The Impending Crisis of the South

Pemberton, General: 354-5-
Pennsylvania: 17, 202, 355-8.
Peoria: 72, 135, 142.
Petersburg. See Richmond.

Philadelphia: 184, 356.

Pierce, Franklin: 100, 111, 138, 218.
Pilgrim's Progress: 10.

Pitt, William, the younger: 376.
Polk, President: 91-3.

Polk, Bishop and General, 350.

Pope, General: 283, 301, 302-3.

Port Hudson: 343, 354-5-

Porter, Admiral: 349, 353, 388, 435-6, 444.

Post of Arkansas: 351.

Potomac: 225, 243, 249, 288, 306, 358.

Presbyterian: 77, 439.

Prince Consort: 263.

Prisoners of War: 398.

Protection: 42, 45, 65, 68, 202.

Public Works: 42, 65, 71.

Puritans: 17.

QUAKERS: 17, 50, 153.

RADICALS: 232-3, 245, 267-70, 328, 398-400, 410, 430.
Railways: 7, 27, 226-7, 276, 339, 388, 396, 397, 447.

Raleigh: 437, 452.

Rapidan: 288, 311, 358, 391.

Rappahannock: 309, 311, 355, 358.

Rathbone, Major: 450-1.

Raymond: 414. And see 404.

Reconstruction: 326-8, 333-5, 398-401, 434-5, 448-50.
Red River: 388.

Republican Party: (1) Party of this name which followed Jefferson and
of which leading members were afterwards Democrats, 30, 31;
(2) New party formed in 1854 to resist extension of slavery in
Territories, 111; runs Frémont for Presidency, 112; embarrassed
by Dred Scott judgment, 112, 115; possibility of differences under-
lying its simple principles, 122; disposition among its leaders to
support Douglas after Kansas scandal, 141-3; consistency of thought
and action supplied to it by Lincoln, 122, 145-6; nomination and
election of Lincoln, 160-2, 166-9; sections in the party during war,
267-71; increasing divergence between Lincoln and the leading men
in the party, 321, 326-9, 401-2, 409-14, 430, 434-5, 450.
Reuben, First Chronicles of: 11-2.

Revolution, American: 20-2.
Revolution, French: 31.

Rhodes, Cecil: 335.

Rhodes, James Ford: 418, 459.

Richmond: : 225-7, 242, 245, 275, 302, 392; siege of Petersburg and Rich-
mond, see Lee or Grant; feeling in Richmond towards end, 431-2;
Lincoln's visit to it, 447.

Roberts, F. M. Earl: 364.

Robinson Crusoe: 10.

Rollin: 67.

Romilly, Samuel: 32.

Rosecrans, General: 342-3, 351, 359-60.

Russell, Lord John: 260, 263, 313.

Russia: 118, 211, 256.

Rutledge, Ann: 78.

ST. GAUDENS, Augustus: 330.

St. Louis: 116, 244.

Salisbury, Marquess of: 258, 259.

Sangamon: 64-5, 166.

Savannah: 398, 435.

Schofield, General: 397, 436-7.

Schools, Lincoln's: 10.

Schurz, Carl: 235, 421.

Scott, Dred, and his case: 112-5, 144.

Scott, William: 421-2.

Scott, Winfield, General: 93, 100, 205, 208, 231, 246-9, 274-5, 388, 453.
Secession. See South and Confederacy.

Seward, William: opponent of compromise of 1850 and rising Republican
leader, 101, 137, 152; against opposing Douglas, 141; speaks well
of John Brown, 152; expected to be Republican candidate for
Presidency, rejected partly for his unworthy associates, more for
his supposed strong opinions, 161-8; supports Lincoln in election,
169; action during progress of Secession, 193-5, 204; on First In-
augural, 206; action during crisis of Fort Sumter, 208-10; vain at-
tempt to master Lincoln and generous acceptance of defeat, 210-1,
250; his part in foreign policy, 262-5, 387; wise advice to postpone
Emancipation, 320; retained by Lincoln in spite of intrigues against
him, 328-30; administration of martial law, 376; his usefulness and
great loyalty, 406; his judgment on McClellan, 426; attempt to as-
sassinate him, 451; certifies ratification of 13th amendment, 336.
Seymour, Horatio: 381, 383-5, 413.

