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All the Great Prizes

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by John Taliaferro


  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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