ren for President, 133;
Webster's pun, 133;
nominated Dix for gov., 133;
Seymour unites them with Hunkers, 149;
nominated Seymour for gov., 1850, 156;
defeated, 158;
support Marcy for President, 1852, 169-72;
support Pierce and Seymour, 1852, 169-78;
succeed, 178;
Hunkers secede, 1853, 180-5;
nominate separate ticket, 184;
approved canal amendment, 184;
called Softshells or Softs, 185;
see Softs.

Barney, Hiram C., appointed collector of port of New York, ii. 390;
choice of Lincoln, 390-6;
mysterious influence in favour of, 393;
career of, 395;
crippled Weed machine, 395-6;
Lincoln plans to transfer him, iii. 85;
sustained by Chase, 85;
unsatisfactory collector, 85;
Lincoln promises Weed to remove him, 87;
Draper appointed in his place, 97.

Barnum, Henry W., record as a soldier, iii. 129;
nominated for prison insp., 1865, 130;
elected, 135;
renominated, 1867, 196;
defeated, 215.

Barstow, Gamaliel H., cand. for lt.-gov., 1836, ii. 12;
career of, 13;
defeated, 14;
state treas., 18;
withdraws from politics, 38.

Bascom, Oliver, nominated for canal com., 1868, iii. 207;
elected, 215.

Bates, James K., nominated for prison insp., 1863, iii. 76;
elected, 83.

Bayard, James A., cand. in opposition to Greeley, 1872, iii. 289, note;
attitude toward Tilden, 354.

Beach, Allen C., nominated for lt.-gov., 1868, iii. 207;
elected, 215;
renominated, 231;
elected, 244;
aspires to be gov., 1872, 297;
nominated for sec. of state, 1877, 384;
vigorously opposed in campaign, 387;
elected, 387;
renominated, 1879, 424;
defeated, 427.

Beach, John H., Seward's reliance upon, ii. 34.

Beale, Charles L., in Congress, ii. 339, note;
disapproved Weed's compromise, 339, note.

Beardsley, Samuel, leads Dem. forces in Congress, ii. 1;
heads mob against anti-slavery meeting, 6;
character of, 53.

Beauregard, Pierre T., at Charleston, S.C., iii. 2;
reduces Fort Sumter, 3;
at Bull Run, 11.

Beebe, George M., strong supporter of Tammany, iii. 383.

Beecher's Bibles, Sharpe's rifles, ii. 224.

Beecher, Henry Ward, active against repeal of Missouri compromise, ii. 193;
in campaign, 1860, 240;
political sermons of, 329;
indifference to secession, 334;
peaceable secession, 336.

Resents Lincoln's relations with Conservatives, iii. 90;
forsakes Johnson, 163;
denounces his vicious course, 163;
supports