nominated at Baltimore, 427;
    letter of acceptance, 428;
    personal canvass, 429-439;
    on election of Lincoln, 439 ff.;
    and Crittenden compromise, 446-448;
    speech of January 3, 1861, 449 ff.;
      efforts for peace, 448, 452, 453;
    offers fugitive slave bill, 454;
    and Mason, 454-455;
    and Wigfall, 455-456;
    fears the Blairs, 461;
    opinion of President-elect, 461;
    and Lincoln, 462-463;
    at inauguration, 464;
    and the inaugural, 466-468;
    on reinforcement of Sumter, 468-469;
    in the confidence of Lincoln, 469-470;
    on policy of administration, 471-473;
    faces war, 474;
    closeted with Lincoln, April 14, 475-477;
    press dispatch, 477;
    first War Democrat, 478;
    mission in Northwest, 478-480;
    speech at Bellaire, 480-482;
    speech at Columbus, 482-483;
    speech at Springfield, 483-485;
    speech at Chicago, 485-487;
    premonitions of war, 487-488;
    last illness and death, 488-489.
  Personal traits: 
    Physical appearance, 22-23, 69, 294-295, 364-365;
    limitations upon his culture, 36-37, 119-120, 215-217, 270-272;
    his indebtedness to Southern associations, 147-148, 317-318;
    advocate rather than judge, 70-71, 121-122, 177-181, 270-272, 321;
    liberal in religion, 263, 317;
    retentive memory, 319-320;
    his impulsiveness, 320;
    his generosity of temper, 320;
    his loyalty to friends, 267-268, 318-319;
    his prodigality in pecuniary matters, 309-310;
    his domestic relations, 317;
    the man and the politician, 270-272.
  As a party leader: 
    early interest in politics, 8, 10;
    schooling in politics, 18-19;
    his talent as organizer, 25 ff.; 39 ff., 47-50;
    secret of his popularity, 318-319;
    his partisanship, 324.
  As a statesman: 
    readiness in debate, 320;
    early manner of speaking, 70 ff.;
    later manner, 251-252, 294-297;
    insight into value of the public domain, 36, 311-312;
    belief in territorial expansion, 100, 107-108;
    his Chauvinism, 87-88, 97-98, 101-103, 199, 211-214;
    his statecraft, 100, 107-108, 174-181, 270-272, 314-315;
    abhorrence of civil war, 449-451, 484-487;
    love of the Union, 324, 436-437, 481, 484, 489.

Douglass, Benajah, grandfather of Stephen A. Douglas, 4-5.

Douglass, Sally Fisk, mother of Stephen A. Douglas, 5.

Douglass, Stephen A., father of Stephen A. Douglas, 5.

Douglass, William, ancestor of Stephen A. Douglas, 4.

Dred Scott decision, Douglas on, 321-323, 356, 359-360, 372-373, 377;
  Lincoln on, 353, 357, 361, 376-377.

Duncan, Joseph, 50, 60.

Election Law of 1842, 73;
  Douglas on, 74-75.

Elections, State and local, 22, 29, 50, 61, 158-159, 267;
  congressional, 44, 67, 73-76, 83, 115-116, 207, 267;
  senatorial, 62, 117, 207, 208 n., 268-269, 391-392;
  presidential, 50, 306, 440-441.