Federal Convention, 217; in Congress, 258.
Elvas, Gentleman of, FROM THE OCEAN TO THE MISSISSIPPI, i, 57-59. Emancipation, Jefferson on, iii, 18; in Vir- ginia Constitutional Convention, 574-579; sentiment in favor of, iv, 233; slaves as contraband of war, 390-391; Garrison on, 396-397; Greeley on demand for, 397- 398; Lincoln on, 399-401; cabinet dis- cussion, 401-402; Vallandigham on, 402- 405. See also Abolitionists, Freedmen, Reconstruction, Slavery. Emancipator, iii, 612.
Embargo, argument for, iii, 403-406; Story on repeal of, 407-409. Emigration, accounts of, i, 7; incitements
to, 25; forbidden, 175, 183; licenses, 183; Higginson's voyage, 190-195; reasons for leaving England, 195; Dankers and Sluy- ter's voyage, 197-199; instructions to colonists, 247-252; John Cotton on, 337; Johnson's reasons, 366-368; to Rhode Island, 408; to the Connecticut, 410; to New York, 543, 576; of Palatines, ii, 77-79; of Salzburgers, 114-116; from east to west, iii, 153; French, 304; to Kansas, iv, 104-114. Endicott, John, comes over, i, 369; AN EXCULPATORY ADDRESS ΤΟ KING CHARLES II, 454-457- England, archives, i, 9, ii, 10; raciness of sources, i, 20; method of teaching history, 21, ii, 27; captives in Mexico, i, 65-68; dis- coveries, 70-144; first slave-trader, 73; con- ditions in 1586, 145; title to America, 153; claims to North America, 164-167; Pil- grim exodus, 167-170; commissioners to Rhode Island, 405; in New Netherland, 523; capture of New Netherland, 537-541; dislikes arbitrary government, ii, 131-132; fears Mississippi settlements, 316-320; French and fur trade, 320-324; massacre at Schenectady, 323, 337-339; conflicts with the Spanish, 340-344; expedition against Louisburg, 346-349; Spanish pri- vateers, 349-351; claims to the Ohio River, 354-356; to resist the French, 356-357; removes Acadians, 360-365; defeat of Braddock, 365-367; fears French influ- ence on the continent, 367-369; capture
of Quebec, 369-372; question of Ohio settlement, 386-387; protest against taxa- tion in America, 404-407; army, 500-518; jealous of German troops, 506-507; mili- tary prisons, 508-511; breach with the colonies, 519-539; campaigns, 546-590, 606-618; surrender at Vincennes, 579- 582; conciliation, 586-587; peace, 623- 625; restrictions on American commerce, iii, 167-170; refusal to negotiate, 171; disposition toward the United States, 175: and Anti-Federalists, 291, 297; Jay Treaty, 315-319; Jefferson on alliance, 364; Orders in Council, 400-402; Calhoun on policy toward slavery, 649-652; views on Civil War, iv, 296-298; Trent affair, 298- 301; fishery question, 542-546; desire for Alaska, 549; Geneva award, 550-556; Bering Sea arbitration, 564-567; Monroe Doctrine and Venezuelan boundary dis- pute, 567-572; as an ally, 615; as an American power, 626.-See also Army (English), Colonies, Revolution, United States, and Tables of Contents. Enlistments, in Revolution, ii, 457, 481-483. 586; in Civil War, iv, 256-259. --- See also Army.
Episcopacy, fear of, in the colonies, ii, 418- 420. - See also Bishops. Epuremei (Guiana), gold of, i, 100–101. Eric the Red, i, 28.
Ericsson, Leif, i, 29-30.
Erlendsson, Hauk, NORSE DISCOVERIES OF GREENLAND AND WINELAND THE GOOD, i, 28-34-
Escaped Slaves, GRATITUDE OF UNDER- GROUND RAILROAD PASSENGERS, iv, 91-93.
Evangelist, in Georgia, ii, 283-287. - See also Religion.
Evarts, William Maxwell, ISSUE IN THE IMPEACHMENT OF THE PRESIDENT, iv, 489-492.
Everett, Alexander Hill, DESIGNS ON CUBA, iii, 502-506.
