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Chapter 4

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succeeds Webster in United States Senate, 102; early career, 104-110; oration on war, 107-109; boldly attacks slavery, 110-113; beaten by Brooks, 113; characterization, 114-116

Surgeons, 272-274

Taney, Roger B., 186

Tariff, the, 48-50

Texas, secession, 189

Thackeray, W. M., 148

Thomas, Gen. G. H., 196, 248

_Times_, the London, 230

Tombs, Robert, 137

_Trent_, the, 225

_Tribune Almanac_, 128

_Tribune, The New York_, 126-128

_Tribune_ reporter and John Brown, 153

Turner, Nat, 34

"Uncle Tom," death of, 141

"Uncle Tom's Cabin," 143-148

"Vanity Fair," 148

Van Zandt, frees slaves, 140

Vaughan, Judge, 107

Vicksburg, 247

Victoria, Queen, 146, 226

War, good and evil influence of the, 281-285

Washburne, E. B., 179

Washington, George, 24, 191; contrast with Lincoln, 288-289

Watt, James, 110, 291

Webster and Calhoun, Chapter II, 40-67

Webster, Daniel, 12; early career, 44, 45; answers Hayne, 56-58; answers Calhoun, 60, 61; 7th of March speech, 61-63; Lincoln approves, 64;

Webster dies, 66; as orator, 69, 164, 292; banner of, 295

Wellington, 242

Whiskey rebellion, 293

Whitefield, George, 21

Whitney, Eli, 27-29, 45

Whittier, John G., 63, 69, 96, 106, 285

Winchester and Sheridan, 250

Winslow, Admiral John A., 246

Winthrop, Robert, 273

Wirtz, Henry, 270

Wise, Governor of Virginia, 155-156

Worden, Admiral John L., 245

Wordsworth, Wm., 107

Xenophon, 264

FOOTNOTES:

[1] "Harriet Beecher Stowe: The Story of Her Life." By Charles E. Stowe and Lyman Beecher Stowe. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.

[2] "On the Trail of Grant and Lee," by Frederic Trevor Hill: New York and London, D. Appleton & Co.

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