Index
Abolitionists, 23, 27, 47, 49, 68
Absentee voting in the Confederacy, 162
Administration of revenue laws in California, 85-99
Agricultural methods. See Retreat Plantation
Aid to railroads, governmental, 135-37, 139-40, 167-68
Anti-slavery, 132. See also Abolitionists
Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico Railway, 17, 99
Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company, 100, 102-105
Baltimore, Maryland, 34, 45-46
Baltimore Democratic National Convention (1860), 140-41
Bank of the United States, 5, 22, 25-26, 33-35
Bank of the United States of Pennsylvania, 16, 30
Banking policies in Georgia, 24-25
Bellot des Minieres, banking house of, 146
Benton, Thomas Hart, 40, 55, 63-64, 100
Berrien, John McPherson, 21, 48-49, 64-65, 70-71, 163
Blockade of the Confederacy, 148-49, 151-52, 154-55
Bonaparte, Louis Napoleon. See Napoleon III
Bonds for imported goods, 85-87
Boston, Massachusetts, 12-15
British. See Great
Britain Brown, Joseph Emerson, 130, 135-36, 142-43, 153, 158-59
Brunswick, Georgia, 4, 6, 8, 10, 18, 22-24, 26, 35
Brunswick and Altamaha Canal and Railroad Company, 24
Brunswick and Florida Railroad Company, 11-17, 22, 24, 27
Brunswick Canal Company, 9-17, 35
Brunswick Canal and Railroad Company, 9-17
Butler, Zebulon, 2
Cabinet, presidential, 65, 68-70, 77, 82, 138
Calhoun, John Caldwell, 22, 64, 79, 81
California, 63, 70-76, 128, 131, 168
statehood movement in, 72-78
constitution of, 79-80, 132-33
report on, 81-82
revenue bonds, 85-99
legislature of, 92-97
Campaigning, political, 18, 34-35, 46-47, 49, 131, 138, 161-63
Carson’s Creek Mining Company, 99
of Southerners, 64-65
Central Bank of Georgia, 24, 25
Central Railroad of Georgia, 26, 54, 136-38, 145
Charleston Convention (Democratic National, 1860), 139
Chatfield, Levi, 100-102
Chicago River and Harbor Convention, 55
Clay, Henry, 27, 35-43, 46, 55, 65-67, 77, 81
Clayton, John Middleton, 71-73
Collector of the Port. See San Francisco [T. B. King?]
Collier, James, 85-86
Commercial conventions, 18, 28-30, 137
Compromise of 1850, 65-81, 101, 129
Confederate States of America, 144-48, 161, 162, 169
Congress. See United States
Congress Constitution of California, 74-75, 79-80, 132-33
Constitutional convention in Georgia, 18, 20-21
Constitutional Union Party, 129
Contraband of war, 151
Control of cotton prices, plan for, 29-30
Convention, commercial, 18, 28-30, 137
constitutional, in Georgia, 20-21
River and Harbor, 55
constitutional, in California, 74-75, 79-80
Democratic state, 94, 132-33, 160-61
railroad, in Texas, 107
Democratic national, 131, 138, 140-41
secession, in Georgia, 142
Corporate organization, 9-17, 100-115
Corps Legislatif, 147-48
Corwin, Thomas, 65, 86-87, 90, 92, 96-97
Cotton, Sea Island, 4
growing of, 16, 40, 116-28, 134
transportation of, 135-36
export of, 148-51
supply of, for Europe, 149-52
Cotton famine in Europe, 151-52
Cotton Planters Association, 137
Couper, Hannah King, 121-22, 156-57
Couper, William Audley, 48, 116
Crawford, George W., 45, 70, 82-83
