INDEX

Italic numbers indicate illustrations.

“A., Mr.” See Arnold, Richard J.
Abbot, Gorham D. (“James Gordon Abbott”), 338, 344
Abbott, James Burnett (1818–1879), 24, 64, 363, 365–66, 369, 371
“Abbott Howitzer,” 25, 366–72
Abingdon, Va., 482
Abolitionists, 85, 283, 286
Acquia Creek, Va., 92, 467
Adams, William T. [pseudo “Dr. Hunter”], 359, 361
Africa, 122, 166, 482
Agricultural practices: in England, 139, 140, 166, 171; in the North, 87, 101, 103, 115, 134, 137, 192; in the South, 86–92, 97–101, 103–4, 128–31, 134–37, 139, 140, 192–93, 199–200, 205, 257, 267, 309–10, 438, 444
Aiken, William, 418, 423
Alabama, 10, 33, 481; description of, 205–9; frontiersmen in, 155; slavery in, 183–85, 188, 411
Alexandria, La., 473
Allen, Anthony Benezet, 143
Allen, Daniel B., 336
Allen, Richard Lamb, 143
Allison, Samuel Perkins (1827–1858), 1, 236–37, 245, 472; FLO’s encounter with, 16–17, 21, 29, 231, 232–36
Amazon River, 145, 233
American Agriculturalist (periodical), 143
American and Foreign Antislavery Society, 267, 287
American party. See Nativism; Know-Nothing party
American Peace Society, 363
American Seamen’s Friends Society, 143, 329
American Whig Review, 329, 366
“Andover, Mrs.” See Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Anjer, Java, 171
Anti-Nebraska party (N.Y.), 336
Antwerp, Belgium, 145, 147, 151
Apollyon, 208, 209
Arctic (ship), 322–31, 324
Aristotle, 278
Arkansas, 404, 437, 454
Arnold, Louisa Caroline Gindrat (1804–1871), 161, 162, 163
Arnold, Richard J. (1796–1873), 161, 162, 163–64, 187, 464, 469; plantations of, 10, 13, 160–61, 163, 188, 191; slaves of, 167, 182, 186, 193–94, 255
Asheville, N.C., 482
Ashland (estate), 472
Association for the Religious Instruction of the Negroes (Liberty County, Ga.), 172–73
Atchison, David Rice, 423, 424
Athenaeum, A London Literary and Critical Journal, 350, 351, 386, 389
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Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company, 429
Atlantic Monthly, 355, 452, 454
Austin, Tex., 317
Austin Texas State Gazette, 318
Austria, 262, 268, 383
Badger, George E., 287
Bailey, Gamaliel, 283, 287
Baker, Anthony Wayne (1826–1854), 10, 210, 212
Bakersville, N.C., 482
Baldwin, Elizabeth (1824–1912), 381
Baltimore, Md., 472
Bancroft, George, 359, 361
Bandera Pass, Tex., 298
Bangs Brothers & Company (publishers), 387, 390
Banks, Nathaniel P., 420, 423
Baptists, 164, 312, 401, 403
Barclay, Mildred (“Mrs. Barclay”), 463, 468
Barnes, Albert Henry, Jr. (1826–1878), 211, 212, 374, 375
Barney, Hiram, 376
Barnum, P. T., 102, 335
Bartholomew, Edward Sheffield (1822–1858), 379, 392, 394; relations of, with Bertha Olmsted, 71, 380, 393; relations of, with FLO, 379–80, 381, 396
Bartlett, D. W., 356
Bartlett & Welford (book importers), 390
Barye, Antoine-Louis: Lion et Serpent, 342, 346
Bastrop, Tex., 317
Bateman, Ellen (1844–1936), 102, 333, 336; ability of, 95, 332, 335
Bateman, Hezekiah L., 332, 333, 335, 336
Bateman, Kate Josephine (1843?–1917), 333; ability of, 95, 102, 335; education of, 335–36
Bateman, Sidney Frances, 335, 336. Writings: The Mother’s Trust, 336; Young America, 332, 335
Bayne, Thomas Levingston (1826–1891), 203, 204, 211, 213, 214, 470
Bayou Sara, La., 307, 309, 311, 480
Beaumont, Tex., 334
Beecher, Henry Ward, 50, 320
Beecher, Lyman, 50, 115
Beecher, Thomas Kinnicut, 338, 345
Behr, Ottomar von, 18, 463, 475
Belfast, Ireland, 52, 204
Bell, Currer. See Brontë, Charlotte
Bell, Peter Hansborough, 403, 405
Bellows, Henry W. (1814–1882), 347, 348
Bentham, Jeremy, 238
Bently, Richard, 361
Bethels, for sailors, 142, 143
Biarritz, France, 392, 393
Bingen, Hesse-Darmstadt, 235, 238
Birmingham, Ala., 481
Birmingham, England, 139, 380
“Black Republicans,” 407
Blacks, natural capacities of, 178, 181, 229, 259
—free, 15, 121–24, 204, 229; laws concerning, 125–26, 189, 197, 264, 269; in the North, 91, 100, 120, 123–24, 263–65; in the South, 118–21, 263–64
Blanc, Louis, 394
Blue Ridge Mountains, 136, 139
Boerne, Tex., 294
Bogue, David, 83
Bois de Boulogne (Paris), 156, 162
Bossange, Edouard, 114, 115
Bossange, Hector, 344, 347
Boston, Mass., 25, 60, 397, 401, 404, 452; compared to the South, 97, 119, 131, 411; FLO in, 347, 441, 449
Boston Christian Aid Society, 404
Boston Daily Advertiser, 65, 401, 402
Boston Kansas Company, 32, 441
Botta, Anne Charlotte Lynch. See Lynch, Anne Charlotte
Botts, John Minor, 285, 288
Bowen, M’Namee & Company (silk merchants), 320
Brace, Charles Loring (1826–1890), 33, 49–52, 51, 113–14, 320, 397, 448; as abolitionist, 5, 83, 84; biography of, 49–52; correspondence of, with FLO, 16, 17, 21, 22, 82, 204, 231, 236, 271, 274, 351; friends and relatives of, 56, 69, 94, 115, 236, 237, 443, 445; in Hungary, 6, 359, 361; mission work of, 120, 121, 212, 335; relations of, with FLO, 4, 5, 9, 72, 126, 266, 281, 332, 374
Brace, Letitia Neill (Mrs. Charles Loring) (1822?–1916), 52, 204, 332
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Brackenridge, Henry Marie, 107, 111
Bradbury, William, 388, 390
Bradbury & Evans (publishers), 22, 358–61, 388, 390
Briggs, Charles (1804–1877), 21, 54, 346, 348, 355
Brighton, England, 385
Brontë, Charlotte, 345; Villette, 338, 345
Brook Farm, 21, 346
Brooks, C. W. Shirley, 388, 390
Brooks, Linda Hull (aunt), 375
Brooks, Preston L., 26, 383, 384, 411, 419, 421
Brooks, Samuel Hull (cousin), 375
Brown, George W., 429
Brown, John, 26, 34, 368
Browne, William Montague (1823–1883), 368, 370–71
Brownlow, William Gannaway (“Parson”), 413, 414, 422
Bryant, William Cullen, 21, 63
Buchanan, James, 370, 384, 429, 454; administration of, 28, 30, 455; and Kansas, 424–25, 426, 427–28, 442; and slavery, 383, 391, 422
Bunyan, John, 209
Burnsville, N.C., 482
Bushnell, Horace (1802–1876), 4, 7, 8, 338, 345
Business ethics, 358–60
Butler, Andrew P., 26
Buxton, Charles Fowell (1823–1871), 32, 446, 448
“C., Mr. “See Calvert, Charles Benedict
Cabot, James Elliot (1821–1903), 26, 377, 391–92
Cabot, Samuel, Jr. (1815–1885), 31–32, 66, 434, 435, 441, 442, 447, 448, 455; biography of, 52–53
Calhoun, John C. (1782–1850), 67, 177, 181, 287, 373
Calhoun, Meredith (b. c. 1805), 11, 222–23, 228, 229; plantations of, 216–30, 465, 470
