A

ABE

BERDEEN, Lord, consents to
opening of West India trade,

85.
Abolitionists, refused right of peti-
tion, 114; position of, in campaign
of 1844, 146; form Liberty party,
146; principles of the, contrasted
with principles of Free Soil party,
166, 167; feeling of South with re-
gard to, 1858, 204; relations of,
with Republican party, 1860,

209.

Adams, John, character of the gov-
ernment under, 10, 13; circum-
stances of election of, 14.
Adams, John Quincy, of the old
school of public men, to; nomi-
nated for the presidency, 1824, 17;
elected by the House, 18; effects
of character of, on politics, 19;
constitutionality of election of, 21;
and Tenure of Office Act, 27; on
Jackson's appointments to office,
30; views of, obnoxious to the
South, 39, 40; spokesman for
Abolitionists in House, 114, 143;
heads protest against annexation
of Texas, 165.

African Colonization Society, or-
ganization and purpose of the,

120.

Agricultural character of the early

growth of the country, 5-7, 15;
exports, 1829, 50; system of the
South, and slavery, 124; disad-
vantage of slavery, 127, 128;
system of the South and war re-
sources, 247, 248.

ANN

Alabama, growth of population in,
1830-1840, 108; secedes, 210; re-
admitted to representation in Con-
gress, 269.

Alabama' Claims," nature and
arbitration of, 278, 279.

Alaska acquired by the United States
from Russia, 272.

Albany Regency, The, origin and
functions of, 33.

"Alexandria Government" of Vir-
ginia, 255, 256; undertakes recon-
struction of Virginia, 258.
Alien and Sedition Laws, 14.
Amendments; Thirteenth, proposed

by Congress, 259; adopted, 260;
Fourteenth, proposed by Con-
gress, 265; rejected by Southern
States, 266; adopted, 269; Fif-
teenth, proposed by Congress,
269; adopted, 270; Fourteenth
and Fifteenth, enforced by penal
legislation, 274; interpreted by
Supreme Court, 275.

American Anti-Slavery Society, for-
mation of, 109; programme and
purposes of, 121; first opposition

to, 121.
American

party. See "Know

party.

Nothing
Amnesty Proclamation, Lincoln's,
1863, 256; Johnson's, 1865, 258.
Amnesty Act, General, of 1872, 274.
Annexation, first steps towards, of

Texas, 143-145; desired by
Southerners, 165, 188-190; of
Cuba and Mexican territory pro-
posed by Buchanan, 202,

Anti-slavery, agitation during Van
Buren's term, 99, 100; American
Society formed, 109; effect of,
movement upon parties 1830-
1840, 114; antecedents of Aboli-
tionist movement, 119-121: prin-
cipal occasion of, movement, 121-
123; programme of, 121;
first
opposition to, 121; moral advan-
tage of, movement, 122; forces in
House led by Giddings, 144; op-
position to annexation of Texas,
143, 144; effect on South, 204;
relation of, to purposes of Repub-
lican party, 1860, 209.
Appointments, system of political, in
New York and Pennsylvania, 20;
Jackson's practice with regard to,
26, 27. See also Civil Service.
Appomattox Court House, Lee sur-
renders at, 237, 238.
Appropriation, provision of confed-
erate constitution regarding veto
of individual items of, 243.
Arista, Mexican general, defeated
by Taylor at Palo Alto and Resaca
de la Palma, 150.

Aristocracy, character of southern,
106.

Arkansas, admitted to Union, 1836,
108; secedes, 219; reorganized
under federal authority, 257; re-
admission of, to representation,
269; election troubles in, in 1874,
276.

Army, confederate, lack of arms and
equipments by, 245, 246; early
supplies for, 246; conscription
into, 246; resolution to enrol
slaves in, 247; desertions from,
251; hunger and sufferings of,

BAR

Arrests, arbitrary, by Department of
War, 254-

Arsenals, federal, seized in the
South, 213, 245.

Arthur, Chester A., succeeds to
presidency, 289; attitude of, to-
wards reform of civil service, 293.
Ashburton, Lord, negotiates treaty
with Webster, 140.

