Roosevelt’s views on, 501
U.S. 1846 treaty with, 474, 478, 493, 498
Colón, 430, 440, 477, 485–92, 494, 495
colonization, voluntary, 54, 58
Colorado, 210, 232, 239, 249, 257, 536
Colquhoun, Archibald, 356, 359
Columbia, S.C., 91–92
Columbus, Ohio, 156
Compagnie Nouvelle de Panama, 426–31, 433, 434, 435, 471–72, 485, 499, 503
extension sold to, 429
Concha, José Vicente, 430–32, 436, 441–42
Confederacy, 44, 64–69, 77–86, 91–92, 96–97, 158, 513
establishment of, 39
foreign recognition of, 59, 108–9, 184
peace agents of, 85–88
ships of, 72, 142, 184, 317
Confederate Army, 59–62, 64, 66–73, 83, 84–85, 91
in Florida, 80–82
see also Army of Northern Virginia
Confiscation Acts (1861, 1862), 55, 56, 58, 67
Conger, Edwin, 377–79, 382–83, 384, 482, 522, 530
Congress, Colombian, 432, 443, 468, 484, 498
Congress, U.S., 74, 77, 191, 252, 289, 298, 391, 442
Central America canal and, 345–46, 366–71, 432–36, 476–77
Confiscation Acts and, 55, 56
Hay and, 79, 81, 423
McKinley and, 326, 327, 345, 354, 356, 377
Roosevelt and, 445, 446, 449, 498–99, 529
Treaty of Paris and, 340, 343, 344
see also House of Representatives, U.S.; Senate, U.S.
Conkling, Roscoe, 189, 192, 197–99, 201–7, 296, 313
resignation of, 203, 205
Connecticut River, 156, 165
Conservative Party, British, 305
Conservatives, Colombian, 429, 440
Constantinople, 521
Constitution, U.S., 59, 343, 369, 382, 529
Conway, Moncure D., 214
Cook, Clarence, 141
Cooke, Jay, 163
Cooper, James Fenimore, 216
Copeland, Ada, King’s marriage to, 255–56, 285, 398, 399, 551
Copperheads, 89, 98, 113
Corbin Park, 438
Corcoran, William, 178, 248
corruption, 131, 142, 187, 193, 199
Crédit Mobilier scandal, 154–55, 193, 196–97
in Grant administration, 143, 153, 154–55, 170
Cortelyou, George, 402, 407, 438, 440
Cortes, Spanish (parliament), 121, 123, 124, 331
Cosequina, 433–34
cotton, 14, 15, 59, 458
courts-martial, 53, 262
Cowles, Anna Roosevelt “Bamie,” 303
Cowles, William, 303
Coxey, Jacob, 289
Crafton, Greek, 30
Craig, Bill, 438
Crane, Winthrop, 438
Crawford, John, 468, 469
Crédit Mobilier scandal, 154–55, 193, 196–97
Crefeld, 190
Cretic (ship), 532, 534, 535
Critic, 225
Cromwell, William Nelson, 427–28, 430–33, 435, 442–43, 471–72, 473, 475–78, 496
Roosevelt’s underestimating of role of, 499
Cuba, 141, 294, 339, 345, 436, 486
election in, 390
independence of, 518
U.S. interest in, 122, 123–24, 301, 317, 322, 323, 325–30, 343, 361
Culebra, Isla de, 445, 449, 452
Cullom, Shelby, 472, 473, 501–2
Cunliffe, Lady, 215, 221, 251
Cunliffe, Sir Robert, 215, 221, 241, 251, 539
currency, 183, 280, 302, 317, 318
election of 1896 and, 294, 301, 307–8
Custer, Elizabeth, 325
Czolgosz, Leon, 406–9
Daily Chronicle (London), 303
Daily Mail (London), 382
Dairen, 355, 358, 458
Dana, Charles, 262
Darling, Charles, 486, 490
Davis, Cushman, 392
Davis, David, 144
Davis, Henry G., 524
Davis, Henry Winter, 93
Davis, Jefferson, 73, 85–87, 90, 93, 262
Greeley’s kindness to, 153, 154
Davis, Richard Harding, 374, 480–81
Day, William R., 332, 333–34, 338
Dayton, William, 108
Debs, Eugene, 289
Declaration of Independence, U.S., 58
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Gibbon), 7, 178, 262–63
Defoe, Daniel, 146
Delaware, slavery in, 44
Delcassé, Théophile, 538
de Lesseps, Ferdinand, 190–91, 345, 426
democracy, 129, 197, 340
Hay’s views on, 120, 141–42, 154, 198
in Spain, 121, 123, 124
