Stearns, Frank Preston. The Life and Public Services of George Luther Stearns. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1907.

Stephen A. Douglas, 227 Lincoln and fugitive slave law, 227 Lincoln and Douglas, 1860, 228-29 Election of 1860 and Freedom, results, 232-33 Many officeholders would lose their jobs, 234 Stearns, John A. Andrew and Buchanan, 236-38 Lincoln, Henry Wilson, compromise, 238 Secession, Republicans, compromise, 239 John A. Andrew, 240 , 241 militia, 242 , compromise, 242-43 Edwin Morgan, Thurlow Weed, 246 Should the Rebel be let go? 247 Missouri, the Blairs, 248-49 Support for slavery in , 250 Kansas regiments, 251 James A. Montgomery, 252 Chase and slavery, 253 Bull Run and emancipation, 254 Military situation in Kansas, 256 Whittier and emancipation, 256-57 Lincoln administration and slavery, 257 Circulating antislavery speeches, 258-59 Charles Sumner, creation of a newspaper, 263 Moncure Conway, 264 et passim Ethan Allen Hitchcock and McClellan, 264-65 Sumner, Seward, and passport for a black man, 267-68 Stearns newspaper on McClellan and 1862 elections, 268-69 Charles Sumner, 271 et passim Moncure Conway, slaveholders and alcohol, 272 Wendell Phillips, 274-75 Garrison and Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln, 276-77 Lincoln and Fremont, General Stanly, 278-79 , 280-81 Stearns, Chase, and Greenbacks, loans, 281-84 Black soldiers, 285ff Sumner and black troops, 285-86 John A. Andrew, 286-87 et passim Samuel Wilkeson, 290-91 54th Massachusetts, 294 et passim Frederick Law Olmsted, Stanton and black troops, 295-97 Boston riot, 298 New York draft riot, 298-300 Assistant Adjutant General, recruiter of black troops, 301ff William D. Kelley and pay for black regiments, 304-6 Recruiting black troops in the West, 308ff , 309-10 Rosecrans, 309-11 Lincoln and soldier pay, 314 Stanton, 318-19 Stanton and resignation, 321-330 Government and treatment of black soldiers, 324-330 Henry Wilson, Lincoln, Chase, Fremont, 326 Greeley, Lincoln, slave insurrection, 327 Matthew Brady, 327-28 Grant, 328 Founding of the Nation magazine, E. L. Godkin, 332-38 Reconstruction, 339ff