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Abolition Intelligencer, the,28.Abolition movement, its early history,18et seq.Abolition societies, early,23,27.Abolitionists, hatred of,41,42,56,67,135,136.——, differences among,83,103.Adams, Charles Francis,129.——, John Quincy,25,31,158,159.Alexander, George W.,159.——, J. W.,164.American and Foreign Antislavery Society, formation of,103.American Antislavery Society, formation of,49,50;division in,103.Anderson, W. W.,159.Anti-Annexation Meeting, in New York,126.Antislavery movement, development of,39et seq.Antislavery societies, formation of,45.Antislavery Society of New York City,46,47.Aspinwall, John,12.Bailey, G., Jr.,xvii,159.Banyer, Mrs.,125,167.Bedford,8,9,163.Benezet, Anthony,19.Benson, Judge,38.Bible Society,iii,10,11,12.Birney, James G.,xvi,63,103,107,117,118,159.Bogardus, General,46.Bolton, John,12.Bouck, Gov.,14,124,125.Boudinot, Elias,iii,11,12,28.Bourgueny, Baron,vi.Bradish, Luther,110.Brent, W. L.,35.Broglie, Duc de,63,126.Brown, David P.,54.Brownson, Dr. Orestes A.,xix.Brune, Baron,vi.Buol-Schauenstein, Count,vi.Buren, Van, Martin,107,124.Burling, William,18.Calhoun, John C.,xii,4.Canterbury, persecution at,42.Cass, Lewis,149.Cavour, Count,vi,xviii.Chambers, John,9.Channing, W. E.,56.Chapman, Mrs.,xvi,91.Chase, Salmon P.,146,159.Chatham Street Chapel,47,53.Child, Mrs. Lydia Maria,xvii,40,67,112,159.Circourt, M. de,v.Clarendon, Lord,vi,131.Clarkson, Matthew,12.Clarkson, Thomas,159.Clay, Henry,24,32.Cleveland, C. D.,159.Clinton, De Witt,12,14,31,32.Clinton Hall,46.Cobden, R.,vi.Colebrook, Sir W.,159.Colonization Society,26.Commercial Advertiser,55.Compromise of 1850,137.Constitutional questions,xi,86,87,89,91,99.Cooper, J. Fenimore,2,3,5,9,14.Cornish, Samuel E.,73.Cortlandt, Van, Eve,9.——, Jacobus,9.——, Mary,9.——, Pierre,9.Cotton-gin, the,23.Courier and Inquirer,47,55.Cowley, Lord,vi.Cox, Abraham L.,55,73.Cox, Samuel H.,64.Coxe, A. Cleveland,165.Crandall, Miss,42.——, Reuben,41,159.Cummings, John,13.Dane, Nathan,20.Davis, Henry,3.——, Jefferson,xii.Delavan, Edward,61.Denison, Charles W.,103.Derby, Lord,vii.Disunion,153,154,155.Douglas, Senator,149.Douglass, Frederick,159.Duelling, essay on,13.Dwight, Timothy,7.Earle, Thomas,107.Edwards, Jonathan,23.Ellison, Thomas,1.Emancipation, gradual,41.——, immediate,23,40,41,43.——, in West Indies,45.Emancipator, the,28,75.Episcopal Church, its attitude towards slavery,132,133,144,145,147.Evarts, Jeremiah,12.Everett, Alexander H.,82.Fitzmaurice, Lord Edmond,v.Forsythe, John,35.Franklin, Benjamin,iv,23.Frelinghuysen, Theodore,48.Frere, John Hookham,126.Fugitive-Slave Law,140,141,142,143,144.Gadsden, Christopher Edward,4.Gallatin, Albert,127.Gallaudet, Thomas H.,4.Garrison, William L.,xvii,40,51,53,63,64,77,84,86,89,102,153,154.Gay, S. H.,xvii.Gayle, Gov.,74.Genius of Universal Emancipation,28.Gibbons, James S.,xvii.Giddings, Joshua R.,129.Gladstone, W. E.,vi.Goodell, William,xvii,27,40,107,159.Gouverneur, Samuel L.,65.Gray, William,12.Grayson, William,20.Green, Rev. Beriah,60,159.Green, Oliver,30.Griffin, George,12.Grimké, Misses,xvii,91,159.——, Thomas Smith,4.Grundy, Felix,12.Habersham, R. W.,13,159.Hale, John P.,159.Hamilton, Alexander,23.——, James,35.Hammond, J. D.,159.Harrison, W. H.,107.Henry, John B.,8.——, Patrick,20,21.Hicks, Elias,27.Higginson, T. W.,154.Hillhouse, James A.,4.Hobart, Bishop,iv,11,13.