Volume III Part 57 (1/2)

Grant, Ulysses S., favoured for President, 1864, iii. 93; gives no encouragement, 93; favours Lincoln's election, 120; reports upon Southern sentiment, 1865, 136; unpopularity with radical Reps., 190; quarrels with Johnson, 191; taken up by Reps., 191; endorsed by Rep. state con. 1868, 191; nominated for President, 192; elected, 215; fails to carry New York, 215; evidences of fraud in election, 215-8; adm. criticised, 276-81; renominated, 1872, 292; elected, 302; severely criticised, 317; talk of a third term, 1874, 317; his letter ends it, 1875, 329; renewed on his return from abroad, 428; an active candidate, 428; gets fifty votes from N.Y., 441; defeated, 442; the faithful, 306, 442.

Graves, Ezra, nominated for prison insp., 1872, iii. 296; elected, 302; renominated, 1874, 315; defeated, 319.

Gray, David, Buffalo _Courier_, a leading Dem. editor, iii. 420.

Greeley, Horace, edits the _Jeffersonian_, ii. 26; early career of, 26; came to N.Y., 1821, 26; political conditions, 27; first meeting with Weed, 28; gifts of, 29; relations with Weed, 32; failed of election to const.i.tutional con., 1846, 105; chafes under Weed's control, 116; elected to Congress, 1848, 138; a.s.sails Castle Garden meeting, 157; at Anti-Nebraska con., 194; wants to be gov., 198; appeals to Weed, 198, note; offended at Raymond's nomination, 199, 200; favoured a Rep. party, 1854, 200; at birth of Rep. party, 1855, 213; active in 1856, 240; favours Douglas for U.S. senator, 247; dislike of Seward, 247; at Chicago con., 286; Seward and Weed think him faithful, 284, note, 286, note; for Bates for President, 287; jubilant over Seward's defeat, 289-90; reply to Raymond, 308-9; demands his letter of 1854, 310; publishes it, 311-17; character of campaign, 1860, 332; peaceable secession, 335-6; ”no compromise” theory, 343; defeated for U.S. Senate, 363-5, note; reasons for, 365, note; _Tribune_ on, 366; persistent office-seeker, 366; charges Seward with favouring Weed's compromise, 380, 382; criticised Seward's appointments, 399; as to d.i.c.kinson, 398, 401; relations with Lincoln not cordial, 402-3.

On Scott's insincerity, iii. 11, note; heads radical anti-slavery sentiment, 14; prayer of twenty millions, 35; his force, 36; contest with Bennett, 36; favours Wadsworth, 44; ambition for U.S. Senate, 1863, 54; tries to defeat Morgan, 56; Seymour's complicity in draft-riot, 69; at Rep. state con., 1863, 75; qualities as a party leader, 75, note; susceptible to flattery, 75, note; favours postponing Rep. nat. con., 1864, 89; preferred Chase, Fremont, or Grant to Lincoln, 89; failure of his leaders.h.i.+p, 91, note; yearns for peace, 1864, 102; visits Confederates at Niagara Falls, 102; authority from Lincoln, 102; encourages subst.i.tution of another candidate for Lincoln, 104; nominated for elector-at-large, 117; elected, 125; yields to an offer of office, 126; favours negro suffrage, 128; lion of Rep. state con., 1866, 150; aspires to U.S. Senate, 1867, 166; wants to be gov., 1868, 193; way seems to be open, 194; great applause when presented, 195; received small vote, 195; reasons for it, 196; named for state comp., 1869, 226; defeated, 227; wants to be gov., 1870, 237; opposed as in 1868, 237; reasons for defeat, 238; laments removal of Fenton men, 250; resents efforts to crush his machine, 1871, 251-6; attacks Conkling, 257; replies to Conkling's con. speech, 263-4; his organisation defeated, 263; reasons for joining Lib. Reps., 281-2; suggested for President, 1872, 283; opposition to, 283; writes platform of party, 284; nominated, 285; endorsed by Dems., 289; defeated, 302; pathetic ending of his life, 303; buried like a conqueror, 304.

Green, Andrew H., appointed deputy city comp., iii. 247; estimate of Tweed Ring's plunder, 248.

Green, Beriah, early abolitionist, ii. 7.

Green, George C., del. to Kelly's state con., 1880, and named as del.-at-large to Dem. nat. con., iii. 452; refused admission, 457; part in spectacular reconciliation, 458.

Greenback Party, organization of, 1876, iii. 346; meet at Syracuse, 346; second con., 1876, 346; con. of, 1877, 384; smallness of its vote, 389; united with labor reform party, 389; issues call for a Nat. con., 389; see Nat. Green.-Lab. Reform party.

Greenback Labour party, state con., Albany, 1882, iii. 487.

Griffin, Richard M., nominated for gov., 1876, iii. 346; defeated, 350.

Grinnell, Moses H., at Anti-Nebraska con., ii. 194; declined nomination for gov., 1856, 234; career and character of, 234-5; approves Weed's compromise, 338.

Acts as agent of the President, iii. 7; urges Lincoln's renomination, 88; secedes from Rep. state con., 1871, 264; meets with a separate body, 264.

Griswold, John A., elected to Congress, iii. 125; character and services of, 125; changes his party, 126; nominated for gov., 1868, 193; defeated, 215; evidences of fraud in election, 215-8; declines to oppose Morgan for U.S. Senate, 220.

Groesbeck, William S., candidate in opposition to Greeley, 1872, iii. 289.

Groo, Albert J., nominated for gov., 1876, iii. 346; defeated, 350.

Gross, Ezra C., gifts of, i. 358; eloquence of, 358; death of, 358.

Grover, Martin, nominated for judge court of Appeals, 1865, iii. 129; defeated, 135; renominated, 1867, 179; elected, 187.

Gumbleton, Henry A., clerk of N.Y. county, iii. 418; removed from office, 418.

Habeas corpus, suspension of, iii. 16, 24, 27, 58.

Hagner, Henry, nominated for sec. of state, 1877, iii. 384; defeated, 387.

Haight, Jacob, treas. of state, ii. 36.

Hale, Daniel, removed as sec. of state, i. 179.

Hale, Matthew, bitterly opposed third-term, iii. 429.

”Half-breeds,” t.i.tle of faction in Rep. party, 1880, iii. 437.