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Corn, Indian, in United States, iii, 64; in
Mexico, 492.

Cornell University Library, i, 8, ii, 10.
Cornwallis, Marquis, Correspondence, ii, 19,
618; in the Carolinas and Virginia, 606-
608; THE CAPITULATION OF YORK-
TOWN, 615-618.

Coronado, expedition, i, 60-64.
Corporations, beneficial effects, iv, 660.
Correspondence, committees of, attitude
toward Tories, ii, 470-472.

Cortez, Hernando, in Mexico, i, 49-53.
Corwin, Thomas, AN OPPONENT OF THE
WAR, iv, 24-26.

Cosby, William, A GOVERNOR'S PLEA
FOR PATRONAGE, ii, 153-154; libelled,
193-194.

Cotton, introduced, iii, 67; gin, 71; method
of cultivation, 71-72; in Mexico, 492;
reliance of South on, iv, 451; planting
after Civil War, 451-452.
Cotton, John, Norton's life of, i, 23, 335-339;
relations with Antinomians, 385.
Councils, records of, as sources, i, 5, ii, 6;
Council for Foreign Plantations, i, 184-
186; Maryland, Proceedings, 261; Council
for New England, MEETINGS OF A COLO-
NIZATION COMPANY, 175-178; REASONS
FOR THE SURRENDER OF THE NEW
ENGLAND CHARTER, 444-447; His Maj-
esty's Council in New Jersey, CON-
CERNING THE RIOTS & INSURRECTIONS
IN NEW JERSEY, ii, 80-84; business of a
council, 175-179; Mayor, Recorder, Al-
dermen, and Common Council of Albany,
RECORDS OF A CITY GOVERNMENT, 208-
211. See also Government.

Country Porcupine, NORTHERN OPINION
OF THE VIRGINIA RESOLUTIONS, iii,
329-331.

County, on the Delaware, ii, 72-74; juries,
188-189; court, 205-208.

County Court of Middlesex, THE PENALTY

FOR NOT GOING TO CHURCH, i, 487-488.
Courcel, Alphonse de, BERING SEA ARBI-
TRATION, iv, 564-567.
Courts, colonial, records of, i, 5, ii, 6; judg
ments valid in other colonies,
Court of Perquimans, RECOR
PRECINCT COURT, ii, 191-192;

tion, 192-199; appointment of ju

defects, 203-204: need of court of appeal
and equity, 204; business of a county
court, 205-208; admiralty, 396-397.- See
also Government, Juries, Missouri, Su-
preme Court, Trials.

Coxe, Tench, INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED
STATES, iii, 62-66; View, 66.
Cradock, Matthew, house, i, 2; governor of
Massachusetts, 178.

Cranston, Samuel, AN EXPLANATION BY
RHODE ISLAND, ii, 49-52.

Crawford, Samuel Wylie, CRISIS IN
SOUTH CAROLINA, iv, 182-186; Genesis
of the Civil War, 186.

Credit, public, iii, 255-257.- See also
Finances, Money.

Creditors, American and British, ii, 624.
Crèvecœur, Hector St. John, Letters, iii, 11,
22; ARCADIA IN NANTUCKET, 18-22.
Crittenden, John Jordan, EXPLANATION
OF THE CRITTENDEN COMPROMISE,
iv, 209-210.

Cuba, negotiations concerning, iii, 502-506;
a southern notice of, 507-508; concern of
United States in insurrection in, iv, 557-
561; intervention threatened, 560; reasons
for war, 573-575; condition in 1898,
576; message on, 576; independence
recognized, 577; control of, disavowed,
577; Santiago campaign, 586-588;
Spanish sovereignty relinquished, 589;
American government in, 601-603. - See
also Spain.

Cumberland (ship), destroyed by the Merri-
mac, iv, 329-333.

Currency, continental, ii, 601-603; power
over, iii, 178; Hamilton on, 276-281;
State, 441-445: Sherman on proper use
of, iv, 532; Sherman Act, 533-536; re-
demption of, 540.-See also Finances,
Money.

Curtis, B. R., Decisions in the Supreme
Court, iii, 9, 450, iv, 8.

Curtis, G. T., History of the Constitution, ii,

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Cushing, Caleb, COMMERCIAL EFFECTS
OF THE WAR [of 1812], iii, 430-433; His-
tory of Newburyport, 433.
Cutler, Manasseh, Life, etc., iii, 109.
Cutts, J. M., Brief Treatise, iv, 100.

