Schurz, Carl—Continued
behind closed doors, 256; advises
Presidential appointee to supervise
and aid political action of military
commanders in South, 259;
will lecture and enquires about
advance agent, 260; suggests
reconstruction policy for South
Carolina, 261; asks permission to
address a series of political letters
to the President, 263; prepares
for trip through the South, 266;
premium on life insurance
increased by Southern trip, 265,
271; writes for the Advertiser, 268;
interests himself for General
Slocum, 269; asks to be exonerated
from blame on account of
newspaper letters, 270; received
coldly by Johnson, asks explanation
of Stanton, 272 et seq.;
prepares report on conditions in
the South, 275; wants to get it
before the public, 277;
correspondent New York Tribune,
editor, Detroit Post, 375 n.;
books and papers destroyed by
fire, 375, 376; one of the editors
and owners of the St. Louis
Westlische Post, 418 n.; not in
favor of immediate enfranchisement
of rebels, 474; chosen United
States Senator, 474; finds
senatorial life a drudgery, 483;
strained relations between Grant
and himself, 509
Vol. II.
Schurz, Carl, offers resolution and makes speech, 2 and n.; acknowledges responsibility for “bolt” in Missouri, 32; gladdened by Sumner's New Year present, 70; disclaims personal feeling in his speech against Grant's usurpation, 240; working for substantial results and a third party, 313; chosen permanent president of the Liberal Republican Convention, 354 n.; writes Address of the Liberal Republicans, 388 n.; gives reasons for objecting to Blair's reëlection, 449
Vol. III.
Schurz, Carl, eulogizes Charles Sumner, 2; asked to write Political History of the United States, 114; senatorial career ends, starts on lecturing trip, 152; visits Germany, 154; Switzerland, 155; returns because urged to do so by Charles Francis Adams, Jr., to defeat William Allen, 161; defeats Allen, 215; refuses compensation for speeches in Ohio, 217; writes circular call of the Fifth Avenue Hotel Conference, 224, 228; answers objections to conference, 233; spends part of summer of 1876 at Fort Washington, Pennyslvania, 259; suggests paragraph for Hayes's letter of acceptance, 255, 284; hard at work on first campaign speech, 261; not well, but going into the campaign, 288; meets with accident, 338; petitions Congress to submit the Hayes-Tilden election to the Supreme Court, 353; in one year loses by death, father, wife and mother, 389, 401; hears that he is being suggested for a Cabinet position, 402 and n., 403; literary loyalty to Hayes, 404 and n.; invited to accompany Presidential party to Washington, 405; reduces printing expenses of Interior Department to one-eighth, 410; urged to speak in Indiana on the currency question, 422
Vol. IV.
Schurz, Carl, trials of, as Secretary of the Interior, 82; editor-in-chief, New York Evening Post, 115 n.; “contingent fund” of Interior Department and land grants to railroads, 148, 150, 151, 152, 153, 168, 184; writing the Clay biography, 156; declines a prospective gift of $100,000 from admiring friends, 197; speaks at Brooklyn, 224 n.; much interested in work on Clay biography, 308; contributes work and part of expenses in Cleveland campaign, 309; lectures in Charleston, South Carolina, 309 n.; declines invitation to address Civil Service Association, 435; member of National Civil Service Reform League, 455; Henry Clay
