, 179;
attacked, 180;
Secretary of State, 180, 181;
death, 181, 268.

Weed, Thurlow, for Taylor, and Southern alliance, 171, 179, 243, 255;
conciliatory, 269, 271.

Wentworth, John, Republican leader, 255.

West, 2, 3;
radical, 4;
against Adams, 17;
and Jackson, 18, 21, 23;
alliance with South, 19, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 36, 109, 131,
159;
religious life, 33;
schools and colleges, 34, 35;
and East, 39, 40, 43, 46;
banks and circulation, 45;
and courts, 51, 55, 58, 59;
and public lands, 59, 62;
and Bank, 60, 61, 63, 66, 67;
Bank and Jackson, 69, 70, 74;
market for East, 75, 80;
removal of Indians, 87;
population, 89, 90;
speculation in, 91, 92;
canals and railroads, 92, 93, 97;
against Van Buren, 93, 96, 110;
state debts, 98, 106;
Specie Circular, 101, 108;
for Harrison, 111, 112;
and Calhoun, 120;
Texas and Oregon, 122;
Webster-Ashburton Treaty, 124;
Walker letter, 129;
and Mexican War, 160;
for Cass, 172;
railroad building, 189, 201, 205, 213;
school lands, 223;
threats of secession, 268;
love of Union, 289;
against emancipation, 304.

West Indies, trade with British, 84.

West Virginia, organized and admitted, 279;
lost to South, 313.

Whigs, campaign of 1836, 93;
panic of 1837, 102, 108, 109;
in 1840, 110;
divided, 114;
and Tyler, 115;
and Texas, 128, 147;
Independent Treasury, 151;
Taylor for President, 155, 157;
and Wilmot Proviso, 170;
Convention of 1848, 171, 173;
Southern and Taylor, 174;
Southern, for Union, 178;
secure Compromise of 1850, 181;
Northwestern, join Republicans, 241;
Eastern, and Know-Nothings, 242, 243, 264.

White, Hugh Lawson, revolt against Jackson, 93;
candidate for President, 93.

Whitney, Asa, and Pacific Railroad, 204, 233.

Whitney, Eli, cotton gin, 199.

Whittier, John G., lines on Webster, 180, 220.

Wilmot, David, and Wilmot Proviso, 170.

Wilmot Proviso, and Northwest, 153;
in Congress, 170.

Wirt, William, 17, 53;
and anti-Masonic party, 67, 70.

Wisconsin, 87;
settlement, 89, 90, 105, 106;
made State, 198;
Indians removed, 199, 205;
Republican party in, 241;
nullifies Fugitive Slave Law, 252;
Democratic, 302.

Wise, Henry A., 67;
supports Tyler, 116, 121;
defeats Know Nothings, 243, 253;
and John Brown raid, 258.

Women, position of, on frontier, 32;
in factories, 210;
life on farm,