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addresses the Anti-imperialistic Conference, 77 n., 121; addresses Civil Service Reform League at Indianapolis, 122 n.; personal experiments in civil service reform, 138, 141; delivers address at the Philadelphia Anti-imperialistic Conference, 150 n.; responds to toast at dinner to Dr. Jacobi, 192; not well enough to attend the Liberty Congress at Indianapolis, 201, 204; opposes reëlection of McKinley in address at Cooper Union, 215 n.; oath of allegiance, 215; cannot vote for McKinley because so strongly opposed to imperialism, 262; puzzling experiences with President McKinley, 268-275; annoyed at papers misquoting speech, 276; writes words of encouragement to Shepard, 277; receives birthday congratulations from Shepard, 278; reluctant to take up anti-imperialistic work, but feels it a duty, 290; advises college men, 291; selected to prepare report on the Philippines, 296; funeral remarks for Franz Sigel, 296; appreciation of Abram Hewitt, 298; does not mind being called “crank” in a good cause, 303; visits the South to recuperate and to study the race question, 349; offers his allegiance to Parker, 351; asked to answer addresses of Hay and Root, 358; declines and gives reasons, 358; pays tribute of love and appreciation to George William Curtis, 403; gently ridicules Miles Lewis Peck, 423; excuses himself from speaking at an international arbitration meeting, 424; invited to become member of advisory council of New York Society of the Friends of Russian Freedom, 427; uncertain health prevents Schurz from promising to address the Massachusetts Reform Club, 428; invited to attend Good Citizenship Meeting in Philadelphia, 430; compliments Roosevelt on ending war between Russia and Japan, 431; urges Roosevelt to work for gradual disarmament of the Powers, 432; “Major-General, Cabinet Minister, Senator and Historian,” 436 n.; declines to make application for pension, 441; prevented by an accident from attending the funeral of Dr. Preetorius, 442; Autobiography completed to third and last volume, 442, 443; congratulates Cleveland on sixty-ninth anniversary of his birth, 444; securing arbitration treaty between U. S. and Germany a “work of merit,” 445

Schurz, Mrs. Carl (Margarethe), I., 1 and n.; to, 8; to, 11; to, 20; to, 21; to, 23; will spend winters in Milwaukee and summers in Watertown, 37; to, 46; to, 108; to, 119; to, 160; to, 164; to, 168; to, 177; to, 179; property of, in Germany, 182; at a water-cure establishment near Hamburg, Germany, 184; to, 252; from, 253 n.; to, 264; to, 268; to, 374 n.; loses letters from her husband, 375; to, 418; II., mentioned in letter from Sumner, 309; III., illness of, in Switzerland 161; message to, in letter from Charles Francis Adams, Jr., 216; death of, 224 n., 389; V., was present at Senate debate on French arms case, 35, 36

Schurz, Herbert, VI., death of, 200 n. Schurz, Miss, translations by, IV., 507 n.; V., 181 n., 334 n., 466 n.; by the Misses Schurz, IV., 495 n.

Schuster, Captain, IV., asks advice about resigning, 456; discharged for political reasons only, 457

Schuyler, Charles, III., 117

Schwab, Gustav, IV., to, 197

Schwab, Gustav H., and others, VI., from, 38

Schwing, William H., III., 118 Scott, John, II., counting the electoral vote, 453

Scott (General), Winfield, V., Presidential candidate, 445

Sebastian, Don, I., 205

Seceders, I., no hesitancy in dealing with, 169; Buchanan suspected of favoring, 173

Secession, I., the threat of the South, 25; 241, 254, 261, 262