INDEX

Throughout the Index, the Initial T., standing alone, represents the subject of the book.

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Abolition movement, the, and the murder of Lovejoy,[ 10.]

Act of March 27, 1868, purpose of, [328], [329];

passed by Congress, and vetoed, [329];

passed over veto, [330];

its application to McCardle case glaringly unjust,[ 330.]

Adams, Charles Francis, Seward's dispatches of April, 1861, and July, 1862, to, [210] ff.;

proposed for Liberal Republican nomination for President, [372], [373], [374], [381];

his attitude regarding the nomination, [377], [378];

defeated by Greeley, [383], [384];

why Blair and Brown opposed him, [385] and n.;

a stronger candidate than T., [402], [403]; [xxi], [182], [389],[ 390.]

Adams, Charles Francis, Jr., The Trent Affair, etc., [349] n.; [353], [378].

Adams, John, [xxiii].

Adams, John Quincy, [xxii], [27], [103].

Adams, John Quincy, 2d, nominated for Vice-President by dissentient Democrats (1872), [394];

declines, [394].

Akerman, Amos T., succeeds Hoar as Attorney-General, [ 350].

Alabama, admission of, [xxix];

and the 13th Amendment, [229];

order for reconstruction of, [238].

Alabama Claims, T. on, [348];

Grant's great service in settling, [362].

Aldrich, Cyrus, [68].

Alien and Sedition laws, [xxiii].

Allen, G. T., [42], [43], [46] n.

Allen, Robert, [13].

Allison, John, [69].

Allison, William B., Senator, [304], [346].

Altgeld, John P., Governor, and the Pullman strike, [414].

Alton, Ill., T. removes to, [21].

Alton riot, the, [8]-[10].

American Bottom, locus of slavery in Ill., in 1783, [23].

American Historical Review, quoted, [174].

American Railway Union, [413].

Ammen, Jacob, General, [206], [208].

Amnesty, Johnson's proclamation of, [239].

Amnesty bill, debated in Senate, [359];

amended by Sumner, and rejected, [359];

reintroduced and passed, [359], [360].

Anderson, Robert, Major, proposed recall of, from Sumter, [122], [123]; [128], [155].

And see Sumter.

Andrew, John A., Governor, [287], [307] n.

Anthony, Henry B., Senator, his attitude on ousting of Sumner from Foreign Affairs Committee, [347]; [314], [364], [366], [367].

Anti Ku-Klux bill. See Ku-Klux Bill

Anti-Nebraska Democrats, in Ill. legislature, [41] ff.;

and the Senatorial election of 1854, [46] n.

Archer, William B., [69].

"Arm-in-Arm Convention." See National Union Convention.

Armstrong, postmaster at St. Louis, [81].

Arnold, I. N., Congressman, [207].

Arrests, arbitrary, T's resolution of inquiry concerning, [191] ff.;

censured by Democratic Convention, [193];

license to make, transferred to Stanton, [197];

effect of change, [197], [198];

action of Democrats on, [197];

T. took lead in stopping, in loyal states, [422], [423].

And see Habeas corpus.

Arthur, Chester A., appointed Collector of New York, [368].

Asay, E. G., [208].

Ashley, James M., Congressman, [228] n.

Atchison, David R., Senator, his advice to Missourians, [52]; [49], [54].

Atkinson, Edward, [353].

Atzerodt, conspirator, [289].


Babcock, Orville E., sent by Grant to San Domingo, [342], [362], [369].

Bacon Academy, [3].

Badger, George E., [49].

Bailey, G., quoted on Dred Scott case, [83].

Baker, Edward D., Senator, [10], [132], [427].

Baker, Henry L., [42], [43], [46].

Baldwin, J. B., and Lincoln's offer to evacuate Sumter, [159], [160];

his version contradicted by Botts, [160], [161];

R. L. Dabney's account of interview of, with Lincoln, [161], [162].

Bancroft, George, wrote Johnson's first message, [244], [245].

Banks, Nathaniel P., General, [36], [87], [102], [232], [233].

Barney, Hiram, Collector of New York, [147], [181], [182].

Barrett, A. B., quoted, [117].

Bates, Edward, candidate for Republican nomination in 1860, [103];

and enforcement of Confiscation Act, [177]; [104], [150].

Bayard, James A., Senator, [200], [201], [228].

Bayard, Thomas F., Senator, [366].

Beecher, Henry W., [287].

Belknap, William W., General, [362].

Belleville, Ill., T. settles at, [5], [6];

described by Dickens, [14], [15].

Belleville Advocate, the, [323].

Belmont, August, quoted, on Liberal Republican movement, [373], [374].

Benjamin, Judah P., Senator, on the Dred Scott case, [82];

his reply to Douglas, [95], [96];

contrasts Douglas and Lincoln, [96].

Benton, Thomas H., Senator, [126].

Bigelow, Israel B., quoted, [217].

Bigelow, John, his Diary quoted, [403] n.

Bingham, John A., Congressman, opposes Civil Rights bill, [271], [272], [281];

on Reconstruction Committee, [281];

proposes amendment to Constitution, [282];

amends Georgia bill, [298], [299]; [196], [304], [309], [339], [424].

Bird, Frank W., quoted, on Cincinnati nominations, [385] n.; [387].

Birney, James G., [37], [40].

Bishop, Mr., killed in Alton riot, [9].

Bissell, W. H., Governor, quoted, [10], [69], [70], [74], [88], [427].

Black, Jere. S., counsel for McCardle, [327].

Blaine, James G., interview of, with author, on revenue reform, [354].

Blair, Austin, Congressman, [397], [398].

Blair, F. P., General, Democratic candidate for Vice-President (1868), [333];

and the Cincinnati convention, [385] and n.; [37], [120], [382].

Blair, Gist, quoted, [220] n.

Blair, Montgomery, quoted, on Cameron's appointment, [151];

on Cameron's emancipation hobby, [172] n.;

his resignation as Postmaster General and Frémont's withdrawal, [220] and n.;

on reconstruction, [293]; [83], [112], [157], [234], [307] n.

Blatchford, Samuel J., Justice, [275].

Blodgett, Henry W., [419].

Blow, Henry T., [281].

Bonifant, U. S. Marshal, [195].

Booth, J. Wilkes, [289].

Border Ruffians. See Missourians in Kansas.

Borders, Sarah, [28], [29].

Borie, Adolph, appointed Secretary of Navy, [337];

resigns, [337].

Boston Advertiser, [300].

Botts, John Minor, his Great Rebellion quoted on Lincoln's offer to evacuate Sumter, [159], [160];

denies Baldwin's story, [160], [161].

Boutwell, George S., Congressman, appointed Secretary of Treasury, [336], [337];

and the Leet and Stocking scandal, [364], [365]; [281], [291], [304], [309], [339].

Bowles, Samuel, [86], [353], [387].

Bradley, Joseph P., Justice, [275], [276], [409].

Brainard, Daniel, [80].

Brayman, Mason, [13].

Breckinridge, John C., elected Vice-President (1856), [70];

nominated for President (1860), by seceding delegates, [96].

Brinkerhoff, R., [353].

Brooks, Preston S., Congressman, his assault on Sumner, [65].

"Brother Jonathan," [2] n.

Brown, Albert G., Senator, [63].

Brown, B. Gratz, elected governor of Mo. as a liberal, [352];

candidate for Liberal Republican nomination, [377], [378];

arrives at Cincinnati, [382];

withdraws in favor of Greeley, [383];

nominated for Vice-President, [384];

divers views of his course, [384], [385] and n.;

nominated by Democrats, [394]; [220], [285], [389], [402].

Brown, George T., [80].

Brown, John, his raid on Harper's Ferry, [96]-[100];

author's impression of, [97];

his own view of his mission, [97], [98];

T. on moral and legal aspects of the raid, [98], [99]; [53].

Brown, Joseph, [375].

Brown, William G., quoted, [xxxiv].

Brown, W. H., [87].

Browning, Orville H., Secretary of Interior, his views on question of territorializing states, [291]; [92], [194], [197], [285], [307].

Brownlow, W. G., reconstruction governor of Tenn., [237].

Bryan, Silas L., [375].

Bryan, William J., student in T.'s office, [407];

author's meeting with (1893), [413].

Bryant, John H., quoted, [67] and n.; [375].

Bryant, William Cullen, refuses to support Greeley, [385];

correspondence with T. thereon, [386], [387]; [139], [140], [141], [145], [287], [353], [375], [391].

Buchanan, James, elected President, [70];

appoints Walker Governor of Kansas, [71];

and the Lecompton Constitution, [73];

his message to Congress on Topeka and Lecompton constitutions, answered by T., [76], [77], and by Douglas, [77];

said to favor rejection of pro-slavery clause, [78];

recommends admission of Kansas under Lecompton Constitution, [81];

his message thereon discussed by T., [81], [82];

Chief Justice Caton on his attitude toward Lecomptonism, [84], [85];

and Justice McLean, [122], [123] and n.;

policy of his government toward secessionists, [127], [128];

takes sides for the Union under pressure, [128]; [74], [75], [113].

Buchanan Democrats in Ill., adopt name of National Democracy, [89];

Lincoln quoted concerning, [90];

their small poll, [91];

their poll in 1860 even smaller, [96].

Buckalew, Charles R., Senator, [285], [329].

Buckingham, William A., Senator, [366].

Bull Run, first battle of, described by T. in letters to Mrs. T., [165]-[167].

Bullock, Rufus P., reconstruction governor of Georgia, [297], [298], [299], [300].

Burchard, Horatio C., Congressman, [354].

Burke, Edmund, [358].

Burlingame, Anson, [86], [88].

Burnside, Ambrose E., General, orders arrest of Vallandigham, [204];

his proceedings against the Chicago Times, [206]-[209];

his order revoked by Lincoln, [208];

defeated at Fredericksburg, [211].

Butler, Benjamin F., Congressman, reports Georgia bill, [298];

author of 10th article of impeachment, [311]; [304], [309], [359], [362].

Butler, Fanny Kemble, [xxxiv].

Butler, William, quoted, [148]; [149], [151].


Cabinet, Pres. Johnson's, discussion of Tenure-of-Office bill by, [302], [303];

unanimous in advising veto, [303], [311].

Cabinet officers, and the Tenure-of-Office Act, [301], [302].

Cadwalader, George, [195].

Calhoun, John, and the Lecompton Constitution, [73]; [18], [75], [84].

Calhoun, John C., Senator, and the doctrine of Nullification, xxv and n., [xxvii]; [4].

Cameron, Simon, history of his inclusion in Lincoln's Cabinet, [142] ff.;

visits Lincoln at Springfield, [144];

Lincoln promises portfolio to, [144], [429];

urgent opposition to, from McClure, T., and others, [144], [145], [146], [147] ff.;

and Frémont, [172];

his report in favor of freeing and arming slaves suppressed by Lincoln, [172] and n.;

and the War Department frauds, [178] ff.;

and T. A. Scott, [184], [185];

Nicolay and Hay on causes of his leaving Cabinet, [185], [186];

made Minister to Russia, [186];

McClure on his dismissal, [186], [187];

censured by House in Cummings affair, [186];

his confirmation as Minister to Russia opposed by T. and others, [187], [188],

but favored by Sumner, [188];

his statement to Hamlin, [188];

vote on Confirmation of, [189];

how he repaid Sumner, [189]; [108], [343], [371].

Carlile, John S., Senator, opposes habeas corpus suspension act, [199].

Carlin, Thomas, [11].

Carpenter, Matthew H., Senator, counsel in McCardle case, [327], [329]; [300], [358];

report on Louisiana election, [405];

speech before Electoral Commission, [411].

Carpetbaggers, and the San Domingo treaty, [350]; [241].

Cass, Lewis, Senator, his Nicholson letter on squatter sovereignty, [94]; [48], [63], [125].

Castle Pinckney, [129].

Catiline, steamer, [179], [180], [181], [182].

Caton, John D., quoted, on Buchanan's attitude toward Lecomptonism, [84], [85]; [20].

Caulfield, B. G., [208].

Cavalry, fraudulent contracts for purchase of horses for, [182], [183].

Century Magazine, cited, [245] n., [307] n., [321] n.

Chandler, Zachariah, Senator, and T.'s connection with the McCardle case, [331], [332]; [150], [166], [233], [355], [363], [371].

Channing, William Ellery, [xxxii].

Charleston Convention of 1860, [107].

Chase, Salmon P., Chief Justice, quoted, [67];

and Cameron's dismissal, [186];

presides at impeachment trial, [309];

on the 11th article, [311];

his ruling on evidence of Johnson's intent to make a case for the Supreme Court, overruled by the Senate, [313];

vote for, in Cincinnati convention (1872), [383];

T's estimate of, as Secretary of Treasury, [429], [430]; [79], [102], [103], [107], [145], [147], [148], [150], [151], [170], [234], [240], [274], [289], [320], [372].

Cheever, Rev. George B., [220].

Cherokee Tract, the, [5].

Chesnut, James, [99].

Chicago, rioting at, in Pullman strike, [414];

troops ordered to, [414];

meeting at, addressed by T., [414], [415].

Chicago Advance, T.'s article in, on restriction of suffrage, [294].

Chicago Bar Association, and T.'s death, [418], [419].

Chicago Evening Journal, quoted, on T.'s speech on Chicago Times matter, [208]; [93].

Chicago Times, publication of, forbidden by Burnside, [206]-[209];

meeting of protest against the order, [207];

the order revoked by Lincoln, [208]; [415], [424], [425].

Chicago Tribune, quoted, on the duty of Senators in impeachment trial, [315], [316]; [372], [389], [390].

Cincinnati, Liberal Republican Convention at (1872), [374] ff.;

how composed, [379], [380];

difficulties of, on tariff question, result in compromise, [381], [382];

Greeley nominated for President by, [383], [384].

Cincinnati Commercial, [372].

Citizens of U. S., definition of, in 14th Amendment, [283].

Civil Rights bill, introduced by T., [257];

T.'s proposed amendment to, debated in Senate, [265] ff.;

passes Senate, [271], and House, [272];

vetoed by Johnson, [272];

passed over veto, [272], [273];

held constitutional by Circuit Court of U. S., [274];

in Supreme Court, [275] ff.;

Bingham's objections to, [281];

relation of 14th Amendment to, [282], [283];

T.'s course on, [424], [425].

Civil Rights Cases, [109] U. S., [275], [276].

