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the Mexicans, 187; nominated for President, and elec-
ted, 192; vote received, 193; inaugurated, 198; 199;
200; 201; Special Message, 202; Annual Message, 202;
communicates the California Constitution, 203; his
death, 203; proclamation against fillibustering, 269.
TAYLOR, JOHN W., of N. Y., 75; his speech on
the Missouri question, 77; 78.
TENNESSEE, slave population in 1790, 36; with-
draws froin the Charleston Convention, 318; refuses to
secede, 349; population in 1860, 351; her answer to the
President's call, 459; progress of Secession in, 481 to
484; vote on Secession; the 'conservative' party, 481;
makes a convention with the Confederacy, 482; Ordi-
nance of Secession, 482-3; vote on separation, 483; 496;
reign of terror in, 514. See EAST TENNESSEE.
TEXAS, reasons for its Annexation, 68; histori-
cal sketch of, 147-8; early efforts to purchase it, 149;
revolution in, 150-1; Webster opposes the Annexation
of, 152-8; further efforts to acquire it, 154-8; Whigs in
Congress protest against Annexation, 159; Van Buren
and Clay oppose it, 161-4; Col. Benton on, 165; in-
fluence of the question on the Presidential election,
166-8; Calhoun, favors Annexation, 169 to 171; Con-
gressional, 171 to 174; Annexation consummated,
175; admitted into the Union. 185-6; 209; withdraws
from the Dem. Convention, 315; Houston and Runnells,
339; secession of, and vote thereon, 348; population in
1860, 351; 373; Twiggs's treason, etc., 413; 514–15.
THAYER, JAMES S., in Tweddle Hall, 392- 3; 396.
THEODORA, THE, conveys Mason and Slidell, 606.
THOMAS, ADJ'T GEN., accompanies Gen. Cameron
on his Western tour, 590; 615.

THOMAS, COL., (Rebel,) killed at Bull Run, 543.
THOMAS, FRANCIS, replies to Mr. May, 564.
THOMAS, GEN., crosses the Potomac, 235.
THOMAS, JESSE B., of Ill., on Missouri, 79.
THOMAS, PHILIP FRANCIS, appointed Secretary of
the Treasury, 411; resigns, 412.

THOMPSON, JEFF., 574; is defeated at Frederick-
town, Mo., 591.

THOMPSON, JACOB, fraud discovered in his De-
partment, 410; advises the traitors of the Star of the
West's departure; his resignation, 412; 485.
THOMPSON, JUDGE JAMES, of Pa., speaks in favor
of the Fugitive Slave Law, 212.
THOMPSON, GEORGE, 127.

TIPTON, MO., Gen. Fremont is visited by Gen.
Cameron and suite at, 590.

TITUS, COL., of Fla., a Border Ruffian, 243.
TOD, GOV. DAVID, of Ohio, chosen President of
the Donglas Convention, 318.

TOMPKINS, LIEUT. C. H., dashes into Fairfax, 533.
TOOMBS, ROBERT, of Ga., 382; his dispatch to
Georgia, 384; 383; a member of Davis's Cabinet, 429.
TOPEKA, Kansas, Free-State Convention at, 240;
the Legislature at, dispersed, 244.

TOUCEY, ISAAC, in the Dem. Convention, 317.
TOWNSEND, COL. F., at Little Bethel, 529-30.
TRAVIS, COL., put to death in Texas, 150.
TRENHOLM, MR., of S. C., offers resolves favoring
' coöperation,' 333-4.

TRENT, THE, Mason and Slidell abstracted from,
606; Secretary Welles on the seizure, 606; Great Brit-
ain's course, 607-S.

TRESCOTT, WM. H., Garnett's letter to, 479–80.
TROUP, GOV., of Ga., sympathizes with the Nul-
lifiers, 100, his treatment of the Indians, 103.

True American, The, on the President's call, 457.
TRUMBULL, LYMAN, of Ill., 307; 563; offers an
amendment to the Confiscation bill, 569.
TRUXILLO, landing and death of Walker at, 277.
TUCK, AMOS. of N. H., a member of the 'Peace
Conference,' 393; resolutions of, 399; 404.
TURRILL, JOEL, of N. Y., 145.

TUSCARORA, U. S. GUNBOAT, blockades the
Sumter, 602; blockades the Nashville, 603.
TYLER, COL., routed in West Virginia, 525.
TYLER, GEN., at Bull Run, 539; 511-2.

647

TYLER, JOHN, sketch of his political life, 154 to
156; 169; 174; 185; Chairman of the Peace Confer
ence,' 397; 402.
TWIGGS, GEN., surrenders in Texas, 413; 442.

U.

