Clay, Clement, xv, 90, 150–51, 271, 544, 545
Clay, Henry, 4–5, 13–14, 23, 31, 35, 74, 200, 227, 228, 272, 305, 420, 518, 617, 624
Buchanan and, 208
Fillmore and, 222
Lincoln quoting, 380, 403, 407–8
Clay, Virginia, 271, 291, 292
Clemens, Jeremiah, 79
Clements, Frederick, 436–37
Clephane, Lewis, xxi, 95, 96, 100
Cleveland Leader, 23
Cleveland Plain Dealer, 547, 550
Clingman, Thomas, 152, 154, 553
Clinton Central Transcript, 520
Cobb, Howell, xxii, 21–22, 104, 140, 270, 271, 316, 318–21, 320, 323, 324, 325, 343, 344, 445, 447, 455, 540, 545, 560
Cochrane, John, 605
Codding, Ichabod, 189, 204, 621
Coffin, Levi, 112
Coffing, Churchill, 250
Coleman, E. A., 169
Coles, Edward, 61
Colfax, Schuyler, xvi, 121, 244, 333–36, 439–40
Collamer, Jacob, 28
Commentaries on the Constitution (Kent), 526
Compromise of 1820. See Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850, 3, 38, 320
Douglas and, 11, 13, 14, 15, 223, 413, 450, 543
Congressional Globe, 28, 33, 41, 83, 114, 140–41, 149
Conkling, James C., 425, 596
Conservative, The, 256
Constitutional Democratic Convention, 556, 558
Constitutional Union Party, 261, 438, 579, 608
Baltimore convention, 1860, 559
Bell as candidate, xiv, 261, 559, 571, 578, 604–5
Conwell, Russell H., 530
Cook, Burton C., 569–70
Cook, Isaac “Ike,” 344
Cook, John Edwin, xx, 159, 160
Cooper, James Fenimore, 230
Cooper Union, Lincoln’s address (1860), xiv, 82, 454, 526–38, 560, 620
Lincoln’s preparation for, 526
Lincoln’s speaking style, 530–31
Lincoln’s writing of the speech, 526
newspapers reprinting, 529, 538, 563
right makes might and, 231, 537
Copeland, John Anthony, Jr., xx
Coppoc, Barclay and Edwin, xx
Corcoran, W. W., 213
“Courage” (Emerson), 495
Covode, John, 548
Covode Committee, 548-49, 615
Craft, William and Ellen, 75
Crawford, George A., 474
Crawford, Martin J., 501
“Crime Against Kansas, The” (Sumner), 106–13, 148
Crimean War, 325
Crisis, The (NAACP journal), 119
Crittenden, John J., xv, 31–32, 135–37, 143, 147, 262, 342, 343, 378–79, 414–16, 438, 439, 559, 605
Cuba, 131, 315, 445
bill for invasion and seizure of, 212, 231
Douglas visit to, 445
Cullom, Shelby M., 54
Cummings, Alexander, 585–86
Cunningham, J. O., xvii, 186, 189, 196, 200–202
Curtin, Andrew G., xxi, 581, 582, 590, 592, 595, 610–11
Curtis, Benjamin R., xxii, 77, 277, 280, 285, 298
Curtis, George William, 584
Cushing, Caleb, xviii, 76, 546, 550, 558, 602, 603, 604, 605, 608
Cutts, James Madison, 292, 293, 330
Daily Missouri Republican, 376
Dallas, Alexander J., 311
Dallas, George M., 311, 313
Dana, Richard Henry, Jr., 59, 68, 148
Dante’s Inferno, 118
Danville, Ill., 183, 186
Darling, Nathan, 138
Davis, David, xvii, 184, 185, 190, 197, 235, 249–50, 252, 253, 353, 388, 416, 424, 425, 520, 569–70, 577, 591
Lincoln’s nomination, Chicago convention, and, 576–78, 582, 583, 586, 587, 589–91, 593, 595–96
Lovejoy and, 251, 252, 254, 354–55, 527
Davis, Henry Winter, 591
Davis, Jefferson, xv, 5, 10, 23, 123, 154, 207, 269, 271, 288, 297, 311, 313, 317, 326, 333, 406, 448, 448, 455, 541
challenges Bissell to a duel, 198, 251
as Douglas enemy, 25, 392, 448, 449, 543–45, 551, 599, 600–601, 605, 612
as Fire-Eater, 553
hanging of Douglas and Lincoln proposed, 610
Kansas and, 309, 338
national slave code and, 599
presidential race 1860, and, 541, 549, 604–5
secession and, 246, 449
Seward and Wilson targeted by, 506–7, 511–12
slavery and, 509, 512, 543
speech on behalf of Lecompton, 339
venereal disease of, 10, 338, 448
Davis, John, 77
Davis, Joseph, 311
Davis, Reuben, 337
