209.

Abolitionists, 281, 286, 289; sought
to be excluded from Kansas, 327
and foll., 340 and foll.
Adams, John, Vice-President, 54;
President, 63 and foll. ; his
death, 128.

Adams, John Quincy, Secretary of
State, 96, 118; President, 122,
and foll.; his death, 224.
Address, President's, Jefferson sub-
stitutes message for, 68, and see
Inaugural.

Africa, colonization of, 95-6; United
States' squadron on the coast of,
207, 285.

Alabama, admitted as state, 98;
protests against high tariff, 135;
Indian governments in, disal-
lowed, 169; delegates from, ad-
vocate open slave trade, 264;
votes for Breckenridge, 300; se-
cedes, 302; and see Appendix.
Algiers, corsairs from, 60; war with,

95.

Alison, Sir A., quoted, 85, 93.
Alleghanies, how slavery came to
cross, 47, 48.

Amelia Island, occupation of, 97.
Amendment of constitution, provi-

sion for, 37; amendments passed,
39-40; proposed, 230, 290.
American doctrine, the, of Monroe,
120; party, 257, 258; it puts for-
ward Fillmore as candidate, 262.
Anderson, Major, 302.

Annapolis, commissioners meet at,

22.

Anti-slavery societies and efforts,
166, 167.
Appropriations, the struggle as to,
under Pierce, 261.

286.

Arkansas river, 323; territory,
organised, 98; cession to Chero-
kees out of, 126; admitted as
state, 171; and see Appendix.
Articles of Confederation, 17, 18.
Artillery, permanent, established, 65.
Ashburton, Lord, and his treaty,
207; and see Additions and Cor-
rections.
Astoria, 72.

Atchison (border ruffian), 330, 353,
364, 365.

Attorney-General, see Crittenden,
Cushing.

Augusta convention, 182.
Austria, difficulties with, 243, 244,
254.

BALTIMORE, Lord, and Maryland, 5;
-City, riot at, 83; British attempt
on, 84; adjourned Democratic
convention at, 294, 297; Union
convention at, 294, 295.
Barbaresques, see Algiers and Tri-
poli.

Bancroft, Mr., Secretary of Navy,
212; referred to, 17 n., 45.
Bank of the United States (first),
54; national, Federalists favour-
able to, 60; (old) Republicans
against, 61; dangers of, 156, 157;
of the United States, Jackson's
struggle with, 158, and foll. ; re-
vived as "United States Bank
of Pennsylvania," 178, 179; its
break up, 203-205.

Banks, Mr., elected Speaker, 258.
Barron, Commodore, 77.
Bay Islands, 254, 255.
Bayonne Decree, 79.

Bear-flag of California, 217.
Bedini, Monsignor, 258.
Bell, Mr., of Tennessee, condemns
Buchanan as to Kansas, 276;
candidate for Presidency, 294,
295; votes given for, 360.
Benjamin, Mr., of Louisiana, 294.
Benton, Col., 116, 122, 210, 223,
225; his daughter's runaway
match, 206; his family, its in-
fluence in St. Louis, 281; quoted
or referred to, 93, 103, 117, 121,
136, 142, 148, 164, 170, 182,
183, 202, 203, 205, 213, 214, 215,
246; and see Preface.
Berkeley, Vice-Admiral, 77, 78.
Berlin Decree, 79, 83.

Bible, the, and the fugitive slave
law, 241.

Biddle, Nicholas, 178, 179, 203,
205; and see "Bank of the United
States."

Biglow Papers, 221, 222, 226.
Black Hawk's war, 170; Mr. Lin-
coln serves in, 296; Warrior,
the, 250.

Blair, republican representative of
St. Louis, 298.

Blue Lodge, the, 331, 332, 337,
344, 365.

Bogus legislature in Kansas, 338,
and foll. 166, 368; sanctioned by
Pierce, 344, 350.

Boone, Daniel, 295.
Border slave-states, at revolution,
8; support protection, 137; anti-
slavery feeling in, 166, 298;
Ruffians (Kansas), 330, 345, 355,
and foll.; sack Ossowotomie, 359,
360, 364, 365; their massacre at
the "Trading Post," 372.
Boston, Garrison mobbed at, 166,
167; anti-fugitive-slave-law riots
at, 242.

Braddock, General, 53.
Branson (Kansas free-soiler), 345-

346.

Brazil, differences with, 253.
Breckenridge, Mr., Vice-President,

261; candidate for Presidency,
297; votes given for, 300.
Bright, Mr., of Indiana, 200.
Broke, Captain, 86 and foll.
Brooks, Mr., assailant of Mr. Sum-
ner, 259, 260, 264.

or-

Brown, senator, of Mississippi, 284;
-John, 286, 347, 348, 363;
ganises free-soilers in Kansas,
356, 357; two of his sons seized by
border-ruffians, 359, 360; defends
Ossowotomie, 364, 365; defends
Lawrence, 366; succeeded by
Montgomery as chief of the free-
soilers, 369; his last proceedings
in Kansas, 372, and foll. ; letter
by him, 374, n.; his Harper's
Ferry attempt, 287, 288; his
companions executed, 290.
Buchanan, James, Foreign Secre-
tary, 212; takes part in Ostend
Conference, 250 (see Additions
and Corrections); elected Presi-
dent, 261, 262; his Presidency,
271, and foll. ; his treatment of
Kansas, 369, 373; his last mes-
sage, 300, 301.

