250

Sheridan, Gen. Philip, 248, 250

Sherman, Gen. W. T., 242, 248-249

Slavery, American, Chapter I, 11-39;
Calhoun's view of, 55;
controlled government in 1860, 188;
attacked by North Carolinian, 196;
destroyed vigour of South, 210;
to be paid for by war, 287

Slave-trade begins, 17

Slidell, John, 225

Smith, Sidney, 107

Socrates, 263, 301

South Carolina, and the tariff, 50;
nullification
doctrine of, 51;
attacked Sumter, 191

Southern destitution, 267

Southern officers of Northern birth, 195

Southern resources, 279, 280

Southern women, 266-268, 281

Spanish slave-traders, 19

"Squatter sovereignty," 169

Stanton, Edwin M., 235, 240, 299

Stead, William, 99

Stephens, Alexander H., 201;
opposes secession, 202;
Confederate vice-president, 203;
opinion of Davis, 203

Story, Joseph, 75, 104

Stowe, Calvin E., 139

Stowe, Charles E., 139

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, Chapter VI, 136-148;
daughter of Lyman Beecher, 138;
married, lived in Cincinnati, 139;
wrote death of "Uncle Tom," 141;
"Uncle Tom's Cabin," 143-148

Stowe, Lyman Beecher, 139

Stradivarius, 301

Sumner, Charles, 54, 75;
Chapter IV, 95-116;
succeeds Webster in United States Senate, 102;
early career, 104-110;
oration on war, 107-109;
boldly attacks slavery, 110-113;
beaten by Brooks, 113;
characterization, 114-116

Surgeons, 272-274

Taney, Roger B., 186

Tariff, the, 48-50

Texas, secession, 189

Thackeray, W. M., 148

Thomas, Gen. G. H., 196, 248

_Times_, the London, 230

Tombs, Robert, 137

_Trent_, the, 225

_Tribune Almanac_, 128

_Tribune, The New York_, 126-128

_Tribune_ reporter and John Brown, 153

Turner, Nat, 34

"Uncle Tom," death of, 141

"Uncle Tom's Cabin," 143-148

"Vanity Fair," 148

Van Zandt, frees slaves, 140

Vaughan, Judge, 107

Vicksburg, 247

Victoria, Queen, 146, 226

War, good and evil influence of the, 281-285

Washburne, E. B., 179

Washington, George, 24, 191;
contrast with Lincoln, 288-289

Watt, James, 110, 291

Webster and Calhoun, Chapter II, 40-67

Webster, Daniel, 12;
early career, 44, 45;
answers Hayne, 56-58;
answers Calhoun, 60, 61;
7th of March speech, 61-63;
Lincoln approves, 64;

Webster dies, 66;
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