Index: Speeches Volume 4

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Pilgrims: arrival in Massachusetts of, 82n; in the Netherlands, 189, 189n, 316

Pillsbury, Parker: black suffrage and, 80; oratory of, 607—09; praises Democratic party, 148, 148n; woman suffrage and, 146, 215n

Pinchback, P. B. S., 422—23n; chairs black convention, 293—94, 294n; denied seat in U.S. Senate, 422—25, 423n, 499n; eulogizes Charles Sumner, 397; Republican Party and, 423—25

Pinchback, William, 422n

Pittsburgh, Pa., 92n, 159n, 409n

Pittsfield, N.H.: Douglass in, 208—10

Pius V (pope), 191n

Planter (ship), 91—92, 91—92n

Platt, Thomas C., 471n

“Pleasures of Hope" (Campbell), 349n

Plutarch, 536n

Plymouth, Mass, 82n, 405n

Plymouth Pilgrim Society, 82n

Plymouth Rock, 82, 316, 346

Poe, Edgar Allan, 242n, 271; quoted, 242

Poet at the Breakfast Table, The (Holmes), 319— 20, 586n

Poland, 223—24, 224n, 344

Polk, James K., 227n; as presidential candidate, 575n

Pomeroy, Samuel, 184

Pomeroy, Theodore M., 440n

Pool, John, 313

Poor Richard's Almanac (Franklin), 527n, 565n

Pope, Alexander: quoted, 78, 78n, 356, 356n

Popular sovereignty: Stephen A. Douglas and, 13

Populist (People's) Party, 298n

Porter, Horace, 481

Port Hudson, La.: blacks in battle at, 56, 56—57n

Portland, Me., 538n; Douglass in, 29n, 333n

Portland (Maine) Daily Eastern Argus, 29n

Portland (Maine) Transcript, 29n

Port Royal, Va., 79n

Potomac River, 328n, 454—55n, 465

Powell, Lewis Thornton, 115n

Prairieville, Wisc., 163n

“Prayer of Twenty Millions, The" (Greeley), 12n

Prejudice: against Chinese, 570; against Irish, 570; against Jews, 570; Douglass describes, 251; in Great Britain, 570; intelligence and, 603; slavery as cause of, 600—01; sources of, 250—52, 300—02

Presbyterian Church, 456n; antislavery in, 364, 364n; Commission on Freedmen of, 421n

651

Larger Catechism of, 364n; New School faction of, 277, 277n; Old School faction of, 277, 277n; reunification of, 277, 277n

“Present and Future of the Colored Race in America, The" (Douglass), 54n

“Present Crisis, The" (Lowell): quoted, 410, 410n

Presidents (U.S.), 8; appointment power of, 169, 593; Douglass meets with, 106—07, 111n, 111—13, 121, 138, 138n, 144n, 232n, 494, 494n, 542n, 572, 592, 592n, 612—13; as slaveholders, 170

Press: black migration to Midwest and, 510; on black voters, 493n; in Boston, 444n, 445, 507n; in Chicago, 599; in Confederacy, 113; of Democratic Party, 375; farm journals of, 390n, 391n; Andrew Johnson and, 159n; in Maine, 538n; proslavery papers of, 51, 399; weather reporting in, 610

Price, Sterling, 52n, 52—53

Prince George’s County, Md., 455n, 467

Princeton, N. J., 454n

Protestant Episcopal Church: black ministers in, 40n

Provence, comte de: See Louis XVIII (king of France)

Providence, R.I.: Douglass speaks in, 184—86

Prussia, 64n, 274; Franco-Prussian War and, 274n; government of, 324

Pryne, Abram, 456n

“Psalm of Life, A" (Longfellow): quoted, 44, 296, 308

Publilius Syrus, 394n, 527n

Puerto Plata, Santo Domingo, 279m

Puerto Rico, 606

Purcell, Archless, 615

Purvis, Charles B., 56ln; Freedman's Bank and, 554n, 559, 561, 561n; supports Douglass, 443

