Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln (56 page)

Winthrop, Robert C.
Addresses and Speeches on Various Occasions
. Boston: Little, Brown, 1852.

Wood, Gordon S.
Empire of Liberty
. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.

The World’s Orators
. Guy Carlton Lee, ed. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1901.

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Abolitionists,
168

     
on lynchings,
65–66

     
newspapers and,
62–63

     
politics and,
49–50
,
101

Adams, Charles Francis,
181
,
227

Adams, Charles Francis, Jr.,
252
,
297

Adams, Henry,
214

Adams, John,
26
,
84
,
162
,
181
,
184

Adams, John Quincy,
26
,
45
,
84
,
181
,
227

Adams, Samuel,
52

Africa,
3

The Age of Reason
(Paine),
52
,
53
,
58
,
156

Agriculture,
95

Alabama,
187

Alexandria (Virginia),
212

Alien and Sedition Acts,
185

Allen, Ethan,
175–176

American Civil War,
5
,
201
,
285

     
duration of,
247

     
proclamations during,
201
,
289–290

     
See also
Confederacy
;
Union

American Colonization Society,
100
,
220

American Party,
121–122
,
172

American Revolution,
118

     
heroes and veterans of,
13–14
,
25–26

     
veterans of,
13–14

American West,
116

The American Crisis
(Paine),
52

Anaconda plan,
211
,
214
,
239
,
248

Argument from design,
30

Aristotle,
61

Arizona,
83
,
220

Arkansas,
109
,
203

Armstrong, Jack,
39–40
,
43
,
139–140

Arnold, Benedict,
293

Artillery,
4

Atlanta,
254

Baker, Edward,
78–79
,
81
,
189–190
,
257
,
281

Baldwin, Abraham,
152–153

Bank of the United States,
95

Bates, Edward,
172
,
175
,
181
,
219
,
258

Battle of Buena Vista,
81

Battle of Cerro Gordo,
81

Battle of Gettysburg,
8

Battle of New Orleans,
45
,
185
,
212

Battle of Shiloh,
215

Battle of Trenton,
30–34
,
52
,
202
,
212
,
230
,
243

Bayne, Julia Taft,
270

“The Bear Hunt” (Lincoln, Abraham),
60

Bedell, Grace,
179
,
206

Beecher, Henry Ward,
144

Beecher, Lyman,
78–79

Bell, John,
177
,
179

Benjamin, Judah,
252

Bible
,
9
,
53–56
,
117–118
,
126
,
195

     
content of,
269–270

     
Proverbs of,
230

     
reading of,
269–270

Bixby, Lydia,
258
,
265

Black Hawk,
39

Black Hawk War,
39–40

Blacks,
39
,
249–250
,
288

     
equality for,
133–134

     
free,
38
,
221

     
as inferior race,
124

     
suffrage and,
70

     
See also
Negroes

Blair, Francis, Jr.,
182
,
221
,
265

Blair, Francis, Sr.,
182
,
221
,
263–264

Blair, Montgomery,
182
,
211
,
226
,
254–255
,
298

Booth, Edwin,
291–292

Booth, John Wilkes,
291–296

Boritt, Gabor,
70

Brady, Mathew,
205–206

Breckinridge, John,
177
,
179

British Empire,
86–88

Brooks, Noah,
258–259

Brooks, Preston,
166–167
,
281

Brown, Christopher,
175

Brown, John,
167–170
,
186
,
191
,
196
,
230
,
281
,
293–295

Browne, Charles Farrar (Ward, Artemus),
225
,
245

Buchanan, James,
121–122
,
127
,
128–129
,
131–132
,
149
,
176

Buchaneers.
See
National Democrats

Bull Run,
212

     
See also
Second Battle of Bull Run

Burns, Robert,
59

Burnside, Ambrose,
213–214

Butler, Andrew,
166

Butler, Benjamin,
222

Byron, Lord,
59–60
,
63–64
,
261–262
,
274
,
291

California,
83
,
96–98
,
106–107
,
187

Cameron, James,
257

Cameron, Simon (Great Winnebago Chieftain),
173
,
175
,
182
,
205
,
218
,
251
,
257

Camillus,
25

Campbell, John,
286

Canaan,
195

Canada,
3

Canal-building,
46–49

Capitol, US,
83

Careers,
3–5
,
8

     
congressman (1847),
81–87

     
general store partner,
40
,
44

     
law,
37
,
39
,
43
,
48
,
75–78
,
139–140

     
military service,
39–40

     
postmaster,
40
,
41

     
riverboat,
38–39

     
store clerk,
39

     
surveyor,
40

     
See also
Politics

Caribbean,
130
,
230

Carpenter, Francis,
298

Carroll, Charles,
1–2
,
5
,
17
,
47

Cartwright, Peter,
56
,
79

Cass, Lewis,
93–94

Central America,
130
,
210
,
221
,
298

Chancellorsville, debacle of,
238

“The Character of George Washington,”
178

Chase, Salmon Portland,
172–173
,
250–251
,
255
,
278

     
allies of,
219
,
287
,
298

     
as cabinet secretary,
182
,
183
,
218

Chesnut, Mary,
198
,
239
,
277

Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
(Byron),
63–64

Chiriqui coast,
221
,
288

Christianity,
51–53
,
56–57
,
106

Clay, Henry,
45
,
113
,
149
,
196
,
263

     
American System and,
94–96

     
death of,
98–101
,
105
,
117
,
231

     
eulogy for,
99–101
,
117
,
189
,
242

     
narrative of,
90

     
politics and,
80–81
,
89–94

     
slavery and,
97–98

Clay, John (Henry Clay’s son),
230–231

Clay, Lucretia (Henry Clay’s wife/widow),
231
,
241
,
273

Cleveland Plain Dealer
,
225

Clinton, Bill,
205

Clinton, DeWitt,
47–48

Coal,
221

Cole, Thomas,
280–281

Coles, Edward,
37–38
,
159–162
,
223

Colonization,
126
,
221

Common Sense
(Paine),
52

Compromise of 1850,
99
,
108

Confederacy,
198
,
212

     
capital of,
211
,
286

     
collapse and surrender of,
285–291
,
293
,
295

     
constitution of,
232

     
Declaration of Independence and,
232–233

     
end of,
264–265
,
293

     
losses of,
215–216
,
248
,
285–286

     
subculture of,
210–211

Confederate Congress,
193

Confederate Constitution,
193–194

Confiscation Act, second,
226

Confiscation Act of 1861,
223

Congress, US,
45
,
206–207
,
298

     
houses of,
237

     
powers of,
50
,
146
,
226

     
sessions of,
207
,
231
,
298–299

     
slavery and,
123

Congress of the Articles of Confederation,
18
,
190

Constitution, US,
99–100
,
125

     
amendments to,
120
,
123
,
155
,
191
,
226
,
236–237
,
263
,
265
,
288–291
,
299

     
articles of,
49–50
,
91
,
209

     
on executive power,
204

     
habeas corpus and,
207–208

     
liberty and,
230–231

     
slavery and,
8
,
49–50
,
116–118
,
135–137

     
See also
Preamble to Constitution

Constitutional Convention (1787),
18
,
154–155
,
235
,
287

Continental Congress (1776),
162
,
164
,
190