Cotton:  39, 259-60, 313.

Cow Island:  331.

Cowper, William:  11.

Crittenden:  192-5.

Cuba:  145, 159.

Cumberland River:  226, 277, 280-1.

Curtis, B. R., Justice; 114.

Darwin, Charles:  138, 259.

Davis, David, Justice:  167, 379.

Davis, Henry Winter:  388, 401.

Davis, Jefferson:  his rise as an extreme Southern leader, 101, 138, 150; inclined to favour slave trade, 145; his-argument for right of Secession, 176; his part in Secession, 198-200; President of Confederacy, 200; vetoes Bill against slave trade as inadequate and fraudulent, 200; orders attack on Fort Sumter, 212; criticisms upon his military policy, 217-8, 387-8; his part in the war, 246, 355, 387-8, 395, 431, 433, 446; his determination to hold out and his attitude to peace, 403-4, 431-4; as to prisoners of war, 330, 399; escape from Richmond and last public action, 446; his capture, and his emotions on Lincoln’s assassination, 452-3; his memoirs, 453, 460.

Dayton, Senator:  167.

Declaration of Independence:  meaning of its principles, 32-5; how slave-holders signed it, 35-9; Lincoln’s interpretation of it, 123; his great speech upon it, 184.

Delaware:  17, 198, 318, 334.

Democracy:  fundamental ideas in it, 32-9, 123; development of extreme form and of certain abuses of it in America, 47-50; its institutions and practices still in an early stage of development, 50; a foolish perversion of it in the Northern States, 59, 218; Lincoln sees a decay of worthy and honest democratic feeling, 117; the Civil War regarded by Lincoln and many in North as a test whether democratic government could maintain itself, 183-4, 362-3, 425; the sense in which Lincoln was a great democrat, 455-6.

Democratic Party:  traces descent from Jefferson, 30; originated or started anew by Jackson, its principles, 47-8; general subservience of its leaders to Southern interests, 91, 110, 140, see also Mexico, Pierce, Douglas, Buchanan; breach between Northern and Southern Democrats, 141, 148-50, 157-9; Northern Democrats loyal to Union, 172-4, 177, 188, 231; progress of Democratic opposition to Lincoln, 267, 316, 374-5, 381-5, 401, 411-5; Lincoln’s appeal after defeating them, 425.

Dickens, Charles:  31, 32, 41, 259.

Disraeli, Benjamin:  74, 260.

Dough-Faces:  40.

Douglas, Stephen:  rival to Lincoln in Illinois Legislature, 71; possibly also in love, 81, 87; his rise, influence, and character, 101, 110-1; repeals Missouri Compromise, 110-1; supports rights of Kansas, 115, 140; Lincoln’s contest with him, 121-2, 132-7, 140-9; gist of Lincoln’s objection to his principles, 130, 142-5; unsuccessful candidate for Presidency, 159, 168-9; attitude to Secession, 188; relations with Lincoln after Secession, 206, 210, 231; death, 231.

Douglass, Frederick:  332.

Drink:  63, 76-7, 353, 423.