ssissippi, 107

_Chesapeake_, the, duel with the _Shannon_, 80

Chickamauga, Battle of, 198

Chicago, Ill., Republican Convention meets at, 153

Chinese, immigration of, 230;
Sumner's plea for, 230;
exclusion of, 231

Civil War, the, not fought over Slavery, 162;
motives of South, 163-164;
case for North stated, 166-167;
issue of, as defined by Lincoln, 167;
progress of, 180-202

Clay, Henry, leader of "war hawks," 78;
character of, 78-79;
signs peace with Great Britain, 83;
arranges Missouri Compromise, 85;
a candidate for the Presidency, 91;
deserted by the West, 95;
supports Adams, 95;
Secretary of State, 98;
responsible for Protectionist policy, 100;
seeks a compromise with Calhoun, 101;
supports U.S. Bank, 105;
crushing defeat of, 105;
the appropriate Whig candidate for Presidency, 113;
passed over for Harrison, 113;
partial retirement of, 125;
called upon to save the Union, 125;
his last Compromise, 126-127;
death of, 126, 129;
Crittenden a disciple of, 160

Cleveland, Grover, elected President, 230;
second election, 234

Clinton, Democratic candidate for Vice-Presidency, 57

Cobbett, William, on American prosperity, 37;
supports Federalists, 59

Collectivism, alien to the American temper, 223

Colonies (_see_ English, French, Dutch, Spanish Colonies)

Columbia, South Carolina, burning of, 201

Columbia, district of, slavery legal in, 126;
slave-trade abolished in, 126

Columbus, Christopher, discovers America, 1;
American view of, 1;
and the Renaissance, 2

Compromise of 1850, drafted by Clay, 126;
supported by Webster, 127;
opposed by Calhoun, 128;
reasons for failure of, 129 _seq._;
administered by a new generation, 139;
Seward's speech on, 139

Compromises (_see_ Constitution, Crittenden, Missouri)

Confederate Debt, repudiation of, demanded, 204, 216

Confederate States, Constitution of, 169;
Davis President of, 169;
flag of, raised over Fort Sumter, 173;
Kentucky declares war on, 178;
military position of, 178-180;
Congress of, summoned to meet at Richmond, 180;
send Mason and Slidell to Europe, 182;
blockaded 184;
opportunity to make peace offered to, 199;
slavery dead in, 199, 203

Congress, how elected, 47;
U.S. Bank secures, 103;
recommends amendments to the Constitution protecting slavery, 168;
opposed to policy of President Johnson, 214;
committed to Negro Suffra