Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln (57 page)

Cooke, Jay,
251

Corning, Erastus,
208

Crawford, Josiah,
27
,
33

Crawford, William,
45

Crittenden, John,
210

Cuba,
210
,
298

Curry, John Steuart,
168

Curtis, Benjamin,
125

Custis, Daniel Parke,
27

Custis, George Washington Parke,
83–84

Davis, David,
175

Davis, Jefferson,
165
,
193
,
214
,
222
,
233
,
263–264
,
286

Dayton, William,
122

Decatur, Stephen,
68–69

Declaration of Independence,
101
,
267

     
Confederacy and,
232–233

     
Jefferson and,
162–167
,
239

     
Lincoln, Abraham, and,
230–231
,
242–243

     
self-evident truths in,
6–8
,
164

     
signers of,
1–2
,
89

     
on slavery,
116–118
,
125–126
,
135–136

The Declaration of Independence
(Trumbull, John),
156

Delany, Martin,
288

Delaware,
223–224
,
255

Democracy,
2
,
5
,
17

Democratic convention (1864),
253–254

Democratic Party,
2
,
45
,
95
,
217

     
banks and,
70

     
convention of,
176–179

     
Illinois,
128–138

     
slavery and,
98

     
Whigs and,
46–49
,
69–71
,
78–84

Dickens, Charles,
159

District of Columbia,
50
,
97

“The Dividing Line Between Federal and Local Authority: Popular Sovereignty in the Territories,”
142

Don Juan
(Byron),
261–262

Donald, David Herbert,
175

Douglas, Stephen,
7
,
45
,
70
,
98
,
217

     
characteristics of,
108

     
politics and,
108–110
,
114
,
123
,
128–138
,
141–142
,
176–180

     
speeches of,
107–108
,
124–125
,
145
,
165

     
See also
Lincoln-Douglas debates

Douglass, Frederick,
133
,
167

Eighth Judicial Circuit of Illinois,
75

Election of 1824,
45

Election of 1864,
250–255

Elements of Geometry
(Euclid),
76–77

Elements of Military Art and Science
(Halleck),
214

Elliot’s Debates
,
152
,
227

Ellsworth, Elmer,
212
,
257
,
281

Emancipation Proclamation,
224–228
,
237–238
,
249
,
263
,
271
,
289
,
300

Erie Canal,
46–47

Euclid,
76–77
,
100

Eulogies

     
Clay, Henry,
99–101
,
117
,
189
,
242

     
Taylor, Zachary,
106

Everett, Edward,
178
,
188
,
240–241
,
243

Father of his country (
pater patriae
),
25–28
,
33–34
,
44
,
46
,
140
,
146
,
184
,
267

Fawkes, Guy,
169

Federalist
(Hamilton, Alexander; Jay, John; Madison, James),
209–210

Federalist Party,
45
,
90
,
96
,
185

Fillmore, Millard,
107
,
122
,
185

Florida,
187

Ford’s Theater,
294

Fort Monroe,
222

Fort Pickens,
197

Fort Stedman,
285

Fort Sumter,
197–198
,
281

Founding fathers,
6–9
,
90
,
270
,
281–282

     
legacy of,
3–5
,
115–118
,
135–137

     
as “natural” aristocrats,
44

     
political institutions and,
64–65

     
presidential election of 1860 and,
142–148
,
154

     
principles of,
229

France,
84

Frankfort Commonwealth
,
276

Franklin, Benjamin,
26
,
95
,
147
,
155–156
,
160–163

Fredericksburg, debacle of,
218
,
238

Free Men,
122

Free Soil Party,
93–94
,
98
,
121–122
,
173

Freedom,
7
,
243–244

Freeport,
132
,
134

Frelinghuysen, Theodore,
93

Frémont, John C.,
122
,
180
,
222–223
,
251
,
255

French Revolution,
126
,
262

Galesburg,
137

Garrison, William Lloyd,
49
,
99–100

Generosity, lessons about,
28–29

Gentry, Allen,
39

George III,
138
,
163

Georgia,
155
,
193
,
232–233

German Americans,
172

Gettysburg,
238–240
,
247

Gettysburg Address,
241–246
,
256
,
261
,
280

God,
117
,
143
,
163–164
,
191–192

     
divine will and,
273–276

     
experience with,
268–269

     
the Father,
8
,
24
,
267–270
,
282–284
,
296

     
lessons about,
29–30
,
55
,
59
,
74

     
purpose of,
271
,
276–277

     
writing and,
271

Goodwin, Doris Kearns,
184

Gordon, Nathaniel,
220–221
,
280

Grant, Ulysses,
179
,
298

     
in command,
248–249
,
264
,
277–278

     
victories of,
215
,
238
,
248
,
262–263
,
286

Great Britain,
39

Great Lakes,
46–47

Great Winnebago Chieftain.
See
Cameron, Simon

Greeley, Horace,
128
,
148
,
172
,
224–225

Grigsby, Aaron,
23

Grigsby, Sarah,
15
,
16
,
23
,
41
,
59
,
256

Guerrilla war,
126

Gulliver’s Travels
(Swift),
58

Gurney, Eliza (Kirkbride, Eliza),
261
,
272–276
,
283

Gurney, Joseph,
271–272

Hahn, Michael,
290

Haiti,
220

Halleck, Henry,
214

Hamilton, Alexander,
26
,
158
,
233

     
death of,
96

     
duels of,
68

     
politics and,
45
,
85
,
95–96
,
147
,
184

Hamilton, Eliza,
83

Hamlin, Hannibal,
181
,
252

Hampton Roads Conference,
264–265

Hanks, Dennis (Lincoln’s cousin),
14–15
,
21

Hanks, John (Lincoln’s cousin),
21
,
39

Hanks, Lucey (Lincoln’s maternal grandmother),
34–35

Hanks, Nancy.
See
Lincoln, Nancy

Hardin, John,
78–79
,
81

Harpers Ferry,
167

Harper’s Magazine
,
141–142
,
145

Harrison, William Henry,
69
,
71
,
93
,
106
,
174

Hay, John,
181–184
,
204
,
258
,
271

Helm, Emilie,
258

Hemings, Sally,
34
,
159

Henning, Fanny.
See
Speed, Fanny Henning

Henry, Patrick,
226–227
,
294

Henry V
(Shakespeare),
52

Herndon, William,
121
,
301

     
as friend,
48
,
188
,
257

     
as law partner,
34–35
,
42
,
75–78

     
recollections of,
79
,
106–107
,
157–158

Hill, Samuel,
56

History, living,
13–14
,
35
,
64

Hobbes, Thomas,
77

Hodges, Albert G.,
276–277
,
280

Holmes, John,
161
,
194

“Holy Willie’s Prayer” (Burns),
59

Honesty,
28–29
,
33

Hooker, Joseph,
213–215

Houdon, Jean-Antoine,
83

House of Representatives, US,
49–50
,
108

Hunter, Robert,
289

Illinois,
75
,
78–79
,
112
,
113–116
,
149
,
174

     
capitol of,
48

     
central,
23
,
46

     
Democratic Party of,
128–138

     
legislature,
120–121
,
128

     
lynchings in,
4–5
,
62–63
,
65

     
militia of,
39

     
northwestern,
3

     
politics in,
44–50
,
69–71

     
Republican Party of,
129
,
166
,
174–175

     
rivers of,
47–49

     
state of,
37–38
,
44

     
“the System” in,
47–49
,
71

     
See also
Young Men’s Lyceum

Illinois election of 1854,
120–121

Illinois House of Representatives,
43
,
61