number of slaves, 1820, 1840, 187;

Ordinance of 1787, 55, 176, 177, 180;

whipping of slaves, 179.

Slave-trade, abolition of, 178.

Smith's Prairie, fruit at, 129.

Soulard, Mr., 152.

Southern influence in Illinois, 145, 180.

Spain claims the Illinois country, 38;

offers free land to Illinois settlers, 55, 71;

refuses to allow navigation of Mississippi, 21.