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Rh Independents—Continued

Blaine in opposition, would vote for Cleveland, 467; accused by Cleveland of seeking to ruin him, 474; source of influence, 476; V., many will vote for Cleveland, 86; will be influenced by Cleveland's letter of acceptance, 122

Independent voters, III., 291

Indian Appropriation Act, IV., 51

Indian problem, Present aspects of IV., 116; unscrupulous greed of frontiersmen often the cause of war, 117; railroads and settlers penetrating to every part of the United States, 118; no longer vacant reservations to which the Indians can be removed, 120; increase of white population means encroachment on rights of Indians, 121; to preserve their rights, Indians must be reckoned with as individuals, not as tribes, 123, 137; given an incentive, they will work, 124; citizenship the end not the beginning of their development, 125; must be guided and protected, 126; a progressive movement is evident everywhere, 127; agriculture their best occupation, 128; as cow-boys, freighters and mechanics, 130; education the great civilizer, 131; facilities for domestic training increased, 133; grasp of affairs uncertain, 140; the case of the Utes, 141; Congress should pass a severalty law, 144

Indian question, III., 481-489; see letters to Mrs. Jackson, Miss Allison and E. Dunbar Lockwood

Indian service, IV., 28, 77

Inflation, see Currency and the national banks; Currency question; Honest money; Honest money and honesty

Inflation movement, IV., 39

Inflationists, III., 263, 264, 265, 272, 274, 279, 480; IV., 23, 26, 33, 38

Ingalls, John James, IV., 450, 494; V., characterization of politics, 77, 78, 79, 101

International peace, V., an American principal, 250

Introduction, I., iii.

Ireland, V., would be freed from British supremacy by war between Great Britain and United States, 251

“Irrepressible conflict,” I., 37, 118, 122, 134, 139, 140, 143, 145, 460, 489; III., 23

Irwin, (Commander) John, II., 212, 213, 214

Isabel, Infanta of Spain, I., 205

Issues of 1874, The, especially in Missouri, III., 74; unstable political and social conditions, lack of old-time enthusiasm, 75; Congressional investigations, 77; independence of thought and growing interest in good government, 78; disputed Louisiana elections, 79; duty of the National Government, 84, 93; duty of the South, 86; dishonest and unscrupulous leaders of the Southern negroes, 88; Sumner's civil rights bill, 90; what the colored people can do for themselves, 94; financial question, 97; restoration to political rights, 98; fraternal spirit, mitigation of partisan spirit, 101; brigandage, 103; continuing the 1870 movement, 106; a word to ex-Confederates, 108; to the independent men of Missouri, 112

Itinerary in Lincoln campaign, I., 163

Jackson, Andrew, II., 68; III., 179, 408; V., supported and opposed by Daniel Webster, 438, 439

Jackson, James (Georgia), IV., formulates pro-slavery argument, 342

Jackson (Mrs.), Helen Hunt, III., to, 496; from, 499; to, 501

Jacobi (M.D.), Abram, II., 448; III., 406; VI., responds to toast at complimentary dinner to, 192

James, D. Willis, IV., 349

James, William, VI., from, 190

Japan and Russia, VI., intervention of United States, 431, 432, 435, 440

Jefferson City, I., radical state convention, 510

Jefferson, Thomas, I., 65, 93, 96, 97, 99, 100, 102, 103, 146, 229;