advocates admission of California as a Free State, 337; refuses to support Fugitive Slave Act, 339; nickname of "Old Bullion," 342; opposition to him in Missouri, 342; defeated, 343; goes to House of Representatives, 343; begins work on the "Thirty Years' View," 344; supports Pierce for Presidency, 344; but later goes into opposition, 345; supports scheme for Pacific Railroad, 346; discusses the Indian policy, 347; speeches on land-bounty and pension bills, 348; opposes Kansas-Nebraska bill, 349-352; discusses historically the Missouri Compromise, 349; ridicules squatter sovereignty, 350; opposes the Gladstone treaty, 352; view of Southern disunion scheme, 352; again defeated in Missouri elections, 353; returns to labor on "Thirty Years' View," 354; votes for Buchanan, 354; candidate for governorship, 354; stumps the State, 354; respected at the North, 355; prepares his "Abridgment of the Debates of Congress," 356; death, 356; value of his works 357; criticism of the Dred Scott case, 358; and of the new Democratic theories, 358; domestic relations, 360; extensive knowledge, 360; on board the Princeton at time of explosion of great gun, 361; generous temper, 362. Biddle, Nicholas: president of Bank of United States, 116; his errors, 124; his bank goes to pieces, 208. Birney, James G.: abolitionist candidate for Presidency, 291, 292; folly of nominating him, 293, 294, 310. Blair, Francis C., displaced, 317. Buchanan, James: on annexation of Texas, 310; Benton votes for him, 354. Burr, Aaron: introduces "spoils system" in New York, 81; compared with Benedict Arnold, 163.