Abraham Lincoln: A History. 10 vols. Nicolay and Hay. Life of Abraham Lincoln. Herndon and Weik. Life of Abraham Lincoln. Ward H. Lamon. Early Life of Abraham Lincoln. Ida M. Tarbell. Abraham Lincoln. Noah Brooks.
Life of Abraham Lincoln. Isaac N. Arnold.
Administration of President Lincoln. Henry J. Raymond. Abraham Lincoln, a Man of the People. Norman Hapgood. The True Abraham Lincoln. W. E. Curtis.
Life of Lincoln. J. T. Morse.
Memoirs. U. S. Grant.
McClellan's Own Story. G. B. McClellan. The American Conflict. Horace Greeley.
History of the War Between the States. A. H. Stephens. History of the United States from the compromise of 1850.
Lincoln Memorial Bibliography. A. S. Boyd.
Abolitionism, the right way to re- gard, 13.
Abolitionist, Lincoln declared an, 90.
Amnesty, offer of general pardon and, 311.
Anarchy, tendencies toward, 11; relation to secession, 195.
Abolitionists, southern recruits Anderson, W. G., letter to, 28. among, 76.
Admission of states into Union,
Lincoln's position as to, 117,
Africa, return of negroes to, 76,
African slave-trade, forbidden, 77, 78; revival of, by Doug- las's popular sovereignty doc- trine, 146, 147, 196; period of extinguishment of, 154; Dem- ocratic call for revival of, 159. Aliens, Lincoln's attitude toward,
Allen, Col. Robert, letter to, 6. Ambition, Lincoln's personal, 5; misdirected, 12, 15, 275; well directed, 14, 275.
American Baptist home mission society, preamble and resolu- tions of, 299.
American people, patriotism of, 7, 8, 11-15, 191; resources, advantages, and powers of, 276, 310; loyalty of, 203, 204, 308, 309, 316.
Andrews, -, sentenced to be shot for desertion, 291. Antietam, battle of, 259. Apprenticeship of negroes, 273,
Army of the Potomac, McClel- lan's plans for movement of, contrasted with the president's, 216; McClellan relieved from command of, 260; congratula- tions to, 269; Hooker assigned to command, 275.
Asbury, Henry, letter to, 136. Ashmun, George, letter to, 176. Assassination, reason for, 163. Atlanta, Ga., Sherman's march
to Savannah from, 313. Autobiography of the president, 104, 327.
Baker, Col. E. D., Campbellite influence for, 47; patriotism of, 265. Baltimore, Md., address at sani- tary fair in, 295. Banks, Maj.-Gen. Nathaniel P.,
letter to, regarding impedi- menta, 263.
Barnburners, support Gen. Tay. lor, 60.
Bedell, Grace, letter to, 178. Belmont, August, letter to,
Bible, as authority for slavery, 125, 148.
Bixby, Mrs., mother of five sons killed in battle for the Union, letter to, 308.
Black Hawk war, Lincoln's ser- vice in, 64, 104.
Black Republicanism, southern definition of, 161.
Blair, Frank P., Jr., gradual emancipation scheme, 130. Bramlette, Thomas E., governor of Kentucky, conversation with, regarding working of emanci- pation, 293.
Brooks, Preston S., on slavery, 132, 135.
Brown, Gratz, gradual eman- cipation scheme, 130. Brown, John, war-cry of Demo- crats against Republicans, 160; Republicans not implicated, 160, 161; peculiarity of his insurrection, 163.
Browning, O. H., 57, 107; letter to, 209.
Browning, Mrs. O. H., letter to,
Burnside, Maj.-Gen. Ambrose E., letter to, 281.
Butler, Maj.-Gen. B. F., feeds negroes at New Orleans, 251; in Louisiana, 262.
Cabinet, Seward declares that there must be union in the, 200; question of dismissing a member of the, 302; disap- proves the recommendation of appropriation of money for the southern states, 316. Cameron, Simon, suggests arm-- ing of negroes, 294. Canisius, Theodore, letter to, 143. Capital, relation of labor and, 213, 214.
Cass, Gen. Lewis, invasion of Canada, 64; eating and work-
ing capacities of, 65-67. Central America, question of ne- gro colonization in, 246, 247. Chase, Salmon P., Lincoln's opin- ion of, 147, 175.
Chicago, Ill., fragment of speech at Republican banquet, 93; speech at, 105; speech at, 139 ; Republican national conven- tion at, 176; reply to commit- tee from religious denomina- tions of, asking the president to issue a proclamation of emancipation, 250. Cincinnati, Ohio, speech at, 147. Clay, Henry, campaign work for, in Indiana, 48; on annexation of Texas, 51; presidential pos- sibilities, 57; influence on Tay-
lor's nomination, 57; an "old horse turned out to root," 62; failure to effect gradual eman- cipation, 86; position on sla- very, 115; Lincoln's beau-ideal, 115; on slavery in district of Columbia, 119.
