Nauvoo, settled by Mormons, 57;
  charter repealed, 90;
  evacuated, 92.

Nauvoo Legion, 58.

Nebraska, first 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.;
  rise of Republican party, 273-274;