Douglas, Stephen A., Oregon and Texas, 132;
expansionists, 150, 172;
and crisis of 1850, 176, 206;
understood West, 202;
land for railroads, 203;
and Chicago, 203;
ambitious, 205;
wife, 214;
slighted by
Pierce, 232;
Kansas-Nebraska Bill, 236;
attacked, 240;
Southern Whigs defend, 240;
abused by Sumner, 245;
for Buchanan, 246;
Greeley suggests for President, 251;
revolt on Kansas, 253;
read out of Democratic party, 254;
campaigning in Illinois, 254;
popularity, 255;
and Republicans, 255;
debate with Lincoln, 256;
Freeport doctrine, 256;
reelected, 257;
and Democrats, 258;
and Charleston Convention, 260;
nominated by faction, 261;
strength in Northwest, 264;
against secession, 264;
popular and electoral vote, 265;
for peace, 273;
supports Lincoln, 282, 289;
death, 289.
Douglass, Frederick, ex-slave and abolitionist, 166.
Draper and Moss, photographers, 224.
Dred Scott decision, 247, 257.
Duane, William J., Secretary of the Treasury, 78;
dismissed, 79.
East, 4;
and democracy, 37, 39;
emigration to West, 40;
population, 40, 47, 185;
lands, 41;
product and return on capital, 42;
factory life, 43;
capitalists, 44, 46, 47, 48, 54;
banks and circulation, 45, 46;
factories in, 47;
clergy and lawyers, 50;
judges for property interests, 51;
life in, being reconstructed, 54, 55;
for protection, 59, 60;
and public land questions, 61;
antagonistic to South, 61;
and West, 61;
defeats Benton's land program, 65;
and Clay, 67;
Jackson and Bank, 69;
and Union, 75;
distrusts Van Buren, 96;
and panic of 1837, 102, 108, 130, 161;
and Texas, 167;
cities of, for Compromise of 1850, 181;
foreign element in, 185;
population in 1830, in 1850, in 1860, 185;
industrial area, 187;
shipping tonnage, 187;
capital concentrated in, 188;
capital and income, 194;
trade with West and South, 205;
religious life, 218;
school children, 223;
college students, 224;
and Northwest, 247, 263;
motives of, in the Civil War, 289;
for emancipation, 304;
radicals of, hostile to Lincoln, 317;
in control after war, 328.
Eaton, John H., Secretary of War, 58;
wife and Washington Society, 59, 64.
Education, in United States, 1850-60, 213.
Eleventh Amendment, and repudiation of state debts, 106.
Emancipation Proclamation, promised, 302;
opinion on, divided, 304;
East for, West against, 304.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 52, 226;
on John Brown, 259.
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