Cotton, and politics in South Carolina, 4; planters against tariff, 5, 66, 75; expansion and politics, 11; decline in price, 12; great wealth of planters, 13; in Southwest, 13; exports, 29, 36, 42, 313; New Orleans market, 36; manufacture in New England, 42, 46, 132, 133, 134, 137, 138; prices, 186, 194. Courts, for vested interests, 51; national, power of, 51; county in old South, 38; planters in federal, 138. Crawford, Thomas, sculptor, 225. Crawford, William H., Jackson and Seminole affair, 2, 4, 8, 64. Creeks. _See_ Indians. Crittenden, John J., 171, 255, 273. Crockett, David, 79. Cuba, 198; purchase proposed, 232, 233; Ostend Manifesto, 234, 247. Currency. _See_ Money, Paper money. Cushing, Caleb, 50, 150; Attorney-General, 231. Dallas, George M., for Vice-President, 130; elected, 131. Dana, R. H., secession, 253. Daniel, John M., opposed to Davis, 312. Davis, Jefferson, Oregon, Texas, 132; expansionist, 150, 157, 176; retired after 1850, 181, 214; Secretary of War, 231; and Pacific Railroad, 233, 234, 236; for Kansas-Nebraska Bill, 239; Senate leader, 247; and Douglas, 254, 258; against secession, 269; President of Confederacy, 271; and Fort Sumter, 274; advice to plant food crops, 282; "second Washington," 282, 285; reelected, 286; and J. E. Johnston, 287; trust in Lee, 298; unyielding, 309; opposition to, 312, 315, 322; recommends negro enlistment, 323; opposed by Congress, 323; impeachment threatened, 323; offers Europe emancipation, 323; last appeal to South, 324; escape to Danville, 327; captured and imprisoned, 328. Declaration of Independence, and Jacksonians, 24; and New England, 24; in Democratic platform of 1840, 110; abolitionists and, 162, 262. Delaware, for Adams, 14, 18. Democracy, decline, 3; doomed in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, 11; retarded by cotton expansion, 11; Whigs and Democrats, 109; flooded in South, 214; in New England, 215. Democratic party, 67; defied by Clay, 66; first national convention, 68; and Van Buren, 104, 107, 109, 110; Baltimore Convention of 1844, 129; for Texas, 147, 161; convention of 1848, 172, 182; Franklin Pierce, 182; compromise a finality, 182; lose Northwest, 242; Southern, and pro-slavery, 243; Convention of 1856, 245; Buchanan and Breckinridge, 205; and Douglas, 257, 258; Charleston Convention of 1860, 260; split, 261; wins seven Republican States, 302; strong in North, 317; Convention of 1864, 321. Derby Bank, of Connecticut, robs depositors, 44. De Veaux, James, painter, 54. Dew, Thomas R., on slavery, 118, 145. Dickinson, Daniel S., Lincoln leader, 290. District of Columbia, petitions on slavery in, 165; to abolish slave-trading, 178. Dix, John A., 150, 157. Doak, Samuel, 33. Dobbin, James C., Secretary of Navy, 232. Donaldson, Fort, Grant captures, 293.