Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln (60 page)

The Ruins
(Volney),
55

Rush, Benjamin,
52

Rutledge, Ann,
40
,
43
,
59
,
256

Rutledge, Edward,
164

Rutledge, John,
154–155

Sangamo Journal
,
3
,
60
,
65
,
68

Sangamon County,
48
,
50

Sangamon River,
47

Scott, Dred,
123–125

Scott, Winfield,
81
,
93
,
107
,
132
,
189
,
213

Scott v. Sandford
,
123–125
,
131
,
134
,
147
,
177
,
221

Second Bank of the United States,
49
,
68
,
70
,
94
,
96

Second Battle of Bull Run,
213

Second Republic,
84

Self-government,
149

Senate, US

     
committees,
262–263

     
race (1858),
119–138
,
148
,
173

Seven Days’ Battle,
213

Seward, William,
257–258
,
281
,
298

     
politics and,
144–145
,
172
,
175

     
reputation of,
144–145

     
as secretary of state,
181–184
,
192
,
198
,
218–219
,
254
,
264–265

Seymour, Horatio,
217

Shakespeare, William,
52
,
60
,
201

Sherman, Roger,
162
,
254
,
262
,
264–265
,
277
,
295

Sherman, William Tecumseh,
248–249

Shields, James,
81

     
duel with,
68–69
,
74

     
politics and,
120
,
128

Slavery,
146
,
290–291
,
298

     
abolishment of,
86–87

     
American West and,
116

     
Clay, Henry, and,
97–98

     
critics and issues regarding,
49–50

     
Declaration of Independence on,
116–118
,
125–126
,
135–136

     
disapprobation of,
136

     
end-dates for,
6

     
expansion of,
93–94
,
97–98
,
110
,
129–138
,
173–174

     
horrors of,
166

     
Kansas and,
127–128

     
Madison, James, on,
2–3
,
5
,
223

     
New Mexico and,
130
,
220

     
popular sovereignty and,
109–110
,
114–115
,
141–142
,
177

     
states and,
38

     
US and,
5–6

     
US Congress and,
123

     
US Constitution and,
8
,
49–50
,
116–118
,
135–137

     
during wartime,
221–224

     
See also
Kansas-Nebraska Act

Slaves,
49–50

     
freedom of,
3
,
37–38
,
100
,
249

     
fugitive,
117–118
,
222

     
labor of,
18

     
land and,
37–38

     
metropolis of,
38–39

     
trading of,
114
,
220

Smith, Caleb,
182
,
219

Smith, James,
106

South Carolina,
91
,
111
,
155
,
249

     
legislature,
185

     
secession of,
187

Sparks, Jared,
152

Speeches,
194

     
in Columbus,
165

     
“House Divided,”
129
,
172

     
Inaugural Address (1860),
189–192
,
197–198
,
206–207

     
“The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions,”
61–66

     
for Scott, Winfield, (Springfield),
107–108

     
Second Annual Message to Congress,
209

     
Second Inaugural Address (1865),
277–284
,
296

     
Special Message to Congress,
231–237
,
245

     
Temperance Address,
78–79
,
82

     
Trenton,
243

     
Young Men’s Lyceum,
3–4
,
8–9
,
13
,
61–66
,
87
,
244–245
,
255
,
281

     
See also
Emancipation Proclamation
;
Gettysburg Address

Speed, Fanny Henning,
73

Speed, James,
260

Speed, Joshua,
49

     
as friend,
228
,
259–260

     
recollections of,
72–73
,
245–246
,
259–260

Springfield, Illinois,
48
,
63
,
78–79
,
112
,
113–116

Stanton, Edwin,
140
,
197
,
205
,
219
,
249

States

     
border,
223–224

     
lynchings in,
4–5
,
62–63

     
secession of,
187
,
201
,
203
,
220

     
slavery and,
38

     
union and,
91
,
179
,
185
,
190
,
192
,
194
,
234

     
See also specific state

Stephens, Alexander,
7–8
,
82–83
,
93
,
219
,
281
,
299–300

     
consideration of,
185–187

     
”Corner-Stone” speech of,
192–197
,
233

     
as vice-president,
196
,
233
,
264–265
,
295

     
writings of,
210
,
230–231

Stone, Dan,
50
,
66
,
86

Strong, George Templeton,
203

Stuart, John,
40
,
71
,
101

     
politics and,
43–44
,
49
,
75
,
78
,
121

     
protégé of,
43
,
48
,
55
,
98

“The Suicide’s Soliloquy” (Lincoln, Abraham),
60

Sumner, Charles,
166–167
,
219
,
227
,
262–263
,
287

Supreme Court, US

     
decisions of,
122–125
,
147

     
justices of,
131

Swett, Leonard,
173–174
,
204

Swift, Jonathan,
58

Taney, Roger,
123–125
,
131
,
135
,
147
,
177
,
191
,
255
,
278

Tariffs,
96

Taylor, Zachary,
81
,
93–94
,
106

Tennessee,
203

Terrorism,
126

Texas

     
annexation of,
80
,
93

     
as state,
81
,
82–83
,
96–98

Thomas, Rebecca,
77
,
83
,
85
,
192
,
231
,
241
,
273

Thoreau, Henry David,
168
,
169

Tocqueville, Alexis de,
1–2

Toledo Blade
,
208

Toleration,
115

Trade embargoes,
157

Transcendentalist,
167

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo,
83
,
85

Treaty of Paris,
161

Trumbull, John,
156

Trumbull, Lyman,
120
,
121
,
128–129
,
148
,
153

Tyler, John,
71
,
80
,
184

Underground Railroad,
167

Union,
190
,
254–255
,
264–265

     
admission to,
18

     
advantages of,
211

     
Democrats and,
217

     
generalship,
213–214

     
interests of,
203

     
liberty and,
32–33

     
losses and,
212
,
257–259

     
preservation of,
209–216

     
reverence for,
84–85

     
states’ secession from,
187
,
201
,
203
,
220

     
US Constitution and,
230–231

     
victories,
214
,
238–240
,
285–296

Union Army,
239

United States (US)

     
election of 1861,
6

     
party system of,
6
,
45
,
70

     
slavery and,
5–6

Utah,
97
,
109
,
130

Vallandingham, Clement,
207–208

Van Buren, Martin,
62
,
69–71
,
93

Venus (slave),
34

Vicksburg,
238–239
,
247

Violence,
54

Virginia,
167
,
185
,
218
,
226
,
238
,
285–286
,
294

     
claim,
115–116

     
secession of,
203

     
war in,
211–213

Volney, Constantin de,
55

Voltaire,
55

Voting,
2
,
17–18
,
125

Wade, Benjamin,
216
,
219

War of 1812,
39–40
,
45
,
62
,
96
,
185

Ward, Artemus.
See
Browne, Charles Farrar