supports Pierce, 182, 184, 241.

Fremont, John C., in Mexican War, 154;
Senator, 175;
for President, 246;
commander at St. Louis, 284;
removed from command, 290, 299;
for President, 320.

Friends. _See_ Quakers.

Fugitive Slave Law, strengthened in 1850, 178;
opposition to, 184;
nullified by Northern States, 252.

Fuller, Margaret, 226.

Fur trade, St. Louis a center, 35;
American Fur Company, 35.

Gadsden, James, United States agent to Mexico, 232.

Gallatin, Albert, turned against Bank, 83.

Garrison, William Lloyd, abolitionist, 161;
_Liberator_, 161;
abolition societies, 162;
for unconditional abolition, 164.

Georgia, 3;
university of, 7;
trouble over Indians, 7, 8, 21, 72, 87;
immigration to, 13, 21, 28;
Cherokee Nation against, 88, 121;
illiterates, 213;
convicts, 213;
Know-Nothings defeated in, 243;
secession of, 271;
Union areas, 279;
distrusted by Confederacy, 309;
conscript laws annulled, 312, 323.

Germans, immigration to Mississippi Valley, 91;
elect Lincoln, 264.

Germany, and tariff, 151.

Giddings, J. R., anti-slavery leader, 163, 262.

Gilmore, Thomas W., 121, 132.

Gladstone, W. E., favors South, 314.

Graft, in Van Buren's administration, 96.

Grain, exported by West, 29, 35;
machinery invented, 199;
railroads and, 199.

Grant, U. S., campaign in Tennessee, 293;
wins battle of Shiloh, 294;
made Halleck famous, 300;
blocked in Mississippi, 303;
commander in East, 316;
Wilderness campaign, 317;
failure and criticism of, 318;
crosses the James, 318;
invests Petersburg, 318, 326;
liberal terms to Lee, 327.

Great Britain, and American shipping, 187.

Greeley, Horace, 171;
proposes Douglas for President, 251;
and Chicago Convention, 262, 263;
against Lincoln, 320;
supports Lincoln, 322.

Green, Duff, editor of the _Telegraph_, 17;
attacks Adams, 17.

Greenbacks, issued, 292, 293;
unpopular, 304;
more issued, 305.

Grimes, J. W., 241.

Grimke, the Misses, abolitionists, 166.

Guadalupe-Hidalgo, Treaty of, 174.

Gulf States, immigration to, 13;
value of exports, 29, 141;
Union areas, 278.

Guthrie, James, Secretary of the Treasury, 232.

_Habeas corpus_, writ of, suspended, 304.

Halleck, General H. W., Grant makes famous, 300;
command in East, 300.

Hamilton, Alexander, 44.

Hamilton, James, 71.

Hammond, James H., on slavery, 146.

Hampton, Wad