UNION HUMANE SOCIETY, THE, 112.
UNITARIANS, THE, and Slavery, 121.
United States Telegraph, The, 143.
UNIVERSALISTS, THE, and Slavery, 121.
UPTON, MR., of Va., in XXXVIIth Congress, 559.
UTICA, N. Y., Abolitionists dispersed at, 127.
Utica Observer, The, on the President's call, 455-6.

V.

VALLANDIGHAM, C. L., of Ohio, catechises old
Brown, 293; his opinion of Brown, 294; his 'Peace'
proposition, 384-5; remarks at the Extra Session, cen-
suring the Administration, 561; moves provisos to
the Army Appropriation bill, etc., 561; 562; 615; 629.
VAN BUREN, JOHN, on Fugitive Slave Act, 213.
VAN BUREN, MARTIN, influences causing his de-
feat in the Baltimore Convention of 1844, 69; supports
the Tariff of 1828, 91; supplants Calhoun as Vice-Presi-
dent in 1832, 93; allusion to, 130; makes an offer to Mex-
ico for Texas, 149; his reply to Gen. Hunt, 151; is beat-
en by Gen. Harrison, 154: 156; 159; his reply to Wm.
H. Hammet, 161; 162; 163; 165; letter to Waterbury
and others, 199; nominated for President by the Free-
Soilers, 191; to Minister Van Ness, 269; 426.
VANDEVER, MR., of Iowa, offers a resolution, 568.
VERMONT, slave population of, in 1790, 36; 326.
VERPLANCK, GULIAN C., his Tariff bill, 101.
VICTOR, O. J., reference to his "History of the
Southern Rebellion," 350.

VIENNA, Va., the affair at, 533-4; reöccupied by
our forces, 620.

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VINCENNES, U. S. SHIP, runs aground, 603.
VIRGINIA, 17; feeble colonial growth, natural
advantages of, etc., 28; negroes first introduced, 29;
slave population of, in 1790; troops furnished during
the Revolution, 36; her territorial claims, 37; her deed
of cession to the Confederation, 38; legislative resolves
of 1789, 84; sympathizes with South Carolina in her
Nullification defeat, 100; first Abolition Society in, 107;
Convention of 1829, 108 to 111; resolution of the Legis-
lature on the suppression of Abolition, 123; relations
with the District of Columbia, 142; Resolutions of '98
and '99 indorsed by the Democratic Convention of 1852,
222; withdrawal of delegates from the Charleston Con-
vention, 318; the position of Letcher as Governor, 340;
State unable to secede, 318-9; population in 1860, 351;
Convention of to ratify the Federal Constitution, 357;
calls the Peace' Conference, 396-7; sends new Commis-
sioners to President Lincoln, 452; the President's reply
to the Commissioners, 452; Secession of the State, and
the Convention's vote thereon, 452; her answer to the
President's call for troops, 459; emissaries of, sent to
Baltimore, 462; State troops seize Harper's Ferry, 462;
she threatens Western Maryland, 408; commences
hostilities before she is fairly out of the Union, 473;
allusion to the Convention of, 436; enters into a Con-
vention with the Southern Confederacy, 477; reign of
terror in; the situation' considered by Messrs. Stuart
and Mason, 475-9; popular vote on the Ordinance of
Secession, 479; M. R. II. Garnett on Virginia and
West Virginia, 479-S0; sends no delegates to the Ken-
tucky Peace' Convention, 495; allusion to her Dis-
union, 510; Convention between the State and the
Confederacy, 516; Letcher calls out the militia to repel
Federal invasion, 516-17; admitted into the Confed-
eracy, and Gen. Lee placed in command of the Confed-
erate forces, 518; boundary between West and Old
Virginia, 527; the President's Message with regard to,
557. See WEST VIRGINIA, NORFOLK, BETHEL, BULL
RUN, etc.

VOYAGES, OCEAN, by 8th Census, 23

W. WADE, B. F., of Ohio, 231; 232; speech, 375-6. WALKER, MR., of Wisc., 172; 195.

WALKER, ROBERT J., Governor of Kansas, 249. WALKER, L. P., of Ala., 312; 313; withdraws at Charleston, 314; speech after fall of Sumter, 458; 632. WALKER, WILLIAM, his invasion of Nicaragua, and his death, 276-7.

WALLACE, COL. LEWIS, 535.

WALWORTH, R. H., at Tweddle Hall, 393-4.
WASHBURNE, MR., of Ill., 305; 560.