Civil service, demoralization of, under Grant, [341], [342].

Civil-service reform, T. on, [359], [376].

Civil War, the, could not have been averted, [xxi], [xxii].

Clark, Daniel, Senator, [262], [264].

Clay, Clement C., Senator, his farewell speech in Senate, [121]; [100].

Clay, Henry, [xxvi], [xxxi], [27], [39], [125].

Clayton, John M., [63] n.

Cleveland, Grover, orders troops to Chicago, [414]; [413].

Clifford, Nathan, Justice Sup. Court, [289], [409].

Clingman, Thomas L., Senator, [419].

Cochrane, John, General, nominated for Vice-President by anti-Lincoln Republicans (1864), [219], [220].

Cole, Cornelius, Senator, [314].

Coles, Edward, and the "Anti-convention"

Contest in Ill., [27], [28].

Colfax, Schuyler, elected Vice-President (1872), [333];

and Grant, [393], [394];

and the Crédit-Mobilier, [402]; [80], [331], [359].

Collamer, Jacob, Senator, speech of, on Kansas affairs, [65];

attacks T.'s Confiscation bill, [173], [174]; [55], [102], [198].

Collins, James H., [30].

Colonization Society, [xxxi].

Compromise of 1860, [xxi], [34], [124], [125].

Confederate States. See States, seceding.

Confiscation bill, concerning slaves only, introduced by T., and passed by Congress, [168].

Confiscation bill (II), introduced by T. (Dec. 1861), [173], [176];

debated all the session, [173] ff.;

report of Conference committee on, adopted, [175];

Lincoln proposes to veto, [175];

passage of joint resolution interpreting, [175];

the first step toward full emancipation, [176];

trifling proceeds of confiscation under, [176];

controversy over enforcement of, [176], [177].

Congress, adopts Missouri Compromise, [xxx];

passes Kansas-Nebraska bill, [37];

Pres. Pierce's special message to, on Kansas affairs, [55];

Pres. Buchanan's first message to, [76];

Buchanan recommends admission of Kansas to, [81];

passes first Confiscation bill, [168];

debate on second Confiscation bill in, [173] ff.;

Pres. Johnson's first message to, [244], [245];

power of, to pass laws for ordinary administration of justice in states, [258]-[260], [265] ff.;

attacked by Johnson, [286];

radicals in, and the Milligan case, [289], [290];

makes general of the army virtually independent of the President, [291];

measures of reconstruction passed by, over vetoes, [291]-[295];

and impeachment of Johnson, [303] ff.;

intensity of contest in, [312];

and the McCardle case, [328]-[330];

passes Act of March 27, 1868, over veto, [330];

and the 15th Amendment, [338]-[340];

Pres. Grant's message to, on Ku-Klux-Klans, [356];

and the Amnesty bill, [359], [360];

and the Crédit-Mobilier, [402].

And see House of Representatives, Reconstruction, Committee on, and Senate.

Congress of the Confederation, and Jefferson's ordinance concerning slavery (1784), [xxviii], [xxix];

passes Ordinance of 1787, [24], [25], [29].

Congressional Globe of 1860-61, [114].

Conkling, Roscoe, Senator, [281], [331], [339], [355], [362], [363].

Connecticut, opposed to nomination of Seward, [103].

Constitution of U. S., obstacles to ratification of, xxii and n.;

its "educational work," [xxvi], [xxvii];

and the power to free slaves, [222], [223];

projects of amending, in that regard, [223];

the James F. Wilson resolution, [223];

the Henderson resolution, [223],

reported by T. in amended form, [224].

Amendment XIII, reported by T. in Senate, [224];

his speech thereon, [224]-[226];

favored by Henderson and R. Johnson, [227];

adopted by both branches, [228];

scene in House described by Julian, [228] and n.;

ratified by States, [229], [252];

Seward's interpretation of, [229];

discussed in connection with Freedmen's Bureau bill, [258], [260];

and the Civil Rights bill, [267], [269], [270];

construed by Supreme Court in U.S. v. Harris, [275], [358],

and in Civil Rights Cases, [276], [277];

T.'s connection with, [422].

Amendment XIV, construed by Supreme Court in U.S. v. Harris, [275], [358],

and in Civil Rights Cases, [276];

prepared and reported by Joint Committee on Reconstruction, [282], [283];

provisions of, [283];

passes both houses, [283];

history of framing of, [284] n.;

Southern States refuse to ratify, and why, [287];

and the power of Congress to enforce ordinary civil law in the states, [356], [357], [358].

Amendment XV, construed by Supreme Court in U.S. v. Harris, [276], [358];

history of, [338]-[340];

passed by Congress, [339];

text of, [340];

ratified by States, [340].

"Convention party," the, attempts to amend Illinois constitution to legalize slavery, [25], [26]; defeat of, [27].

Cook, Burton C., [41], [43], [45], [46] n., [93].

Cook, Daniel P., in the "anti-convention" contest, [27], [28];

Cook County, Ill., named for, [27].

Cooper Union, Liberal Republican meeting at, [376], [377].

Copperheadism, Vallandigham the incarnation of, [203].

Corbett, Henry W., Senator, [314].

Corning, Erastus, [205].

Corwin, Thomas, Congressman, [112], [117].

Cotton-gin, results of invention of, [xxxii].

Cowan, Edgar, Senator, attacks T.'s Confiscation bill, [173];

his great speech in favor of habeas corpus suspension act, [201];

on Civil Rights bill, [269], [271], [272]; [146], [261], [262], [285], [286], [323].

Cox, Jacob D., appointed Secretary of Interior, [337], [338];

why he resigned, [349], [350]; [353], [373].

Crédit-Mobilier scandal, the, [401], [402].

Cresswell, John A. J., appointed Postmaster General, [337].

Crittenden, John J., Senator, his compromise measure, debated and rejected by Senate, [115]-[117]; [48], [60], [66].

Crittenden Compromise, debated, [115], [116];

T's speech against, [115], [123]-[138];

rejected by Senate, [117];

letters to T. from Illinoisans concerning, [117]-[119].

Cullom, Shelby M., Senator, quoted, [293];

defeats T. for governor of Ill., [412].

Cummings, Alexander, one of Cameron's agents, [143], [178];

the leading figure in War Dep't scandal, [178] ff.;

a candidate for office under Johnson, [181] n.

Curry, J. L. M., letter of, to Doolittle, as to Southern views, [255], [256].

Curtin, Andrew G., Governor, vote for in Cincinnati Convention, [383]; [106], [144], [374], [377], [378].

Curtis, Benjamin R., of counsel for Pres. Johnson, [309].

Curtis, George W., [338], [368].

Curtis Commission on Civil Service Reform, [376].


Dabney, Rev. R. L., his account of the Lincoln-Baldwin Interview, [161], [162].

"Danites." See Buchanan Democrats.

Darrow, Clarence S., quoted, on T.'s "socialistic trend," [425], [426]; [414].

Davidson, G. C., [179], [180].

Davis, David, and Cameron's appointment, [142] ff.;

bargains with delegates from Penn. and Ind., [142], [429];

his influence with Lincoln, [143] and n.;

opinion of, in Milligan case, [289];

candidate for Liberal Republican nomination at Cincinnati, [377], [378];

his candidacy objected to by editors, [380], [381];

and the Electoral Commission (1877), [409]; [178], [384].

Davis, Garrett, Senator, on Civil Rights bill, [270]; [161], [234].

Davis, Henry Winter, Congressman, opposes Lincoln's reëlection, [220].

Davis, Jefferson, and "Squatter Sovereignty," [94], [95];

his resolutions aimed at Douglas's nomination, [95];

not a hothead, [110];

his speech of Jan. 10, 1861, [110];

his last speeches in Senate, [114], [115];

his farewell speech, [121];

his Rise and Fall of the Confederate States, [123] n.; [83].

Dawes, Henry L., Congressman, on purchases of cavalry horses, [182], [183];

on corruption in government service, [184];

replies to Cameron's statement to Hamlin, [188], [189]; [304], [354].

Dayton, William L., Senator, [69], [142].

Debs, Eugene V., and the Pullman strike, [413]-[415];

T. counsel for, [414], [415].

Delahay, M. W., opposition to his appointment as district judge, [213], [214];

appointed, impeached, and resigns, [214]; [100], [101] and n.

Dement, Isaac T., on affairs in Kansas, [53].

Democratic National Convention at Baltimore (1860), nominates Douglas, [96];

Southern delegates secede from, [96]; 107;

(1872) adopts platform and candidate of Liberal Republicans, [394].

Democratic party, in North, split by Kansas-Nebraska bill, [37].

Democrats, condemn suspension of habeas corpus and arbitrary arrests, [194], [197];

in Senate, oppose habeas corpus suspension bill, [198], [199],

and filibuster against it, [200]-[203];

in North, protest against Vallandigham's trial and sentence, [205];

in Congress, oppose 13th Amendment, [228],

but not unanimously, [228] n.;

union of, with Liberal Republicans, suggested by M. D. Sands, [353];

sympathy of, with that movement, [372] ff., [379];

dissentient (in 1872), nominate O'Conor and Adams, [394].

Denver, John A., appointed Governor of Kansas, [73].

Develin, John E., [179].

Dexter, Wirt, [208].

Dickens, Charles, describes Belleville, Ill., in American Notes, [14], [15].

Disfranchisement, chief cause of bad conditions in South, [356].

Dixon, Archibald, Senator, and repeal of Missouri Compromise, [34]; [49].

Dixon, James, Senator, opposes inquiry as to arbitrary arrests, [192], [193];

his vote

against Impeachment, [323]; [247], [261], [264], [265], [285], [313].

Dodge, Augustus C., Senator, [35].

Dodge, Grenville M., General, [227], [334] n., [394].

Dodge, William E., [365].

Doolittle, James R., Senator, on Tenure-of-Office bill, [303];

his vote against impeachment, [323];

his resignation demanded, [323]; [150], [194], [220], [233], [247], [261], [273] n., [285], [313], [329], [419], [423].

Dougherty, John, [18], [89], [90].

Douglas, Robert M., [32] n.

Douglas, Stephen A., appointed to Ill. Supreme Court, [10];

elected U. S. Senator, [19];

his early career, [32] and n., [33];

his position in the Democratic party, [33];

his personal appearance, [33];

his talents and character, [33];

reports Nebraska bill, [33];

accepts Dixon Amendment repealing Missouri Compromise, [34];

offers amendment dividing the territory, [34];

his reasons, [35],

and why not convincing, [35], [36];

not a pro-slavery man, [36];

his reasons for repealing Missouri Compromise, [36], [37];

Lincoln's reply to his Springfield speech (1854), [39], [40] and n.;

and the senatorial election of 1854, [46] n.;

his report on affairs in Kansas, [55];

attached by T., [56];

his sophistry, [57], [58], [62];

his debate with T., [59] ff.;

declares T. not a Democrat, [60], [66];

further debate with T. on Kansas, [63] ff.;

T. a match for, in debate, [65], [66];

denounces Cabinet conspiracy regarding referendum on Lecompton Constitution, [72], [73];

his motion for that action, [74], [75];

his anti-Lecompton speech, [77], [78];

for the first time, opposes wishes of South, [77];

was he sincere? [77], [78];

his lack of principle, [78];

contemplates alliance with Republicans, [78]-[80];

opposes English bill for admission of Kansas, [84];

his attitude toward slavery, [78], [86];

his aid indispensable in defeating Lecompton bill, [86];

appeals to imagination of Eastern Republicans, [86];

distrusted by Republicans of Ill., [86]-[88], [91], [92];

his instability, [88];

his campaign for reëlection in 1858, [89] ff.;

his health impaired, [89];

reaffirms doctrine of Squatter Sovereignty, [94];

answered by J. Davis, [95];

his speech of May 1860, [15], [95];

answered by Benjamin, [95], [96];

nominated for President at Charleston, and by one faction at Baltimore, [96];

favors Crittenden Compromise, [116];

his views on causes of disunion, [116], [117];

his last days devoted to the Union, [152], [153];

speaks to Ill. legislature, [153];

his influence alone saves Southern Ill., [153];

his death, [153];

T.'s eulogy of, [153], [154];

G. Welles's account of his attitude in 1861,

and his interview with Seward, [163], [164]; [42], [47], [49], [76], [85], [100], [104], [107], [108], [169], [427].

Douglass, Frederick, [236], [237].

Drake, Charles D., Senator, [296], [298], [352].

Dred Scott case, opinion of Supreme Court, criticized by T., [82]; [64].

Drummond, Thomas, Justice, enjoins executor of Burnside's order against Chicago Times, [206];

his order disregarded, [207]; [10], [208], [427].

Dubois, Jesse K., quoted, [79], [87], [216], [217]; [213], [375].

Duncan, Joseph, Governor, [11].

Dunning, William A., his Reconstruction, quoted, [274], [321] n.; [244].

Durell, Edward H., Justice, and the contested election in Louisiana, [404].

Durkee, Charles, Senator, [150].

Dyer, Thomas, [91].


Eaton, Major, [178].

Edmunds, George F., Senator, [339], [346], [358], [363].

Edwards, Ninian, Governor, [11], [45].

Electoral Commission (1877), composition of, [409];

decision of, [410], [411];

its purpose, "not to do justice between man and man, but to save the Republic," [411].

Eliot, Thomas D., [172].

Ellsworth, Oliver, xxii n.

Emancipation, Seward on actual date of, [222];

doubt regarding President's power in relation to, [222], [223].

And see Slavery, Slaves.

Emancipation movement, history of, [xxviii].

Emancipation Proclamation, issued, [200];

distasteful to Democrats, [200];

force and extent of, [222];

doubt as to its legal effect, [229], [230].

Embargo, the, [xxiv].

Emerson, Dr., Dred Scott's master, [82].

Emigrant Aid Co. (Worcester), [50], [59] n.

Emigrant Aid societies, [59] n.

Emory, William H., General. 9th article of impeachment based on alleged conversation of Johnson with, [310].

England, mission to, offered to T., [347], [348],

and declined, [348];

T.'s speech on claims against, [348], [349];

and demands surrender of Mason and Slidell, [349] and n.

English, William H., Congressman, his bill for admission of Kansas, passed by Congress, [83], [84],

but rejected by people, [84].

Equal Rights Act (1875) held unconstitutional by Supreme Court, [275].

Europe, and Lincoln's death, [231].

