tempt at military emancipation,
294.
Frémont, Mrs. J. C., letter to, 209.
Fugitive-slave law, Lincoln's po-
sition on, 77, 116, 118; attitude
of New Hampshire and Ohio
on, 145, 146; enforcement of,
184, 189, 190; effect of seces-
sion on, 190.
Fugitive slaves, constitutional
provision for, 189.

Galena, Ill., speech at, 90.
Galloway, Samuel, letters to, 146,

175.

Gasparin, Count, letter to, 240.
Gettysburg, battle of, letter to
Gen. Meade after, 279; address
at, 289.
Grant, Lt. Gen., correspondence

with, 279, 298, 302, 307, 313,
314; letter of acknowledgment
of services at Vicksburg, 279;
his business and fighting quali-
ties, 281; letter of thanks to,
298; declaration "I am go-
ing through on this line if it
takes all summer," 301; de-
spatch to, recommending a bull-
dog grip on the enemy, 302;
letter to, respecting Robert Lin-
coln's desire to enter the service,
313; tribute to, 320.
Greeley, Horace, letter to, 248;

99

attacks the government on ac-
count of captured negroes, 252.
Gunther, C. F., Lincoln collection
of, 137.
Gurney, Mrs. E. P., letter to, 306.

Hackett, J. H., letters to, 283,
289.

Hahn, Michael, letter to, 291.
Hale, J. T., letter to, 181.
Hamlin, Hannibal, letter to, 256.
Harper's ferry, raid charged to
Republican party, 160, 161, 163.
Harper's Magazine, Douglas's es-
say in, 153.

Henry, Dr. A. G., letter to, 136.
Herndon, W. H., letters to, 50,

51, 60, 61; pecuniary matters
with, 50.

Hodges, A. G., letter to, 293.
Hooker, Col. J., letter to, on his
taking command of the army
of the Potomac, 275; plan of
campaign against Richmond,
278.

“House divided against itself can
not stand," 86, 104, 105.
Howard, Gen. O. O., letter to,
281.

Human freedom, test of a govern-
ment founded on the principles
of, 276, 277, 289.
Hunter, Gen. D., correspondence
with, 208, 278; asked to go to
Frémont's assistance, 208; rev-
ocation of order of military
emancipation, 224-226, 294;
commanding colored force in
Florida, 278.

Ide, Dr., letter to, 299.
Illinois, election questions in, 5;
slavery resolutions in legisla-
ture, 18; Whig prospects in,
1840, 27; doubtful for Taylor,

50; nomination of Lincoln for
U. S. senatorship, 104; elec-
tion of Douglas to U. S. senate,
136; the president's home pride
in, 212.

Illinois house of representatives,
remarks before, 25.
Inaugural addresses, the first,
188; the second, 316, 319.
Independence hall, address in,
187.

Indiana, poetry reminiscent of
early life in, 48; address to an
Indiana regiment, 319.
Indianapolis, address at, 182.

Jackson, Andrew, the shelter of

his military coat-tail, 62; no
sectionalism and election of, 92.
Jefferson, Thomas, invitation. to
Boston on his birthday, 140;
his definitions and axioms of
free society, 140–142 ; on grad-
ual emancipation, 162.
Johnson, Reverdy, letter to, 235.
Johnston, letters to, 47, 50.
Johnston, John D., letters to, 70,
72.

Joint debates, Ottawa, 114;
Freeport, 116; Charleston, 122,
123; Quincy, 127, 132; Alton,
133.

Judd, Norman B., letter to, 135.

Kansas, bill for territorial
govern-
ment, 75; the slavery question
in, 88, 89, 90, 147; Speed's
position on border warfare, 87;
speeches in, 1-5 Dec. 1859, 152.

chise in, 292; opening of public
schools in, equally to black and
white, 324; ratifies the 13th
amendment, 325.

Lynch law, horrors of, 7–17.

McClellan, correspondence with,
216, 221, 223, 226, 227, 228,
230, 231, 232, 249, 250, 257,
259; his plans for the army
of the Potomac contrasted with
the president's, 216; com-
plains of being improperly sus-
tained, 221; forces under his
command, 221; urged to action
by the president, 222; relations
with his generals, 223; opposi-
tion to army corps organization,
223; loss of confidence in, 224;
question of attacking Richmond
or moving to a defence of Wash-
ington, 226; inquiry concerning
Porter's expedition, 227; fears
of being overwhelmed, 228;
serious reverse before Rich-
mond, 228, 229; remonstrance
against his demand for 50,000
troops, 230; possibility of fall-
ing back to Fortress Monroe,
230; reinforcements from Hun-
ter for, 231; thanks to, 232;
difference between secretary of
war and, 242; over-cautious-
ness of, 257; dread of confede-
rate invasion of Pennsylvania,
258; sharp question to, respect-
ing action, 260; relieved from
command, 260; president's dis-
satisfaction with, 265.

McClernand, Brig.-Gen. J. A.,
correspondence with, 212, 272;
thanks to, for services in the
field, 212.

McDougall, J. A., letter to, 219.
McDowell, Maj.-Gen. Irvin, as

signed to defence of Washing-
ton, 221.
Manchester, Eng., letter to the
workingmen of, Jan. 19, 1863,
273.

Mann, Mrs. Horace, letter to, 295.
Massachusetts, free-negro vote in,
96; movement against foreign-
ers in, 143, 145.

