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Index 787 Index 787 abolition movement, 44–45, 59, 65, 421 An Address to the People of West Virginia (Ruffner ), 36 African Americans, 21, 312–13, 468, 469. See also franchise, for African Americans; slaves; suffrage, for African Americans; assumptions about former Confederates’ stands on, 381–83; citizenship for, 118, 124; civil rights for, 13, 21–22, 199–200; discrimination against, 192–93, 199–200, 704; equality for, 17, 226; exclusion from juries, 458–59; exclusion from office holding proposed, 23, 459–75, 551, 666, 674–78, 684, 696–97, 715–19; Flick Amendment and, 180, 469; need for prohibition of slavery affirmed, 641–42; office holding by, 12, 647; opposition to constitutional convention among, 321; political participation by, 21–22, 181, 197, 200, 203, 332, 697; population of, 20, 23, 44, 138–39, 312, 468–69; proposal to deport, 137–38; proscription against, 431, 446–51; representation and, 279–80, 290, 394–95; schools for, 22, 190, 528–29, 531; voter turnout by, 193, 233; votes by, 12, 19–20, 23, 179, 181–82, 254, 460–61, 471 ages, of constitutional convention delegates, 340–43, 341–42 agriculture: industry vs., 12, 477–78; proposed tax exemptions for, 477–81, 494–95 Akerman, Amos Tappan, 216–24, 220 Alexander, W. A., 258 Alkire, Winfield Scott, 221–22 Allen, John James, 253, 272 Allen, John T., 698–99 Allen, Lewis, 343, 346, 354, 365, 380, 627 Ambler, Charles Henry, 1, 11, 18–19, 33 Ambler, William M., 60 amendments, constitutional, 12, 49–50; process for, 78–80, 649–50, 710 Ames, Daniel, 332 Ammons, Benjamin, 214–15 amnesty, for former Confederates, 5–6, 119–20, 267–68, 421, 464, 639, 644, 653–57, 679; Committee on Miscellaneous Provisions on, 635, 650; convention proposals on, 651–52; effects of excluding blacks from office holding on, 466–67; universal, 134, 144–45, 148, 151 Arbogast, J. H., 273 Armstrong, James Dillon, 433, 443, 501, 525, 624, 698–99, 771n34; committee appointments of, 411, 414, 416, 553, 662; as constitutional convention delegate, 369, 386, 405, 411, 422, 425; on executive department, 535, 542, 545–47, 600; on legislative department, 602, 610–11, 613; on racial issues, 448, 462, 465; in Restored Government, 374–75; on Virginia’s debt, 484, 486, 493 Army, U.S., 132; Boreman calling in to squelch rebellion, 130–31; constitutional convention delegates serving in, 387–88, 413, 465; enforcing state laws, 135, 156 Arnett, Ulysses Near, 323, 568, 678; as constitutional convention delegate, 343–44, 347, 375–76, 387 Arnett, William Wiley, 375–76, 387 Arnold, William E., 284, 287, 318, 393 Arthur, Chester, 184 788 Index Atkinson, George Wesley, 204, 418, 723 Atkinson, John H., 423, 439, 441, 444, 638, 656, 667, 680, 727n42; on capital location, 426, 428; committee appointments of, 426, 635; as constitutional convention delegate, 335, 349, 354, 379, 380, 419, 422 attorney general, 560; in executive department, 536–37, 551 attorneys, 392–93; committee assignments of, 553, 662; as constitutional convention delegates, 346, 365, 367–69, 368; former Confederates as, 119–20, 126, 328; test oaths for, 120, 130, 161–62, 173, 175–76, 587 Baker, A. C., 189 Baker, Lewis, 453, 704, 749n102, 785n80. See also Wheeling Daily Register; on constitutional convention, 239–40, 262–65, 271, 281, 305, 330–31, 425; constitutional ratification and, 686, 697, 709–10; coverage of constitutional convention by, 418–19, 662; Democratic factionalism and, 238, 459, 682, 696–97; in Democratic leadership, 16, 160, 200, 245, 392, 721–23; on Democratic Party agenda, 158–60, 167, 197–98; on disenfranchisement, 198, 244; efforts to get constitutional convention, 259–60, 264–66, 282, 303; on enfranchisement , 166, 208, 210–11; falsified interview with Greeley by, 230–31; on Farnsworth, 177, 196; on Flick Amendment, 212, 247, 258, 276–77; Hall vs., 143–44, 163, 210–11, 749n102; personality of, 145, 225, 418–19; on proscription , 156, 158, 163, 230; on racial issues, 152–53, 189–90, 206, 225, 717; on registration, 155–56, 163–64, 178–79, 222, 229, 243, 247; on Republicans, 138, 143–44, 152–53, 158, 162–63, 170, 330–31; on state aid for internal improvements , 286–87; in state senate, 233, 239, 255 Baker-Cracraft faction, of Democratic Party: Jackson prevailing over, 256–57 Ballard, B. F., 172, 177 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. See also railroads: avoiding taxes, 294, 302; fear of influence of, 436–37, 502 banking, 504–6, 592, 636 A Banner in the Hills (Moore), 20 Baptist Recorder, 417, 419 Barbour...

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