Buckley and Coleman (Missourians),
murder Dow, 345, 346.
Buena Vista, battle of, 217.
Buford, Col. (Missourian), 350, 353,
363.

Bulwer, Sir Henry, 230, 231.
Burr, Aaron, Vice-President, 68;
kills Col. Hamilton, 72; his con-
spiracy, 72.

CALHOUN, J. C., supports protection,
95; Secretary of War, 96; sup-
ports Missouri compromise, 116;
Vice-President, 122, 130; advo-
cates low tariff, 123; his toast
at the Jefferson banquet, 136;
supports Clay's compromise tariff,
145; his nullification resolutions,
146; adopts slavery as ground of
southern Union, 148; establishes
pro-slavery paper, &c., 165; advo-
cates recognition of Texas, 168,
169; his resolutions against inter-
meddling with slavery, 183; Secre-
tary of State, 202, 203, 209; re-
fuses nomination for Presidency,
212; speaks against Mexican war,
216; his resolutions on slavery
and the territories, 219, 220;
threatens disunion, 222, 223;
endeavours to carry slavery into
territories, 226, 227; his last
speech, 229; his death, 230.

California (Upper), declared republic
by Fremont, 217; annexed to
United States, 218; ceded by
Mexico, 221; question of slavery
as to, 222, 223; excludes slavery,
224; question of admitting as
state, 228 and foll. ; admission of,
231; Know-nothings carry elec-
tions in, 258; vigilance com-
mittee of, 260; votes for Lincoln,
299; and see Appendix.
California, Lower, Walker's attempt
to revolutionize, 249.
Campbell, governor, of Virginia,
189, 190.

Canada, originally French, 2; in-
vaded by the Americans, 84;
fugitive slaves in, and escapes to,
126, 263, 375; insurrection in,
and American sympathizers, 184,

185.

Canadian reciprocity treaty, 251.
Canal between Atlantic and Pacific,
proposed, 127; Clayton - Bulwer
convention as to the, 230, 231.
Capitol, congress meets at, 67;
burnt by English, 84; Governor
Wise threatens to seize, 261.
Carolina, early dominion of Spain
over, 2; Locke's constitution
for, 5.

Carolina, North, protests against
tariff, 135; representation in,
194; committee of legislature of,
on slavery, 242, 243; and see
Appendix.

Carolina, South, exports of, in 1801,
74; supports first protective
tariff, 95; Jackson born in, 131;
petitions against tariff, 135;
nullification ordinance by, 137,
and foll.; cost of slave's keep in,
151, n.; notices of trade of, 1760
to 1832, 182, 183; proportion
of churches in, 191; representa-
tion in, 193, 194; secession ad-
Vocated in legislature of, 232;
ranks 15th by population in 1850,
240; incensed by opposition
to fugitive slave-law, 242, 243;
opening of slave trade discussed
in, 264, 285; under martial law
after Harper's Ferry attempt, 287;
votes $100,000 for arms, &c.,
289, 290; effects of last census

389

on, 298; Governor of, recom-
mends measures for leaving
Union, 299; hoists Palmetto
flag, 300; convention of, decrees
separation, 301; seizes Fort
Moultrie, 302; flag of, hoisted in
Kansas, 354; and see Appendix.
Caroline, burning of the, 185.
Carroll, Charles, 172.
Cartwright, Dr., his Dysæsthesia
Æthiopica, 108, 109.

Cass, Lewis, Secretary at War, 136;
candidate for Presidency, 226;
in favour of free Kansas, 263;
Secretary of State, 273; resigns,
301, 302.

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Census, United States, first, 55;
second, 66; third, 95; fourth,
101; seventh, 237; last, 298,
and see Appendix ; Kansas,
first, 334.
Central America, 230, 261, 289.
Cerrogordo, battle of, 217.
Chapultepec, battle of, 217.
Charleston, negro conspiracy in,
118; decay of, 123; conven-
tion at, 182; negroes of "Echo"
taken to, 279, 280; democratic
convention at, 293, 294; meeting
at, votes secession, 300.
Cherokee Indians, treaty with, 19;
civilization among, 125; cession
to, of territory in Arkansas, 126;
coerced into removal, 170; what
they got for it, 171.
"Chesapeake," "Leopard" and, 76,
77; and "Shannon," 86 and foll.
Chicago, Republican convention at,
295-297.

Chickasaws, removal of, 170.
Chihuahua, part of, ceded by

Mexico, 249; Buchanan recom-
mends protectorate over, 283.
Chippewa, battle of, 84.
Choctaws, removal of, 170, 171.
Church accommodation in South,
191; disruption by slavery of
Methodist Episcopal, and Baptist.

229.

Churubusco, battle of, 217.
Cincinnati, democratic convention
at, 261, 293.
"Circle, knights of the golden," 298.
Citizens of one state entitled to

privileges of citizenship in all, 36;