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Lawrence, 12 Lawrence county, 368 League of Universal Brotherhood, see religion
Lebanon, 201, 225 Lebanon College, see education
Lecompton constitution, 157-180 Lee county, 102, 457
Lee, Robert E., 289, 390 Leib, Charles, 166
- Lemen, James, 246 -
Lexington, 4230 Liberty, 21In Libraries, see education Lima, 423
Lincoln, 2110
Lincoln, Abraham, 57, 101, 121, 1370, 181, 182, 219, 285, 288, 388n, 389, 398, 399, 421-422, 423, 439 ; answered Douglas 1854, 133; attended anti- Nebraska convention 1856, 143-144; attitude toward slavery and the war, 291-295; called for volunteers, 260, 261; debated with Douglas, 169-173, 197; defeated for senate 1858, 161, 163-180; difficulty of position, 290; disagreement with Fremont, 265, 291- 292, 318; effect of assassination of, 390-391; effect of election of, 253, 254, 333 ; emancipation proclamations, 296, 298, 300, 301, 313, 335; German vote in election of, 341-342; inaugu- ral address of, 259; misunderstanding between Illinois republicans and, 263-266, 290, 292-293, 297-298; of- fered governorship of Oregon, 64n; opinion of, on Dred Scott decision, 154-155, 156; policy of regarding se- cession, 255-256, 257-258, 259; policy toward disloyalists, 302-303; presi- dential campaign 1860, 91, 185-201, 229, 361; reconstruction policy of, 392-393, 397; reelected 1864, 312-329; refused alignment with republican party 1854, 128-129, 135; religious views of, 426-427; revoked suppres- sion of Chicago Times, 304; ridiculed Cass, 58; senatorial aspirant 1854, 134-135; signed land grant bill for colleges, 245; spoke at Bloomington convention 1856, 145, 146; supported Fremont 1856, 147, 149; Taylor sup- ported, 56, 60; Yates demanded credit for Illinois army from, 277
Lincoln-Douglas debates, 168-173, 185 Lincoln Rifles, 281
Lind, Jenny, 442
Lind, University, see education
Lippincott, General Charles E., 396, 411
Literature, 439-440; periodicals, 448- 449 Livermore, Mary A., 427, 428
Liverpool (England), 28
Livingston county, 18, 381 Lockport, 29
Logan county, 175, 230
Logan, General John A., 45, 296, 297, 328, 397; approved Johnson's im- peachment, 409; author of black laws of 1855, 336n; congressional candi- date 1868, 44; elected to congress, 1866, 396, 399-403; in presidential campaign 1860; 200-201; joined army, 262, 279; made general, 287; nominated Grant 1868, 410; opposed Trumbull, 404; supported Lincoln 1864, 327; supported secession, 260, 26In, 262, 302
Logan, Mrs. John A., 401, 402
Logan, Stephen T., 57, 191, 258, 298 Lombard College, see education
London (England), 3, 21
Long, Annie, 335 Lord, Amasa, 251
Loss, L. H., 223 Louisiana, 18, 288, 289, 380
Louisville (Ky.), 284, 298, 438
Lovejoy, Owen, abolitionist, 133, 218, 270; at republican convention, 128,
129; attended Bloomington conven- tion 1856, 146; "barnburner," 59; congressman 1856, 150, 175; sup- ported Fremont 1856, 147
Lowe, Samuel J., 59
Lutherans, 24, 26, 237, 245, 247 Lyons, Nathaniel, 285
Mabies' Grand Olympic Arena, E. F., and J., 438
Macalister and Stebbins bonds, 92
Macomb, 28, 210
Macoupin, 2330
Macoupin county, 145
Madeira Island, 19
Madison county, 148, 149, 175, 176, 212, 374 Maher, Hugh, 196
Maine, 194, 195, 285
Maine law, 204, 207-209 Malcolm, Howard, 238
Maloney, Richard S., 73
Manly, Uri, 88 Manny, J. H., 79
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Manufactures, growth of, 364-367; railroads stimulate, 50
Marion, 260, 400, 401
Marmaduke, Vincent, 311
Marshall, Samuel S., 131, 298, 299
Mason and Dixon line, 185
Mason county, 175, 408
Mason, J., 247 Masonic order, see clubs
Massac county, 273, 2790, 302
