Chapter 8

Benton, Thomas H.,

154

.

Birney, Jas. G.,

2

,

5

,

42

,

56-58

,

205

.

"Blacklaws"

35

;

in Ohio,35.

Black Republic of Texas,

135

.

Blair, Gen. Prank P.,

158

,

186-191

;

and Missouri emancipationists,161;

and Missouri Abolitionists,188;

appearance of,189;

fearlessness,189;

quarrel with Frémont,189;

and capture of Camp Jackson,189-191;

threats against,190.

Blair, Montgomery,

158

,

161

.

Bonner, Hon. Benjamin R.,

155

.

Border-ruffianism,

153

.

Border Slave-State message, text of,

213-214

.

Boyle, James,

205

.

Bradley, John,

135

.

Breckenridge,

152

;

factions,11.,

Breckenridge, Judge Samuel M.,

175

.

Brodburn, George,

205

.

Brown, B. Gratz,

155

.

Brown, John,

45

,

113

.

Brown, William Wells,

205

.

Buchanan, James

153

.

Buffum, Arnold,

201

,

203

.

Buffum, James N.,

205

.

Bull Run,

192

.

Burleigh, Charles C.,

205

.

Buxton, Sir Thomas,

132

.

Camp Jackson (St. Louis),

183

;

"affair" at,186-188;

effect of capture,191-194.

Campbell, David,

202

.

Campbell, John R.,

202

.

Capron, Effingham C.,

202

.

Carlisle, Earl of,

18

.

Chapman, Mrs. Henry,

33

.

"Charcoals", Missouri,

159

;

delegation to President,162,166;

fight for "Free Missouri",162;

appeal to President for protection,166-168.

Chase, Salmon P.,

10

,

13

,

14

,

59-61

,

148

,

205

;

financial policy,60;

espousal of Abolitionism,61;

and "third party,"64;

election to United States Senate,206.

Child, David Lee,

204

.

Child, Lydia Maria,

204

.

Chittenden, L.E.,

134

.

Churchill's

Crisis

,

157

.

Civil War,

11

;

due to Abolitionists,12.

Clay, Henry,

2

,

6

.

"Claybanks",

159

;

exclusion from National Convention,169.

Coffin, Joshua,

201

.

Coffin, Levi,

197-198

;

"President of 'The Underground Railroad'",197.

Colonization,

128-135

;

Society,128;

and England,130-132;

Lincoln's opinion,133;

experiments,133-134.

Colonizationists, pretended friendship for negroes,

130

.

Compromise of 1850,

6

.

Conover, A.J.,

205

.

Cotton-gin, invention of,

31

.

Cox, Abram L.,

203

,

205

.

Crandall, Prudence, persecution of,

116-117

.

Crandall, Dr. Reuben,

117-118

.

Crisis, The

,

157

.

Cross Keys, battle of,

184

.

Curtis, Geo. William,

88

,

179

.

Curtis, Gen. Samuel R., and military control of Missouri,

163-164

;

charges against,163.

Democratic party, division of,

11

.

Democrats,

4

,

7

;

Anti-Nebraska,9;

of New York,9.

Denison, Charles M.,

203

,

205

.

Dickinson, Anna E.,

205

.

Dissolution of Union, petition for,

2

.

"Doughface",

4

.

Douglas, Stephen A.,

12

;

dislike of, by slaveholders' factions,11;

defeated for President,94-99;

and Abolitionists,153;

hated by slave-owners,153.

Douglass, Fred.,

112

.

Drake, Hon. Charles D.,

167

.

Dred Scott decision,

45-46

;

too late for South's purpose,47.

Dresser, Amos, whipped,

119

.

Emancipation proclamation,

137-138

;

due to Abolitionists,12;

story of,139;

moral influence of,146;

Lincoln's reasons for,146;

ineffective,148;

text of,211-213.

Ewing, Gen. Thomas,

194

;

repulsion of General Price,195.


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