Democracy (Adams), 10, 195–97, 209, 212, 214–15, 216, 225–26, 228, 239, 240, 247
Democratic National Conventions:
of 1864, 90–91
of 1896, 301
Democrats, Democratic Party, 8, 16, 32, 36, 112, 317, 346, 361, 386, 444, 515, 517, 518, 528, 550
Central America canal and, 435, 437, 498
Copperheads, 89, 98, 113
emancipation and, 55, 62, 64
Hay’s low regard for, 50, 193
McClellan as, 48, 62, 90–91, 93–94
Mormons and, 20
Peace, 71, 77, 88, 90–91
Southern, 154
Spanish-American War and, 324, 340, 343
Thirteenth Amendment and, 98
see also specific elections
Denmark, 372, 401, 422
Department of the Mississippi, 56
Department of the South, 66
Department of the West, 48–49
Depew, Chauncey, 319
Dewey, George, 327, 328, 331, 443, 444, 459
Venezuela troubles and, 443, 448–52
dialect poetry, 135–40
Diamond Jubilee, 318–20
Dick, Charles, 361
Dickens, Charles, 82, 92, 119
Disraeli, Benjamin, 116
Dix, John Adams, 112, 113, 114, 116
Dixie, USS, 486, 490, 491, 492
Douglas, Stephen, 32, 48, 87, 237
election of 1858 and, 29, 30, 93, 515, 516
Douglass, Frederick, 62
“Dream of Bric-A-Brac, A” (Hay), 284
Dred Scott decision (1857), 57–58
Dunne, Finley Peter, 337
Du Pont, Samuel, 66–68
Dupuy de Lôme, Enrique, 325
Dupuy de Lôme Letter, 325
Duque, J. Gabriel, 476–77, 478, 484, 485, 488
Early, Jubal, 84–85, 91
Eastlake style, 167
Eckert, Thomas, 92–93
economy, 375, 398, 406
“McKinley Boom” and, 308
sound money and, 183
of Warsaw, 18, 20–21
see also specific panics; tariffs
Ecuador, 429
Eddy, Spencer, 324
Education of Henry Adams (Adams), 342, 371, 418, 550–51
Edward VII, King of England, 393–94, 537, 539
Egypt, 324–26
Ehrman, Felix, 488, 489, 492
Eiffel, Gustave, 426
Eighth Judicial Circuit, 30
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 550
elections, U.S.:
of 1828, 158
of 1856, 31–32, 515
of 1858, 29, 30, 54, 93
of 1860, 2, 32–36, 133, 180, 184, 515
of 1864, 79, 81, 84, 89, 90–94, 97, 98, 130, 153, 180, 525
of 1872, 143, 153–55, 158, 308
of 1876, 170–71, 184, 196
of 1880, 183–84, 188, 192, 196–97, 199, 201, 204
of 1884, 234–35
of 1888, 257, 258
of 1892, 280–81, 296, 297
of 1896, 282, 294, 296–308, 317, 389
of 1900, 368, 369, 370, 374–76, 389–90, 428
of 1904, 504, 509–11, 514�
�19, 523–26, 546
of 1960, 550
electricity, 335, 400
Eliot, Charles, 263, 437
Eliot, George, 45, 92
Ellsworth, Elmer, 44–45
emancipation, 54–59, 78
compensation for, 54, 58
Frémont’s use of, 48, 55
gradual, 54, 55, 56
McClellan’s opposition to, 56, 62
peace efforts and, 86–90
see also abolitionists, abolition
Emancipation Proclamation, 54–59, 77, 78, 97, 99
draft of, 57, 58–59
as military decision, 58–59
presenting of, 61–64
signing of, 63
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 27, 133
Ems Dispatch, 127
England, 8–9, 20, 26, 141, 180, 243, 287, 327, 513, 550, 551
book reviews in, 211
Civil War and, 59, 108, 109, 142, 184, 317
French royalty in, 127–28
Hay as ambassador to, 7–8, 9, 26, 102, 124, 314–35, 356, 444
Hay’s love of, 7, 116–17, 221, 251, 288
Jews in, 462
King in, 213, 214, 221, 233–34, 256
Russo-Japanese War and, 506, 507
Spanish-American War and, 327, 328
U.S. relations with, 9, 322–24, 328–29, 338, 346–48, 352–53, 358–62, 386, 539, 548
U.S. tensions with, 304–5, 317, 449, 452, 454
Episcopalians, 29
equality, racial, 57–58, 112
“Erato” (Hay), 27
Erie, Lake, 252, 274
Erie, Pa., 156
Erie Canal, 157
Erie Railroad, 159
