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Davis, Walter, 179
Davis, William: family of, and Black Hawk
War massacre, 372
Dawson, John: candidate with AL, 202, 480;
in Black Hawk War, 481
Dawson, Mrs. N. H. R., 695
Day, Edward, 355n
Dayton, William L., 406, 683
Dean v. Kelley, 616, 630
Debating society at New Salem, 142¬43,
384¬85, 402
DeBruler, Lucius Quintus: Spencer County
judge, 29, 330, 354
Decatur Gazette and Chronicle, 532
Declaration of Independence: AL's apostrophe
to, 4; equality clause, 54
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The
(Gibbon), 21
Deep snow, winter of (1830¬31), 12¬14, 44,
80
Defoe, Daniel: Robinson Crusoe, 41, 109n,
112, 121, 455
DeFrees, John D.: biographical sketch of, 745;
letter and enclosure from, 315¬16, 497;
worked for AL at 1864 Indiana Republican
convention, 315; denied charge of promot
‚ing Johnson, 315
Delahay, Mark W.: knowledge of AL, 419; ap
‚pointed by AL, 620; recommended by
Dubois, 620
Dement, John, 372
Democratic Convention of 1864, 562
Democratic Party: party tactics, 54; minority
party in 1855, 182; in 1836, 202, 477¬78;
joint discussions in 1839, 342; in‚uence
on slavery issue, 565; AL's sarcasm and,
699
Denning, William A., 178n, 210
¿Destruction of Sennacherib, Theî (Byron),
470
DeVoe, Ely, 299
Dexter, C. J., 102
Diamond plow, 534¬35
Dick, James A., 316
Dickenson, Henry, 616
Dickey, Jesse, 362
Dickey, T. Lyle: biographical sketch of, 745;
letter from, 504¬5; recollection of AL's
1856 Bloomington speech, 163, 504; AL's
faith in, 643; mentioned, 619, 631
Dickey and Wallace (law ‚rm), 621
Dickson, William M.: biographical sketch of,
745; letter from, 655; account of AL's Reap
‚er case, 655
Dillon, Elizabeth Hanks Ray (AL's cousin),
173, 175, 343
Dilworth, Caleb J., 333n, 336
Dilworth, Thomas: A New Guide to the En‚glish Tongue, 112n, 121
¿Discoveries and Inventionsî: public lecture by AL, 526, 657n
¿Dixie,î 648
Dixon, John: proprietor of ferry and store,
480n, 556
Dixon, Mrs. John, 556
Dixon's Ferry, 44, 352, 362, 371, 458, 465,
481, 520, 554, 556
Dodson, Jesse, 51
Dole, William P., 419, 628, 649
Donald, David: on WHH's collection, xviii;
on oral interviews, xxi
Don Juan (Byron), 470
Donnohue, Dillard C.: biographical sketch of,
745; interview with, 602; AL's religion,
602; AL on Douglas at Charleston, 602
Don Quixote (Cervantes), 31, 420
Dorman, William, 652¬53
Dorman et ux v. Lane, 652n
Dorsey, Azel: AL's teacher, 94, 112, 121, 455
Dougherty, John R.: biographical sketch of,
745; interview with, 133
Douglas, Stephen A.: dominance of Illinois
legislature by, 54; refused by Matilda Ed‚wards, 133; appeared with AL at Peoria,
161¬62; AL on, 181, 405¬6; compared to
AL, 183¬84, 194¬95; and Peoria truce with
AL, 198¬201, 211¬12, 223¬25, 232, 633;
1858 debates with AL, 377, 388, 575, 657,
669, 677, 683, 716, 728; arrival in Spring
‚‚eld, 388; elected to Supreme Court, 391n;
assigned to 5th Judicial Circuit, 391; es
‚corted by McClellan in 1858, 406; called
on MTL, 444; ‚ght with Stuart, 451; regis
‚ter of land of‚ce, 451; debated with Whigs,
468, 471; AL's use of book against, 471;
proposed debates in 1839, 476; called great
political leader by AL, 507; AL's threatened
remark about drinking of, 602; effective po
‚litical speaker, 603; used as tool by MTL,
623n; despised by AL, 643; arrival in Chi
‚cago, 696; death of, 710; questions for AL
at Ottawa, 723; AL's questions at Freeport,
723; supported by Ninian W. Edwards,
747; mentioned, 21, 54, 139, 246n, 342,
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