y Todd, 63;
engagement broken, 64;
his deep melancholy, 64;
letter to Stuart, 64;
visit to Kentucky, 64;
letters to Speed, 64, 65;
"Lost Townships" letters, 66;
challenged by Shields, 66;
prescribes terms of the duel, 67;
duel prevented, 68;
letter to Speed, 68;
marriage to Mary Todd, November 4, 1842, 68, 69;
children of, 69;
partnership with Stuart dissolved, 69, 70;
law partnership with S.T. Logan, 70;
declines reelection to legislature, 70;
letter to Speed, 71;
letter to Martin Morris, 71-73;
letter to Speed, 73;
presidential elector, 1844, 73;
letters to B.F. James, 74;
elected to Congress, 1846, 75;
service and speeches in Congress, 76-90;
votes for Wilmot Proviso, 79;
presidential elector in 1840 and 1844, 80;
favors General Taylor for President, 80-83;
letters about Taylor's nomination, 80-82;
letters to Herndon, 81-83;
speeches for Taylor, 83;
bill to prohibit slavery in District of Columbia, 86;
letters recommending office-seekers, 87-89;
letter to W.H. Herndon, 90, 91;
letter to Speed, 91, 92;
letter to Duff Green, 92;
applies for commissionership of General Land Office, 92;
defends Butterfield against political attack, 92;
refuses governorship of Oregon, 93;
indignation at repeal of Missouri Compromise, 94, 95;
advocates reelection of Richard Yates to Congress, 96;
speech at Illinois State Fair, 96;
debate with Douglas at Peoria, 96-99;
agreement with Douglas, 99;
candidate for United States Senate before Illinois legislature, 1855, 99;
withdraws in favor of Trumbull, 100;
letter to Robertson, 100, 101;
speech at Bloomington convention, 1856, 103;
vote for, for Vice-President, 1856, 104;
presidential elector, 1856, 105;
speeches in campaign of 1856, 105;
speech at Republican banquet in Chicago, 106, 107;
speech on Dred Scott case, 110-112;
nominated for senator, 118, 119;
"House divided against itself" speech, 119, 120, 127, 128;
Lincoln-Douglas joint debate, 121-125;
defeated for United States Senate, 125;
analysis of causes which led to his defeat, 126, 127;
letters to H. Asbury and A.G. Henry, 127;
letter to A.L. Pierce and others, 130, 131;
speech in Chicago, 131, 132;
letter to M.W. Delahay, 132;
letter to Colfax, 132, 133;
letter to S. Galloway, 133;
Ohio speeches, 133, 134;
criticism of John Brown raid, 134, 135;
speeches in Kansas, 136, 137;
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