Pioneer life—churchman as public officer,127;Illinois,39;Indiana,21-23;politics,21-22;recreation,31-32;schools,16;social life,32-33;store,33;story-telling,33.Politics—art of securing results,215;American History, struggle between abolitionism and slavery,214;evil, organized wisest attack on,215-216;factor vital in civilization,215;pioneer,21-23;politician seldom moral leader,166;political generalship,217;political progress, painful struggle,166-167;recreation to pioneer,22;school of the nation,22;true politician,213;voters, new method of getting out,94-95.Political philosophy—economic influence gregarious,216;human nature, slow-changing,215;injustice, nation cannot live on,208;Lincoln's,213-221;politician and statesman distinguished,217-218;public opinion, importance of,195-196,217-218;universal feeling,169.Polk, Pres. J. K.,119-120,127,130-131,136.Presidency,140,210.Public office, hunger for,148.Public service, state of, test of progress,213.Religious leader opposed as representative of people,127.Republic, central idea of,195-196.Republican Party—new party, need of,181;national, first convention,193;origin Illinois,187-188;second step in formation of,190-191.Sangamon River, navigability of,52.Sangamon delegation charged with corruption,70,73.Schieder, G. H.,187.Selby, Paul,190.Senate, U. S., slave power favored by,144.Seward, W. H.,143,145,201,204-205.Shields, James,103-104,128.Slavery—economic strength of,197;free speech endangered by,78;gradual emancipation,147;Illinois friendly,76-78;intolerance of,145-146;Kansas struggle,181-182;moral issue in the North,197;north and south responsible for,168;policy, bad,80;portentous problem,20;power of,41;property, ostentatious,157;slave-trade, effort to abolish,144-145;subverts government,157.South, Texas, annexation of,117.Speed, Joshua,67,72-73,87,90,103,182-185.Spencer County,21,24.Spot resolutions, See Lincoln.Springfield speech, See Lincoln.Stanton, E. M.,145.Stephens, A. H.,134,138.Stone, Dan,80,146.Stuart, John T.,60,90,188.Sumner,190.Taylor, Richard,88.Taylor, Pres. Zachary,137-139,149-150.Texas, annexation of,116-117,129.Thomas,90.Todd, Mary (Lincoln), See Mrs. Abraham Lincoln.Toombs, Robert,138.Trumbull, Lyman,179-180.Tyler, Pres. John,116,127.Universal feeling, not to be disregarded,169.Usury,52-53.Vandalia, Capitol, Ill.,70-71.Van Buren, Martin,98,116,142.Voting, 1834, viva voce,60.Walker, Robert J.,201.War, only solution to slavery struggle,214.War power under Constitution,132-133.Washburn, E. B.,138,179.Washington,29,131,156,199,201.Webster, Daniel,92,95,116,159,209.Weems' Life of Washington,28.Whigs—called federalists,49;aggressive campaign, 1840,95;judiciary, corruption of, opposed,100-102;Mexican War,129-130;support banks,103,105;seek Lincoln,182.White, Hugh L.,63.Wilmot, Proviso,138,144.