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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,
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.
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;
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