Espriella, Francisco Vicente de la, 497
Esther (Adams), 239–41
Eugénie, Empress of France, 74, 111, 127–28
Europe, Hay’s prescience on, 118–19
European Squadron, 513, 521
Evarts, William, 184, 185, 318, 345, 348
Everett, Edward, 76, 91
Farnham, John Hay, 16
Farragut, David, 91
Fells, the, 7, 272–74, 291, 294–96, 306, 350, 360–61, 383, 384, 386, 387, 395, 402, 404, 411, 437, 520, 521, 522, 542–43, 550
Alice’s wedding at, 422, 439
Camerons at, 278–80
construction of, 267
descriptions of, 272, 468, 523, 550
King’s visit to, 399
Kipling’s visit to, 295
purchase and naming of, 256–57
Roosevelt’s visit to, 438
Fernandina, Fla., 68, 79, 80, 82
Field, Cyrus, 147
Fields, James T., 133, 134, 135
Hay’s correspondence with, 137
54th Massachusetts Infantry, 78, 80, 81
First Opium War (1839–42), 353
Fish, Hamilton, 120, 122, 142, 325
Fish, Stuyvesant, 453
Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S., 550
Fisher, George P., 502
Fisk, Jim, 158–59
Fists of Righteous Harmony, see Boxer Rebellion and aftermath
Five of Hearts, the, 10, 195, 209–10, 239, 249, 341
Florence, 286, 287
Florida, 99, 170
Hay’s investments in, 67–68, 79, 82, 112, 114, 116
Hay’s trips to, 67–68, 72, 78–82, 140
Nicolay in, 132
Ten Percent Plan and, 78–82
football, 274, 289, 295
Foraker, Joseph, 309–10
Ford’s Theatre, 2, 45, 75, 102–5, 248, 402
foreign reporting, 131–32, 141–42, 168
“Foreign Travel Beneficial to the Man of Letters” (Hay), 26
Forney, John, 76
Fort Edward, 17
Fort Fisher, 97
Fortieth Parallel Survey, 148
Fort Johnson, 17
Fort Moultrie, 65, 66, 78–79
Fort Stevens, 85, 98
Fort Sumter, 44, 65, 66, 68, 78–79, 102
Fort Wagner, 78–79
Foster, Charles, 183
Fourteenth Amendment, 112
France, 8–9, 108–15, 141, 213, 215–17, 284, 304, 327, 374, 446, 468, 513
China and, 354, 359–60, 362, 380, 383
Civil War and, 59, 108–9, 184
Foreign Ministry of, 513
Government of National Defense in, 128
Lizzie Cameron in, 269–70, 272, 274–75, 276, 319–20, 321, 551
Panama canal and, 190–91, 345
Reid as minister to, 258, 261, 264, 269, 296
Russo-Japanese War and, 506, 507
Second Empire in, 108–9, 120, 125–29, 185
Second Republic in, 108
Third Republic in, 128
U.S. relations with, 327, 328
Franco-Prussian War, 126–29, 132, 328
Frank Leslie’s Illustrated, 140
Franz Joseph, Emperor of Austria, 117
fraternities, 25, 26–27, 53
Fredericksburg, Va., 64, 65, 68, 83
Freedman’s Bureau, 112
Freedom (statue), 100
free-silver movement, 301, 302, 304
Free-Soilers, 515
Frémont, John C., 32, 48–49, 55, 91
French canal company, 190–91, 345, 412, 425, 426
see also Compagnie Nouvelle de Panama
Frick, Henry Clay, 282
Fuller, Margaret, 27
fur-seal hunting, 318
Gage, Lyman, 372, 408
Gallatin, Albert, 177
Galveston, Confederate retaking of, 64
Gardner, Alexander, 74
Gardner, James, 74
Garfield, James, 7, 183, 197–208, 304, 544
assassination of, 7, 205–8, 223, 247, 408–9
Conkling’s influence and, 197–99, 296, 313
Crédit Mobilier scandal and, 154–55, 193
election of 1880 and, 192, 193, 197
Hay’s correspondence with, 197–98
Garfield, Mrs. James, 198
Gaskell, Charles Milnes, 221
Gaskell, Mrs. Charles Milnes, 221
Genoa, 532, 535
Geological Survey, U.S., 186, 195, 208
German Americans, 358, 369, 444
German Empire, formation of, 128
Germanic, 222
Germany, 9, 14, 126, 141, 190, 327, 329, 331, 443–54, 458, 468
Bad Nauheim in, 536–39, 546
Boer War and, 449
British pact with, 447, 448, 449, 451, 452
