Know-Nothing party, its origin;
purposes; appeal for the Union,
Las Casas, Bishop, advice to King
of Spain, 237
Liberia, sending negroes to, called
"expatriation"; enterprise a
failure, 46; Lincoln's hopes of,
81; why it failed-Miss Ma-
honey's account, 169-70-71
Lincoln, South no more responsible
for slavery than North, 49;
speech at Charleston, Ill., 81;
finds no country ready to take
American negro, 82; South in
1860 thought him radical; had
favored white supremacy in
1858, 185; speech at Peoria, 186;
assassination of, 209
Lodge, Henry Cabot, declares
popular verdict against Web-
ster, 118; he had undertaken
the impossible, 120; his argu-
ment good, he not man to make
it, 121
Lundy, Benjamin, attempts to stir
up North against slavery South,
Lynchings, tables, 239; comments
McMaster, affirms Webster behind
the times (note), 100
Missouri, controversy over slavery,
52; distinct from that begun
later by "New Abolitionists,"
53
Mobs, Garrison mobbed; many
anti-slavery riots North, 71;
violence toward Abolitionists
in North reacted, 85; oppo-
nents became defenders, 86
Mound Bayou, a negro town, 242
Nationality, spirit of; causes of,
development of, 30; grows,
North; South on old lines, 35
Navy, U.S., deciding factor in war,
198-9
Negro, the, located now much as in
1860, 7; Lincoln could find no
home abroad for, 206; reasons
for smallness of vote South, 233;
Petition, right of, in Congress, 90;
"gag resolution," 92
Political conditions, North and
South compared, 162-3-4
"Poor whites," discussion of, and
of social conditions South, 155–
6-7
Presidential campaign 1860, ex-
citement, 171
Press, Northern slandering South,
153; Southern slandering North,
154
Race animosities, negro's aspira-
tions to social equality; legal
enactments, 238; whites em-
bittered by crime against white
women, 239
Reagan, "Republican rule on Abo-
lition principles," 105
Reconstruction, Lincoln's theory;
veto of resolution asserting
power of Congress over, 208;
last speech, adhering to plan,
Reconstruction by Johnson under
Lincoln plan; wisdom of
Lincoln-Johnson plan, John
Sherman; opposition to it par-
tisan, Senator Cullom, 211;
South accepts plan; senators
and representatives, 214; negro
problem and Jefferson's pre-
diction, 215; apprenticeship
and vagrancy laws, Blaine's at-
tack on, 217
Reconstruction, Congressional, ex-
tremists bent on negro suffrage
when Congress convened in
1865, 212; preparations for;
committee of fifteen; Shella-
barger's appeal to war passions,
215; South denied representa-
tion; Southerners reject Four-
teenth Amendment; Garfield de-
nounces rebel government, 219;
Johnson's reconstructed State
governments swept away; uni-
versal suffrage for negro; South
sends Republicans to Congress,
220; witnesses before "Com-
mittee of Fifteen" rewarded;
Southern counsels divided, 223;
carpet-baggers and scalawags,
224; intolerable political condi-
tions; race issue forced upon
whites, 226; whites recover self-
government, 227
Republican party, the modern;
its origin; Mr. Rhodes on, 138-
139; nominates Frémont and
Dayton; denounces slavery; ex-
citement; defeated, 144
Resources, war, North and South
compared, 191-2-3
Salem Church monument, 9
Santo Domingo, memory of mas-
sacre in, 80
Seceded States, wretched condi-
tions in 1865, 214
Seceding States, desire to pre-
serve Constitution, 179
Secession, early threats of not con-
nected with slavery, 26; Josiah
Quincy threatens, 1811; Massa-
chusetts legislature endorses
him, 28; in early days belief
in general, 28; Massachusetts
legislature threatens, 1844, 29;
eleven States seceded, 179; Prof.
Fite justifies, his ground, 182;
motives for in 1860-1, 183
Self-government restored; local
clashes, no race war; based on
Lincoln's idea, superiority of
white man, 229; constitutional
amendments to restore purity
of ballot, 233; industrial results
amazing, 234-5;
negro vote
small-reasons, 231
Seward, leader of Republican
party, 178
Situation in Alabama in 1835-
letter of John W. Womack, 79
Slavery, Great Britain abolishes,
compensates owners, 39; South's
"calamity not crime," 48; de-
bate in Virginia Assembly, 61
Slaves, protect masters' families
during war, 132-3; a surprise to
North, 133-4
Slave-trade, New England's part
in, 37; South protests against;
sentiment against arises in Eng-
land, sweeps over America, 38
Social conditions South, 155-60
South unwilling to accept idea of
incompatibility of slave and free
States, 94-5; bitterness in, 101;
on defensive-aggressive, 126;
excited; filibustering; importa-
tion of slaves, 145
Spencer, Herbert, slavery once a
necessary phase of human prog-
ress, 237
Sprague, Peleg, on Boston Resolu-
tions, 66
Suffrage, Lincoln thought
Southerners themselves should
control, 203
Sumner, Charles, philippic against
South; Brooks's attack on,
143-4; negro suffrage to give
"Unionists" new allies, 220
Texas, application for admission,
93; Channing threatens seces-
sion if admitted, 94
Tilden, Samuel J., letter to Kent,
secession inevitable if Lincoln
elected, 172-3-4
Underground railroads, Professor
Hart's picture of, 103
Union, the, Webster's great speech
for in 1830, 31; effect of, 32
Union sentiment South; Whigs, 34
"Uncle Tom's Cabin," influence
on Northern sentiment, 129-
133
War, the, nature of, 180
Washington, a Federalist, 18; his
appeal for Union, 30
Webster, on 7th of March, 107;
his sole concession, III; con-
demns personal liberty laws and
Abolitionists, 115; congratu-
lated and denounced, 117;
"Ichabod," 119; Rhodes's esti-
mate of, 122; his speech for
"The Constitution and the
Union"; Wilkinson's estimate
of, 122; E. P. Wheeler's esti-
mate of, 125; Webster's opin-
ion of Abolitionists and Free-
soilers, 126
Welles, Gideon, opinion in 1867 as
to debasing elective franchise,
232
Whites, South, fought fraud with
fraud during Reconstruction, till
Constitution amended continued
it, 232; difficulties of their task,
233; growing spirit of altruism;
school taxes divided pro rata,
234
Wilmot proviso, III
Wisconsin nullifies fugitive slave
law, 178
Women, devotion of during war,
North and South, 195
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