Everett, Edward, STAND FOR THE UNION, iv, 237-239; Orations and Speeches, 239. Examinations, college, skit on, ii, 272–275. Excise law, Jefferson on, iii, 286. - See also
Executive, power of, iii, 548-553; Lincoln
Faithfull, Emily, Three Visits to America, iv, 10.
Family life, of a Puritan, i, 512-516; in nine-
teenth century, iv, 659.-See also Tables of Contents.
Fannin, Colonel J. W., in Texas, iii, 637–639. Farmer, J., and Moore, J. B., Collections, ii, 346.
Farmer's Letters. See Dickinson, John. Farragut, David Glasgow, IN MOBILE BAY, iv, 418-421.
Fashions, in 1797, iii, 41-44.
Federal Convention. - See Convention. Federal Gazette, iii, 93.
Federal Grand Jury, THE KU-KLUX- KLAN, iv, 495-497.
Federalists, principles of, iii, 297; hostile comment on, 336-339; wail of, 339–343. Federations, proceedings as sources, i, 5.- See also Confederation, New England Confederation.
Fenner, Robert, settlement at Stamford, Connecticut, i, 581.
Fenwick, John, in Jersey, i, 568, 573.
Ferdinand and Isabella, papal grant, i, 40. Fernow, Berthold, Documents relative to the Colonial History of New York, i, 549, 551. Field, David D., in peace conference, iv, 204. Field Museum, collections, i, 4, ii, 5. Fifteenth amendment, Wilson on, iv, 492- 494.
Filson, John, THE ADVENTURES OF COL. DANIEL BOON, ii, 383-385; Discovery of Kentucke, 385.
Finances, bill for paper money disallowed,
ii, 183-184; Franklin's pamphlet on paper money, 231; paper money defended, 251- 253; paper money forbidden, 254; con- sidered in Second Continental Congress, 527, 529; government censured for neg- lecting to keep up credit, 572, 586; Wash- ington on, 594-597; national debt, 598- 600; continental currency, 601-603; bank of North America established, 605; of the Confederation, iii, 120-122, 132-136; public credit, 255-257; Blaine on Demo- cratic control of, iv, 509; clearing-house loan certificates, 526-528; modern con- ditions, 529-541. See also Banks, Cur-
rency, Money, Tariff.
Fish, Hamilton, PROPOSED INTERVENTION IN CUBA, iv, 557, 561.
Fisher, George P., Colonial Era, i, 22, 26, ii, 28, 34.
Fisheries, value of, i, 154, iii, 69; in New England, i, 313; in Maine, 433-434; in Jersey, 565; treaty of 1763, ii, 379; of 1783, 625; Newfoundland, and Treaty of Ghent, iii, 426; controversy with Canada, iv, 542– 546; pelagic-sealing arbitration, 564-567. Fiske, John, Beginnings of New England, i, 22, 27; History for Schools, 26, ii, 22; Discovery of America, i, 27; use of rec- ords, ii, 22.
Fithian, Philip, A GREAT PLANTATION, iii, 49-52; Journal, 52.
Fitzhugh, William, value of his letters, i, 2, 19; LIFE OF A SOUTHERN PLANTER, 301-306.
Florida, De Soto in, i, 58; cession of, iii, 482-483; legislation on freedmen, iv, 480- 481.
Flour, export of, iii, 55.
Fonblanque, Edward B. de, Political and
Military Episodes of Burgoyne, ii, 19. Food, in England, i, 147; in Virginia, 226. Forbes, Arthur, AN ACCOUNT OF EAST JERSEY, i, 569-572.
Force, Peter, Tracts relating to the Colo- nies, i, 9, 310, ii, 114, 121; American Ar- chives, ii, 11, 12, 441, 537, 550, 556, 559. Ford, Paul Leicester, Essays on the Consti- tution, iii, 2; Pamphlets, 2.
Foreign relations, southern hopes for for- eign intervention, iv, 192, 240; Seward
and Lincoln on policy in 1861, 293-295; change in American policy, 612-616. See also Annexations, Arbitration, Con- federate States, Monroe Doctrine, Reci- procity, and nations by name.
