adopts resolutions condemning Abolitionists and emancipation in the District, 55;
suffers from financial collapse, 59, 60;
carried by Van Buren against Harrison, 61;
legal profession in, 67, 68;
carried by Democrats in 1844, 71;
upholds Mexican war, 77;
denounces Kansas-Nebraska Act, 95;
senatorial election of 1855 in, 96-98;
popular feeling in, concerning Kansas, 108;
in campaign of 1856, 112;