The Abolition Crusade and Its Consequences: Four Periods of American History

by Hilary A. Herbert

INDEX

Abolitionists, mobbed, [71];
burn U. S. Constitution, [72];
private lives of leaders irreproachable, [89];
become factor in national politics; Boston captured by; "slave-catchers" now mobbed; national election turns on vote, [95]-[6];
anti-slavery in Faneuil Hall, [97];
election again turns on vote of, [99];
impartial observer on influence of, [105];
Professor Smith on, [106]
Abolition petitions in Congress, influence of, [102]
Abolition societies, in 1840, [93]
Adams, John Quincy, becomes champion of Abolitionists, [90];
defends right of petition, [91]
Alien and Sedition laws, 1798, [18];
nature of, [19]
Americans, world's record for hard fighting, [201]
Andrews, Prof. E. A., slavery conditions South, [79]
Anti-slavery people and Abolitionists grouped, [104];
Douglas charged "Black Republican" party with favoring "negro citizenship and negro equality," [167]
Aristocracy in South, [159], [160], [161]
Articles of Confederation, [15]
Author, antecedents, explanation of, [10]-[11]
Author's conclusions, [242]-[3]-[4]
Biglow Papers, [97]-[8]
Birney, James G., mobbed, [87]
Boston meeting, Dr. Hart overlooks, [73]
Boston Resolutions, [64]
Burke, Edmund, on conciliation, [109];
spirit of liberty in slave-holding communities, [158]
Calhoun, John C., prophecy of, [167]-[8]
Cause of sectional conflict, Abolition societies and their methods, [205]
Channing, Dr. Wm. E., encomium on Great Britain, [39];
letter to Webster, [47];
opinion of Abolitionists, [87];
his change, [88]
Characters and careers, of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis, [188]-[192]
Churches, North and South, opposition to slavery; a stupendous change, [67];
"whole cloth arrayed against" Garrison, [68];
Southern churches still defend slavery; Northern changed; Methodist church disrupted, [70]
Coatesville lynching, [224]
Colonies, juxtaposed, not united, [15]
Colonization Society, origin of and purposes, [44];
its supporters, [45];
making progress; Abolitionists halted it, [46]
Compromise of 1850; excitement in Congress, [106];
great leaders in; Webster on 7th of March, [107];
Clay's speech, [112];
new fugitive slave law gave offence, [128]
Confederate States with old Constitution—changes slight, [186]
Constitution, Alien and Sedition Laws first palpable infringement, [3];
powers conferred by discussed, [16];
as supreme law Southerners still cling to, [207]
Cope, Prof. E. D., advocated deportation to prevent amalgamation, [241]
Cotton gin, accepted theory as to denied, [12]
Courage of, and losses in, both armies, [195]
Criminality, of negroes greater than of whites, [240]
Cromwell and the Great Revolution, analogy to, [8]
Curtis, George Ticknor, quotation from "Life of Buchanan," [14]
Davis, Jefferson, farewell speech, [181];
doubts about success—sadness, [190]
Democrats, North, opposed negro suffrage, [212]
Deportation, no country ready to take negro, [82]
Disunion, project among Federalist leaders, 1803-4, [25];
sentiment in Congress, 1794, [24]
Emancipation, easy North; difficult South, [40];
Federal government, no power over, [41];
status North in 1830, [52]
Emancipations, South, what accomplished in 1831, [50];
census tables, [51]
Embargo of 1807, why repealed, [26]
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, eulogizes John Brown, [15]
Everett, Edward, denunciation of John Brown expedition, [152]
Extradition, refused, of abductors of slaves, Supreme Court powerless, [176]
Federalists, construed Constitution liberally, [17]
Fite, Professor at Yale, declares Republicans in 1860 hoped to destroy slavery, [175];
justification of secession, [182]
Freedman's Bureau, its composition, [221]
Free speech, Channing defends Abolitionists as champions of, [87];
John Quincy Adams becomes advocate, [90]
Fugitive slave law, North not opposing in 1828, [53];
Missouri Compromise provided for, [54]
Garrison, William Lloyd, began Liberator; personality and characteristics, [56];
key-note, slavery the concern of all; slave-holders to be made odious, [58]