Crittenden, John Jordan, 69-70, 72
Dancing, 123
Davis, Jefferson, 64, 105, 149
Dawson, William Crosby, 21-22, 45
Declaration of Paris, 151
DeLeon, Edwin, 155
Democratic National Convention, 131, 140-41
Democratic Party, disruption of, 140-41
Democrats, 46, 51, 55-56, 60-61, 77-78, 83, 87, 91-97, 129, 131, 135, 138, 140-43
Des Minieres, Bellot, 146
Diplomacy, 146-55
Direct trade with Europe, 29, 137-38, 142-43, 147
Disruption of the Democratic Party, 140-41
Distribution of the proceeds from the sale of public lands, 40, 46
Dougherty, Charles, 24
Douglas, Stephen A., 64, 100, 143
Drugs, 121
Economic interests in the Whig Party, 55
Education, 122-28
Education fund in Texas, 101-14
Elections in Georgia, 18, 27, 34, 42-43, 51-52, 65, 66-68, 160
Epidemics, 121-22
Ericsson, John, 50
Extension of slavery, 64, 71, 77-81
Federal ratio, 20
Fertilizer, 118-19
Fillmore, Millard, 66-67, 82-83, 90, 92, 96-97
Financing of railroads, 14, 138-39, 145
First Congressional District in Georgia, 46-47, 51, 55, 60, 68, 130, 143, 160-61
Foreign relations of the Confederacy, 144-55
Fort Valley Railroad Company, 138
Fowlkes, Jeptha, 105, 108-09, 111-13, 139-40
France, 146-55
Fraud in elections, 162-63
Free white basis of representation, 20-21
Freight rates, 137
Fremantle, Arthur James Lyon, 160
Fremont, John Charles, 76, 91, 93
Garnett, Robert S., 73
General ticket system, 27
Georgia, legislature of, 10, 18, 22-25, 135-38, 141-43, 145, 153, 159, 163
constitutional convention in, 18, 20-21
elections in, 18, 21, 27, 34, 42-43, 45
Democratic Party in, 19, 138, 140-43
bank policies in, 24-25
secession convention in, 142
Georgia Railroad and Banking Company, 136
Government aid to transportation, 36-37, 100-15, 135-37, 139-40, 145, 167-68
Grand jury, 162
Grant, Hugh Fraser, 123
merchant marine of, 36-37, 50, 54, 58
Corn Laws in, 39
opinion of Confederacy in, 146
Guano, 118
Gwin, William McKendree, 76, 81, 87, 91, 95
Halleck, Henry Wager, 76
Hamilton, Andrew J., 139-40
Hamilton, James, Jr., 15, 29-30
Harrison, William Henry, 27, 34-35
Hartridge, Julian, 137, 160-63
Hayne, Robert Young, 29-30
Hazzard, William Wigg, 10
Heydenfeldt, Solomon, 93
Hopkins, Charles H., 161-62
Illinois Central Railroad, 104
Imperial Council of France, 147-48
Importers, 85-86
Independent Treasury, 26-27, 32-33, 35, 49, 51, 87-88
Indian policy in Georgia, 18-19, 21
Insurance Bank of Columbus, Georgia, 24
Internal improvements, 10, 18, 22-23, 26, 56, 94-95, 100-15, 135-37, 139-40, 167-68. See also Railroads, Canals, Governmental aid, Subsidies, Public Lands
Irish laborers, 111
Jackson, Andrew, 18-19, 21-22, 26, 33
Jackson, Joseph W., 61, 68, 130
Johnson, Herschel Vespasian, 129, 163
Jones, Anson, 101
Jones, Thomas ap Catesby, 75, 81
King, Anna Page, 5, 31, 34, 41, 61, 70, 116-23, 128, 133, 134
King, Cuyler, 6, 118, 121-22, 126, 134
King, Florence, 6, 122-25, 156-57
King, Floyd, 6, 32, 125-26, 134, 141, 160, 164
King, Georgia, 6, 122-28, 133-35, 141, 149, 156-57
King, Henry, 2, 3, 38, 40, 52, 66, 141
