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Abolitionists, 51, 61, 63, 68–69, 71–72, 82, 83, 95, 96
Adams, Abigail, 31
Adams, Henry, 114, 143, 144, 145
Adams, John, 31–32, 34–39, 45–46, 215–16, 218
Adams, John Quincy, xix, xxi, 1, 17, 25–26, 28–48, 83, 144, 168–69, 194, 196, 206, 209, 218, 219
Adams, Sam, 34
Alien and Sedition Laws, 37
Altgeld, John Peter, 213–14
Amendments to the Constitution:
Seventeenth, 166–67
Twentieth, 178
American Bar Association, 204
Ames, Adelbert, 147
Anthony, D. R., 125, 128
Armed Ship Bill, 176–86, 191
Arnold, Benedict, 69, 137
Arnold, Matthew, 143
Arthur, Chester Alan, 114
Ashurst, Henry, 8–9
Atchison, David R., 78, 83, 86, 87
Autrey, James, 146
Ballinger-Pinchot conservation dispute, 171, 195
Bank of the United States, 60, 79
Barkley, Alben, 202
Bell, John, 66
Benét, Stephen Vincent, 58
Benton, Thomas Hart, xix, 34, 51, 52, 55–56, 66, 75–92, 111, 152, 169, 194, 197, 206, 219
Beveridge, Albert, 13, 206
Blaine, James G., 128, 139, 141
Bland, Richard, 151
Bland Silver Bill, 153–57
Boston Advertiser, 141
Boston Courier, 70
Boston Globe, 141
Boston Massacre, 215–16
Bricker, John, 203
Brooks, Preston, 140
Bryan, William Jennings, 151
Bryant, William Cullen, 70
Buchanan, James, 34
Buchenwald concentration camp, 201
Burke, Edmund, 12, 160
Burlingame, Anson, 113
Burns, James McGregor, xxi
Burr, Aaron, 26, 137
Butler, Benjamin F., 120, 124, 130, 136, 147
Byrd, Harry, 13
Bystrom, John, xxi
Calhoun, John C., 34, 53–55, 61, 63, 66–68, 78, 82–86, 100, 144, 160, 212
Calhoun Resolutions of 1847, 82, 96–97
Cannon, Joseph, 170–73, 176
Canton (Miss.) Mail, 141
Carlyle, Thomas, xvii, 60
Cass, Lewis, 66, 79
Cate, Wirt A., 147
Chandler, W. E., 167
Charleston Mercury, 68
Chase, Salmon, 66
Chesapeake-Leopard encounter, 42
Churchill, Winston, 223
Civil Rights Bill of 1866, 117
Civil War, 51, 62, 111, 139, 146–47, 174, 208
Clark, Edward, 108
Clarksville Standard, 96
Clay, Henry, 1, 4–5, 34, 53, 57–58, 61–62, 66, 73, 74, 87–89, 168
Clay Compromise of 1833, 53
Clay Compromise of 1850, 55, 57–58, 74, 87–89, 93–94, 97, 220
Cleveland, Grover, 114
Cleveland Plain Dealer, 204
Columbus (Miss.) Democrat, 141
Commager, Henry Steele, 68
Congressional elections of 1946, 197
Constitutional Convention, 24
Corwin, Thomas, 74
Daiker, Virginia, xxi
Dallas Herald, 96
Dalzell, John, 170
Dante Alighieri, xvii
Davids, Jules, xxii
Davis, David, 113
Davis, Jefferson, 34, 66, 100, 137, 146, 158
Democratic party, 76–77, 93–96, 100, 103–4, 146, 148, 149, 151–53, 155, 161–62, 171–72, 187, 197, 199, 200–203, 207, 214
Dewey, Thomas E., 201–3
DeWitt, David Miller, 121
Dickinson, John, 24
District of Columbia, see Washington, D.C.
