Diedrich, Admiral, "cocky," xxiv. 10440
"Dies Iræ," characterized, xii. 5009 Digby, George, life of, iv. 1503; "On the Bill of Attainder against the Earl of Strafford," 1504 Diligence, commended by Carlyle, xiii. 5292
Dilke, Charles Wentworth, cited, xxiv. 10156; life of, 10513; "Cost of the Crown," 10513-30
Dinarchus, life of, ii. 647 Dingley tariff, xxv. 10770 Diodorus, persecuted by Verres, ii. 803, 804
Diopithes, conduct of, ii. 511; army of, 515, 554, 577
Diplomacy, xxv. 10930; American, xii. 4567
Disabilities, political, removed, xxi. 8853
Discriminations, geographical, vi. 2518 Disestablishment of Irish Church, xv. 6435
Disfranchisement, of rebels, xx. 8493; of public men, 8561 Disraeli, anticipated by Cobbett, ix. 3521; called to account, xii. 4887; rebukes Gladstone, 5069; "descend- ant of the hardened thief, xiii. 5625; censures the government, xiv. 5918; and Macdonald com- pared, xvii. 7487; as an orator, xxii. 9313; cited, xxiv. 10526. See also Beaconsfield
Distances effaced, xxv. 10515 Distillation, v. 1774
Distress, agricultural, in England, xv. 6339
Disputes, international, methods of settling, xvii. 7054
Disunion, threats of, viii. 3488, x. 4106; evil results predicted, ix. 3713, x. 4108; predicted by Cal- houn, 4276; not proposed, xi. 4488; under way, xii. 4859; foreseen by Crittenden, 4861; not a Northern fault, xiv. 5752; curses on pro-
posers of, xv. 6319; scouted, xvi. 6760; threatened, xviii. 7568, 7713; precipitated, xix. 8141; from Chi- cago, xx. 8562
Dives depicted, xxi. 9099
Dix, John Adams, life of, xiii. 5408; "African Colonization, 5408-19; quoted, xx. 8547
Dixon, Senator, amendment of, xv. 6237
Dobeln, Lieut.-General G. K. von, life of, viii. 3335; address to Fin- nish troops, 3335-37
Dock, speeches from, Emmet, x. 4186; John Martin, xvii. 7242, 7435; John Mitchel, xviii. 7595; Thomas Francis Meagher, xx. 8468; Stephen Joseph Meany, xxi. 9189; A. M. Sullivan, xxii. 9233; T. F. Burke, xxiv. 10324; "Captain Mac- kay," 10420
Doddington, and the genuflection, xv.
Doddridge, Philip, criticised, xv. 6279 Dogs, characterized, xix. 7950 Dolabella, Publius Cornelius, warned, iii. 927; fights Antonius' battles, 973; fails of the consulship, 976 Dole, Nathan Haskell, translation of, ix. 3641
Helen B., translation, vii. 2904, 2917, viii. 3221, 3293, 3341, 3359 Dollar, an inferior, xxi. 9184 Dolphin, the, in Greek symbolism, xix. 7967
Dominion of Canada, xviii. 7487; evo- lution of the (Goldwin Smith), xx. 8530. See also Canada Donelson, Fort, surrender of, xx. 8604 Donnelly, Ignatius, life of, xxii. 9423; "Reconstruction," 9423-36
Don Pacifico, case of, xiv. 5865, 5876 Quixote, iv. 1733
Dorion, Jean Baptiste Eric, and the Rouges, xxii. 9210
Dorr, Ebenezer, and his message, xx. 8677
Dougherty, Daniel, life of, xxi. 8935; "Democracy," 8935-46; "The Per- ils of the Republic," 8947-54 Douglas, Sir Howard, criticised, xiv. 6074
Douglas, Stephen A., and Cuba, xiii. 5337; "The Little Giant," 5362; slavery machinery of, xvi. 6566;
Lincoln's reply to, 6586; quoted, 6603, 6612; compared to Sancho Panza, xvii. 7001; opens debate with Sumner, 7011-15; compared to a skunk, 7016; life of, 7331; "The Kansas-Nebraska Bill," 7331- 56; "The War with Mexico," 7356- 7400; first speech in Lincoln-Doug- las debate, 7401-17; pretence of, xviii. 7702; denounced by Bur- lingame, xix. 8199; Schurz's ar- raignment of, xxi. 9048; hunted to his grave, 9133; and the Mis- souri Compromise, 9163 Douglass, Frederick, life of, xviii.