King, Henry Lord Page, 6, 61, 84, 120, 122, 125, 127-28, 131, 134, 139, 157, 159
King, James, 155-56
King, Mallery, 6, 106, 117, 122, 125-27, 134, 144, 156-57, 160
King, Stephen Clay, 3, 10-13, 52, 123
King, Thomas Butler, birth of, 1
parentage, 1
removal to Georgia, 3
promotes the port of Brunswick, 8-17
Senator from Glynn County, 18-30
in Constitutional Convention of 1833, 20-21
elected to 26th Congress, 28
elected to 27th Congress, 35
defeated for 28th Congress, 42
elected to 29th Congress, 47
duel with C. H. Spalding, 48
elected to 30th Congress, 51
at River and Harbor Convention, 55
elected to 31st Congress, 62
and cabinet appointment, 65-71
mission of to California, 71-83
Collector of the Port of San Francisco, 83-97
as railroad lobbyist, 105-15
as a cotton planter, 116-28
mission to Europe, 144-55
candidate for Confederate Congress, 161-63
death of, 163-64
King, Thomas Butler, Jr., 6, 41, 61, 84, 88-89, 109, 117-18, 120, 122, 124-25, 127-29, 133-34
King, Virginia, 6, 122-25, 156-57
Know-Nothing Party, 129-31
Lawrence, Abbott, 66-67
Legislature of California, 92-97
Legislature of Georgia, 19, 22-25, 135-38, 141-43, 145, 153, 159
Legislature of Texas, 101-14
Lincoln, Abraham, 145, 149, 151
Lobbying, 119, 130-31, 139-40, 147-48
Lumpkin, Wilson, 23
Macon and Brunswick Railroad Company, 138-39, 145-46
Mail subsidy, 53, 58, 62, 65, 73, 144-45
Mann, Ambrose Dudley, 148, 152
Maury, Matthew Fontaine, 37
Memphis, El Paso and Pacific Railroad Company, 106-107, 110, 114
Merchant Marine, subsidy for, 36, 53, 58
Merchants of San Francisco, 86-97
Mexico, War with, 50-51, 53, 57, 62
Milledgeville, Georgia, 12, 20, 22, 27, 34, 45, 135, 138, 141
Minieres. See Des
Minieres Mississippi and Pacific Railroad, 102-103, 114
Morny, Charles, Comte de, 147-48
Naval policies, 36-38, 41-42, 50, 53, 57, 62
Naval Reorganization Act, 42, 50
Naval stores, 158
Negro slaves. See Slaves
Newfield Plantation, 5-6
Oatlands Plantation, 119
Old Dominion Gold Mining Company, 98
Pacific railroad. See Railroads, transcontinental
Page, Anna Matilda. See King, Anna
Page Panama, 50, 59, 62, 63, 73, 85
Panic of 1837, 12, 16, 24, 28, 165
Panic of 1857, 110, 111, 120, 124
Declaration of, 151
Patronage, distribution of in California, 84-97
Pease, Elisha Maxwell, 102, 105-107
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, 139
Phosphate, 118
Plantation life, 116-28. See also Retreat Plantation
Plantation management, 48, 116-28, 133-35, 158, 164-66
Polk, James Knox, 49, 51, 55, 57-58, 78
Post, Edwin, 108-109
Postal subsidies, 53, 58, 62, 65, 73, 144-45
Presidential cabinet, 65, 68-70, 77, 82, 138
Preston, William Ballard, 70, 72, 73
Propaganda, Confederate, 147-55, 159
Public lands, railroads and, 100-115
Public opinion, 146, 147-48, 152-53
Railroads, governmental aid to, 100-115, 135-37, 139-40
Railroads, transcontinental, 59, 60, 94, 99-115, 139-40
Railroads, trans-Isthmian, 62-63, 73, 76
Reclamation of land, 118-19, 134
Refugees in the Confederacy, 156-58
Retreat Plantation, 4-6, 8, 34, 40-41, 48, 52, 56, 98, 104, 112, 116-28, 132-35, 143, 156, 164-66
