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Rh South—Continued

still hoped for, 311; dangers to unprotected freedmen, 311-317; treatment of negroes as a class, 317-322; municipal regulations, 322-327; education of freedmen, 327-331, 343; praised, and complained of, 331-333; unwillingness to work, 333-337; vagrancy, 337; contracts, 338; insolence and insubordination, 339; extravagant notions, 340; relations between the two races, 341; reactionary tendency, 343-347; negro testimony, 347-349; reorganization of Southern militia, 349-352; negro insurrections and anarchy, 352-354; reconstruction, its duties, difficulties, obstacles to be surmounted, 354-361; need of immigration, capital and continued Federal control, 361; negro suffrage, 361-371; Federal supervision still needed in the South, 371-374; Sumner's comments on, 374

South, The new, IV., 368; at the close of the civil war, 368; reconstruction period, 371; negro labor, 377; mistaken ideas as to relation of labor and education, 378; change of opinions, 379; the “Rebel Brigadier,” 382; Jefferson Davis, 383; why Southern whites remained Democratic, 385; the young men, 387; social status of the negro, 389; democracy and the negro, 392; present loyalty, 397

“Southern outrages,” IV., cause and remedy, 373

Spain, I., changed attitude of, towards the United States, 193; Queen of, seeking an alliance for the Infanta, 205; II., and San Domingo, 92; V., our war with, 465, 475, 478; conditions of peace with, 475, 477

Spanish war, VI., object of, 4

Specie payments, resumption of, II., 503, 504, 509, 515, 530; III., 98, 165; in France, 186, 187; the only true solution, 208, 211, 212, 216, 254, 257, 263, 265, 274, 279, 335. 373; IV., 7, 12, 23, 33, 38, 195; see currency question, The

Spoils system and spoils, III., 243, 244, 271, 273, 277, 279, 298 et passim, 346, 354; IV., 8, 27, 30, 32, 37, 39, 288, 299, 305, 362, 428, 448, 464, 469, 474; V., 12, 126; its “back will be broken forever,” 140, 155; fast friends of, 148; rests on privilege and favoritism 156; destroyed by Jefferson's rule, 166; unfounded notion of its being necessary to hold parties together, 168; demoralizing effect of, 169, 173; Cleveland to end it, 174, 180; politicians determined to have, 515

Spotted Tail, IV., 140

Sprague, William, II., 377

Squatter sovereignty, I., 140

Stafford, G. W., III., 118

Stahel, General Julius, I., 221 n., 222, 223 n.

Stallo, John Bernhard, II., 370; III., 324, IV., 401

Stanard, Edwin O., I., 515

Standard Oil Co., IV., 356

Standing Buffalo, IV., 108

Standing Yellow, IV., 108

Stanton, Edwin M., I., papers hostile to, 257; advised Schurz to accept mission to the South, 264; was cognizant to Schurz's intention of writing to newspapers while on his tour of the South, 272; to, 272; VI., and Federal forces in the South, 321

State-rights in Wisconsin, I., Booth fugitive-slave case, 108, 112; Doolittle's “excellent speech, a grand vindication of doctrine,” 115

Stearns, George L., I., 267

Steedman, Major-General, I., 312

Steger, T. M., II., signs letter to Schurz from over two hundred ex-Confederate soldiers, 307

Steinway, William, V., 330; rises from workman to master-manufacturer, 330; a patriotic American with a German heart, 331; a millionaire whom no one begrudged, 332; truly and widely mourned, 333; scorned to purchase certificates of merit from French Exposition, 333; “man of rare goodness,” 338

Sterling, IV., New York customhouse weigher, 408 n.

Stetson, IV., 304, 349