nationalism and protection to particularism and free trade, 54, 55,
60, 63, 65, 66, 68;
ready to nullify, 70;
nullification, 71, 72;
Jackson's Proclamation and Force Bill, 73;
repeal of nullification, 75, 77, 82;
internal improvements and debt, 98;
bank laws, 106;
for Van Buren, 111;
"slavery a blessing," 119;
Calhoun and, 119;
loses representatives, 121, 128, 131, 140, 141;
Presbyterians, 143;
and Wilmot Proviso, 171;
California and slavery, 175;
secession of, 269, 270;
Union area, 278, 313;
Sherman and, 325.

Southwest, radical, 23;
newly rich, 31;
and nullification, 72;
river commerce, 90;
cotton expansion, 90;
growth, 121;
and old South, 140.

Sparks, Rev. Jared, 73.

Specie Circular, 92;
effect on business, 102;
demand for repeal, 102, 103.

Squatter sovereignty, started by Cass, 171.

Stanton, Edwin M., Secretary of War, 299;
arbitrary arrests, 304.

Steamers, on Great Lakes, 35;
on the Mississippi, 35.

Stephens, Alexander H., for Taylor, 171;
out of favor, 175;
blaming anti-slavery, 176;
defends Douglas, 240;
Democrat, 243;
Vice-President of Confederacy, 271;
reelected, 286;
for reunion, 309;
would impeach Davis, 323, 324, 325.

Stevens, Thaddeus, supports Lincoln, 322.

Story, Joseph, 15, 252.

Suffrage, 3;
in North Carolina, 9;
in Virginia, 10;
in New York, 14;
in Connecticut, 14;
in Massachusetts, 15;
in Rhode Island, 15.

Sugar, 12, 132, 194.

Sully, portrait painter, 54.

Sumner, Charles, for constitutional abolition, 168;
hostile to Webster, 179, 184, 215;
against Nebraska Bill, 240, 241, 242;
"Crime-of-Kansas" speech, 245;
assaulted by Brooks, 245, 253, 263;
uncompromising, 273;
for immediate emancipation, 301;
denounces Lincoln, 316, 320;
supports Lincoln, 322.

Sumter, Fort, 270, 272, 273;
bombardment of, united North, 283.

Supreme Court, of United States, proposal to limit powers, 16, 50, 51, 55;
of Georgia, Jackson and, 72;
Cherokee Nation against Georgia, 88;
changed, 99;
Dred Scott decision, 247.

Surplus. _See_ Revenue.

Taney, Roger B., Attorney-General, 65;
Secretary of the Treasury, 79.

Tariff, 5, 6, 7, 44, 51, 53, 55, 65, 66, 68, 69;
Jackson and, 59;
and South Carolina, 60, 62;
nullification, 71;
Verplanck Bill, 73;
compromise of 1833, 74, 77;
and Whigs, 110, 112, 173;
and Clay, 114;
law of 1842, 117,