Massachusetts, 40, 147, 16In, 186, 194, 282, 289, 338
Matteson, Joel A., 44, 92, 96 ; candidate for United States senate, 134-135; governor 1852, 45, 98, 102-103, 104, 112, 177, 232
Mattoon, 51, 177, 286, 308, 399
Mayo, E. L., 130
McCarthy, Owen, 161
McChesney, J. H., 432n
McClellan, General George B., 322- 323, 324, 326, 327, 328
McClernand, General John A., 38, 45, 398; adhered to democratic party, 143; advice to French, 65-66; atti- tude toward Kansas-Nebraska act, 126; commissioned general, 263, 285; congressman, 57, 182; debated with Douglas, 132-133; joined army, 262, 279; opinion on secession, 256; pre- sented Douglas' plan, 67; resigned commission, 287, 288 ; senatorial can- didate, 63; supported Mcclellan, 327 McClun, John L., 129 McConnell, James, 84
McCormick, Cyrus H., 79, 223n, 328, 365, 370, 425
McCormick Theological Seminary, see education
McCorrisk, Father, 21In
McHenry county, 376
McKendree College, see education
McLean county, 87, 373
McLean, John, 146, 153, 154
McMasters, S. Y., 122 McMurty, William, 55
McVicker, James H., 441 Mebrille, L. F., 135n
Mechanics' Institute, see education
Medical Society, State, see State Med- ical Society
Medill, Joseph, 314n, 410, 418n, 456 Memphis (Tenn.), 285, 286, 287, 303 Menard county, 442
Menard, Pierre, 56
Mendelssohn society, see music
Mendon, 14
Mendota, 41, 43, 380
Mercer county, 20
Merchants' Grain Forwarding Asso- ciation, 76
Meredosia, 33
Meredosia railroad, Springfield and, see transportation
Mersy, Augustus, 280
Methodist Conference, Central Illinois, see religion
Methodists, 423, 424; abolition, slavery, and, 220, 224; Negro, 337; schools of, 237, 239n; strength of, 245-246, 249, 250; Swedish, 340
Metropolis, 21on
Mexican War, 55, 56, 57, 62, 86, 101, 178, 286
Mexico, 83, 178, 184, 308
Michigan, 128, 142, 147, 316, 350, 435 Michigan Central, see transportation
Michigan City, 167
Michigan, Lake, 5, 37, 42, 109, 350, 437 Milford, 21In
Military Tract railroad, Central, see transportation
Militia, reorganization of, 1861, 258- 259, 273
Miller, James, 92, 129, 163
Milliken, Isaac L., 132
Milwaukee (Wis.), 247, 446
Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad, see transportation
Milwaukee railroad, Chicago and, see transportation
Mining, growth of, 368; railroads stim- ulate, 32, 50 Minnesota, 52, 194, 263, 340, 348, 357 Mission societies, see religion
Missionary association, American, see religion
Mississippi, 38, 289, 401
Mississippi railroad, Atlantic and, see transportation
Mississippi Railroad Company, Chi- cago and, see transportation
Mississippi railroad, Ohio and, see transportation
Mississippi river, 1, 5, 7, 12, 13, 15, 16, 29, 30, 32, 33, 34, 37, 41, 42, 51, 52, 65, 66, 109, 148, 204, 246, 263, 264, 284, 286, 288, 289, 330, 334, 350, 351, 352, 354, 355, 356, 357, 373, 379, 409, 427, 437
Missouri, 11, 52, 82, 83, 98, 99, 106, 147, 164, 189, 199, 228, 292, 307, 310,
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332, 333, 360, 366, 411 ; Illinois troops in, 271, 274, 276, 280, 285; presiden- tial vote 1860, 194; secession strength in, 263, 264, 266, 285, 330-331
Missouri Compromise, 64; repeal of,
113, 116, 119, 120, 122, 123, 127, 134, 139, 144
Missouri river, 65, 113
Mitchell, John, 438
Mobile (Ala.), 324
Mobile railroad, Chicago and, see transportation
Moline, 20
Monmouth, 414
Monroe county, 148
Montgomery county, 307, 398
Moore, Jesse H., 422
Moore, John, 73, 133
Morgan county, 69, 83, 126, 128, 175, 281, 376, 383, 442
Morgan, James D., 327
Morgan railroad, Sangamon and, see transportation
Mormons, 18, 60, 426
Morrill, Justin S., 244
Morrill land grant act, 383, 431, 432
Morris, 3, 356
