INDEX

Abolitionism, the right way to re Amnesty, offer of general pardon
gard, 13.

and, 311.
Abolitionist, Lincoln declared an, Anarchy, tendencies toward, 11 ;
90.

relation to secession, 196.
Abolitionists, southern recruits Anderson, W. G., letter to, 28.
among, 76

Andrews, sentenced to be
Admission of states into Union, shot for desertion, 291.

Lincoln's position as to, 117, Antietam, battle of, 259.
118.

Apprenticeship of negroes, 873,
Africa, return of negroes to, 76, 321.
103.

Army of the Potomac, McClel-
African slave-trade, forbidden, lan's plans for movement of,

77, 78, revival of, by Doug- contrasted with the president's,
las's popular sovereignty doc 216; McClellan relieved from
trine, 146, 147, 196 ; period of command of, 260; congratula-
extinguishment of, 154 ; Dem- tions to, 269; Hooker assigned

ocratic call for revival of, 159, to command, 276.
Aliens, Lincoln's attitude toward, Asbury, Henry, letter to, 136.
143.

Ashmun, George, letter to, 176.
Allen, Col. Robert, letter to, 6. Assassination, reason for, 163.
Ambition, Lincoln's personal, 6; Atlanta, Ga., Sherman's march

misdirected, 12, 15, 276; well to Savannah from, 313.
directed, 14, 275.

Autobiography of the president,
American Baptist home mission 104, 327.

letter to, regarding impedi- Burnside, Maj. Gen. Ambrose E.,
menta, 263.

letter to, 281.
Barnburners, support Gen. Tay- Butler, Maj. Gen. B. F., feeds
lor, 60.

negroes at New Orleans, 251;
Bedell, Grace, letter to, 178. in Louisiana, 262.
Belmont, August, letter to,
239.

Cabinet, Seward declares that
Bible, as authority for slavery, there must be union in the,
125, 148.

200 ; question of dismissing a
Bixby, Mrs., mother of five sons member of the, 302 ; disap-

killed in battle for the Union, proves the recommendation of
letter to, 308.

appropriation of money for the
Black Hawk war, Lincoln's ser- southern states, 316.
vice in, 64, 104.

Cameron, Simon, suggests arm-
Black Republicanism, southern ing of negroes, 294.
definition of, 161.

Canisius, Theodore, letter to, 143.
Blair, Frank P., Jr., gradual Capital, relation of labor and,
emancipation scheme, 130.

213, 214.
Bramlette, Thomas E., governor Cass, Gen. Lewis, invasion of

of Kentucky, conversation with, Canada, 64; eating and work.
regarding working of emanci- ing capacities of, 65-67.
pation, 293.

Central America, question of ne-
Brooks, Preston S., on slavery, gro colonization in, 246, 247.
132, 135.

Chase, Salmon P., Lincoln's opin-
Brown, Gratz, gradual eman- ion of, 147, 175.
cipation scheme, 130.

Chicago, II., fragment of speech
Brown, John, war-cry of Demo at Republican banquet, 93 ;

crats against Republicans, 160 3 speech at, 105 ; speech at, 139 ;
Republicans not implicated, Republican national conven-
160, 161; peculiarity of his tion at, 176; reply to commit-
insurrection, 163.

tee from religious denomina-
Browning, O. H., 67, 107 ; letter tions of, asking the president
to, 209.

to issue a proclamation of
Browning, Mrs. O. H., letter to,

emancipation, 250.
21.

Cincinnati, Ohio, speech at, 147.
Buchanan, James, Pierce's opin- Clay, Henry, campaign work for,

lor's nomination, 67 ; an “old 89; a full settlement of the
horse turned out to root," 62 ; slavery question, 81.
failure to effect gradual eman- Confederate States of America,
cipation, 86 ; position on bla- desire for peace and reunion in,
very, 115; Lincoln's beau-ideal, 314 ; scheme of appropriation
116; on slavery in district of of money for, 315.
Columbia, 119.

Confederate troops, prayer among,
Cleveland, Ohio, address at, 250.
184.

Conkling, James C., letter to,
Colfax, Schuyler, letter to, 144. regarding Union mass meeting
Colonization of negroes, question to be beld at Springfield, Ill.,

3

257.

129–181 , degradation of ne- and crocodile, 149, 173; popular
groes by, 103 ; exultation over sovereignty, 152 ; essay in

defeat of Blair in Missouri, 130. Harper's Magazine, 153. See
Dictators, who can set up, 276. also Joint Debates, Negroes,
Dictionary of congress, brief au- Popular Sovereignty, Slavery,
tobiography for, 104.

and other topics of discussion.
Divine purpose, 308, 318.

Dred Scott decision, Lincoln on
Divine truth and justice, 198.

the, 96-102, 110, 128, 156 ;
Divine will, meditation on the, Douglas's position on, 96-102,

110.
Dixon, Senator James, conversa- Duel, arrangements for, with Gen.

tion with, concerning emanci- Shields, 45.
pation, 293.

Durant, Thomas J., letter to
Douglas, Stephen A., fracas with Cuthbert Bullitt from, 236.

Francis, 27 ; Lincoln's speech
at Peoria, Il., in reply to, 75- Election of 1860, views on fusion
85; purpose to nationalize for, 142, 143, 175; danger of
slavery, 75, 146 ; bill to organ- local issues in, 144, 145, 146 ;
ize Kansas and Nebraska, 75– use of money in, 175; nomina-
85, 89, 98 ; on equality of ne- tion of Lincoln for the presi-
groes and whites, 98, 102; dency, 176.
claims that negroes were not Emancipation, plans for gradual,
included in Declaration of In- 77, 86, 130, 162, 216, 232, 254 ;
dependence, 99, 126, 156 ; of- Henry Clay on, 115; Washing-
fended with Lincoln's state- ton on, 158; Jefferson on, 162;
ment as to "house divided

effect of, on suppression of re-
against itself,” 105, 106 ; per- bellion, 217; compensated, 217,
verts Lincoln's position in vari- 219, 225, 232, 254, 285 ; mili-
ous speeches, 106, 119; don't

tary, 294, 294; appeals to border
care policy, 110, 115, 130, 133, states for, 232, 294 ; letter to
169, 173; construction of the Greeley on, 248 ; reply to com-
Declaration of Independence, mittee from religious denomi-
110, 113, 126, 156; influence of, nations of Chicago asking issu-
115, 125, 156; position regard- ance of proclamation of, 250 ;
ing status of slavery according its effect in Europe, 252 ; brings
to the fathers and the Constitu- on the crisis of the contest,
tion, 132, 135; on slavery in 291 ; unaccompanied by servile
the Territories, 131, 133, 152, insurrection, 290 ; conversa-
164; position as between negro tion with Gov. Bramlette and

Senator Dixon on working of, tion, 192; unbroken by ordi-
293; letter to A. G. Hodges nances of secession, 192 ; physi-
concerning working of, 293 ; cal reasons against secession,
the test for complainers of, 196; confederate · avowal of
294 ; results of a year of trial, purpose to sever, 201; its in-
294 ; its purpose to save the tegrity the primary object of