Lincoln
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Next Presidential Election, The, 481
Nicolay, John G., 14, 211, 252, 258, 269, 270, 273, 282, 285, 312, 325, 336, 388, 389, 395, 401, 405, 463, 476, 496, 504, 520, 532, 536, 544, 550, 645n
Lincoln’s relationship with, 310, 428–29
Norfolk Democrat, 131
Norris, James, 150
North American Review, 543
North Carolina, 281, 297, 301, 356, 469, 483, 498, 499, 555, 556, 575, 591, 592
Northwest Confederation, 517
Northwest Ordinance, 24, 103, 175, 199, 6l5n
Norton, Jesse O., 191, 510
Noyes, W. C., 263
Nuckles, Robert, 143
nullification crisis, 260, 269, 270, 283
Observer, 82
Odell, Moses, 327
Office of Indian Affairs, U.S., 393
Offutt, Denton, 37, 38–39, 40, 44, 145
Oglesby, Richard J., 593
Ohio, 178, 231–35, 236, 237, 247, 255, 267, 276, 292, 382, 389, 395, 417, 421, 454, 483, 502, 536, 543, 544
O’Laughlin, Michael, 587, 596
Old Buck (Lincoln’s horse), 147
Old Tom (Lincoln’s horse), 104, 147
Olney (Ill.) Times, 235
Olustee, battle of, 484
Opdyke, George, 263, 525
Ord, Edward O. C., 572, 573
Ord, Mary, 572–73
Order of the Star-Spangled Banner, 170
Oregon Territory, 122, 140–41
Our American Cousin (play), 593, 597, 598
“Our Domestic Relations” (Sumner), 470
Owen, Robert Dale, 419
Owens, Mary, 67–69, 87
Pacific Appeal, 367–68
Paine, Lewis, 587, 588, 596, 597, 599
Paine, Thomas, 49
Palfrey, John Gorham, 135
Palmer, John M., 172, 183, 185, 246
Palmerston, Lord, 322, 414
Palo Alto, battle of, 123
panic of 1837, 61, 75
panic of 1857, 197
Paris (Ill.) Prairie Beacon, 211
Parker, Joel, 383
Parker, John, 597
Parker, Theodore, 168, 461, 631n
Parks, S. C., 248, 638n
Peace Conference, 268, 279
peace negotiations:
Blair mission and, 556–57, 573–74, 67Sn
Davis and, 555–57, 559, 560
Emancipation Proclamation and, 558, 559
Greeley and, 521–22, 547
Hampton Roads Conference and, 557–561, 573, 577
Jaquess-Gilmore mission and, 523, 555
Lincoln’s terms and, 555–56
Niagara talks and, 521–23, 547
slavery issue and, 523, 526–27, 532, 556, 558, 560
“Peace Party Plot,” 537
Pea Ridge, battle of, 338, 451
Peck, John Mason, 125
Pemberton, John C., 445–46
Peninsula campaign, 341–42, 349–52, 358–62, 364, 369, 399, 411
Fair Oaks battle in, 356
Lincoln’s Norfolk visit and, 351
Lincoln’s visit to, 359–60
McClellan’s Harrison’s Landing letter and, 359–60
Seven Days’ battles in, 357, 361
Shenandoah campaign and, 355–56
Pennsylvania, 61, 178, 246, 247, 248, 249, 250, 253, 254–55, 262, 265, 266, 267, 292, 382, 388, 395, 441, 445, 454, 455, 458, 480, 484, 502, 529, 538, 543
Penrose, Charles, 571
People of Illinois v. Peachy Quinn Harrison, 621n
Peoria bridge case, 156–57
Peoria Press, 125
“Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions” speech, 80–82
Perryville, battle of, 385, 388
Peterhoff, 413
Petersburg, siege of, 512–13, 517, 518, 520, 528, 572, 573
Petersen, William, 598
Philadelphia Union League, 481
Phillips, Wendell, 137, 168, 426, 502–3, 535, 541, 564
Piatt, Donn, 260
“Picayune Butler” (song), 387
Pickens, Francis, 292, 645n
Pierce, Franklin, 207, 208, 236, 331
Pierce administration, 168
Pierpont, Francis H., 300–301, 579, 581, 590, 591
Pilgrim’s Progress, The (Bunyan), 30
Pinkerton, Allan, 277–78, 357, 358
Lincoln’s interview of, 385–86
Pleadings (Chitty), 55, 102
Political Debates Between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas, in the Celebrated Campaign of 1858, in Illinois, 237
Polk, James K., 115, 119, 120, 122, 123–26, 128, 133, 139, 420
Pomeroy, Marcus M., 549