Morris, Buckner S., 72n, 149, 150, 176, 196, 311
Morris, Colonel Isaac N., 256, 296, 414 Morrison, A. L., 344
Morrison, Colonel James Lowery Don- aldson, "Don," 45, 46, 56, 105, 149, 196
Morrison, Colonel William R., 30on
Moses, Adolph, 414
Moses, John, 143
Moulton, Samuel W., 336n
Moultrie county, 411
Mound City, 8, 227
Mt. Carmel railroad, Alton and, see transportation
Mulkey, John H., 302, 309
Mulligan, James A., 281
Murfreesboro, 287
Murray, Bronson, 243n
Music, Chicago Academy of Music, 444n; Chicago Musical Union, 443 ; Chicago Philharmonic Society, 443, 444; growth of appreciation for, 440- 444; Mendelssohn society, 443; North American Sängerbund, 444; Orato- rio Society, 444; Orchestral Union, 443 ; Union Musical Association, 442
Naples, 43
Nashville (Tenn.), 284
Nathan's Circus, Welch, Delavan, and, 438
National Agricultural Society, see ag- riculture
National Association of Baseball Play- ers of the Northwest, see amuse- ments
National Baseball Player's Association, see amusements
National Educational Society, see edu- cation
National Labor Union, see labor
"National Reform" Association of Chi- cago, 91
National Union party, see politics
National Watch Company, 366
Native American movement, see poli- tics
Natural History Society, Illinois, see education
Nauvoo, 18, 19, 375, 4.26
Nebraska, 361 ; immigration into, 9-12, 348; Kansas-Nebraska act and, 113- 124
Nebraska Colonization Company, see emigration
Negroes, Chicago Literary Society, 227; Colored National Convention, 227; enlistment among, 281-282 ; influx of, 333-338 ; laws concerning, 71, 74, 225- 229, 268, 270, 271, 299, 335, 387, 388, 412, 417-418; number of 1860, 225; political rights of, 337, 388. See slavery
New England, 11, 13-15, 96, 105, 189, 199, 204, 205, 209, 218, 230, 234, 235, 238, 247, 310, 316, 323, 338, 364, 366n, 409, 449
New England societies, see clubs
New Jersey, 192
New Mexico, 64, 66, 68, 70, 116
New Orleans (La.), 49, 77, 285, 289
Newspapers, 20In; attitude of, toward
Kansas-Nebraska act, 119-121, 123, 143-144; Chicago, 6; development of, 449-458 ; fight for freedom of press, 1862-1863, 301, 303-305 ; German, 26; influence of editors in senatorial elec- tion 1858, 175-176; Nauvoo, 18; Norwegian, 19; Swedish, 20, 340; temperance, 205
New York, 14, 58, 89, 93, 95, 96, 105, 147, 189, 205, 213, 252, 275, 316, 322, 323, 339, 411, 440, 444
Naperville, 28, 97
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New York and Erie railroad, see trans- portation
New York City, 6, 15, 16, 42, 47, 49, 81, 83, 91, 178, 213, 246, 338, 339,
344, 349, 350, 352, 359, 364, 369, 376, 410, 451
Niagara (N. Y.), 320
Niagara Falls, 356
Nicholson letter, 117
Nicolay, John G., 156
Noble, Harrison, 371
Normal, 42
Normal University, see education
North American Sängerbund, see music North Carolina, 15, 105
Northern Cross railroad, see trans- portation
Northern Illinois Agricultural College, see education
Northern Pacific railroad, see trans- portation
Northumberland Farmers' Club of Eng- land, Durham and, see agriculture
Northwestern Agricultural Society, see agriculture
Northwestern Biblical Institute, see ed- ucation
Northwestern Chinese Sugar Manufac- turing Company, 380
Northwestern Christian Antislavery Convention, see religion
Northwestern Fair, 283
Northwestern Freedman's Aid Commis- sion, see immigration
Northwestern Fruit Growers' Associa- tion, see agriculture
Northwestern Manufacturing Compa- ny, 371
Northwestern Pomological Association, see agriculture
Northwestern railroad, Chicago and, see transportation
Northwestern Sabbath Convention, see religion
