Foreign policy—Continued
483 et seq.; commercial interest,
488; the way of safety and
advantage, 490
Foreign Relations, Committee on, II., 206, 253
Forest policy, rational, The need of, V., 22; future prosperity of United States largely dependent on preservation of forests, 23; foes to the forest, 24; Congress indifferent to destruction, 26, 27; forests influence the flow of waters, 28; measures recommended to Congress while Schurz was Secretary of the Interior, 30; soldiers from abandoned army posts to be utilized as forest guards, 32
Forests, attempted conservation of, VI., 39
Forney (Colonel), John W., II., 415, 420
Forrest, General, I., 438, 463, 464
’48ers, The, V., 466; Students, congress at Eisenach 468; union of Germany achieved, 469; to preserve the unity of their new fatherland, 470; peace with honor, but vigorous prosecution when war is inevitable should be the motto of, 471
Forty-eighters, VI., wrongs of, as compared with those of the Filipinos, 308
Foster, Emory S., III., 73
Foster, L. F. S., III., 248
Foster, Secretary, V., keeps gold reserve at $100,000,000 mark, 349
Four-year law, V., 140, 143
Franco-Prussian war, I., 509, 519
Franklin, Benjamin, I., president of abolition society, 48, 146, 342; apostle of common-sense, 93; clearheaded, 96; IV., bon mot of, about hanging together, 331; V., 235
Franklin, Benjamin, IV., 309; early life of, 310; formulates system of religion, 313; marriage of, 315; newspaper and almanac of, 316; intellectual and literary influence of, on Philadelphia, 319; theory of, as to movement of storms, 321; experiments of, in electricity, 323; receives degrees, becomes postmaster, 324; Postmaster-General, and engages in other activities, 325; appears before Parliament, 328; confers with Continental Congress, 330; mission of, to France, 331 ff.; contrasted with Voltaire, 337; commissioner, 339; last diplomatic achievement of, 340; president of Pennsylvania, and member of Constitutional convention, 341; character and work of, 343-348
Frederick William II., II., 395
Free coinage of silver, V., opposed in 1892, by George Fred. Williams, 84; advocated by, in 1896, 85 n.; as a party issue, 113, 418
Freedmen's Bureau, I., murders of agents of, 289, 293; procuring employment for negroes, 308, 337; officers of, testifying to conditions in the South, 314, 315, 323; protecting the blacks, 326, 329; negro generally works well, 334; small number need assistance, 338; conditions improving, 339, 341, 343; the Southern people wish Bureau abolished, 359; unpopular, 360; success of, incomplete, 361; IV., discredited through abuses that crept in, 369; VI., purpose of, 315; partial failure of, 324
Free-soilers, I., 29, 30; III., 13
Free-trade League, II., 252
Free-traders, II., 371, 374. 375, 379; V., 436
Frelinghuysen, Frederick Theodore, II., 190, 222, 230, 232, 233, 239, 242
Frémont, John Charles, I., mentioned as a Presidential candidate in 1860, 24; popularity of, 30; campaign of 1856, 33; voting a matter of principle, 249; II., slim chance in 1872, for third ticket, 384; V., political defeat of, 394
French arms case, V., 34 n., 35
French in Spain, success of, II., 231
Friedley, III., chairman, Indiana State Committee, 290
Frisbie, IV., 72
Frye, Senator, VI., and the Philippines, 164
Fugitive-slave law, I., 142, 169; III., 12, 21, 22, 25, 26, 30; V., 443