7665; "What the Black Man Wants," 7665-76; at the Freed- men's Memorial Monument to Abra- ham Lincoln, 7676-90; quoted, xx. 8611
Draper, Sir William, v. 2049, 2059 Drayton, Charles, life of, vii. 2709; to the grand jury, 2709-28 Dred Scott, case of, xvi. 6564; de- cision, opposed by Lincoln, xvii. 7411; decision in, xviii. 7585; and Amistad cases compared, 7592; de- cision paraphrased, 7855; case and the judge's decision, xx. 8576 Dress, changes in, xvii. 7109 Dreyfus, Alfred, condemned, xxiv. 10333; conspiracy against, xxv. 10903; family, 10904 Drinking fund, iv. 1768
Drummond, Henry, life of, xxv. 10780; "The Greatest Thing in the World," 10780-805; "The Al- chemy of Influence, 10805-15 Drunkenness, and Gough, xviii. 7730 et seq. Dublin, John Martin's address at the cemetery in, xvii. 7238
University, Gladstone on, xv.
6438 Duck Lake, battle of, xxiv. 10348 Duel, frowned on, xvii. 7064 Duelling, Hamilton's views on, ix.
3579; sermon on, x. 3990; sus- tained by women, xx. 8615 Duffy, Sir Charles Gavan, quoted, xv. 6495; a "convicted conspirator," XX. 8458
Duluth, Proctor Knott on, xxii. 9346 Dumas, criticised, xv. 6283 Dumouriez, General Charles François,
viii. 3342, ix. 3625; and Danton, 3635
Duncombe, Thomas Slingsby, quoted, xx. 8456
Dundas, Lord, quoted, vii. 2835 Dunlop, John Colin, cited, xvi. 6935 Dunse, battle of, xiii. 5300 Durham, Bishop, quoted, xxiii. 9814 Earl of, Governor of Canada, XX. 8530
Dutch, conquered, xxiv. 10472 Duties, of American citizens, xi. 4425; collection of, punishable, in South Carolina, 4598; power of laying, 4604, 4606; discriminating, xxii.
Duty, omnipresent, xi. 4816; of man, silence, xiii. 5312; "daughter of God," 5493; on spirits, xv. 6447; Wordsworth's ode to, quoted from, xix. 8042; the altar of, xxi. 8903; "and Value of Patriotism" (Arch- bishop Ireland), xxiv. 10192; to de- pendencies, xxv. 10875
Dwight, Timothy, life of, viii. 3147;
"The Sovereignty of God," 3147- 56; quoted, xx. 8391; anecdote of, xxiv. 10160
Earthquake, at Charleston, xxi. 8896 East India Company, v. 1874, 1952, 2189, vi. 2208, 2211, vii. 2638, 2693, 2777, viii. 3207 Eclecticism, French, xiv. 5962 Economy, political, x. 4128; neces- sity of, xiii. 5428
Edgeworth, Maria, "the great known,” X. 4124
Edinburgh, xiii. 5535
Education, of Grecian youth, i. 18, 240, viii. 3218; in America, v. 2136, xi. 4455, 4736, xii. 5115; free, in France, viii. 3346; Goethe on, xiii. 5316; and Horace Mann, 5326; precious privileges of, 5470; not omnipotent, xiv. 5898; lacking in 1879, xvi. 6658; for freedom of (Montalembert), 6724; in North and South compared, 6738; for the blacks, xvii. 7329; for officers, xviii. 7535; and the Indians, 7663; pop- ular, 7780; publicity of, 7793; evo- lution of, xix. 8045;, American, and militarism, 8129; of women, 8154;