Evarts, William M., of counsel for Pres. Johnson, [309].


Farragut, David G., Admiral, [221].

Federalist party, [xxiii].

Fenton, Reuben E., [386], [390].

Fessenden, William P., Senator, Chairman of Reconstruction Committee, [281], [282];

opposes conviction of Johnson, [313];

abused by radicals, [313];

"read out" of Republican party, [324];

called upon to resist Greenback heresy in Maine, [324];

his death and character, [324];

T's eulogy of, [324], [325]; [82], [83], [89], [102], [168], [194], [202], [287], [292], [316], [317], [335].

Field, Alexander P., [11].

Field, D. D., [147].

Field, Stephen J., Justice, [275], [289], [409].

Fillmore, Millard, candidate for Pres., in 1856, [70]; [92], [108].

Finkelnburg, Gustavus A., Congressman, [354].

Fish, Hamilton, appointed Secretary of State, [335];

letter of, to T., offering English mission, [347], [348]; [362].

Flack, Horace E., history of the 14th Amendment, [284] n.

Florida, and the 13th Amendment, [229];

order for reconstruction of, [238];

disputed returns from (1876), [408] ff.

Flournoy, Charles G., [212].

Floyd, John B., Secretary of War, resigns, [128]; [130].

Fogg, George G., [144], [146].

Foot, Solomon, Senator, [168], [261], [263].

Ford, Thomas, historian of Ill., quoted, [11];

as governor, requests T.'s resignation as Secretary of State, [12] and n., [13]; [18].

Foreign Relations, Senate Committee on, reorganization of, to punish Sumner, [343]-[347].

"Forever," meaning of, in Missouri Compromise Act, [62], [63] n.

Forney, John W., [300], [342].

Forsyth, John, Senator, [xxvii], [156].

Foster, Lafayette S., Senator, [189], [273].

Fouke, Philip B., [38].

Fowler, Joseph S., Senator, [285], [314], [316], [317].

Free-silver, T. a believer in, [413].

Free Soilers, in 1854, [40];

nucleus of the Republican party, [41].

Free State men, in minority in Kansas in 1855, [49], [51];

convention of, [55];

refuse to take part in election of constitutional convention, [71], [72];

elect majority of territorial legislature, [72].

Free trade, meaning of, in 1871, [355].

Freedmen's Bureau, powers of, [257], [258].

Freedmen's Bureau bill, introduced by T., [257];

provisions of, [257], [258];

vetoed by Johnson, [260], [261];

fails to pass Senate over veto, [261];

T.'s course on, [423].

Freeport, Ill., joint debate between Lincoln and Douglas at, [94] n., [96].

Frelinghuysen, Frederick T., Senator, [314], [316], [347] n.

Frémont, John C, Republican nominee for Pres., [69];

his defeat fortunate for the country, [70];

candidate for nomination in 1860, [103];

his order emancipating slaves revoked by Lincoln, [169], [170], [171];

nominated for Pres. by Anti-Lincoln Republicans (1864), [219], [220];

withdrawn, [220];

connection between his withdrawal and Mr. Blair's retirement, [220] and n.; [141], [194].

French, Augustus C, Governor, [18].

French Revolution, effect of, on parties in U. S., [xxiii].

Fugitive Slave Law, [114].


Galloway, Samuel, quoted, [75];

letter to T. on Republican grievances against Grant, [371].

Garfield, James A., General, [412].

Garrison, William L., his crusade mistakenly interpreted at the south, [xxxiii];

supports Lincoln's reconstruction plan, [235], [236]; [388].

Gary, Mrs. F. C., letter of, to T., [278],

and his reply, [279].

Gaston, William, Judge, [270].

Geary, John W., Governor, [53], [72].

"General order" system in N. Y. custom-house, [364] ff.

Genius of Universal Emancipation, the, [xxxi].

Georgia, and Garrison, [xxxi];

order for reconstruction of, [238];

re-reconstruction of, [297]-[300];

status of negroes in, [298];

bill for reorganization of, [298], [299];

T.'s attitude on treatment of, [298], [299], [300].

German vote, the, and the Republican nomination in 1860, [103].

Germans in St. Clair county, Ill., [38].

Gettysburg, battle of, and its effect on Vallandigham's ambition, [206].

Gillespie, Joseph, [10].

Gilman, Winthrop S., [9].

Godkin, Edwin L., quoted, [381], [382];

refuses to support Greeley, [385];

deprecates Schurz's contrary decision, [392], [393];

and Greeley's defeat, [404]; [353].

Godwin, Parke, quoted, against Greeley, [393].

Goodrich, Grant, quoted, [119].

Government bonds, falling off in subscriptions to, in autumn of 1861, [170].

Government contracts, House committee on, [178] ff.;

censures T. A. Scott, [184], [185].

Gowdy, W. C., [40] n.

"Grandfather clause," the, in constitutions of southern states, [339].

Grant, Ulysses S., J. M. Palmer on his character and future, [216];

his southern tour of inspection, and report, [252], [253], [254];

Secretary of War ad interim, [305];

retires in favor of Stanton after action of Senate, [306];

his correspondence with Johnson, submitted to Reconstruction Committee, [306], [307];

his reason for retiring, [307];

Johnson on his attitude, [307] n.;

and the McCardle case, [327];

nominated for Pres., and elected, [332], [333];

his first cabinet a conglomerate, [333];

and Washburne's appointment, [334];

his agreement with J. F. Wilson, [334];

compels Washburne to resign, [334];

appoints Fish, [335];

nominates Stewart for Treasury, [335], [336],

then Boutwell, [336];

his other appointments, [337], [338];

his army-headquarters transferred to White House, [342];

the San Domingo treaty, and quarrel with Sumner, [342] ff.;

removes Motley as minister to England, [347], [348];

offers English mission to T., [347], [348];

and civil-service reform, [349], [350];

and Attorney-General Hoar, [350];

and the Liberal movement in Mo., [355];

shortcomings of his administration, the main cause of Liberal movement, [361];

his failings in civil station reviewed, [361] ff.;

nominated because of his military renown, [361], [362];

his great services on two occasions, [362];

and the Leet and Stocking case, [365] ff.;

T. not personally hostile to, [369], [370];

Republican dissatisfaction with, [370], [371],

and opposition to, [372] ff.;

Sumner's speech against, [387], [388];

his services overlooked by Sumner, [388];

compared favorably with Greeley, [392], [393];

renominated by Republicans, [393];

not personally involved in Crédit-Mobilier scandal, [401];

reëlected, [402];

and the contest in La., in 1872, [405], [406] and n.;

his second administration, [407], [408]; [212], [214], [215], [226], [227], [236] and n., [240], [308], [309], [330], [384], [408], [411], [420].

Gray, Horace, [275].

Gray, Robert A., [161].

Greeley, Horace, "puffs" Douglas, [80], [91], [92];

candidate for Liberal Republican nomination, [377];

his career and character, [378];

editorial attitude toward his candidacy, [381];

Brown withdraws in his favor, [382], [383];

nominated, [384];

effect of his nomination, [384] ff.;

Godkin and Bryant refuse to support, [385];

T.'s letter in favor of, [386], [387];

author's view of his nomination, [389], [390];

refuses Schurz's advice to decline, [391];

meeting of Liberal Republicans opposed to, [391], [392];

Schurz's attitude toward, [392], [393];

nominated by Democrats, [394];

supported by T. in the campaign, [395] ff.;

T.'s tribute to, [399];

his failings laid bare, [400];

caricature by Nast, [400];

on the stump in Ohio, etc., [400];

his tariff views, [401];

his stumping tour too late, [401];

overwhelmingly defeated, [402];

fatal effect of defeat on, [403]; and n.;

his last letter to Schurz, [403];

his death, [403];

reflections on his fate, [404]; [86], [87], [88], [141], [307] n., [369].

Green, James S., Senator, [114].

Greene, Francis V., General, quoted, [227].

Greenville Academy, [5].

Gregory, S. S., [414].

Grider, Henry, Congressman, [281].

Grier, Robert C. Justice Sup. Ct., [289].

Grimes, James W., Senator, denounces impeachment, [313];

censured by radicals, [313];

striken with paralysis, but votes against impeachment, [325];

"though pure as ice," did not escape calumny, [326];

quoted, on Republican corruption, [341];

his character, [341]; [150], [165], [166], [168], [189], [202], [281], [287], [316], [317], [338].

Grimshaw, Jackson, quoted, [213].

Grinnell, Moses H., collector of N. Y., [364];

and Leet, [367], [368].

Groesbeck, William S., of counsel for Johnson, [309]; [372].

Grosvenor, William M., [352], [353], [382], [383].

Guthrie, James, Senator, [271].


Habeas corpus, authority to suspend, given to Scott, [190];

discussion of power to suspend, [191], [194];

case of Merryman, [194]-[196];

writ of, denied Vallandigham, [205];

suspension of, authorized in Ku-Klux bill of 1871, [356], [357].

Habeas Corpus Suspension bill, passes House, [196];

reported by T. to Senate, but fails to pass, [197];

T. offers substitute for, [198],

which is opposed by Democrats, [199],

but passes Senate, [199];

in conference, combined with Stevens's indemnity bill, [199];

debated, filibustered against, and passed, [200]-[203];

characterized, [203];

violated by banishment of Vallandigham, [203] ff.;

and the Milligan case, [288], [289];

invoked by McCardle, [327].

Hahn, Michael, chosen governor of La., under reconstruction, [232], [233].

Hale, Eugene, Congressman, as a revenue reformer, [354].

Hale, John P., Senator, speech of, on Kansas affairs, [65]; [xxi], [37], [38], [102], [189], [194].

Hall's carbines, fraudulent repurchases of, [184].

Halleck, Henry W., General, G. Welles on, [226];

other opinions of, [227]; [212].

Halstead, Murat, [380], [381], [384].

Hamilton, Alexander, [xxiii].

Hamlin, Hannibal, Vice-President, [108], [109], [112], [141].

Hancock, Winfield S., General, [422].

Hardin, John J., [10], [427].

Harding, A. C, quoted, [118].

Harlan, James, Senator, [150], [189], [320], [338], [366], [419].

Harlan, John M., Justice Sup. Ct., his dissenting opinion in Civil Rights Cases, [276], [278]; [275].

Harper's Ferry, Brown's raid on, [96]-[100].

Harris, Ira, Senator, [176], [262], [281].

Harris, N. Dwight, Negro Servitude in Illinois, [29] and n.; [30], [31];

on T., [31].

Harrison, William H., Governor, favors slavery in Northwest Territory, [24].

Hartford Convention, [xxiv], [xxv].

Harvey, J. E., divulges purpose to send supplies to Sumter, [155] ff.;

rewarded by Seward, [155], [157];

Republican senators seek his recall from Portugal, [155], [156].

Hatch, O. M., Secretary of State of Ill., [87], [213].

Hay, John, his diary, quoted, [158], [190], [227].

And see Nicolay and Hay.

Hayes, Rutherford B., President, disputed election of, [406], [407] ff.;

declared elected by Electoral Commission, [411].

Hayne, Robert Y., Senator, xxii n., [xxvi], [xxvii], [3].

Heath, Randolph, [42].

Hecker, Fred, quoted, [215]; [38].

Henderson, John B., Senator, proposes amendment to Constitution, forbidding slavery, [223];

his resolution, amended, reported by T., [224];

his speech in its favor, [227];

the only one of the "Traitors" whom the Republican party publicly forgave, [326]; [260], [314], [316], [317], [321] n.; [362].

Hendricks, Thomas A., Senator, [228], [258], [262], [271], [285], [301], [329], [402].

Henn, Bernhart, Congressman, [35].

Herndon, William H., quoted, [75], [80], [89], [90], [91], [92], [107], [119], [214], [429]; [87], [112], [143] n.; [426], [428].

Herold, conspirator, [289].

Hewitt, Abram S., Congressman, [408], [409].

Hickox, Virgil, [13], [19].

Hill, Adams S., [341].

Hilton, Henry, and A. T. Stewart, [336].

Hoadley, George, [372], [382].

Hoar, E. Rockwood, appointed Attorney-General, [337], [338];

cause of his resignation, [350];

his recommendations for vacant judgeships, [350];

his nomination to Supreme Court not confirmed, and why, [350];

Grant asks his resignation, [350].

Hodge, Paymaster, [362], [363], [395].

Hoffman, John T., Governor, [379].

Hogeboom, Henry, [147].

Holden, W. H., [238].

Horner, William N., quoted, on T's character, [425].

House of Representatives, Kansas-Nebraska bill in, [37];

rejects Lecompton bill, [83],

but passes substituted English bill, [84];

passes proposed Amendment to Constitution, forbidding interference with slavery, [117];

passes Confiscation bill, [175];

Committee on Government Contracts of, [178] ff.;

censures Cameron, [187];

passes bill concerning political prisoners, [196];

passes Stevens's indemnity bill, [198];

debate on 13th Amendment in, [223], [228];

debate on Civil Rights bill in, [271], [272], [281];

passes 14th Amendment, [282], [283];

Stevens's Reconstruction bill introduced in, [284],

passed by, [291], [292],

and passed over veto, [293], [294];

passes bill admitting Tennessee, [295];

Tenure-of-Office bill in, [301],

and passed by, over veto, [303];

votes against impeachment (Dec., 1867), [303], [304];

impeachment voted by (Feb., 1868), [309];

passes 15th Amendment, [338]-[340];

Committee of Ways and Means of, [354];

Committee of inquiry into navy frauds, characterized by T., [397], [398].

Hovey, Alvin P., Governor, [288].

Howard,Jacob M., Senator, on Civil Rights bill, [269], [270];

on Reconstruction Committee, [281];

proposes definition of "citizens" in 14th Amendment, [282], [283]; [287], [298].

Howe, Samuel G., [343].

Howe, Timothy O., Senator, his view of the impeachment, [310];

and the ousting of Sumner, [345], [346]; [316], [320], [323], [343], [366].

Humphrey, James, [180].

Hunt, Gaillard, xxii n.

Hunter, David, General, at first battle of Bull Run, [165];

his order freeing slaves in certain states, revoked by Lincoln, [172].

Hunter, R. M. T., Senator, [49], [116].

Hurd, H. B., [98].

Hurlbut, S. A., quoted, [74].

Hutchins, Waldo, [390].


