(The Index to Illustrations will be found on pages XVII et seq.)
Amnesty and Pardon, President's procla- Bayard, Thomas F., 431, 497.
Anarchists, the; see Chicago anarchists, Beard, Frank, 501.
Andersonville prison charges, 323.
Anthony, A. V. S., 41, 43.
Bayonet rule, 304, 305, 339.
Beecher, Henry Ward, 164, 497.
Belknap, William W., 325, 326.
Bellew, Frank, 22, 94, 254, 265, 335.
Anthony, E. and H. T., publishers, Bellew (the elder) as a caricaturist, 120.
95.
Anti-Jewish agitation in Germany, 442.
Anti-Monopoly Party, 503.
Arbeiter Zeitung, the, 523.
Army and Navy, the, defended by Nast,
293, 324, 353, 360, 372; testimonial to
Nast, 372, 374, 407-409.
Arthur, Chester A., nominated for Vice-
President, 429; elected, 439; part
played in Stalwart-Half-Breed Quarrel,
444, 445, 449, 450, 486, 487; beginning
of presidential term, 452, 453; inaugural
address, 453; efforts to rebuild navy,
459; veto of River and Harbor Bill, 460;
administration approved by Curtis, 478;
favored by Nast, 486; attitude toward
nomination, 486; name presented to
Republican National Convention (1884),
489; close of administration, 515, 516;
death, 516.
Belmont, August, 137.
Bennett, James Gordon, Jr., 278, 296,301,
303; see also New York Herald.
Bennett, James Gordon, Sr., 124, 356.
Benson, Eugene, 17.
Bergh, Henry, 264, 577.
Berghaus, Alfred, 19, 21,
Billings, Josh, 202.
Bingham, John A., 270.
Black Friday (1869), 136; (1873) 287.
Black, William, 467.
Blaine, James G., relation to Credit
Mobilier, 269; defeated for Speakership
of House of Representatives, 306; first
Nast cartoon of, 307; in debate on
Amnesty Bill, 322, 323; as a presidential
candidate (1876), 328, 330; advocate
of Chinese Exclusion, 386, 413; protest
against a certain cartoon, 420, 421;
again caricatured by Nast, 425; can-
didate for presidential nomination
(1880), 427, 428; Secretary of State,
444; influence on Garfield, 445; again
a presidential candidate, 477–482; com-
pared with Grant, 479, 480; fitness for
presidency, 480; the Mulligan letters,
481, 482; opposition of New York Times,
485; before the Republican National
Convention (1884), 488-490; nominated,
490; strong opposition to, 491-494;
Cleveland selected as opponent, 497-
499; the campaign and the Mugwump
revolt, 500-507; defeat, 507, 508.
Blair, Frank P., 125, 126, 128.
Bland Bill, the, 381.
Bland, Richard P., 378.
Bonner, John, 83.
Booth Committee, appointed to examine
Controller Connolly's books, 186-188.
Booth, William A., 186.
Borden, John G., 476.
Borie, A. E., 411.
Bosco, General, 53, 54.
Boucicault, Mr. and Mrs., 14.
Boutwell, George S., 269.
Bowles, Samuel, 358, 359; see also Spring- Chicago Anarchists, 522–524.
Bristow, Benjamin H., 316, 325, 328, 330, Chipman, N. P., a friend of President
Broadway Bank, 181.
Brooks, James, 270, 274.
Brooks, Preston S. ("Bully"), 209, 244,
Brown, B. Gratz, 236, 239, 240.
Brown, John, funeral of, 34.
Bryan, Thomas, 17.
Bryant, William Cullen, 132.
Bryce, James, 353.
Burchard, Samuel D., 506.
Burke, John, 298.
Burlingame, Anson, 131, 132.
Burlingame, E. L., 497.
Burton, William E., 14, 547.
Bush, C. G., 94, 581.
