on repeal of Missouri Compromise, 115;
nominated for Presidency, 140;
Toombs' characterization of, 149, 150;
electoral vote for, 152

Finance Committee of Provisional Congress, chairman of, 220

Fish, Hamilton, vote on Kansas-Nebraska bill, 115

Fitzpatrick, Gov., declines nomination for Vice-presidency, 182

Florida, delegates leave Charleston convention, 177;
secession of, 213

Foote, Henry S., represents Mississippi in U. S. Senate, 68;
elected governor of Mississippi, 97;
contest with Davis in Mississippi, 163

"Forbidden Fruit," 67

Force bill, the, 51

Foreacre, Supt., frames railroad law, 351

Forensic eloquence, 18, 21, 24, 25, 27, 28, 361

Forsyth, John, Confederate commissioner to Washington, 222

Forsythe, John C., attitude on the Compromise bill, 52

Forts. See their names.

France, Mexican schemes, 233;
political events in, 309, 310

Franklin College, 6-12

Franklin County, legal practice in, 16

Freemasons, joins the, 289

Freeport, Ill., debate between Lincoln and Douglas at, 161, 162

Free-Soil party, 89

Free-Soil settlers, 115, 116

Fremont, John C., nominated for Presidency, 140;
electoral vote for, 152

French, Capt. H. L., account of Toombs at second battle
of Manassas, 261

Fugitive-Slave law, Clay's proposed, 79;
the Georgia platform, 86;
indorsed by Whig convention at Baltimore, 97;
Webster's attitude on, 100;
allusion to, in Boston lecture, 131

Fugitive-Slave laws, passage of new, 170;
proposed amendments, 202;
demands of the South as to, 206

Fulton, Col. M. C., narrow escape of, 304

Gardner, James, candidate for governorship of Georgia, 157

Garrison, W. L., denunciation of U. S. Constitution, 129

General Assembly, service in the, 17, 30-46;
vote for Speaker in, 33

Geneva, visit to, 126

Georgia, land-grant to Major Robert Toombs in, 2;
distress in, 34-37;
first railroad in, 40;
internal improvements, 40;
establishment of Supreme Court, 41;
organization of Congressional districts, 44;
supports Jackson in 1824, 51;
Henry Clay in, 55;
panegyric on, 58;
formation of "Rough and Ready" clubs in, 60;
the Clayton Compromise in, 60-62;
formation of Constitutional Union party, 81, 183;
growth of secession sentiment in, 83, 201, 204;
adoption of the "Georgia Platform," 86;
nomination of Howell Cobb for governor, 86;
nomin