Legislature, presented in Senate, 139-140;
origin, 159-160;
controls Douglas (1850), 184.

Rice, Henry M., 446.

Richardson, William A., on House Committee on Territories, 182;
steers Kansas-Nebraska bill through House, 254-255;
in Cincinnati convention, 277;
candidate for governor, 305;
in Charleston convention, 416 ff.;
in Baltimore convention, 427;
forecasts election, 429.

Richmond, Dean, 426.

River and harbor improvements, Douglas on, 77-78, 313-314.
_See also_ Internal Improvements.

Robinson, Charles, leader of free State party in Kansas, 287, 288.

Roman Church, Adele Cutts an adherent of, 317;
attitude of Douglas toward, 317.

Sangamo _Journal_, on Caucus system, 28;
on Douglas, 41.

Santa Anna, treaty with Texas, 111, 112.

Scott, Winfield, 482.

Secession, apprehended, 442;
of South Carolina, 447;
of Cotton States, 452;
and border States, 474.

Seward, William H., and Douglas, 251;
loses Republican nomination, 425;
on committee of thirteen, 453;
and the Blairs, 461, 462.

Shadrach rescue, 194.

Shannon, Wilson, governor of Kansas, 288.

Sheahan, James W., biographer of Douglas, 218, 416;
editor of Chicago _Times_, 305.

Sheridan, James B., 438.

Shields, James, senator from Illinois, 171;
and Illinois Central Railroad, 175;
fails of re-election, 267 ff.

Slavery, in North Carolina, 147-148;
in Illinois, 155-156, 178, 242-243;
in Kansas, 287, 298;
Nebraska bill not designed to extend, 234;
Douglas on extension of, 179-180, 243;
peonage, 186;
Douglas on, 126, 311, 388, 390, 415;
Lincoln on, 351, 352, 358, 361, 368-369, 379, 381, 385, 386, 390.

Slave-trade, revival proposed, 403, 421;
condemned by Douglas, 403-404.

Slidell, John, mission to Mexico, 109;
seeks Douglas's defeat (1858), 381-382, 391;
project to purchase Cuba, 396;
at Charleston, 417.

Smith, Joseph, on Douglas, 58-59;
to Mormon voters, 59-60;
on polygamy, 90;
murdered, 90.

Smith, Theophilus W., 48, 54, 55.

Smithsonian Institution, foundation of, 310;
Douglas on board of Regents, 310.

Snyder, Adam W., 59, 60.

Southern Rights advocates, 194.

Spoils system, countenanced by Douglas, 198, 207.

Springfield Resolutions, in Lincoln-Douglas debates, 366-367, 368,
369, 370, 374.

"Squatter sovereignty," Cass and Dickinson on, 128;
favored by Douglas, 138-139;
genesis of, 161 ff.;
explained by Douglas, 184-185;
an