Purvis, Harriet Forten, 561n

Purvis, Robert, 414, 561n; Freedman's Bank and, 554n, 558, 558n, 559n; Garrison and, 503

Putnam's Monthly Magazine, 537n

Quakers: abolitionism of, 261n, 264n, 364—65, 411; blacks and, 208, 276n; compared to blacks, 502; members of, 264n, 517n; pacifism of, 457; persecution of, 610; temperance and, 310n

Quarles, John F., 581

Quincy, Edmund, 60, 69, 80, 83, 83n, 323

Quisqueya: See Haiti

652

Rabelais, Francois, 577n; quoted, 577

“Races of Man, The” (Douglass), 93n

Racine, Wisc., 161n, 176n

Radical Republicans: fiscal policies of, 472n; Andrew Johnson and, 91n, 97, 123, 164—65n; land confiscation and, 517n; in Louisiana, 25n; members of, 37m, 128n, 236n, 237n, 270n, 309-10n, 313, 333n, 417n, 567n, 576n, 580n; Reconstruction and, 91n, 123, 333n; slavery and, 162n

Rainey, John H., 510

Raleigh, N.C.: Douglass in, 329n, Douglass speaks in, 313—322, 609—10

Randall, Alexander Williams, 162—63, 163n

Rankin, Jeremiah E., 289

Ransier, Alonzo J., 293—94

Rapidan River, Va., 236n

Rapier, James T., 397

“Raven, The" (Poe), 242n, 271; quoted, 242

Ray, Cordelia, 428

Ray, John, 536n

Raymond, Henry J., 116n, 125n, 447n

Raynier, A. J., 97

Reason, Charles Lewis, 92

“Recollections of the Anti-Slavery Conflict” (Douglass), xvi, 360—61; précis of, 606—09; text of, 361—73

Reconstruction (U.S.): blacks and, xv, 171, 298n, 593; black suffrage and, 25n, 30, 86, 89—90, 179n, 311; conciliatory measures during, 30n, 109, 116—17, 488n; congressional, 25n; Democratic Party and, 327n, 418n, 472n, 536, 611; James A. Garfield and, 567n; in Georgia, 237n; Rutherford B. Hayes and, 485—86n, 488, 524-25; Iron-clad oaths and, 555n; Andrew Johnson and, 116n, 123, 133— 34nn, 134, 149, 569n; Ku Klux Klan and, l75n; in Louisiana, 25n, 60n, 485—86n, 521n; Radical Republicans and, 91n, 131n, 135n, 567n; readmission of Southern states and, 116—17, 120, 179n, 299n; Republican Party and, 30n, 417—18n; in South Carolina, 485— 86n, 489n; in Tennessee, 456n; U.S. Army and, 418n, 485—86n; in Virginia, 77n, 548n; woman suffrage and, 215m