Davis, Varina, 56–57, 292, 338, 544, 606
Dawes, Anna Laurens, 109
Dayton, William, xii, xxi, 234–35, 591
Debates in the Several State Conventions . . . (Elliot), 526
Decatur, Ill., xi, 186–87, 524
Republican convention, 1860, 566–70, 580
Declaration of Independence, xxiii, 37, 197, 272, 431, 606
John Brown’s version, 477
Dred Scott and, 283, 285, 294, 298–99, 300
egalitarian promise of, 4, 38, 41, 73, 79, 260, 264, 295, 369, 393, 400, 403, 407, 458–59, 511
Lincoln on, 300–302, 369, 444–45, 458–59
Southern denial of, 407
Delahay, Mark, xviii, 516, 517, 577, 582–83
democracy, 68
degrading of, by Douglas, 459
equality and, 260
Jackson as icon for, 26, 100
Jefferson and, 458
in Kansas, 27, 112
“popular sovereignty” and, 15, 26
slavery as antithetical to, 111, 146
states’ rights as threat to, 98, 100
Tocqueville and, 178–79
Democracy in America (Tocqueville), 179
Democratic Party, 93
anti-Douglas Democrats, 415, 508, 543, 599–601
anti-Frémont parade, 240
anti-Lecompton Douglas Democrats, 444
antislavery members, 76, 100–101, 102, 188, 219, 259, 454, 455
Baltimore convention, 1860, 602–4, 605
Benton and, 230
Blair’s recruitment from ranks of, 96–97, 100
Buchaneers, 213, 214, 365–66, 388, 391, 392
California, Chivalry faction, 455
Cass’s candidacy, 1848, 26, 207
Charleston convention, 1860, xiv, 446, 452, 539, 539–42, 545–58
Cincinnati Platform, 540
Concord Cabal, 8
convention, 1844, 312–13
convention, 1852, 321
convention, 1856, 205–15
defections from, xi, 9–10, 94, 148, 215, 220, 269, 331, 345, 520, 527, 585, 594
division in, 330, 334–36, 345, 392, 427, 452, 561–62, 600, 602, 603, 609, 617
Douglas and, 11, 22, 25, 98, 188, 260–61, 330, 335, 413, 427, 451, 544
Douglas’s 1856 Senate race, 21, 99, 101–4, 206–7, 213–15, 329, 363–416
Douglas’s 1860 presidential race, xiv, 444, 446, 451, 507, 602–14, 616, 617
Democratic Party (cont.)
election results, 1860, 628
“Freeport Doctrine” and, 392
funders, 212
of Illinois, 101–2, 188, 189, 344–45
Illinois state election results, 1858, 415–16
“Indomitables,” 76
“irrepressible conflict” and, 538, 551, 561
Jefferson and, 431–32
of Kentucky, 312
Locofocos, 361, 586
midterm defeats, 1854, 212
midterm defeats, 1858, 443, 444
National Democrats, xiv, 345, 447, 545
Northern Democrats, 22, 25, 98, 101, 129, 327, 330, 343, 443–44, 451, 461, 605
“old fogies” and, 8, 14,
208, 330
Pennsylvania and, 94–95, 207, 213, 267–70, 311, 545
Pierce and, 10, 11, 24–25, 205–7, 321
presidential hopefuls, 1860, 540–41, 546, 549, 558
presidential race 1848, and, 70, 103–4, 118
presidential race 1856, and, xii, 206–7, 211, 222, 225, 238, 249, 293, 329–30
as pro-slavery, 40, 213, 215, 303–4, 560
Southern Democrats and, 22, 23, 129, 444, 508, 540, 544, 616
Southern Fire-Eaters and, 58, 88, 129, 130, 222, 271, 333, 342, 373, 516, 550, 552, 553, 554, 558
Southern nominations, 1860 and, 604
Southern secession and, 604
Sumner attack, effect of, 148
36th Congress and, 500
Tyler and, 312
in Virginia, the Chivalry, 496, 497
Washington Union as main newspaper, 277
weakness of, 261
Whig defectors joining, 261
Democratic Party, New York, 9–10, 22, 25, 70, 71, 206, 345, 452, 527
“Albany Regency,” 540, 608
antislavery faction, 9, 76, 101, 188, 452
Barnburners, 10, 70, 71, 206, 214, 345, 452, 527
Charleston convention, 1860 and, 557–58
Douglas 1856 nomination and, 206, 214
Douglas 1860 presidential campaign, 452, 608
Fifth Avenue Hotel Committee, 492
Pierce and, 10, 206
Tammany Hall, 9, 452
Van Buren nomination and, 10
vice presidential nomination, 1856, 214
Wall Street Democrats, 492