California, 197, 233, 258, 284, 329, 334, 336, 351, 413, 422, 425
Callaghan, Bryan V., 294, 299
Callahan, James H., 362
Calvert, Charles Benedict (“Mr. C.”) (1808–1864), 10, 106, 464; plantation of, 87, 88, 91–92, 467
Calvin, John, 83
Cane River (La.), 471
Cape Fear River (N.C.), 468
Carlyle, Thomas, 345; Sartor Resartus, 246, 269
Cartwright, Samuel, 110, 111, 181
Castle Garden (N.Y.C.), 434, 435
Castro (Lipan Indian chief), 299
Cato, Sterling G., 430
Cayenne, French Guiana, 392, 393, 394
Central Park (N.Y.C.), 1, 2, 12, 32–34, 50, 348, 370, 448
Central Railroad of Georgia (“Savannah and Macon Line”), 198, 202
Century Club, 366
Charivari (periodical), 346
Charleston, S.C., 97, 163, 194, 197, 201, 411, 412, 421, 468, 469
Chateau du Mick (Antwerp, Belgium), 91–92
Chattanooga, Tenn., 317, 481
Cherokee District (Ga.), 199, 200
Children’s Aid Society (N.Y.C.), 50, 52, 94, 203, 204, 211, 212, 236, 237, 238, 332–33, 335
Chinese, 147, 170–71, 267; coolies, as free-labor force, 193, 197, 258
Christianity, 58, 100, 117, 142, 382
Cibolo River (Tex.), 475
Cincinnati, Ohio, 232, 234, 472
City of Philadelphia (ship), 326, 331
City Point, Va., 141, 143
Civitavecchia, Italy, 377, 378
Claiborne, Ala., 469
Claiborne County, Miss., 480
Clark, Myron, 336
Clay, Cassius M., 3, 232, 236
Clay, Eliza Caroline (1809–1895), 160, 163
Clay, Henry, 91, 472
Clay, James, 463
Cobden, Richard, 411, 421
Coit, Fanny (b. 1852), 338, 345
Coit, Frances Olmsted (1829–1907) (cousin), 344–45
Colfax, La., 470
Collins, Edward Knight, 327, 331
Collins Line, 327, 329
Columbus, Ga., 164, 201, 469
Commerce: in Great Britain, 97, 139, 145; in the North, 145, 146, 359; in the South, 13, 96–98, 116, 119, [490] 144–47, 151–52, 156–58, 190–91, 197, 198, 201–2, 209, 435, 464
Compromise of 1850, 3, 5, 84, 92, 237, 287, 306, 384, 428
Connecticut, 6, 9, 124, 126, 293, 419, 423
Cook, Clarence, 54
Cooper, James Fenimore, 232
Cooper, Peter (1791–1883), 235, 238
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (N.Y.C.), 238
Corn Laws (England), 138, 140
Corvin-Wiersbitzki, Otto von, 394
Costa Rica, 76–77, 384
Cotton supply, 443–48
Cotton Supply Associations of Liverpool and Manchester, 441, 445, 446
Cranch, Christopher Pearse (1813–1892), 342, 346
Cranch, Elizabeth de Windt, 342, 346
Crawford, Thomas, 95, 102
Creek Indians, 205
Crenshaw, John Bacon (1820–1889), 93, 94, 467
Crenshaw, Nathaniel Chapman (d. 1866), 10, 93, 465, 467
Crimean War, 237, 384
Crux, Thomas, 92
Cuba, 197, 233
Cumberland, Md., 472
Cumberland River, 16, 232, 253
Cumberland River Iron Works, 258, 267
Cummins, Maria Susanna, 345; The Lamplighter, 345
Currituck Bay (N.C.), 464
Curtis, George W. (1824–1892), 21, 23, 54, 57, 63, 343, 346, 347, 348, 353, 389; biography of, 53–56. Writings: Lotus–Eating, 54; Potiphar Papers, 54
Daily California Chronicle, 336
Dana, Charles A. (1819–1897), 21, 60, 63, 347, 348, 349, 371–72, 385, 388, 389
Dana, Richard Henry: Two Years Before the Mast, 330
Dante Alighieri, 278
Davis, Jefferson, 214, 283, 287, 370
Day, Thomas Mills (1817–1905), 354, 355–56
DeBow, James D. B. (1820–1867), 34, 283, 287, 463, 464; The Industrial Resources, Statistics, &c. of the United States, 435, 436, 443
Deep Creek, Va., 468
Degener, Edouard (“Mr. D.”) (1809–1890), 18, 276, 280, 317, 464, 476; sons of, 277, 280
Delane, John Thadeus, 32, 304, 448
Democratic party, 30, 336, 383, 417
Deutsches Gesellschaft der Stadt New York, 436
Devereux, John, 114
Devereux, Thomas Pollock (1793–1869), 10, 113, 114; family of, 114
Devil’s Island. See Cayenne, French Guiana
Dickens, Charles, 352, 359–60; as founder and editor of Household Words, 22, 56, 347, 352, 355
Dickinson, Daniel Stevens, 233, 237
Dick Tinto. See Goodrich, Frank Boott
Disosway, Gabriel P., 336
Dix, Joshua A. (1831–1894), 55, 94, 347, 348, 355, 372, 373, 374, 389; biography of, 56–57; family of, 347, 349; relations of, with FLO, 23, 51, 348, 351, 361, 385–86
Dix, Edwards & Company (publishers), 21, 54, 55, 56, 62, 334, 346, 347, 348, 349, 355, 357, 360, 361, 372, 375, 376, 389, 390; FLO’s association with, 1, 20, 22, 23, 24, 72, 94, 322, 344, 351, 386, 389
Doherty, Hugh, 181
Don Giovanni (Mozart), 278
Douai, Adolf. See Douai, Karl Daniel Adolf
Douai, Karl Daniel Adolf (1819–1888): biography of, 57–61; as editor of San Antonio Zeitung, 18, 19, 20, 24, 25, 28, 64, 75, 314–20, 332, 335, 361–62, 363, 400–402, 437; Fata Morgana, 60; relations of, with FLO, 278, 280–81, 291, 294, 317, 450, 451, 464, 475
Douglas, Stephen A., 17, 281, 284, 285, 287–88, 423; family of, 288
Douglas County, Kansas Territory, 424, 455
Douglass, Frederick (1817–1895), 123, 126
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Downing, Andrew Jackson (1815–1852), 8, 354
Drapetomania (disease), 110
Dred Scott Decision, 28, 30, 407, 416, 419, 420, 422, 423
Dresel, Julius (1816–1891?), 18, 317, 436, 440, 441
Duggan, Peter Paul (or Paul Peter) (d. 1861), 356, 357, 388, 390
Duncan, Lucius Campbell (1801–1855), 210, 212; family of, 212
Duyckinck, Evert, 351–52
Dwight, Theodore, 369
Dwight, Timothy (1752–1817), 7, 8
Dysaesthesia Aethiopica (disease), 110–11
Economist (periodical), 350, 351
Edinburgh, Scotland, 94, 380, 381
Education, 292, 335; need for, 234–36, 244, 292–93
Edwards, Arthur T. (1828–1857), 22, 23, 55, 56, 352, 353–54, 355, 360–61, 374, 375, 376, 385, 386, 387; biography of, 62–63
Egypt, 171
Eliot, George, 238
Elizabethton, Tenn., 482
Elliott, Charles Wyllys (1817–1883), 23, 51, 232, 235, 236, 238, 353, 365, 366, 374, 388, 424. Writings: “About Barns”, 354; Cottages and Cottage Life, 354; New England History, 419; San Domingo, 241
Elliott, Henry Hill (1805–1868), 320
Emancipator (newspaper), 283, 287
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 21, 334, 340, 348, 349; “Self-Reliance,” 345
Emerson, William (1801–1868), 55, 332, 334, 376
England. See Great Britain
Ervendberg, L. C., 475
European Republicans, 6, 235, 275–81, 381–84, 392–94. See also Browne, William M.; Degener, Edouard; Douai, Adolf; Dresel, Julius; Forbes, Hugh; Kapp, Friedrich; Riotte, Charles
Evans, Frederick, 388, 390
Evans & Dickerson (publishers), 375
Evermay (plantation), See Smith, Benjamin
Examiner (newspaper), 350, 351
“F., Mr,” See Florence, Thomas B.; Fuller, Henry M.