——, John Henry,164.Holley, Myron,107.Holly, Horace,6.Hopkins, Samuel,19,23.Hopper, Isaac T.,xvii.Hornblower, Chief-Justice,159.Horton, Gilbert, case of,29,30,31.Hubner, Baron,vi.Huntington, William,4.Immediate Emancipation, first proclaimed as a duty,23.International arbitration,v,130,131.Ives, Bishop,x.Jackson, Andrew,77.——, Francis,102.——, J. C.,103.Jarvis, Samuel F.,4.Jay, John,iv,1,5,9,12,20,23,38,39,127.——, John, 2d,55.——, Miss,125,167.——, Peter Augustus,160,165.—— Treaty,iv.——, William, his birth,1;education,2;at Yale College,4,6;studies law,8;marriage,8;begins life at Bedford,8,9;begins philanthropic work,10;advocates Bible Societies,10;conflict with Bishop Hobart and High-Church party,10,11,13;organizes American Bible Society,11,12;takes prize for essay on the Sabbath,13;for essay on duelling,13;appointed judge,14;early adoption of antislavery cause,28;espouses cause of Gilbert Horton,29;begins movement for abolition of slavery in District of Columbia,29,32,34,36,37;writes "Life of John Jay,"39;his view of slavery problem in 1833,43,44;consulted regarding formation of American Antislavery Society,45;advises acknowledgment of constitutional provisions,45,46;invited to join in organizing the American Antislavery Society,49;his views on such an organization,50;suggests a definite avowal of constitutional principles,50,51;becomes a member of Executive Committee of American Antislavery Society,57;publishes his "Inquiry,"58;its influence,60,61;appointed foreign corresponding secretary,63;gives advice on right to use the mails,65;his "Address to the Public,"69;elected president of New York State Antislavery Society,77;his reply to President Jackson's message,78;protests against the introduction of irrelevant doctrines into antislavery societies,84,86,100;protests against unconstitutional doctrines,87,90;defeats Alvan Stewart's resolution,93;his opinion of the danger of unconstitutional doctrines,90,94;his opinion of Stewart's position,95;his loss of faith in the usefulness of antislavery societies,97,100;placed on Executive Committee of American and Foreign Antislavery Society,103;resigns membership in American Antislavery Society,103;views on the woman question,103,104;his "View of the Action of the Federal Government,"105;his "Condition of the Free People of Colour,"106;his "Violation of the Right of Petition,"106;his attitude towards Liberty party in 1840,107,108,109;his attitude towards antislavery societies after the schism,112,113,114,115,116;his attitude towards Liberty party in 1843,117,118,119,120,121;his views on the annexation of Texas,118,127,128;nominated for Senator by the Liberty party,120;deprived of his seat on the bench,122;his visit to Europe,125;his "Review of the Mexican War,"127,128;his "War and Peace," and plan for International arbitration,130,131;his attitude towards the "come-outers,"132;his work in the Episcopal Church in favour of the slave,132,133,144,145,147,162;"Letter to Bishop Ives,"133;reply to Webster,137,138;attitude towards the Fugitive-Slave Law,140,141,142,143;views on the Kansas-Nebraska Bill,149,150,152;views on disunion,153,154,155;his death,156;his distinctive position among antislavery men,156,157,158;his writings,158;his conduct as judge,160;other philanthropic work,161;his position as a churchman,161,162;his life at Bedford,163,164;his family life,164,165,166.