The Burden of Southern History

Index

Index Abbott, Lyman, 161 Abolitionists, 46, 120; and John Brown, 54-61; South's fear of, 62—67; emancipation and, 73; equality crusade of, 7577 ; on Negro suffrage, 90-92; of Boston, 130; of South, 198-99 Absalom, Absalom! 36, 274 Adams, Brooks, 155 Adams, Henry, 110, 153; in post bellum years, 117-18; as author of Democracy , n8-26; and Henry James, 126-27; and South, 134-36; estrangement of, 138-40 Adams, John, 100 Adams, John Quincy, 135 Adams, Marian, 119, 126, 127 Agrarians: doctrines of, 8-9; organs of, 29,283 Alabama, 65, 66; Negro registration in, 99; Populism in, 150; change in, Albany, 83 Alcott, Bronson, 54 Alcott, Louisa May, 54 All the King's Men, 35, 282, 285-86 Altgeld, John Peter, 162 American myths, 13-14, 25; of opulence, 16-17; of success, 18; of innocence , 19-20, 218-19, 220-22, 227-28, 232; of victory, 188-89, 213- 18; compared with Southern experience, 190-91; as a cause of historical blindness , 209-11; mockery of, 228; incongruities of, 231-33; abandonment of, 233 American nationalism as a religion, 14-15 American Review, 29 Anarchism as a conservative obsession, 161-62 Ancestors, worship of, 15 Anderson, Charles R., M7-39 Anderson, Sherwood, 30 244, 254–55 290 INDEX Antietam, Battle of, 113 Anti-Semitism: as charge against Populists, 15455 ; as urban movement, 155; of Negroes, 176 Anti-Slavery Society, 57 Appleton, Nathan, 59 Aristocrats, 20; as Populists, 151; in England, 164 Arkansas, abolitionistsin, 63, 64, 257 Arlington, 122-23 Armstrong, Louis, quoted,35 Arnold, Matthew, 112, 117 As I Lay Dying, 28 At Heaven's Gate, 282 Atlanta, 255 Atlantic Monthly, 161 Attack^ on Leviathan, 29 Audubon: A Vision, 282 Balzac, Honore de, 279 Band of Angels, 37, 287 Barnett, Ross, 241, 264 Barren Ground, 36 Baton Rouge, 29 Bavaria, 30 Bell, Daniel, 146/2 Berea, Ky., 65 Bergson, Henri, 279 Berkeley, University of California, 283 Birmingham, Ala., 242, 263 Bishop, John Peale, 36 Black, Earl, cited, 246, 257 Black, Hugo, 142 Black, Merle, cited, 246, 257 Black nationalists, 184, 226 Black Patch War, 35 Black Power: early appearance of, 173; and New Left, 276; aswithdrawal symptom, 184 Blaine, James G., 120 Bledsoe, Albert Taylor, 110 Blotner, Joseph , 269-70 Boston, 44, 55, 59, 135; reformers of, 130-33; Henry James on, 136 Boston Post, 48 Bostonians, The, no; social criticism in, 127-34; Henry James on, 136 Bowers, Claude, 240 British Labour Party, 57 Brooklyn, 83,155 Brooks, Cleanth, 279-80 Brother to Dragons, 282, 284, 286 Brown, Albert Gallatin, 68 Brown, John, xiv,34; early career of, 41-44; at Harpers Ferry, 44-45; insanity and, 46-48; defense of, 49-61; South's reaction to, 61-68 Brown decision of 1954, pp. 240, 278 INDEX 291 Bryan, William Jennings, 150-51 Bryant, William Cullen, 54 Buchanan, James, 275 Buffalo, 83 Bulldozer Revolution, 6, 10 Burke, Edmund, 22 Bush, George, 260 Butler, Charles E., 273-74, 275-76 Calhoun, John C., 115, 257 California, 166 Carlyle, Thomas, 130 Carpetbaggers, 13, 104, 13.1 Carter, Jimmy,256 Catholics, 14 Cavalier Legend, 13 Chandler, William E., 54 Chapel Hill, N.C., 142 Chappell, David, 246 Charleston, S.C., 65; Democratic convention of 1860 in, 68; Henry James on, 139 Charleston Mercury, 67 Chase, Salmon P., 46 Cheever, George B., 58 Chicago, 61, 83 Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce, 282 Choate, Joseph H., 161 Christ compared with John Brown, 53-54 Cincinnati, 83 Civil Disobedience, doctrine of, 56 Civil rights: during the Civil War, 76-83; after Reconstruction, 84-85; as afterthought of Civil War, 89 Civil Rights Act of 1866, P- 77 Civil Rights Act of 1875, p. 78 Civil Rights Acts of 1957, 1960, 1964, and 1965, pp. 168,175,237 Civil rights movement compared with First Reconstruction, 168-74, 238, 263-64 Civil War, 17, 33; and Harpers Ferry, 61, 68; war aims of South in, 69; war aims of North in, 69-79; North's treatment of Negroes in, 82-83; borrowed moral capital of, 84; crisis on centennial of, 86-87; as defeat of something Northern as well, 138-39; lost idealism of, 174; ironic consequences of, 207; Robert Penn Warren on, 288 Clarel, 110; social criticism in, 111-17 292 INDEX Clark, Eleanor, 282 Cleveland, Grover, 272 Cleveland, 61, 83 Climate as regional determinant , xii Clinton, Bill, 257-58 Cocke, Edmund Randolph, 152 Cold War...