Atlanta, operations around, 1864,205.
Audubon, 110.

Australian system of voting, features
and adoption of, 294.

BALLOT, reform of the, by the

States, 294.

Baltimore, attack upon Massachu-
setts regiment in, 1861, 218.
Bancroft, George, 110.

Bank of the United States, first
hint against by Jackson, 34; re-
charter of, chief issue, 1832, 64,
79, 80; charter of the first, 1791,
and of the second, 1816, 70; ques-
tion of constitutionality of, 70-72;
attacked by Jackson's message of
1829, 72-74; branch of, at Ports-
mouth, N. H., 76, 77; constitu-
tion of second, 78; early and later
management of, and connection
with the government, 78; fight
for recharter of, 79; removal of
deposits from, 80, 82; effects of
the struggle upon, 82; expiration
of charter of, 84; dangers from,
86; danger from destroying, 87;
efforts of Whigs to re-establish,
137, 138.
Banking reform, 1837-1841, 95, 96.
Banks, General N. P., at Cedar
Mountain, 225.

Banks, State, power of, to issue
paper, 69, 70; political grounds
upon which chartered, 75; chosen
as depositories of the national
revenue, 88; multiplication of,
89; suspension of specie payments
by, 1837, 93; safety fund system
of New York, 96; New York free
banking system, 96; issues of,
taxed by Congress, 233.

Baptist Church, split in, on slavery
question, 209.

Barnburners, The, a Democratic fac-
tion, 1848, nominate Van Buren,
158.

BAR

Barry, William T., in Jackson's

cabinet, 55:
Beaumont, visits United States with
de Tocqueville, 109.
Beauregard, General,

commands
confederate forces at first battle
of Manassas, 221; succeeds A. S.
Johnston at Corinth, 224-
Belgium recognizes independence of
Texas, 143.
Belknap, W. W

impeached for
malfeasance in office while Secre-
tary of War, 278.

Bell, John, nominated for presidency
by Constitution Union party, 206;
popular vote for, 207.
Benjamin, Judah P., senator from
Louisiana, on purposes of Repub-
licans concerning slavery, 208.
Benton, Thomas H., as a repre-
sentative of the West, 27; feeling
of, about Foot's Resolution, 42;
feeling of, concerning the currency,
1837, 95; sympathy of, with "Lo-
co-foco principles, 95; Demo-
cratic leader, 112.

Bibliography, 1, 22, 116, 194, 253.

See also Suggestions to Readers
and Teachers.

Biddle, Nicholas, president of the
Bank of the United States, cor-
respondence of, with Secretary
Ingham concerning management
of the Bank, 77:

Bills of credit, States forbidden,
Congress not permitted, to issue,
69; forbidden by confederate
constitution, 243.

Blockade of southern ports ordered
by Congress, 220; proclaimed by
Lincoln, 229; effect of the procla-
mation abroad, 223; necessity of,
229; made effectual, 230; effect
of, upon economic resources of
the South, 245.
Boone, Daniel, 24.
Booth, John Wilkes, assassinates
Lincoln, 238.

Boston, rescue of negro, Shadrach,
in, 177:

Boundaries, dispute with England
concerning northeastern, 140;
dispute with England touching
Oregon, 148; dispute with Mexi-
co concerning Texan, 149; settle-
ment of southwestern by Gads-
den purchase, 189; further defini-

Brook Farm, 109.

Brown, B. Gratz, Liberal Republi-
can leader, 282.

Brown, John, character and raid of,
202, 203; feeling in the South
with regard to raid of, 203, 204.
Buchanan, James, takes part in
framing "Ostend Manifesto,"
189; nominated by Democrats,
191; elected, 192; policy of, as
between the sections, 199; favors
territorial aggrandizement, 202;
administration of, charged with
corrupt practices, 204; course of,
in crisis of 1860-61, 214.

Buell, General, brings Grant rein-
forcements at Pittsburg Landing,
224; meets Bragg at Perryville,
231; succeeded by Rosecrans,