Red Bank, N.J.: blacks in battle of, 415, 415n

Redeemers: in Louisiana, 511n; in South Carolina, 511n

Redpath, James, 186, 481n

Redpath Lyceum Bureau, Boston, Mass.: Douglass and, xvi

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Red Sea, 187, 452n

Reflections on a Flower-Garden (Hervey), 159n, 248

Reformation, 189n, 190; Inquisition and, 595, 597

Reform Bill of 1832 (Great Britain), 224

Reform Bill of 1867 (Great Britain), 132n, 243n

Reform League (Great Britain), 132n

Regent's Park, London, Eng., 17, 18n

Regulators, 175, 175n, 177

Religio Medici (Browne), 81n

Remond, Charles Lenox, 92, 146, 266, 279n, 322, 323

Reorganization Act (1869), 237n

Republican Party: abolitionists and, 414, 585n; black migration to Midwest and, 516, 527—28; blacks and, 297—99, 322, 418n, 422—25, 426, 440, 581, 600, 601—03; black suffrage and, 144—45, 178—79, 180, 261, 540n; candidates of, 278, 281n, 286, 296n, 322, 325, 329n. 333, 358n, 442n, 485a, 493, 533, 534nn, 537n, 566—67, 567n, 571nn, 574n, 580n, 585n, 586n, 602—03; Civil Rights Act (1874) and, 417n, 426n, civil service reform and, 442n; colonization of blacks and, 57n; conservatives in, 30n, 125n, 145n; conventions of, 30n, 123—24, 135n, 282, 399n, 406n, 440. 442nn, 535—36n, 538n, 566—67nn, 566—67, 571nn, 593; currency policy and, 534, 582; Democratic Party and, 10—11, 36—37, 37n, 156n, 275—77, 278—81, 288—89, 312n, 318, 330n, 538, 582—87; Douglass campaigns for, xv—xvi, 275, 278—81, 286, 313, 322, 329, 329n, 333, 333n, 338—39, 404-07, 406n, 440—43, 533—42, 563, 566—81, 581—87, 601— 03; in election of 1860 and, 110n; in election of 1863 and, 11n; in election of 1864 and, 36-37; in election of 1868 and, 485n; in election of 1870 and, 278; in election of 1872 and, 302, 333; in election of 1874 and, 417n; in election of 1878 and, 493; in election of 1879 and, 53334, 534n; in election of 1880 and, 516; epithets for, 36—37, 476; fifteenth amendment and, 240, 268; founding of, 582; in Georgia, 237n; “Half-Breed" faction of, 538n; Andrew Johnson and, 123, 144n, 145n, 159n, 160n, 163n, 426, 426n, 567, 572; Ku Klux Klan and, 338n; Liberal Republicans return to, 574; Lincoln and, 426, 580; in Louisiana, 27n, 28n, 404— 05n, 422, 423n, 486n, 520—21n, 565; in Maine, 333, 538n; in Massachusetts, 333.

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574n; members of, 30n, 37n, 92n, 123—24, 124n, 126n, 128n, 131n, 138n, 142n, 145n, 161n, 161—62n, 163n, 212n, 236n, 270n, 272, 285n, 298n, 303, 309n, 313, 333n, 423n, 440n, 456n, 471n, 472nn, 520—21n, 534nn, 535n, 538n, 549n; in Mississippi, 425n, 511n, 565, 611; in Missouri, 309n; in New Hampshire, 403n, 406n; newspapers of, 29, 148n, 229n, 537n; in New York City, 581; in New York State, 278, 333, 399n, 471n, 533, 535— 36, 535—36nn, 537, 537nn, 585n, 610—11; objectives of, 148n, 275; in Ohio, 276n, 534nn; in Pennsylvania, 276n, 333, 409n; personal liberty laws and, 53n; platform of 1872 of, 325, 330, 330n, 335—36, 339; platform of 1876 of, 442n; platform of 1880 of, 568; racial prejudice in, 417, 417—18n, 422—27; Reconstruction and, 175n, 417—18n, 486n, 524n, 539; Santo Domingo and, 604; slavery and, 20, 58, 328, 602—03; in South Carolina, 486n, 565; Stalwarts in, 571, 571nn; states’ rights and, 404; Charles Sumner and, 400n, 426, 580; in Tennessee, 456n; in the postbellum South, 486n, 511n; in United States Congress, 489n; in Washington, D.C., 281, 285; Whig Party and, 157n, 543n; Whiskey Ring scandal (1875) and, 442n; woman suffrage and, 180; women's rights and, 172, 177-79. See also Liberal Republican Party; Stalwarts

Republican Union Party (Maryland), 49n

Revels, Hiram, 266, 599

Revolution, 178n, 214—15, 215nn, 220

“Revolution in Russia, The" (Unknown), 532n

Revolution of 1848, 4

Reynard the Fox, 141

Rhode Island, 294, 310n, 484n; abolitionists in, 81; battle of, 415n; blacks in, 415n; black suffrage in, 145; Dorr Constitution of, 81; Douglass speaks in, 81n; personal liberty laws in, 53n; in Revolution, 415n; Union Army units from, 484; Roger Williams and, 484; woman suffrage in, 184