popular, secured, xx. 8419; com- mon sense, xxi. 8824; of Garfield, 9152; methods of, xxiii. 9652 et seq.; of negroes, 9805; a liberal, dissected, 9834; in Canada, 10078; remedy for abuses, xxv. 10606; the higher, 10931; in England, 11019 Edwards, Jonathan, life of, v. 1797; "Wrath upon the Wicked to the Uttermost," 1797-1811; "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," 1811-13; criticism on, xv. 6282; exiled, xxiv. 10167
Egypt, xi. 4258; the road to India, xxii. 9296; narrow limits of, 9654; independence of, xxiii. 10009; paci- fication of, xxv. 10656 Egyptian gods, iii. 1147
Question, xxiii. 10006; Salisbury on the, xxii. 9276 Egyptians, mechanical powers of the, xvi. 6946
Elatea, capture of, i. 296, ii. 507 Election, Presidential, a cause of wonder, xv. 6192; laws, xxii. 9607 Elections, freedom of, vi. 2564 Elective system, xxiii. 9662 Electors, doctrine of, ix. 3511 Electricity, v. 1846
Elements, gods representing the, xix. 7937
Elgin, Lord, Governor of Canada, xx. 8534
Eliot, Charles William, electicism of, xviii. 7800; commended, xix. 7988; life of, xxiii. 9651; inaugural ad- dress, 9651-83; at New England banquet, 9683-87
George, quoted, on foolish wom- en, xx. 8616; message of, xxv. 10806
Sir John, life of, iv. 1444; "On the Petition of Right,' 1444-53; characterized, xix. 8267 Elizabeth, Queen, iv. 1341, 1386,
1406, 1418, 1447, v. 1858; charac- terized, xxiv. 10291
Ellsworth, Oliver, life of, vii. 2760; "On the Power of Congress to Levy Taxes," viii. 2760-70; quoted, xi. 4576, 4590
Eloquence, power of, i. 56; defined, iv. 1468; Hamilton's, ix. 3581; de- fined by Webster, xi. 4404; not a fine art, xii. 5000; influence of,
5110; of Webster, characterized by Choate, xiii. 5475; of an expiring nation, 5477; spirit of, and Kos- suth, xiv. 5816; American, the best manual of, xvi. 6640; of Wendell Phillips, xx. 8708; Spanish, xxii. 9470; contrasted with love, xxv. 10782
Emancipation, Catholic, vii. 2994, ix. 3538, xii. 4832, xiii. 5573; Wel- lington on, ix. 3758; and O'Con- nell, xiv. 5844; how accomplished, xv. 6547
xiii. 5624; of negroes, Brougham on, x. 4160; effect of, 4170 et seq.; Peel in favor of, xii. 4886; measure of a, 4948; favored by Earl Russell, 5065; Earl Derby's speech on, xiii. 5526; glory of, xv. 6154; gradual, xvi. 6590; power of, not in the Federal government, 6629; imme- diate unconditional, 6960; pre- dicted, xvii. 7210; the North and, 7269; day of (Jan. 1, 1863), de- scribed by Frederick Douglass, xviii. 7685; accomplished, xix. 7905; Lincoln and, 8079; gain for freedom, 8133; interest in, xx. 8424; payment for, 8494; de- nounced, 8496; Proclamation, who dictated, 8526; demanded by Gratz Brown, xxi. 8874; granted, xxii. 9250; evil results of, predicted, 9334
- of mind, xv. 6185; of white men, 6326 Embargo, ix. 3670, x. 4117, xi. 4503 Emerson, Charles, the brightest genius ever born on New England soil, xxi. 8905
Ralph Waldo, life of, xiv. 5927; "The American Scholar," 5927-51; "Literary Ethics," 5951-72; "The Conservative, "5973-94; "Robert Burns, 5994-97; "Harvard's He- 10es, 5997-6000; "The Minute- Man," 6000-2; quoted, xiii. 5656, xx. 8609, 8704, xxiii. 9757; letters, love of, xiv. 5928; richly semina- tive, xix. 8008; lecture on (Mat- thew Arnold), xx. 8321; not & great poet, 8329; a winged Frank- lin, 8346; a great inspirer of men, xxi. 8905; on success, 9165; on rhetoric, xxii. 9302; on friendships,