Fairfax County, Va., 88, 89
Faraday, Michael, 350, 352
Farmville, Va., 82, 84, 482
Fashion (plantation), See Taylor, Richard
Fayetteville, N.C., 468
Federal government, See U.S. government
Felton, Cornelius C. (1807–1862), 348, 349
Ferdinand II (King of the Two Sicilies), 421
Ferris, Mrs. Benjamin G.: The Mormons at Home, 353, 355
Field, Alfred T. (1814–1884), 203, 204, 235, 238, 380, 381
Field, Charlotte Errington (c. 1817–1880), 203, 204
Field, David Dudley (1805–1894), 365, 366, 376
Five Points House of Industry (N.Y.C.), 94, 100, 103, 121
Florence, Thomas B. (“Mr. F.”), 87–88, 92
Forbes, Hugh, 368; Manual of the Patriotic Volunteer, 367, 368
Forrest, Edwin, 353, 355
Forrester, James, 295–99; family of, 299
Fort Adams, Miss., 472
Fort Duncan, Tex., 295, 299
Fort Inge, Tex., 299
Fort Leavenworth, Kan., 405, 420, 429
Fox, Warren, 330
France, 72, 175, 340; government of, 246, 345, 392; people of, 239, 340, 392
Frankfort, Ky., 472
Franklin, Benjamin, 419
Franz Josef I (emperor of Austria-Hungary), 245, 246, 411
Frederick Douglass’ Paper, 126
Fredericksburg, Va., 90
Free Democracy party (N.Y.), 336–37
Freedman’s Bureau, 56
Free laborers, condition of, 124, 131–32, 229–30, 254, 256
Free-soil colonization, 18–20, 24–34, 138, 397–400, 431–56
Free Soil party, 5, 84
Freie gemeinden, 58, 61
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Freie Verein (Sisterdale, Tex.), 18, 317, 441
Friedrich, Otto, 475
Friends, Society of, 92, 93
Froebel, Julius, 463, 475
Fugitive Slave Act of 1793, 431
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, 5, 84, 85, 286, 336, 423, 431
Fuller, Henry M. (“Mr. F.”), 87–88, 92
Gaines Ferry, Tex., 473
Garibaldi, Guiseppe, 368, 370
Garrigue, Rudolph, 435, 436
Garrison, William Lloyd, 5, 50, 283, 286, 287, 431
Gaskell, Elizabeth Claghorn: Cranford, 345
Gaston, N.C., 468
Geary, John W., 28, 30, 425, 428, 429, 430
Gee, Thomas W. (“Thomas W.”), 10, 102, 152, 464, 465, 467; family of, 102
Geneseo, N.Y., 337–38, 344
Geneva, Switzerland, 82, 83
Genoa, Italy, 377, 378
George P. Putnam and Company. See Putnam, George P., and Company
Georgia, 10, 20, 253; description of, 199–202; railroads in, 198–99; slavery in, 184, 188, 189, 193, 302, 411
German Republican Association (N.Y.), 435
Germans, 88, 279, See also Texas, West, Germans in
Germany, 279–80
Gindrat, Louisa Caroline, See Arnold, Louisa Caroline Gindrat
Gladstone, Thomas H., 405; The Englishman in Kansas, 1, 28–29, 34, 35, 397, 405, 407, 408, 414, 416, 417, 430
Gladstone, William, 405
Glasgow, Scotland, 97, 98, 146, 380
Gliddon, George R., 181
Goderich, Lord. See Robinson, George Frederick Samuel
Godwin, Parke (1816–1904), 21, 347, 349, 352, 353, 357, 374; biography of, 63, Writings: “America for the Americans,” 354; “Calhoun on Government,” 373; Political Essays, 355, 389, 390; “The Kansas Question,” 363, 364; Vala, A Mythological Tale, 355
Goodloe, Daniel Reaves (1814–1902), 35
Goodrich, Frank Boott [pseudo Dick Tinto] (1826–1894), 343, 346
Gordon, William W., 198, 202
Gosport, Va., 143
Graham’s Magazine, 355
Grand Ecore, La., 214, 470, 473
Gray, Asa (1810–1888), 50, 232, 236, 348, 349
Gray, Jane Loring (Mrs. Asa), 50, 236
Great Britain, 32, 53, 119, 138–39, 140, 145, 146, 171, 229, 230, 309, 384; FLO in, 7, 16, 55, 72, 103, 452; people of, 138–39, 157, 239, 241
Great Dismal Swamp, Va., 50, 93, 94, 113, 114–15, 143, 464, 468
Greeley, Horace (1811–1872), 232, 236, 238, 336, 349, 365, 366, 368, 371–72; A History of the Struggle for Slavery Extension or Restriction in the U.S., 389, 390
Greensville, Va., 482
Greytown (Mosquito Coast), 384
Griscom, Thomas (“T. R. Griscom”), 106–7, 111
Guadalupe, Tex., 317
Guadalupe River (Tex.), 275, 476
Habersham, Robert, 163
Haiti, 411, 421
Hale, Edward Everett (1822–1909), 26, 27, 64, 322, 362–63, 399, 400; biography of, 64–66; family of, 64, 65, Writings: “How They Lived at Naguadavick,” 66; “The People’s Park” (sermon), 66; “The Spider’s Eye,” 65, 372; Sybaris and Other Homes, 66
Hale, Emily Baldwin Perkins (Mrs. Edward Everett) (1829–1914), 363
Hale, Nathan, 402
Halifax, Nova Scotia, 145
Halifax County, N.C., 10
Hallock, Gerard, 423
Hamilton, James Alexander (1788–1878), 33, 50, 51, 237, 446, 448, 451; family of, 448
Hampton Roads, Va., 141, 143, 145, 344
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Harper, Fletcher (1806–1877), 346
Harper, William (“Chancellor Harper”) (1790–1847), 133, 140; Memoir on Slavery, 140
Harper’s Monthly, 21, 22, 342–43, 346, 348, 355
Hartford, Conn., 4, 71, 274, 337, 339, 342, 373
Hartford Courant, 354, 355–56
Hartford Daily Times, 354
Hartford High School, 71
Harvard College, 236, 349
Havana, Cuba, 398
Haven, Emily Bradley Neal: All’s Not Gold That Glitters, 336
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 21
Hayfield (estate), 236
Hegel, Georg, 58, 278
Hemans, Felicia Dorothea (1793–1835), 274
Henry, Patrick, 398, 419
Herbert, Philemon Thomas, 383, 384
Higginson, Charles J., 32, 441
Hildreth, Richard, 268
Hitchcock, Sophia Stevens (Mrs. William Page) (1826–1892), 163, 339, 343–44, 346, 347, 396; “An American Woman in Paris,” 347, 349; family of, 395, 396; relations of, with Bertha Olmsted, 22, 71, 338–39, 342, 345, 347, 378, 393, 395
Hoboken, N.J., 61, 77
Hoffman, Charles Fenno, 352
Holland, Stewart, 324–25, 331
Homochitto River (Miss.), 480
Hotel de Ville (Paris), 342, 343, 346
Houdon, Jean Antoine, 95, 101
Household Words (periodical), 22, 56, 344, 347, 350, 352, 353, 355, 358, 360, 393, See also Dickens, Charles
Houston, Sam, 281, 285
Howard, George Thomas, 400, 401, 402
Howe, Samuel Gridley, 60
Hugo, Victor, 235, 238
Humboldt, Friedrich, 61, 417, 423
Hungary, 411; revolution in, 6, 246
Hunkers, 265, 269, 317, 318, 334, 336
Hunt, F. A., & Company (St. Louis, Mo.), 367
“Hunter, Dr.” See Adams, William T.
