Northern.

Anti-abolitionist Riots at the North.

Murder of Lovejoy.

Outrages against Northern Blacks.

Colored Schools Closed.

Schism among the Abolitionists.

The Liberty Party.

Ultra-abolitionists' Unreason.

Why Abolitionism Spread.

Ambiguity of the Const.i.tution.

Seizure of Black Seamen.

Grievances on both Sides.

CHAPTER III. THE MEXICAN WAR.

Texas Declares her Independence.

Battle of San Jacinto.

The Democracy Favors Annexation.

Calhoun's Purpose.

Opposition of Clay and the Whigs.

Texas Admitted to the Union.

Causes of the War.

The Nueces vs. the Rio Grande.

Preliminary Operations.

Battle of Palo Alto.

Declaration of War.

Monterey Captured.

Santa Anna again President.

Buena Vista.

Taylor's Victory.

Scott Appointed to Chief Command.

Capture of Vera Cruz.

Cerro Gordo.

Jalapa.

Re-enforced by Pierce.

On to the City of Mexico.

Contreras.

Churubusco.

Molino del Rey.

Storming of Chapultepec.

Capture of the Capital.

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

Its Conditions.

The Oregon Question.

CHAPTER IV. CALIFORNIA AND THE COMPROMISE OF 1850.

Invasion of New Mexico.

Exploration and Seizure of California.

Discovery of Gold.

Resulting Excitement.

Increase of Population.

Gold Yield.

Early Law and Government.

Slavery's Victory.

The Wilmot Proviso.

Taylor President.

Application by California for Admission to the Union.

Clay's Omnibus Bill.

Webster Superseded by Sumner.

Pa.s.sage of the Omnibus Compromise.

California a State.

Enlargement of Texas.

New Fugitive Slave Law.

Revival of Abolitionism.

Underground Railroad.

Rendition of Anthony Burns.

Other Cases.

CHAPTER V. THE FIGHT FOR KANSAS.

Plot against the Missouri Compromise.

Pierce's Election.

The Kansas-Nebraska Bill.

Abrogation of the Missouri Compromise.

Squatter Sovereignty.

Anti-slavery Emigration to Kansas.

Political Jobbery by the Slavocracy.

Topeka Convention.

Kansas Riots.

Lecompton Const.i.tution.

Opposed by Free-State Men.

Kansas Admitted to the Union.

a.s.sault upon Sumner.

Southern Repudiation of the Douglas Theory.

Dred Scott Decision.

Startling a.s.sumption of the Supreme Court.

Effect.

Counter-theory.

CHAPTER VI. SLAVERY AND THE OLD PARTIES.

Democracy and Whiggism.

Ambiguous Att.i.tude of the Latter toward Slavery.

The Creole Case.

Giddings's Resolutions.