quoted, xxiii. 9774; cited, xxiv. 10161
Emerson, William, and his gun, xx. 8681
Emigrant Aid Society, defended, xix. 8187
Emigrants, needs of, xvii. 7299; pass-
ing Westward, 7332; from Europe, xix. 8271
Emigration, x. 4086, xi. 4630, xiii. 5413; effect of, xvi. 6911; from England to New England, xxi. 9148; to be expected, xxiii. 9983; cessation of, xxv. 10604
Emmet, Robert, life of, x. 4186; un- der sentence of death, 4186-95; defended by Plunket, ix. 3538; cited, xvi. 6795
Employment, lack of, xvii. 7129 Enfranchisement, era of, xv. 6241; of the negro, xviii. 7667; of slave labor, xxi. 8878 Enghien, Duc d', iv. 1562 England, language of, viii. 3221; con- stitution of, 3238; people of, char- acterized, 3363; offers peace to the world, 3400; glory of, ix. 3832; mistress of Europe, 3940; and Denmark, x. 4050; future deca- dence predicted, xii. 4850; and the United States, 4909; suppresses slave trade, xiii. 5330; navy of (in 1852), 5405; praised by Azeglio, 5433; abolishes slavery, xv. 6153; and Belgium, 6380; and Turkey, 6380; and slavery, xvi. 6752; in capacity of governing her prov- inces, 6815; mother of nations, 6816; foreign policy of, arraigned by John Bright, 6872 et seq.; foolish wars of, 6877; and the American Civil War, 6902; and America one nation, 6912; horrors of a war with, xvii. 7021; public debt of (in 1839), 7074; during sixty years, 7155; liberalization of, xviii. 7792; not neutral, 7870; of the Revolu- tion, xix. 8026; progress (peaceful) of, 8303; and America, relations of, xx. 8409; characteristics of the people of, 8423; supremacy of, 8463; and patriotism, 8753; inter- vention of, 8763; and indepen- dence, xxi. 8929; the republic in, 9006; source of American liberty,
9036; usurpations of, 9063; en- trapped in war, xxiv. 10294; iso- lated in Europe, xxv. 10635; morn- ing drum-beat, 10703; imperisha- ble renown, 11005; education in, 11019
Enoch pleases God, xiv. 5767 Enthusiasm, a potent ally, xiv. 5999; for war, in Germany, xviii. 7537; success of, xxiv. 10286 Environment, human, xxiv. 10126 Epaminondas, ii. 625
Epictetus, quoted, xxiii. 9751, 9755, 9758, 9777
Epicurus, on poverty, quoted, xxiii.
Equality, v. 2012, vii. 2662, xii. 5170 et seq.; never found, xiv. 5885; among nations, xv. 6370; of ne- groes, impossible, xvi. 6589; of man, a principle, xvii. 7215; of all men, a grand basis, xxii. 9431 Equities of Northern graves, xxi. 8877
Erasmus, Disiderius, quoted, iv. 1336 Eratosthenes, oration against, i. 115– 130
Erichthonius, education of, xix. 7964 Erie Canal, ix. 3736
Erskine, Lord Thomas, vii. 2852, 2855, 2878; life of, 2918; in behalf of Stockdale, 2918-62; cited, viii. 3376, xii. 5241
Espionage encouraged, ix. 3564 Esterhazy, Major, acquitted, xxiv.
