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behind closed doors, 256; advises Presidential appointee to supervise and aid political action of military commanders in South, 259; will lecture and enquires about advance agent, 260; suggests reconstruction policy for South Carolina, 261; asks permission to address a series of political letters to the President, 263; prepares for trip through the South, 266; premium on life insurance increased by Southern trip, 265, 271; writes for the Advertiser, 268; interests himself for General Slocum, 269; asks to be exonerated from blame on account of newspaper letters, 270; received coldly by Johnson, asks explanation of Stanton, 272 et seq.; prepares report on conditions in the South, 275; wants to get it before the public, 277; correspondent New York Tribune, editor, Detroit Post, 375 n.; books and papers destroyed by fire, 375, 376; one of the editors and owners of the St. Louis Westli s che Post, 418 n.; not in favor of immediate enfranchisement of rebels, 474; chosen United States Senator, 474; finds senatorial life a drudgery, 483; strained relations between Grant and himself, 509

Schurz, Carl, offers resolution and makes speech, 2 and n.; acknowledges responsibility for “bolt” in Missouri, 32; gladdened by Sumner's New Year present, 70; disclaims personal feeling in his speech against Grant's usurpation, 240; working for substantial results and a third party, 313; chosen permanent president of the Liberal Republican Convention, 354 n.; writes Address of the Liberal Republicans, 388 n.; gives reasons for objecting to Blair's reëlection, 449

Schurz, Carl, eulogizes Charles Sumner, 2; asked to write Political History of the United States, 114; senatorial career ends, starts on lecturing trip, 152; visits Germany, 154; Switzerland, 155; returns because urged to do so by Charles Francis Adams, Jr., to defeat William Allen, 161; defeats Allen, 215; refuses compensation for speeches in Ohio, 217; writes circular call of the Fifth Avenue Hotel Conference, 224, 228; answers objections to conference, 233; spends part of summer of 1876 at Fort Washington, Pennyslvania, 259; suggests paragraph for Hayes's letter of acceptance, 255, 284; hard at work on first campaign speech, 261; not well, but going into the campaign, 288; meets with accident, 338; petitions Congress to submit the Hayes-Tilden election to the Supreme Court, 353; in one year loses by death, father, wife and mother, 389, 401; hears that he is being suggested for a Cabinet position, 402 and n., 403; literary loyalty to Hayes, 404 and n.; invited to accompany Presidential party to Washington, 405; reduces printing expenses of Interior Department to one-eighth, 410; urged to speak in Indiana on the currency question, 422

Schurz, Carl, trials of, as Secretary of the Interior, 82; editor-in-chief, New York Evening Post, 115 n.; “contingent fund” of Interior Department and land grants to railroads, 148, 150, 151, 152, 153, 168, 184; writing the Clay biography, 156; declines a prospective gift of $100,000 from admiring friends, 197; speaks at Brooklyn, 224 n.; much interested in work on Clay biography, 308; contributes work and part of expenses in Cleveland campaign, 309; lectures in Charleston, South Carolina, 309 n.; declines invitation to address Civil Service Association, 435; member of National Civil Service Reform League, 455; Henry Clay