Cleveland, Ohio, address at, 184.
Colfax, Schuyler, letter to, 144. Colonization of negroes, question of. 76, 103, 114, 233; address to deputation of colored men on, 243.
Colored troops, at Jacksonville, Fla., 278; their weight in the Union scale, 278, 286, 303, 304; employment of, 287, 294, 297; the president desires appoint- ment of Jacob Freese to a reg- iment of, 289; massacre of, at Fort Pillow, 296; the duty of the government toward, 297; numbers in the Union service, 304; their hope of reward, 304; attempted employment of, by Confederates, 321.
Columbus, O., speech at, 147; address to Ohio legislature at, 183.
Compensated emancipation, rec- ommended to congress, 217, 225, 285; economy of the scheme, 219; would shorten the war, 219; appeal to border state representatives in behalf of, 232; preliminary proclama- tion regarding absolute, 254. Compromise of 1850, 75, 82, 85,
89; a full settlement of the slavery question, 81. Confederate States of America, desire for peace and reunion in, 314; scheme of appropriation of money for, 315.
Confederate troops, prayer among,
Conkling, James C., letter to, regarding Union mass meeting to be held at Springfield, Ill.,
Cooper institute, New York, speech at, 157-169. Cotton-gin, effect of its preven- tion on slavery, 132, 135.
Declaration of Independence, rights, equality with whites, status, etc., of negroes under, 75, 99, 109, 111, 113, 115, 124, 126, 156, 170; the negro's share in framing, 96; mutilation of, 97; Lincoln's interpretation of, 99, 100; its ultimate purpose, 100; called a "self-evident lie," 84, 86, 124, 141, 203; wellspring of Lincoln's politi- cal sentiments, 187; continued the federal union, 192.
Deist, Lincoln suspected of being a, 47. Delahay, M. W., letter to, 142. Delaware, estimated cost of emancipation in, 219. Democratic party, vulnerable point of, 25; sheltered under Gen. Jackson's military coat- tail, 62; views on slavery, 103,
129-131; degradation of ne- groes by, 103; exultation over defeat of Blair in Missouri, 130.
Dictators, who can set up, 276. Dictionary of congress, brief au-
tobiography for, 104. Divine purpose, 308, 318. Divine truth and justice, 198. Divine will, meditation on the, 257.
Dixon, Senator James, conversa- tion with, concerning emanci- pation, 293.
Douglas, Stephen A., fracas with Francis, 27; Lincoln's speech at Peoria, Ill., in reply to, 75– 85; purpose to nationalize slavery, 75, 146; bill to organ- ize Kansas and Nebraska, 75- 85, 89, 98; on equality of ne- groes and whites, 98, 102; claims that negroes were not included in Declaration of In- dependence, 99, 126, 156; of- fended with Lincoln's state- ment as to "house divided against itself," 105, 106; per- verts Lincoln's position in vari- ous speeches, 106, 112; don't care policy, 110, 115, 130, 133, 169, 173; construction of the Declaration of Independence, 110, 113, 126, 156; influence of, 115, 125, 156; position regard- ing status of slavery according to the fathers and the Constitu- tion, 132, 135; on slavery in the Territories, 131, 133, 152, 154; position as between negro
and crocodile, 149, 173; popular sovereignty, 152; essay in Harper's Magazine, 153. See also Joint Debates, Negroes, Popular Sovereignty, Slavery, and other topics of discussion. Dred Scott decision, Lincoln on the, 96-102, 110, 128, 156; Douglas's position on, 96-102,
Duel, arrangements for, with Gen. Shields, 45.
Durant, Thomas J., letter to Cuthbert Bullitt from, 236.
Election of 1860, views on fusion for, 142, 143, 175; danger of local issues in, 144, 145, 146; use of money in, 175; nomina- tion of Lincoln for the presi- dency, 176.
Emancipation, plans for gradual, 77, 86, 130, 162, 216, 232, 254; Henry Clay on, 115; Washing- ton on, 158; Jefferson on, 162; effect of, on suppression of re- bellion, 217; compensated, 217, 219, 225, 232, 254, 285; mili- tary, 224, 294; appeals to border states for, 232, 294; letter to Greeley on, 248; reply to com- mittee from religious denomi- nations of Chicago asking issu- ance of proclamation of, 250; its effect in Europe, 252; brings on the crisis of the contest, 291; unaccompanied by servile insurrection, 290; conversa- tion with Gov. Bramlette and
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