195
Birney, James G., effect of Clay's Alabama letter,
320
Bishop of London,
44
Black Jack, Brown captures Pate at,
441
Blair, Montgomery, letter to Welles on Seward,
387
,
388
Blood, James,
at Kansas City, and at site of Lawrence,
414
;
in "Free-State" directory,
443
Bloomfield, Joseph, voting,
73
Blow, Taylor, connection with Dred Scott case,
452
"Blue Lodges," in Missouri,
419
Body of Liberties, Massachusetts,
41
Bonaparte, Napoleon,
relation to slavery in Louisiana,
54
,
55
;
commercial system,
123
;
relation to Holy Alliance,
123
Boon, Ratliff, in House proceedings,
254
Boston, Massachusetts,
beginning of Abolition,
246
;
meetings on fugitive slave law,
367
;
the Crafts case,
368
;
the Shadrach case,
370
;
the Sims case,
372
,
373
;
Kansas emigrants departing,
414
Boston and Albany railroad, survey begun,
169
Branscomb, Charles H.,
goes to Kansas,
413
,
414
;
at the site of Lawrence,
414
;
buys claim of Stearns,
415
Branson, Jacob,
threatens Buckley,
428
;
arrested by Sheriff Jones,
428
;
rescued by "Free-state" men,
428
,
429
;
charges as to the rescue,
429
;
effort to arrest participants in rescue,
433
Bright, Jesse D.,
motion as to Territorial governments,
346
;
on Committee of Thirteen,
360
Brooks, Preston Smith,
assault upon Sumner,
439
,
440
;
effect of assault modified by Pottawattomie massacre,
442
Brown
vs.
Maryland [12 Wheaton, 419],
195
,
198
Brown, John,
appears at Lawrence,
431
;
the Pottawattomie massacre,
440
;
the massacre characterized,
441
;
captures Pate at Black Jack,
441
;
dispersal of the gang and disappearance of Brown,
442
;
effect of massacre,
442
;
his work characterized,
473
,
474
Brown, Mary, arrest of Hamlet,
367
Brown, R. P.,
organizes company of "Free-state" men,
426
;
captured and murdered,
426
Buchanan, James,
position upon tariff bill of 1827,
158
,
159
;
attitude to fugitive slave law,
368
;
candidate for presidential nomination,
376
;
the Ostend manifesto,
408
;
relation of his election to events in Kansas,
447
;
inaugural address quoted,
447
;
charge as to improper official conduct,
458
;
appoints Walker and Stanton to office in Kansas,
461
;
special message of February 2, 1858,
469
Buckley, ——, secures peace warrant against Branson,
428
Buenos Ayres,
30
Buffalo, New York, Free-soil convention,
347
Buford, Jefferson, repudiates sacking of Lawrence,
438
Bull Creek, Kansas,
Missourians encamped on,
445
;
skirmish at,
445
Burrill, James, Jr., position on Maine-Missouri bill,
83
Burt, Armistead, moves amendment to Douglas's bill,
341
Bushnell, Horace, member of Emigrant Aid Society,
409
Bustamente, Anastasio, decree on immigration,
291
Butler, Andrew Pickens,
contention as to fugitive slave law,
371
;
minority report on president's powers,
372
;
in debate on Foote's resolutions,
374
;
attacked by Sumner,
439
C
ABOT
, S
AMUEL
, member of Emigrant Aid Society,
409
Calhoun, John Caldwell,
2
;
committee service,
3
;
argument for the bank,
4-6
;
chief author of bank bill,
8
;
speech on tariff bill,
10-12
;
on internal improvements,
14-16
;
views rejected by Madison,
17
;
relation to Jackson,
34
,
35
;
effect of Seminole War,
38
;
as to relation between protection and slavery,
109
;
bill for internal improvements vetoed, 1817,
116
,
117
;
qualifications as presidential candidate in 1824,
133
,
134
;
as to vice-presidency,
138
;
elected vice-president,
142
,
143
;
relation to administration,
143
;
relation to Adams's administration,
144
,
146
;
elected vice-president,
163
,
164
;
political scientist of slavery,
173
;
publishes "South Carolina Exposition," "Address on Relation of States and Federal Government," and "Address to the People of South Carolina,"
179
;
his argument,
180
,
181
;
his doctrine of nullification,
189
;
relation to Jackson and Seminole War,
220
;
the Forsyth letter,
220
;
hostility of Jackson and Calhoun,
220
,
221
;
his letter to Governor Hamilton,
221
;
his theory of nullification reproduced,
223
;
resigns vice-presidency and becomes Senator,
224
;
opinion on the position of South Carolina,
226
,
227
;
statement in Senate as to South Carolina's acts,
232