Illinois, new constitution of, adopted in 1847, [20];

slavery in, when ceded to U.S., [23];

earlier occupation of, [23];

opposition to slavery in, organized by Lemen, [23], [24];

territorial legislature of, violates Ordinance of 1787, [24], [25];

provisions of constitution of, concerning slavery, [25];

pro-slavery efforts to amend constitution, [25], [26];

their failure, [27];

T. elected to Congress from 8th district of, [37], [38];

and Seward's candidacy, [103];

campaign of 1860 in, [108] ff.;

office-seekers from, in 1861, [139];

status of negroes in, [243];

in the Cincinnati convention (1872), [389], [390];

T. nominated for governor of, and defeated, [412].

Illinois legislature, and the proposed constitutional convention, [25], [26];

and the Senatorial election of 1854, [39] ff., [46] n.;

condemns proceedings against Chicago Times, 209:

reëlects T. as senator, [277].

Illinois State Bank, suspension of, [13].

Illinois Supreme Court, reconstruction of, [11];

number of judges of, [20];

T. elected judge of, [20];

T. reëlected to, and resigns, [21];

decision of, in Jarrot v. Jarrot, [29], [30].

Immigration, and attempted legalization of slavery in Ill., [26].

Impeachment, two theories of, [312];

a judicial or political process? [312].

Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, first mention of, [303];

House Judiciary Committee reports in favor of, [304];

House rejects resolution providing for, [304];

evidence submitted to Committee on Reconstruction, [306],

which refuses to recommend, [308];

resolutions of, adopted by House, [309];

articles of, adopted, [309]-[311];

managers appointed, [309];

trial of, [309], [312] ff.;

conduct of managers of, [312], [313];

material evidence excluded, [313];

divers newspapers quoted concerning, [314]-[317];

T. files opinion in, [318], [319];

vote of acquittal on 11th, 2d, and 3d articles, [320], [321];

end of the trial, [321];

T.'s vote on, [423].

Indemnity, Stevens's bill of passes House, [198];

combined with habeas corpus bill, [199];

debated, filibustered against, and passed, [200]-[203].

Independent Democrat, the, [14].

Indiana, opposed to Seward, [103];

in convention of 1860, [106], [107];

election of Oct., 1872, in, [402].

Inflation bill, Grant's veto of, [362].

Ingraham, Mary, T.'s second wife, [412].

And see Trumbull, Mary (Ingraham).

Investigation and Retrenchment, Committee on, established by Senate, [364];

personnel of, [366], [367];

solves Leet and Stocking scandal, [367]-[369];

characterized by T., [395], [396].

"Irrepressible Conflict," the, existed before it was so described, [xxxiv].

Iverson, Alfred, Senator, [213].


Jackson, Andrew, [xxv], [xxvi], [76], [103], [124].

Janney, Mr., [161].

Jarrot v. Jarrot, decision of Supreme Court in, abolished Slavery in Ill., [29], [30].

Jayne, Gershom, T.'s father-in-law, [15].

Jayne, Mrs. Gershom, T.'s letter to, on religion, [430], [431].

Jayne, Julia M., marries T., [15].

And see Trumbull, Julia (Jayne).

Jayne, William, quoted, [106], [107]; [108], [109], [111], [150], [379].

Jefferson, Thomas, and slavery, [xxviii], [23], [24];

the proposed ordinance relating thereto (1784), [xxviii], xxix and n.;

quoted, on Missouri Compromise, [xxx]; [xxiii], [xxiv].

Johnson, Andrew, popularity of, in Tenn., [214];

his early radicalism and anti-Southern feeling, [236];

gradual change in his attitude, [236];

opposes unrestricted negro suffrage, [236], [237];

adopts Lincoln's plan of reconstruction and his Cabinet, [237];

executive orders of, reorganizing governments of all seceding states, [237], [238];

issues amnesty proclamation, [239];

Phillips makes first attack on, [239], [240];

defended by N. Y. Tribune and Times, [240], [241];

his first message to Congress, written by Bancroft, [244];

the message praised by N. Y. Times and Nation, [244], [245];

his early history, [245] and n.;

in Senate of U.S., [246];

as public speaker and debater, [246];

his speech against secession, [246];

Stephens and Seward on, [246];

his speech of Aug. 29, 1866, [246];

attacked by Sumner, [246], [247];

and Terry's order concerning vagrancy law of Va., [247];

and reports of Grant and Schurz on conditions in the South, [252], [253], [254];

vetoes Freedmen's Bureau bill, [260], [261], [423];

vetoes Civil Rights bill, [272], [423];

his veto message answered by T., [272];

his course discussed, [273], [274];

his combativeness, [273] and n., [274];

majority against, in Congress, increased by elections of 1866, [277];

sustained by T. until veto of Civil Rights bill, [277];

signs bill readmitting Tenn., [285];

"National Union Convention" of supporters of, [285], [286];

his attack on Congress, and its sequel, [286];

policy of, and the Milligan case, [289];

and the Cabinet meeting of Jan. 8, 1867, [290];

Northern view of his plan of reconstruction, [293];

vetoes Reconstruction bill, [293],

and divers supplementary bills, [293], [294];

his power of removal aimed at by Tenure-of-Office bill, [301], [302];

impeachment of, now generally condemned, [303];

first mention of impeachment of, [303], [304];

House rejects impeachment resolutions, [304];

requests Stanton's resignation, [304], [305];

suspends him and appoints Grant ad interim, [305];

correspondence of, with Grant, submitted to committee, [306], [307];

his lack of tact, [306];

wishes to make up a case for Supreme Court, [307];

quoted by Truman as to his Cabinet, [307] n.;

advised to let Stanton alone, but attempts to remove him, [308];

names Thomas Secretary ad interim, [308];

his action causes change in public feeling, [309];

House votes to impeach, [309];

his trial, [309], [312] ff.;

summary of articles, [309]-[311];

his answer, [311];

evidence of his purpose to make a case for Supreme Court not admitted, [312], [313];

acquitted, [320], [321];

vetoes Act of March 27, 1868, [329];

T.'s vote on impeachment of, [423]; [181] n., [229], [278].

Johnson, Reverdy, Senator, favors 13th Amendment, [227];

on Civil Rights bill, [270]; [247], [264], [281].

Jonas, A., quoted, [74], [79], [92].

Jones, George W., [35].

Judd, Norman B., expects seat in Lincoln's Cabinet, [148];

his character, [149];

favored by T., [149];

interview of, with Lincoln, [149], [150];

receives Prussian mission as a salve, [151], [152];

quoted, as to T.'s feeling against Lincoln, [217];

as to European admiration of Lincoln, [231];

on other subjects, [74], [80], [91]; [15], [41], [43], [45], [46] n., [69], [87], [93], [142].

Julian, George W., Congressman, describes scene in House on adoption of 13th Amendment, [228] and n.; [xxi].


Kansas, did Douglas intend it to be a slave state? [35], [36];

affairs in, in 1855, [49] ff.;

prospect of slavery in, [49];

Reeder appointed governor, [49];

invaded by Missourians, [49];

election of Whitfield, [49], [50];

second invasion of Missourians, [50] ff.;

"Border Ruffian" legislature of, enacts Slave code, [54], [55];

Shannon appointed governor, [55];

Free State convention In, [55];

Pres. Pierce's special message on affairs in, [55];

reports of Senate Committee on Territories thereon, [55] ff.;

debate on affairs in, in Senate, [55] ff.;

T.'s letter to Turner on affairs in, [71];

Walker appointed governor, [71];

Constitutional Convention at Lecompton, [72];

Cabinet Conspiracy concerning referendum on Lecompton Constitution, [72], [73];

legislature declares for submission of the whole Constitution, [73];

admission of, thereunder, recommended by Buchanan, [81];

administration bill, passed by Senate, but repealed by House, [83];

English bill, passed by Congress, but rejected by people, [83], [84];

reign of terror in, [126];

proposed suffrage amendment to Constitution of, rejected, [295].

Kansas-Nebraska bill, its original form, [33], [34];

as amended, [34], [35];

passed by Congress, [37];

effect of passage of, on parties at the North, [37];

T. organizes opposition to, in Ill., [37], [38];

opposed by Lincoln, [39];

and the Senatorial election in Ill., in 1854, [39] ff.;

attacked by T., [56]; [125], [126], [131].

Keim, William H., [195].

Kellogg, William P., and the governorship of La., [404], [405], [406], [408]; [410], [411].

Kentucky Resolutions of 1798, [xxiii].

King, Preston, Senator, [122].

King, Rufus, xxii n.

Koerner, Gustave, quoted, [103], [118], [212], [213];

interview of, with Lincoln, [149], [150];

and the Russian mission, [151], [152];

appointed Minister to Spain, [152];

T. writes to, on impeachment, [323];

his death and funeral, [418]; [29], [30], [37], [88], [379].

Ku-Klux bill, held unconstitutional by Supreme Court, [275], [358]; [424].

Ku-Klux-Klan, in Georgia, [298], [300];

Grant's special message on, [356];

Congress passes bill relating to, [356],

which is opposed by T. and Schurz, [356], [357], [358].


Labor laws enacted by seceding states during reconstruction, [242];

brought before Congress, [247];

character of, [247].

Lambert, W. H., [110] n.

Lane, Henry S., Senator, [106], [166].

Lane, James H., Senator, [53], [101] n.

Larned, E. C, T.'s letters to, on compromise, [113], [114].

Lea, M. Carey, letter of, to T., on Frémont emancipation episode, [170],

and T.'s reply, [171], [172].

Lecompton constitution, slavery clause of, alone to be submitted to people, [72], [73];

declared valid by Buchanan, [76];

condemned by T., [76], [77];

admission of Kansas under, urged by Buchanan, [81];

disappears with rejection of English bill by the people, [83].

Lee, S. Phillips, [169].

Leet and Stocking scandal, [364] ff.;

Senate orders inquiry into, [355]-[367];

solution of, [367]-[369].

Lemen, Rev. James, organizes opposition to slavery in Northwest Terr., [23], [24].

Lewis, B., quoted, [107].

Lewis, John F., [161].

Liberal Republican movement (1872) started in Mo., [351];

progress of, [351] ff.;

Schurz a leader in, [352];

revenue reform an element in, [352], [353];

how viewed by Grant and his friends, [355];

shortcomings of Grant's administration the main cause of, [361].

And see Cincinnati, Convention at.

Liberal Republicans, demand universal Amnesty with impartial suffrage, [356];

call for national Convention of, [372],

which meets at Cincinnati, [374] ff.;

leading candidates for presidency among, [377];

division among, after Greeley's nomination, [385] ff.;

meeting of dissentients, [391], [392].

And see Missouri.

Liberator, the, established by Garrison (1831), [xxxi];

attempts to suppress, [xxxii].

Lincoln, Abraham, in Ill. legislature of 1840, [10];

his marriage, [15];

and the Kansas-Nebraska bill, [37];

and the Senatorial election of 1854, [39], [43] ff.;

effect of repeal of Missouri Compromise on, [39];

his speech at Peoria in reply to Douglas, [39], [40] and n.;

defeated by T., [45], [46] n.;

letter of, to Washburne, on the result, [45], [46];

possible results of his election, [47];

urges T. to attend first Republican national convention, [69];

receives votes for Vice-President, [69];

writes T. on the ticket, [69], [70];

on Douglas's attitude on Lecompton, [74];

on Republican praise of Douglas, [87];

Palmer on candidacy of, for Senate, [88];

campaign of, for senatorship (1858), [89] ff.;

on Buchanan Democrats, [90];

on prospects for 1860, [92]; his relations with T., [93];

his debate with Douglas at Freeport, [94] n.;

commends T.'s speech on John Brown raid, [100];

on Delahay's candidacy for Senate, [100], [101] n.;

his status in 1860, [102];

a possible candidate for Republican nomination, [102] ff.;

on the various candidates, [104], [105];

his radicalism, [105];

nominated, [106];

comments of Illinoisans on his candidacy, [106], [107];

on Republican prospects, [108];

his vote in Ill., [109];

and the ratification at Springfield, [109], [110];

on South Carolina's attitude, [110], [111];

opposed to compromise on extension of slavery, [111];

proposes resolutions on slavery, etc., [112];

on rumors of Buchanan's purpose to surrender forts, [112], [113];

his Cooper Institute speech, [115];

and the office-seekers, [139];

the making of his Cabinet, [139] ff.;

and Seward, [139]-[141];

offers State Department to Seward, [141];

the Cameron affair, [142] ff.;

his instructions against pre-convention contracts, [142];

Davis's influence over, [143] and n.;

promises Cameron a portfolio, [144];

anti-Cameron appeal to, by McClure and T., [144], [145];

his reply to T., [145];

tries to buy Cameron off, [145], [146];

T.'s further remonstrance to, [146], [147];

and Judd, [148], [149];

interview with Koerner, [149], [150];

and the Harvey dispatch to Gov. Pickens, [155] ff.;

makes Harvey Minister to Portugal, [155], [157], [158];

his previous consent to evacuate Sumter, to prevent secession of Va., [158] ff.;

his interviews with Baldwin and Botts, [159], [160], [161];

absurdity of Dabney's account, [162];

revokes Frémont's emancipation order, [169];

effect of his action, [169];

letters of Lea and T. on the crisis, [170]-[172];

T.'s view of his character, [171];

suppresses Cameron's pro-emancipation report, [172] and n.;

revokes Hunter's order, [172];

proposes to veto T.'s Confiscation bill, [176];

his objections removed by resolution, [175], [176];

orders Wallace to desist from confiscation, [177];

and Cameron, [185];

nominates Cameron as minister to Russia, [186];

assumes responsibility in Cummings affair, [187];

authorizes Scott to suspend habeas corpus, [190];

his action approved, [191];

transfers authority to Stanton, [197];

proclaims martial law as to certain classes, [200];

issues Emancipation Proclamation, [200];

commutes Vallandigham's sentence to banishment, [204];

replies to protest of Northern Democrats, [205];

his only evasion, [205];

revokes Burnside's order suppressing Chicago Times, [207], [208];

criticized by N. Y. Tribune, [309] n.;

and certain dispatches of Seward to Adams, [210] ff.;

requested to demand Seward's resignation, [211];

his comment, [212];

and Delahay, [214];

Palmer on his prospect of renomination, [214], [215], [216];

first evidence of personal difference between T. and, [217], [218];

T.'s opinion of his administration, [218];

feeling in Congress adverse to his reëlection, [218], [219];

denounced by Wilson, [219];

basis of opposition to, [219]; renominated, but fears defeat, [219];

requests Blair's resignation, and why, [220] and n.;

T. favors his reëlection, [220], [221];

reëlected by favor of Union victories, [221];

and Halleck, [226]; his death, [231];

European opinion of, [231];

his view of status of seceding states embodied in proclamation of Dec. 8, 1863, [232];

letter of, to Gov. Hahn of La., [233];

his address of Apr. 11, 1865, on reconstruction, [234], [235];

his plan adopted by Johnson, [237];

had his life been spared, [286];

his plan of reconstruction definitely abandoned, [291];

T.'s estimate of his character and career, [430]; [xxi], [65], [67], [240], [245], [246], [423].