Sigel, General: 394.

Shakespeare: 103, 108, 423, 448.

Shaw, Robert Gould: 330.

Shenandoah Valley: 225, 247, 296, 394, 395-6, 424, 437-8.

Sheridan, Philip, General: 220, 343, 395-6, 424, 437-8, 444.

Sherman, John, Senator: 235, 380.

Sherman, William Tecumseh, General; 52, 220, 224, 249; character and
relations with Grant, 348; failure in first attempt on Vicksburg,
350; under McClernand, takes Post of Arkansas, 351; with Grant
in rest of Vicksburg campaigns, 353-5; at Chattanooga, 360; at
Meridian, 388; parting with Grant, his fears for him, their con-
certed plans, 389; Atlanta campaign, 394-5, 424; detaches Thomas
against Hood, 397-8; from Atlanta to the sea, 397-9; campaigns
in the Carolinas, 435-6; meets Lincoln at City Point, 444-5; Lin-
coln's dream about him, 449; Johnston's surrender to him, 452.
Shields, Colonel: 85.

Slave Trade: how treated by Constitution of U.S.A., 24; prohibition of it
in American colonies vetoed, 36; prohibited by several American
States, by United Kingdom, and by Union, 38; movement to revive
it in Southern States, 145, 150; prohibited by Confederate Consti-
tution and inadequate Bill against it vetoed by J. Davis, 200; treaty
between United Kingdom and U.S.A., for its more effectual pre-
vention, and first actual execution of a slave-trader in U.S.A., 317.
Slavery: compromise about it in Constitution, 25; opinion and action of
the "Fathers" in regard to it, 35-9; becomes more firmly rooted in
South, 39; disputes as to it temporarily settled by Missouri Com-
promise, 39-40; its real character in America, 52-5; its political
and social effect on the South, 43-5, 55-9; Abolition movement, see
Abolition; its increasing influence on Southern policy, see South;
repeal of Missouri Compromise, and dicta of Supreme Court in
favour of slavery, 109-15; Lincoln's attitude from first in regard
to it, 14, 76, 94; his principles as to it, 121-131, 144; slavery the
sole cause of Secession, 178-9; the progress of actual Emancipa-
tion, 313-37; already coming to an end in the South before the
end of the war, 429, 431. See also Negroes.

Slidell: 263.

Smith, Baldwin, General: 308.

Smith, Caleb: 167, 202, 405.

Smith, Kirby, General: 339-42, 453.

South: original difference of character and interest between Northern
and Southern States becoming more marked concurrently with
growth of Union, 17-8, 36, 39-40, 43-5; slavery and Southern so-
ciety, 52-9; growing power of a Southern policy for slavery to
which the North generally is subservient, 91-2, 98-100, 117, 138-41;
rise of resistance to this, see Republican Party; causes of Seces-
sion and prevailing feeling in South about it, 170-88; history of
Secession and War, see Confederacy and War; Southern spirit in
the war, 216, 218-20; heroism of struggle, 397; memory of the
war a common inheritance to North and South, 455.
South Carolina: 26-7, 36, 44-6, 57-8, 173, 179-80, 182, 185-90, 200-1,
208, 253, 321, 386, 435.

Spain: 16, 26, 90, 211.

Speed, James: 405.

Speed, Joshua: 70, 81, 87, 116-8, 405, 440.

482

Weed, Thurlow, 193-4, 414, 443.
Weems' Life of Washington: 10.

Welles, Gideon: 202, 252-3, 263, 271, 406.

INDEX

Wellington: 377-

Wesley, Samuel: 35.

West, the: 7-9,27-8, 46, 61, 91, 93, 155, 224, 226, 303, 305. And see War.
West Indies, British: 29, 52.

West Point: 223, 390.

West Virginia: 225, 229, 243, 296, 334, 400.