A Disease in the Public Mind (56 page)

Johnson, Sally,
180

Johnson, Samuel,
31–32

Johnston, Joseph,
253–254
,
282–288

Kansas Committee,
223
,
229–230

Kansas-Nebraska Act,
195
,
197
,
213
,
218
,
233

Kentucky,
60–61
,
82
,
268
,
296

King, Rufus,
92–93

Knapp, Isaac,
97–98
,
108–109

Know-Nothings,
214
,
219

Ladd, Luther C.,
276

Lafayette, Marquis de,
34
,
55
,
61
,
309

Lane, Joseph,
251

Laski, Harold,
304

Laurens, Henry,
40–41

Laurens, John,
39–46
,
48

Lear, Tobias,
59

Leclerc, Charles,
72–74

Lee, Custis,
236
,
272

Lee, Henry “Light Horse Harry,”
58–59
,
85

Lee, John,
268

Lee, Mary Custis,
106
,
234
,
237
,
272
,
281

Lee, Robert E.

     
abolitionists' postwar hostility towards the South,
312

     
advisor to Jefferson Davis,
281–282

     
Antietam,
295

     
Brown's execution,
246–247

     
Buchanan's election,
220–221

     
Bull Run,
288

     
Bull Run (second),
294

     
collapse of the Union,
253–254

     
cooperation with Lincoln,
313

     
fortification of Virginia,
282–283

     
Fredericksburg,
298

     
Harpers Ferry,
11–12
,
237–238

     
leadership of Virginia,
273–274

     
Lincoln and,
264–265

     
Mexican War,
170–172

     
Nat Turner uprising,
106–107

     
resignation of,
269–273

     
secession,
255

     
surrender,
305–307

     
treatment of slaves,
234–237

     
Virginia's secession threat,
268–272

     
Yorktown Peninsula battles,
291

Lee, Robert E. Jr.,
234

Lee, Rooney,
272

Letcher, John,
273–274

Lewis, Dixon,
151

Lexington, Massachusetts,
27
,
271

The Liberator,
97–99
,
104
,
108–109
,
112
,
131
,
154–155

Liberia,
89–91
,
95
,
127

The Life of George Washington
(Everett),
254–255

Lincoln, Abraham

     
assassination of,
312–313

     
Bull Run,
288–289

     
challenge to Douglas,
229–231

     
circumvention of the Constitution,
276

     
commitment to rights for blacks,
213–214

     
compensated emancipation,
173
,
232
,
292
,
296–297

     
Dana's On To Richmond war cry,
283

     
debates with Douglas,
232–234

     
election to Congress,
172–173

     
election to the presidency,
252

     
Ellsworth's death,
279

     
Emancipation Proclamation publication,
295–297

     
executive authority,
281

     
Greeley's Prayer of Twenty Millions,
291–292

     
inauguration speech,
306

     
John Brown's raid,
240

     
Lee and,
264–265
,
269
,
273

     
Maryland's lack of support for,
275

     
nomination,
249

     
political tensions over secession,
261–264

     
postwar policy,
308

     
religious and spiritual views,
294–295
,
299–300

     
Republican Party,
215

     
response to secession,
266

     
signing of the Emancipation Proclamation,
298–300

     
struggle for Fort Sumter,
266–268

     
troops in D.C.,
280

     
Tyler's meeting with,
259

     
union versus disunion,
301

Lincoln, Benjamin,
41–42

Lincoln, Mary,
298–299
,
309
,
313

Lincoln, Tad,
308

Livingston, Robert R.,
75

Loring, Edward G.,
185–186

Louis Napoleon,
294
,
309

Louisiana Territory/Louisiana Purchase,
72
,
75
,
78
,
81–82
,
91

Louverture, Toussaint,
69–74

Lovejoy, Elijah,
139–141

Lowell, James Russell,
169–170

Macandal, François,
68

MacDowell, James,
126

Madison, James,
60–61

     
American Colonization Society,
89

     
Britain's divisive trade policy,
86–87

     
call for resignation,
88

     
centralization of government,
51–54

     
election as president,
84

     
Exposition of 1828,
116–117

     
Hartford Convention demands,
88

     
Missouri Compromise,
93–94

     
nullification crisis,
120

     
Saint-Domingue slave revolts,
74

Manassas, Virginia,
282–283

Manifest Destiny,
161–162
,
169

Marion, Francis,
42

Maroon communities,
2
,
68–69

Marriage,
56
,
179–180
,
191–192
,
203

Marshall, John,
154

Marshall, Thomas F.,
153–154

Martial law,
293

Maryland,
268
,
274–278

Mason, George,
53
,
248

Mason, James M.,
14
,
247–248
,
256

Massachusetts,
17
,
26–27
,
32
,
85–86
,
97–98
,
108–109
,
275–276

Mather, Cotton,
50–51

McClellan, George,
291
,
293

McDowell, Irvin,
284
,
287

Media

     
Bull Run,
289

     
escalating hatred,
216–217

     
John Brown's raid and trial,
238–239
,
241–244
,
249–250

     
Nat Turner insurrection,
107

     
response to the Emancipation Proclamation,
296

     
secession,
266
,
280–281

     
The Liberator,
97–99
,
104
,
108–109
,
112
,
131
,
154–155

Mexican War,
168–171
,
173–174
,
181

Mexico,
50–51
,
161–162
,
165
,
168
,
192

Military, blacks' right to serve in,
42–44
,
128
,
268
,
297–298

Miller, William Bluffton,
138
,
301–302

Millerism,
138

Mills, Samuel,
89

Missouri,
91–93

Missouri Compromise,
91–94
,
144–145
,
269

Mob violence,
275

Monroe, James,
50–51
,
71
,
75
,
89

Morris, Gouverneur,
52

Morton, Edwin,
245

Morton, Samuel George,
190–191

Mount Vernon,
55–56
,
63–65

The National Era,
187

Negro Act (South Carolina),
24–25

New England

     
Britain's divisive trade policy,
86–87

     
embargo against Britain,
83–84

     
Garrison's education,
102–103

     
Garrison's
Liberator,
97–100

     
Hartford Convention demands,
88

     
incitement to war,
255–256

     
Industrial Revolution and tariffs,
115–116

     
Kansas-Nebraska Act,
195–196

     
lack of empathy for the South,
107–108

     
Missouri Compromise,
91–93

     
moral and political superiority,
50–51
,
98

     
push for disunion,
87–88

     
response to the Louisiana Purchase,
82

     
sectionalism over the Missouri Compromise,
93–94

     
War of 1812,
84–86

     
westward expansion,
117–118

New Jersey,
17–19

New Mexico,
183

New York,
17
,
23
,
25
,
82
,
132–133

New York Herald,
216–218

New York Sun,
216–217

New York Tribune,
216
,
218
,
236
,
279–280
,
283
,
291–292

Newburyport Herald,
102

Newby, Dangerfield,
7
,
9