Godkin, E. L., on negro as factor in politics, [237]
Greeley, Horace, draws comfort from John Brown's raid, [153]
Hartford Convention, [28]
Helper, Hinton Rowan, his book, [165]
Higher law idea, prompted Abolition Crusade—and Czolgosz to murder McKinley, [206]
Immigration and Union sentiment; number of immigrants, [33];
few South, [34]
Incendiary literature, sent South, [62];
North aroused; Andrew Jackson's message, [63];
Boston Resolutions, [64];
indictment in Alabama; requisition on Governor of New York, [98]
Incompatibility of slavery and freedom; Lincoln's Springfield speech, [81];
Garrison first to announce doctrine; Abraham Lincoln next; then Seward, [147]-[8]
Insurrections, Denmark Vesey plot at Charleston, [59];
Nat Turner in Virginia; Walker's pamphlet, [60]
Irish patriots, Mitchel and Meagher, divide on secession, [35]
John Brown's raid, [149];
his secret committee, [151]
Johnson, Andrew, succeeding Lincoln, carried out plan, [213]
Johnston, Sir Harry, on negro in South, highest degree of advancement, [237]
Kansas, fierce struggles in; Sumner's bitter speech, [142]-[3]
Kansas-Nebraska Act, Douglas originated, [135];
aggravated sectionalism, [136]
Kentucky Resolutions, 1798, [19];
Jefferson the author, [20];
copy of first of, [21]
Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions of 1798-9;
Secessionists relied on, [21];
Jefferson and Madison's reasons for, [22]
Know-Nothing party, its origin; purposes; appeal for the Union, [140]-[1]-[2]
Las Casas, Bishop, advice to King of Spain, [237]
Liberia, sending negroes to, called "expatriation"; enterprise a failure, [46];
Lincoln's hopes of, [81];
why it failed—Miss Mahoney's account, [169]-[70]-[71]
Lincoln, South no more responsible for slavery than North, [49];
speech at Charleston, Ill., [81];
finds no country ready to take American negro, [82];
South in 1860 thought him radical; had favored white supremacy in 1858, [185];
speech at Peoria, [186];
assassination of, [209]
Lodge, Henry Cabot, declares popular verdict against Webster, [118];
he had undertaken the impossible, [120];
his argument good, he not man to make it, [121]
Lundy, Benjamin, attempts to stir up North against slavery South, [47]
Lynchings, tables, [239];
comments on, [240]
McMaster, affirms Webster behind the times (note), [100]
Missouri, controversy over slavery, [52];
distinct from that begun later by "New Abolitionists," [53]
Mobs, Garrison mobbed; many anti-slavery riots North, [71];
violence toward Abolitionists in North reacted, [85];
opponents became defenders, [86]
Mound Bayou, a negro town, [242]
Nationality, spirit of; causes of, development of, [30];
grows, North; South on old lines, [35]
Navy, U. S., deciding factor in war, [198]-[9]
Negro, the, located now much as in 1860, [7];
Lincoln could find no home abroad for, [206];
reasons for smallness of vote South, [233];
improvement; Booker Washington's opinion, [236];
benefited by slavery; attained South highest degree of advancement, [237];
best opportunities South, [241];
Confederate veterans best friends there, [243]
Ohio, Resolutions looking to co-operative emancipation; responses of other States to, [42];
Southern reason for, [43];
Northern, kindly temper of, [44]
Otis, Harrison Gray, on Boston Resolutions, [65]
Pamphlets, venomous one cited, [75]
Personal liberty laws, eleven States passed; Alexander Johnston says absolutely without excuse, [177]
Petition, right of, in Congress, [90];
"gag resolution," [92]
Political conditions, North and South compared, [162]-[3]-[4]
"Poor whites," discussion of, and of social conditions South, [155]-[6]-[7]
Presidential campaign 1860, excitement, [171]
Press, Northern slandering South, [153];
Southern slandering North, [154]
Race animosities, negro's aspirations to social equality; legal enactments, [238];
whites embittered by crime against white women, [239]
Reagan, "Republican rule on Abolition principles," [105]
Reconstruction, Lincoln's theory; veto of resolution asserting power of Congress over, [208];
last speech, adhering to plan, [210]
Reconstruction by Johnson under Lincoln plan; wisdom of Lincoln-Johnson plan, John Sherman; opposition to it partisan, Senator Cullom, [211];
