The era of the Civil War, 1848-1870, Part 47

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INDEX


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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INDEX


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


495


INDEX


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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