Colorado bill, 456;
  substitute of Douglas for, 457, 459-460;
  slavery in, 456, 458-459.

Committee on Territories, Douglas as chairman, in House, 99-100;
  in Senate, 119-120;
  Douglas deposed, 395.

Compromise of 1850, Clay’s resolutions, 176-177;
  speech of Douglas, 177-181;
  compromise bills, 181-182;
  committee of thirteen, 183-184;
  debate in Senate, 184-187;
  passage, 187;
  finality resolution, 194-195; 197;
  principle involved, 189-190.

Constitutional Union party, possibility of, 349;
  nominates Bell, 425;
  prospects, 428.

Cook, Isaac, 418.

Crittenden Compromise, 446-447;
  indorsed by Douglas, 447-448;
  proposed referendum on, 449;
  opposed by Republicans, 452;
  defeated, 463.

Crittenden, John J., favors Douglas’s re-election, 382;
  compromise resolutions, 446-447;
  efforts for peace, 448, 452, 463.

Cuba, acquisition of, favored by Douglas, 199, 208, 396-397.

Cutts, J. Madison, father of Adele Cutts Douglas, 255, 316.

Danites, Mormon order, 90;
  Buchanan Democrats, 382.

Davis, Jefferson, and Douglas, 189;
  and Kansas-Nebraska bill, 237-238;
  and Freeport doctrine, 399 ff., 413;
  resolutions of, 415-416;
  assails Douglas, 423;
  on candidates and platforms, 424;
  on Southern grievances, 444;
  on committee of thirteen, 446;
  permits attack on Sumter, 474.

Davis, John, 119.

Democratic party, Baltimore convention (1844), 79;
  campaign, 80-81;
  platform, 84, 98-99, 104-105;
  convention of 1848, 131-132;
  Cass and Barnburners, 132-133;
  convention of 1852, 204-206;
  campaign, 207;
  Cincinnati convention, 276-278;
  platform and candidate, 278-279;
  “Bleeding Kansas,” 299 ff.;
  election of 1856, 305-306;
  Charleston convention, 413 ff.;
  Davis resolutions, 415-416;
  minority report, 418-420;
  secession, 420;
  adjournment, 421;
  Baltimore convention, 426-428;
  Bolters’ convention, 428;
  campaign of 1860, 429-441.

Democratic Review, and candidacy of Douglas (1852), 200-202.

Dickinson, Daniel S., 128, 382.

Divorce, Douglas on, 33-34.

Dixon, Archibald, and repeal of Missouri Compromise, 235-236;
  and Nebraska bill, 239.

Dodge, Augustus C., Nebraska bill of, 228;
  favors two Territories, 239.

Doolittle, James R., 446.

Douglas, Adele Cutts, wife of Stephen A., 316-317;
  leader in Washington society, 336-337;
  in campaign of 1858, 383;
  in campaign of 1860, 438;
  calls upon Mrs. Lincoln, 462; 476, 489.

Douglas, Martha (nee Martha Denny Martin), daughter of
  Robert Martin, 145;
  marries Stephen A. Douglas, 147;
  inherits father’s estate, 148;
  death, 208.