man, too, in seeing all united for him, is inspired with vigilance, and energy, and daring, to the same end. Grant that he desires the elective franchise, will he not attain it sooner by saving the already advanced steps toward it than by running backward over them? Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be as the egg is to the fowl, we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it. Speech on Reconstruction; April 11, 1865.

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INDEX

[NOTE: L. is the abbreviation of Lincoln.]

ABOLITION. See Slavery.

Agriculture, advantages of thorough cultivation, 89, 94;
agricultural fairs a social bond, 89.

Alton, Ill., debate with Douglas at, 72.

Army, The (for Negro soldiers, see Slavery), on
military dictatorship, 156; L. disparages contention
about rank, 140, 158; instigators of desertion worthier
of punishment than deserters, 160; draft is constitu-
tional, 163; triumphs of, 165; soldiers consecrate
their lives, 166.

Baltimore, Md., remarks at sanitary fair in, 168.
Banks. See Finance.

Baptists, letter to committee of, 169.

Bible, The, all sufficient for present and future life,

171.

Bixby, Mrs., letter to, 173.

Bloomington, Ill., speech before First Republican Con-
vention at, 43.

Border State Representatives, appeal to, 141.

Browning, O. H., letter to, 134.

Buchanan, James, accepts doctrine of "State equality,"
conspirator in re Dred Scott decision, 53.

Ca isius, Dr. Theodore, letter to, 80.
Cap al. See Labor.

Cass, Lewis, burlesque of his military career, 21.
Charleston, Ill., debate with Douglas at, 65.

hicago, Ill., speech at Republican banquet in, Dec.
10, 1856, 46; speech at, July 10, 1858, 54; remarks
to representatives of churches in, 145.

Christian Commission, L. endorses, 157.

Cincinnati, O., speech at, Sept. 17, 1859, 83; remarks
to Germans at, Feb. 12. 1861, 117.

Clay, Henry, eulogy of, 25; in favor of gradual eman-
cipation, 25, 40.

Clinton, Ill., speech at, 61.
Columbus, O., speech at, 82.

Condolence, letter of, to Miss Fannie McCullough,
153; letter of, to Mrs. Bixby, 173.

Congress, speech in, on President Polk, 15; speech in,
on internal improvements, 16; speech in, on military
heroes, 20.

Conkling, James C., letter to, 164.

Constitution, The. See Slavery.

Cooper Union, New York, speech at, 104.
Corning, Erastus, and others, letter to, 160.
Crittenden, J. J., letter to, 76.

Declaration of Independence (see also Slavery),
enemies of, 78; valid for all time, 79; L. would be
assassinated rather than give up its principles, 122;
hope of the country and the world, 122.
Delahay, M. W., letter to, 79

Democratic Party (see also Douglas, Stephen A.),
Whigs contrasted with Democrats. 4; in New York
an equally divided gang of nugs," 21; has ex-
changed coats with Republican party, 77; puts dollar
before the man, 77, bushwhacking tactics of, 111.
Discoveries, Inventions, and Improvements, lecture
on, 96.

Divine Will, meditation on the, 150.

Douglas, Senator Stephen A., L. attacks his popular
sovereignty theory, 34; L. replies to him at Spring-
field, June 26, 1857, 48; his version of the Declara-
tion of Independence, 50; conspirator in re Dred
Scott decision, 53; L. replies to him at Chicago,
July 10, 1858, 54; L. contrasts himself with, 59; de-
bate with L. at Jonesboro, 62; debate with L. at
Charleston, 65; debate with L. at Quincy, 70; debate
with L. at Alton, 72; dangerous enemy of liberty,
81; contrasted with Jefferson, 82; L. denounces
his paralell between negro and crocodile, 83, 84, 110.
Dred Scott Decision. See Slavery.

Durley, Williamson, letter to, 11.

Education, basis of enduring prosperity, 93, 95.
Edwardsville, Ill., speech at, 61.

Emancipation. See Slavery.

Emancipation Proclamation, Preliminary, 149.

Fashion, influence of, 6.

Fast Day, proclamation of, March 30, 1863, 158.

Finance, L. in candidacy for Illinois legislature an-
nounces himself in favor of national bank, 1; L. op-
poses examination of State Bank without legislative
authority, ; tax on bank circulation, 154; necessary
inequalities in taxation, 170.