Robinson, Moncure, 15-16
Rost, Pierre Adolphe, 148, 152
Rusk, Thomas Jefferson, 110
Russell, Lord John, 148-51
Saint Simons Island, 4-5, 9, 43, 56, 62, 116-28
San Francisco, 73-74
Collector of the Port of, 84-97
Saratoga Springs, New York, 113, 141
Savannah, Albany and Gulf Railroad, 136
Schley, William, 24
School funds, 130-31
Scott, Winfield, 65-66
Secession, 140-44, 149-50, 169
Sectionalism, 25, 28-30, 33, 37-39, 40, 64-65, 132, 136-37
railroads and, 100, 108-14, 139-40
Seward, James Lindsay, 60-61, 130-33, 137
Sherman, William Tecumseh, 75, 81
in the territories, 27, 64, 71-81
opinion on, in California, 79-80
Slaves, 5-7, 9, 20-21, 32, 40-41, 85, 105, 117-28, 133-35, 156-58, 164-66
Slidell, John, 155
Sloo, A. G., 53
Soil exhaustion, 117-19, 127, 134, 165-66
South Carolina Gold Mining Company, 98
Southern Address, 64
Southern commercial conventions, 18, 137
Southern Pacific Railroad Company, 107-15, 124, 127, 135, 139-40, 143, 146, 166-67
Southern sectionalism, 30, 33, 38, 39, 108-14, 139-40
Southern states, French investments in, 146
commerce of, 147
resources of, 150-51
Spalding, Charles H., 47-48
State aid to internal improvements, 9-17, 18, 22-23, 101-15
State Rights Party in Georgia, 19-27, 33-35, 42
Statehood movement in California, 72-78
Steamship companies, subsidies for, 142, 144-45
Steamships, 36-37, 50, 53-54, 65, 147-48
Stephens, Alexander Hamilton, 46-47, 60, 64-65, 69-70, 77, 129, 141
Stewart, Charles, 68-69
Stiles, William H., 132-33
Stock subscriptions, 14, 98-99, 104, 108-109, 113, 145
Subsidies, 36-37, 50, 53, 62-63, 65, 142, 144-48, 154
Sweet Sulphur Springs, Virginia, 124
Tariff, 19, 46, 49, 51-52, 62, 149-50
Taylor, Zachary, 60-61, 65-66, 82
Texas, 101-15
Texas Western Railroad Company, 103-107
Thompson, J. Edgar, 139
Thouvenel, Edouard-Antoine, 149
Three-fifths ratio, 20-21
Toombs, Robert, 14, 47, 69-72, 77, 129, 163
Trade relations of the Confederacy, 145-55
Trade with China, 59
Union Party in Georgia, 19, 22, 34
United States Bank. See Bank of the United States
United States Congress, 27, 32-41, 35-43, 49-65, 139-40
United States Navy, 53, 57, 65
United States Navy Department, 37, 50, 53, 59, 65-70, 82
United States State Department, 69, 73-74, 79
United States Treasury Department, 84-97, 138
Van Buren, Martin, 25-27, 32-33, 46, 55
Vicksburg, Shreveport and Texas Railroad, 105-106
Vigilance Committee of San Francisco, 89, 95-96
Walker, Robert John, 97, 100-102, 104-105, 110, 114, 131
Waresboro, Georgia, 164
Waverley Plantation, 6, 34, 40-41
Webster, Daniel, 27, 55-56, 81
Western and Atlantic Railroad, 23, 26, 135
Westfield, Massachusetts, Academy, 2
Whig Party, 34, 36, 45-46, 55-57, 64-68, 167-69
in Georgia, 19, 35, 42, 45, 49, 60, 67, 129, 131
White Sulphur Springs, Virginia, 124
Wigfall, Louis Trezevant, 106, 110-12
Wilmot Proviso, 54
Wiregrass region of Georgia, 18, 130
Wise, Henry A., 37
Wright, George W., 76
Yancey, William Lowndes, 148, 152
Yerger, George Shall, 108, 110-12
Young, John, 66