A

Abolitionists, 174, 289, 290, 305,
396

Adams, Charles Francis, minister
to England during Civil War,
420-424

Anti-slavery days, 326, 327, 392,
393

B

Benjamin, Judah P., 121, 122
British Government and United
States, their relations during
Civil War period, 41, 42, 50-
53, 210, 222, 223, 303, 305,
331, 420-423, 425, 514

Brown, Hon. George, founder and
editor of The Toronto Globe,
46, 47, 49, 50, 52

Brown, John, 45.

с

Canada, Lincoln's significance to,

and political situation in, 35,
42-44, 46, 47, 49, 50; slavery
in, 44, 46; refuge for fugitive
slaves, 44, 45; Southerners
and their sympathizers go to,
at outbreak of war, 47, 48;
attitude of, during Civil War,
47, 48

Canadians in Union Army, 48, 49
Carr, Col. Clark E., 65
Cautious men, 20

Chase, Salmon P., 302, 303, 419,
503, 504

Civil War, closed, 12; causes
which made inevitable, 33;
had its counterpart in Can-
ada, 43; attitude of Canada
during, 47, 48; Lincoln and
Grant during, 144-147; out-
break of, 302, 329, 330, 348,
446, 452; conduct of, 304,
331; cost of, 306; a "peo-
ple's war," 450; attitude of
England toward, see British
Government and United
States, their relations during
Civil War period; attitude of
Italy toward, 533
Congress, Lincoln's relations with,

66

500, 501, 504, 505; in recon-
struction period, 502, 503
Conversation, the business of life,
19

"Cotton, King," as determining
agent in war, 51, 52, 286, 287,
514

D

Darwin, Charles, as great contem-

porary of, and compared with,
Lincoln, 15, 16, 78, 310, 410-
412

Davis, David, 69, 162, 208
Davis, Jefferson, 38, 48, 262
Democracy in North America, 35,
37-43, 46, 47, 53, 54
Democratic party, 69, 141, 142
Douglas, Stephen A., 117, 121, 122,

162, 288, 324, 378, 393, 394,
398, 409; see also under Lin-
coln, debates with Douglas

family of, 319, 410, 483
belonged by birth to South, 59,

73, 134, 176, 264, 497

youth of, 16, 17, 19, 59-61, 73,

114, 131-134, 154, 175, 178,
179, 192, 195, 256, 261, 267,
268, 294-298, 319-321, 343,
362-364, 376, 389, 390
self-trained, and investigating

for himself, 59, 61, 63, 131-
134, 138, 160, 176, 178, 193,
296-298, 320, 321, 363, 364,
377

education, see self-trained, etc.
personal appearance, 22, 70, 71,
277, 309, 318, 517

story of his life familiar, 14,

34, 154, 280, 343
language used by, 59, 61, 66, 67,
120, 121, 138, 278, 297, 335,
336, 420-422; see also as
orator

stories told concerning, 19, 116,
120, 300, 307, 308, 339, 404,
487, 525

wit and humor of, 20, 21, 81,
172, 173, 188, 299, 307, 308,
335, 486

story-telling

characteristic of,

21, 80, 307, 394
characteristics of, 18-32, 34, 36,
54, 55, 61-64, 68, 71-73, 114-
122, 138, 159-162, 172, 173,
176-178, 193, 201, 202, 211,
220, 242, 255-260, 263-266,
282-285, 298-304, 306-310,
318, 321, 329, 330, 334-342,
356, 364-369, 376-381, 394,
395, 451, 453, 456, 457, 462-
467, 474-478, 486-488, 490,
500, 501, 503, 504, 513, 514,
517, 524, 525

of frontierman and pioneer type,

22, 23, 60-64, 66, 319, 389
patent taken out by, 61

his belief in dreams, 74, 486
religion of, 81, 125-127, 282,

admission to the bar and law
practice, 154-165, 171, 201,
203-209, 211, 225-227, 268,
296-300, 322, 323, 378
in State legislature, 154, 159,
165, 166, 175, 204-207, 300,
321, 322, 325, 377, 378, 447
speeches (other than debates
and Cooper Institute speech),
Bloomington, 1856 and 1858,
225, 228, 232-238, 395-397;
Springfield, 1858, 234
"lost speech," 238, 396
senatorial campaign of 1858, 36,
141, 186, 285, 325, 327, 397-
399, 408, 443

debates with Douglas, 83, 120,
135, 140-142, 171, 176, 177,
185-188, 210, 234, 268, 285,
301, 302, 325, 327, 336, 339,
368, 378, 391, 393-395, 399-
407, 443, 497

Cooper Institute speech, 135, 136,

171, 176, 177, 234, 277, 278,
281, 285, 286, 328, 336, 337,
408, 443
nomination and presidential cam-
paign, 68-70, 177, 185, 191,
236, 277, 281, 295, 302, 328,
444

as President, 37, 38, 171, 172,

210, 302, 303, 307, 309, 329,
378, 381, 445-448, 451, 452
abused and lampooned, 11, 62,

68, 70, 71, 123, 124, 258, 347,
348, 355, 366-368, 375, 376,
380, 452, 497

First Inaugural Address, 39, 121,

127, 139, 152, 163, 168, 192,
221, 255, 264, 337, 445, 481,
496

Second Inaugural Address, 59,
149, 218, 268, 269, 297, 321,
337, 369

Gettysburg address, 57, 59, 64-