lavery leader, 164;
address on taxes, 167, 242, 252.

Agassiz, Alexander, 225.

Agassiz, Louis, naturalist, 225.

Agriculture, methods of, 211.

Alabama, and Indians, 8;
immigration to, 13;
population (1830, 1840), 13, 90;
for Jackson, 72;
being filled up, 89, 90;
for Van Buren, 111;
"Slavery a blessing," 119;
and Wilmot Proviso, 171, 264;
secession of, 271.

_Albany Journal_, friendly to Confederacy, 272.

Alcott, Amos Bronson, 225.

Alien and Sedition Laws, 161.

Allen, William, friendly to Calhoun, 120;
expansionist, 149.

Allston, sculptor, 54.

Amendments, on presidential term, appointment of members of Congress,
limiting Supreme Court, 16.

American Fur Company, 35.

American National Academy of Science, 225.

American party. _See_ Know-Nothing party.

American Revolution, 47, 84;
debt paid, 99.

American System, Clay's, 67, 74, 109;
to be carried out, 114;
laid aside, 145.

Anderson, Major Robert, commanding at Fort Sumter, 273.

Andrew, Governor, of Massachusetts, supports Lincoln, 322.

Antietam, battle of, 302.

Appomattox, Lee surrenders at, 327.

Arkansas, in cotton belt, 12;
for Van Buren, 111;
for Pacific Railroad, 233;
secession of, 275.

Art, American, in 1860, 225.

Ashburton, Lord, Minister to United States, 123;
Webster-Ashburton Treaty, 123, 124, 125.

Astor, John Jacob, fur trade, 35.

Atchison, David, expansionist, 150;
pro-slavery leader, 238.

_Atlantic Monthly_, founded, 227.

Austin, Stephen, in Texas, 120.

Bache, Alexander Dallas, scientist, 224.

Baldwin, Joseph G., 227.

Baltimore, Maryland, for Adams, 15, 41, 46, 48;
newspapers for Bank, 79;
Democratic Convention of 1844, 128;
wheat market, 133;
sub-treasury at, 151;
Democratic Convention of 1848, 172, 187.

Baltimore and Ohio Canal, 46.

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 192.

Bancroft, George, in Polk's Cabinet, 149.

Bank, Second National, 45;
and Jackson, 60, 65, 66, 67;
and Clay, 67;
bill for re-charter, 67;
Biddle, president, 67;
sentiment for re-charter, 68;
Jackson's veto, 69;
in campaign of 1832, 70;
and Jackson, 77;
creditor of members of Congress, 78;
newspaper support of, 79;
government deposits withheld, 79;
fighting Jackson and the people, 80;
defeated, 82;
decline in power, 83;
and French claims, 85;
out of politics, 91;
under Pennsylvania charter, 98;
European stockholders, 9