Hampton Institute, 362 ff;
personality, 364 ff;
labors of for school, 365 ff;
death of; summary of life work; personal appearance, 366;
sayings of, 367;
Booker Washington, pupil and successor to, 378.

Arnold, Matthew, poem on his father, 369.

Atchison, Senator, of Missouri, 117.

Atlanta University, 358, 398.

_Atlantic Monthly_, begun, 144

Aycock, Governor, of N. C., 388.

Bacon, Leonard, 36.

Baltimore, Maryland, Mass. troops attacked at, 237.

Banks, Nathaniel P., joins "Free Soil" party, 81;
speaker of House, 115;
in Republican party, 127;
refuses nomination of "Know-nothing" seceders,
supports Fremont, 129;
governor of Mass., 193;
in House, 284.

Baptists, champion cause of freedom, 22.

"Barnburners," the, 82.

Barnwell, Senator, advocates secession, 89.

Bates, Edward, candidate for Presidential nomination (1860), 191;
attitude of on emancipation proclamation, 257.

Beauregard, Gen., leads attack on Fort Sumter, 235.

Beecher, Edward, 36.

Beecher, Henry Ward, characterization of, 141 ff;
active in political discussion, 142;
criticises Lincoln in _Independent_, 254;
labors in behalf of Union, 277;
outlines plan of reconstruction, 277 ff;
views on suffrage, 308.

Bell, John, nominated for President, 189;
popular vote for (1860), 194; 214.

Bennett, James Gordon, 141.

Berea College, beginnings of, 73;
discriminated against by Kentucky educational law, 385.

Bernard, John, meets Washington, 1 ff.

"Biglow Papers," Lowell attacks slavery and war in, 77; 144; 254.

Birney, James G., 36;
incidents in life of, 58 ff;
political ideas of, 59;
nominated for President, 74;
views of on slavery question, 74;
again nominated, 75.

Black, Jeremiah S., Attorney-General, 222;
Secretary of State, 244;
defends Johnson, 312.

"Black Codes" of 1865-6, 281 ff, 372.

Blaine, James G., in House, 284;
proposes amend. to Stevens's reconstruction bill, 306;
on debate of bill, 307;
on negro suffrage, 310;
leader in House, characterized, 331;
speaks against Davis, reputation discredited, Presidential
candidate, 346.

Blair, Francis P. (Gen.), nominated for Vice-Presidency; defeated, 314.

Blair, Senator, of N. H., bill of for aid to local education on basis
of existing illiteracy, 372, 404.

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