The life of Lyman Trumbull

Includes index Includes bibliographical notes Ancestry and early life -- Slavery in Illinois -- First election as senator -- The Kansas war -- The Lecompton fight -- The campaign of 1858 and the John Brown raid -- The election of Lincoln ; Secession -- Cabinet-making ; The death of Douglas -- Fort Sumter -- Bull Run ; The Confiscation Act -- The expulsion of Cameron -- Arbitrary arrests -- Incidents of the years 1863 and 1864 -- The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution -- Reconstruction -- Andrew Johnson's first message -- The Freedmen's Bureau and Civil Rights bills -- The Fourteenth Amendment -- Crossing the Rubicon -- Impeachment -- The McCardle case ; Grant's Cabinet ; The Fifteenth Amendment -- Causes of discontent -- The Liberal Republicans -- Grant's administration -- The Cincinnati Convention -- The Greeley campaign -- Later years -- Conclusion Lincoln copy: Bound in cloth, with gilt-stamped lettering on cover and spine, top edges gilt Lincoln copy: Portrait and facsimile signature on frontispiece; plates accompanied by guard sheets 1 18