District of Columbia slave trade, 57, 61
Donovan, Jane, xxii
Douglas, Stephen A., 66, 73
Douglas, William O., 198
Embargo of 1807, 29, 43–44, 46
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 58, 66, 70, 73
Ex post facto laws, 198, 200
Federalist party, xxi, 24, 27, 30, 31, 35, 36–47, 211
Federalist Repertory, 42
Fessenden, William P., 132–34
Filibustering, 178–80
Fillmore, Millard, 74
Fire-eaters, see Southern fire-eaters
Fishbourne, Benjamin, 25
Foote, Henry, 89, 145
Forum (magazine), 128
Founding fathers, 23
Fowler, Joseph Smith, 136
Fox, Charles James, 53
Franklin, Benjamin, 34
and autobiography, 144
Free silver movement, 112, 151, 162, 166
Free Soilers, 95
Frémont, Jessie Benton, 80, 91
Frémont, John, 88
Fugitive Slave Law, 57, 61, 66
Galloway, George, xxi
Gallup Poll, 2
Gardenier, Barent, 45
Garfield, James, 114
Garner, John Nance, xvii
Garrison, William Lloyd, 34, 63
Grady, Henry, 149
Grant, Ulysses, 113, 119, 166
Greeley, Horace, 63–64, 137
Greenfield Gazette, 44
Grimes, James W., 125, 137–38
Hale, John, 66
Hamilton, Alexander, 23, 26, 27
Hancock, John, 34
Harper’s Weekly, 157
Harris, Joel, 144
Hartford Courant, 181
Hastings, Warren, 120
Hayes, Rutherford, 114, 149, 150, 157
Hayes-Tilden presidential contest of 1876, 149–50, 161
Haymarket Square bombing of 1886, 214
Hayne, Robert, 59, 166
Hemingway, Ernest, 1
Henderson, John B., 134–35, 136
Hill, Benjamin, 155
History (Rollin), 32, 144
Hoar, George Frisbie, 31, 113, 143, 148, 158
Holcombe, Arthur N., xxii
Hoover, Herbert, 186, 190–91
Houston, Sam, xvii, 51, 52, 55, 56, 66, 93–108, 111, 169, 177, 206, 217, 219
Huffman, James, 203
Hughes, Charles Evans, 214–15
Impeachment of Johnson, see Johnson, Andrew, and impeachment
Iverson, Alfred, 104
Ives, Irving, 201
Jackson, Andrew, xv, 34, 79, 99–100, 152, 209
Javits, Jacob, 201–2
Jay, John, 34
Jay Treaty, 210–11, 213
Jefferson, Thomas, 24, 29, 34, 35–37, 43, 44, 46–47, 213
Jefferson Inquirer, 86
Johnson, Andrew, 34, 111, 113, 115–38, 208–9
and impeachment, 111, 114–15, 116–17, 118–38, 166
Johnson, Gerald W., 61, 68
Johnson, Lyndon Baines, xvi
Johnson, Walter, xxii
Johnson, William Preston, 143
Kansas-Nebraska Bill, 90–91, 93–96, 97–98, 101–2
Kaplan, Milton, xxi
Kelly, “Pig Iron,” 141
Kennedy, Jacqueline Bouvier, xxii
Kent, Frank, 8, 207–8
Khrushchev, Nikita, xviii–xix
Know-Nothing party, 101
Krock, Arthur, xxi
Lafayette, Marquis de, 34
La Follette, Robert, 177, 181, 222–23
Lamar, Jefferson Jackson, 143
Lamar, John, 146
Lamar, Lavoisier LeGrand, 143
Lamar, Lucius Q. C., xix, 111–12, 114, 139–62, 219–20
Lamar, Mirabeau Bonaparte, 143, 159
Lamar, Thomas Randolph, 143
Lamar, Thompson Bird, 146
Landis, James M., xxii
Lane, James, 117–18, 129
Lansing, Robert, 176
Lawrence, David, 204
Lee, Robert E., 147
Legislative instructions, 46, 83–84, 85, 86–87, 145, 154–58, 159–60, 161, 209
Lehman, Herbert, 202
Liftman, Gloria, xxii
Lincoln, Abraham, xvii, 34, 53, 104–5, 115–17, 118, 135, 222
Lincoln (Nebr.) Star, 181
Lincoln (Nebr.) State Journal, 186
Lindsay, Vachel, 152, 214
Lippmann, Walter, 3
Longstreet, Augustus Baldwin, 144
Louisiana Territory, 37
Louisville Courier Journal, 180
Lowell, James Russell, 70
Lucas, Scott, 202
Lyman, Theodore, 38
Macaulay, T. B., 222
McGroarty, John Steven, 9
Maclay, William, 25–27
Madison, James, 26, 34
Mann, Horace, 69
Marshall, Humphrey, 210–11
Marshall, John, 34, 59
Martineau, Harriet, 54
Matthews Silver Resolution, 153
Melbourne, William Lamb, 222
Meridian (Miss.) Mercury, 141
Mexican War, 52, 55
Missouri Compromise of 1820, 52, 81, 88, 90–91, 93–94, 95
Missouri Register, 78
Monroe, James, 34
Morison, Samuel Eliot, 34
Morley, John, 4
Morse, Wayne, 13
Mott, Christopher H., 146
Nashville Convention, 63–64, 68
Nation (magazine), 157
Nebraska Anti-Saloon League, 188
Nevins, Allan, 68, 73
New Orleans Crescent, 90
New Orleans Picayune, 68
Newspaper correspondents, 25
New York Evening Post, 70–71
