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Nicolay, John George, 1832-1901

"Hay's Abraham Lincoln: A History"

Kirby Smith, 526;
soldiers of, in grand review, 528
=Shields, James=, United States senator, brigadier-general
United States Volunteers, at Springfield, Illinois, 52;
auditor of Illinois, 65;
challenges Lincoln to a duel, 66-68;
ordered to form junction with McDowell and Fremont, 306
=Short, James=, buys Lincoln's surveying instruments
and restores them to him, 36
=Simpson, M.=, Bishop of the Methodist Church,
oration at Lincoln's funeral, 548
=Slavery=, agitation in Illinois, 45, 46;
Lincoln-Stone protest, 47;
Lincoln's bill to abolish, in District of Columbia, 85-87;
repeal of Missouri Compromise, 94, 95;
Peoria debate of Lincoln and Douglas, 96-98;
Lincoln's Chicago banquet speech, 106, 107;
Dred Scott case, 108-112;
pro-slavery reaction, 113;
slavery agitation in Kansas, 113-117;
Lincoln's "House divided against itself" speech, 119, 120, 127, 128;
Lincoln-Douglas joint debate, 121-125;
John Brown raid, 134, 135;
Lincoln's speeches in Kansas and the East, 136-140;
pro-slavery demands of Democratic leaders, 141, 142;
attitude of political parties upon, in 1860, 152, 153;
"corner-stone" theory of the Confederate States, 179;
dream of the conspirators, 197, 204;
dread of slave insurrections in the South, 220, 221;
action of Union commanders about, 220-223;
Fremont's proclamation, 236-238;
Lincoln to Browning about Fremont's proclamation, 238-240;
President's interview with border State delegations, 257, 258, 324, 325;
references to, in Cameron's report, 320;
in Lincoln's message of December 3, 1861, 321, 322;
Delaware offered compensated abolishment, 322, 323;
Lincoln's special message to Congress, March 6, 1862, 323, 324;
President's letter to McDougall, 324;
Congress passes bill for compensated emancipation
in District of Columbia, 325, 326;
bill in Congress to aid emancipation in Delaware, Maryland,
Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Missouri, 326;
Lincoln revokes Hunter's order, 327, 328;
measures relating to, in Congress, 1862, 329;
President's second interview with border State delegations, 329-331;
Lincoln reads first draft of emancipation proclamation to
cabinet, 331, 332;
President's interview with Chicago clergymen, 337-339;
President issues preliminary emancipation proclamation, 339-341;
annual message of December 1, 1862, on, 341, 342;
President issues final emancipation proclamation, 342-346;
President's views on, 346, 347;
arming of negro soldiers, 348-350;
instructions from War Department about slaves, 349;
contest over slavery clause in new Louisiana constitution, 423;
slavery abolished in Louisiana, 426;
abolished in Arkansas, 427;
abolished in Tennessee, 429;
abolished in Missouri, 434;
abolished in Maryland, 435, 436;
attitude of Democratic party on, 437, 438;
Republican national platform favors constitutional
amendment abolishing, 446;
fugitive-slave law repealed, 457;
constitutional amendment prohibiting, in United States, 471-476;
public opinion on, in certain States, 473;
two constitutional amendments offered during Lincoln's term, 475, 476;
Lincoln's draft of joint resolution offering South $400,000,000, 493;
decline in value of slave property in the South, 501;
effect on Lincoln's character, 551.


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