New England, 42, 46, 132, 133, 134, 137, 138;
prices, 186, 194.

Courts, for vested interests, 51;
national, power of, 51;
county in old South, 38;
planters in federal, 138.

Crawford, Thomas, sculptor, 225.

Crawford, William H., Jackson and Seminole affair, 2, 4, 8, 64.

Creeks. _See_ Indians.

Crittenden, John J., 171, 255, 273.

Crockett, David, 79.

Cuba, 198;
purchase proposed, 232, 233;
Ostend Manifesto, 234, 247.

Currency. _See_ Money, Paper money.

Cushing, Caleb, 50, 150;
Attorney-General, 231.

Dallas, George M., for Vice-President, 130;
elected, 131.

Dana, R. H., secession, 253.

Daniel, John M., opposed to Davis, 312.

Davis, Jefferson, Oregon, Texas, 132;
expansionist, 150, 157, 176;
retired after 1850, 181, 214;
Secretary of War, 231;
and Pacific Railroad, 233, 234, 236;
for Kansas-Nebraska Bill, 239;
Senate leader, 247;
and Douglas, 254, 258;
against secession, 269;
President of Confederacy, 271;
and Fort Sumter, 274;
advice to plant food crops, 282;
"second Washington," 282, 285;
reelected, 286;
and J. E. Johnston, 287;
trust in Lee, 298;
unyielding, 309;
opposition to, 312, 315, 322;
recommends negro enlistment, 323;
opposed by Congress, 323;
impeachment threatened, 323;
offers Europe emancipation, 323;
last appeal to South, 324;
escape to Danville, 327;
captured and imprisoned, 328.

Declaration of Independence, and Jacksonians, 24;
and New England, 24;
in Democratic platform of 1840, 110;
abolitionists and, 162, 262.

Delaware, for Adams, 14, 18.

Democracy, decline, 3;
doomed in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, 11;
retarded by cotton expansion, 11;
Whigs and Democrats, 109;
flooded in South, 214;
in New England, 215.

Democratic party, 67;
defied by Clay, 66;
first national convention, 68;
and Van Buren, 104, 107, 109, 110;
Baltimore Convention of 1844, 129;
for Texas, 147, 161;
convention of 1848, 172, 182;
Franklin Pierce, 182;
compromise a finality, 182;
lose Northwest, 242;
Southern, and pro-slavery, 243;
Convention of 1856, 245;
Buchanan and Breckinridge, 205;
and Douglas, 257, 258;
Charleston Convention of 1860, 260;
split, 261;
wins seven Republican States, 302;
strong in North, 317;
Convention of 1864, 321.

Derby Bank, of Connecticut, robs depositors, 44.

De Veaux, James, painter, 54.

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