But, lo, who are these in bright array, looking over the battlements of heaven, while the forces of liberty and slavery in other forms struggle together on these earthly plains beneath? These with radiant faces unstained by tears, that seem never to have known the mark of pain or sorrow? Ah! these are they who have come out of great tribulation, anguish and martyrdom; Paul from the stones; Homer from his blindness; Socrates from his cup of poison; Milton from his heart-break; Savonarola from his fagots, and Lincoln from his long martyrdom--the least part of which was the shot that freed his spirit in the hour of triumph and joy. Index Abolition Societies in the South, 25 Abominations, tariff of, 50, 163 AEsop's Fables, 290, 297,316 "Adam Bede," 148 Adams, Charles F., 54, 243 Adams, John, 83, 121 Alabama, secession, 189 _Alabama_, the, 225, 238, 245 _Albemarle_, the, 245 Albert, Prince Consort, 226 Aldersen, Judge, 107 Alva, Duke of, 15, 264 American Tract Society, 296 Ames, Fisher, 213 Andersonville, 269, 270 Anne, Queen, 18 Anti-Slavery epoch, importance of, 6, 7, 13 Arab slave-hunters, 30 Athens, 14, 41, 212 Atlanta and Sherman, 249 Austin, James T., 81 Bach, John S., 301 Bacon, Lord, 110 Bailey, Kentucky editor, 140 Bancroft, George, 104, 282 Bates, Edward, 184 Beauregard, P. G. T., 192, 244 Beecher, Henry Ward, 49, 69, 91, 181, 204; Chapter IX, The Appeal to England, 212-241; reasons for European trip of, 214-216; no official embassy, 217; interview of, with Lincoln, 218; breakfast to, in London, 219; speech at Manchester, 227-230; at Glasgow and Edinburgh, 231, 232; in Liverpool, 232, 234; in London, 235; triumph at home, 235, 239; raises Sumter flag, 241; and Lincoln, 212, 218, 304-305 Beecher, Lyman, 138 Bell, John, 184 Bishop of New Jersey, 296 Bowen, Henry C., 181 Breckenridge, J. C., 184 Bremer, Frederika, 144 Bright, John, 222, 225 Brown, John, Chapter VI, 136-159; in Springfield, 149; North Elba, 150; Iowa, 150; Kansas, 151-154; Virginia, 154; Harper's Ferry, 155; trial and death, 155-158; his fanaticism overruled, 159 Brown-Sequard, Dr., 114 Bryant, Wm. C., 182 Buchanan, Com. Franklin, 245 Buchanan, James, 189 Buckle, Thomas, 204 Bunyan, John, 325 Burns, Anthony, 84-87 Burns, Robert, 310 Burnside, Gen. A. E., 252 Byron, Lord, 84 Calhoun, John C., 12; early career, 46, 47; nullification, 51; government and sovereignty, 52; mistakes of, 59; influence on non-slaveholding South, 196; political doctrine of, in church affairs, 204-205 Carlisle, Lord, 144 Carlyle, Thomas, 100, 107, 236-238, 311-312 Carpet-baggers, 259 Cervantes, 325 Channing, Wm. E., 74, 75, 81, 104 Charles I, 23, 42 Charles II, 23 Chase, Salmon P., 141 Christian Commission, 272