Du Bose, Mrs. Dudley M., death of, 310 Du Bose _v._ Georgia Railroad, case argued by Toombs, 346 Du Quesne, Fort, massacre at, 1 Eberhart case, the, 25, 26 Elbert County, admission to bar in, 13; legal practice in, 15, 16, 22, 23; popularity in, 22; escape through, 288, 289, 292 Elberton, Ga., speech at, 89 Electoral vote, views on counting, 193, 194 Emigrant Aid Societies, 115-118, 159 Enghien, visit to, 309 England, introduction of slavery into Colonies by, 134 English compromise on Lecompton constitution, 164 Eugenie, Empress, Toombs' interviews with, 310 Europe, trip in, 125-128; hesitation of powers in regard to the Confederacy, 233 Evans, Augusta J., aids Toombs' escape, 302, 303 Evans, Howard, aids Toombs' escape, 302, 303 Everett, Edward, nominated for Vice-presidency, 183 Fanning, Welcome, 6 Felton, W. H., opposition to, 105 "Fifty-four forty, or fight," 57 Fillmore, Millard, nominated for Vice-presidency, 60; on repeal of Missouri Compromise, 115; nominated for Presidency, 140; Toombs' characterization of, 149, 150; electoral vote for, 152 Finance Committee of Provisional Congress, chairman of, 220 Fish, Hamilton, vote on Kansas-Nebraska bill, 115 Fitzpatrick, Gov., declines nomination for Vice-presidency, 182 Florida, delegates leave Charleston convention, 177; secession of, 213 Foote, Henry S., represents Mississippi in U. S. Senate, 68; elected governor of Mississippi, 97; contest with Davis in Mississippi, 163 "Forbidden Fruit," 67 Force bill, the, 51 Foreacre, Supt., frames railroad law, 351 Forensic eloquence, 18, 21, 24, 25, 27, 28, 361 Forsyth, John, Confederate commissioner to Washington, 222 Forsythe, John C., attitude on the Compromise bill, 52 Forts. See their names. France, Mexican schemes, 233; political events in, 309, 310 Franklin College, 6-12 Franklin County, legal practice in, 16 Freemasons, joins the, 289 Freeport, Ill., debate between Lincoln and Douglas at, 161, 162 Free-Soil party, 89 Free-Soil settlers, 115, 116 Fremont, John C., nominated for Presidency, 140; electoral vote for, 152 French, Capt. H. L., account of Toombs at second battle of Manassas, 261 Fugitive-Slave law, Clay's proposed, 79; the Georgia platform, 86; indorsed by Whig convention at Baltimore, 97; Webster's attitude on, 100; allusion to, in Boston lecture, 131 Fugitive-Slave laws, passage of new, 170; proposed amendments, 202; demands of the South as to, 206 Fulton, Col. M. C., narrow escape of, 304 Gardner, James, candidate for governorship of Georgia, 157 Garrison, W. L., denunciation of U. S. Constitution, 129 General Assembly, service in the, 17, 30-46; vote for Speaker in, 33 Geneva, visit to, 126