10330; exculpation of, xxv. 11010 Ethics, of the Constitution, xiii. 5488; literary (Emerson), xiv. 5951 Eubolus, law of, ii. 456, 559, 586 Eubulus, administration of, xx. 8351 Eudoxia, Empress, iii. 1168 Eulogy on-Helen, i. 49; Evagoras, 151; Trajan, iii. 1106; Ambrose's Brother, 1154; St. Boniface, 1242; Pope Marcellinus, 1250; Luther, iv. 1332; Prince of Condé, 1558; Turenne, 1629; Washington, viii. 3243, ix. 3805, xi. 4528; Hamilton, ix. 3567, x. 3990; Adams and Jef- ferson, xi. 4381; Andrew Jackson, xii. 5035; Daniel Webster, xiii. 5469; Balzac, xiv. 5780; O'Connell, 5843; Edward Everett, xvi. 6637; William Lloyd Garrison, 6959; Lin- coln, xvii. 7274, xix. 8071, 8256,
xxiii. 9905 Bryant, xv. 7435; Horace Greeley, 7477; Grant, xx. 8603, xxii. 9404; Wendell Phillips, xx. 8699, xxiv. 10216; Sumner, xxi. 8796; Garfield, 9147, xxiv. 10474; Phillips Brooks, xxiii. 9811; General Sherman, 10040; Alex. Mackenzie, xxiv. 10531 Euphræus, imprisoned, ii. 545 Euripides, quoted, i. 407, xix. 7955 Europe, changes in, xiii. 5389; con- dition of (in 1852), 5394 Evagoras, encomium on, i. 151-71; friend of Conon, ii. 580 note Evarts, William Maxwell, life of, xviii. 7784; "What the Age owes to America," 7784-97; "The Day we Celebrate, 7798-7805 Events, logic of, xiv. 5807; evolution of, xxiv. 10498 Everett, Edward, life of, xii. 5080; "The History of Liberty, " 5080- 5107; Phi Beta Kappa oration, 5108-47; patriotic oration, 5148; Winthrop's eulogy on, xvi. 6637; cited, xvii. 7346; quoted, xx. 8691
William, life of, xxiv. 10280; "Patriotism," 10280-304 Evictions, cause of crime, xxv. 10590; decrease of, xxii. 9382 Evidence, circumstantial, xi. 4757 Evil, origin of, viii. 3370; problem of, x. 3986
Evolution, and the Duke of Argyll, xx. 8423
Exchequer, Irish, xv. 6451 Executive power, basis of, viii. 3182;
tyranny of the (1864), xxi. 9011 Exeter College ejectment case, xi.
Exhibition, international, xxi. 8957 Expansion, xxv. 10751, 10928, 10990; opposed by Quincy, ix. 3879 et seq.; by Clay, x. 4059; described, 4106; illustrated by Calhoun, 4283, xi. 4620; opposed by Webster, 4629; unwise, xviii. 7782; rapid, xix. 8305; favored by Grant, xx. 8401; a fact, 8546; Hoar on, xxi. 8899; MacVeagh on, xxii. 9520; not del- eterious, xxiv. 10508; of trade, XXV. 10720; law of, 10894 of Athens, xxiv. 10303 Expediency, xiii. 5518, xiv. 5687
Faction, dangers of, vi. 2522, ix. 3727 Factory labor, interference with, xxv. 10609
Fairbanks' scale manufactory, and strikes, xxii. 9456
Faith, not dead, xvi. 6725; a heredi-
tary, described, xviii. 7465; key- note of religion, xxv. 10780 Falkland Islands, seizure of, v. 1927 Famine, iii. 1145, iv. 1683, xiii. 5280 Fanaticism, xiv. 5849; in false liber- ty, xii. 5023; uncalculating, xvii. 7002; origin of, 7215
Faneuil Hall, xi. 4381; "The Cradle of Liberty," xiv. 5811; and the mob, xvi. 6759; refused for pro- test, xx. 8706; founded by a Hu- guenot, xxi. 8888
Fannin, murder of, xvii. 7381 Faribault plan, xxiv. 10192 Farming, Evarts on, xxii. 9629 Farrar, Frederick William, life of, xxii. 9404; eulogy of General Grant, 9404-12
Fatherhood of God, xviii. 7611 Faucher, Léon, quoted, xiv. 5786 Faulkner, Senator, of Virginia, quot-
Faust, xii. 5247; and Iphigenie, com- pared, xix. 8007
Favoritism, to be rejected, xxiv. 10101 Favre, Jules Claude Gabriel, life of,
xv. 6550; before the Corps Legis- latif, 6550-60
Fawkes, Guy, iv. 1403 Fear, paralyzing effect of, i. 53; the mother of safety, xv. 6531
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