Christian Church. _See_ Campbellites.
Churches, support, 50;
strictness moderated, 50, 143;
and slavery, 143, 146, 163;
members and capacity, in 1860, 220;
of South, for slavery and war, 278.
Churubusco, battle of, 156.
Cincinnati, pork-packing and manufacturing, 35, 202, 210.
Cities, wretched industrial life, 210.
Civil service, Van Buren and spoils system, 96.
Clay, Henry, coalition with Adams, 2;
Secretary of State, 3, 14, 15, 16, 17, 21;
barely reelected to the Senate in 1831, 22;
fast life, 22;
duelist, 32, 33;
Mechanic's Library, 35;
powerless against Jackson, 37, 55, 56, 62, 63, 64, 76;
defies South, 66;
and Bank, 67, 70, 79;
for Presidency, 67, 69;
and Jackson's Bank Veto, 70;
and Kentucky, 70, 71;
and Compromise of 1833, 73, 74, 75;
alliance with Calhoun, 74;
debtor of Bank, 79, 80;
fight to restore deposits, 81, 82, 84, 91;
for distribution of surplus, 92, 93;
attacking Van Buren, 96, 107;
and Texas, 105, 127;
Eastern tour, 108, 109;
not nominated, 101, 112;
program, 114;
and Tyler, 115;
retirement in 1841, 117;
reconciled to Calhoun, 117;
candidacy for Presidency, 117;
Raleigh letter, 128;
and Polk, 130, 145, 147, 152;
on Mexican Treaty, 157, 167;
snubbed, 171, 172;
in Senate, 176;
Compromise of 1850, 176;
death, 181, 242.
Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, 173.
Cobb, Howell, adviser of Buchanan, 247.
Colleges, in West, 34.
Colorado, 199.
Columbia Valley, immigration to, 127.
Confederacy, Southern organized, 271;
agents to Europe, 276;
enthusiasm, 276;
preparations for war, 276;
aristocracy united, 279;
Richmond capital, 280;
expects foreign intervention, 282;
currency and finances, 286;
need of European market, 286;
regular government, 286;
dissension, 287;
bonds in Europe, 294;
European recognition, imminent, 301;
not ready for reunion, 309;
debt and currency in 1864, 310;
taxation, 310;
internal dissension, 310;
resistance to conscript laws, 311;
area controlled in 1854, 313;
credit ruined in Europe, 315;
collapse, 324-28.
Congregational Church, in Massachusetts, 15;
members in 1860, 220;
and abolition, 222;
Yale, a center, 222.
Connecticut, suffrage extended, Church and State separated, 14;
population, 39;
cotton and wool manufacturing, 42, 54.
Conscription, Federal and Confederate, 305;
resistance to Confederate, 311;
opposition to Federal, 317.
Constitution of the United States, amendments to limit term of
Presidents, appointment of members of Congress, and powers of Supreme
Court, 16;
States and bills of credit, 99.
Cooper, General A. S., 281.
Cooper, James Fenimore, 53.
Cooper, Thomas, resignation, 142.
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