Northwestern University, see education Norton, Jesse O., 150, 175, 219, 403 ; congressman, 111, 130, 137; opposed Kansas-Nebraska act, 118
Norway, 19 Norwegians, see Scandinavians
O'Brien, W. W., 411 Odd Fellows, see clubs Odell, 18 Ogden, Mahlon D., 59
Ogden, William B., 40 Ogle county, 22
Oglesby, General Richard J., 288, 346, 403, 433 ; called special sessions, 407 ; governor 1864, 328, 339, 349, 371, 377, 381, 387, 405, 409, 415, 426, 433 ; opinion on reorganizing militia, 273 ; opposed Trumbull, 404; Palmer suc- ceeded as governor, 414
O'Hair, John, 308
Ohio, 14, 15, 93, 94, 133, 141, 146, 185, 186, 194, 200, 257, 263, 296, 322, 326, 366, 376, 410, 411, 453
Ohio and Mississippi railroad, see transportation
Ohio river, 7, 13, 30, 65, 263
Oliver, A. R., 341
Olmstead, C. E., 381
Olney, 305
Omaha (Neb.), 361
Omelveny, Harvey K. S., 121, 268, 298 Ontario, Lake, 30
Oquawka railroad, Peoria and, see transportation
Oratorio Society, see music
Orchestral Union, see music
Order of American Knights, Illinois, see politics
O'Reagan, Bishop Anthony, 248
Oregon, 64, 348, 365, 453
Orphans' Home, Illinois Soldiers', see Civil War
Osgood, Uri, 121, 134
Osman, Moses, 454
Osman, William, 454
Ottawa, 8, 28, 29, 41, 69, 79, 150, 221, 2430, 254, 258, 340, 37In, 380, 398, 447; anti-Nebraska meetings in, 122, 128; antislavery convention at, 223; enlistment in, 281; free soil conven- tion at, 59; growth of, 18, 366-367; know nothing movement in, 137; Lincoln-Douglas debate at, 169, 170; schools in, 236; slave rescue case in, 182, 229; temperance movement in, 206-207, 210, 21In
Overland trail, 9
Oxford University, 240
Pacific railroad, Chicago, Rock Island, and, see transportation Palestine, 248
Palmer, General John M., 232, 302; anti-Nebraska democrat, 134, 1440; attended Bloomington convention, 145 ; attitude toward Kansas-Nebras- ka act, 121, 126; bills vetoed by, 1869, 416; campaigned for Lincoln 1860,
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191, 199; commissioned general, 285; debates with Douglas, 132-133; de- feated for congress, 182; governor 1868, 337, 359, 411, 414, 428 ; Illinois commander of G. A. R., 397; in- augural speech of, 414-415; not com- missioned general, 263-264; opinion of Grant, 287; opinion of Lincoln, 313; opposed Trumbull, 404-405; supported Fremont 1856, 148
Pana, 314, 360, 399
Paris, 221, 307
Paris (France), 79, 339, 383
Parkman, Dr., 451
Parks, Gavion D. A., 403
Pasedeloup, Francis, 34In
Patrons of Husbandry, see agriculture
Patti, Adelina, 442
Paxton, 340
Peck, Ebenezer, 108
Peck, Ira L., 242
Peck, John Mason, 23, 122, 241, 246
Pekin, 1, 5, 28, 123, 127, 309, 360
Pendleton, George H., 322, 328n, 364, 410, 411
Peninsular campaign, 288
Pennsylvania, 14, 60, 192, 194, 200, 264, 364, 409, 440
Peoria, 28, 30, 52, 79, 81, 84, 85, 148, 177, 2000, 248, 256, 289n, 296, 321, 3440, 375, 399, 411, 423, 434; growth of, 1, 5, 7, 23, 351, 366
Peoria and Oquawka railroad, see transportation
Peoria county, 267, 408
Perry county, 81, 148, 419
Peru, 8, Ion, 23, 28, 29
Peru and Rock Island railroad, see transportation
Petersburg, 236
Philadelphia (Pa.), 15, 139, 146-147, 149, 185, 399, 425
Phillips, David L., 395
Phillips, Colonel Jesse J., 398
Phillips, L. D., 80
Phillips, Wendell, 319, 439
Piatt county, 383
Piccolomini, Marietta, 442
Pickering, William H., 47
Pierce, Franklin, 101; consents to Kan- sas-Nebraska proposal, 117; presi- dent 1852, 107, 109-110, 112
Pike county, 360
Pike's Peak, 12 Pitman, James M., 426
Pittsburg (Pa.), 146
Pittsburg Landing (Tenn.), 284, 286- 287
Pittsfield, 28 Plano, 21In, 426 Poles, 341. See population
Politics, abolition movement, 136, 139,