WASHINGTON, GEORGE, letter to Laurens, 19; 42;
43; letters to Lafayette, 51; 81; 82; 83; his fair deal-
ing with the Indians, 102; 254; his Foreign Policy, 264;
citation from his Farewell Address, 266; allusion to, 515.
WASHINGTON, COL. JOIN A., captured by Brown's
men, 290; 293; killed at Cheat Mountain, 526.
WASHINGTON CITY, 407; frauds of Floyd and Baily
at, 410-11; arrival of Col. Hayne at, 412; inauguration
of President Lincoln at, 421-2; the dark days at, 470.
Washington Star, The, citation from, 329.
WAUL, T. N., beaten for Congress, 339.
WAYNE, JUDGE, of Ga., on Dred Scott, 259.
WEBSTER, DANIEL, 78; his reply to Hayne, 86-
7; 101; speech at Niblo's Garden, 152 to 154; 155;
192; 202; speech at Abington, 199; 205-6; 207; on the
Fugitive Slave Law, 220-21; 223; 260; 271: letter from
Channing to, 353; 370; speech at Buffalo, 404; 511.
WEED, THURLOW, editorial by, 360-61.
WEIGHTMAN, COL., killed at Wilson's Creek, 582.
WESTON, MO., a man tarred and feathered at, 239.
Weston Reporter, The, (Mo.,) citation from, 238.
WESTPORT, MO., Border Ruffian resolves at, 239.
WENTZ, LIEUT.-COL, killed at Belmont, 597.
WESLEY, JOHN, 32; 76; 255, 501.

WIGFALL, LEWIS T., of Texas, 373; 448.
WILCOX, COL., wounded at Bull Run, 545.
WILD CAT, Ky., Rebels defeated at, 615-16.
WILKES, CAPT., seizes Mason and Slidell, 606-7.
WILKESBARRE, Pa., fugitive-slave case at, 216.
WILLIAMS, EUPHEMIA, the case of, 216.
WILLIAMS, COL. JOHN S., at Piketon, Ky., 616.
WILMOT, DAVID, of Pa., 189; 319.
WILSON, SENATOR, of Mass., 309; 571-2.
WILSON'S ZOUAVES, at Santa Rosa Island, 602.
WILSON'S CREEK, battle of, 578 to 582.
WINTHROP, MAJOR THEO., killed at Bethel, 531.
Winchester Virginian, The, J. M. Mason to, 478-9.
WISE, HENRY A., his prescription for Abolition-
ists, 128; 144; 146; his speech in the House, 1842,
158; opinion of John Brown, 293; 294; 329; com-
mands the Rebels in West Virginia, 522; 524; out-
ranked by Floyd, etc., 525.
WISCONSIN, 215; 300; 301.

WISTAR, LIEUT.-COL., at Ball's Bluff, 623.
WITHERSPOON, REV. T. S., 128.

WOOL, GEN., Succeeds Gen. Butler, 531.
WOOD, COL. A. M., wounded at Bull Run, 545.
WOODWARD, JUDGE GEO. W., speech at the Phil-
adelphia Peace' meeting, 363 to 365; 406; 438.
WORCESTER, Mass., mob violence at, 126.
WRENTHAM, Mass., Abolition petition from, 144.
WRIGHT, COL. J. V., killed at Belmont, 597–8.
WRIGHT, SILAS, 91; nominated for Vice-Presi-
dent, 164; nominated for Governor of New York, 166.
WYANDOT. Kansas, Convention at, 250.

Y.

WEST VIRGINIA, 479; 480; population in 1860, YANCEY, WM. L., his non-interference resolve

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480; refuses to secede, etc., 518; Pierpont chosen Governor of, 519; Letcher's Message, 519; Federal troops enter the State; Porterfield's Address, 521; battle of Philippi, 521-2; of Rich Mountain, 522-3; Cheat Mountain, 523; Carnifex Ferry, 525; Guyandotte destroyed, 526; boundary between West and Old Virginia, 527. WHEELING, Va, meeting and Convention at, 518. Wheeling Intelligencer, The, citation from, 522. WHITNEY, ELI, 53; early life, etc., 58-9; goes to Georgia, 60; invents the Cotton-Gin, 61; letter to Fulton, 65; his death, 66.

WHITE, J. W.,.letter from T. A. Andrews to, 367. WHITE, LIEUT.-COL., at Carnifex Ferry, 525. WHITE, MAJOR FRANK J., 591-2.

WHITFIELD, JOHN W., 237; 240; 241; sacks and burns Osawatomie, 245.

WHITTIER, JOHN G., poem by, 630.

in the Convention of 1848, 192; allusion to, 259; withdraws from the Charleston Convention, 314. YATES, EDWARD, on Slavery, 70. YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION, their interview with the President, 466–7; allusion, 472.

Z.

ZAGONYI, MAJOR, his speech to his soldiers, 591-2; his gallant charge into Springfield, 592. ZEIGLER, COL., orders the houses of Secessionists at Guyandotte to be burnt, 526.

ZOLLICOFFER, GEN., occupies Cumberland Gap; his dispatch to Magoffin, 613; captures Barboursville, Ky.; his depredations on the Kentuckians, 614; attacks, and is driven from, Wild-Cat, 615.

END OF VOL. I.

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