in West, 33;
in South, 143;
and slavery, 143, 144, 161, 165, 221;
increase of membership, 145;
in South, 218;
strength of clergy, 220;
members, 222;
educational institutions, 222, 223.

Mexican War, 135, 154.

Mexico, West and, 25, 27;
and England, 122, 126, 132, 135;
Texas boundary, 148;
Slidell's mission to, 153;
war with, 154;
desire for all, 157, 161, 247.

Michigan, 22, 87;
population, 90;
Dutch repudiated, 106;
Oregon and Texas, 132;
made State, 198;
Indians removed, 199;
Republican party organized, 241.

Michigan Central Railroad, 192.

Middle States, 6, 13, 14;
and Jackson, 17, 18, 22;
labor scarce in, 30, 40;
banks, 45;
literature, 52, 53, 54, 55, 68, 74, 83, 84, 93;
poor wheat crop, 101;
Texas and Oregon, 127;
abolition societies in, 162.

Minnesota, 87, 89;
made State, 198;
Indians removed, 199.

Mississippi, and Indians, 8, 87;
and Jackson, 72;
population, 89, 90;
debt and income, 98;
internal improvements, 98;
debts of, repudiated, 106;
"slavery a blessing," 119;
Van Buren and Texas, 128;
California and slavery, 175;
secession of, 271, 313.

Mississippi River, 87;
canal feeders, 90;
Commodore Foote on, 293;
held by Federals, 307.

Mississippi Valley, 2, 11, 21;
for Texas and Oregon, 25;
value of exports, 29, 36;
immigration to, 90;
Germans in, 91;
cotton belt, 135, 198;
growth and power, 199.

Missouri, and Clay, 21, 22;
the bank, tariff, and internal improvements, 22;
horse-racing, 32, 37, 40;
Germans in, 91;
for Van Buren, 111;
emigration from, to Oregon, 127, 131;
Pacific Railroad, 238;
and Kansas-Nebraska Bill, 238;
and Kansas, 245, 265;
secession of, prevented, 275;
held by Federals, 313.

Missouri Compromise, repealed, 239;
Dred Scott decision, 247.

Missouri Valley, in plantation belt, 138.

Mobile, Ala., blockade-running from, 313;
taken by Farragut, 321.

Mobile and Ohio Railroad, 204.

Monroe, James, in Virginia Convention of 1829, 10, 28, 89, 105.

Monroe Doctrine, France and Mexico and, 315.

Monterey, battle of, 154.

Monticello, sale of, 13.

Mormons, 176.

Morse, S. F. B., 224.

Motley, John L., 215, 228.

Murfreesboro, battle of, 295.

Napoleon III, favors South, 314, 316.

Nashville, Tenn., Federals capture, 293.

Nat Turner, slave insurrection, 118.

National Bank, 114;
Tyler's views, 115;
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