ALE, SIR THOMAS, in Virginia, i, 216.

DAL

Dana, Charles Anderson, IN THE WIL-
DERNESS, iv, 412-415; Recollections of
the Civil War, 415.

Dana, Richard Henry, ON THE COAST OF
CALIFORNIA, iv, 11-15; Two Years
before the Mast, 15; ATTACK ON A
UNITED STATES COURT-HOUSE, 87-91.
Dancing, sermon on, iii, 510-511.
Dane, Nathan, THE NORTHWEST ORDI-
NANCE, iii, 154-158.

Danforth, Thomas, THE REVOLUTION
AGAINST ANDROS, i, 463-466.
Dankers, Jaspar, A GODLESS EMIGRANT
SHIP, i, 197-199; Journal, 199, 501, 590;
TWO DUTCHMEN IN BOSTON, 496-501;
CONDITION OF NEW YORK IN 1679,
586-590.

Danvers, General Gage's house at, ii, 2.
Dartmouth, Earl of, A REPRIMAND TO A
COLONIAL GOVERNOR, ii, 169–170.
Dates, use of, i, 17, ii, 24.

Davenport, John, A DEFENCE OF THEOC-
RACY, 1, 330-333; Discourse about Civil
Government, 333; founder of New Haven,

414.

Davis, Charles Augustus, JACKSON'S
POLITICAL SPECTACLES, iii, 540-544;
Letters of Major Jack Downing, 544.
Davis, Jefferson, PRINCIPLES OF THE
CONFEDERACY, iv, 189-192; satire on,
229-230; criticism of, 255; SUPPLIES FOR
THE CONFEDERACY, 319-323: Rise and
Fall of the Confederate Government, 323.
Davis, John C. B., United States Reports,
iii, 9, iv, 8.

Davis, Reuben, Recollections of Mississippi,
iv, 9, 182, 243; SECESSION SPIRIT IN
MISSISSIPPI, 180-182; IN THE CONFED-
ERATE CONGRESS, 240-243.

y, William Rufus, ULTIMATUM IN THE
EGOTIATION OF PEACE, iv, 588-590.
e, Charles, Documentary History of
e, i, 160, 430.

DeBow, J. D. B., Marquette and Joliet's
Voyage to the Mississippi, i, 140.

Debt, national, state of, ii, 598-600; Jefferson
on, iii, 286; Anti-Federalists on, 293.-
See also Finances.

Declaration of Independence, facsimile, ii,
II; debates on, 537-539.

Dedham Historical Register, ii, 272, iii, 339-
De Kalb, Baron, in America, ii, 585.
Delano, Alonzo, A FORTY-NINER, iv, 43-
48; Life on the Plains, 48.

Delaware, De Vries in, i, 521; Swedish set-
tlements, 548-551; New Haven settle-
ments, 551-553: Penn's settlement, 554-
557: Jersey boundary, 570; separation
from Pennsylvania, ii, 72-74.
Delaware River, navigable, i, 555, 560.
Democracy, spirit of, iii, 86-89.
Democratic party, principles of, iii, 73-75.
344-347; slavery necessary to, iv, 143;
split in 1860, 151-155; satire on, 224-227;
a peace Democrat's views, 402-405; con-
trol in the South, 501-504; Blaine on, 508-
511; effect of success in 1884, 511-512.-
See also Politics, Republican Party.
De Monts, Pierre, in America, i, 118-121.
Department of State, Correspondence con-
cerning American Commercial Rights in
China, iv, 618.

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De Soto, Fernando, expedition, i, 57-59.
Destiny, manifest. See Manifest Destiny.
De Vries, D. P., voyage to America, i, 18; A
DUTCH TRADER, 520-525; Voyages from
Holland to America, 525.

Dew, Thomas R., THE PRO-SLAVERY
ARGUMENT, iii, 597-602; Review of the
Virginia Debate of 1831, 602.

Dewey, George, BATTLE OF MANILA
BAY, iv, 579-581.

Diaries as sources, i, 2, ii, 2, 7-8; lists, ii,
18, iii, 10, iv, 8.

