irst bill to organize, 95;
second bill, 142;
bill for military colonization of, 221;
third bill, 223-224;
Dodge bill, 228;
report of Douglas on, 239 ff.;
new bill reported, 231;
bill printed, 232;
manuscript of, 233.
_See_ Kansas-Nebraska bill.

Negro equality, Douglas on, 275-276, 356-357, 384;
Lincoln on, 358, 361, 368, 379, 385.

New England Emigrant Aid Company, 283.

New Mexico, slavery in, 127 ff.;
Clayton compromise, 130;
controversy in Congress, 130-131;
Polk's policy, 133;
Douglas's statehood bills, 134-137;
Taylor's policy, 166;
Clay's resolutions, 176;
territorial bill for, 181-183;
in the Omnibus, 184-186;
organized, 187.

New York _Times_, supports Lincoln (1858), 382;
on Douglas, 411, 429, 436, 470.

New York _Tribune_, on Douglas, 332, 348, 403.

_Niles' Register_, cited as a source, 112.

Non-intervention, principle of, Cass on, 128;
in Clayton compromise, 130;
Douglas on, 138-139;
in compromise of 1850, 181-187, 189-190;
in Kansas-Nebraska legislation, 230-231, 236, 243-249, 289-292, 397-402.

"Old Fogyism," 200.

Oregon, emigration from Illinois to, 93;
"re-occupation" of, 94;
international status of, 94-95;
Douglas on, 96-98;
Polk's policy toward, 98-99;
bill to protect settlers in, 101;
and treaty with Great Britain, 103, 106;
bills to organize, 106, 108, 129;
Clayton compromise, 130;
organized, 131.

Pacific Railroad, and organization of Nebraska, 222-224, 238-239.

Parker, Nahum, 8.

Parker, Theodore, on Douglas, 393.

Party organizations, beginnings of, in Illinois, 25-27, 38-42, 49-50;
efficiency of, 65-66, 79, 103;
sectional influence upon, 158-160;
institutional character of, 157-158, 260-262.

Payne, Henry B., 418-419.

Peace Convention, 453;
resolution of, 463.

Peck, Ebenezer, 26, 56.

Personal Liberty Acts, 445, 454.

Pierce, Franklin, presidential candidacy, 204-205;
approves Kansas-Nebraska bill, 237-238;
signs Kansas-Nebraska bill, 256;
opinion on slavery extension, 256 _n._;
candidacy at Cincinnati, 276-277.

Political parties, and annexation of Texas, 84;
and Mexican War, 109;
and slavery in Territories, 127-129;
and election of 1848, 132-133;
in Illinois, 157-158;
and Free-Soilers, 158 ff.;
and compromise of 1850, 195;
nationalizing influence of, 260-262;
decline of Whigs, 262;
rise of Know-Nothings, 262;
and Nebraska Act, 264 ff.;