Pomeroy, Samuel C., 481, 482, 524
Pomeroy Circular, 482–83, 488, 495, 496
Pope, John, 273, 278, 358, 361–62, 365, 370–71, 373, 385, 388, 392–93, 394
popular sovereignty doctrine, 168, 170–171, 173, 182, 201–4, 210, 232–33, 238, 270
Porter, David Dixon, 446, 574, 576
Porter, Fitz-John, 357, 371, 385, 387
Porter, Horace, 515
Port Hudson, La., 435, 445, 446, 455, 486
Post Office Department, U.S., 51, 395–96
Potter, John F., 324
Powhatan, USS, 291–92
“Prayer of Twenty Millions, The,” (Greeley), 368
President’s General War Order No. 1, 334–35, 338–39
Price, Sterling, 300
Progressive Friends, 354
prohibition movement, 82
Providence Daily Post, 284
Providence Journal, 465
Prussia, 321
Putnam, George Haven, 238
Quantrill, William C., 451
Quincy, Edmund, 206–7
Quincy Whig, 118, 125
race
colonization and, 166, 343–44, 367–68, 417–18
Lincoln’s views on, 202, 210, 221, 222, 633n–34n, 683n
Radical Democracy, 503
Radical Republicans:
anti-Lincoln criticism by, 331–33, 342, 424–25
1864 Republican Convention and, 502–503, 504
cabinet crisis and, 399–406
emancipation and, 398, 473
“Jacobins” of, 318, 332–33, 352, 390
of Missouri, 437, 452–54
plot to replace Lincoln and, 525, 531–32
Reconstruction and, 473, 502–3
Rafael (inventor), 432
Ramsey, Alexander, 394–95
Randall, Alexander, 526–27
Randall, J. G., 14
Rathbone, Henry R., 594, 597
Ray, Charles H., 180, 181, 203, 217, 218, 248
Raymond, Henry J., 347, 414, 505, 529, 532
Read, John M., 252
Reading (Pa.) Journal, 235
reason, emotion vs., 66, 82–83, 118, 269
recession of 1854–1855, 169–70
Reconstruction, 15
amnesty and, 471–72, 484
Ashley bill and, 561–63, 564
black suffrage and, 487, 562, 563, 585
cabinet and, 590–92
Congress and, 488, 561, 563–64, 591–92
Constitution and, 472
debate on terms of, 469–71, 558
1863 State of the Union message and, 472–74
1864 election and, 474–75, 483–87, 505, 509, 562
Emancipation Proclamation and, 469–470, 472, 473
Hampton Roads Conference and, 557–559
Lincoln’s victory speech and, 582–83
of Louisiana, see Louisiana
loyalty oath and, 471–72, 484
Pomeroy Circular and, 488
role of freedmen and, 583
Virginia and, see Virginia
Wade-Davis bill and, 510–12
Red River campaign, 499, 512
Reid, Whitelaw, 481, 505
Republican National Convention (1856), 192–93
Republican National Convention (18
60), 243–50
balloting in, 250–51
bargains struck in, 248–50
Decatur convention and, 244–46
Lincoln as candidate and, 247–48
Republican National Convention (1864), 478, 488, 493–94, 507, 508, 542, 553
platform of, 505
state conventions and, 502
vice-presidential nomination and, 503–506
Republican party, U.S., 181, 183, 195, 196, 209, 216, 220, 257, 296, 313, 314, 374, 418, 419, 483, 491, 517, 527, 562
Bloomington convention of, 190–91
Conservative, 452–54, 472–73, 527
Decatur convention of, 190
Dred Scott decision and, 200–202
factions in, 230–32, 262, 331–33, 381, 408, 477, 495–97, 509, 532
1854 election and, 180
1856 election and, 192–94
1858 election and, 204–6, 209–14, 227, 228
1860 election and, 255
in 1861 Congress, 304–5
1862 election and, 380–83, 395, 468
1863 election and, 458
1864 election and, 477, 487–88, 495–97, 502–3, 504, 538, 544
Herndon, and, 190, 191–92
in Illinois, 177, 189–90
“Jacobins” of, 318, 332–33, 352, 390
launching of, 169, 189–90
Louisiana regime and, 564–65
McClellan’s nomination and, 531
motto of, 192
peace efforts and, 523–24
Radical, see Radical Republicans
realignment idea and, 421–23
reconstruction debate and, 469–70
slavery and platform of, 189–90, 192