Lincoln, Mary (Todd), [42], [46].

Lloyd, Henry D., [414], [417].

Lodge, H. C, Senator, Daniel Webster, xxii n., xxv n.

Logan, John A., General and Senator, [75], [277], [304], [309], [339], [344], [363], [409].

Logan, Stephen T., [43], [44], [142], [220].

Louisiana, election in, under Lincoln's reconstruction order, [232];

Hahn chosen governor, [232], [233];

constitutional convention in, [233];

U. S. Senators chosen

under new free constitution, [233];

resolutions recognizing new government of, defeated by Sumner, [233], [234];

contested election of 1872 in, [404], [405];

Senatorial investigation thereof, [405];

disputed returns from, in 1876, [408] ff.

Louisiana purchase, Federalist opposition to, [xxiii], [xxiv].

Louisville Courier-Journal, interview with T. in, [369], [370]; [372].

Lovejoy, Rev. Elijah P., murder of, described by T., [8]-[10];

its effect on Abolition movement, [10]; [xxxiii].

Lovejoy, Rev. Owen, Congressman, [43].

Lundy, Benjamin, [xxxi].


McCardle, William H., arrest and imprisonment of, [327];

remanded on habeas corpus, [327];

appeals, [327];

T. appears against in Supreme Court, [327], [328];

his appeal dismissed, under Act of March, 1868, [329], [330];

T.'s connection with case of, criticized, [330], [331].

McClellan, George B., General, inaction of, [169]; [171], [172], [219].

McClernand, John A., [10], [11], [427].

McClure, A. K., his Lincoln and Men of War-Time, quoted, [143];

opposes Cameron's appointment, [144]; [374].

McClurg, Joseph, [352].

McCulloch, Hugh, Secretary of Treasury, opinion of, on question of territorializing states, [290].

McDougall, James A., Senator, [166], [228], [285].

McDowell, Irwin, General, at first Bull Run, [165], [167].

McEnery, John, and the governorship of La., [404], [405].

McLean, John, Justice Sup. Ct., candidate for Republican nomination (1860), [103];

shakes his fist in Buchanan's face, [122], [123]; [69], [104], [105].

McLean, Mrs. John, [121].

McPike. H. G., quoted, [107], [118];

T.'s letter to, on Lincoln's reëlection, [218].

Madison, James, xxii n., [xxxi].

Magruder, Allan B., [161], [162].

Magruder, Benj. D., Chief Justice of Ill., quoted, [21], [22].

Mails, irregularity of, in early 19th century, [7].

Malaria, Trumbull family afflicted by, [19].

Managers of impeachment, overmatched by defendant's counsel, [309];

their conduct of the trial, [312], [313];

bring pressure to bear on Senators, [313].

Mann, A., Jr., [140], [141].

Marble, Manton, quoted, [373].

Mason, James M., Senator, threatens dissolution of Union, [70], [71];

moves for committee of inquiry into John Brown raid, [98]; [53], [116], [134], [349] and n.

Massachusetts, slavery in, [xxvii].

Massachusetts legislature, Anti-Embargo resolutions of, [xxiv].

Mather, Rev. Richard, [2].

Matteson, Joel A., Governor, [43], [44], [46] and n., [60].

Matteson, O. B., [179].

Matthews, Stanley, Justice of Sup. Ct., [275], [372].

Maynard, Horace, Congressman, quoted, [293].

Medill, Joseph, quoted, on T.'s character and possible future, [424], [425].

Meigs, Montgomery C, Q.-M. Gen., [185].

Merryman, John, summary arrest of, [194]-[196].

Methodist Church, the, and the impeachment trial, [317].

Miles, Nelson A., General, [167].

Military commission, trial of civilians by, divided opinion of Supreme Court on, in Milligan case, [289].

Miller, Samuel F., Justice Sup. Ct., [275], [289], [409].

Milligan case, decided by majority of Supreme Court, [288], [289];

grounds of decision, [288], [289],

and its consequences, [289];

radicals angered by, [289], [290]; [327].

Minnesota, proposed suffrage amendment to constitution of, repealed, [295].

Mississippi, order for reconstruction of, [238];

fails to adopt new constitution promptly, [295];

new conditions imposed on, [296].

Missouri, admission of, [xxix], [xxx],

during the war, [351];

continued political warfare in, after the war, [351];

state constitution of 1865, [351];

division in Republican party of, results in Schurz's election as senator, [351], [352];

success of Liberal republican movement in, [352];

liberal movement in, how viewed by Grant, [355];

state convention of Liberal Republicans of, adopts platform and calls national Convention, [372];

its platform defended by T., [376];

vote of, in Cincinnati convention, [383].

Missouri Compromise, history of, [xxx];

repeal of, causes T.'s return to politics, [32];

not repealed by original Nebraska bill, [34];

Dixon amendment for repeal of, adopted by Douglas, [34];

repeal of, and Lincoln, [39];

meaning of "forever" in, [62], [63] n.;

repeal of, [125], [126];

and the Crittenden Compromise, [131].

Missouri Democrat, the, [142], [352].

Missourians, and Kansas, [35];

invade Kansas, [49];

threaten Gov. Reeder, [50], [51];

Atchison's advice to, [52];

in Kansas, [56], [57], [58], [65].

Monroe, James, President, [103].

Moran, Thomas A., Judge, on T.'s public services, [419].

Morgan, Edwin D., Governor, [178], [261], [265], [314], [321].

Morrill, Justin S., Congressman, [168], [281].

Morrill, Lot N., Senator, [263].

Morrison, J. L. D., [41].

Morton, Oliver P., Senator, [298], [307] n., [339], [346], [355], [363], [371], [376], [405], [406] and n.

Motley, J. Lothrop, minister to England, removed, [347], [348].

Moultrie, Fort, [129].

Murphy, Thomas, appointed collector of N. Y., [362], [363];

and the Leet and Stocking case, [365], [368]; [371].

Nation, the, praises Johnson's first message, [244], [245];

quoted, on T. and the Georgia bill, [299], [300];

on Republican abuse of the "Seven traitors," [316], [317];

on conference of revenue reformers, [353], [354];

on Liberal Republican movement, [355], [356];

on Leet and Stocking case, [368], [369];

on opposition to Grant, [370], [371];

on Cooper Union meeting, [376], [377];

on Schurz's attitude toward Greeley, [392];

and the defeat of Greeley, [404]; [273], [372].


National Union Convention of Johnson men, [285], [286], [323].

Nationalism, and the Constitution, [xxvi], [xxvii].

Nebraska, bill to organize territory of, reported by Douglas, [33], [34].

And see Anti-Nebraska Democrats, and Kansas-Nebraska bill.

Negro suffrage, omitted from new constitution of La., [233];

Garrison opposes imposition of, in the South, [235];

Pres. Johnson opposed to, [236], [237];

vote of Johnson's Cabinet on, as applying to provisional governments, [238];

not included in executive orders, [238], [239];

W. Phillips's views on, [239], [240],

traversed by N. Y. Tribune, [240],

and Times, [240], [241];

in Northern States in 1866, [243];

question of, not acute in early 1866, [261];

Howard argues against, [287];

made a permanent condition of reconstruction, [292] and n.;

Northern opinion concerning, [293];

in Republican convention of 1868, [332], [333];

finally embodied in 15th Amendment, [338]-[340].

Negroes, T. appears for in attempts to regain freedom, [28] ff.;

right of, to bring actions in U. S. courts, [64];

condition of, in South, under reconstruction, [241]-[243];

status of, in Northern states, in 1866, [243];

debate on granting civil rights to, [265] ff.

Nelson, Samuel, Justice Sup. Ct, [289].

Nelson, Thomas A.R., of counsel for Johnson, [309].

Nesmith, James W., Senator, [261], [285].

New England, why opposed to Louisiana Purchase, [xxiii], [xxiv].

New England Emigrant Aid Co., attacked by Douglas, [35];

blamed by Pierce and Douglas for disorders in Kansas, [26] ff.;

defended by T., [58], [59].

New Jersey, opposed to Seward, [103];

legislature of, elects Stockton Senator, [262];

validity of his election challenged, [262]-[265].

New York, "compromisers" from, [122];

and the 15th Amendment, [340];

majority against Greeley in, [402].

New York Evening Post, quoted, on exclusion of negroes from suffrage, [239];

on the impeachment trial, [314], [315]; [91], [372], [375].

New York Free Trade League, [353].

New York Herald, quoted, on Cincinnati convention, [390]; [50], [378].

New York Republicans oppose Seward's inclusion in Lincoln's Cabinet, [139] ff.;

T.'s Interview with, [140], [141].

New York Times, quoted, on T.'s debate with Douglas, [66];

on Seward's dispatch to Adams, [211];

on Johnson's first message, [244].

New York Tribune, quoted, in T.'s debate with Douglas, [66];

praises Douglas, [87];

and the Vallandigham case, [205], [206], [209] n.;

on Lincoln's revocation of order suppressing Chicago Times, [209] n.;

defends Johnson against Phillips, [240]; [91], [92], [239], [314], [315], [372].

New York World, circulation of, in Burnside's department, forbidden by him, [206]; [373].

Newman, Professor, [235].

Nicholson letter, on squatter sovereignty, [94].

Nicolay, John G., quoted, [75].

Nicolay (John G.) and Hay (John), Abraham Lincoln, on Lincoln's offer to evacuate Sumter, [159];

on Cameron's leaving the Cabinet, [185], [186];

quoted, [143], [162], [220].

Niles, Nathaniel, [30].

North, the, took up arms to preserve the Union, [xxi], [xxii];

slavery in, [xxviii].

North Carolina, attempt at reconstruction in, [238];

qualifications of electors in, [238];

election of August, 1872, in, [399], [400].

Northern States, negro suffrage in, [243].

Northern view of reconstruction, [293].

Northwest, the, its claim to consideration, [132], [133].

Northwestern Territory, slavery in, before

1787, [23], [24];

provisions of Ordinance of 1787, concerning slavery in, [24];

main source of immigration to, [24].

Norton, Daniel S., Senator, his vote against impeachment, [323]; [261], [285], [313].

Nourse, George A., [68].

Noyes, William C., [140], [141].

Nullification, in South Carolina, [xxv], [xxvi];

in Mass. (1885), [xxvi].

Nye, James W., Senator, [360].


O'Conor, Charles, nominated for Pres. by dissentient Democrats (1872), but declines, [394].

Ogden, William B., [207].

Oglesby, Richard J., General, succeeds T. in Senate, [407]; [277].

Ohio, in convention of 1860, [107];

proposed suffrage amendment to constitution of, rejected, [295];

and the 15th Amendment, [340];

and the call for a Liberal Republican convention, [372];

election of Oct., 1872, in, [402].

"Old Public Functionary" (Buchanan), [122].

Opdycke, George, [147], [178].

Ord, Edward O. C., General, orders arrest of McCardle, [327].

Ordinance of 1787, provisions of, concerning slavery, [24];

violated by territorial legislature of Ill., [24], [25];

attempts to repeal 6th article of, [25];

kept slavery out of Ill., [28].;

and the 13th Amendment, [224].

Osgood, Uri (Illinois senate), [41], [42], [43].

Otis, Harrison G., Mayor of Boston, and the Liberator, [xxxii].

Owen, Robert Dale, principal author of 14th Amendment, [282].


Palmer, John M., General, on Republican alliance with Douglas, [87], [88];

on Lincoln's prospect of renomination, [214], [215], [216];

on Grant's character and future, [216];

on Liberal Republican movement, [377]; [21], [41], [43], [45], [46] n., [93], [109], [277], [373], [419].

Parker, Rev. Theodore, [78].

Parks, Sam C., quoted, [46] n., [75], [119].

Particularism, and the Constitution, [xxvi].

Patterson, James W., Senator, [343], [362], [363], [364], [367], [371].

Payne, conspirator, [289].

Pearce, James A., Senator, [194].

Peck, Ebenezer, quoted, [74], [80], [119], [147], [148]; [13], [87], [150], [427], [431].

Peck, Rev. John M., [27], [28].

Peirpoint, Francis M., recognized as Governor of Va., under reconstruction, [237]; [161].

Pendleton, George H., Congressman, and the "Greenback" movement, [324].

Pennsylvania, opposed to Seward, [103];

in convention of 1860, [106], [107];

in Liberal Republican movement, [374];

election of Oct. 1872, in, [402].

People's party, issues T's speech at Chicago as campaign document, [415];

T. draws resolutions for meeting of, [415]-[417].

Philadelphia, National Union Convention at, [285], [286].

Phillips, D. L., quoted, [75], [89]; [213].

Phillips, Wendell, opposes reëlection of Lincoln, [220];

savagely attacks Johnson, [239], [240];

reproved by N. Y. Tribune, [240],

and Times, [240], [241]; [388].

Piatt, Donn, Memories of Men who saved the Union, quoted, [222].

Pickens, Francis W., Governor, [121], [155], [156], [157], [158].

And see Harvey.

Pierce, Edward L., Life of Sumner, quoted, [292] n., [347] n.; [66].

Pierce, Franklin, President, makes Reeder Governor of Kansas, [49];

removes Reeder and appoints Shannon, [55];

his special message on Kansas affairs, [55]; [xxi], [37], [52], [54], [65], [73], [83], [246].

Poland, Luke D., Senator, [262], [304].

Pomeroy, Samuel C., Senator, [202], [203].

Poore, Ben: Perley, [342].

"Popular sovereignty," [39].

Porter, Horace, General, [366].

Postage in early 19th century, [7], [20].

Pottawatomie massacre, the, [97].

Powell, Lazarus W., Senator, opposes habeas corpus suspension bill, [198], [199], [200], [201], [202]; [116].

