Clay, Henry, 52, 61, 289 Cobden, Richard, 222, 238 Columbus, Christopher, 291 Columbus, Ky., 253 Congregationalism and State sovereignty, 204-205 Constitution, the, 206 Convention of 1776, 23 Cooper, Peter, 182 Cotton, 26-29, 49, 222-224 Cushing, Lieut. W. B., 245 Dante, 95, 251, 290, 318, 325 Darwin, Charles, 291, 301 Davis, Jefferson, Stephens' opinion of, 203; early career, 206; as Confederate president, 206 De Bau on slave trade, 20 Declaration of Independence, 25 Demetrius, 87 Democracy, advance of, 5 Demosthenes, 14, 213 Dickens, Charles, novels of reform, 139; praises "Uncle Tom's Cabin," 143; predicts Confederate success, 238 Donelson, Fort, 246 Douglass, Frederick, 34 Douglas, Stephen A., as orator, 69; early career, 165-166; supports Polk, 167; proposes "squatter sovereignty," 169; loses prestige, 170-172; challenged to debate by Lincoln, 173; compared with Lincoln, 174-177; the great debate, 178-181; nominated for presidency, 184; supports Union, 185; death, 185; and Northern Democrats in 1861, 193 Dutch revolt, 264 Dwight, President Yale College, 46 Dyer, Oliver, 48 Edwards, Jonathan, 21 Eliot, George, 146, 148 England, 26, 49; source of American principles, 218; as to wars, 220; why favourable to South, 221-224; non-voters of, favoured North, 225; Beecher in, 218-221, 227-235, 239-241 English Anti-Slavery Society, 227 Emerson, Ralph W., 68, 96, 236, 285 Everett, Edward, 69, 106, 315 Ewell, Gen. Richard S., 245 Faneuil Hall, 81, 85 Farragut, Admiral David, 196, 246-247 Fillmore, Millard, 101 Florida, secession, 189 Floyd, John B., 189 Foote, Admiral Andrew H., 246 Fort Fisher, 247 Forts Donelson and Henry, 246 Fort Sumter, 191, 208, 241 Franklin, Benjamin, 34 Fremont, Gen. J. C., 215, 246 Fugitive Slave legislation, 36, 87, 214 Fulton Street prayer-meeting, 162 Garrison, Wm. Lloyd and W. Phillips, Chapter III, 68-94; the pen for abolition, 68; early career, 69; begins agitation with Lundy, 70; starts Liberator, 1831, 71; accused of Turner uprising, 72; organized American Anti-Slavery Society, 74; mobbed in Boston, 76; satisfied with Lincoln's emancipation, 93 Geneva Arbitration, 225 George III, 24 Gladstone, W. E., 225 Gordon, Gen. J. B., 271, 285-286 Government contracts, 282-283 Grant, Gen. Ulysses S., 246, 248; early career, 252; rapid promotion, 253; Columbus, Donelson and Vicksburg, 254; military genius, 255; final campaign, 250; Appomattox, 257-258; President, 259; political and financial problems, 259-260; unwise speculation, 261; authorship, 261; character and death, 261-262 Great men, era of, 292-293 Great Rebellion, the, 11-13; war of the, 265