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Race question, VI., discussed, 348
Randall, I., 78
Randall, Samuel J., IV., desires Presidential nomination, 492
Ranke, von, III., historian, 8
Rasin, naval officer, IV., 434; appointment of, defended, 472
Raum, Green B., VI., to, 441
Raymond, Henry J., I., 375, 400
Reactionary movement, I., 400; IV., 2
Reactionary tendencies, IV., 4, 49
Read, Deborah (Mrs. Benjamin Franklin), IV., 312, 314
Rebellion, III., 32, 40
Reconstruction, III., 56, 347, 412; IV., 371 ff.
Reconstruction period, beginning of, I., 254, 258
Reconstruction policy, I., Sumner's, “equality before the law and consent of the governed,” 267
Red Cloud, IV., 140
Reed, Thomas B., V., 67, 68; VI., 191; favored as Presidential candidate, 202
Reform Club dinner, character of speeches at, IV., 429; V., banquet, 125, 142
Reform Democratic party, V., organization of, 232; its aims and standard-bearer, 247
Reform movement, II., 353, 358, 359, 361 et seq., 371, 372, 376
Reform, The need of, and a new party, II., 257; equality of rights, 258; reforms in civil service and the tariff, reduction of taxes, and resumption of specie payment, 259; trusts and disregard of law, 260; cause of the South's defeat, 262; reconstruction measures, 263; the Constitutional amendments a necessity, 268; reasons for opposing Grant's reëlection, 271; local self-government strengthened, not weakened by the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments, 273; the Ku-Klux law, 277; interference of the Central Government prevented by efficient local self-government, 280; how the South can attract immigrants and secure capital, 281; how obtain general amnesty, 282; “carpetbag” rule in the South, 283; Tammany in New York, 284; public education the surest protection against misrule, 285; why a new party is needed, 286; wisest course to be followed by the South, 288 et seq.; protection and monopoly, 290; National debt, 291; civil service reform, 292; duties of victors and vanquished, 294; the North watchful for any reactionary attempts, 297; inadequacy of the Democratic party, 298; probable lack of National spirit in the Republican party, 299; duties and opportunities of the South, 302; appeal to the young men of the South, 302, 304; to the Republicans of the South, 304; to the Democrats of the South, 305
Reid, Frank T., II., with more than two hundred others signs letter to Schurz, 307
Reid, Whitelaw, VI., on annexation of San Domingo, 12, 13
Reno, General, I., 220
Republican cause, I., 161 n.
Republican National Committee, III., 219, 222, 495
Republican National Convention, IV., 224, 225, 256; V., 83, 95, 109, 110; VI., and Philippine independence, 349; of 1860, 403
Republican newspapers, III., 143, 144, 147, 237, 260, 280, 369; IV., 1
Republican organization, III., 158
Republican party, I., 170, 178, 273; II., 389, 399, 400, 401, 407, 421, 426, 432, 441, 445; III., 139, 143, 158, 162, 163, 165, 167, 168, 184, 190, 216, 223, 230, 231, 238, 249, 253, 262, 270, 277, 278, 281, 286, 292, 301, 328, 329, 351, 359, 389, 396, 408, 412, 426; IV., 29, 32, 33, 34, 42, 78, 79, 86, 87, 111, 203, 2O4, 205, 206, 209, 220, 224, 249, 254, 260, 261, 268; V., corrupted by money but with a glorious past, 92; defeat of, 94; try to explain Dudley's circular, 98; favor the "“force” bill, 119; threw obstacles in the path of civil service reform, 155; a bulwark against Bryanism, 451
