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462 Foreign policy—Continued

483 et seq.; commercial interest, 488; the way of safety and advantage, 490

Foreign Relations, Committee on, II., 206, 253

Forest policy, rational, The need of, V., 22; future prosperity of United States largely dependent on preservation of forests, 23; foes to the forest, 24; Congress indifferent to destruction, 26, 27; forests influence the flow of waters, 28; measures recommended to Congress while Schurz was Secretary of the Interior, 30; soldiers from abandoned army posts to be utilized as forest guards, 32

Forests, attempted conservation of, VI., 39

Forney (Colonel), John W., II., 415, 420

Forrest, General, I., 438, 463, 464

’48ers, The, V., 466; Students, congress at Eisenach 468; union of Germany achieved, 469; to preserve the unity of their new fatherland, 470; peace with honor, but vigorous prosecution when war is inevitable should be the motto of, 471

Forty-eighters, VI., wrongs of, as compared with those of the Filipinos, 308

Foster, Emory S., III., 73

Foster, L. F. S., III., 248

Foster, Secretary, V., keeps gold reserve at $100,000,000 mark, 349

Four-year law, V., 140, 143

Franco-Prussian war, I., 509, 519

Franklin, Benjamin, I., president of abolition society, 48, 146, 342; apostle of common-sense, 93; clearheaded, 96; IV., bon mot of, about hanging together, 331; V., 235

Franklin, Benjamin, IV., 309; early life of, 310; formulates system of religion, 313; marriage of, 315; newspaper and almanac of, 316; intellectual and literary influence of, on Philadelphia, 319; theory of, as to movement of storms, 321; experiments of, in electricity, 323; receives degrees, becomes postmaster, 324; Postmaster-General, and engages in other activities, 325; appears before Parliament, 328; confers with Continental Congress, 330; mission of, to France, 331 ff.; contrasted with Voltaire, 337; commissioner, 339; last diplomatic achievement of, 340; president of Pennsylvania, and member of Constitutional convention, 341; character and work of, 343-348

Frederick William II., II., 395

Free coinage of silver, V., opposed in 1892, by George Fred. Williams, 84; advocated by, in 1896, 85 n.; as a party issue, 113, 418

Freedmen's Bureau, I., murders of agents of, 289, 293; procuring employment for negroes, 308, 337; officers of, testifying to conditions in the South, 314, 315, 323; protecting the blacks, 326, 329; negro generally works well, 334; small number need assistance, 338; conditions improving, 339, 341, 343; the Southern people wish Bureau abolished, 359; unpopular, 360; success of, incomplete, 361; IV., discredited through abuses that crept in, 369; VI., purpose of, 315; partial failure of, 324

Free-soilers, I., 29, 30; III., 13

Free-trade League, II., 252

Free-traders, II., 371, 374. 375, 379; V., 436

Frelinghuysen, Frederick Theodore, II., 190, 222, 230, 232, 233, 239, 242

Frémont, John Charles, I., mentioned as a Presidential candidate in 1860, 24; popularity of, 30; campaign of 1856, 33; voting a matter of principle, 249; II., slim chance in 1872, for third ticket, 384; V., political defeat of, 394

French arms case, V., 34 n., 35

French in Spain, success of, II., 231

Friedley, III., chairman, Indiana State Committee, 290

Frisbie, IV., 72

Frye, Senator, VI., and the Philippines, 164

Fugitive-slave law, I., 142, 169; III., 12, 21, 22, 25, 26, 30; V., 443