Forsyth, John, l'Amistad case, iii, 627-629. Forts, old, as sources, i, 4, ii, 4; in Vir-
ginia, i, 238-239.- See also forts by name. Forum, iv, 523, 536.
Foster, John Gray, SURRENDER OF FORT SUMTER, iv, 216–220.
Foster, W. E., References to the Constitution, iii, 2; References to Presidential Admin- istrations, 2, iv, 2; Bulletins of the Provi- dence Public Library, iv, 2.
Fourteenth amendment, Stevens on, iv, 482- 485.
Fox, Charles James, Memorials and Corre- spondence, ii, 19.
France. See French. Franklin (Tenn.), State of, iii, 147-150; town of, Hood's report on battle at, iv, 433-434.
Franklin, Benjamin, Autobiography, a mile- stone in literature, ii, 4, 235; Works, 21, 74, 187, 382, 575, 623, iii, 93; spirit of his age, ii, 24; DISPUTE OVER THE AGENCY, 184-187; A MAN DILIGENT IN HIS CALLING, 229-235; starts in printing business, 229-231; publishes pamphlet on paper currency, 231; success in business, 232-233; courtship, 233; starts subscrip- tion library, 233-234; frugality, 234-235; THE PEOPLE'S FAVORITE LITERATURE, 263-266; Poor Richard (1744), 266; GRENVILLE'S SCHEME OF TAXATION, 381-382; THE STATE OF THE COLO- NIES, 407-411; Examination, 411; A TREATY WITH FRANCE, 574-575; blamed by Vergennes, 621-623; EXPLANATION OF THE PEACE OF 1782, 623-625; CHAR- ACTERISTICS OF AMERICA, iii, 22-27; Two Tracts, 27; A JOURNALIST'S CRITI- CISM OF THE PRESS, 89-93; character, 207; in the Federal Convention, 222-228. Franklin, William B., at Antietam, iv, 349; at Fredericksburg, 353-355. Fredericksburg, Burnside's account of bat- tle, iv, 351-355; engagement at, during Chancellorsville, 361-362.
Free speech, Zenger's trial, ii, 192-199; plea
for, iii, 633-636; publicity given by news- papers, iv, 659-660. Freedmen, conditions, iv, 445-458; desire for education, 447; mistaken beliefs of, 448, 458; labor of, 449-456; southern opinions on, 449-454; care of, 450; in- timidation of, 453-454; legislation on, 479-481.-See also Emancipation, Ne- groes, Reconstruction, Slavery. Freeholders, THE QUESTION OF SLAV- ERY IN GEORGIA, ii, 118–121.
Free-Soil party, attitude toward Missouri Compromise, iv, 101.
Fremantle, Arthur James Lyon, BEHIND THE CONFEDERATE LINES, iv, 284–286; Three Months in the Southern States, 286. Fremont, J. C., Republican nominee for president, iv, 104.
French, archives, i, 8, ii, 10; discoveries, i, 102-144; on New England coast, 181, 314, 317; protect Indian captives, 505, 506; on the Hudson, 530; explorations, 542; in New York, 589; incite Indians, ii, 57; expeditions against, 60; found Louisiana, 312-316; English fear of their settlements, 316-320; fur trade, 320-324; extent of their American settlements, 320- 321; trade, 321-323; relations with In- dians, 323-324; share in massacre at Schenectady, 323, 337-339; government in Canada, 324-326; Ministerial Min- utes, THE FRENCH TITLE TO THE BEAUTIFUL RIVER, 354-356; encroach- ments feared by English, 356-357; re- moved by English from Acadia, 360-365; account of Braddock's defeat, 365-367; conquests on the continent, 367-369; frontier settlements, 392-393; arrival of Lafayette in America, 485-488; Chastellux visits Washington, 495-497; Mirabeau's appeal to the Hessians, 500-504; aid to America, 558-559; treaty (1778),574-575; Patrick Henry's appreciation, 586-587: blocked at Rhode Island, 609; naval con- flict with English in West Indies, 612-615; protest against separate articles of peace, 621-623; and Anti-Federalists, iii, 291; character, 301; gratitude toward, 306; Revolution, 303-305; Genet's protest, 307-312; treaties, 310; "X.Y.Z. corre- spondence," 322-326; decrees on trade,
402-403; relations with the Confederate States, iv, 301-303; in Mexico, 301, 571.