Grant, 222; courtesy to Nast, 224, 225;
suggestions to Nast on public affairs,
231-235; quotes Grant on Nast's work,
252, 253; starts subscription for Nast,
266; letter to Nast on Credit Mobilier,
269, 270; entertains Mr. and Mrs. Nast,
272; estimate of Nast, 293.
Church, William C., 407.
Church, William F., 239.
Cincinnati, cartoon of floods in, 473.
Cincinnati Commercial, the, 344.
Cincinnati, Gazette, the, 127.
Cipher exposures, in connection with
Hayes-Tilden contest, 391-404.
Civil Service Reform, 214, 358, 442, 460,
515.
Civil War, the, 78–91, 97–104.
Claxton, Kate, 359, 360.
Clemens, Samuel L., 202, 263, 367, 511,
513.
Cleveland, Grover, candidate for and elec-
tion as Governor of New York, 461, 462;
praised by Nast and Curtis, 478; as a
presidential possibility, 497, 498; nomi-
nation for President (1884), 498; sup-
ported by Harper's, 499; in the cam-
paign, 502; elected President, 507;
public sentiment as to his election, 514;
attitude toward Civil Service Reform,
515; resigns as Governor of New York,
515; letter to Nast, 515; inauguration,
516; public sentiment toward, 516,
517; beginning of administration, 518,
519; obstacles to reforms, 521; pension
reforms, 521, 522; defeated for second
term, 533.
Coleman, Samuel, 17.
177, 178; investigated by Booth Com-
mittee, 187, 188; resignation, 189; see
also Tweed Ring, the.
Cooke, Jay and Company, 287.
Cooper, Peter, 142, 158.
| Copeland, William, 167.
"Copperheads," the, 79.
Corbin, Henry C., 351.
Cornell, A. B., 414.
Covington, John I., 532.
Cox, Samuel S. ("Sunset"), 307, 323.
Coyle, John F., 391.
Credit Mobilier, the, 268, 303.
Crime of '73, 376, 377.
Crittenden, Thomas L., 407.
Crittenden, T. T., 307, 308.
Croly, Miss Jane C., 22.
Crook, General, 372.
Cummings, Amos J., 536.
Colfax, Schuyler, 119, 203, 269, 274, 429. Curtis, George William, as editor of Har-
Comic Monthly, 30.
Commercial Advertiser, 491.
Committee of Seventy, to investigate
Tweed Ring, 186.
Communism, 386.
Conant, S. S., 472, 476, 509.
Conkling, Roscoe, on the Grant-Greeley
campaign, 248; relation to
Mobilier, 269; on the Inflation Bill, 290;
candidate for presidential nomination
(1876), 328, 330; at New York Republi-
can State Convention (1877), 368, 369;
offers amendment to Stanley Matthews'
Silver Resolution, 380; assailed by Har-
per's, 414, 415; connection with Repub-
lican presidential nominations (1880),
424-429; quarrel with Garfield, 444-
450; resignation from Senate, 446;
sketch of life, 447; on Nast, 520.
Connolly, Richard B., one of the "Eco-
nomical Council at Albany, 137; a
member of "the Tweed Ring," 140, 141;
character of, 143; share of plunder, 144;
in the Viaduct Job, 145; appoints
William Copeland to position in Con-
troller's office, 167; attempts to bribe
proprietor of New York Times, 170;
called on to produce Controller's books,
per's Weekly, 122, 123; on two Nast
cartoons, 179; disagreement with Nast
as to treatment of anti-Grant faction,
215-220, 221, 222, 224; on the anti-
Grant faction, 230; on Horace Greeley,
237; attitude toward Sumner after
Greeley's nomination, 243, 244; on
Sumner's final attack on Grant, 240;
caricatured by Bellew, 254; letter to
Nast on Greeley's death, 265; on Grant's
veto of Inflation Bill, 291; on inflation
cartoons, 293; relations with Nast, 297,
303-305, 321, 331, 352, 354; on bayonet
rule, 304, 305, 339; effect of third term
spectre on, 320; delegate to Republican
National Convention (1876), 329, 330;
urges Hayes' endorsement at New York
Republican Convention (1877), 368; at
the Saratoga Republican State Conven-
tion, 414; resigns as Chairman of Rich-
mond County Convention, 415; opposed
to third term for Grant, 424; on Gar-
field, 451; on Arthur, 452; congratula-
tory letter to Nast, 476; on Cleveland
and the Civil Service, 478; on Arthur's
administration, 478; protests against
nomination of Blaine, 480, 481, 485;
Chairman of New York delegation to
Republican National Convention (1884),
488-490; attitude immediately after
Blaine's nomination, 490-493; bitterly
attacked, 494, 496; presides at Inde-
pendent Republican Conference, 498;
fight against Blaine's election, 498, 499,
501, 502, 508; supports Cleveland and
opposes Hill, 518,519; see also Harper's
Weekly.