Rhode Island Woman’s Suffrage Association, 184, 185n

Richard III (Shakespeare), 33

Richards, Zalmon, 554n

Richardson, Anna, 181n, 363n

Richardson, Ellen, 181n, 363n

Richmond, Va., 6, 77n, 146n, 280n, 539n; capture of, 70—71 , 76n, 79n, 109; as Confederate capital, 69, 71n, 303; Confederate prisons in,

653

133nn, 287n; Douglass in, 329n; Douglass speaks in, 302—12, 610; seige of, 62, 236n; Union troops in, 69, 71

Richmond County, N .Y., 537n

Richmond Enquirer, 548n

Richmond Whig, 113

Ripley, George, 215n

Ripper, William, 97

Roberson, William, 149

Robinson, Ezekiel Gilman, 75, 77—78, 77—78n

Robinson, Lucius, 536n

Rochester, N.Y. , 75n, 123, 137, 149, 232n, 268, 279n, 303n, 584n; blacks in, 234, 302n; Douglass in, xv, 234—35, 342; Douglass speaks in, 3, 31—37, 74, 278—81, 563; mobs in, 53n; William H. Seward in, 4n

Rochester (N.Y.) City Hall, 74—75

Rochester Democrat, 31

Rochester Democrat and American, 278

Rochester Genesee Farmer, 75n

Rochester Moore’s Rural New-Yorker, 75n

Rochester Theological Seminary, Rochester, N.Y., 75, 78n

Rochester Union and Advertiser, 220

Rock, John Sweat, 92, 92—93n

Rockland, Me.: Douglass speaks in, 357n

Roebuck, John Arthur, 17, 17n

Roman Catholic Church: Douglass criticizes, 186—87, 614—16; in Ireland, 364n; missionaries of, 347; Netherlands Revolt and, 188n, 190—97; reconquest of Spain by, 520n; Rome and, 452

Roman de Renart (folktales), 141n

Roman Empire, 16, 434, 598

Roman Republic, 383n, 384n, 393n; Carthage and, 93n

Rome, Italy, 64n, 199, 364n, 452

Rome, N.Y., 53n

Rose, Ernestine L., 172, 173, 176, 217, 218

Ross, A. W., 97

Rothschild, Lionel Nathan de, 373—74, 374n

Rothschild, Nathan Meyer, 374n

Roudanez, Jean-Baptiste, 27n; honored at public dinner, 24; Lincoln meets with, 28n; travels to Washington, D.C., 25n

Roudanez, Louis, 27n

Rouse’s Hall, Peoria, Ill.: Douglass at, 595

Royal Botanical Society (Great Britain), 18n

Royal Navy, 17—18n

Rue, George A., 70

Ruffin, George L., 323

654

Rush, Benjamin, 365

Rusk, Thomas Jefferson, 320, 320n

Russell, Lord John, 166

Russell, Thomas, 70

Russia: American business ventures in, 47, 47n; compared to postbellum South, 532; monarchical government of, 324, 499; Ottoman Empire and, 65; Poland and, 223-24, 224n; political violence in, 511, 511—12n, 532; revolutionaries in, 511, 511—12n, 532n, 532—33; serfdom and emancipation in, 442, 511, 519, 532, 610

Sahara Desert, 94n

St. Bartholomew's Day massacre (1572), 598

Saint-Dominguez: See Haiti

Saint Helena, 223n

St. Joseph Catholic Church, Fremont, Ohio, 616

St. Joseph's College, Bardstown, Ky., 126n

Saint Lawrence University, Canton, N.Y., 176n

St. Louis, Mo., 298n, 309n; black migrants to Midwest and, 521n; Douglass speaks in, 149— 172, 342—55, 593, 603; Andrew Johnson speaks in, 159n

St. Louis Daily Missouri Democrat, 149

St. Louis Evening Dispatch, 149

St. Louis Globe, 342

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Rochester, N .Y., 75

St. Michaels, Talbot County, Md., 136n; Douglass in, 32n, 477-78; Douglass speaks in, 477—480; Samuel Hambleton in, 479n