Resaca de la Palma, battle of, 123
Revised Laws of Indiana, 47
Reynolds, John, 44
Reynolds, John F., 440
Rhode Island, 241
Rice, E. Y., 150
Richardson, William A., 455
Richard III (Shakespeare), 569
Richmond Dispatch, 284
Richmond Enquirer, 187, 284
Riddle, Albert G., 496–97
Riney, Zachariah, 23
Ripley, Edward H., 577
Ripley, James W., 431
River and Harbor Convention, 115
River Queen, USS, 557, 559, 571–74, 580
Roanoke Island, N.C., 338, 390
Robinson, Charles D., 526
Rock, John S., 541
Rockford (Ill.) Register, 228
Rockford (Ill.) Republican, 235
Rock Island Register, 235–36
Rollins, James S., 554
Rosecrans, W. S., 313–14, 384, 389, 390, 392, 397, 408, 411, 433, 435, 445, 446, 456, 457, 458, 479, 480
Ross, John, 393
Roxbury Gazette, 131
Ruins of Civilizations (de Volney), 49
Russell, John, 379, 414
Russell, William Howard, 311–12
Russia, Imperial, 189, 289, 321, 326, 335, 412–13, 468
Rutledge, Ann, 55–58, 67, 68, 608n–9n
Rutledge, James, 38, 39, 41
Rutledge, James McCrady, 57
Rutledge, R. B., 54–55
Sacramento Union, 433, 550
St. Louis Democrat, 214
“Sampson’s Ghost” correspondence, 93
Sandburg, Carl, 14
Sandusky (Ohio) Commercial Register, 235
Sangamo Journal, 42, 63, 67, 70, 74, 79, 90, 91, 100, 113
Sanitary Commission, 358, 538
San Jacinto, USS, 320
Saulsbury, Willard, 416
Saunders, William, 460
Saxton, Rufus, 356, 430
Schenck, Robert C., 122
Schleiden, Rudolph, 280
Schofield, John M., 451–54
Schoolmaster’s Assistant (Dilworth), 31
Schouler, William, 130
Schurz, Carl, 215, 254, 262, 264, 290, 321, 381, 383, 476
Scott, Charles M., 593
Scott, Dred, 199, 200
Scott, Walter, 48
Scott, William, 31, 569
Scott, Winfield, 123, 189, 277, 279, 280, 282–83, 286, 288, 289, 296, 299, 307, 308
Anaconda Plan of, 305–6
Lincoln’s visit to, 357–58, 361
McClellan’s replacement of, 319
Scripps, John Locke, 19, 209, 253
Scully, William, 234
Seaman, Benjamin, 148
Seaton, William W., 136, 137
secession crisis, 259, 281, 283, 452, 472, 645n
Buchanan and, 257, 267
Congress and, 257, 267, 269
Constitution and, 268, 269, 276
Crittenden Compromise and, 268
and Lincoln as president-elect, 260–61
Lincoln’s view of, 268–69
Peace Conference and, 268–69
South Carolina and, 257, 267
Virginia and, 290, 297, 306, 644n
Second Confiscation Act (1862), 364–65, 368, 374, 375, 379, 430, 560, 578
second inaugural address, 565–68
Seddon, James A., 549
Sedgwick, John, 435
Selby, Paul, 189
Senate, U.S., 44, 121, 128, 204, 205, 212, 221, 268, 285, 287, 288, 331, 426, 538, 562
Commerce Committee of, 477
District of Columbia Committee of, 477
1861 Republican majority in, 305
Finance Committee of, 508
Foreign Relations Committee of, 321, 413, 414, 477
Judiciary Committee of, 564
Lincoln’s 1855 campaign for, 179–85, 193, 194, 203, 220, 226, 231, 236, 242
Military Affairs Committee of, 477
Territories Committee of, 167, 173, 232, 477, 633n
Separate Baptist Church, 24
Seven Days’ battles, 357, 361
Seven Pines (Fair Oaks), battle of, 356
Seventh New York Regiment, U.S., 298–99
Seward, Fanny, 407
Seward, Frederick W., 277, 278, 401, 407, 591
Seward, William H., 168, 192–93, 235, 236, 260, 269, 277, 279, 295, 301, 303, 307, 319, 330, 333, 359, 362, 372, 381, 412, 421, 428, 432, 463, 468, 469, 474, 477, 505, 528, 532, 533, 534, 551, 556, 590
cabinet post of, 261–62, 263, 264–65, 266, 280
in carriage accident, 579, 580–81
Chase’s conflict with, 281–82
1860 campaign and, 240, 241, 242, 243–244, 246–47, 248, 249, 250, 253, 254, 255
1862 State of the Union message and, 395