——, William, 2d,5,8.——, Mrs. William,8,164.Jefferson, Thomas,20,24.Jelliff, Hiram,145.Jocelyn, Simeon S.,xvii,73,158.Johnston, Oliver,xvii.Jones, Samuel,165.Katonah,9.Keith, George,18.Kelley, Miss Abby,102.Kendall, Amos,64,65.Kent, James,53,61,127,165.King, Rufus,20.Langdon, John,12.Law, William,13.Lay, Benjamin,18.Leavitt, Joshua,xvi,49,73,103,107,159.Lee, Richard H.,20.Leggett, William,56.Liberalist, the,28.Liberator, the,40.Liberty party,107,117,118,119.Lincoln, Abraham,xiii,xviii,157.Loring, Ellis Gray,xvii,87,90,91.Lovejoy, Elijah P.,82.Ludlow, Henry G.,53.Lundy, Benjamin,27,40.Lyons, Lord,xiv.McAllister, Matthew H.,13.McDonald, Alexander,160.McDuffie, George,35.McVickar, John,8.Mails, destruction of,64.Malmsbury, Lord,vii,131.Mann, Daniel,154.Marcy, Governor,76,110.May, Samuel J.,50,51,86,91,159.Miner, Charles,32,37.Missouri Compromise,24.Mitchell, Minot,122,160.Mobs,56,82,135.Morris, Thomas,117.Morrison, Dr.,159.Mott, Lucretia,xvii.Munro, Peter Jay,160.Nelson, William,160.Noyes Academy,42.Ogden, David B.,48,165.Orloff Count,vi.Owen, John,29.Palfrey, J. G.,159.Peyster, de, Frederic,12.Phelps, Amos A.,53,86,103,159.Phillips, Wendell,xvii,154.Pickering, Thomas,20.Pierpont, John,4.Pinckney, Charles C.,12.Pintard, John,12.Playfair, Sir Lyon,viii,132.Potter, Alonzo,61.——, Horatio,164.Purvis, Robert,53.Quincy, Edmund,xvii.Quincy, Josiah,141.Rankin, John,27,73.Rensselaer, Van, Stephen,12.Reporter, the,113.Republican party,52."Review of the Mexican War,"ix.Richard, Henry,vi,131.Riots, pro-slavery,46,54.Romeyne, John B.,12.Rush, Benjamin,19.Rutgers, Henry,12.St. Clair, Alanson,91.St. Philip's Church,148.Sandiford, Ralph,18.Sandwich, Lord,19.Scoble, John,159.Sedgwick, Henry D.,37.——, Susan,3.——, Theodore,127,159.——, Mrs. Theodore,61.Sewall, Samuel,18.Seward, W. H.,xiv,110,159.Simms,150.Slade, William,159.Slave Power, growth of,135.Smith, Gerrit,xvi,77,83,103,107,118,141,159.——, Goldwin,xviii.——, James,160.——, John Cotton,12.Spring, Gardiner,4.Stanton, Henry B.,103,119.Stephens, A. H.,xv.Stevens, Alexander H.,4.Stewart, Alvan,52,76,92,95,96,99,107.——, Charles,53.Stone, James A.,53.Storrs, Henry R.,4.Stowe, Harriet B.,xvii.Strong, J. W.,160.Sturge, Joseph,v,130,131,144,159.Stuyvesant, Peter G.,61.Sumner, Charles,136,152,159.Tabernacle, the Broadway,92.Tappan, Arthur,xvi,40,45,49,53,55,64,67,68,73,102,103,158.——, Lewis,xvi,40,47,54,73,75,103,113,158.Taylor, Nathaniel W.,4.Thompson, George,63,67.Tighlman, William,12.Tocqueville, de, A.,15.Tompkins, Daniel D.,12.Torrey, Charles T.,101.Tucker, Beverly,xiii.Utica Convention,76.Varick, Richard,12.Vaux, Robert,159.Vergennes, Count de,v.Villamarina, Marquis de,vi.Voorhis, R. R.,160.Walewski, Count,vi.Walworth, Chancellor,48."War and Peace," v,130,131.Ward, Aaron,34,160.——, Samuel R.,xvii.Washington, Bushrod,12.——, George,155.Wayne, James M.,13.Webster, Daniel,137,139,144,150.Weekly Emancipator,40.Weld, Theodore D.,xvii.Whittier, John G.,xvii,40,51,103.Wickliffe, Charles A.,35.Wilberforce, Samuel,133,134.Williams, Ransom G.,74,75.Wilson, Henry,58.Wirt, William,12.Woman question, the,103,104,105.Woolman, John,19.Worthington, Governor,12.Wright, Elizur, Jr,,xvii,40,49,53,65,67,73,107,159.——, Theodore S.,73.


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