St. Michael's Church, Santo Domingo City, 351

St. Paul's lyceum course (Baltimore, Md.), 443

Salem, Mass., 80n

Salem, Ohio, 262n

Sally Lloyd (ship), 136n

San, 389

Sanama Bay, Santo Domingo, 282n

Sanama Mountains, Santo Domingo, 353n

San Francisco, Calif.: Chinese in, 254, 529n

San Francisco Church, Santo Domingo City, 347n, 347—48

San Jacinto, Texas: battle of, 320n

San Jeronimo de Yuste, 189n

Santee Sioux, 245n

Santo Domingo: aboriginal population of, 353, 353n; black emigrants to, 245n, 603; blacks in, 355, 605—06; Christianity in, 346—49, 351— 52; climate of, 348; cock-fighting in, 351—52, 352n, 605; Christopher Columbus at, 346n;

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compared to Ireland, 605—06; customs of, 350-53; Douglass in, 281, 285, 285n, 354; geography of, 342—55, 603—05; population of, 342—43, 605; proposed U.S. annexation of, 331n, 332, 342, 343—44, 354—55, 400n, 603— 06; slave revolts in, 512, 606; Spain and, 345— 47, 350, 605—06; U.S. relations with, 281n, 332

“Santo Domingo" (Douglass), xvi, 352n; précis of, 603—06; text of, 324—55

Santo Domingo City, 347n, 347—48, 349n, 349— 50, 351

Saratoga, N.Y., 510—33, 535—36n; Douglass in, 497n

Sardinia, 64n

Saulsbury, Willard, 604

Savannah, Ga., 553n

Scalawags, 476

Schenck, Robert C., 134—35

Schurz, Carl, 298—99n; civil service reform and, 442n; criticizes Grant administration, 354n, 574n; Democratic Party and, 298, 574; election of 1876 and, 574n; as German American, 599; Liberal Republican Party and, 574n; Santo Domingo and, 354n, 354—55, 604

Schuykill River, 408n

Scotland, 254

Scott, Charlotte, 431n

Scott, John, 549, 549n, 553n

Scott, Winfield, 76n, 567n

Sea Islands, S.C., 56n

Sears, Arianna Amanda Auld, 135n, 136—37nn; Douglass's reunion with, 135—36, 137

Sears, John L., 135n, 136, 136—37n

Secession: James Buchanan and, 578, 578n; fireeaters and, 191n; Lincoln's election and, 438n; Northern reaction to, 491; Southern opponents of, 126n, 146n, 456n, 555n, 585n; supporters of, 6, 53n; U.S. Constitution and, 578, 578n

Second Bank of the United States, 568n

Second Baptist Church, Newport, RI., 185n

Second Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 23435n

Sectionalism: Mexican cession and, 170n

“Self-Made Men" (Douglass), 361, 371, 371n, 376

Seminoles: second war against (1835—42), 10, 10n

Semmes, Raphael, 227, 227—28n

Seneca Falls, N.Y., 215n, 261n

Seneca Stone Company, 553n

Separatists: See Pilgrims

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Sermons Preached in the African Protestant Episcopal Church of St. Thomas (William Douglass), 40n

Seven Pines (Fair Oaks), Va.: battle of, 287m

Seventh New York Infantry Regiment, 234—35n

Seward, William H. , 204—05; attempted murder of, 457; as candidate for presidential nomination, 155, 155n, 585n, 593; Douglass praises, 541; emancipation and, 22, 64; instructions to U.S. diplomats by, 22n, 117n; “Irrepressible Conflict“ speech of, 4n, 14, 195n, 204—05; Andrew Johnson and, 159, 159n; Reconstruction and, 29, 155n; Republican Party and, 580; Thurlow Weed and, 584n

Seymour, Horatio, 7n; criticizes abolitionists, 7; Democratic Party and, 591; Election-day plot (1864) and, 35n; New York City draft riots and, 326, 326n; opposes Lincoln, 598; as presidential candidate, l81n, I85, 185n, 326, 337n, 602

