allied with upper classes,92;as Pres. candidate defeated in Whig convention (1852),92;death of,93.Weed, Thurlow, votes for Taylor,82;helps prolong Whig organization in N. Y.,115;supports Pres. Johnson,303.Weld, Theodore D.,37.Whig party (see alsoWhigs),beginnings of,31;on verge of dissolution,93;end of,153.Whigs, nominate Clay,75;gain majority in House,79;nominate Taylor,81;nominate Gen. Winfield Scott;defeated by combined Democrats and "Free Soilers,"92;vote against Kansas-Nebraska bill,114;unite with "Free Soilers" to form Republican party;organization prolonged in N. Y.,115;in Republican party,127.Whitman, Walt, volunteer nurse, pen picture of war,247.Whitney, Eli,23.Whittier, John G., joins anti-slavery movement,44,56;criticises Webster in poem "Ichabod,"88;poem on settlement of West,116;in first Republican campaign,130;his labors for freedom,144.Wilmot proviso,80.Wilson, Henry, joins "Free Soil" party,81;elected Senator,115; sketch of,283;opposes Pres. Johnson's plan of reconstruction,286;against exclusion clauses in14th amendment,302.Wilson, Woodrow, "History of the American People," criticised,334.Wise, Henry A., opinion of John Brown,164.Wise, John S., shows effects of John Brown's raid in South,169;criticises Bourbonism in Southern politics,388.Women's rights,56;cause advanced,94.Wood, Fernando,352.Woolman, John, protests against slavery,7.Woolsey, Theodore D.,36.Wright, Elizur,44.