Chapter 1

reasons for European trip of, 214-216; no official embassy, 217; interview of, with Lincoln, 218; breakfast to, in London, 219; speech at Manchester, 227-230; at Glasgow and Edinburgh, 231, 232; in Liverpool, 232, 234; in London, 235; triumph at home, 235, 239; raises Sumter flag, 241; and Lincoln, 212, 218, 304-305

Beecher, Lyman, 138

Bell, John, 184

Bishop of New Jersey, 296

Bowen, Henry C., 181

Breckenridge, J. C., 184

Bremer, Frederika, 144

Bright, John, 222, 225

Brown, John, Chapter VI, 136-159; in Springfield, 149; North Elba, 150; Iowa, 150; Kansas, 151-154; Virginia, 154; Harper's Ferry, 155; trial and death, 155-158; his fanaticism overruled, 159

Brown-Sequard, Dr., 114

Bryant, Wm. C., 182

Buchanan, Com. Franklin, 245

Buchanan, James, 189

Buckle, Thomas, 204

Bunyan, John, 325

Burns, Anthony, 84-87

Burns, Robert, 310

Burnside, Gen. A. E., 252

Byron, Lord, 84

Calhoun, John C., 12; early career, 46, 47; nullification, 51; government and sovereignty, 52; mistakes of, 59; influence on non-slaveholding South, 196; political doctrine of, in church affairs, 204-205

Carlisle, Lord, 144

Carlyle, Thomas, 100, 107, 236-238, 311-312

Carpet-baggers, 259

Cervantes, 325

Channing, Wm. E., 74, 75, 81, 104

Charles I, 23, 42

Charles II, 23

Chase, Salmon P., 141

Christian Commission, 272

Clay, Henry, 52, 61, 289

Cobden, Richard, 222, 238

Columbus, Christopher, 291

Columbus, Ky., 253

Congregationalism and State sovereignty, 204-205

Constitution, the, 206

Convention of 1776, 23

Cooper, Peter, 182

Cotton, 26-29, 49, 222-224

Cushing, Lieut. W. B., 245

Dante, 95, 251, 290, 318, 325

Darwin, Charles, 291, 301

Davis, Jefferson, Stephens' opinion of, 203; early career, 206; as Confederate president, 206

De Bau on slave trade, 20

Declaration of Independence, 25

Demetrius, 87

Democracy, advance of, 5

Demosthenes, 14, 213

Dickens, Charles, novels of reform, 139; praises "Uncle Tom's Cabin," 143; predicts Confederate success, 238

Donelson, Fort, 246

Douglass, Frederick, 34

Douglas, Stephen A., as orator, 69; early career, 165-166; supports Polk, 167; proposes "squatter sovereignty," 169; loses prestige, 170-172; challenged to debate by Lincoln, 173; compared with Lincoln, 174-177; the great debate, 178-181; nominated for presidency, 184; supports Union, 185; death, 185; and Northern Democrats in 1861, 193

Dutch revolt, 264

Dwight, President Yale College, 46

Dyer, Oliver, 48

Edwards, Jonathan, 21

Eliot, George, 146, 148

England, 26, 49; source of American principles, 218; as to wars, 220; why favourable to South, 221-224; non-voters of, favoured North, 225; Beecher in, 218-221, 227-235, 239-241

English Anti-Slavery Society, 227

Emerson, Ralph W., 68, 96, 236, 285

Everett, Edward, 69, 106, 315

Ewell, Gen. Richard S., 245

Faneuil Hall, 81, 85

Farragut, Admiral David, 196, 246-247

Fillmore, Millard, 101

Florida, secession, 189

Floyd, John B., 189

Foote, Admiral Andrew H., 246

Fort Fisher, 247

Forts Donelson and Henry, 246

Fort Sumter, 191, 208, 241

Franklin, Benjamin, 34

Frémont, Gen. J. C., 215, 246

Fugitive Slave legislation, 36, 87, 214

Fulton Street prayer-meeting, 162

Garrison, Wm. Lloyd and W. Phillips, Chapter III, 68-94; the pen for abolition, 68; early career, 69; begins agitation with Lundy, 70; starts Liberator, 1831, 71; accused of Turner uprising, 72; organized American Anti-Slavery Society, 74; mobbed in Boston, 76; satisfied with Lincoln's emancipation, 93

Geneva Arbitration, 225

George III, 24

Gladstone, W. E., 225

Gordon, Gen. J. B., 271, 285-286

Government contracts, 282-283

Grant, Gen. Ulysses S., 246, 248; early career, 252; rapid promotion, 253; Columbus, Donelson and Vicksburg, 254; military genius, 255; final campaign, 250; Appomattox, 257-258; President, 259; political and financial problems, 259-260; unwise speculation, 261; authorship, 261; character and death, 261-262

Great men, era of, 292-293

Great Rebellion, the, 11-13; war of the, 265

Greeley, Horace, 54, 182, 183;