South accepts plan; senators and representatives, [214];
negro problem and Jefferson's prediction, [215];
apprenticeship and vagrancy laws, Blaine's attack on, [217]
Reconstruction, Congressional, extremists bent on negro suffrage when Congress convened in 1865, [212];
preparations for; committee of fifteen; Shellabarger's appeal to war passions, [215];
South denied representation; Southerners reject Fourteenth Amendment; Garfield denounces rebel government, [219];
Johnson's reconstructed State governments swept away; universal suffrage for negro; South sends Republicans to Congress, [220];
witnesses before "Committee of Fifteen" rewarded; Southern counsels divided, [223];
carpet-baggers and scalawags, [224];
intolerable political conditions; race issue forced upon whites, [226];
whites recover self-government, [227]
Republican party, the modern; its origin; Mr. Rhodes on, [138]-[139];
nominates Frémont and Dayton; denounces slavery; excitement; defeated, [144]
Resources, war, North and South compared, [191]-[2]-[3]
Salem Church monument, [9]
Santo Domingo, memory of massacre in, [80]
Seceded States, wretched conditions in 1865, [214]
Seceding States, desire to preserve Constitution, [179]
Secession, early threats of not connected with slavery, [26];
Josiah Quincy threatens, 1811; Massachusetts legislature endorses him, [28];
in early days belief in general, [28];
Massachusetts legislature threatens, 1844, [29];
eleven States seceded, [179];
Prof. Fite justifies, his ground, [182];
motives for in 1860-1, [183]
Self-government restored; local clashes, no race war; based on Lincoln's idea, superiority of white man, [229];
constitutional amendments to restore purity of ballot, [233];
industrial results amazing, [234]-[5];
negro vote small—reasons, [231]
Seward, leader of Republican party, [178]
Situation in Alabama in 1835—letter of John W. Womack, [79]
Slavery, Great Britain abolishes, compensates owners, [39];
South's "calamity not crime," [48];
debate in Virginia Assembly, [61]
Slaves, protect masters' families during war, [132]-[3];
a surprise to North, [133]-[4]
Slave-trade, New England's part in, [37];
South protests against; sentiment against arises in England, sweeps over America, [38]
Social conditions South, [155]-[60]
South unwilling to accept idea of incompatibility of slave and free States, [94]-[5];
bitterness in, [101];
on defensive-aggressive, [126];
excited; filibustering; importation of slaves, [145]
Spencer, Herbert, slavery once a necessary phase of human progress, [237]
Sprague, Peleg, on Boston Resolutions, [66]
Suffrage, Lincoln thought Southerners themselves should control, [203]
Sumner, Charles, philippic against South; Brooks's attack on, [143]-[4];
negro suffrage to give "Unionists" new allies, [220]
Texas, application for admission, [93];
Channing threatens secession if admitted, [94]
Tilden, Samuel J., letter to Kent, secession inevitable if Lincoln elected, [172]-[3]-[4]
Underground railroads, Professor Hart's picture of, [103]
Union, the, Webster's great speech for in 1830, [31];
effect of, [32]
Union sentiment South; Whigs, [34]
"Uncle Tom's Cabin," influence on Northern sentiment, [129]-[133]
War, the, nature of, [180]
Washington, a Federalist, [18];
his appeal for Union, [30]
Webster, on 7th of March, [107];
his sole concession, [111];
condemns personal liberty laws and Abolitionists, [115];
congratulated and denounced, [117];
"Ichabod," [119];
Rhodes's estimate of, [122];
his speech for "The Constitution and the Union"; Wilkinson's estimate of, [122];
E. P. Wheeler's estimate of, [125];
Webster's opinion of Abolitionists and Free-soilers, [126]
Welles, Gideon, opinion in 1867 as to debasing elective franchise, [232]
Whites, South, fought fraud with fraud during Reconstruction, till Constitution amended continued it, [232];
difficulties of their task, [233];
growing spirit of altruism; school taxes divided pro rata, [234]
Wilmot proviso, [111]
Wisconsin nullifies fugitive slave law, [178]
Women, devotion of during war, North and South, [195]