Fisher, C. H., letter to, 115.

Fletcher, Governor Thomas C., letter to, 174.
"Fooling the People," remark on, 61.

Free Trade. See Tariff.

Frémont, General John C., L. opposes his or of
military emancipation, 135.

Fugitive Slave Law. See Slavery.

Galena, Ill., speech at, 44.

Galesburg, Ill., debate with Douglas at, 66.
Galloway, Samuel, letter to, 80.

Gentry, Matthew (an insane friend of L.), poem on, 13.
Gettysburg, Pa., dedication of National Cemetery at,
166.

Government (see also Slavery), object of, to secure
to labor its product, 9; notes on, 27; rests on public
opinion, 46; central idea of, is human equality, 46;
L. endorses principle of greatest good to greatest num-
ber, 118; supreme control should be vested in one
person, 136; liberty versus tyranny, 168; elections a
necessity of free, 171.

Greeley, Horace, letter to, 144.

Gurney, Mrs., reply to an address by, 149.

Hammond, J. H., his "mud-sill" theory, 90.

Hartford, Ct., speech at, 108.

rienry, Dr. A. G, letter to, 76.

Herndon, William H., letter to, 19.

Homestead Law. L. endorses, 118.

Hooker, General Joseph, letter to, 155.

Hunter, General David, letter to, 140.

Immigrants, no discrimination against, 80, 118.

Inaugural Address, First, on March 4, 1861, 122.

Inaugural Address, Second, on March 4, 1861, 175; L.'s

comments on, 176.

Tadiana Legislature, remarks to, 177.

Indiana Regiment, remarks to an, 177.
Indianapolis, Ind., remarks at, 116.

Internal Improvements, L. in candidacy for Illinois
legislature announces himself in favor of, 1 ; speech in
Congress on, June 20, 1848, 16; reply to charge of
inequality in, 17; absurdity of paying for them with
tonnage duties, 18.

Invention, Adam an inventor, 97; of speech, 98; of
writing, 100; of printing, 102; aided by discovery of
America, 104; aided by patent laws, 104.

Jackson, Andrew, Democracy's sole Presidential ma-
terial, 20.

Jefferson, Thomas, letter to Jefferson Dinner Commit-
tee of Boston, on, 76; contrasted with Stephen A.
Douglas, 82.

Johnson, Governor Andrew, letter to, 158.

Johnston, William, letter to, April 18, 1846, 11; letter
to, Sept. 6, 1846.

Jonesboro, Ill., debate with Douglas at, 62.

Know-nothing, L. not a, 43.

Labor (see also Government, Slavery), gives title to
product, 9; in relation to tariff, 9; free, versus slave,
27, 86, 90, 114; relation to capital, 90, 137; Ham-
mond's "mud-sill " theory, 90, 93;' strikes justifiable,
113; workingmen the basis of all governments, 117;
wanting to work should be encouraged, 136, 170;
workingmen should cherish their political rights, 139;
solidarity of English and American laborers, 154; re-
lation to property, 168.

Law, notes for a lecture on, 23.
Leavenworth, Kans., speech at, 95.
Lewiston, Ill., speech at, 60.

Lincoln, Abraham, poem on, by Lowell, vii; considers
himself an old man, 19; in Black Hawk war, 20; as a
lawyer, 23; as a hired laborer, 27, 114: personal ex-
perience with slavery, 42; still a Whig, Aug. 24,
1855, 42; votes for Wilmot proviso, 42; not a Know-
Nothing, 43; contrasts himself with Douglas, 59;
avows his high motives in senatorial contest, 60; his
feelings upon defeat for Senate, 76; youthful im-
pressions on reading Weems's Washington, 121; his
trust in Providence, 149, 150.

Louisiana, reconstruction in, 178.

Lowell. James Russell, poem on L., vii.

Madison, James, avows word slave ought not to appear
in Constitution, 43.

McCullough, Miss Fannie, letter to, 153.

Manchester, England, letter to workingmen of, 154.
Message to Congress, in special session, July 4, 1861,
126; First Annual, Dec. 3, 1861, 136; Second An
nual, Dec. 1, 1862, 151; on U. S. notes, Jan. 17
1863, 154.