prescriptive principles opposed,187.Labor—sympathy for,135-136;laborer,44;farmer,44.Law—reverence for,198;studies,56.Lawyer, dislike of details,109.Lawmaking, skilled in,61.Legislature, 1832, defeated for,55;1834, elected to,58;1836, received highest vote for, in Sangamon County,68;1838, elected to,87;1838, candidate for speaker,88;1840, candidate for speaker,99;charges of corruption of Sangamon delegation, replies to,73;jumps from window during session,105-106;log-roller in,68;protest of 1837,80;State debt, loose plan to pay,99-100;summary of career,107-108.Liberty men, satirizes,118.Literary style—development of,27-28,32;fanciful,83-84,92-94;scathing speech,141;vulgar satires,32.Log-roller,68.Lovejoy, Owen, writes to,178.Maxims,74.Mexican War—127-134;151.Mob spirit—83;cure for,84.Mother,26.New England—speeches in,142-143;Seward, meets in,143.New Salem—42-57;hero of,57.New Orleans, sale of slave stirs Lincoln,41.Office seeker, as,149-150.Office seekers, unique recommendation of,148."Old Abe,"54.Oregon governorship refused by,150.Parliamentarian, smartest,68.Partisan—65-66;110-112.Patriot—72,192-193;corrupt bargain, spurns,71-72;fraudulent voting, opposes,106;party spoils system, opposes,148;politician and patriot,72;political duty,179-180;Trumbull's election, advises,179-180.Peace, friend of,185.Peoria speech,167-170.Personal influence,70-71.Physical strength,44,46.Pilot,45.Political philosophy of,213-221;brotherhood basis of progress,217;central idea of the republic,195;compromise when available,147;compensated emancipation,216;faith in triumph of justice,221;laws of political progress,216-218;legislation,218;organized political action favored,219;parties not sacred,219;party power,184;patient with frailty,221;political generalship,217;public office, public trust,107;public opinion,218;revolution through ballot,189-190;slavery, attacks at weakest point,216;universal feeling,169;violence opposes,189-190;works with men as they are,221.Political strategy—adroitness with country editor,176-177;anti-slavery bill in Congress,144-146;bargain with Democrats, in 1834,58;bargain for Congressional nomination,121;Fremont campaign sees Fillmore danger,194;jumps from church window,106;log-roller, cunning,68,70-71;Lovejoy avoided,164;smart parliamentarian,68;tactician,144-145;trick of Herndon endorses,164-165.Politician—74;act, first political,42;activity,110;advancement as,111-112;applicant for office,148-150;Capitol removes to Springfield,70-71;defeat, training in,114,180;discernment,139;expediency,99;fairness,148;generalship,217;greatness,216-217;ideal,221;party leader,219;patriot and politician,72;policy,41-42;politics, his world,109-110;popularity, champion of,52;popularity in New Salem,54-55;prescience,210;prophet politician,221;religion, political,217;schooling,106;self-glorifying declination,107;skill,179;succeed, how to, as,111-112;vote, new method of, bring out,94-95;wisdom,148,210.Popular will, student of,63.Postmaster,56.Preacher, indefatigable,30.Presidency,140,210.Press, seeks the,121-122,176-177.Protection, favors,50,135.Protest 1837,79-81,108.Public office, public trust,107.Public lands proceeds for internal improvements,63.Religion, political,217.Republican Party—Bloomington Convention,190-191;editors convention, first step in formation of in Ill.,187-188;joins,188-189;parties, three seek Lincoln in 1855,182;party uncertainty, 1855,184-185.Right, exhortation to stand with whoever is,172-173.Senate U. S.—candidate in 1854,176;defeated,179-180;duty of as representative of whole state,178;nominated unanimously by Republicans, 1858,205-206;passion for term in,176.Shields, "scrap with,"103-105.Slavery,—anti-slavery bill in Congress,145-146;not apologist for, or abolitionist,41;attacks weakest point,216;anti-slavery sentiments, origin of,35;anti-slavery movement, growth of in New England,143;colonization favors,154-155;Declaration of Independence, relation to,199-200;despair at strength of,153;economic strength,197;foresees conflict over,47;gradual emancipation policy,147;hatred of,110,173-174,183;justice to negro,170;menace of,173-174;moral issue in North,197;New Orleans trip, kindles hatred,40-41;protest, 1837,79-81;sale of mulatto girl, fires with hatred of,41-42;subverts government,157;shackled slaves torment,110;slavetraders control Southern policies,184;South's pecuniary interest in,197;territories, opposition