US 2008, 12.7 (6).

HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY
OCT 1 1954

Entered according to Act of Congress in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine
BY CALLAGHAN AND COMPANY,

in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D. C.

DAVID ATWOOD,
PRINTER AND STEREOTYPER,

MADISON, WIS.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

THE DRED SCOTT DECISION.

Annual Message of December 2, 1856.- Uncertainty of Parties.-

Buchanan's Difficult Position.- Buchanan's Blindness.- The

Inaugural Address.- The Address and the Dred Scott Decis-

ion.- History of the Development of the Federal Supreme

Court. Slavery and the Supreme Court of the United States.-

The Dred Scott Case.- History of the Dred Scott Decision.—

Justice Wayne's Statement.- Taney's Statement of the Case

and His Hypotheses. - Can Persons of Color Become Citi-

zens? The Decision Goes Beyond the Record. - Taney's Soph-

isms on the Jurisdiction of Appellate Courts.- Taney and the

Constitution on the Question of Property.-The Decision a

Political Enormity

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CHAPTER II.

THE LECOMPTON CONVENTION.

Split in the Democratic Party. The Cabinet. The Situation in

Kansas. Calling of the Constitutional Convention.- Gov-

ernor Walker.-The Census.-Walker's Intermediation.-- Elec-

tions to the Convention.-- Buchanan's Letter of the 12th of

July to Walker.- Buchanan's Letter of August 15th to the

Connecticut Clergy.- Adjournment of the Convention. - The

Fraudulent Election Lists.- Buchanan's Attitude towards

Walker. Activity of the Convention.-- The Lecompton Con-

stitution.-- Buchanan's Embarrassment. Stanton Calls the

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Legislature

CHAPTER III.

THE ANNUAL MESSAGE OF DECEMBER 8, 1857.

The Message on the Economic Situation.- The New Economic
Life in the United States.- Railway Construction.- The Bank-

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ing System.- Rise of Prices and Increase of Imports. - The

Crash. The Banks.-The Commercial Crisis from a Party

Point of View.- The Financial Situation and the Customs

Tariff of March 3, 1857.- The Annual Message on the Utah

Question. Criticism of Buchanan's Views.- The Mormons

and the Slavery Question. -- Criticism of Buchanan's Course.—

The Posse Comitatus Question.- Employment of the Army.-

Kansas and Utah.- The Mormons Resolved on Resistance.-

The Winter Campaign.- The Message on Foreign Relations.-

The Clayton-Bulwer Treaty.- The Cass-Yrizarri Treaty.-

Buchanan's and the Slavocracy's Attitude towards Walker

CHAPTER IV

THE LECOMPTON CONSTITUTION IN CONGRESS.

Jefferson Davis and Bigler against Douglas.- Douglas's Speech

of the 9th of December.-The Beginning of the End.”—

Douglas and the Administration Democrats.-Stanton's Re-

moval and Walker's Resignation.-- Measures of the Kansas

Legislature. Vote of January 4 and its Meaning. — Demo-

cratic Opposition.- The Southern Radicals.— Material Change

in the General Situation.- The Message on the Nicaragua

Question. Thoughts of Compromise on the Lecompton Ques-

tion.- Message of the 2d of February.- The Prospects of the

Opposition Decrease.— Douglas's Resolutions of the 4th of Feb-

ruary. Session of the Senate on the 15th of March.- Cal-

houn's Letter to the Publisher of the Star.- The Crittenden-

Montgomery Bill.- The Condition of Parties

CHAPTER V.

ENGLISH'S BILL.

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The Leavenworth Convention and the Conference Committee.-

English of Indiana.- English's Speech of the 23d of April and

the Lecompton Ordinance.- The "Shaky Democrats."- The

Land Clause an Attempt at Bribery.- The New Principle of

Reward and Punishment.- The Altered Electoral Commission.

Breach of Faith of the Deserters. Moral Eunuchism

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Utah and the Deficiency Bill.- Kane's Mediation.- Arbitration
of the Utah Question. — Message of the 12th of June and the

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Financial Situation.— Seward's Rochester Speech.— Lincoln's

Course of Development.- Lincoln's Letter of the 15th of Au-

gust, 1855. Senatorial Election in Illinois in 1855.- The Can-

didate Question in Illinois in 1858.- Lincoln's Speech Before

the State Convention.- The Lincoln-Douglas Debate.- Lin-

coln's Position on the Slavery Question.- The Dred Scott De-

cision and Popular Sovereignty.- Lincoln's Criticism of the

Freeport Declaration. — Result and Meaning of the Illinois

Campaign. The Southern Radicals.- The Public Lands and

the Homestead Law.- Danger to Slavery in the Slave States.-

Continued Development of the Slavocratic Spirit.- Slavecratic

Spirit in the Churches and Schools. Slavocratic Definition of

Abolitionism. Agitation of the African Slave Trade. - Yan-

cey's Letter of the 15th of June, 1858
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CHAPTER VII.

THE SECOND SESSION OF THE 35TH CONGRESS.

Annual Message of the 6th of December, 1858, on Kansas. - Ore-

gon Admitted as a State.-Slidell's Thirty-million Bill.-Sii-

dell's Committee Report on the Project to Purchase Cuba.- The

Purchase of Cuba and the Questions of Secession and Slavery.—

Collamer's Refutation of Buchanan and Slidell.- Attitude of

Spain towards the Project of Purchasing Cuba.- Buchanan's

Plans and Wishes.-The Fight over Slidell's Bill in the Senate.-

Brown's Speech of the 23d of February.-The Debate of the

23d of February

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