Meade, Gen. George G., letter to,
after Gettysburg, 279.
Memory, verses on, 48.
Memphis, Tenn., Douglas speaks
at, 149.

Merryman, Dr. E. H., Lincoln's
second in Shields affair, 45.
Methodist delegation, reply to a,

298.

Mexican war, Lincoln's position
on, 52-56, 58, 59.
Miscegenation, natural disgust at,
98; Lincoln's views on, 103,
121, 122.

Mob law, 7-17.

Morris, Martin M., letter to, 46.
Moulton, letter to,233.
Mulattos, slavery the principal
cause of their existence, 103.

National union league, reply to a
delegation from, 300.
Native Americans, support Gen.
Taylor, 60.

Naturalization, Lincoln's views

on Massachusetts' constitu-
tional provision in regard to,
143.

Nebraska, question of slavery in,

75, 77, 80, 82.
Nebraska bill, Lincoln's position
on, 75, 85, 89, 98, 107.
Negroes, lynch law for, 10; their
temperament a paradox, 29;
rights of, under Declaration of
Independence, 75, 99, 109, 111,
115, 126, 156, 170; social and
political equality between
whites and, 76, 98, 100, 101,
112, 113, 114, 121; colonization
of, 76, 103, 114, 233, 243; hu-
manity of, 77-79, 80, 100, 101;
number of free, 78; status in
1776, 86, 96; status under Dred
Scott decision, 97; position of
Democratic and Republican par-
ties toward, 103; as voters, 121,
123; injustice of whites to, 124;
Lincoln's position between
whites and, 149; Douglas's po-
sition between crocodiles and,
149, 173; objection to the
presence of free, 943, 944; de-
clared free Jan. 1, 1863, 270 ₫
question of arming the, 286,
287, 294, 304; as soldiers, 287,
290; Secretary Cameron ad-
vised arming of, 294; laying
strong hands on, 294. See also
Colored Troops, Freed Men,
Miscegenation, Slavery, Slaves,

etc.

Negro suffrage, Lincoln charged

with favoring, 123; Lincoln's
views on, 121, 147, 292.
New England, blamed for John
Brown's raid, 163.

New Hampshire, free-negro vote
in, 96; movement to make obe-
dience to fugitive slave law
punishable as crime, 145.
New Haven, Conn., speech at,
169-174.

New Jersey, free-negro vote in,

96; address to the senate and
assembly of, 185; opposition to
Republican principles in, 186.
New Salem, Ill., announcement
of political views at, 5.
New York state, probable vote for

Clay, 57; free-negro vote in, 96.
New York "Times," letter to edi-
tor of, 219.

New York "Tribune," letter to the
president from Horace Greeley
in, 248.

North, allegation of sectionalism
against, 91,157,158; no natural
antagonism against the south,
151,152.

North Carolina, free-negro vote
in, 96.

Ohio, attitude toward fugitive-

Peace, the president's conditions

for, 314.

Peck, Rev. J. M., letter to, 58.
Peoria, Ill., speech at, 75–85.
Perpetuation of political institu-
tions, 7-17.

Pettit, Sen. John, declares the
equality clause of the Declara-
tion of Independence "a self-
evident lie," 84, 86, 141.
Philadelphia, address in Inde-
pendence hall, 187, 188; speech
at a sanitary fair in, 300.
Pickett, Thomas J., letter to, 142.
Pierce, Franklin, no sectionalism

in election of, 92; annual mes-
sage of 1856, 93.

Pierce, H. L., letter to, 140.
Poetry, difference between poeti-
cal feeling and poetical expres-
sion, 48; reminiscences of early
life in Indiana, 48.
Politics, importance of young
men in, 60, 61.
Polk, J. K., president of the
United States, attitude, actions,
etc., on the Mexican war, 52-
56.

Popular sovereignty, war cry of
Douglas's campaign against
Lincoln, 79; Douglas's doc-
trine of, carried to logical con-
clusion, revives African slave
trade, 146; Douglas's doctrine
of, 152-157, 159; definition of
a genuine, 152; the sugar-
coated name for policy of in-
difference regarding slavery,
173.

Presidency, Lincoln's opinion of
his fitness for, 142; nomina-
tion to, 176; responsibilities
of the, 182, 183.

Railroads, views on construct-
ing, 6.
Rappahannock river, Gen. Mc-
Clellan's plans for movement
by way of, 216.
Raymond, H. J., letter to,

219.

Reed, Rev. A., letter to, 277.
Religious denominations of Chi-
cago, reply to committee from,
asking the issuance of emanci-
pation proclamation, 250.
Republican party, position on
slavery, 99, 103, 127, 129, 157,
169, 171; non-interference with
slavery where it exists, 128, 167,
169, 178, 180, 194; Lincoln's
views on fusion for 1860, 143;
danger in national convention
from local issues, 145, 146;
mistaken ideas about, 150-
152; southern opinion of, 157;
charged with being revolution-
ary, 160; propose no violation
of the Constitution, 164; nomi-
nates Lincoln for president,
176; position of, in January
1861, 181.
Republics, is there an inherent
weakness in, 202.
Richmond, Va., McClellan be-
fore, plans for movements and
his operations, 221, 223, 226,
227, 228, 229, 230, 231, 258;