350;
  early career, 351;
  personal traits, 351-352;
  addresses Republican convention, 352-353;
  hears Douglas in Chicago, 354;
  replies to Douglas, 357-358;
  speech at Springfield, 361;
  proposes joint debates, 362;
  personal appearance, 364-365;
  debate at Ottawa, 365-370;
  Freeport debate, 370-375;
  debate at Jonesboro, 375-378;
  debate at Charleston, 378-381;
  resources, 382;
  debate at Galesburg, 383-386;
  debate at Quincy, 386-388;
  debate at Alton, 388-390;
  defeated, 392;
  in Ohio, 410-411;
  presidential candidate, 425;
  elected, 440-441;
  enters Washington, 461;
  and advisers, 461, 462;
  confers with Douglas, 463-464;
  inauguration, 464;
  address, 464-466;
  defended by Douglas, 466 ff.;
  consults Douglas, 469-470;
  not generally known, 471;
  decides to provision Sumter, 474;
  calls for troops, 475;
  confers with Douglas, 476-477, 478;
  last interview with Douglas, 479.

Logan, Stephen T., 23.

“Lord Coke’s Assembly,” 53, 55.

McClernand, John A., 51, 55, 119, 182.

McConnell, Murray, 14, 48.

McRoberts, Samuel, 42.

Marble, Mary Ann, wife of William Douglass, 4.

Marble, Thomas, ancestor of Stephen A. Douglas, 4.

Marshall, Edward C., 203.

Martin, Colonel Robert, 145;
  plantations of, 146;
  will of, 148-149.

Mason, James M., 454, 455, 469.

Matteson, Joel A., 268-269;
  letter of Douglas to, 313-314.

May, William L., 40.

Mexico, Slidell’s mission to, 109;
  dictatorship in, 111;
  treaty with Texas, 111-112;
  territory lost by, 116, 117;
  treaty of 1848, 123.

Mexican War, announced by Polk, 105, 109;
  defended by Douglas, 109-112, 116-117;
  appointments in, 114, 117;
  terminated, 123.

Minnesota bill, to organize territorial government, 142;
  to admit State, 340.

Minnesota Block, Douglas residence in Washington, 337, 488.

Missouri Compromise, and annexation of Texas, 89-90;
  and organization of Oregon, 130;
  and organization of Mexican cession, 131, 133;
  and organization of Nebraska, 221, 230-231, 232-233, 235;
  repeal agitated by Atchison, 235-236;
  repealed, 237 ff.;
  declared unconstitutional, 321-322.

Monroe doctrine, debated in Senate, 211-214.

Moore, John, 60.

Mormons, settle in Illinois, 57-58;
  politics of, 58-61;
  disorders in Hancock County, 90-91;
  advised to emigrate, 91;
  removal, 92;
  in Utah, 220.

Morris, Edward J., 96.

Mosquito protectorate, 209, 210-211.

Nashville convention (1844), 81.

National Era, occasions controversy in Senate, 124.

Native American party, 262.
  See Know-Nothing party.