Dibdin, Charles, Collection of Songs, iii, 328.
Dickens, Charles, American Notes, iii, 11,

571; DELIGHTS OF TRAVEL, 567–571.
Dickinson, Anna Elizabeth, THE DRAFT
RIOT, iv, 376-381; What Answer? 381.
Dickinson, John, Farmer's Letters, ii, 2, 426;
Writings, 21; THE PENNSYLVANIA
FARMER'S REMEDY, 423-426; letter to
Congress, iii, 198; character, 208; in
Federal Convention, 212, 219.

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Dix, John Adams, Speeches and Occasional

Addresses, iv, 10; IF ANY ONE ATTEMPTS
TO HAUL DOWN THE AMERICAN FLAG,
204.

Dix, Morgan, Memoirs of John Adams Dix,
iv, 204.

Documents, collections of, i, 9, ii, 11-13, iii,
7-9, iv, 6-7; Documents relative to New
York, i, 10, 14, 15, 186, 520, 541, 549, 551,
ii, 13, 17, 21, 79, 131, 154, 162, 164, 170,
184, 247, 250, 253, 290, 334, 339, 356, 357,
367, 387, 412; Documentary History of
Maine, 1, 160, 430; Documentary History
of New York, 544; Documents relating
to New Jersey, 566, 569, ii, 13, 21, 84, 161,
166, 179, 181, 254, 289, 298, 302, 351.
See also Sources.

Doddridge, Joseph, shows hardship of fron-
tier life, ii, 25; THE SETTLEMENT OF
THE WESTERN COUNTRY, 387-391;
Notes on the Settlement of the Western
Parts of Virginia & Pennsylvania, 391.
Domestic life, among the Indians, ii, 327-
330; in the Ohio River settlements, 387-
391; on the frontiers, 392-393. — See also
Colonies.

Donck, Junker Adriaen van der, and ten
others, OF THE REASONS AND CAUSES
WHY AND HOW NEW NETHERLAND IS
SO DECAYED, i, 532–537.

Donelson, Fort, capture of, iv, 324–328.
Dongan, Thomas, CONDITION OF NEW
YORK IN 1687, i, 542-544.
Donne, W. Bodham, Correspondence of
George the Third, ii, 453, 620.
Dormer, Sir C. C., and John Adams, iii,

172.

Dorset, Duke of, WHY ENGLAND WOULD
NOT TREAT, iii, 171–172.
Doughtie, Thomas, executed by Drake, 1, 82.
Douglas, Stephen Arnold, Defence of
THE KANSAS-NEBRASKA BILL, iv, 97-
100; Lincoln on, 137-138; support in
convention of 1860, 153-154.
Douglass, Frederick, LIFE WITH A SLAVE-
BREAKER, ii, 579-583; Life, 583.
Douglass, William, Summary of the First
Planting of the British Settlements, ii, 21,
143; views tinged and descriptions poor,
31; VARIOUS KINDS OF COLONIAL GOV-
ERNMENT, 141-143.

Doyle, J. A., English in America, i, 16, 21, 27.
Draft riot, in New York, iv, 376–381.
Drake, Sir Francis, voyage round the
world, 1, 81-88; PIETY OF A SEA ROVER,
88; at the Huguenot colony, 115; dis-
covery of New Albion, 314.

Drake, Samuel G., The Old Indian Chron-
icle, i, 461.

Drayton, William Henry, prejudiced, ii,
31; THE TYRANNY OF KIng George
THIRD, 449-451.

Dred Scott case, papers in, iv, 122-124;
statement of case, 122; Supreme Court
decision, 126-131; Benton on, 132-135;
Lincoln on, 136-138.

Drowne, Solomon, LIFE ON A PRIVATEER,
ii, 497-499; Journal, 499.

Duane, James, THE STATE OF THE
NATIONAL DEBT, ii, 598-600.

Dummer, Jeremiah, DEFENCE OF THE
NEW-ENGLAND CHARTERS, ii, 4, 133-

137.

Dunmore, Earl of, narratives colored by
rumors, ii, 31; COLD WATER ON AN
OHIO COLONY, 386-387; ENFORCE-
MENT OF THE ASSOCIATION, 439-441.
Dunne, Finley Peter, THE PRESIDENT'S
MESSAGE, iv, 639–641; Mr. Dooley's Phi-
losophy, 641.