China and, 353, 359–60, 362, 365, 380, 383, 387, 388, 444, 446, 450
navy of, 327, 443, 444, 447–88, 451
Philippines and, 327–28, 331, 339, 444
Russo-Japanese War and, 506, 507
Samoa and, 353
Santo Domingo and, 528–29
Venezuela affair and, 443, 446–54
in World War I, 451
Gettysburg, Battle of (1863), 70–71, 72, 74, 122, 193
Gettysburg, Pa., 5, 70–71, 75–77, 92
Gettysburg Address, 70–71, 75–77, 95, 99–100, 458
Gibbon, Edward, 7, 178, 238, 262–63
Gilded Age, 7, 131, 149, 335
Gilded Age, The (Twain and Warner), 131, 210, 214
Gilder, Richard Watson, 234, 283
Abraham Lincoln and, 213, 237, 245–46, 250–51, 257–58, 262–63
Bread-Winners and, 213–14, 215, 217, 219, 225
Gillmore, Quincy Adams, 78–81
Gladstone, Herbert, 288
Gladstone, William E., 116
Glasgow, 190, 214
Godkin, Edwin L., 366
gold, 143, 158, 183, 301, 317, 491
in Alaska, 337, 347, 399, 424
in South Africa, 362
Golden Rule, in Hay’s speeches, 420, 421, 436
Gordon-Lennox, Lord and Lady Algernon, 539
Gould, Jay, 158–59, 167
graft, 7, 131
Gramont, Antoine Agénor, Duke of,
127
Grand Cross of the National Order of the Legion of Honor, 520
Grant, Julia Dent, 143
Grant, Ulysses S.:
brother-in-law of, 143, 158
Civil War and, 2, 55, 56, 69, 71, 82–85, 91, 96–97, 102, 130, 143, 153, 154
corruption and, 143, 153, 154–55, 170
election of 1872 and, 153–55, 158, 308
election of 1880 and, 188, 192, 199, 204
Hay’s criticism of, 153–54, 159–60
as president, 7, 119, 120, 122, 124, 142–43, 153–55, 159–60, 170, 171, 184, 187, 308
Granville, Lord, 221
Great Britain, 365, 391–94
Alaska boundary treaty and, 455
Boer War and, 353, 361–62, 367, 372–74, 401, 424, 449
China and, 354, 356–60, 362, 378, 380–83, 385–89, 459
Clayton-Bulwer Treaty and, 346–48, 352, 366, 367, 391, 392, 396, 397
Foreign Office of, 318, 346–47, 393, 396, 397, 411
Germany’s pact with, 447, 448, 449, 451, 452
Hay-Paunceforte Treaty and, 391–93, 396–97, 405, 411, 412
Japan’s treaty with, 459
navy of, 451
Samoa and, 353
Venezuela affair and, 446–49, 451, 452
in War of 1812, 17
in World War I, 451
see also England
Great Lakes, 157, 216
Great Powers, 8–9, 327
China and, 353–54, 356–66, 380–83, 385–89, 458–61
Russo-Japanese War and, 506, 507
Greece, 326, 496, 513
Greeley, Horace, 47, 61, 85–91, 99
death of, 158, 159
in election of 1872, 143, 153–55, 158, 308
Hay’s views on, 86, 89–90
as Liberal Republican, 143, 153–55
peace efforts and, 85–89
Tribune and, 61, 85, 86, 130, 131, 133, 154, 155, 158, 203
vanity of, 86
Vienna job turned down by, 119
Greeley, Mary Cheney, 158
Gries, Moses, 545
Griscom, Lloyd, 505, 533–34
Groedel, Isadore, 536–39
Grosvenor, William, 206
Guam, 322, 327, 330, 340, 343
Guernsey, Alfred, 115
Guiteau, Charles, 204–8, 247, 408–9
Gummeré, Samuel, 511–15
Halleck, Henry, 56, 60, 83
Halpine, Charles, 72, 73, 82
Hamilton, Alexander, 171, 260
Hamlin, Hannibal, 84
Hamlin, Teunis, 545
Hancock, Winfield Scott, 193
Hancock County, Ill., 20, 22, 135
Hanna, Mark, 7, 193, 258, 395
Central America canal and, 427, 428, 432–35, 472, 479, 503
death of, 503
election of 1896 and, 297–300, 302–3, 305, 307–8
election of 1900 and, 375–76, 389
McKinley’s appointments and, 309–10, 312, 313
McKinley’s relationship with, 282, 299–300, 307, 309, 310
military prowess of, 302
Hannibal, Mo., 19, 135
Hapsburg Empire, see Austrian Empire
Harbin, 355, 458
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