First In-
augural, 261.

Brent, George W., remarks of, in
Virginia Convention, 1861, on
influence of Abolitionists in
North, and Free Traders in
South, in precipitating the Civil
War, 262.

Broadnax, William H., views ex-
pressed in slavery debate, 1832,
47; anti-slavery sentiments of,
92.
Brokenbrough, John W., delegate
from Virginia to Peace Con-
ference, 1861, 246.
Brown Co., Ohio, colonization of
Samuel Gist's slaves in, 66.
Brown John, John W. Burgess's

estimate of reactionary influ-
ence of his Raid and of Northern
sympathy, 178; disastrous in-
fluence of his Raid upon senti-
ment in the South, 178; Lin-
coln's estimate of his Raid, 195;
captured by United States sol-
diers, 212; sympathy of leading
Abolitionists with, 218; promi-
ment Abolitionists, parties to
his venture, 219.

Brougham, Lord, on character of
Federal Government, 290.
Buchanan, James, extract from
message, as President, 1860, on
influence of Abolitionists, 177;
message to Congress, 1860, on
"personal liberty laws," 204.
Burgesses-House of, their petition,
1772, against slave trade, 18;
their resolutions against Stamp
Act, 1765, 234; pledging support
to Massachusetts, 1768, 234;