Hunt’s Merchant’s Magazine, 166, 171
Hurlbert, William Henry (1827–1895), 54, 359, 361, 388, 389, 390; Pictures of Cuba, 361
Illinois, 404
Illinois Central Railroad, 450, 451
Illiteracy, in the North and South, 124, 126, 255, 293, 294
Indiana, 264, 269
Indians, American, 205, 295–99, 314, 417; Lipans, 299, 478
Indian Territory, 3, 31, 442, 455
Ireland, 52, 132
Irish, 131–32, 157; in America, 88, 108, 110, 120, 200–201
Irving, Washington, 24, 448
Italy, 23, 176, 398
Jackson, Ellenor Noyes (1823–1887), 213, 214
Jackson, Jefferson Franklin (1821–1862), 10, 213, 214–15, 469
Jackson, Miss., 480
Jackson, Patrick Tracy (1780–1847), 445
Jackson, Patrick Tracy, Jr. (1818–1891), 445
Jamaica, 197
James River (Va.), 96, 98, 134, 141, 143, 144, 255, 467
Jardin des Tuileries (Paris), 346
Jefferson, Thomas, 67, 95, 101, 233, 251, 255, 419, 427; Notes on the State of Virginia, 255, 428
Jefferson County, Ala., 481
Jefferson County, Tenn., 413, 421
Jews, 88, 171, 186
Johnson, William Samuel, 114
Jones, Charles Colcock (1804–1863), 173, 180; “Moral Discipline and Culture of the Negroes,” 173–77, 180, 181
Jones, Enoch, 401, 402
Jones, Samuel J., 25, 28, 366, 424
Jones County, N.C., 415
Joyce, William, 388, 390
Kansas-Nebraska Act, 2, 67–68, 271, 281–88, 336–37, 364, 384, 423, 428, 431
Kansas Territory: arming of settlers in, 64, 362, 366, 367, 368–72; as [494] Kansas Territory (cont’d) “Bleeding Kansas,” 26, 30; “bogus legislature” of, 24, 25, 28, 30, 31, 56, 64, 422, 426, 430; disturbances in, 20, 24, 30, 356, 362, 363, 383, 399, 406, 423, 424–31; expansion of slavery in, 3, 28, 363–64, 404, 424, 440, 437, 442; free-soil movement in, 2, 53, 319, 363, 365, 366, 369, 372, 398, 407, 438, 448, 450, 454; politics in, 25, 31, 365, 382, 429
Kansas Zeitung, 434, 449, 451
Kapp, Ernst (1808–1896), 18, 280, 317, 475
Kapp, Friedrich (1824–1884), 59, 68, 77, 280, 368, 370, 435, 447, 449; biography of, 66–69; family of, 67
Keating, Thomas, 383, 384
Kendall, George W., 463
Kennedy, Joseph C. G., 287
Kentucky, 232–33, 237, 310; people of, 404
Kingsbury, Frederick ( 1823–1910), 3, 5, 49, 83, 84, 214; biography of, 69
Kirkland, Caroline M. (1801 –1864), 374, 375
Know-Nothing party, 25, 330, 336, 352, 354, 442, See also Nativism
Knoxville, Tenn., 412
Knoxville Register, 413
Knoxville Whig, 413, 422
Kob, Karl, 434, 449; Wegweiser für Ansiedler im Territorium Kansas, 434
Kossuth, Lajos, 245, 246, 268
Koszta, Martin, 262, 268
Lawrence, Amos A. (1814–1886), 64, 369, 371, 445
Lawrence, Kansas Territory, 24, 28, 64, 365, 371, 383, 384, 430
Leader (periodical), 350, 351
Leavenworth, Abner (1803–1869), 69, 82, 84, 102, 113, 202, 204, 212, 467
Leavitt, Joshua, 287
Lecompte, Samuel D., 430
Le Conte, Abigail Anna Brooks, 375
Leech, John, 388, 390
Leghorn (Livorno), Italy, 377, 378
Leigh, Benjamin Watkins, 125
Leigh, Percival, 352, 388, 390
Leland Stanford, Jr., University, 378
Lemon, Mark, 388, 390
Les Halles (Paris), 342, 346
“Letter from a Southern Matron—The Domestic Aspect of Slavery” (NYDT), 193, 197
Leveson-Gower, Harriet Elizabeth Georgiana (Duchess of Sutherland), 256
Lewes, George Henry, 351; The Life and Works of Goethe, 353
Lexington, Ky., 472
Liberator (newspaper), 267, 287, 422
Liberia, 124, 126
Liberty County, Ga., 172–73
Lincoln, Abraham, 67, 76, 422
Lipscomb, Andrew Adgate (“A Native Southerner”), 168–69, 171–72, 175, 176; “The South and Slavery,” 168–69, 171–72, 176
“Literary republic” of New York, 21, 23, 24, 376
Literary World (periodical), 350, 351–52
Liverpool, England, 32, 97, 445, 446
London, 339, 411; FLO in, 23, 25, 380, 385, 387
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 21, 348, 349
Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans (publishers), 361
Lord, Frederick William, 337
Loring, Susan (Mrs. Patrick Tracy Jackson, Jr.) (1823–1895), 445
Louisiana, 227, 239, 437; slave code in, 183, 185, 210, 211
Louis Napoleon, See Napoleon III
Louis Philippe, 6
Louisville, Ky., 232, 440, 472
Louvre (Paris), 341, 342, 345
Low, Sampson, Jr. (1822–1871), 386, 387, 389
Low, Sampson, & Co., 389
Lowell, James Russell (1819–1891), 21, 340, 348, 349; Fireside Travels, 345
Lowell, Mass., 146, 162, 200
Luce, James C., 327, 331
Lutherans, 403, 404
Luxembourg Palace (Paris), 342, 345
Lyell, Charles, 50
Lynch, Anne Charlotte (1815–1891), 50, 202, 203, 274–75
Lynchburg, Va., 482
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M’Curdy, Aldrich & Spencer (commission merchants), 113, 114
McElrath, Thomas (1807–1888), 56, 353, 355
Macon, Ala., 201
Madison County, Miss., 480
Mainzer Adelsverein. See Society for the Protection of German Immigrants in Texas
Maison Carrée (“Maison Quarrée”) (Nîmes), 95, 101
Malay Archipelago, 166, 171
Manchester, England, 139; Cotton Supply Association of, 32, 445, 446, 451
Manufacturing, in the South, 89, 90, 96–97, 200–201, 258, 267
Marcy, Erastus Edgerton, 334, 336
Marcy, Randolph Barnes, 442
Marion Court House (S.C.), 468
Marseilles, France, 377, 378
Maryland, 88, 127, 205, 304, 480
Mason, George, 419, 423
Massachusetts, 109, 200
Massachusetts Disunion Convention, 431
Massachusetts State Kansas Committee, 434
Matagorda, Tex., 317
“Matt Ward Case,” 408, See also Ward, Matthew Flournoy
Maury, Matthew Fontaine, 145, 151
Maverick, Samuel Augustus, 404, 405
Mayhew, Henry, 390
Mayhew, Horace, 388, 390
Medina River (Tex.), 294, 298
Melville, Herman: Benito Cereno, 21
Memphis, Tenn., 197, 215, 471
Mercer County, Ohio, 125
Merchant marine, 322–31; treatment of sailors in, 142, 327–30
Methodists, 312, 401
Mexicans, in West Texas, 301, 304, 305, 314, 315, 317, 319, 401, 403
Mexican War, 3, 237, 245
Mexico, 233, 357; FLO in, 275, 299, 463, 475
Michelangelo, 378
Milam County, Tex., 447
Mill, John Stuart, 111, 238
Miller, J. W., 23, 55, 57
Miller & Company (publishers), 23, 28, 55
Miller & Curtis (publishers), 32, 55
Mining, in the South, 97, 203, 481
Minnesota Territory, 287
Mississippi, 227, 250, 293, 307, 310; FLO in, 11, 33; people of, 313
