its ignorance of foreign countries, 368.
West Virginia,
origin of, i. 265; campaign of McClellan in, 304;
forms a state Constitution, ii. [180];
question of its admission, [180], [181];
its vote counted in 1864, [297].
Whigs,
character of, in Illinois, i. 38;
support Lincoln for speaker, 59, 60;
fail to carry Illinois in 1840, 61;