ion, in West, 34;
in South, 142.

Public lands, 25, 26;
squatters, 27;
Benton and, 27;
for schools, 34;
Foot Resolution, 60;
Preemption Bill, 60, 89, 108;
sales, 91, 97;
Specie Circular, 92;
distribution of proceeds, 114, 116;
for railroads, 203.

Quakers, 22.

Quitman, John A., 91;
filibustering, 198.

Railroads, speculation in West, 92;
and Jackson, 92;
building, 192;
opening grain region, 199;
of South breaking down, 310, 323.

Randolph, John, 10, 11, 15, 16, 30, 132.

Rankin, John, anti-slavery worker, 119, 161.

Reeder, Andrew, Governor of Kansas, 243.

Religion, in _ante-bellum_ South, 143;
American, of 1860, 216.

Republican party, in Wisconsin and Michigan, 241, 242;
Northern and anti-slavery, 243;
platform, 246;
and Fremont, 246, 247, 251;
and Douglas, 255;
and Seward, 257;
Chicago Convention, 261, 262;
conciliatory, 270;
loses seven States, 302.

Repudiation of state debts, 106;
effect on Confederacy, 316.

Revenue, of United States, exceeding expenses, 92;
surplus distribution vetoed, 92;
surplus deposited with States, 92;
defaulters, 96, 97, 98, 103.

Rhett, Robert Barnwell, 6, 15;
threatening secession, 117, 132, 150, 152;
retired after 1850, 181;
for secession, 264, 270;
opposed to Davis, 312, 324.

Rhode Island, 15.

Rice, 5, 12, 132.

Rice, Nathan L., slavery divine, 221.

Richmond, Va., 10;
and Bank, 79;
wheat market, 133;
Confederate capital, 280;
social life, 280;
evacuated, 326.

Rio Grande, boundary proposed, 130, 148, 194.

Ritchie, Thomas, and Walker, 129;
for Compromise of 1850, 178.

Rives, William C., supporting Tyler, 116, 324.

Robinson, Charles, anti-slavery leader, 244.

Rosecrans, General W. S., 295;
battle of Murfreesboro, 295, 303.

Ross, John, chief of Cherokees, 88.

Rush, Richard, candidate for Vice-President, 17.

St. Louis, Mo., Mercantile Library, 35;
fur trade, 35;
in cotton belt, 135, 193;
Pacific Railroad, 235.

Santa Anna, 154.

Sargent, John, candidate for Vice-President, 67.

Savannah, Ga., blockade-running from, 313;
captured by Sherman, 324.

Scammon, John Y., 202.

Schurz, Carl, and Lincoln's election, 264.

Scott, General Winfield, sent to Mexico, 155;
captures Vera Cruz, 155;
Cerro Gordo, 156;
Churubusco, 156;
Molino del Rey, 156;
Chapultepec, 156;
Mexico City, captured, 156;
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