Mississippi and Texas Railroad, 300, 302, 306, 429
Missouri, 33, 249, 404, 426, 437, 448, 454; people of, 24, 401, 404, 425
Missouri Compromise, 285, 306, 336–37, 383, 424
Mitchell, Elisha, 114
Mobile, Ala., 469, 470
Moffat, William B., 354, 355
Montégut, Emile: “Scenes de la vie et de la litterature americaines,” 345
Monterrey, Mexico, 25, 76
Montgomery, Ala., 10, 201, 205, 206, 214, 469
Morel, Amos (“Robert”) (slave), 182, 184–85, 187–88
Morel, Tom (“William”) (slave), 182, 188
Mormons, 298
Morris, Adolphus, 93, 94
Morton, Samuel G., 181; Crania Aegyptiaca, 181
Mount Vernon (plantation), 90
“Mr, Newman,” 467
Mulattoes, 121, 171, 228
Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban: Madonna of the Rosary (painting), 342, 346
Murphy, N.C., 482
Naples, Italy, 380, 411, 412, 421
Napoleon III (emperor of France), 26, 238, 245, 246, 340–41, 345, 392, 394, 410, 411, 421
Nashville, Tenn., 16, 232, 233, 236, 472
Nashville Convention of 1850, 286
Natchez, Miss., 311, 480
Natchitoches, La., 222, 473
Nation, 351, 366
National Era (periodical), 83, 259, 267, 283, 287
National Intelligencer, 107, 285, 288
Nativism, 25, 317, 318, 330, 336, 352, 354, 357, 442
Nazro, Charles G., 441
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Neill, Eliza, 203, 204, 211, 212
Neill, Henry M. (1838–1906), 203, 204, 210, 211, 443
Neill, William, 320, 321, 441, 443, 444, 446
Neill Brothers & Company (cotton merchants), 443, 444
“Neosho,” 31, 433, 437–40, 442, 449, 450–52, 454–55
Nette, August, 370
Neu Braunfels, Tex., 17, 32, 447, 474, 475, 478
Neu Braunfelser Zeitung, 318
Neu Wied, Tex., 475
New Albany, Ind., 440
Newark, N.J., 61
New England, 8, 65, 111, 135, 176, 245–46, 348; emigration from, 138, 369, 399, 400, 438; people of, 239, 313, 353
New England Emigrant Aid Company, 24, 25, 31, 53, 60, 65, 66, 363, 365, 371, 399, 434, 442, 443, 445, 446, 448, 449, 452, 453, 455, 456; committees of, 53, 66, 441, 447; relations of FLO with, 3, 32, 34, 322, 397, 431–56
New England Non-Resistance Society, 286
New Jersey, 95, 106–7
New Mexico Territory, 287
New Orleans, La., 171, 204, 411, 437, 441; FLO in, 10, 209, 210–11, 212, 214, 470, 471, 472, 480
New Orleans Crescent (newspaper), 352
New York (city), 97, 98, 100, 109, 120, 121, 132, 142, 143, 145, 146, 298, 337, 339, 340, 343, 359, 437, 452; FLO in, 20, 332, 347, 348, 352, 354, 365, 368, 371, 467, 480, 482
New York (state); 8, 109, 116, 136, 230, 234, 236, 238, 336, 369, 398; compared with the South, 104, 116, 127, 128
New-York Daily Times, 9, 115, 171, 236, 241, 245, 267, 285, 336, 346, 449; FLO’s writings for, 1, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 20, 23, 26, 50, 67, 92, 94, 107, 110, 113, 170, 204, 209, 211, 269, 329–30, 333, 335, 344, 377, 466
New York Daily Tribune, 21, 59, 67, 236, 238, 344, 346, 347, 349, 351, 353, 355, 368, 371, 428, 430, 431, 449; FLO’s writings in, 1, 7, 12, 33, 94, 442
New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung (newspaper), 352, 354
New York Evening Post, 21, 63, 349, 449
New York Journal of Commerce, 370, 418, 423
New York Literary World (periodical), 84
New York Morning Express, 352, 354
Niblo’s Garden (theater), 334, 336
Nicaragua, 77, 285, 288, 357, 384
Nicholas I (czar of Russia), 411
Niles, William Woodruff, 71
Nonslaveholders, in the South, 125, 156–58, 187, 199, 242, 252–54, 268, 312–13
Norfolk, Va., 111, 128, 139, 142–43, 144, 145, 146, 151–52; FLO in, 120, 141, 149, 468
North: migration to the South from, 88–89, 92–93, 116, 118, 138–39, 401; people and institutions of, compared to the South, 91, 97, 100–101, 104, 106–9, 135, 229–30, 234–35, 241–42, 245–46, 282–85, 410
North, Christopher, See Wilson, John
North American Review, 65
“North and South. Impressions of Northern Society upon a Southerner,” 241, 245
North British Daily Mail, 382, 384
North Carolina, 97, 127, 153–54, 197, 203, 251, 414, 415, 464; FLO in, 10, 33, 203, 204; people of, 152–53
Notre Dame, cathedral of (Paris), 342, 346
Nott, Josiah C., 181
Noxubee County, Miss., 481
Nueces, Battle of (1862), 280
Nuevo Leon, Mexico, 25
O’Flaherty, Edmund [pseudo William Stuart] (“Stewart”), 353, 355
Ogeechee River (Ga.), plantations on, 10, 159–61
Ohio, 109
Old Point Comfort Convention (1850), 147, 151
Olmsted, Bertha (1834–1926) (half-sister), 70, 345, 396; biography of, [497] 70–71; relations of, with Edward S, Bartholomew, 380, 381, 393
Olmsted, Charles John, See Olmsted, John Charles
Olmsted, Charlotte (1855–1908) (step-daughter), 354
Olmsted, Denison (1791–1859) (cousin), 10, 114, 212
Olmsted, Frederick Law (1822–1903)
Biographical Information:
- —education, 74, 346
- —experience and theory of “unconscious influence,” 322, 341–42, 380, 409–10
- —farming activities, 83, 354
- —free-soil colonization efforts, 26–27, 31–33, 53, 65, 68, 322, 397–404, 431–56, 485
- —health, 374–75
- —literary activities as editor and publisher, 20–23, 53–57, 62–63, 347–61, 363–64, 372–74, 385–90, 484–85
- —purchase of arms for Kansas free-state settlers, 24–25, 65, 365–72
- —relations with antislavery Germans in West Texas, 18–20, 24–25, 57–60, 68, 75–76, 275–81, 289–92, 314–20, 361–62, 400–404
- —social reform activities and ideas, 6–9, 51–52, 83–85, 234–36, 237, 265
- —superintendency of Central Park, 23–24, 450
- —travels, general: during childhood, 348; to China, 170–71, 323, 329, 330; in Europe, 22–23, 279–80, 377–78, 484; in Great Britain, 23, 132
- —travels, in the South: itineraries of, 9–11, 82, 93, 127, 164, 198, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 293, 463–81; FLO’s comments on, 82, 203, 213
Landscape Designs:
- —Riverside, Ill., 66
- —Stanford University campus, 378
Writings:
- —American editor’s introduction to The Englishman in Kansas, 28–30, 405–24
- —American editor’s supplement to The Englishman in Kansas, 30–31, 424–31
- —“The Arctic. Lessons Concerning Means of Security on Ocean liners,” 322–31
- —Cotton Kingdom, 3, 12, 35, 466
- —“How Ruffianism in Washington and Kansas Is Regarded in Europe,” 26, 381–84
