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Hawaii—Continued
sioner to, 363; Hawaiian Queen offered restoration to power upon her granting general amnesty, refuses, 364; annexation scheme defeated, 365; annexation of, a calamity to United States, 460; voted for as extreme limit, 485; VI., 106, 108

Hawkins, Major-General, I., 323

Hawley, Joseph R., II., 353; III., 381, 402; IV., 201, 203

Hay, John, VI., address of, mentioned, 358

Hayes, Rutherford B., III., to, 248; to, 252; from, 253; to, 255; Schurz has correspondence and interviews with, 258, 259; to, 260; Schurz justifies his preference for, 262, 267, 268, 273, 274, 277, 278; to, 280; line of argument against, adopted by Democratic papers, 281, 282, 283, 287; from, 284; to, 285; from, 289; to, 289; see Hayes versus Tilden, 290; from, 338; to R. C. McCormick, 338 n.; from, 339; uncertainty as to election of, 340, 346, 347, 349, 352, 353; to, 354; from, 355; to, 355; from, 361; to, 363; to, 366; from, 376; to, 376; to, 384; from, 387; selecting his Cabinet, 388, 390, 397, 398, 399; to, 389; to, 399; Cabinet rumors, 401, 402, 403; from, 403; to, 403; from 405; to, 406; as President, 410, 412, 413, 417, 418, 421; IV., 3, 4, 45, 78, 79; from, 115; from, 115; from, 181; Cabinet of, 357; sends letter to Schurz to be shown to some member of the Cleveland Cabinet, 407; from, 479; from, 480; V., from, 82; withdraws troops from the South, 117; VI., ends carpetbag government, 330

Hayes in review and Garfield in prospect, IV., 5; objects accomplished by the Hayes Administration, 7; Democratic party and its Presidential candidate discussed, 9; the United States of to-day, 14; duties of the President, 15; training of a West Point cadet, 17; the regular army officer as a civil leader, 18; the Democratic party of 1880, 21; what may be expected in case of a Democratic victory, 25; how the civil service during the Hayes Administration was improved, 28; civil service under the Democracy, 30; General Hancock and the rush for office, 32; the Republican party discussed, 32; James A. Garfield and the financial question, 35; civil service and the Republican party, 36; appeal to the different classes of voters, 37; object lesson furnished by Indiana, 39; the Presidency, the highest and most responsible trust of the Republic, 41; Garfield's life as a training for the Presidency, 42

Hayes versus Tilden, III., 290; administrative reform to be subject of remarks, 292; instances of corruption cited by Hoar, 293; the American civil service, 296; inauguration of the spoils system, 299; vicious tendency of the civil service system under Grant, 302; to insure the selection of fit persons for office, 305; Hayes's political record, 307; civil service reform in Hayes's letter of acceptance, 309; aristocracy officeholders, 311; civil service reform in Tilden's letter of acceptance, 313; what may be expected in case of a Democratic victory, 318; moral courage of Hayes, 323; powers of a President, 327; influence of a President, 329; opponents trying to discredit Hayes's letter, 332; members of the May conference (Fifth Avenue Hotel) consistent in supporting Hayes, 334

Hayes, Mrs. Rutherford B., IV., 115, 181

Hayes, Webb, IV., 49

Hayti, II., vessels of, to be destroyed, 179, 186; V., annexation of, 483; VI., 11; joining a confederacy of the Antilles, 34, 182

Head, Franklin H., V., to, 21

Hecker, I., 121

Hedden, collector of the port of New York, IV., 405, 407, 408 n., 456

Henderson, John B., III., with Schurz, signs petition to Congress, 345, 347, 351, 353; suggested for Cabinet position, 380, 381; IV.,