New York Herald, 181
New York Journal of Commerce, 68
New York Sun, 181
New York Times, xxi, 149, 181
New York Tribune, 70, 124, 130, 137
Norris, Ella, 190
Norris, George W., xix, xxii, 165, 168, 170–72, 206, 220, 223
Northampton Hampshire Gazette, 44
Nuremberg trials, 197–99
Omaha Bee, 182
Omaha World Herald, 181, 186, 190–91
Oregon Territory Debate, 62, 79
Otis, Harrison, 35
Paine, Thomas, 213
Panic of 1873, 151
Papen, Franz von, 204
Parker, Theodore, 69
Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act, 206–7
Penrose, Boies, 167
Phelps, William Lyon, 167
Philadelphia Inquirer, 130
Philadelphia Press, 121, 123–24, 130, 135
Pickering, Timothy, 29, 36–38, 41, 46
Pinchot, see Ballinger-Pinchot conservation dispute
Polk, James K., 79
Pomeroy, Samuel Clarke, 121, 128
Presidential campaign of 1928, 186, 189–90
Prohibition, 187
Providence Journal, 181
Puritans, 27–28, 30–31, 35, 37, 40
Quincy, Edmund, 71
Radical Republicans, 115–22
Randolph, John, 26, 53, 222
Reciprocity Treaty of 1854, 114
Reconstruction period, 115–16, 147–62
Religious issue (Al Smith), 187–88, 190–91
Republican (Jeffersonian) party, 36–38, 42–44, 47
Republican party, 115, 148, 151, 165, 170–74, 175, 182–84, 186–90, 191–93, 194–97, 200–203, 204–5
Richmond Enquirer, 95
Rollin, see History
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 192
Roosevelt, Theodore, 166
Ross, Edmund, 114–37, 140, 169, 196, 206, 218
Runnels, Hardin R., 103–4
Salem Gazette, 44
Santo Domingo treaty, 166
Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr., xxii
Schurz, Carl, 141
Scott, Winfield, 74
Scribner’s (magazine), 128
Sedition, see Alien and Sedition Laws
Senate Journal, 39, 209
Senatorial courtesy, 25
Senatorial pay, 26, 212
Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution, 166–67
Seventh of March speech, see Webster, Daniel, and Seventh of March speech
Seward, William, 66, 70
Silver, see Free silver movement
Smith, Alfred, 176, 187–92, 215
and religious issue, 187–88, 190, 191
Smith, Mark, 8
Smith, T. V., 16
Smith, Walter, 170
Socialist party, 214
Sorensen, C. A., xxii
Sorensen, Theodore C., xxii
Southern fire-eaters, 51, 145
Sprague, William, 122
Srb, Hugo, xiv
Stanton, Edwin M., 118–22, 123, 124, 130
Stephens, Alexander, 63, 145
Stevens, Thaddeus, 119, 120, 125, 222
Summers, Billy, 160
Sumner, Charles, 70, 121, 140, 141, 148, 161
Taft, Alphonso, 195
Taft, Robert A., xix, 13, 165, 168, 193–205, 220
Taft, William Howard, 195
Taft-Hartley Labor Management Relations Act, 194
Tammany Hall, 190, 191
Tansill, William R., xxi
Taylor, Zachary, 57
Tenure-of-Office Act, 118, 121, 131
Texas, annexation of, 77–78
Texas Gazette, 101
Thomas, Evan, xxii
Throckmorton, James W., 106
Tilden, Samuel, 149
see also Hayes-Tilden presidential contest of 1876
Toledo Blade, 203
Toombs, Robert, 111, 145
Trade embargo, see Embargo of 1807
Treaty of Versailles, 167
Tremaine, Lyman, 141
Truman, Harry S, 195, 202
Trumbull, Lyman, 135–36
Tweedsmuir, Lord John Buchan, xvii–xviii
Twentieth Amendment to the Constitution, 178
Tyler, John, 14, 34, 78, 209–10, 220
Underwood, Oscar W., 207
Van Buren, Martin, 77
Van Winkle, Peter, 135, 136
Versailles Treaty, 167
Wade, Benjamin, 120
Walker, Isaac, 65
Walthill (Nebr.) Times, 189
War of 1812, 58
Washington, D.C., 23, 26, 29
see also District of Columbia slave trade
Washington, George, 24, 34, 71–72, 211, 213
Watterson, Henry, 143
Webster, Daniel, 1, 3, 18, 34, 47, 51, 57–74, 111–12, 140, 160, 168, 169, 196, 208, 217, 219
and Seventh of March speech, 64–74
Wharton, Clarence Ray, 106
Wheeling (W.Va.) Intelligencer, 135
Whig party, 61, 70–72, 74, 78, 80, 90–91
White, William Allen, 112–13
White, William S., 196
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 71
Wilmot Proviso, 61
Wilson, Woodrow, 167–68, 176, 179, 180, 182
Winthrop, Robert, 68
World War II, 177, 197–98
Wright, Robert, 25
Yazoo City Herald, 161
Zimmerman note incident, 176–77