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Adams, Charles Francis, 419,

471 n., 473, 475 n.
Adams, John, 138n.; envoyin Paris,
147 n.; minister to England,
167 n. 2; vice president, 190;
president, 200 n., 201; rebukes
French Directory, 202 n. 2, 203;
congratulates son, 258; referred
to, 498

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Albany, 51, 90, 92 f., 95
Albany plan of union, the, 94 f.
Albert, Prince, 417

Alexander, General E. P., 425 f.
Alexander, James, 95, 98
Alexander of Neckam, 5
Aldrich, Senator N. W., 576

Alien and Sedition Acts, 205, 207
Almon, John, 123 n.
Altgelt, Governor J. P.,
530 f.
Ambrose, Saint, 4, 87 n. 2
Amendments: Thirteenth, 438 f.,

466 n. 2; Fourteenth, 458 f.,
459 n., 466 n. 3; Fifteenth, 466
n. 4; Sixteenth, 581 n. 2
American Colonization Society,
302 f., 308 n.

American Federation of Labor,

576

Anderson, Major Robert, 401 f.
Andros, Sir Edmund, 46 f., 48, 50
Angoulême, Duke of, 245 n.
Annapolis, 172
Anti-imperialists, 552 f.
Apia, 522 f.

Appomattox, 440 f., 460 n., 462
Arkansas, 15

Arnold, Benedict, 344

Arthur, Chester A., 501 f., 508
Articles of Confederation, 125 n.,
168 and n., 172 and n., 181, 196,
382

Ashby, Irene, 571
Assignats, 489
Astoria, 260
Athens, 3

Atlanta, 462 f., 518, 575
Augustine, Saint, 87 n. 2

Bacon, Francis, 248
Bacon, Nathaniel, 30 f.
Baltimore, 254, 286, 365 f.
Bancroft, George, 328 n. 2, 332 f.
Bank, National, 237, 267
Barbados, 49

Barlow, Joel, 204 f.

Barron, James, 224, 227
Bates, Edward, 385 f. and n.
Baton Rouge, 422 n., 423, 425
Bayard, James, 533
Beauregard, General P. G. J., 402,
406

Bede, the Venerable, 5
Benton, Thomas H., on Oregon,
258 f.; on expunging resolution,
269 n.; attack of, on 54° 40',
322 f.; confers with Polk, 327 n.,
331

Berkeley, Admiral, 226 n.

Berkeley, Governor William, 28, 31
Berlin, 525 and n.
Bermudas, 144

Bernard, Governor Francis, 124
Berwick on Tweed, 73 f.
Beveridge, Senator Albert J., 571
"Black codes," the, 453 n.
Blaine, James G., 466 n. 5, 468 n.;
tribute to Garfield, 494 f.; nom-
inated in 1884, 505, 510; on
Cleveland's message of 1887,
515 f.

Blair, Francis P., 385

Blair, Montgomery, 437 n.
Block, Adrian, 52 n.

Blockade, proclamation of, 410
Blount, Thomas, 225
Boston, England, 39

Boston, Mass., 48 f., 114, 212, 251,

282, 283, 411, 563
Boutwell, George S., 546
Bowman, Captain Joseph, 148 f.,
153

Bradford, Governor William, 34, 55
Bradshawe, John, 27

Bragg, General Braxton, 508
Brazil, 304

Breckenridge, J. C., 209
Brewerton, Douglas, 367
Brewster, William, 35

Bright, John, 417 f., 418 n., 473
Brougham, Lord, 312, 314
Brown, B. Gratz, 471 n.

Brown, John, 379 n.

Brownists, 34 n.

Bryan, William J., 542 f.
Bryce, James, 265

Buchanan, James, Secretary of

State, 327 n., 328, 331, 334;
minister to England, 353 f., 356;
president, 391 f., 394, 398, 435,
451
Buffalo, 509

Bull Run, 414

Bunau-Varilla, Philippe, 556, 560
Burgesses, House of, 24, 27, 32,

123, 153

Burgoyne, General John, 143
Burke, Edmund, 134 n.

Burnaby, Reverend Andrew, 74,
77 f.

Burton, Thomas E., 562

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Charlestown, Mass., 82 f.
Chase, Samuel P., 238 n., 386 and
n., 387, 455 n.
Chattanooga, 430
Chesapeake Bay, 26, 33, 224 f.
Chicago, 329, 384, 505, 507, 526 f.,
542, 576 f.

Child labor, 287, 571 f., 579
China, 9, 13, 22

Cincinnati, 249, 467 f.

Cincinnatus, 173

Circular Letter, the, 114, 120 f.
Civil-service reform, 499 f., 582
Civil War, the, 156, 303 n., 403 n.,

408 f., 481, 485

Clark, George Rogers, 148 f., 218 n.
Clay, Henry, on War of 1812, 227 f.;
in election of 1824, 255f.; criti-
cizes Jackson, 267 f.; letters on
Texas, 318 and n. 2; on Com-
promise of 1850, 341 n., 497
Claybourne, William, 26
Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, 559 n. 2
Cleveland, Grover, nominated in
1884, 505, 507; tribute to, 508; on
tariff, 511 f.; in Pullman strike,
526f.; in Venezuela, 532 f.; on
conservation, 560

Cobb, Howell, 352, 394 f., 398 f.,
451 f., 455 n., 456
Cobden, Richard, 418 n., 473
Colbert, 86 and n.
Colon, 557 f.

