in; impatient of Southern
political dominance, 212;
reasons for failure of disunion movement in, 218 ff;
disinclination in to use force against secession movement, 228;
Mass. becomes leader in, 229;
united in resistance to secession, 235;
views on Civil war in, 237;
bitter feeling against South in, 241;
moral effect of war on, 244;
Unionism the absorbing issue in, 248;
party divisions in, 253;
growing sentiment in against slavery, 254;
courage of in war, 262;
advantages of over South, 264;
joy in over prospect of success, 268;
opposes Johnson's reconstruction plans, 288;
current opinion in on cause of secession, 300;
hatred of Jefferson Davis in, 301;
general temper in hostile to Pres. Johnson, 312;
feeling of relief in after Grant's election, 315;
resumption of business in, 316;
immigration from into South, 319;
growing tendency in to accord social equality to negroes, 373 ff, 406.
North Carolina, emancipation favored in, 36;
right of free speech vindicated in, 129;
votes against secession convention, 229;
secedes, 235;
emancipation in, 260;
provisional govt. formed in, 275;
reconstructed, 310;
relative number of negro voters in, 311;
Democrats regain, 323;
legal limitation of suffrage in, 383.
Northwestern Territory, slavery prohibited in, 10.
Nullification, So. Carolina claims right of, 32;
denounced by Jackson, 33;
opposed in "Force bill" of 1833, 33;
question dropped, 34, 214.
Oberlin College, becomes anti-slavery stronghold, 37;
plan for students to earn expenses fails at, 362.
O'Conor, Charles, nominated for President, 329.
Ohio, admitted as free State, 23;
declares for emancipation, 35.
Olmsted, Frederic Law, on condition of slaves in South before
the war, 49;
volumes of travels in the slave States, 107 ff.
Ordinance of 1784, fails to limit slave territory, 10.
Ordinance of 1787, limits slave territory, 10.
Oregon, boundary dispute, 80;
rejects 15th amendment, 315;
double returns from in Hayes-Tilden election, 351.
Ostend manifesto, 128.
Packard, S. B., in govt. of Louisiana, 341;
claims governorship, 349.
Paine, Thomas, 8.
Parker, Theodore, influence of in church and state, 143;
supports John Brown, 160, 168.
Peace Congress, proposed, to find means to preserve t
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