Protection, meaning of, in 1871, [354].

Pullman Co., strike of employees of, [413]-[415].


Randall, Alexander W., Postmaster General, [285].

Randall, J. G., [174] and n.

Randolph, John, of Roanoke, and article [6] of Ordinance of 1787, [25]; [xxxi].

Raum, Green B., quoted, [67] and n.

Rawlins, John A., General, appointed Secretary of War, [337]; [330].

Ray, C. H., quoted, [74], [75], [87], [148], [243], [261]; [79], [80], [151].

Ray, P. Ormon, Repeal of the Missouri Compromise, [37] n.

Raymond, Henry J., Congressman, [272].

Read, John M., [108].

Reconstruction, Lincoln's plan of, set forth in proclamation of Dec. 8, 1863, [232];

the La. attempt at, [233], [234];

Lincoln's address on, Apr. 11, 1865, [235];

his plan endorsed by Garrison, [235], [236],

and adopted by Johnson, [237];

in Va., [237];

in Tenn., [237], [238];

in Ark., [238];

in No. Carolina, and other seceding states, [238];

Shaffer and Ray on conditions in those States under, [242], [243];

the Nation on Johnson's plan of, [244], [245];

Lincoln's plan of, definitely abandoned, [291];

supplementary measure of, passed by Congress, vetoed, and passed over veto, [294];

drastic provisions of, [294];

further measures of, passed over vetoes, [295];

a failure, [341];

change in T.'s course on, [423], [424].

Reconstruction, House Committee on, inquires into suspension of Stanton, [306];

refuses to recommend impeachment, [308].

Reconstruction, Joint Committee on, members of, [281];

amendment to Constitution proposed to, by Bingham and Stevens, [282];

reports 14th Amendment, [283], [284].

Reconstruction bill (Stevens's) establishing military government in South, [291], [292];

amended by provision for negro suffrage, [292];

passed by Congress, vetoed, and passed over veto, [293], [294].

Reeder, Andrew H., appointed Governor of Kansas, [49];

confirms elections of Whitfield as Delegate to Congress, [49], [50];

and the Missourian invaders, [50], [51], [53], [54];

removed by Pierce, [55]; [56], [59], [63], [108], [150].

Religion, T.'s views on, [430], [431].

Republican National Convention (1856), [69];

(1860), nominates Lincoln, [105], [106];

(1868) on negro suffrage, [332], [333];

its negro-suffrage plank too brazen to be long maintained, [338];

(1872), nominates Grant and Wilson, [393];

platform of, [394].

Republican party, first national convention of, [69], [70];

rumored alliance of Douglas with, [78]-[80];

still inchoate in 1860, [102];

candidate for presidential nomination of, in 1860, [102] ff.;

T.'s views concerning, [103], [104];

T.'s view of duty of, in 1861, [113], [114];

T.'s position in, in campaign of 1866, [273];

control of, shifted to radical wing by veto of Civil Rights bill, [277];

power of that wing of, increased by refusal of South to ratify 14th Amendment, [287];

lead of, in Congress, assumed by Sumner and Stevens, [291];

definitely abandons Lincoln's plan of reconstruction, [291];

generally adopts Sumner's view of impeachment, [312];

treatment of "traitor" Senators by, [322]-[326];

Henderson alone forgiven, [326];

corruption in, in 1870, [341] ff.;

division in, in Mo., [351] ff.;

both sections of, in Mo., adopt "Anti-tariff" resolution, [352];

defeated in Congressional elections of 1874, [408];

T.'s separation from, [420].

Republicans of the first period, [xxiii].

Republicans, Eastern, favor Douglas's re-election to Senate, [86];

and the Lincoln-Douglas campaign, [91], [92];

in Ill., distrust Douglas, [86],

and prefer Lincoln for Senator, [86];

those opposed to Lincoln, nominate Frémont and Cochrane (1864), [219], [220].

Retrenchment, Joint Committee on, report of, [362], [363];

and the Leet and Stocking case, [364] ff.

Revenue reform, an element in Liberal Republican movement, [352], [353];

conference of advocates of, [353], [354];

in the Cincinnati convention, [381], [382].

Reynolds, John, Governor, and the pro-slavery attempt to amend the constitution of Ill., [26];

quoted, [28]; [6] n., [11], [38].

Rhode Island, opposed to Seward, [103].

Rhodes, James F., History of the U. S., quoted on "anti-impeachment" Senators, [322];

on La. returning board, [408];

cited, [406] n.

Richardson, William A., Senator, [10], [197], [201], [427].

Riddle, A. G., Recollections of War-Time, quoted, [228] n.; [219].

Robbins, Henry S., T.'s partner, [407];

quoted, on T.'s character, [425].

Robertson, Thomas J., [359].

Robeson, George M., appointed Secretary of the Navy, [337];

action in the Secor case, [396], [397], [398].

Ross, Edmund G., Senator, immortalized by his vote against impeachment, [322];

his later years, and death in poverty, [322]; [299], [314], [317].

Russia, Cameron appointed Minister to, [186], [187]-[189].


San Domingo treaty, opposed by Sumner, [342], [343];

Wade commission, [343],

and its report, [386];

attempt to secure ratification of, [360].

Sands, Mahlon D., convokes conference of revenue reformers, [353].

Saulsbury, Willard, Senator, [201], [228], [249], [250], [267], [268], [272].

Scates, Walter B., Judge, quoted, [213]; [21], [375].

Schenck, Robert C., Congressman, [165], [166], [167].

Schurz, Carl, Senator, report of, in his Southern tour, [253]-[255];

his report has great influence, [254];

his later doubts as to his conclusions, [254] n.;

succeeds Henderson in Senate, [351], [352];

a leader in Liberal Republican movement, [352];

opposes Ku-Klux-Klan bill, [356], [358];

his speech a masterpiece, [358];

on Leet and Stocking case, [365], [366];

chairman of Cincinnati Convention, [383];

his view of nomination, [384], [385];

how connected with course of Blair and Brown, [385] and n.; his attitude toward Greeley's candidacy, [391], [392];

urges him to decline, [391];

Godkin and Godwin remonstrate with, [392], [393];

in the campaign, [399];

Greeley's farewell letter to, [403]; [107], [189], [343], [344], [353], [359], [363], [369], [371], [373], [377], [378], [389], [402].

Scott, Dred, not consciously a party to suit brought in his name, [82], [83].

And see Dred Scott case.

Scott, Thomas A., censured by House Committee, [184], [185]; [172] n., [186].

Scott, Winfield, General, has authority from Lincoln to suspend habeas corpus, [190]; [121], [122], [128], [171].

Scripps, John L., [87].

Secession movement, history of, [125] ff.

Secors, the, and the Navy Dep't, [397], [398].

Senate of U. S., debates Kansas-Nebraska bill, [34],

and passes it, [37]; T. takes his seat in, [48];

debates on affairs in Kansas in, [55] ff., [63], [64], [65], [76] ff., [81], [82], [83];

passes Lecompton bill, [83],

and substituted English bill, [84];

debate on popular sovereignty in, [94];

debate on Davis's anti-Douglas resolutions in, [95], [96],

and on John Brown raid, [98]-[100];

J. Davis's last speeches in, [110], [114], [115];

debates Crittenden Compromise, [115]-[117],

and rejects it, [117];

passes proposed amendment to constitution forbidding interference with slavery, [117];

Douglas's death announced to, by T., [152], [153];

struggle in, over confirmation of Cameron as Minister to Russia, [187]-[189];

debate in, on arbitrary arrests, [190] ff.;

passes bill concerning political prisoners, [197];

debates habeas corpus suspension bill, [198] ff.;

Democratic filibuster thereon, [200]-[203];

debates 13th Amendment, [223] ff.;

debates Louisiana bill, [233], [234];

Sumner's attack on Johnson in, [246], [247];

debate on Wilson bill in, [247]-[250];

calls for Schurz's report on Southern affairs, [253];

debates Freedmen's Bureau bill, [258]-[260],

but fails to pass it over veto, [261];

Stockton election contest in, [261]-[265];

debates Civil Rights bill, [265]-[270],

and passes it over veto, [272];

passes 14th Amendment, [283];

passes bill admitting Texas, [284];

amendment looking to negro suffrage offered in, [287];

adopts Sumner's negro-suffrage amendment to Reconstruction bill, [292],

and passes bill over veto, [293], [294];

pass bills readmitting divers States, [296], [297];

debates Georgia bill, [298], [299];

debates Tenure-of-Office bill, [301], [302],

and passes it over veto, [303];

non-concurs in removal of Stanton, [305], [306];

trial of Johnson impeachment in, [309]-[314], [318]-[320];

acquits him on three counts, [320], [321];

debate on T.'s connection with McCardle case, [331], [332];

debates and passes 15th Amendment, [338]-[340];

debate in, on ousting Sumner from Foreign Affairs Committee, [343] ff.;

debates Ku-Klux-Klan bill, [356]-[358],

and Amnesty bill, [359], [360],

and Hodge resolution, [362]-[364];

orders inquiry into Leet and Stocking scandal, [365], [366];

discusses make-up of committee, [366], [367];

T.'s speech on Mo. convention of 1872, [376];

Sumner's anti-Grant speech in, [387], [388];

orders investigation of La. election, [405];

T.'s last speech in, [405].

Seward, William H., speech of, on Kansas affairs, [64];

the "logical candidate" in 1860, [102];

opposition to nomination of, [102], [103];

too radical for some states, [103];

T. and Lincoln on candidacy of, [103], [104], [105];

his inclusion in Cabinet opposed, [139] ff.;

State Dep't. offered to, [141];

and Cameron's appointment, [143];

and the Harvey despatch to Gov. Pickens, [155] ff.;

and Harvey's appointment to Portugal, [155], [157];

his assurance to Confederate envoys as to evacuation of Sumter, [156];

his purpose, to defeat relief of Sumter, [157];

had induced Lincoln to agree to evacuation to prevent secession of Va., [158];

sends Magruder to Va. convention, [161];

and Douglas, in April, 1861, [163], [164];

his aims patriotic but futile, [164];

assumes power to order arbitrary arrests, [190] ff.;

his dispatches of Apr. 1861, and July, 1862, to Adams, [210] ff.;

his attitude toward Lincoln's war policy, [210];

unjustly blamed for non-success of Union arms, [210], [211], [212];

committee of Republican Senators urge Lincoln to demand his resignation, [211];

Lincoln's comment thereon, [212];

on real date of emancipation, [222];

his construction of 13th Amendment confirmed by Supreme Court, [229];

on Johnson as a speaker, [246];

opinion of, on matter of territorializing States, [290];

prepares Johnson's veto message of Tenure-of-Office bill, [303]; [48], [79], [82], [84], [86], [88], [106], [107], [108], [112], [116], [118], [119], [145], [146], [147], [150], [151], [170], [172], [181] n., [182], [197], [238], [307], [430].

Seymour, Horatio, elected Governor of N. Y., [197];

Democratic nominee for Pres. (1868), [333]; [355].

Shaffer, J. W., quoted, on conditions in seceding states, [242], [243].

Shannon, Wilson, succeeds Reeder as Governor of Kansas Terr., [55].

Sheahan, James W., [79].

Sheridan, P. H., General, [221].

Sherman, John, Senator, on Tenure-of-Office bill, [301], [302], [303];

his view of impeachment, [309], [310];

and evidence of Johnson's intent, [313];

on Sumner and the Foreign Affairs Committee, [344], [345];

on Caucus secrets, [345], [346]; [102], [248], [249], [292], [316], [320], [363], [371], [409].

Sherman, William T., General, quoted, on conditions in La. (1859), [xxxv], [165], [166], [221], [257], [308].

Shields, James, Senator, [39], [43].

Shiloh, battle of, [334].

Simpson, Matthew, Methodist bishop, and the impeachment trial, [317], [320].

Slave trade, extension of, deemed a vital necessity in the South, [xxxiv].

Slavery, how involved in the War, [xxi], [xxii];

history of, in the U. S., xxvii ff.;

change in Southern view of, [xxxii], [xxxiii];

in Ill., early history of, [23] ff.;

provisions of Ordinance of 1787 concerning, violated by legislature, [25];

prohibited by State Constitution, [25];

attempts to perpetuate in Ill., [28]-[30];

and the Kansas-Nebraska bill, [34] ff.;

in Lecompton Constitution, [72], [76];

Douglas's attitude toward, [78], [86];

in territories, doctrine of Squatter Sovereignty, [94] and n., [95];

resolutions concerning, proposed by Lincoln, [112];

proposed Amendment to Constitution forbidding interference with, passes both Houses, [117];

T.'s review of question of, [124] ff.;

T.'s view of effect of 13th Amendment on, [249], [250], [251], [258], [259], [260].

And see Constitution (Amendment XIII), and Squatter Sovereignty.

Slaves, premature attempts to emancipate, by Frémont, [169], [170],

Cameron, [172],

Hunter, [172];

T.'s confiscation bill, [173] ff.,

the first step toward full emancipation, [176].

Slidell, John, [80], [349], and n.

Smith, Caleb, Secretary of the Interior, [142], [148], [149], [151], [429].

South, the, and the right of Secession, [xxx];

and the Missouri Compromise, [xxx];

condition of, in second quarter of 19th century, [xxxii], [xxxiii];

changing view of slavery in, [xxxii],

and of the slave trade, [xxxiv].

South Carolina, and Nullification, [xxv], [xxvi];

attitude of, in 1861, [110];

forts in, Lincoln's attitude concerning, [112], [113];

and the 13th Amendment, [229];

disputed returns from (1876), [408].

Southern States. See States seceding.

Spaulding, Rufus P., Congressman, moves for inquiry into suspension of Stanton, [306]; [304].

Spencer, Charles S., threatens T. for his attitude on impeachment, [315].

Spoils system, T. on iniquities of, [349].

Springfield (Ill.) Journal, [142].

Springfield (Mass.) Republican, [372].

Squatter Sovereign, the, quoted, [51].

Squatter Sovereignty, doctrine of, reaffirmed by Douglas, [94];

denied by Jefferson Davis, [94].

Stallo, J. G., [373].

Stanbery, Henry, Attorney-General, opinion of, on question of territorializing states, [290], [291];

of counsel for Johnson, [309]; [327].