147, 218-220, 235, 239, 246, 291-310; acts and influence of copperheads, 296, 302-303, 305-310, 332; Ancient Order of American Knights, 310; and religion, 423 ; compromise agita- tion of 1850, 63-74; congressional elections: 1852, 108-109; 1854, 129- 135, 137; 1856, 150; 1862, 296-298; 1866, 396, 398-403; constitutional or national union party, 195; death of Lincoln and attitude toward Johnson, 390-403 ; democratic party: candi- dates and platform 1848, 53-55, 57; defeated in congressional elections 1854, 129-135, 137; Nebraska issue and, 125-127; organization 1864, 320- 323, 324-328 ; strength in constitu- tional convention 1862, 266-269; tem- perance causes break in, 208; victo- ries, 1862-1863, 296-301, 312 ; view of secession, 256-257, 258-259; finance and, 93-96, 103; free soil party, 59- 64, 70, 73, 110, III, 218-219; growth of labor power and, 370-372; guber- natorial elections: 1852, 102-105; 1856, 143-146, 151-152; 1860, 190, 196; 1864, 387; 1868, 411-414; Illi- nois Order of American Knights, 321; influence of foreign vote, 25-26, 341-348; Kansas-Nebraska act and, 113-124; Knights of the Golden Cir- cle, 308-310; know nothing party, 136-141, 149, 444; land reform and, 89-91; Lecompton constitution and senatorial election of 1858, 153-180; legislative session 1867, 405-407; legislative session 1869, 415-418; na- tive American movement, 136, 137, 138, 139; Negro vote, 337; news- papers for, 452-458 ; party organiza- tion 1855, 141-143 ; presidential elec- tions: 1848, 57-61; 1852, 102, 105- 108, 109-110; 1856, 146-151; 1860, 183-189, 191-201; 1864, 312-329; 1868, 408-414; reconstruction, 318- 319, 325; republican party: disinte- gration of, 418-419; effect of Negro importations on, 334-336; formed from anti-Nebraska forces, 127-129, 141; friction in, 312-320, 323; in- spired by war victories 1864, 324- 329; misunderstanding between Lin- coln and, 264-266, 290, 292-293, 297- 298, 312, 314; offered new constitu-
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tion, 268-272; supported war, 262; view of secession, 254-256, 257; sen- atorial election 1867, 404-405; Sons of Liberty, 310; Union League, 309- 310, 396, 403; whig party; candi- dates and platform 1848, 53, 55-56, 57; decline of, 101, 111, 112-113, 135, 140; Kansas-Nebraska act and, 127; "Wide awake " organization, 197- 198, 258; women's suffrage move- ment, 428-429
Polk, James K., 31, 53-54, 58, 64, 101 Pomological Association, Northwestern, see agriculture
Pool, O., 414 Pope county, 260
Pope, General John, 263, 286
Popular sovereignty, Dred Scott de- cision and, 153-154; in 1854, 113-
124; in Lincoln-Douglas debates, 155-180
Population, English, 21, 341; foreign born, 16-26, 338-344; French, 17-19; French Canadian, 17; German, 23- 26, 340-341 ; increase of, 1-2, 5-9, 12- 26; Irish, 21-23, 340-341; Italian, 341; Negro, 225; Polish, 341; Portu- guese, 19; Scandinavian, 19-20, 340- 341; Scotch, 341; southern white and Negro, 330-338
Portuguese, 19, 281, 341
Potawatomi, 436
Potomac, see army of
Powell, William H., 234, 241
Prairie Land and Emigration Com- pany, see immigration
Prentice, George D., 438
Prentiss, General Benjamin M., 262, 263, 285, 401
Presbyterians, 17, 425; abolition, sla- very, and, 220-222, 223, 224; strength of, 245, 246, 247, 249, 250
Price, Sterling, 292
Price, William, 159
Princeton, 210
Pruessing, Ernest, 317
Puget Sound, 36In Pulaski county, 341 Pulley, James D., 262n, 401 Putnam county, 128, 223, 244
Quarter, Bishop William, 248 Quimby, Judge, 414
Quincy, 5, 9, 11, 117, 218, 250, 258, 282, 375, 414, 426, 439, 446; churches in, 245, 248; congressional election 1854 in, 131; democratic victory in, 144;