See also Canada, Colonies, Indians, Louisiana, Mississippi River, War. French, Benjamin Franklin, Historical Col- lections of Louisiana, i, 14, 118, 140, 144, ii, 17, 316.
French and Indian War, ii, 352-372. Freneau, Philip, Poems, ii, 19, iii, 119; PEOPLING THE WESTERN COUNTRY, iii, 118-119; Stanzas on Emigration, 119. Friend, The, ii, 293.
Fugitive slaves, iii, 630-633, iv, 80-96. - See also Slavery, and next title. Fugitive-Slave Law, Webster on, iv, 53; Seward on, 57-58; personal-liberty act, 93-96; enforcement of, fosters Republican party, 103; nullification of, a southern grievance, 167; Stephens's remedies, 167– 169; changes suggested, 193; Lincoln on, 202-203. See also Compromise, Slavery. Fundamental Constitutions, i, 280–282. — See also Carolinas. Fundamental Orders. See Connecticut. Fur trade, in New York, i, 542; Dutch, 584; in Georgia, Carolina, and Virginia, ii, 126; in Canada, 320-324; on Nootka Sound, iii, 56; with Indians, 69.-See also Can- ada, French, Indians.
GAGE, Lyman Judson, THE GOLD-
STANDARD ACT, iv, 539-541; Gold Standard Law, 541.
Gaines's Mill, McClellan on battle of, iv, 339-341.
Gallatin, Albert, envoy, iii, 426-429. Gambier, J., British minister, iii, 426–429. Gardoqui, Don Diego de, Spanish minister, iii, 170-171.
Garrard, James, speech, iii, 337.
Garrison, William Lloyd, STATEMENT OF
PRINCIPLES, iii, 595-597; THANK GOD FOR WAR, iv, 395-397.
Gates, Horatio, in command of the southern department, ii, 606; recalled, 606; meet- ing with Greene, 610.
Gates, Sir Thomas, CHARACTER OF THE FIRST COLONISTS, i, 206–208.
General Court. See Connecticut, Massa-
chusetts, New Haven, Plymouth Colony,
General histories, lists, i, 26-27, ii, 33-34. Genet, Edmond Charles, COMPLAINT OF THE FRENCH MINISTER, iii, 307–312. Geneva (N.Y.), description, iii, 61. Geneva award, iv, 550-556; rules govern- ing, 551.
Genoa, archives at, i, 8, ii, 10. Gentleman of the City of New York,
LEISLER'S REBELLION, i, 544-547. George I, poem on his death, ii, 258-260. George III, value of letters, ii, 2; character as Prince of Wales, 373-374; instances of tyranny, 449-451; AN OBSTINATE GUELPH, 451-453; opinion of Chatham, 452; plans for conduct of the American war, 453; Correspondence, 453, 620; THE SUDDEN CHANGE OF SENTIMENTS, 619- 620; presentation of John Adams to, iii, 172-176. See also England, Revolution. Georgia, reasons for settlement of, ii, 110-
113; charter incorporating the trustees for establishing the colony, III; settle- ment of, probable aid to England, 112; settlement of, probable aid to conversion of Indians, 113; benefactions solicited for, 114; Salzburg Germans in, 114-116, 283-284; an unfavorable opinion of, 117; Trustees, THE QUESTION OF SLAVERY IN GEORGIA, 118-121; Whitefield's or- phan-house, 122-124; need of relief in 1749. 124-126; manufactures and trade, 125-126; John Wesley in, 283-287; re- demption of, 607; emits bills of credit, iii, 134; Sherman's march through, iv, 428-432; post-bellum condition, 451-452. See also Slavery, South. Germanna (Va.), description, ii, 235. Germans, in Pennsylvania, i, 559; Palatines in New York, ii, 77-79; question of natu- ralization, IoI; the Salzburgers in Geor- gia, 114-116, 283-284; Washington's de-
sire to import Palatines, 310-311; Mira- beau's appeal to the Hessians, 500-504; Hessian troops in Canada, 504-507; il- feeling against England, 506-507; in Rhode Island, 578; Steuben in America, 582-585.