Stanton, Edwin M., Secretary of War, and arbitrary arrests, [197];

general jail delivery by, [198];

opinion of, on question of territorializing states, [290], [291];

and the Cabinet section of Tenure-of-Office bill, [302];

advises veto, and assists Seward in preparing veto message, [303];

declines to resign as Secretary of War, [305];

suspended, [305];

denies power of Pres. to suspend him, [305];

surrenders office to Grant, [305];

resumes office, after Senate's action, [306];

his embarrassing position, [308];

Johnson attempts to remove, [308];

refuses to turn over office to Thomas, [308];

change in popular feeling concerning, [308], [309];

attempted removal of, basis of first [8] articles of impeachment, [309], [310];

claims to be protected by Tenure-of-Office Act, [310];

evidence of his advice to Johnson as to that act, excluded, [313];

articles based on removal of, not voted on, [320];

relinquishes office, [321];

his conduct condemned, [321]; [177], [186], [189], [237], [318], [319], [330], [430].

Stanton, F. P., acting Governor of Kansas, removed by Buchanan, [73].

State Register, the, [13], [14].

State sovereignty, [xxii], [xxv].

States, admitted in pairs, [xxix].

States, seceding, opposing views as to status of, [231], [232];

Sumner and Stevens against Lincoln, [231], [232];

reconstruction of, mapped out before 39th Congress met, [237], [238];

witches' caldron in, under reconstruction, [241];

labor problem in, [241], [242];

new labor laws of, [242],

and their effect in the North, [242];

Shaffer quoted on conditions in, [242], [243];

reports of Grant and Schurz on conditions in, [252]-[254];

Committee on Reconstruction on status of, [284];

Stevens reports bill to restore political rights of, [284], [285];

except Tenn., refuse to ratify 14th Amendment, [287];

cause and consequence of their refusal, [287];

Stevens's bill to make military authority supreme in, [291], [292];

constitutions adopted by, in 1868, [295], [296].

Stephens, Alex. H., on Johnson's speech against secession, [246].

Stetson, Francis L., letter of, to author, [40] n.

Stevens, Simon, [184].

Stevens, Thaddeus, his bill of indemnity for arbitrary arrests, [198];

his views of status of seceding states, [231];

on Reconstruction Committee, [271];

proposes amendments to Constitution, [282];

reports bill to restore political rights of states, [284];

his bill making military authority supreme in the South, [291], [292];

author of 11th article of impeachment, [311]; [184], [260], [278], [287], [304], [306], [308], [309].

Stewart, Alex. T., nominated by Grant as Secretary of Treasury, [335],

and why, [335], [336];

ineligible, [336];

on the "general order" system, [365].

Stewart, William M., Senator, [261], [262], [264], [265], [298], [339], [366].

Stockton, John P., elected Senator from N. J., [261], [262];

his election contested, [262]-[265];

unseated for partisan reasons, [265].

Storey, Wilbur F., and the Chicago Times, [206]-[208].

Stoughton, E. W., [411].

Stringfellow, J. H., quoted, [54].

Strong, Moses M., [208].

Stuart, John T., [32].

Sturtevant, J. M., quoted, [118].

Suffrage, in seceding states, restriction of, [294].

Summers, George W., [158], [159], [161], [162].

Sumner, Charles, his speech on Kansas affairs, [64];

Brooks's assault on, [65];

quoted, in T.'s debate with Douglas, [66];

and Cameron, [188], [189];

his view of status of seceding states, [231];

opposes recognition of new state government of La., [233],

and defeats it, [234];

attacks Johnson, [246], [247];

and the 14th Amendment, [283];

secures adoption of negro suffrage as permanent element of reconstruction, [292] and n.;

Northern views concerning, [293];

dispute with T. on Va. bill, [297];

T. opposes ousting of, from Foreign affairs Committee, [297], [344], [420];

his theory of impeachment, [312];

and Stanton, [321];

and the San Domingo treaty, [342];

charged with bad faith by Grant, [342], [343];

deposed as Chairman of Foreign affairs committee, [343]-[347];

Sherman's advice to, [345];

interview of author with, [347];

on attitude of Anthony, [347];

Motley's removal a blow at, [347];

moves his Equal Rights bill as amendment to Amnesty bill, [360];

and Grant's administration, [361];

his speech against Grant, [387], [388];

his attitude toward Greeley's nomination, [388];

chastised by Garrison, [388]; [79], [102], [211], [228] n., [236], [260], [264], [278], [285], [287], [291], [298], [313], [363], [366], [367], [370], [371], [378], [385] n., [423], [424].

Sumter, Fort, J. Davis's views concerning, [110];

Buchanan's reported purpose to surrender, [112], [113];

effect on Douglas of attack on, [115];

Harvey divulges plans to send supplies to, 155 ff.;

Seward determined to prevent relief of, [156], [157];

Lincoln's earlier promise to evacuate, [158] ff.;

attack on, aroused forces that finally destroyed slavery, [164];

attack on, and emancipation, [222]; [128], [129].

Sunderland, Rev. Byron, [121].

Supreme Court of U. S., and the second clause of 13th Amendment, [229];

construes 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments, in U. S. v. Harris, [275], [276], [358];

holds Ku-Klux Act unconstitutional, [275];

holds Equal Rights Act (1875) unconstitutional, [275], [276];

and the Civil Rights Act, [277];

divided decision of, in Milligan Case, [288], [289];

proposed legislation concerning, [328];

its jurisdiction as affected by Act of Mch. 27, 1868, [329], [330];

dismisses McCardle's appeal, [330];

and the Debs case, [414].

Surratt, Mary E., [289].

Swayne, Noah H., Justice Sup. Ct., [274], [289], [409].

Swett, Leonard, quoted, [428], [429]; [69], [144].


Talcott, Wait, quoted, [118].

Tallmadge, James, Congressman, and the admission of Missouri, [xxix], [xxx].

Tallmadge, N. P., [48].

Taney, Roger A., Chief Justice Sup. Ct., on the power to suspend habeas corpus, [195], [196].

Tarr, Campbell, [161].

Taylor, John, of Caroline, [xxii], n.

Ten Eyck, John C., Senator, [262].

Tennessee, loyal state government in, recognized by Johnson, [237];

bill for readmission of, [285].

Tenure-of-Office bill, purpose of, [301];

not at first intended to apply to cabinet officers, [301];

passes Congress, [301];

cabinet advises veto of, [301];

vetoed, and passed over veto, [303];

and the Stanton case, [306], [309];

unconstitutionality of, alleged by Johnson's counsel, [311], [313].

Territorializing states, opinions of Johnson's advisers on question of, [290], [291].

Terry, Alfred H., General, and the legislature of Va., [247].

Texas, opposition in Mass. & admission of, [xxvi];

order for reconstruction of, [238];

fails to adopt new constitution promptly, [295];

new conditions imposed on, [296].

Thayer,Eli, [50].

Thomas, Jesse B., Senator, Author of Missouri Compromise, [xxx].

Thomas, Lorenzo, appointed Secretary of War ad interim, [308];

Stanton refuses to give way to, [308];

his appointment the basis of certain articles of impeachment, [309], [310], [320], [321]; [318], [319].

Thomas, Morris St. P., quoted, [21] n., [421].

Thomas, William B., [374].

Thompson, Jacob, Secretary of Interior, and the Lecompton Constitution, [73].

Thompson, John B., quoted, [36].

Thurman, Allen G., Senator, [367].

Tilden, Samuel J., and the Election of 1876, [406], [407] ff.;

T. of counsel for, in La. case, [409], [410];

Electoral Commission decides adversely to, [411];

legally elected, [411].

Tillson, John, quoted, [107].

Tipton, Thomas W., Senator, [300], [343], [344], [345], [346], [363], [371].

Tompkins, D. D., [179].

Toombs, Robert, Senator, [58], [83], [121].

Topeka Constitution, condemned by Buchanan and upheld by T., [76], [77].

Toucey, Isaac, [130].

Traveling in U. S., in 1847, [20].

Treat, Samuel H., Justice, [13], [20].

Truman, Benj. C, quoted, [245] n.; [307] n.

Trumbull, Julia (Jayne), T.'s first wife, letters of, to Walter T., [121]-[123];

T.'s letters to, on Harvey dispatch, [155], [157], [158],

and on first battle of Bull Run, [165]-[167];

her personality, [169];

her death, [326].

Trumbull, Lyman, birth (1813) and ancestry, [1]-[3];

education, [3];

school-teaching in Georgia, [4], [5];

reads law there, [5];

goes to Illinois (1837), and settles at Belleville, [5], [6];

practices law, [7] ff.;

describes murder of Lovejoy, [8]-[10];

his early attitude toward slavery, [10];

in State legislature, [10];

his qualities as a debater, [10];

appointed Secretary of State, [11];

his resignation requested by Gov. Carlin, and why? [12] and n., [13];

his resignation splits the Democratic party, [13], [14];

resumes practice, [14];

marries Julia M. Jayne, [15];

describes river floods, and murder of Joseph Smith, [16];

family affairs, [16], [17], [19], [20];

candidate for Democratic nomination for governor, [18];

defeated by Ford's influence, [18];

nominated for Congress, and defeated (1846), [18], [19];

his professional earnings, [20];

elected Judge of Ill. Supreme Court (1848), [20];

removed to Alton, [21];

reëlected judge (1852), but resigns (1853), [21];

Chief Justice Magruder on his judicial opinions, [21], [22].

Engaged as counsel for negroes, claiming their freedom, [28];

case of Sarah Borders, [28], [29];

in Jarrot v. Jarrot, wins a victory which practically puts an end to slavery in Ill., [29];

N. D. Harris quoted on his efforts, [30], [31];

his return to politics due to repeal of Missouri Compromise, [32];

takes stump in opposition to Kansas-Nebraska bill, [37], [38];

Anti-Nebraska candidate for Congress in 8th district, [38],

and elected, [38];

in Senatorial election of 1854, receives votes of Anti-Nebraska Democrats on early ballots, [43], [44];

elected by votes of Lincoln men, to defeat Gov. Matteson, [44], [45], [46] n.;

regarded as a traitor by regular Democrats, [45];

Lincoln's attitude toward his election, [45], [46].

Takes his seat in Senate, [48];

protest against his election overruled, [48], [49];

letter from J. C. Underwood to, on Kansas affairs, [52], [53];

and from I. T. Dement, [53];

his speech on report of Committee on Territories endorsing Pres. Pierce's view of Kansas affairs, [56] ff.;

exposes Douglas's sophisms, [57], [58];

a welcome reinforcement to Republicans in Senate, [57];

Douglas declares him not a Democrat, [59];

his answer to Douglas's tirade against him, [60], [61];

Douglas's reply, [61], [62];

his construction of "forever" in the Missouri Compromise, [62], [63];

further debate with Douglas on Kansas, [63], [64];

effect of these debates on his reputation, [65];

his intellect and personality compared with Lincoln's, [65];

divers views of his first appearance in debate, quoted, [66], [67];

letter from G. B. Raum to, [67];

campaigns in Minnesota, [68];

attends Republican National Convention of 1856, [69];

colloquy with Mason, on destruction of the Union, [70];

letter of, to J. B. Turner, on conditions in 1857, [71];

divers reports to, on effect of Douglas's Anti-Lecompton stand, [74], [75];

demolishes Buchanan's message on Kansas affairs, [76], [77];

letters to, on possible alliance of Douglas with Republicans, [79], [80];

Democratic overtures to, [80], [81];

speaks on Buchanan's claim that slavery lawfully exists in Kansas, [81], [82];

letters to, from Lincoln and others, voicing Republican distrust of Douglas in Ill., [87], [88],

and, generally, on the campaign of 1858, [90]-[92];

his cordial relations with Lincoln, [93];

takes part in debate on resolution for committee of inquiry into John Brown's raid, [98]-[100];

his notable speech, [98], [99],

and Lincoln's praise thereof, [100];

letter from Lincoln on Delahay matter, [100], [101].

His view of candidates for Republican nomination in 1860, [103];

writes to Lincoln thereon, [103], [104];

thinks Seward cannot be elected, [104],

and believes McLean alone can beat him, [104];

Lincoln his first choice, [104];

Lincoln, in reply, avows his own ambition, and discusses other candidates, [104], [105];

divers letters to, on Lincoln's nomination, [106]-[107];

post-nomination letters of Lincoln to, [108];

speaks for Lincoln at ratification meeting, [109], [110];

confidential letters of Lincoln to, against compromise, [111], [112],

and on Buchanan's reputed purpose to surrender So. Carolina forts, [112];

his own views on compromise set forth in letter to E. C. Larned, [113], [114];

his speech on Crittenden Compromise (March [2], 1861), [115], [116], and n., [123]-[138];

urged by constituents to stand firm, [117]-[119];

writes Gov. Yates, advising military preparations, [120];

declines to listen to "Compromisers" from N. Y., [122];

his troubles with office-seekers, [139];

in N. Y. meets remonstrants against Seward's inclusion in Cabinet, and reports to Lincoln, [139], [140];

Lincoln's reply, [141];

Greeley's advice to, [141];

advises Lincoln not to appoint Cameron, [145], [146], [147];

is urged to use his influence to that end, [147], [148];

favors Judd for seat in Cabinet, [148], [149], [150];

reëlected senator (Jan. 1861), [152];

announces death of Douglas, [152];

his eulogy of Douglas, [153], [154];

the Harvey dispatch to Gov. Pickens, commented on in letter to Mrs. T., [155],156.

Witnesses first battle of Bull Run, and describes it in letter to Mrs. T., [165]-[167];

his reconstructed telegram, [168];

his first Confiscation Act passed by Congress, [168];

his physical aspect, etc., in 1861, [168];

his family, [169];

letter of M. C. Lea to, on financial affairs, [170],

and his reply, [171];

brings in his second Confiscation Act, [173];

his report thereon, [173];

history of the bill in Congress, [173]-[176];

speaks on War Dep't. frauds, [184];

leads opposition to confirmation of Cameron's nomination as minister to Russia, [187];

votes against confirmation, [189];

introduces resolution of inquiry concerning arbitrary arrests in loyal states, [191], [192];

his colloquy with Dixon of Conn., [192], [193];

his resolution shelved, [194];

reports from Judiciary Committee House bill on same subject, [197];

offers substitute for that bill, which is opposed by Democrats, but finally passed, [198], [199];

offers substitute for Stevens's bill to indemnify Pres. for arbitrary arrests, [199];

reports from conference his substitute combined with his habeas corpus bill, [200];

his report concurred in, after Democratic filibuster, [201], [202];

his speech at meeting of protest against the order forbidding the publication of Chicago Times, [207], [208], [209];

letter of Judge White to, regarding certain dispatches of Seward to Adams, [210], [211],

and his reply, [211], [212];

one of committee to urge Lincoln to get rid of Seward, [211];

divers letters to, relating to the war, [212], [213], [215], [216], [217];

and Delahay's appointment to a judgeship, [213]-[214];

letters of J. M. Palmer to, concerning the election of 1864, [214], [216];

first evidence of personal difference between Lincoln and, [217], [218];

deems the government inefficient in putting down the rebellion, [218];

falsely accused of refusing to speak in favor of Lincoln's reëlection, [220].