education in, 236; growth of, 1, 8, 23, 351, 366; know nothing influence in, 137, 138n; land office closed at, 87; Lincoln-Douglas debate at, 169; Negroes in, 334, 336; support of Kansas-Nebraska act in, 127; public utilities in, 5; republican victory in municipal election, 182; temperance movement in, 207
Quincy College, see education
Quincy railroad, Chicago, Burlington, and, see transportation
Rafferty, Patrick, 347
Raith, Julius, 281
Randolph county, 148 Randolph, James W., 127
Rantoul, Robert, 40
Raum, Green B., 396
Ray, Dr. Charles H., 144, 393, 395, 499, 4170, 456
Raymond and Company's Mammoth Menagerie, 438
Reconstruction, see politics
Redman, Jackson, 226
Reformed Episcopal Church, 425
Reformed Presbyterians, 246
Religion, 3n; abolition, slavery, and the church, 220-225; activities, 248-252 ; American Baptist Free Union So- ciety, 222; American Bible Society, 250-251; American Board of Com- missioners for Foreign Missions, 222; American Home Missions So- ciety, 250; American Missionary As- sociation, 222, 250; American Tract Society, 222, 250, 251; campaign against secret societies, 445; Central Illinois Methodist Conference, 423, 424n ; Christian Antislavery Conven- tion, 223-224; Christian Union, 423 ; Congregational General Association, 445; during and after the war, 422- 427; Free Mission Society for the Northwest, 222; growth of churches, 245-248; Illinois Congregationalist associations, 223; Illinois Wesleyan Missionary conference, 222; League of Universal Brotherhood, 224; min- isters denounced Kansas-Nebraska act, 122; ministers formed company, 280; Negro churches, 337; North- western Biblical Institute, 250; sab- bath observance and churches, 214- 216; temperance and churches, 206, 211; United States Christian Com- mission, 283; Western Tract Con-
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vention, 222; Western Unitarian Conference, 220; women's rights movement and churches, 213. See education and various denominations Republican party, see politics
Reynolds, John, 45, 46, 69, 122, 321, 400; adhered to democratic party, 143; opposed Kansas-Nebraska act, 126, 162; opposed new constitution, 271; supported secession, 261
Reynolds, John P., corresponding sec- retary of State Agricultural Society, 379, 381, 383 Rhode Island, 282
Rice, John B., 371
Rice's Hippodrome, Dan, 438
Richardson, Colonel William A., atti- tude toward war, 296, 299, 300; con- gressman, 57, 131; defeated for gov- ernor 1856, 145, 149, 151; Douglas follower, 67, 90; managed Douglas campaign 1860, 188; senator, 298, 328; voted for Kansas-Nebraska bill, 117, 118
Richmond, James C., 247
Richmond (Va.), 277, 289, 320, 387, 389
Robinson, Charles, 147
Robinson, James C., 296, 299, 328 Rochester Mills, 82
Rockford, 11, 12, 20, 250, 340, 376, 447 ; anti-Nebraska meetings in, 122, 127; enlistment in, 281; growth of, 366, 367; railroad connections with, 33, 41, 48; republican convention in, 128; republican strength in, 151; republican victory in municipal elec- tion, 182; strength of know nothings in, 138n; temperance movement in, 207, 210; volunteers from, 277 Rockford, Rock Island and St. Louis railroad, see transportation
Rock Island, 1, 34, 41, 42, 52, 356
Rock Island and Chicago railroad, see transportation
Rock Island, and Pacific railroad, Chi- cago, see transportation
Rock Island, and St. Louis railroad, Rockford, see transportation Rock Island county, 334
Rock Island railroad, Chicago and, 349
Rock Island railroad, Peru and, see transportation Rock river, 354, 356
Rock River Conference, see Methodists Rock Spring, 122
Rockton, 5
Rockwell and Company's Mammoth
Circus, 438
Rodgers, the Reverend, 335n