Democratic Review, 330
Denton, Sally, 241, 243
DeWitt Courier, 250–51
Dickey, T. Lyle, xvii, 197, 203, 252, 253, 254, 354, 356, 379, 414, 416
Dickinson, Daniel S., 452, 558
Dictionary of the United States Congress (Lanman), 526
“Dirge” (Sanborn), 495
Disney, David T., 22
“Dissertation on Slavery, A” (Tucker), 87
Dittenhoefer, Abram J., 581
Dix, John A., 10
Dixon, Archibald, 38
Dodge, Henry, 79
Dole, William P., 583
Donaldson, J.B., 50
Donati’s Comet, 394
Donelson, Andrew, 219
Don Quixote (Cervantes), 110, 111, 116
Dorr, J. B., 451
Dougherty, John, 365
Douglas, Adele Cutts, xvii, 291–92, 293, 346, 446, 544, 602, 614
Douglas, Martha, 14, 25
Douglas, S. Ford, 394
Douglas, Stephen A., xii, xv, 13, 14–15, 25, 37, 38–40, 42–43, 48, 75, 188, 329, 365, 443, 455, 529, 575
ambition of, 9, 11, 13–16, 21–23, 26, 27, 37, 43, 101, 108, 192, 311, 359, 413, 542
backers, 213, 214
Blair’s denunciation of, 97–98, 100
Bright’s treachery against, 213–14, 290
Brooks and, 136–37, 143, 154, 543–44
Buchanan and, xiii, 216, 289–93, 329–47, 406, 427, 444–47, 451, 508, 545, 548–49
Calhoun and, 338
campaign managers for, 22
campaign of 1852, 101
Chicago and, 223–24
Compromise of 1850 and, 11, 13, 14, 15, 223, 450, 543
in Cuba, 445
Davis as enemy of, 25, 392, 448, 449, 543–45, 551, 599, 600–601
as debater, 42, 57
Democratic Party and, 11, 22, 25, 98, 99, 188, 213–15, 260–61, 330, 413
Democratic presidential try, 1852, 14, 23, 207, 213, 330
Democratic presidential try, 1856, xii, 14, 21–23, 25–34, 37, 101–4, 206–7, 213–15, 329
dislike of, 250, 261, 543
Dred Scott and, 389, 391–92, 403, 453, 454
Dred Scott speech, 1857, xii, 293–97, 313–14
as drunk, 14, 25, 260, 292, 346, 398, 560, 602, 610
first formal address to 36th Congress, 507–8
Fitch conflict with, 447
“Freeport Doctrine” and, 391, 392, 422, 443, 450, 455, 542, 601
health issues, 346, 602, 609
Healy portrait, 451, 451
Hecker as opponent, 257
Herndon meeting with, 350
Illinois Central Railroad Act, 413, 450
Jackson admired by, 100–101
Kansas and, xi, 19, 22–23, 26–28, 30, 37, 329, 330, 343–44, 406, 450, 456, 457
Kansas’s Calhoun and, 308–9, 330
Know Nothing Party and, 255
life mask and statue, 575, 599
on Lincoln, 346
Lincoln rivalry with, 29, 192–93, 347, 375, 429–31, 463
Lincoln’s Cincinnati speech and, 461–62
Lincoln’s criticism of, 458
Lincoln’s diminishing of, 413
Lincoln’s pyramid metaphor and, 421
Lincoln’s views on, 331, 358–60, 456–57
Lincoln warns about, 192
as “Little Giant,” 13, 14, 192, 251, 292, 305, 314, 365, 543, 600
marriage to Adele Cutts, 291, 292, 602
Mississippi plantation, 25, 414–15, 447, 609
Nebraska Act and, 6, 15, 21, 22, 23, 30–31, 81, 87, 93, 105, 193, 293, 313–14, 335, 356, 358, 375, 382, 392, 413, 450, 542, 543, 609
newspaper attacks on, 102–3
newspapers supporting, 250, 304, 327, 330, 344, 366, 437
as Northern Democrat, 25, 98, 101
political power of, in Illinois, 413
political tour, 1858, 444–45
politics of race and, 295–96, 300, 380–81, 393–401, 406, 411, 445, 459
popular sovereignty and, 15, 18, 23, 25–27, 30, 117, 206, 264, 277, 286, 293–94, 296, 313, 330, 333, 343, 364, 365, 380, 382, 389, 392, 403, 406, 411, 453, 454, 459, 532, 542, 561
“Popular Sovereignty in the Territories,” xiv, 453–54, 458, 529
public style of, 544
race-mixing charge against Wilson, 40–41
Republican Party denounces, 197
Republicans and, 333–35, 347–52, 360, 376, 426, 428, 430, 456–57, 536
in Senate, as pariah, 35th Congress, 446–50
in Senate, Committee on Territories and, 15, 23, 332, 372, 446, 455, 543, 545
Senate achievements, 413