Colonies, American, 72 f., 77 f.,
III f., 164

Colton, Reverend Walter, 335
Columbia, S.C., 278, 574

Columbia River and valley, 212
and n., 258 f., 323 f.
Columbus, 4 f., 9 f., 22
Columbus, Diego, 9
"Commemoration Ode," the, 448
"Common Sense," 138
Commonwealth, the English, 26
Concord, Mass., 129 and n., 132
Confiscation Acts, 412
Connecticut, 53, 58 n. 2., 123
Conservation, 560 f.
Constitution of the United States,
recommended by Hamilton,
168 f., 171 n. 2 and 3; framed,
172 f.; opinion of Franklin on,

175 f.; sent to states, 176; objec-
tions to, 177 f., 180, 186; opinions
of Jefferson and Hamilton on,
192 f.; violated, 206 f.; ex-
pounded by Marshall, 235 f.;
expounded by Calhoun, 262 f.;
expounded by Jackson, 266 f.;
expounded by Webster, 273 f.;
expounded by legislature of
South Carolina, 277 f.; ex-
pounded by Nashville conven-
tion, 346 f.; expounded by Lin-
coln, 382 f.; expounded by Davis,
435; expounded by Progressive
party, 577 f.; and slavery, 296 f.,
360 f., 374, 378, 388 f.; and Su-
preme Court, 376 n. 2.
Constitutional convention, 172 f.,
176, 178 n.

Continental Congress, 115
Conway, M. D., 138 and n.
Cooper, Thomas, 261 n.

Cooper Institute speech, 378, 381
Corbett, Thomas, 224
Cornwallis, General Charles, I
Cotton, John, 39 f.

153 f.

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De Soto, 15 f.

De Tocqueville, Alexis, 265, 309 f.
Dewey, Admiral George, 549 f.
Dickens, Charles, 249 n.

Dickinson, John, 120, 125 and n.,
133 and n.

Dinwiddie, Governor Robert, 99 f.,
102, 104 and n.

Directory, French, 200 f., 205
"Discourse on Western Planting,"
21 f.

District of Columbia, 347, 503, 571
Dix, John A., 295 n. 2

Dongan, Governor Thomas, 87 f.
Doubleday, Abner, 401
Douglas, Stephen A., 360, 374,
378, 395 n.

Douglass, Frederick, 362 n., 365
Drake, Sir Francis, 18
Dred Scott Decision, 373 f.
Duane, James, 168
Dudley, Thomas, 38
Dunster, Henry, 81, 82 n.
Dutch, 51 f., 55 f.

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Fort Crèvecœur, 86
Fort Frontenac, 86 n., 90 n.
Fort Good Hope, 57 f.
Fort Jackson, 422 n.
Fort Leavenworth, 367
Fort Moultrie, 401
Fort Nassau, 52 n. 2
Fort Orange, 51

Fort Pitt, 186

Fort St. Philip, 422 n.

Fort Sumter, 381, 401 f., 408, 472
Fort Warren, 421 f.

Fortress Monroe, 413 n., 436
France, treaty with, 118, 140, 141 f.,

165; Jefferson in, 192, 196; war
with Austria and Prussia, 196 n.,
199; in American Revolution,
197; our obligation to, 198 f.;
rebuked by Adams, 202 n. 2, 211;
sells us Louisiana, 214, 218 f.;
war with England, 222; ag-
gressions on our commerce,
222 f., 227 f.; invades Spain,
245 n.; abolishes slavery in col-
onies, 319 f.
Frankfort, 69

Franklin, Benjamin, 94; on Stamp

Act, 118 f.; on Hillsborough,
124, 129 n.; agent in London,
131; recommends Lafayette,
142; negotiations with France,
142 n., 144, 147 and n., 148, 167;
character, 174; address to con-
vention, 175 f.; on opportunities
in America, 183 f.; referred to,
248

Frazier, John, 100 f.
Free-Soil party, 369 f.
Freedman's Bureau, 453 n.
Freneau, Philip, 195

Frobisher, Martin, 18

Fugitive Slave Law, 353, 361, 396 n.
Fugitive slaves, 362 and n. 2, 363f.,
377 n.
Fulham Palace, 34

Gabote (Cabot), Sebastian, 21 f.
Gadsden, Christopher, 133 n.
Gage, General Thomas, 128
Garfield, James A., 494 f., 508
Geneva, 471, 475 n.

George II, king of England, 135

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Gordon, William, 128 and n.
Governor's Island, 54, 61
Grady, Henry W., 518 and n.
Granada, 6 f.

Grant, Fred D., 517

Grant, General U. S., in Civil War,
432 n., 440 f.; on tour of South,
452 n., 459, 462; president, 466,
467 n., 470, 472 n., 475 and n.,
477, 485 and n., 508

Gray, Captain Robert, 212, 214,
258 f.

Gray, Senator George, 550 f.
Greece, 300

Greeley, Horace, 378 n., 385 f.,
471, 497
Greenbacks, 487 f.

Greene, General Nathaniel, 155
Grenville, George, 111, 118 f., 127,

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546

Henry IV, king of France, 106
Hercules, Pillars of, 3 f.
Hill, Governor David B., 542
Hillsborough, Lord, 123 f.
Hoar, Senator George F.,
Holdernesse, Lord, 99
Holland, 24, 34 f., 54, 60
Holy Alliance, 245 n. 2, 537
Hopkins, Mark, 495
Hopkins, Stephen, 115 f.
Houston, D. F., 270 and n.
Hudson Bay, 98

Hudson River, 51 and n.
Humphreys, Colonel, 189
Hutchinson, Anne, 38 n.
Hutchinson, Governor Thomas,
38 f., 114 f.

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