to spread in,169.Social slight, resentment at,32.South—constitutional rights recognized,169;pecuniary interest in slavery,197;slave-traders dictate politics of,184.Speaker—attract, does not, in "great debate,"91-92;growing demand for,194;eminence in 1836,68;emotions, appeals to,50,67-68,96;eulogy on Clay,153-155;fails as,97;Forquer, crushing reply to,67;Fremont campaign, makes 50 speeches in,193-194;humorous passage in speech,92;"lost speech,"191-192;Peoria speech,167-174;"scathing style,"141;shocks cultured lawyer in 1840,96-97;Springfield, speech,207-212;State Fair speech,163;youthful,30,40,50-51;wilderness, as in a,192.Spot resolutions,130,151.Springfield speech—"house-divided-against-itself" address,207-212;apotheosis of career,212;criticized by friends,207-208,210;pride in,210-211;nation cannot exist on injustice, and must become all free or all slaves,208-210;presidency, claim that it was a bid for,210;United States history, one of the momentous addresses in,208;wisely framed,211.Springfield, Ill.—humble entrance into,72-73;secures removal of Capitol to,70-71.Statesman—78;national leader,212;national vision,134.Stories,—appearance,59-60;ballots, not bullets,189-190;bragging horse owner,30-31;John Calhoun,55;campaign purse,87-88;candidate, pompous, rebuked,60;captain,48;cruelty to animals,30;cultured lawyer shocked,96;demagogue exposed,88;despair as to slavery,153;Douglas tenders truce,174-175;duel, Shields,103-105;engagement,102-103;fairness,45-46;farm hands,59;fight with Jack Armstrong,43-44;free speech,98;foresight,127;honesty,45;horse race,45;Indian, old,48-49;jumps from window,106;law studies,56;lightning rod, Forquer's,67-68;Lovejoy, avoids,163-164;mercy,46-47;mother,25;negro boy,189;negro girl, sale of, New Orleans,41;partnership, Herndon,112;Pekin convention,121;poverty,68,72-73;principle, loyalty to,71-72;politics, his world,109;public, first act,42;Revolutionary history,29;same Abe Lincoln,114;slavery struggle serious,152;shackled slaves,110;soldier,19;speaker, failure as,97;speech, early,52;"Speed, I'm moved,"72-73;"There's Nat,"119;trick of Herndon,164-165;Washington, Weems' Life of,29;world not dead,192-193.Supreme Court of U. S.—attitude to,198-199;Douglas, approval of Jackson's position,199;Dred Scott decision of,197-200;Dred Scott decision weakens respect for,198;Jackson's view of its lack of constitutional power of interpretation,199;judges of, students of the past,200;judicial decisions, function of,198-199;Lincoln wiser than,200.Surveyor,55.Taylor, Zachary, promotes presidential candidacy,138.Temperate,87.Texas, annexation of,129.Todd, Mary (Lincoln), engagement to Lincoln, severance of engagement and reconciliation,102-104.Universal suffrage, faith in,64.Usury,52-53.Voting, fraudulent, opposes,106.War—captain in Black Hawk War,47-49;dissatisfaction with Lincoln's action in Mexican War,131;Mexican War, vigorous prosecution of favored,128-129;Mexican War, inception of opposed,129-131;Mexican War, speech on inception of in Congress,130-131;war power under the Constitution,132-133.Washington,28-30.Whig,34,50,58,68,172.Woman Suffrage,62-63.Wit,30-31.Writer, see literary style above, first efforts,27-28;first important address,51-54.Lincoln, Mrs. Abraham,150,176.Lincoln, Nancy Hanks,19,25.Lincoln, Sally Bush,19.Lincoln, Thomas,15-16,19,24-25,39;reasons for removal from Kentucky,18-19.Linder, W. F.,73.Locos,115,139.Lost speech, See Lincoln.Logan, Judge S. T.,51,90,121.Lovejoy, Rev. E. P.—murder of,79,86;mob spirit,81-82.Lovejoy, Owen,163,177-178,186.Lundy, Benjamin,35.Matteson, Gov.,179.Mexican War, origin of,127-128;patriotism awakened by,128-131;Whigs, attitude toward,129-130.Milk-sick,39.Minority party, value of,101-102.Missouri compromise,167-168;repeal of,158-160,162,170,182.Mob spirit,81-83;cure for,84.Moral prophet, seldom politician,166.Morrison, Col. J. L. D.,149.Moses,217.National campaigns, See campaigns.O'Connell, Daniel,173.Offutt, Denton,40,42,43.Ohio,23.Osborn, Charles,35.Pain, John,193.Pain, Thomas,19.Palmer, John M.,165-166,191.Panic, 1837,103.Parties, new, need of about 1854,181-182;power of partisan lash,183-184;sacred, not,219;utility of,219.Partisanship, growth of,64-65,66;judiciary,100-102.Party ties, painful rending of,165-166.Patriotism, civil,213.Pekin convention, 1843, startling story of,121.Pettit, John,174.Phillips, Wendell,173.Pierce, Pres. Franklin,195.