Shakespeare, William: quoted, 33, 44, 117, 119, 142, 168, 183, 190, 200, 251, 275, 286, 297, 303, 358, 376, 377, 379, 414, 419, 434, 437, 473, 478, 488, 501, 523, 527, 570

Sharp, Granville, 228, 607

Shaw, Robert Gould, 234—35n

Shenandoah (ship), 225n

Shenandoah River, 62

Shenandoah Valley, 212n

Shepherd, Alexander R. (“Boss”), 293n, 429n

Sheridan, Philip H., 143—44n, 404, 404—05n

Sherman, John, 163n, 534n; as candidate for presidential nomination (1880), 534, 534n, 538, 567n; Freedman’s Bank and, 549, 549n, 553n; Specie Resumption Act and, 534n; as treasury secretary, 534nn

Sherman, William Tecumseh, 74, 74n, 109, 109n, 331n, 534n

Sherwood, Lorenzo, 145n

Shiloh, Tenn.: battle of, 74n

Shimmelfennig, Alexander, 71n

“Shooting Niagara: And After?” (Carlyle), 243, 243m, 271

Sidney, Algernon, 42n

Sino-American Treaty (1858), 246n

S.J. Waring (ship), 92n

Skinner, Cyriac, 492n

Slater, Samuel, 306n

Slaughter House Cases, 340n

Slaveholders: in British West Indies, 221—22; cruelty of, 592; Democratic Party and, 325—

655

26, 325—26n; Douglass does not hate, 317; emancipation and, 194, 227, 239; free speech suppressed by, 367—68; justification of slavery by, 118—19, 239; in Maryland, 32, 45, 479; personal liberty laws and, 53n; political power of, 15, 115, 229, 612—13; political power of, after emancipation, 237; population of , in U.S., 5; postemancipation bitterness of, 142, 334—36, 518—19; relation of, to slaves, 387; as victims of the slave system, 32, 316—18, 486; in Washington, DC, 458

Slavehunters: in Boston, Mass, 295; Fugitive Slave Law ( 1850) and, 295—96; resistance to, 15; in Washington, DC, 619

Slave punishment: in Baltimore. Md., 52

Slave revolts: Henri Christophe and, 606; Joseph Cinques and, 531-32; Jean-Jacques Dessalines and, 606; Toussaint L’Ouverture and, 531—32, 606; in Santo Domingo, 512, 606; William Tillman and, 53 l —32; Nat Thrner and, 366, 366n, 531—32; US. Constitution and, 15; Denmark Vesey and, 531—32, 532n; in Virginia, 317, 531-32; Madison Washington and, 531—32

Slavery: agriculture and, 391 ; American churches and, 365—66; biblical defense of, 118, 193, 370; books on, 177; in Border States, 9, 23n; in British West Indies, 267, 564; William G. Brownlow and, 456n; as cause of Civil War, 5455, 171—72, 486, 591; Civil War and, 3—4, 7— 8, 25, 54—55, 64, 71, 119, 141, 290, 336; corruptive nature of, 502, 555; cruelty in, 108, 119, 130, 230, 284, 612—13; euphemisms for, 85, 85n; in Europe, 144; extension of, 14; in Florida, 58; Great Britain and, 479—80; humanitarian justification for, 369—71; Lincoln and, 12n, 12— 13, 297, 297n, 432—40, 433n; lingering effects of, 83, 157—58, 174, 200—01, 387, 466, 530, 535, 587; in Louisiana, 26—27, 58; in Maryland, 52; Mexican War and, 58; misrepresentations of, 369—70; in Missouri, 52—53; national politics and, 9—11, 12—13, 58, 229, 403, 535, 591, 600; in Santo Domingo, 606; slave trade and, 25 , 43; southern character and, 85; in Tennessee, 101; in Texas, 58; treatment of animals in, 388—89, 468; unnaturalness of, 45—46, 48, 115; U.S. Constitution and, 121—22, 174; in Washington, D.C., 25, 434, 455—57, 466— 69

Slaves: baptism of, 317, 411—12; contentment of, 369; desertion of, during Civil War, 23n;