- —“Filibusterism and Other Matters in Mississippi,” 480
- —Journey in the Back Country, 1, 12, 23, 33–35, 55, 171, 181, 230, 464–66; quotations from, 222, 223, 463
- —Journey in the Seaboard Slave States, 14, 91, 92, 93, 101, 102, 110, 115, 126, 143, 152, 154, 163, 164, 170, 171, 187, 196, 197, 213, 214, 215, 401, 463–65; FLO’s assessment of, 374; publication of, 1, 22, 72, 357, 372–76, 389; quoted, 163, 268, 464; responses to, 65, 266, 391; writing of, 11, 13, 20, 26, 354, 372–76
- —Journey Through Texas, 17, 27, 34, 237, 267, 299, 448; publication of, 1, 12; responses to, 402; use of, to promote free-labor colonization, 31, 65, 397–99; writing of, 26, 28, 74, 391, 463–64, 466
- —“Parental Schoolmasters,” 333, 335
- —“Real China, The,” quoted, 170
- —“South” series (New-York Daily Times), 12–17, 33, 81, 155, 304, 321, 459–60; FLO’s comments on, 86, 93, 203, 209–10; responses to, 172, 269; writing of, 7, 13, 170, 212, 236, 245, 266, 267, 463–66
- —“Southerners at Home” series (New York Daily Tribune), 17, 33, 271, 314, 442, 461
- —“Tour of the Southwest” series (New-York Daily Times), 11–12, 17, 460–61, 463
- —“Visit to a Chinese School,” 357, 388, 390
- —“Voice from the Sea,” 366
- —Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England, 4, 9, 82, 83, 84–85, 93, 94; FLO’s comments on, 82; publication of, 83
Olmsted, Frederick Law, Jr, (1870–1957) (son), 390
Olmsted, James (d. 1640), 7
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Olmsted, John (1791–1873)(father), 71, 72, 170, 203, 337, 338, 345; biography of, 71–73; family of, 20, 71, 73
Olmsted, John Charles (“Tot”) (1852–1920) (stepson), 82, 83, 338, 345, 354
Olmsted, John Hull (1825–1857) (brother), 74, 82, 83, 203, 237, 334, 337, 354, 398; biography of, 73–75; correspondence of, 211, 317, 318, 329, 345; and FLO’s business concerns, 21, 56, 389; in France, 72, 212; friends and classmates of, 10, 16, 49, 69, 210, 211, 231, 232, 375; and Journey Through Texas, 12, 26, 466; travels of, with FLO, 11, 281, 294, 299, 320, 471, 477
Olmsted, Mary (1832–1875) (half-sister), 22, 113, 339, 344
Olmsted, Mary Bull (Mrs. John) (1801–1894) (stepmother), 71, 352, 378
Olmsted, Mary Perkins (Mrs. John Hull) (1830–1921) (sister-in-law), 74, 82, 83, 273, 334, 345, 354
Olmsted, Owen Pitkin (1794–1873) (uncle), 338, 344
Opelousas, La., 311, 479
Oregon Territory, 287, 384
Osborne, James W., 114
Overseers, 100, 107, 110, 125, 130–31, 150, 217–18, 310
Padelford, Seth, 441, 443, 446, 447
Page, William (1811–1885), 395, 396
Pakenham, Richard, 181
Panic of 1857, 23, 453
Para, Brazil, 145
Paris, 212, 337, 343, 345, 346; FLO on, 210, 339, 340–42
Park, Mungo, 166, 170
Parker, John w., 388, 390
Parker, Theodore (1810–1860), 203, 204, 234, 283, 402; relations of, with FLO, 5, 21, 50, 348; views of, 237, 287, 401
Parkes, Josiah, 140
Paul, Saint, 278
Peabody, George Henry, 463, 469
Pease, Elisha, 294, 306, 429, 444
Pease, Lewis Morris, 93, 94, 100, 103
Pennsylvania, U.S.S., 143
Pentonville prison (England), 85
Perkins, Emily Baldwin (Mrs. Edward Everett Hale) (1829–1914), FLO’s courtship of, 52, 64, 115, 346, 363, 381
Perkins, Frederic Beecher (1828–1899), 342–43, 346, 356, 365
Perkins, Mary Cleveland Bryant, See Olmsted, Mary Perkins
Perkins, Thomas F., 236–37
Petersburg, Va., 116, 119, 144–45, 146, 148, 465; FLO in, 10, 69, 110, 127, 141, 212, 467
Philadelphia, Pa., 97, 109, 119, 123–24, 151–52
Philleo, Calvin W., 353, 355
Piedras Negras, Mexico, 299
Pierce, Franklin, 283, 286, 287, 428, 429; administration of, 233, 357, 383–84; and Kansas, 25, 28, 283, 285, 422; and slavery, 30, 383, 416, 422
Pillow, Gideon Johnson, 283, 286
Planters’ Bank (Miss.), 294
Poland, 411
Polk, James K., 286, 429
Polk County, Tenn., 481
Pomeroy, Samuel Clark, 454, 456
Port Caddo, Tex., 435, 436
Porte Crayon, See Strother, David Hunter
Portland, Ky., 472
Portsmouth, Va., 468
Powhatan, U.S.S., 143
Preemption Act of 1841, 442
Prentice, George Dennison, II, 232, 236, 472
Price, William S.: “Moral Benefits of Slavery,” 166, 171
Priestley, John (d. 1872), 365, 366
Prince George’s County, Md., 467
Prohibition party (N.Y.), 336
Property, as stewardship, 231, 261–62
proslavery apologists, 140, 17], 178–79, 183–84, 188–89, 265, 364, 418–20
Providence, R.I., 163, 348
Prussia, 69, 176, 292, 294, 393
Psalm 115, 288
Punch (periodical), 23, 313, 352, 388
Pusey, Edward Bouverie, 350, 352
Putnam, George Palmer, 21, 56, 63, 348, 353, 355, 389
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Putnam, George P., and Company (publishers), 82, 83, 93, 355
Putnam’s Monthly Magazine, 56, 344, 346, 348, 352, 354, 355–56, 361, 372, 386, 387, 389; articles in and contributors to, 65, 342–43, 345, 348, 349, 352–53, 354–55, 356, 357, 364, 372, 390; editors of, 53–54, 60, 63, 346, 347–49, 355; FLO as editor of, 1, 2, 21, 22, 348, 351
Quadroons, 213
Quakers, See Friends, Society of Quattlebaum, Paul (“General Quattlebum”), 283, 286
Quincy, Edmund (1808–1877), 348; Wensley, A Story without a Moral, 349
Raleigh, N.C.: FLO in, 132, 468; FLO’s letters from, 111, 120, 125, 139, 143, 151
Randolph, John, 122, 125, 398
Rapides Parish, La., 11
Raymond, Henry Jarvis (1820–1869), 115, 197, 232, 236, 270, 334, 336, 337; relations of, with FLO, 9, 113, 372; and “The South” series, 50, 202–3, 210, 211–12, 266–67
Red Republicans, 235, 238, 393
Red River (of the South), 11, 222, 302, 435, 436, 440, 450; FLO’s travels on, 10, 211, 213, 214, 215, 470, 473; and “Neosho,” 31, 438, 455; people of, 210
Reeder, Andrew, 365, 422
Reform Club, 382, 384
Republican party, 61, 67, 364, 398, 453; 1860 national convention of, 337
Revolutions of 1848, 2, 6, 58, 238, 276, 280, 394
Revue des Deux Mondes (periodical), 339, 345
Reynolds, Lorin G., 198, 202
Richardson, Henry Hobson, 366
Richmond, Va., 93, 102, 146, 148, 150, 170, 247, 465; commerce of, 13, 119, 144; description of, 93, 94–98, 411; FLO in, 33, 92, 127, 194, 197, 336, 467, 482
