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Gad's Hill robbery, III., 103

Gage, Lyman J., VI., open letter to, 204; power of the Executive to establish a silver basis denied, 205; defects in currency law could be remedied by Congress, 206, 207; as Secretary of Treasury, Gage should reassure the business community, 208; second open letter to, 208; opinions of, as financier and as partisan contrasted, 210-215; what Schurz's correspondence with, shows, 252

Gaggin, Richard F., I., 162 n.

Gallatin, Albert, II., 526; IV., 156; politically, Schurz resembles, 482; V., in 1831 favored low duties, 47; wished Jefferson to make more removals, 161; circular to revenue collectors, 162; removal for cause, 166

Gallinger, Jacob H., V., to, 403; Smith's comment on Schurz's letters to, 411; to, 417

Garfield, James A., II., 353; III., as to the Hayes election, 346, 365; integrity of, above question, 507; IV., to, 1; see Hayes in review and Garfield in prospect; from, 44; to, 47; from, 49; to, 50; to, 78; to, 84; to, 88; to, 115; Blaine could not carry Ohio, because of the old Garfield feeling, 202

Garland, Augustus H., IV., Attorney-General, 348, 466 and n.

Garrison duty in tropics unpopular, V., 516

Garrison, Wm. Lloyd, I., 232; III., 13

Gentry, Major, III., 109

George III., VI., 117

George, Henry, IV., 463

Georgia, speeches on admission of, I., 483 and n.

German artillery, I., 181

German civil-war volunteers of St. Louis, VI., not given the credit they deserved, 442

German Day, V., 181; love of his native land makes truer the German-born American's loyalty to his adopted country, 183; life in a principality vs. that under the German Empire, 186; obligations because of German birth, 190

German emigrants, I., starting for America, 49

German Liberals, III., 216

German Mothertongue, The, V., 334; German song irresistible, German language honest and sincere, 335; fidelity and discrimination of German translations, 336; English must be acquired but German must not be forgotten, 337; duty of German-American parents to teach their children both languages, 338

German regiments, I., 180, 181, 182

German voters, III., 280, 494

Germans, I., 20, 31, 32, 33, 34, 38, 39, 40, 42, 43, 44, 45, 52, 54, 55, 56, 71, 78, 108, in, 509, 510; II., 364, 365, 366, 371, 372, 377; III., 252, 288

Germans rallying for Lincoln, I., 121; curious to hear Schurz, 161 and n., 162 n.

Germany, I., why the natural ally of America, 19; destined to be “the great power” of Europe, 519; V.; and the Samoan business, 1-6, the French arms case, 37; class of men to represent United States in, 128, 129; no spoils system, 168; fashion to scoff at 1848, as “mad year,” 467; rumor of differences between United States and, 520; VI., and the Philippines, 37, 248; if our troops should be withdrawn, 301; and friendly relations between the United States and, 444; war between “eminently improbable,” 445

Gibbons, Cardinal, VI., favors Philippine independence, 349

Giddings, Joshua R., VI., offers amendment to Republican platform of 1850, 404; carried, 405

Gilchrist, Colonel, I., 304

Gilder, Richard Watson, V., to, 477

Gilder, Mrs. Richard Watson, V., to, 451

Gillmore, Major-General, I., 312

Gilroy, Mayor, V., 167, 235

Godkin, Edwin Lawrence, II., to, 252; from, 376; to, 377; favors Grant, 383; to, 384; from, 386; to, 446; III., to, 490; IV., as to Cabinet appointments, 349

Godwin, Parke, III., 232, 248, 312, 313