Reports to the Senate as a substitute for Henderson's proposed Constitutional Amendment what later became the 13th Amendment, [224];

his speech thereon, [225]-[226];

his authorship thereof, his title to immortality, [230];

and the new Senators from La., [233];

reports resolution recognizing Hahn government of La., [233];

breaks temporarily with Sumner, [234];

letter of Shaffer to, on conditions in South, [242], [243],

and of Ray, on Reconstruction, [243];

his speech on postponement of Wilson bill invalidating certain acts, etc., of seceding states, [248]-[251];

colloquy with Saulsbury, [250];

introduces Freedmen's Bureau and Civil Rights bills, [257];

speaks, in debate on the former, on construction of second clause of 13th Amendment, [258]-[260];

colloquy with Henderson, [260];

letter from Ray, on negro suffrage, [261];

favors Stockton in N. J. election contest, [261] ff.;

in debating his Amendment to Civil Rights bills, speaks again on power of Congress to pass laws for ordinary administration of justice in States, [265]-[267];

answered by Saulsbury, [267]-[268];

quotes Gaston as to citizenship of free negroes, [270];

his great speech in reply to Johnson's message vetoing Civil Rights bill, [272];

the Nation, quoted, on his speech, [273];

his leading position in the campaign of 1866, [273];

opposed to Ku-Klux bill of 1871, [275], [356], [357], [358];

reëlected Senator (1866), [277];

sustains Johnson until veto of Civil Rights bill, [277], [278];

letter of Mrs. F. C. Gary to, [278],

and his reply, [279];

not active in drawing 14th Amendment, [284] n.;

his influence as against radical measures lessened by refusal of Southern states to ratify 14th Amendment, [287];

on Stevens's Reconstruction bill, votes against Sumner's amendment making negro suffrage a permanent condition of reconstruction, [292],

but supports bill with that amendment, [292];

at fault in so doing, [292];

votes to pass bill over veto, [294];

votes to pass supplementary registration of voters bill over veto, [294];

writing in Chicago Advance, denies power of Congress to regulate suffrage in states, [294], [295];

reports bill for readmission of Va., but opposes amendments applying new conditions, [296];

has a lively dispute with Sumner, [296], [297],

but supports him strongly in the later movement to oust him from chairmanship of Com. on Foreign Relations, [297], [344], [420];

supports Bingham proviso to the Georgia bill, [298],

and makes a powerful speech thereon, [299];

the Nation's high praise of the speech and its author, [299], [300];

votes for Tenure-of-Office bill, as amended, [302];

abused for his stand against conviction of Johnson, [313], [315], [323];

Spencer's threat, [315];

N. Y. Evening Post, Chicago Tribune, and Nation, quoted, as to abuse of the "traitors," [314]-[317];

his written opinion on the case against Johnson, [318], [319];

J. F. Rhodes quoted on the action of the seven, [322];

his only reply to his vilifiers, [323], [324];

his eulogy of Fessenden, [324], [325];

death of Mrs. Trumbull, [326].

Retained for the War Dep't. in the matter of McCardle's petition for habeas corpus, [327];

appears before Supreme Court, [327], [328];

votes to pass over veto the Act of March 27, 1868, which the Supreme Court held to apply ex post facto to McCardle case, [329], 330:

his action criticized, [330], [332];

his acceptance of counsel fees attacked by Chandler as being connected with his vote on impeachment, [330], [331];

his defense, [331], [332];

the Chandler charge would not down, [332];

supports Vickers's amendment to 15th Amendment, [338],

and opposes Wilson's amendment, [339];

letter of Grenier to, on Republican corruption, [341];

offered English mission, [347];

his reason for declining, [348];

in speech at Chicago, discusses claims of U.S. against England, [349],

and the urgent need of reform of the Civil service, [349], [350];

indorses Cox's stand, [349], [350];

casts only vote in Judiciary Committee in favor of Hoar's confirmation as Supreme Court Justice, [350];

votes against tacking Sumner's Equal Rights bill to Amnesty bill, [359];

offers amendment for general investigation of public service to Conkling's resolution concerning Hodge, [362];

his remarks thereon, [363];

not appointed on investigating committee, [366], [367];

not moved by personal hostility to Grant, [369];

interview with, in Courier-Journal on his relations with Grant (Dec. 1871). [369] and n., [370];

letter of S. Galloway to, on Grant, [371];

mentioned by Stanley Matthews as possible candidate of Liberal Republicans, [372];

J. H. Bryant and others urge him to become a candidate, [375];

his replies somewhat non-committal, [375];

defends Mo. Liberal Republican platform as Republican doctrine, [376];

on civil service reform, [376];

letter of Palmer to, offering his support, [377];

in letter to author, gives qualified assent to use of his name, [378], [379];

letter of author to, on his candidacy, [379];

his strength impaired by division of vote of Ill. at Cincinnati, [380];

opinions of editors as to candidates, [381];

vote for, in the convention, [383], [384];

his supporters decide to support Greeley, [384];

letter of W. C. Bryant to, urging him not to support Greeley, [386],

and his reply, [386], [387];

how Greeley's nomination was brought about, [389], [390];

how Trumbull received the news, [390], [391];

takes active part in campaign, [394] ff.;

his speech at Springfield, Ill., denouncing Republican corruption, [395]-[399];

his tribute to Greeley, [399];

if nominated, could have been elected, [402];

Adams, the stronger candidate, [402], [403];

his speech on La. election of 1872, his last speech in the Senate, [405], [406].

His official career ended by defeat of Greeley, [407];

defeated for reëlection by Oglesby, [407];

resumes practice of law, [407];

one of the "visiting statesmen" sent to La. to watch canvass of votes (1876), [409];

of counsel for Tilden before Electoral Commission, [409]-[411];

marries Mary Ingraham, [412];

Democratic candidate for governor of Ill. (1880), [412];

defeated by Cullom, [412];

entertains W. J. Bryan in 1893, [413];

inclined to free silver, [413];

his geniality, and vigor of mind and body, [413];

appears for Debs before Supreme Court, on petition for habeas corpus, [414];

his speech in Chicago published as Populist campaign document, [414], [415];

no more radical than present-day "Progressive" doctrines, [415];

draws declaration of principles for Populist national conference, [415]-[417];

his death (June 5, 1896), [418];

Judge Moran quoted on his career, [419];

eminent as a political debater, well grounded in the law, [419], [420];

his character and talents reviewed and discussed, [419]-[422];

"a high-minded, kind-hearted, courteous gentleman, without ostentation, and without guile," [421];

his place among the statesmen of his time discussed, [422];

his connection with the 13th Amendment, [422];

his opposition to arbitrary arrests unpopular, [422], [423];

his position as one of the "Seven Traitors" a proud one, [423];

change in his course on Reconstruction, [423], [424];

Medill quoted as to effect of vote in impeachment trial on his future, [424], [425];

his partners quoted, as to his kindliness, [424];

Darrow on the "socialistic trend" of his opinions, [425];

letter of his daughter-in-law to author, [426];

his estimate of Lincoln's character and career, [426]-[430];

his views on religion, in letter to his mother, [430], [431];

his descendants, [431], [432].

Trumbull, Mary (Ingraham), T.'s second wife, [413], [432].

Trumbull, Walter, T.'s son, [18], [19], [121]-[123], [169], [425], [426], [431].

Trumbull family, the, [1], [2], [431], [432].

Turner, J. B., [71].

Turner, matter of, in Circuit Court of U.S., [274].


Underwood, John C, quoted, [52], [53].

Union Pacific R. R., [402].

United States v. Harris, [106] U. S., [275], [276], [358].

United States v. Rhodes (Circuit Court), [274].


Vagrancy law of Va., [247].

Vallandigham, Clement L., "the incarnation of Copperheadism," [203];

his speech of Jan. 14, 1863, [203], [204];

his arrest ordered by Burnside, [204];

tried by military commission, [204];

his sentence of imprisonment commuted to banishment to the South, [204];

all proceedings against, after arrest, illegal under habeas corpus suspension act, [205];

nominated for governor of Ohio, but defeated, [206]; [288].

Van Buren, John, [379].

Van Buren, Martin, [xxi], [32], [37].

Van Tyne, C. H., Letters of Daniel Webster, xxiv n.

Van Winkle, Peter G., Senator, on Civil Rights bill, [269]; [261], [302], [314].

Van Wyck, Charles H., Congressman, [181], [182], [184].

Vermont, in convention of 1860, [106].

Vickers, George, Senator, [338].

Villard, Oswald G., John Brown, [52] n.

Virginia, efforts to prevent secession of, [158] ff.;

Lincoln's plan of reconstruction in, adopted by Johnson's Cabinet, [237];

Peirpoint recognized as Governor of, [237];

vagrancy law of, [247];

additional conditions imposed on readmission of, [296], [297].

Virginia Resolutions of 1798, [xxiii].

"Visiting statesmen," and the contested election of 1876, [408], [409].


Wade, Benjamin F., Senator, opposed to Lincoln's renomination, [220]; [102], [107], [108], [111], [150], [166], [233], [287], [332], [343].

Waite, Morrison R., Chief Justice Sup. Ct., [275].

Walker, Robert J., appointed governor of Kansas, [71];

and the Lecompton Convention, [71], [72];

denounces Cabinet conspiracy, [73];

resigns, [73]; [81], [82].

Wall, James W., Senator, [200].

Wallace, Lew, General, attempts to usurp powers of Attorney-general under Confiscation Act, [176], [177].

War Department, frauds in, [178] ff.

War of 1812, [xxiv].

Warren, Hooper, [27], [28].

Washburne, Elihu B., appointed Secretary of State, [333];

a strong partisan of Grant, [333];

his qualifications, [333];

terms of his appointment, [334];

resigns, [334]; [45], [46], [168], [281], [304], [407].

Washington, Bushrod, [xxxi].

Washington Chronicle, [300].

Washington, George, [xxiii].

Washington, gathering of troops at, in Jan., 1861, [121], [122].

Watterson, Henry, [372], [373].

Wayland, Rev. Francis, [xxxii].

Ways and Means, Committee of, [354].

Webster, Daniel, quoted, xxiv and n.; xxii n., xxv n., [xxvi], [xxvii], [27], [39], [125].

Weed, Thurlow, and Cameron's appointment, [143];

and the War Dep't. frauds, [179], [180]; [108], [112], [139], [141], [146], [151], [181], [182]; [184].

Welk, Jesse W., [101] n., [143] n.

Welles, Gideon, quoted, on Cameron's appointment, [142], [144], [146], [151];

on the Harvey dispatch, [157], [158];

on Douglas's attitude in April, 1861, [163], [164];

on Cameron's emancipation hobby, [172] n.;

on Cummings, [181] n.;

on inefficiency of Union armies, [212];

on Halleck, [226];

on Cabinet meeting of Jan. 8, 1867, [290] ff.;

opinion of, on question of territorializing states, [290];

on Stanton and the Tenure-of-Office Act, [303];

on Methodist pressure on Senator Willey, [319], [320];

on divers matters, [273] n., [313], [314], [324], [423].

Wells, David A., [353], [377], [379].

Wentworth, John, [90], [93].

Whigs, the, and the Kansas-Nebraska bill, [41].

White, Andrew D., [343].

White, Horace, and Lincoln's Peoria speech, [39];

his recollections of the Lincoln-Douglas campaign, [89],

quoted, [92];

impressions of John Brown, [97];

on Douglas's speech to Ill. legislature, [153];

his friendly relations with T., [168], [169], [413];

and the ousting of Sumner, [346], [347];

interview with Blaine, [354];

on the outlook at Cincinnati (1872), [378];

letter from T. to, and his reply, [379];

chairman of platform committee at Cincinnati, [382];

his view of the result, [385],

and of Greeley's nomination, [389], [390];

thinks Adams or T. could have been elected, [402], [403];

last meeting with T., [413].

Whitfield, pro-slavery Delegate in Congress from Kansas, [49], [50].

Whitney, Henry C, quoted, [143] n.

Wigfall, Louis T., Senate, colloquy with T. in debate on Crittenden Compromise, [129], [130]; [133], [134].

Wilkinson, Morton S., Senator, [150], [189].

Willey, Waitman T., Senator, Methodist pressure on, in impeachment trial, [317], [320];

votes "guilty," [320];

had agreed to vote "not guilty" if necessary, [321]; [261], [302], [314].

Williams, Archibald, [45].

Williams, George H., Senator, [281], [298], [299], [328], [329].

Wilmot, David, Congressman, [146], [150].

Wilson, Henry, his speech on Kansas affairs, [65];

quoted on possible alliance of Douglas with Republicans, [79];

his resolution on suspension of habeas corpus, [190], [191];

opposes bill authorizing Pres. to suspend habeas corpus, [197];

his denunciation of Lincoln, [219];

brings in bill to nullify new labor laws in seceding states, [247], [248];

T.'s speech thereon, [248]-[251];

nominated for Vice-Pres., [393],

and elected, [402]; [86], [87], [189], [194], [197], [198], [296], [298], [314], [315], [338], [344], [363].

Wilson, James F., Congressman, proposes amendment to Constitution, prohibiting slavery, [223];

"slated" for State Dep't under Grant, [334] and n.,

declines, [334];

his character, [335]; [304], [309].

Wilson, James H., General, [337].

Wirt, William, [331].

Wood, John, [92].

Wool, John E., General, [178], [181].

World's Columbian Exposition, [412].

Wright, Silas, [91].

Wright, William, Senator, [261], [263], [264].


Yates, Richard, Governor, letter from, to T., [218];

letter from T. to, [120], [121]; [107], [109], [111], [150], [197], [220].

Yulee, David L., Senator, [99].