ing System.― Rise of Prices and Increase of Imports. The
Crash. The Banks.-The Commercial Crisis from a Party
Point of View.- The Financial Situation and the Customs
Tariff of March 3, 1857.- The Annual Message on the Utah
uestion. Criticism of Buchanan's Views. - The Mormons

and the Slavery Question.-- Criticism of Buchanan's Course.-

The Posse Comitatus Question.- Employment of the Army.-

Kansas and Utah.- The Mormons Resolved on Resistance.—

The Winter Campaign. The Message on Foreign Relations. -

The Clayton-Bulwer Treaty.-The Cass-Yrizarri Treaty.—

Buchanan's and the Slavocracy's Attitude towards Walker

CHAPTER IV

THE LECOMPTON CONSTITUTION IN CONGRESS.

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Jefferson Davis and Bigler against Douglas.- Douglas's Speech

of the 9th of December.-The Beginning of the End."-

Doglas and the Administration Democrats.-Stanton's Re-

val and Walker's Resignation. -- Measures of the Kansas

Legislature.- Vote of January 4 and its Meaning.-Demo-

cratic position.— The Southern Radicals.— Material Change

in the General Situation.- The Message on the Nicaragua

Qustion. Thoughts of Compromise on the Lecompton Ques-

tion.- Message of the 2d of February.- The Prospects of the

Opposition Decrease.- Douglas's Resolutions of the 4th of Feb-

ruary. Session of the Senate on the 15th of March. — Cal-

houn's Letter to the Publisher of the Star.- The Crittenden-

Montgomery Bill.- The Condition of Parties

CHAPTER V.

ENGLISH'S BILL.

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The Leavenworth Convention and the Conference Committee.-

English of Indiana.-- English's Speech of the 23d of April and

the Lecompton Ordmance. - The "Shaky Democrats."- The

Land Clause an Attempt at Bribery.- The New Principle of

Reward and Punishment.- The Altered Electoral Commission.

Breach of Faith of the Deserters.- Moral Eunuchism

CHAPTER VI.

THE IRREPRESSIBLE CONFLICT.”

Utah and the Deficiency Bill.-Kane's Mediation.- Arbitration
of the Utah Question.- Message of the 12th of June and the

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Financial Situation.- Seward's Rochester Speech.- Lincoln's

Course of Development.- Lincoln's Letter of the 15th of Au-

gust, 1855. Senatorial Election in Illinois in 1855.- The Can-

didate Question in Illinois in 1858.-Lincoln's Speech Before

the State Convention.-The Lincoln-Douglas Debate.- Lin-

coln's Position on the Slavery Question.- The Dred Scott De-

cision and Popular Sovereignty.- Lincoln's Criticism of the

Freeport Declaration.- Result and Meaning of the Illinois

Campaign. The Southern Radicals.— The Public Lands and

the Homestead Law.- Danger to Slavery in the Slave States.—

Continued Development of the Slavocratic Spirit.- Slavocratic

Spirit in the Churches and Schools.- Slavocratic Definition of

Abolitionism.- Agitation of the African Slave Trade. - Yan-

cey's Letter of the 15th of June, 1858

CHAPTER VII.

THE SECOND SESSION OF THE 35TH CONGRESS.

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Annual Message of the 6th of December, 1858, on Kansas.— Ore-

gon Admitted as a State.-Slidell's Thirty-million Bill. Sii-

dell's Committee Report on the Project to Purchase Cuba.- Tie

Purchase of Cuba and the Questions of Secession and Slavery. → ›

Collamer's Refutation of Buchanan and Slidell.- Attitude of

Spain towards the Project of Purchasing Cuba.- Buchanan's

Plans and Wishes.-The Fight over Slidell's Bill in the Senate.-

Brown's Speech of the 23d of February.-The Debate of the

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