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Farley, John, IV., 405
Farragut, David G., I., 235
Farrington, Consul, II., 210, 213
Fathers of the Republic, I., 146; III., 240, 241, 296, 298
Fellows, John R., IV., 485-490
Fenton, Reuben E., V., moves that ladies be admitted to floor of Senate to hear Schurz's reply to Conkling, 35
Ferry, III., brother to T. W. Ferry, 405
Ferry, Orris Sanford, II., will vote for Greeley, 374; Greeley's prediction, 377; III., will reply to Schurz, 1; V., moves an adjournment, 35
Ferry, Thomas W., II., presiding officer of Senate, 517, 519; III., to, 339
Fessenden, Brigadier-General, I., 312
Fessenden, Wm. Pitt, II., 243
Fiat money, IV., 24, 26, 33, 38, 70, 398
Fickard, Dr., I., 254
Field, Cyrus W., III., 160, 161
Fifteenth Amendment, Enforcement of, I., 484; legality of, doubted, 486; state sovereignty a Democratic dogma, 487; abolition of slavery, 489; civil rights secured to all, 491; objectionable clauses in the bill, 493; Democrats oppose, 495; true self-government, 496; benefit of responsibilities, 498; popular education, the complement of self-government, 499; National authority best restricted to National affairs, 500; Democrats should advocate equal rights, 503; National welfare paramount to party interests, 505; first colored Senator, 506; permanency of negro suffrage, 507; appeal to the people, 508
Fifth Avenue Hotel conference, III., circular call of, 228; objections to, answered, 233; address adopted at, 240; executive committee of, meets, 253, 259; criticism of, 274, 275, 279, 334; principles of, to be carried out, 409; V., independent sentiment manifested at, 82
Filipinos, VI., ten years' probation of, a time of unrest, 309; unanimously for independence, they must win their own way, 443; their trust in us, its betrayal, the remedy, see Imperialism, The policy of, also Washington and Lincoln, For the republic of
Filley, IV., and the Garfield Administration, 83
Fillmore, Millard, I., end of Whig party, 25, 30; strong element in Indiana for, 107; V., Webster, Secretary of State for, 445
Financial question, IV., 1
Fish, Hamilton, I., to, 518; V., opposed to sale of arms, 37; VI., rupture with Sumner, 282, 283, 285; some characteristics of, 286
Fish, Stuyvesant, V., president, Illinois Central R. R., 474
Fisher, W., Jr., IV., Blaine letters, to, 227, 228, 230, 231, 232; business transactions with, 230; letters intended for Caldwell addressed to, 232; letters brought to Washington by Mulligan with the knowledge and consent of, 233, 234; railroad deal with Blaine reviewed, 276, et seq.; contract with Blaine, 280; Blaine's arrangement with, advantageous to Blaine, 285
Fiske, Andrew, V., to, 84
Fletcher, Governor, II., 27
Florida, East, II., case of, 235;
Florida, West, II., cession of, 230, 231, 233
Follenius, William, II., to, 315
Folsom, George W., IV., to, 308
Forbes, III., working in cause of hard money, 1
“Force” bill, V., 116, 118, 119, 120
Ford resolutions, V., on the Samoan question, 4
Foreign Affairs, Committee on, III., 53; VI., chairman of Senate Committee on, in political accord with the Administration, 284, 287, 288
Foreign policy, Our future, V., 477; annexation of any Spanish colony changes character of our war with Spain, 479; Spanish possessions are within the tropics, 481; Anglo-Saxons do not emigrate in mass to the tropics, 482; what expansion would entail upon United States,
