stitutional, 7, 8;
East and West compromise, 8;
unit for Jackson, 9, 12, 14, 23, 28;
dread of West, 30, and nullification, 72;
"slavery a blessing," 119, 121;
tobacco belt, 132;
cotton belt, 135, 140, 141;
Presbyterians in, 143;
anti-slavery, 161;
and Compromise of 1850, 178, 264;
Union areas, 278;
resistance to conscription, 311;
peace movement in, 312;
conscript laws annulled by, 312, 313;
opposition to Davis, 323;
fears Sherman, 325.

Northwest, for Jackson, 22;
radical, 23, 40;
outstripping Southwest, 121;
demand for Oregon, 122, 126, 140;
internal improvements, 152;
abolition societies, 163;
and Polk, 169;
Southern alliance broken, 173;
expansion, 174, 181;
foreign element, 185;
population, 185;
feared by South, 198;
grain and meat, 199;
capital, income, debts, 202;
and South, 203;
and Douglas, 203;
land for railroads, 203;
expansion and ambition, 204;
and slavery, 221;
school children, 223;
college students, 224;
and Pierce, 231;
Kansas-Nebraska Bill, 236;
clash with South, 236;
Pacific Railroad, 238;
and East, 242, 263;
Lincoln and Douglas, 264;
threatened secession, 269;
supporting Lincoln, 282;
against abolitionists, 301;
hostile to Lincoln, 317.

Nova Scotia, main boundary, 124.

Nueces River, south bank seized, 148.

Nullification, formulated by Calhoun, 6;
Hayne-Webster debate, 61;
imminent in South Carolina, 66, 71;
ended in South Carolina, 75.

Ogden, William B., 202.

Ohio, 15;
canals, 35;
and Jackson 37;
migration to, 39;
trade to New York, 46, 55, 71;
internal improvements, 90;
Germans in, 91, 119;
Oregon and Texas, 122, 162;
and Republicans, 241;
Democratic, 302.

Ohio Valley, 46, 56;
in plantation belt, 138.

Oklahoma, 89, 199.

Omnibus Bill, 180.

Oregon, and West, 25, 36;
and Van Buren, 89;
demand for, 122;
boundary, 124, 125;
Walker letter, 129;
Democrats and, 129, 131, 152;
Treaty, 153;
and Wilmot Proviso, 170;
free States, 174, 199.

Ostend Manifesto, 235.

Pacific Railroad, 204, 232, 263.

Palmer, B.M., secession sermon, 221, 278.

Panama Railroad, 192.

Panic of 1837, causes, 97, 102.

Parker, Theodore, heretical, 218.

Parson, Theophilus, great lawyer, 51.

Peace congress, 272.

Peck, John M., library, 35.

Pendleton, G.H., Democratic leader, 321.

Peninsula campaign, 296.

Pennsylvania,