he Union, 228.

Pendleton, George H., candidate for Presidential nomination, 313.

Pennsylvania, number of slaves in in 1790, 9;
votes against extension of slave trade, 13;
passes emancipation law, 21;
counted as free State, 23;
declares for emancipation, 35;
Republicans fail to indorse Pres. Johnson, 276.

Peonage cases, prosecution of, 388.

Personal Liberty Laws, passed in North, 91.

Petigru, James L., 223.

Petitions to Congress, anti-slavery, 71 ff.

Pettus, Gov., of Mississippi, 221.

Philadelphia, convention in behalf of Pres. Johnson at, 303.

Phillips, Wendell, becomes ally of Garrison, 54;
scorns Republican party, 127;
declares all war un-Christian, 210;
favors disunion, 217, 228;
abuses Lincoln, 254.

Pierce, Franklin, nominated for, and elected President, 93;
recognizes usurpers in Kansas struggle, 117.

Pierce, Henry L., in House, 331;
vote of in Hayes-Tilden contest, 352.

Pinckneys, Charles and Thomas, demand freedom of slave trade, 12 ff.

Pittsburg, counter convention at, 303.

Platte country, the, 112.

Polk, James K., nominated for President, 75;
elected;
declares war with Mexico, 76.

Poor whites, evil effects of slavery on, 110.

"Present South, The," by E. G. Murphy, 388, 408.

Pottawatomie massacre, 120;
results of, 121.

Presbyterian church, condemns slavery, 35.

Prisons, military, terrors of, 245 ff.

Protection. See TARIFF, PROTECTIVE.

Quakers, relation of to slavery, 7.

Randall, Samuel J., in House, 284;
speaker, 346.

Randolph, John, his opinion of slavery, 47.

Randolph, Thos. Jefferson, his scheme of emancipation, 43.

Rankin, John, 38.

Rantoul, Robert, joins "Free Soil" party, 81.

Raymond, Henry J., 141;
in House, 284;
supports Pres. Johnson's plan of reconstruction, 285, 303.

Reconstruction, 267 ff;
Lincoln's plans for and views on, 268 ff;
congressional bill (1864), rejected by Lincoln, 269;
Lincoln's plans for opposed by Congress, 270;
first Congressional plan of, 274 ff;
President Johnson's plan of, 275;
Henry Ward Beecher's plan of, 277 ff;
John A. Andrew's plan of, 280;
both latter plans too advanced for the time, 280;
action taken on by Congress (1865-6), 281 ff;
Pres. Johnson's plan of opposed in Congress, 285;
second Congressional plan of, 294 ff;
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