of Confederacy, 323;
offered freedom to fight, 325.

Slidell, John, 91;
mission to Mexico, 153, 215, 258;
commissioner to Europe, 285;
in France, 315.

Sloat, Commodore John D., seizes California, 154.

Smith, Gerrit, 166.

Sons of Liberty, 321, 323.

Soule, Bishop, 34.

Soule, Pierre, commissioner to Spain, 233;
recalled, 234;
Ostend Manifesto, 234.

South, 4, 6, 7, 8, 12, 13;
against Adams, 13;
for Jackson, 17, 18, 23;
planters not democratic, 24;
alliance with West, 30, 40, 109, 129, 131;
uneasy about slavery, 37;
population, 40, 41, 42;
exports, 42;
banks and circulation, 45;
trade with New England, and New York, 46;
cotton, slaves, land, 47, 48;
judges for property interests, 51, 55, 58;
for free trade, 59;
and the Bank, 60, 61, 69, 80;
control or secession, 62;
and protection, 68, 69, 70;
and nullification, 72;
market for East, 75;
and Union, 75;
removal of Indians, 87;
for Van Buren, 93;
land office defaulters, 96, 101, 115, 117, 118, 119;
for Texas, 120;
North outstripping, 121, 124;
and Texas, 126;
Oregon and Texas, 129;
Walker letter, 129;
California, Oregon, and Texas, 132;
_ante-bellum_, and civilization, 132, 133, 135;
plantation life in, 136, 138, 139, 140, 141;
rural life, 142;
court days, 142;
few paupers and insane, 142, 143, 145, 160, 161;
abolitionists mistrust, 163, 164;
and abolition agitation, 165;
Texas or secession, 167;
for Cass, 172;
break with Northwest, 173;
desperate situation, 174;
proposed conventions, 176, 178;
accepts compromise, 181;
population, 185;
railroad building, 189;
plantation system, 193, 194, 195;
commercial conventions, 195;
Cuba, Nicaragua, slave trade, 198;
contemplating secession, 198, 203;
trade with North, 205, 213;
aristocratic life, 213;
Calvinistic religion, 218;
public education, 223;
college students, 224, 234;
clash with Northwest, 236, 240;
becoming solid, 243, 246;
against Douglas, 257;
John Brown raid, 259;
preparing for secession, 264;
and Lincoln's election, 268, 269;
war enthusiasm, 276, 277;
Union areas, 278, 279, 280;
confidence, 282;
currency and finances, 286;
not ready for reunion, 309;
debt currency and taxation, 310;
dissensions, 310, 311;
cost of war to, 328.

South Carolina, 4;
cotton and politics, 5;
Calhoun and Jackson, 8, 11, 14, 19, 23, 28, 30;