ncoln, 480.

Fort Pickens, question of evacuating, 468 ff.

Fort Sumter, occupation advised, 442;
occupied, 451;
abortive attempt to reinforce, 452;
question of evacuating, 468 ff.;
attack upon, 474;
capitulation of, 475.

Francis, Simeon, 46.

Fremont, John C., 280.

Freeport doctrine, foreshadowed, 322, 359-360;
stated, 372-373;
analyzed by Lincoln, 376-377;
effect upon South, 381-382;
denounced in Senate, 397 ff.;
defended in _Harper's Magazine_, 405-409.

Free-Soil party, convention of, 132;
holds balance of power in House, 133;
in Illinois, 158-160.

Fugitive Slave Law, passed, 187;
not voted upon by Douglas, 188;
defended by Douglas, 191-194;
violations of, 194-195;
repeal proposed, 195;
attitude of South, 195;
Lincoln on, 371;
evasions of, 445-446;
supplementary law proposed by Douglas, 454.

Fusion party, in Illinois, 264 ff.
_See_ Republican party.

Galena alien case, 47, 48, 54.

Granger, Gehazi, 9.

Great Britain, animus of Douglas toward, concerning Oregon, 88,
93-94, 97, 101, 102;
concerning Central America, 211-213, 215-216; 217.

Great Western Railroad Company, 168.

Greeley, Horace, and Douglas, 320, 348;
favors re-election of Douglas, 349.

Green, James S., 333, 335, 338, 401, 457.

Greenhow's _History of the Northwest Coast of North America_, 94, 95.

Grimes, James W., 446.

Guthrie, James, 420, 427.

Hale, John P., 124, 138, 186.

Hall, Willard P., 223-224.

Hannegan, Edward A., 103-104.

Hardin, John J., 21-22, 27, 91, 92.

_Harper's Magazine_, essay by Douglas in, 405 ff.

Harris, Thomas L., 265.

Helper's _Impending Crisis_, 412-413.

Herndon, William H., Lincoln's law partner, 351.

Hise, Elijah, drafts treaty, 210.

Hoge, Joseph B., 118.

Homestead bill of Douglas, 311.

Honduras and its dependencies, claimed by Great Britain, 209-211.

Howe, Henry, 9.

Hunter, R.M.T., 420, 446.

Illinois and Michigan Canal, lands granted to, 31;
Douglas and construction of, 32-33;
probable influence upon settlement, 154.

Illinois Central Railroad, inception of, 168;
project taken up by Douglas, 169-170;
bill for land grant to, 170;
legislative history of, 171-173;
larger aspects of, 174 ff.;
in the campaign of 1858, 382.

Illinois _Republican_, attack upon office of, 37-38.

Illinois _State Register_, on Douglas, 46, 81-82;
and Springfield clique, 61-62;
editorial by Douglas