Senate floor diatribes, 30–34, 43
Senate floor leader, 13
Senate speech on Lecompton controversy, 332–33, 334, 342, 348–49
Senate speech on Yancey, Davis, and Southern secession, 599–600
slavery and, 333, 349, 359, 380, 402, 410–11, 455, 458, 544
Slidell as political enemy, 415, 446–47
Southern dislike of, 25–26, 391–92, 450, 454
Southern sympathies of, 198
Stowe’s observations of, 42–43
Sumner and, 28, 30–31, 33, 34, 79, 81–82, 87, 88, 105–7, 109–12, 116–20, 140, 146, 178
threats against and bodyguard hired, 447
Trumbull as opponent, 28–32, 34, 40
Walker and, 313, 314, 315, 329, 330, 331
Washington home “Mount Julep,” 292
white supremacy of, 40, 296, 364, 379–80, 390–91, 399, 400, 445, 459, 511
Douglas, Stephen A., 1858 Senate race, 21, 363–416
attacks on Lincoln for abolitionism, 292–93, 369–71, 384, 389–90, 399, 402–3, 405–6, 412
attacks on Lincoln for negro equality, 379–81, 384–85, 388–90, 393–94, 396–98, 412, 415
Buchanan’s opposition to, 381
Douglas, Stephen A., 1858 Senate race (cont.)
campaign funds raised by, 345–46
campaign launch, Chicago, 363–64
Eastern Republicans and, 347–52, 360, 376, 426, 428, 430, 456, 457, 536–37
election won by, xiii, 414–16
entrance to events, 381–82, 389, 395, 399
final campaign event, 414
Kansas and, 330, 331
Lincoln associates supportin
g, 377–79, 414–16
Lincoln-Douglas debates and, 43, 371–414
Old Whigs and, 365
political issues of, 364, 365
private train car for, 370, 414
race baiting by, 364, 370, 380, 395, 406
as referendum for, 365
rich supporters of, 370
slave holders campaigning for, 392
as step to presidency, 293, 296–97, 365, 422
Trumbull’s accusations and, 372
white-only government and, 381, 414
See also Lincoln-Douglas debates
Douglas, Stephen A., 1860 presidential campaign, 215, 334, 347, 446, 525, 552, 599, 602–14
announcement of, 451
attacks Lincoln’s “house divided” speech, 508
Baltimore convention, 558, 602–4
blames Republicans for Harpers Ferry, 508
campaign biography, 539, 542
campaign headquarters, 541
campaigning for, 607–14, 617
Charleston convention, 539–42, 547–58
conspiracy theory of, 609, 612
Constitutional Union Party and, 559
convinced Lincoln will win, 609, 610–11, 613
Davis and, 605, 612
as Democratic candidate, 507, 560, 602–4, 605
Democratic Party and, 616
desire to preserve the Union, 609, 611, 612
election results, 614, 628
failing health, 600, 602, 609, 610
as “fallen star,” 601, 602
Freeport Doctrine and, 422
funding problems, 607, 611
a government of white men and, 511
lack of challengers, 540
Lincoln’s arguments against, 526
mistrust of, 542
Montgomery speech, 611–13
in New York, 452
as Northern Democrat, 293, 430, 451, 605
opportunism of, 511
platform, 451–52, 509, 540, 550
positioning himself for, 444
running mate for, 540, 604, 610
Seward opposed, 511
Southern campaign of, 611–14
Southern opposition, 452, 508, 509, 543, 560–61, 599–602
strategy, 451, 540
supporters, 451, 540, 541, 542, 552, 607
Douglass, Frederick, xix, 34, 100, 163, 164, 167, 468, 493
John Brown and, 159, 163–64, 167, 468, 478, 493
Douglas uses against Lincoln, 292–93, 389–90, 396, 402
Lincoln and, 493, 620
Douglass, Margaret, xx, 113
Doyle, James, 168
Doyle, William, Drury, and John, 168
Drake, John B., 576
Drayton, Daniel, 78, 80
Dred Scott v. John Sanford, xxii, 3, 95, 96, 226, 264, 273–88, 332, 357
attorneys, 276–77, 288
collusion suspected, 282, 287, 339, 359
concurring opinions, 284
consequences of, 286, 325
dissenting opinions, 284–85, 298
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