Richmond Enquirer, 109, 111, 121
Richmond-on-Ogeechee (plantation), 159–60, 163
Riddlesbarger, J., 371
Riedner, I.M., 362
Rio Grande, 294, 299
Riotte, Charles, 25, 370, 450; biography of, 75–77; relations of, with Adolf Douai, 58, 60, 317, 400; relations of, with FLO, 18, 19, 64
Ripley, George (1802–1880), 60, 343, 346
Riversdale (plantation), 10, 88, 467; description of, 87, 91–92, See also Calvert, Charles Benedict
Riverside, Ill., 66
Robinson, Charles, 25, 28, 64, 429
Robinson, George Frederick Samuel (Lord Goderich) (1827–1909), 434, 435, 438; correspondence of, with FLO, 27, 32, 433, 441, 446, 451
Rochester Colored National Convention (1853), 264, 269
Rocouncy (farm), 10, 93, 467, See also Crenshaw, Nathaniel Chapman
Rome, 378, 380, 396
Ronaldson (ship), 329–30
Rossy, Alexander, 315, 316, 318
Ruffin, Edmund (1794–1865), 137, 140, 267. Writings: Essay on Calcareous Manures, 136, 140; “Southern Agricultural Exhaustion and Its Remedy,” 267
Ruffin, Thomas, 415, 422
Ruggles, Daniel, 31, 432, 434
Rusk, Thomas Jefferson, 281, 285
Ruskin, John, 342, 346
Russell, Hobert: North America, its Agriculture and Climate, 448
Russia, 229
Sabine County, La., 473
Saint Charles (steamboat), 213, 214
Saint Charles Hotel (New Orleans, La.), 210
Saint Charles Parish, La., 11
Saint Francisville, Miss., 307, 309
Saint John’s Lutheran Church (San Antonio, Tex.), 405
Saint Louis, Mo., 368, 372, 440, 455
Saint Peter’s Basilica (Rome), 378
Salisbury Plain (Wiltshire, England), 171
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San Antonio, Tex., 33, 298, 361, 362, 401, 437; churches in, 312, 401, 403, 404, 405; FLO in, 271, 275, 281, 288, 294, 297–98, 475, 476; Germans in, 17, 18, 19, 24, 314, 400, 441
San Antonio and Mexican Gulf Railroad, 75, 401, 402
San Antonio Convention (1854), 315, 317
San Antonio Platform (1854), 19–20, 59, 315, 316, 317, 318, 441
San Antonio Western Texas (newspaper), 318, 402
San Antonio Zeitung, 18, 57, 58, 59, 75, 280, 318, 362; FLO’s support of, 19, 25, 60, 316, 317, 319, 320, 335
San Augustine, Tex., 473
San Francisco, Cal., 339, 422
San Geronimo Creek (Tex.), 299, 478
Savannah, Ga., 10, 156–58, 162, 194–96, 198, 201, 469
Savannah Republican (newspaper), 269
Scenery, descriptions of, 158–60, 163, 273–75, 309
Schiller, Johann, 278
Schleiermacher, Friedrich, 278
Schoolfellow (periodical), 357, 372, 374, 375, 376, 387, 388, 389, 390
Schuyler, George Lee(1811–1890), 237; family of, 50, 234, 237
Scott, Winfield, 83, 84, 237, 286
Secessionist conventions, 283, 286
Selma, Ala., 469
Seguin, Tex., 317
Seguine, James, 463, 468
Seward, William H. (1801–1872), 233, 237, 285, 332, 335
Shakespeare, William, 340
Shannon, Wilson, 25, 424
Sharps rifles, 24, 363, 365–66, 367, 371, 416
Shaw, Francis George (1809–1882), 55, 56
Short, Charles Wilkins, 11, 232, 236, 472
Siemering, August (1808–1896), 18, 277, 280, 317, 475
Sigourney, Lydia, 274
Sisterdale, Tex., 18, 19, 58, 277, 280, 290, 293, 294, 317, 441, 475, 476
Skinner, John Warburton, 211, 212
Slater, Benjamin, 371
Slaveholders, in the South, 84–85, 90, 130–131, 173, 206, 228–30, 239–40, 315
Slave labor, comparative expense of, 81, 92, 100–101, 104, 106–10, 116, 147, 257
Slavery, 124–25, 260–61, 267; abolition of, 180, 259, 262–63, 265, 270, 391; as civilizing and Christianizing institution, 118, 164–80, 190, 251–52; degradation of free labor by, 92, 116–17, 123, 150–51, 257; effect of, on society, 103–4, 148–51, 190–91, 239–40, 254, 260, 262, 407–20; expansion of, 17, 233, 250, 262–63, 284–85, 363–64, 381–84, 391, 416–17, 422–23; justification for, 84–85, 177–79, 260; need for Northerners’ forbearance concerning, 81, 117–18, 131–32, 180, 246, 260–63, 363–64; paternalistic form of, 100, 153, 155, 161–62, 184–88
Slaves: amusements of, 120; breeding of, 258; clothing, food, and shelter of, 159, 217, 226, 248–49, 255; communication systems of, 122; condition of, 81, 179, 182–83, 188, 216, 226, 247–52, 261–62; condition of, compared to other groups, 100, 118, 131–32, 166, 249, 255, 256; corporal punishment of, 150, 219–22, 223, 227, 249, 255, 411, 412–13, 421; dependence of, on whites, 120, 122; domestic life of, 150, 174–76, 193–94, 210, 227; feelings concerning freedom of, 122–24; funerals and cemeteries of, 194–96, 197; illnesses of, 104–6, 110–11, 224–26; labor of, 101, 190, 191–92, 197, 218–19, 248, 309–10; laws affecting, 122, 179, 185–86, 189, 248; literacy of, 188, 252; morals of, 123, 126, 170, 203, 204, 227, 230; naming of, 187–88, 226; property of, 183, 184–85, 186, 189, 218; relations of, with free blacks, 121; relations of, with masters, 99–100, 239, 240, 248, 409–16; religion of, 164–80, 228–29; runaways among, 225; sale of, 183–84, 249–51; skilled, 182–83, 215
Slave trade, 34, 88, 205; laws regulating, 183–84, 188–89
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Smith, Benjamin, 37; family of, 37, 480
Smith, Gerrit, 362, 363
Smithland, Ky., 472
Society for the Protection of German Immigrants in Texas, 275–76, 280, 319, 320
Solms-Braunfels, Prince Carl, 280
Somers, Robert (1822–1891), 384
Somers, U.S.S., 328–29, 331
Sonora, Mexico, 425
Sophora securuliflora, 275
Soulé, Frank (1810–1882), 334, 336
South Carolina, 20, 140, 261, 264, 267–68, 313, 469
South Carolina State Convention (1852), 286
South Carolina Times, 418, 420, 423
Southern commercial convention(s), 13, 97–98, 144–47, 151–52, 190–91, 197
Southerners: beliefs and concepts of, 233–36, 282–85; characteristics of, 239–46; manners of, 95–96, 158, 201, 208, 213–14, 232–35, 241–45, 307–13, 407–20
Southern Literary Messenger (periodical), 256
Southern Pacific Railroad, 285
Southern Planter (periodical), 132, 139
Souvestre, Emile: An Attic Philosopher in Paris, 344, 347
Spain, 176
Spectator (periodical), 350, 351
Spring, Marcus, 342, 346
“Squatter sovereignty,” 237, 407, 415, 425, 426, 438
Stanford, Leland, 378
Stanley, Edward George Geoffrey Smith, Lord, 446, 448
Stanton, Frederick Perry, 425, 426, 428