Germantown, foundation, i, 560-561; Chew house at, ii, 4; first vote against slavery, 291-293.
Gerrit, a Dutchman, i, 586-588.
Gerry, Elbridge, character, iii, 205; in Fed- eral Convention, 211, 213, 219, 221, 226; THE X. Y. Z. CORRESPONDENCE, 322- 326.
Gettysburg, Pickett's charge at battle of, iv, 372-376.
Ghent, Treaty of, iii, 426-429.
Gibbons, James Sloan, Three Hundred Thousand More, iv, 260–261.
Gibbs, Sir Samuel, at New Orleans, iii, 424. Giddings, Joshua R., Speeches in Congress, iv, 10.
Giles, William B., ARGUMENT FOR THE EMBARGO, iii, 403-406; Speech on the Resolution of Mr. Hillhouse, 406. Girard, Stephen, founds hospital, iii, 40. Gladstone, Thomas H., CIVIL WAR IN KANSAS, iv, 114-118; The Englishman in Kansas, 118.
NEW ORLEANS, iii, 422-425; Narrative, 425.
Gloucester, New Jersey, i, 574. Godkin, Edwin Lawrence, THE SOUTH AS IT IS, iv, 448-452.
Godwyn, Morgan, PROPOSALS FOR THE CARRYING ON OF THE NEGRO'S CHRIS- TIANITY, 1, 298-301; Supplement to the Negro's & Indian's Advocate, 301. Goelet, Francis, BOSTON THE METROPO-
LIS OF NORTH AMERICA, ii, 61-63; Journal, 63, 243; ROISTERERS IN BOS- TON, 240-243.
Gold, Columbus inquires for, i, 38; Colum- bus's quest, 44-48; in Peru, 56; De Soto's share in Peru, 57: Drake's plunderings, 84: Ralegh's search, 96-101.- See also Money.
Gold-Standard Act, Gage on, iv. 539-541. Gómara, Lopez de, How CORTEZ TOOK
MONTEZUMA PRISONER, i, 49-53; Pleas ant Historie, 53.
Good, Sarah, tried as a witch, ii, 40-43; testimony, 45-48.
Goodhue, Benjamin, speech, iii, 269. Goodrich, Elizur, a Connecticut office- holder, iii, 348.
Gordon, William, THE CLOSING SCENE, ii, 627-629; History of the United States, 629. Gorges, Ferdinando, record, i, 3; New England claims, 430–431.
Gorges Society, Publications, i, 9. Gorham, Nathaniel, character, ii, 205; in Federal Convention, 224.
Gorsuch, Edward, in Christiana tragedy, iv, 84-87.
Gorton, Samuel, SETTLEMENT IN RHODE ISLAND, i, 397-401; Simplicities Defence,
Gosnold, Bartholomew, in Virginia, i, 211– 213.
Gospel, propagation in Massachusetts, i, 178; for the Indians, 186. - See also Religion. Goudy, William, OBSTINATE Objectors, iii, 251-254.
Goulburn, Henry, British envoy, iii, 426-429. Government, attacks on, i, 25; foundation in Massachusetts, 179; principles of selec- tion, 189; of Virginia, 237-241; of Mary- land, 268-270; Calvin's principles, 324- 330; theocratic, 330-333; of Plymouth, 359-361; of Massachusetts, 373-382, 390- 392; of Connecticut, 415-419; of New Hampshire and Maine, 429-431; of New Netherland, 529-541; under Leisler, 544-547; of New Jersey, 566; colonial, in general, ii, 127-223; three powers of, 144- 149; financial support of, 166-169; local, 205-223; county, 205-208; city, 208-211; of Canada, 324-326; relation between governors and governed, 423-424; foreign opinions of American democracy, iii, 76-79, 86-89, 283-285. 553-557; Samuel Adams on popular, 93-96; of Mexican California, iv, 13-15; people's right to abolish, 190; of colonies in 1898, 593- 594; Spanish colonial, 595-597, 599: ca- pacity of Porto Ricans for self-, 599-601; American, in Cuba, 601-603; McKinley on colonial, 604-607; Hoar on right of
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