Abandonment of country a monstrous

crime, i. 203, 233, 242

Abbott, Lyman, cited, xxv. 10889
Abélard, Pierre, life of, iii. 1250;
"On Marcellinus, Pope and Mar-
tyr," 1250-53

Aberdeen, Earl of, at Athens, xiv.
5873; quoted, 5810
Abinger, Baron. See Scarlett
Abolition, of slavery, vii. 2897; Cal-
houn on, x. 4276 et seq.; societies
scouted by Webster, xi. 4698; at-
tacked by Hayne, xii. 4985; stand-
ard, glorious, xv. 6155; agitation
and the Territories, xvii. 7334;
party formed, 7403; fanaticism,
xxi. 8989

Abolitionism, xiii. 5623; fanaticism,
xvi. 6981; exposed, xvii. 7349; op-
posed by Vallandigham, xix. 8183;
characterized, xx. 8712; rise of,
xxiii. 9912
Abolitionists, Southern (of liberty),
xiii. 5336; differ with Brownson,
xiv. 5893; American, Garrison's
tribute to, xv. 6165; results of
success of, xvi. 6801; duty of,
xviii. 7666; in Vermont, xix.

8195

Abraham, life of, xiv. 5768
Absolutism, ix. 3510; xiii. 5396; pre-
dominant, xxi. 8806; and liberty,
8976

Achilles, speech of, i. 4-10; descent
of, 155; refreshed by Athena, xix.
7960

Accountability of rulers, x. 4262
Adam's fall, v. 1783

99

Adams, Charles Francis, life of, xv.
6191; "The State and the Union,
6191-6205; praised, xvi. 6837; not
consulted, 6838; protest of, xx.8576

John, quoted, v. 2031, 2035,
xxiii. 9852; (concerning loyalists),
xxiv. 10269; life of, vi. 2560, xi.
4388 et seq.; inaugural address,
vi. 2561-68; the Boston massacre,
2569-93; commemorated by Web-
ster, xi. 4381; quoted ("Sink or
Swim'), 4407; vilified, 4483; ar-
guments of, xvi. 6950; at Phila-
delphia, xix. 8269; on corruption,
8300; on Hancock, xx. 8386; char-
acterized, 8394; pessimism of, 8696;
denunciation of, 8719; and French,
xxiii. 9851

John Quincy, life of, ix. 3670;
oration at Plymouth, 3671-90;
"Lafayette, 3691-98; "Jubilee
of the Constitution," 3698-3709;
praised by Story, x. 4138; an agi-
tator, xiii. 5266; cited, xviii. 7578;
and the kidnapped slaves, 7591;
and patronage, xx. 8631; and mod-
ern languages, xxiii. 9854

Nehemiah, Southern view of slav-
ery, xvi. 6698

Samuel, life of, v. 2009; "Amer-
ican Independence," 2010-30; com-
memorated by Webster, xi. 4411;
Father of American Independence,
XX. 8392; commemorated by Curtis,
8673; in double character, 8700;
quoted, xviii. 7775, xxv. 10918
Addison, Joseph, a genuine gentle-
man, xvii. 7143

Adrianople, treaty of, ix. 3906, 3913
Elred, life of, iii. 1268; funeral ser-
mon, 1268-72

(11035)

olus, myth of, xix. 7944
Eschines, life of, i. 225; against
crowning Demosthenes, 226-44;
enemy of the people, 282; descent,
284; a traitor, 286; education of,
320; compared with Demosthenes,
322; stinginess of, 334; charged
with corrupt conduct, 338; speaks
in favor of peace, 341; against the
Thebans, 343; curse of, 375; and
the Olynthian woman, 395; si-
lenced, ii. 482; hinted at, 498
Eschylus, Lubbock on, quoted, xvii.
7069; xxiii. 9768

Affairs, domestic and foreign, Glad-
stone on, xv. 6339
Afghanistan, free and independent,
xv. 6366; Amir of, xxiii. 10003
Africa, civilization of, viii. 3373,
3444, xiii. 5416; slavery a means
for Christianization of, xiii. 5347;
colonization of, 5408; barbarism
of, 5417, 5607; Christianization of,
xvii. 7217; benighted, xviii. 7593;
German colonies in, xxii. 9398; Brit-
ish policy in (Laurier), xxiv. 10459;
the crisis in South, xxv. 10833
Agamemnon, i. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8
Age, spirit of the, xiii. 5328
Aggrandizement, national, ix. 3599;
wars of, xii. 5176

Aggression, necessary, ii. 522; crim-
inal, xxi. 9079

Agitators, Jefferson, Washington, Ad-
ams, xiii. 5266

Aglauros, in Homer and Dante, xix.
7964

Agnosticism, xxiv. 10135
Agra, vi. 2251, 2253

Agrarian crime, in Ireland, xv. 6400
Agreements, binding, i. 218
Agriculture in England, xii. 4897;

under slave labor, xiii. 5409
Aguinaldo, status of, xx. 8544; en-
titled to self-government, xxi. 8932;
not a Washington, 9081; govern-
ment of, 9086; supports Dewey,
xxiv. 10439; a spoiled child, xxv.
11006

Aims, high and noble, xv. 6184; Lib-
eral (Chamberlain), xxiii. 9993
Air, our ignorance of, xix. 8053
Akber, Emperor, vi. 2254
'Alabama, Claims, xv. 6130; devas-
tations of the, xviii. 7869

99

Alabama, whipping-posts in, xix. 8189;
resources of, xxi. 8961

Alaska, purchase of, justified, xx.

8490

Alaric, cruelty of, xxi. 9016
Albuera, horrors at, xvii. 7034
Alcæus quoted, xi. 4720
Alcibiades, depicted by Nicias, i. 38;
mentioned, 66, 111; life of, 137;
speech in favor of the Sicilian ex-
pedition, 137-41
Alexander I., Emperor of Russia,
xviii. 7532

the Great, i. 201; oration on
the treaty with, ii. 637-46; de-
scribed, iv. 1748, x. 4035
Alexandria, bombardment of, xxii.
9278-79

Alamo, slaughter of the, xvii. 7381
Algiers, expedition to, xii. 4882; bar-
barians of, xiii. 5264

Alien Bill, ix. 3552 et seq.; tyranny
of, xvi. 6833

Allan, Sir Hugh, and money in elec-
tions, xxii. 9225

Allegiance, nature of, xvii. 7071
Alliance, the Holy, wrecked, xviii.
7531

Allston, Washington, quoted, xix.8041
Alonzo of Aragon, on old age, xxiii.
9765

Alva, Duke of, prevented from land-
ing in Scotland, xviii. 7823
Amalia, Princess, described by Thack.
eray, xvii. 7184

Amateurs, in religion, xviii. 7476
Amazon, fresh water from the, xxv.
10854

Ambition, evil of, iv. 1468; power of,

v. 1850; honorable, 1861; proof of,
vii. 2756; Emmet's, x. 4191; Car-
lyle on, xiii. 5321; dangerous, xxii.
9530; of Napoleon Bonaparte, viii.
3426; of Danton, ix. 3635; of
Charles V., xii. 5176; of Louis
Napoleon, xv. 6246
Ambassador, defined,

vi. 2395;
French, ordered to depart from
England, viii. 3378
Ambassadors, duties of, i. 339
Ambrose, Saint, life of, iii. 1154;
funeral oration on his brother,
1154-67; quoted, iv. 1322
Amendment, Fourteenth, rejected, xx.
8516