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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 Charles Sumner, 241 Kansas militia, 242 Jefferson Davis, compromise, 242-43 Edwin Morgan, Thurlow Weed, 246 Should the Rebel be let go? 247 Missouri, the Blairs, 248-49 Support for slavery in Boston, 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 Abraham Lincoln, 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 Andrew Johnson, 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 .

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