Staten Island, N.Y., 49, 72, 74, 83, 139, 143, 151, 170, 331, 347, 349, 374, 394, 396, 482; Tosomock Farm on, 83, 115, 335, 344, 354
State vs. John Mann, 415, 422
Stevens, Sophia, See Hitchcock, Sophia Stevens
Stier, Henry Joseph, Baron de, 92
Stillman, Dr., 401
Stoker, Nancy, 463, 473
Stony Creek, Va., 10, 467
Story, William Wetmore, 388, 390
Stowe, Harriet Beecher (“Mrs, Andover”) (1811–1896), 15, 21, 50, 94, 113, 114–15, 121, 131–32, 345, 348; family of, 115, Writings: Dred, 115; Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 83, 107, 121, 131, 132, 267
“Strather, Mr.” See Strother, Walter
Strauss, David Friedrich (theologian), 58, 234, 237
Strother, David Hunter [pseud. Porte Crayon], 343; Virginia Illustrated, by Porte Crayon, 346
Strother, Walter, 463, 464, 473
Stuart, William, See O’Flaherty, Edmund
Sumner, Charles, 26, 76, 383, 384, 411, 421
Sumner, Edwin Vose, 405, 420
Sutherland, Duchess of, See Leveson-Gower, Harriet Elizabeth Georgiana
Syracuse, N.Y., 364
“T., Mr.” See Theissen, Gustav
T’ai P’ing Rebellion (1850–64), 267
Taylor, Bayard (1825–1 878), 388, 390
Taylor, Richard (“Mr. R.”) (1826–1879), 11, 210, 214, 464, 465, 470; family of, 212, 214
Taylor, Tom (1817–1880), 388, 390
Tennessee, 232, 237, 412; FLO in, 33, 414
Terry, Rose (1827–1892), 353, 374, 388; “The Mormon’s Wife,” 354–55
Texas, 11, 30, 249, 306, 312, 314-IS, 317, 319, 425, 438, 441, 450–51, 484; anticipated division of, 300–303, 306; free-soil movement in, 25, 27, 31, 32–33, 53, 66, 67, 392, 398, 399, 400, 402, 440, 441, 449; FLO in, 10, 75, 465; Germans in, 3, 18, 19, 20, 24, 447; legislature of, 294, 300, 306, 437, See also Texas, East; Texas, West
Texas, East, 271, 300, 464
Texas, West, 271, 300, 301–6, 317, 403, 404, 433, 437
—free-soil movement in, 3, 17, 19, 26, 27, 28, 271, 301, 302–6, 314–17, 319, 397–98, 401, 436–41
—Germans in, 305, 314; characteristics and attitudes of, 275–79, 288, 289, 290–91, 292, 305, 401; [502] Texas, West, Germans in (cont’d) economic activities of, 305, 306, 315, 436–47; settlements of, II, 17, 304, 403, 444, 448; and slavery, 20, 301, 315, 316, 442, 449, 488
Texas Rangers, 275, 361, 362
Texas Western Railroad, 429
Thackeray, William, 23, 388, 390
Thayer, Eli, 33, 65
Theissen, Gustav (“Mr. T.”), 58, 464, 475
“Thomas W,” See Gee, Thomas W.
Thoreau, Henry David: Cape Cod, 21
Times (London), 29, 32, 131, 132, 394, 446
Titus, Henry T., 423
Topeka Constitution (Kansas Territory), 25
Tract societies, 22, 142, 143
Tracy, Daniel, 329
Trees and shrubs, comments on, 95, 160, 163, 275, 309
Trinity River (Tex.), 301, 304
True American (newspaper), 3, 236
Turkey, 269
Tuscaloosa, Ala., 211, 480, 481
Tyler, John, 256
Tyler, Julia Gardiner, 256; “To the Duchess of Sutherland and Ladies of England,” 256
Ujhazy, Mr., 463
Ulrich, Joseph, 400–404
Underwood, Francis Henry, 454, 455
U.S. Capitol grounds, 92
U.S. Census, 283
U.S. Congress, 96, 151, 246
U.S. Constitution: interpretations of, 67, 233, 251; principles of, 85, 383, 427
U.S. government: internal improvements by, 96; Kansas and, 407, 416; slavery and, 262, 263
U.S. Mint, Charlotte, N.C., 113, 114
U.S. Navy, discipline in, 141–42, 328, 329
U.S. Patent Office, Report of, 257
U.S. Postal Service, 164, 209
U.S. Sanitary Commission, relations of FLO with, 50, 237, 249
U.S. Senate, 382
U.S. Supreme Court, 28
Van Buren, Ark., 455, 456
Vandoeuvres Hamlet, Geneva, Switzerland, 83
Versailles, palace of, 342, 345
Vesta (ship), 323–26, 329, 331
Vicksburg, Miss., 215, 471
Virginia, 82, 89–90, 96, 109, 121, 124, 126, 127–51, 153, 251, 374, 427; agriculture in, 98–101, 104–5, 128–31, 134–37, 139; capitol of, 95, 101; FLO in, 10, 13, 20, 33, 94, 205; free blacks in, 118–19, 122, 123–24, 125–26; legislature of, 95, 101, 148, 152; people of, 88–89, 118, 122, 130–31, 145–47; railroads in, 92, 96, 144, 148–49; slavery in, 106–7, 109, 116, 124–25, 131, 150, 152, 251, 255, 310
Walker, Robert J., 429; as Kansas territorial governor, 31, 425, 426, 454, 455; and slavery issue, 427, 431, 437, 442
Walker, William, 288, 357, 384
Walker County, Ala., 481
Wallace, George T., 463, 468
Wallace, Horace Binney, 356, 357
Ward, Matthew Flournoy, 408, 420
Warner, Susan Bogert [pseud. Elizabeth Wetherell]: The Wide, Wide World, 345
War of 1812, 130, 133
Washington Constitution (newspaper), 370
Washington, D.C., 383, 405; agriculture near, 86–88, 92; characteristics of, 87, 89, 201, 382; FLO in, 10, 467; slave trade in, 88, 92
Washington, George, statues of, 95, 101, 102
Washington Territory, 384
“Watson, John,” 480
Waynesville, N.C., 482
Webb, Thomas Hopkins (1801–1866), 432, 443; and New England Emigrant Aid Co., 433, 434, 440, 441; trip of, to Kansas, 452, 453, 454, 455
Weldon, N.C., 468
Welford, Charles (1815–1885), 387, 390
Wells & Webb (type founders), 320, 363
Wesley, John, 260, 267
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Westminster Review (periodical), 236, 238, 351
Weston, George Melville (1816–1887), 452, 453; Progress of Slavery in the United States, 452
Westphal, Baron von: family of, 277–78; FLO meets with, 18, 277–78, 280, 475
Wetherell, Elizabeth, See Warner, Susan Bogert
Whampoa Reach (Canton, China), 170, 267
Wheeling, Va., 472
Whig party, 364; relations of FLO with, 5, 84, 333, 336
White, Richard Grant, 54
White Hall (plantation), See Arnold, Richard J.
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 21
Wilkinson, James John Garth, 181
Williamson County, Tenn., 236–37
Wilmington, N.C., 468
Wilmot Proviso, 286
Wilson, John [pseud. Christopher North]: Noctes Ambrosiannae, 163
Winston County, Miss., 480
Wisclicenus, Gustave Adolf, 58
Woodland, John, 463, 478
Woodville, Miss., 307, 310–11, 480
Wykeham, William of (1324–1404), 242, 246
“X., Mr.” See Arnold, Richard J.
Yakima War, 382–83, 384
Yale College (University) (New Haven, Conn.), 8, 10, 49, 69, 72, 114, 204, 211, 212, 214, 234, 236, 337, 375
Yazoo River (Miss.), 471
Youth’s Cabinet (periodical), 375
Zizelmann, Phillip Friedrich, 405
Zollicoffer, Felix Kirk, 232, 237