American Government, Lincoln's Essay on, 28.
Baker, Col. E. D., 90, 96-98, 112-115, 121, 128, 138, 149.
Buchanan, Pres. James, 194-195, 201, 203-205.
Campaign, national 1840, exuberant speech, 95-96.
Clay, Henry, 18, 22, 34, 116-120, 138, 153-155, 159; colonization proposal, 154-155; tribute to in defeat, 120.
Compromise, 147; slavery not settled by, 158.
Democratic Party--Anti-Nebraska Democrats, 190; banks, hostility to, 105; New Salem Democrats work for Lincoln, 54-55; Northern complicity in crime of Kansas, 201-202; Northern repudiate Kansas crime, 202; Northern resent Southern support of Taylor, 144; patriotic minority in 1854, 165-166; run Lincoln as candidate in 1834, 58.
Democracy, political religion of Lincoln, 217.
Douglas, Stephen A., See Lincoln,--Buchanan, braves, 203; conqueror, returns as in 1858, 204-205; debate, defeats Ewing in, 97; debate, Whig's challenge to, 90; Democratic administration fights, 202-203; howled down in Chicago, 162; judiciary reorganized, 100-101; Kansas issue, not the author of, 157-158; Lincoln, debates with, 92, 97-99, 119, 170-175, 211; Missouri Compromise, 167-168; patriot, not humanitarian, 159; Republican leaders coquette with, 203-204; senate, Anti-slavery leaders in, confounded by, 170; State Fair speech, 162-163; Supreme Court, Jackson's attack on, 199.
Edwards, Cyrus, angry at Lincoln, 149-150.
Herndon, W. H., 82, 109-112, 131-132, 156, 163-165, 177, 188, 192-193, 204, 207-208.
Illinois--Abolitionism, hated in, 76; Abolition societies, early in, 35; Black code of, 76; judiciary in politics, 100-102.
Indiana--Gentryville, 31-32; internal improvement policy, 22-24; pioneer politics, 21-23; Spencer County, 21, 24; Statutes revised, 28, 30.
Internal improvement policy, 22-24, 68-69, 89.
Jackson, Andrew, 22, 34, 50, 56, 117, 124-125, 141, 199.
Johnston, John, step-brother of Lincoln, 30, 32.
Judicial system of Ill. prey of partisanship, 100-102.
Kansas, Neb. struggle, 181-183, 189, 201-204; crisis, national, marked by, 182; Lecompton Constitution, 202; violence begets violence, 189.
Kentucky--Abolitionism, 18, 35; Anti-federalist, 17; frontier life, 15-17; law-abiding, 16-17; passion for politics, 17; pioneer hardships, 16; schools, 16; slavery, 18.