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Baptists, champion cause of freedom, 22.

"Barnburners," the, 82.

Barnwell, Senator, advocates secession, 89.

Bates, Edward, candidate for Presidential nomination , 191; attitude of on emancipation proclamation, 257.

Beauregard, Gen., leads attack on Fort Sumter, 235.

Beecher, Edward, 36.

Bell, John, nominated for President, 189; popular vote for , 194; 214.

Bennett, James Gordon, 141.

Berea College, beginnings of, 73; discriminated against by Kentucky educational law, 385.

Bernard, John, meets Washington, 1 ff.

"Biglow Papers," Lowell attacks slavery and war in, 77; 144; 254.

Birney, James G., 36; incidents in life of, 58 ff; political ideas of, 59; nominated for President, 74; views of on slavery question, 74; again nominated, 75.

Black, Jeremiah S., Attorney-General, 222; Secretary of State, 244; defends Johnson, 312.

"Black Codes" of 1865-6, 281 ff, 372.

Blaine, James G., in House, 284; proposes amend. to Stevens's reconstruction bill, 306; on debate of bill, 307; on negro suffrage, 310; leader in House, characterized, 331; speaks against Davis, reputation discredited, Presidential candidate, 346.

Blair, Francis P. , nominated for Vice-Presidency; defeated, 314.

Blair, Senator, of N. H., bill of for aid to local education on basis of existing illiteracy, 372, 404.

"Border Ruffians," the, 116, 118.

Border States, severity of war greatest in, 242; Lincoln's scheme for compensated emancipation in, 252; slave owners in alienated by emancipation proclamation, 261.

Bourne, George , denounces slavery, 37.

Boutwell, George S., governor of Mass., 92; in House, 284; House prosecutor of Johnson, 311.

Bowles, Samuel, 124; "Life and Times of," 124 note; gives opinion of Johnson imbroglio, 296.

Bradley, Joseph , on Hayes-Tilden commission, 349.

Breckinridge, John C., nominated for President, 188; scheme for electing, 189; popular vote for , 194; declines to repudiate secession, 194.

Bristow, Benjamin H., Presidential candidate, Sec'y of Treasury, 346, 347.

Brooks, John Graham, observations of on Virginia politics, 401.

Brooks, Preston S., assaults Sumner, 122; re-elected and honored, effect on North, 123.

Brown, B. Gratz, leads independent movement in Mo., 327; aspirant for Presidential nomination, 328.

Brown, John, sketch of, 119 ff; leads massacre in Kansas, 120; schemes for extinction of slavery, 159 ff; in Springfield, Mass., 159, 162; aided by leading anti-slavery men, 160; pen pictures of by Alcott and Emerson, 160; characterization of, 161 ff; makes raid on Harper's Ferry, 162; captured, 163; hanged, 164; honored as martyr, 164 ff; eulogized by Emerson, 165, 167; characterization of his acts and schemes, 166 ff.

Bruce, B. K., U. S. Senator, 336.

Bruce, R. C., of Miss., awarded class oratorship at Harvard, 407.

Buchanan, James, 72; Democratic Presidential candidate, characterized, 128; with Mason and Soul? issues Ostend manifesto, 128; administration of , 147; sends Gov. Walker to Kansas, 150; supports Lecompton constitution, 151; announces position on secession, 222; refuses aid to Ft. Moultrie, 224; cabinet, 224.

Burgess, J. W. , shows effects of John Brown's raid, 170; comments on laws governing negroes after war, 291.

Burns, Anthony, fugitive slave, 91.

Butler, Senator, from S. C., Sumner attacks in Congressional speech, 122.

Butler, Benjamin F., joins seceding Democratic convention , 188; candidate for governor of Mass., 192; declares fugitive slaves "contraband of war," 248; House prosecutor of Johnson, 311; in Congress, characterized, 331; labors for "force bill" , 345.

Butler, Fanny Kemble. See KEMBLE, FANNY.

Calhoun, John C., Vice-President, relations with Jackson, 30; defends right of nullification, 32; prophesies concerning relations between North and South, 34; becomes leader of South, 34, 44; characterization of, 47 ff; social theories of, 50; in Senate, opposes anti-slavery petitions, claims State control of mails, 72; in Tyler's cabinet, leader in Texas annexation, 75; returns to Senate, 76; politically isolated, 79; opposes war with Eng., 80; claims of for nationionalization of slavery, 80; last speech of, 86; his opinion of struggle bet. North and South, 87.

California, taken from Mexico, 79; admission as free State advocated, 88, 90; swift settlement of; applies for admission with slavery excluded, South opposes, 84; rejects Fifteenth amendment, 315.

Cameron, Simon, candidate for Presidential nomination; supports Lincoln, 190.

Carolinas, the , slavery foundation of aristocracy in, 6; number of slaves in in 1790, 9.

Carpenter, Frank, Lincoln's conversation with, 256.

"Carpet-baggers," the, 318, 336, 338.

Casey, F. F., in government of Louisiana, 341.

Cass, Lewis, nominated for President, 81; resigns from cabinet, 224.

Chamberlain, Daniel H., governor of So. Carolina, 332, 348.

Chandler, Zachariah, 270; sketch of, 283; as radical leader, 285; party leader, 331; chairman Republican national committee; disputes Tilden's election, 348.

Channing, William Ellery, plan of emancipation, 39; sketch of, attitude toward anti-slavery movement, 59 ff; treatise on Slavery, 62.

Chase, Salmon P., in "Free Soil" convention, 82; in Senate, 83; against extension of slavery, 90; in Lincoln's cabinet, 249; attitude of on emancipation proclamation, 257; becomes chief justice, 274; candidate for Presidential nomination, Lincoln's opinion of, services of in supreme court, 313.

Chestnutt, Charles W., 379; shows discrimination against negro suffrage, 384.

Child, Lydia Maria, 56; opinion of Channing, 63.

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