ndiana, admitted as free State, 23.
Indians, unfitness of for slavery, 5.
Jackson, Andrew, characteristics, administration, 29;
denounces nullification, 33;
opposes circulation of anti-slavery literature through U. S. mails, 72.
Jackson, Stonewall, 135.
Jefferson, Thomas, 8;
denounces slave trade in first draft of Decl. of Independ.;
plans of for gradual emancipation, 9, 17-18,
and for exclusion of slavery from unorganized territory, 9;
polit. ideals, views on slavery, 17;
unskillful as President, 21;
fears of for Union; sympathies with slave States, jealous of
State rights, 25, 250;
on dangers of slavery, 391.
Jenkins, Charles J. (Gov.), pleads for negro rights in inaugural, 301.
Jerry, fugitive slave, rescued, 91.
Johnson, Andrew, in Senate, 214;
early life and character of, becomes President, 273;
retains Lincoln's cabinet, Seward's influence on, 274;
issues proclamation of amnesty; appoints provisional governors
in South, 275;
favors qualified negro suffrage, 276;
message (1865), 281;
policy of reconstruction of opposed in Congress, 285 ff;
supported by Democrats, 286;
vetoes Freedmen's Bureau bill, 294, 296;
loses support of party; undignified speech of strengthens
opposition to, 295;
vetoes Civil Rights bill, 297;
strong opposition to reconstruction policy of, 303;
undignified conduct of during tour of North, 304;
impeachment and trial of, 311 ff;
acquitted; in Senate; place of in history, 312.
Johnson, Herschel V., nominated for Vice-President, 188;
opposes immediate secession, 225.
Johnson, Oliver, 44.
Johnson, Reverdy, in U. S. Senate, 284.
Jones, C. C. (Rev.), on condition of slaves, 49.
Kansas, struggle for, 116 ff;
stringent slavery laws in, 117;
forms issue of Repub. party's first campaign, 127;
Walker appointed governor of; struggle in, 150 ff;
admitted to Union, 152.
Kansas-Nebraska bill, 112;
effects of on election (1854), 115;
results of, 116.
Kealing, H. T., 379.
Keitt, Lawrence, with Brooks in assault on Sumner, 122.
Kellogg, William P., in government of Louisiana, 341.
Kemble, Fanny, describes slavery in "A Residence on a Georgia
Plantation," 103 ff.
Kendall, Amos, 72.
Kentucky, attempt to establish as free State, 22;
refuses to consider secession, but promise
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