Roe, Dr. Edward R., 196, 240, 241, 449
Rosecrans, General William S., 287, 288
Ross, Lewis W., 196
Roy, J. E., 237
Rugg, G. H., 79
Rush Medical College, see education
Rushville, 28
Russell, John, 292, 294, 449
Russia, 341
Rutherford, Reuben C., 243
Rutland, 13
Rutland (Vt.), 13
Ryan Guards, 281
Sabbath Convention, Southwestern Illi- nois, see religion
Safford, Dr. Mary J., 428
Salem, 34, 45, 79, 141
San Francisco (Cal.), 350, 361
Sangamon and Morgan railroad, see transportation
Sangamon county, 84, 105, 128, 175, 378 Sangamon County Agricultural Society, see agriculture
Sanitary Commission, United States, see Civil War
Savannah, 289n, 387
Sawyer, J. L., 374
Sawyer, S. S., 374
Scandinavian Aid Society, see immi- gration
Scandinavians, 150, 177, 247. See pop- ulation
Scanlon, J. F., 347
Scanlon, Michael, 344
Schlaeger, Edward, 123
Schmidt, Ernest, 317n
Schneider, George, 25, 26, 123, 144, 151, 342
Schröder, Dr. H., 375
Schurz, Carl, 177, 1920, 199, 342
Schuttler, Peter, 365
Scotch, 281, 341. See population
Scotch regiments, 281
Scott, General Winfield, 56, 107, 109- IIO
Scripps, John L., 455 Secession, 102; accomplished, 259;
Douglas tried to prevent, 199; Illi- nois' attitude toward, 260, 267; opin-
ions on, 253-258, 290, 2990, 302; threatened in 1849, 63-66, 102 Sedgwick, C., 59
Selby, Paul, 143, 453
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Seymour, Horatio, 147, 322, 411-413
Seward, William H., 110, 120, 16In,
182, 185-186, 189, 191, 192-194, 198, 298, 398
Shawneetown, 87, 14In, 360, 414, 450 Sheahan, James W., 161, 303, 455, 457 Sheean, David, 303, 321
Shelby county, 308n
Shenandoah river, 324
Sheridan, General Philip, 324, 327
Sherman, Francis C., 334
Sherman, General William T., 287, 288, 289, 324, 327, 387
Shields, General James, 34; attitude toward Kansas-Nebraska act, 126- 127; compromise vote of, 6z, 68; defeated for senate 1854, 134-135, 138; Fenian, 22; senator, 38, 39, 72, 62-63, 117
Shiloh (Tenn.), 287 Sigel, Franz, 280, 285
Singleton, General James W., 144, 149, 176, 268, 321; opinion on secession,
256; voted for Kansas-Nebraska bill, 127
Shurtleff College, see education
Slade, William, ex-governor of Ver- mont, 235
Slavery, abolition movement and, 209, 219-225; abolition of, in District of Columbia, 294; and the church, 246, 247; constitutional amendments con- cerning, 325, 337, 388; constitutional rights of, 313; emancipation move- ment, 290-298, 423; emancipation proclamation, 296, 298, 300, 301, 313, 335; founding of republican party and, 125-152; Fremont's proclama- tion, 264-265, 342; influence of, on politics 1848-1852, 53-74; issue of, in Dred Scott decision and Lincoln- Douglas debates, 153-180; issue of, in presidential election 1860, 182- 201; Kansas-Nebraska act and, 113- 124; newspapers and, 455-456; ques- tion of, in Kansas, 11. See Negroes and religion
Sloan, Walter, 449
Sloan's Central Commercial College, see education Smith, Caleb B., 193
Smith, General G. W., 396
Smith, George, 94, 99 Smith, Gerrit, 89, 147
Smith, Joseph, Jr., 426
Smith, Melancthon, 326 Smith, Robert, 57, 62n
Smith, William, congressman from Vir- ginia, 174
Smith, W. L. G., 448
Smithsonian Institution, 451
Snelling, Fort, 437
Société Française, see clubs
Soldiers' Orphans' Home, Illinois, sce Civil War
Soldiers' Relief Association, Illinois, sec Civil War
Sons of Liberty, see politics
Sons of Penn, see clubs
Sons of Temperance, 205-206, 444, 445 Sons of the Pilgrims, see clubs
South Butler (N. Y.), 213
South Carolina, 254, 318n
South Chicago, 337
Southern Illinois Fruit Growers' Asso- ciation, see agriculture
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