Cushman, Charlotte, 14.
Daily Graphic, the, 278, 367, 382, 532.
Daly, Augustin, 204.
Dame Columbia's Public School, 202.
Dame Europa's School, 202.
Dana, Richard Henry, 210, 492, 497, 530.
Davis, David, 232.
Davis, Jefferson, 104, 322, 323, 339.
Davis, John P., 22.
Davis, Theodore R., 94.
Dawes, Henry L., 270, 446.
Democratic National Conventions, New
York (1868), 125, 126; Baltimore
(1872), 241, 242; St. Louis (1876), 331–
333; Cincinnati (1880), 431; Chicago
(1884), 498.
Democratic Party, 108, 128, 298, 300-302,
310, 322, 324, 342, 347, 404, 437, 462,
478, 497, 521; see also Democatic Na-
tional Conventions.
Depew, Chauncey M., 535, 536.
De Rohan, 48, 49, 50, 121.
Dickens, Charles, 39.
Divided dollar, the, 294.
Dix, John A., 298.
Dodge, William E., 164.
"Doesticks," see Thompson, Mortimer.
Dorsey, Stephen W., 456.
Draft riots in New York City, 92–94.
Edmunds, George F., 428, 486, 489.
Edwards family, the, 30.
Edwards, Miss Sarah, 32, 34.
Egyptian Question, the, 361, 458, 459.
Electoral Commission, the, 343, 344, 346.
Engle, George, 524.
English, William H., 431.
Erie Ring, the, 157, 274.
Evarts, William M., 164, 364.
Eytinge, Sol, 21, 28, 34, 94.
Garfield, James A., in Credit Mobilier
Affair, 269, 270; meeting with Nast, 272;
at Republican National Convention
(1880), 426, 428, 429; nominated for
President, 429; ignored by Nast, 432,
434, 435; Credit Mobilier record recalled,
434; relation to the "Morey letter,"
439; elected President, 439; quarrel
with Conkling and Platt, 442-450;
assassinated, 450; death, 451; Curtis'
estimate of, 451.
Garibaldi, Giuseppe, in New York City,
14; character, 45, 46; career in Italy,
47-63; Nast compared with, 419; death
of, 458; Nast's cartoon of (1882), 458.
Garland, Hamlin, 484.
Garland, Ira, 179.
Garvey, Andrew J., 174, 175, 176.
Genet, Harry, 154.
Gettysburg, battle of, 91.
Gillam, Bernhard, 434, 502, 529, 579.
Gold Standard, the, 376-384, 405, 406.
Gordon, John B., 125, 241.
Goodnow, Frank J., 353.
Gough, John B., 277.
Gould, Jay, 136, 157, 503.