Dunning, W. A., Essays on the Civil War
and Reconstruction, iv, 2.
Dunster, Henry, knowledge of Indian
tongue, i, 320; president of Harvard, 468.
Dutch, and New Englanders, i, 25; English
statement of claims, 164-166; workmen
sent to Virginia, 171; opinion of New
England, 334-335; Plymouth opinion of,

355; on the Connecticut, 410-412; rela-
tions with Pequot War, 444; complaints
against, 449 visitors to Boston, 496;
trading company, 517-520; trader, 520-
525; colony of New Netherland, 529-
541; relations with Swedish colonies,
549-551, 554; settlements in Jersey, 569,
573; Michaelius's experience, 576-579;
New England opinion of, 579–585; on the
Delaware, 580-581; schoolmasters' duties,
585-586; under English domination, 586-
590.- See also Holland, New Netherland,
New York.

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Duvall, J. P., colonel in Texan army, iii, 638.
Duyckinck, E. A., and Long, George, Cyclo-
paedia of American Literature, ii, 12.
Dwight, Mrs. E. A. W., Life and Letters of

Wilder Dwight, iv, 265.

Dwight, Theodore, Journal of Madam
Knight, ii, 229.

Dwight, Timothy, COLUMBIA, COLUMBIA,

TO GLORY ARISE, ii, 465-467; Travels,
iii, 11, 518; GOOD ADVICE IN BAD
VERSE, 200-203; FASHIONABLE EDU-
CATION, 514-518.

Dwight, Wilder, THE ROUGH SIDE OF
CAMPAIGNING, iv, 263-265.
Dyer, Mary, value of her record, i, 3; THE
JUSTIFICATION OF A CONDEMNED
QUAKERESS, 479–481.

EARTHQUAKE, in New England, ii,

East Hampton (L.I.), Records, ii, 14, 17.
East Jersey, proprietors' concessions, i, 563-
566; account of, 569-572; western boun-
dary, 564; Thomas's knowledge, 573.
See also New Jersey.

-

Eaton, Theophilus, of New Haven, i, 414.
Ebenezer (Ga.), Salzburger town, ii, 116.
Ecclesiastical affairs, accounts of, i, 7.- See

also Church, Religion.

Eckels, James H., THE CLEARING-HOUSE
SYSTEM, iv, 526-528.

Eddis, William, THE WRETCHEDNESS OF
WHITE SERVANTS, ii, 308-310; Letters
from America, 310.

Eden, Richard, crabbed English, i, 20;
translator of papal bull, 20.

Edenton, Bond house at, ii, 4.
Edinburgh Review, iii, 514.

Education, value of sources to, i, 2, ii, 3,
iii, 1, iv, 1; at William and Mary
College, 310-312; at Harvard College,
467-472; schools, 493-494; in New
Netherland, 536; value of, iii, 96; fash-
ionable, 514-518; of free negroes, 585-587;
universal, iv, 658. See also Colleges,
Schools.

Edwards, Pierrepont, ADVICE ON REMOV-
ALS, iii, 349-351.

Eggleston, Edward, History for Schools, i,
26, ii, 33; Beginners of a Nation, i, 26.
Eggleston, George Cary, WHEN MONEY
WAS EASY, iv, 247-251; A Rebel's Recol
lections, 251.

El Dorado, Ralegh's search for, i, 96.
Election, in Massachusetts, i, 373-382; a

colonial, ii, 171-172; of a selectman, 220-
222; of 1796, iii, 300-301; of 1800-1801,
333-336; of 1860, iv, 157-163, result no
excuse for secession, 163, 164-166, violent
campaign, 180; of 1874 in Alabama, 501-
504; of 1876-1877, 504-507; of 1884, 511-
512. See also Government, Politics.
Elgin, Lord James Bruce, negotiates reci-
procity treaty, iv, 542.

Eliot, Charles William, WHY THE RE-
PUBLIC MAY ENDURE, iv, 658-663;
American Contributions to Civilization,
663.

Eliot, John, A SHEAF OF Sacred Song,
i, 472-476; Dutch visitors to, 497; Indian
Bible, 498.
Elizabeth, Ralegh's compliments to, i, 96-

ΙΟΙ.

Elliot, Jonathan, Debates on the Federal
Constitution, iii, 8, 130, 213, 221, 228, 232,
246, 249, 254.

Elliott, Charles Burke, NORTHEASTERN
FISHERY QUESTION, iv, 542–546; United
States and the Northeastern Fisheries,
546.

Ellsworth, Miss, and S. F. B. Morse, iii, 572.
Ellsworth, Oliver, character, ii, 206; in

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
Taxation.

Executive, power of, iii, 548-553; Lincoln

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