Grant, Ulysses S., early in 1863, 88; after
capture of Vicksburg, 91; accorded vote
of thanks and medal by Congress, 97;
magnanimity on Lee's surrender, 104;
on Nast's services to the Union, 106;
presidential candidate and nominee,
119; tribute to Nast on election as Presi-
dent in 1868, 129; assailed by New
York City papers (1871), 161; opposi-
tion to second term for, 207-209;
policies during first administration, 208,
210; in Alabama Claims Case, 211-213;
attitude toward Civil Service Reform,
214-216; courtesies to Nast, 222-226;
attacks on (1871), 227-229; final attack
on, by Sumner, 240, 241; second nomi-
nation for presidency, 241; pictured by
enemies in second campaign, 247, 253;
triumph over Greeley, 256; second
inauguration, 270-272; received Mr.
and Mrs. Nast at White House, 272;
Marshall Jewell on, 279, 280; New York |
Herald on, 281, 282; as "Watchdog of
the Treasury," 288-291; Nast's only
picture against, 294, 295; recognizes
Kellogg government in Louisiana, 303;
Johnson's assault on, 306; on Third
Term Question, 311-313; Whisky Ring
frauds, 325, 326; out of presidential
race (1876), 329; order of, commended
by Curtis, 339; measures to preserve
peace (1876), 342, 343; last annual
message, 350; visits Nast, 350, 351;
trip around the world and return, 410,
416; wish for third term, 411; presi-
dential candidate for third term (1880),
424-427; failure to secure nomination,
429; effort to reconcile Garfield and
Conkling, 446; second visit to Nast,
467, 468; Blaine compared with, 479,
480; ruined by failure of Grant and
Ward, 483-485; retirement with full
pay, 516; illness and death, 517, 518.
Grant, U. S., Jr., 463.
Grant and Ward, 463, 464, 483.
Greeley, Horace, at Lincoln's first inaugu-
ration, 74; attitude toward Lincoln, 79,
80; faithfulness of Nast's caricatures,
116; attitude toward Tweed Ring early
in 1871, 161-163; opposition to Grant's
second nomination, 208; as a subject for
caricature, 229; on Nast, 234, 239; re-
fuses to sign call for regular Republican
Convention, 235, 236; candidate for
President, 236-239, 242; gives up editor-
ship of New York Tribune, 246; fight
for the presidency, 246-256; resumes
editorship after defeat by Grant, 256,
258; death, 258-260, 264, 536-538;
influence of death on Nast, 264, 265,
356; see also New York Tribune.
Greenback Party, the, 292, 422, 423, 433,
492, 503.
Greenback Rag Baby, the, 313, 314.
Greer, H. W., 509.
Grimm, Baron de, 529.
Grosvenor, W. M., 391.
"Grundy, Mrs.," 97.
Guiteau, Charles J., 450.
Gunn, Thomas Butler, 30, 388.
Hall, A. Oakey, elected Mayor of New
York, 130; one of the "Economical
Council" at Albany, 137; a member of
the Tweed Ring, 140, 141; character
of, 143; share of plunder, 144; in the
Viaduct Job, 145; on the Ring's pros-
pects early in 1871, 164; connection
with Orangemen's parade riot, 171–173;
called on to produce Controller's books,
177, 178; results of his trial, 267, 268;
on fraud circular of 1868, 332; to Eng-
land, 353; returned to America (1891),
353; last caricature of by Nast, 354;
death, 354; see also Tweed Ring, the.
Halstead, Murat, 344, 358, 359, 380, 381,
388.
Hamilton, Gail, 148, 149, 224.
Hampton, Wade, 125, 436.
Hancock, Winfield S., a Democratic presi-
dential candidate, 125, 333; nominated
(1880), 431; effect on Nast, 432; on one
of Nast's cartoons, 436; an unskilled
politician, 438, 439; defeated, 439.
Haney, J. G., 30, 31.
"Hans Brinker" (by Mrs. Dodge), 118.
Hardeman, General, 241.
Harlan, John M., 330.
Harper Brothers urge Nast to take up
work again for the Weekly, 120; bids for
school-books rejected by Tweed's orders,
158, 159; building of, threatened in
Orangemen's parade riot, 172; amount
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