Independents—Continued
Blaine in opposition, would vote
for Cleveland, 467; accused by
Cleveland of seeking to ruin him,
474; source of influence, 476; V.,
many will vote for Cleveland, 86;
will be influenced by Cleveland's
letter of acceptance, 122
Independent voters, III., 291
Indian Appropriation Act, IV., 51
Indian problem, Present aspects of IV., 116; unscrupulous greed of frontiersmen often the cause of war, 117; railroads and settlers penetrating to every part of the United States, 118; no longer vacant reservations to which the Indians can be removed, 120; increase of white population means encroachment on rights of Indians, 121; to preserve their rights, Indians must be reckoned with as individuals, not as tribes, 123, 137; given an incentive, they will work, 124; citizenship the end not the beginning of their development, 125; must be guided and protected, 126; a progressive movement is evident everywhere, 127; agriculture their best occupation, 128; as cow-boys, freighters and mechanics, 130; education the great civilizer, 131; facilities for domestic training increased, 133; grasp of affairs uncertain, 140; the case of the Utes, 141; Congress should pass a severalty law, 144
Indian question, III., 481-489; see letters to Mrs. Jackson, Miss Allison and E. Dunbar Lockwood
Indian service, IV., 28, 77
Inflation, see Currency and the national banks; Currency question; Honest money; Honest money and honesty
Inflation movement, IV., 39
Inflationists, III., 263, 264, 265, 272, 274, 279, 480; IV., 23, 26, 33, 38
Ingalls, John James, IV., 450, 494; V., characterization of politics, 77, 78, 79, 101
International peace, V., an American principal, 250
Introduction, I., iii.
Ireland, V., would be freed from British supremacy by war between Great Britain and United States, 251
“Irrepressible conflict,” I., 37, 118, 122, 134, 139, 140, 143, 145, 460, 489; III., 23
Irwin, (Commander) John, II., 212, 213, 214
Isabel, Infanta of Spain, I., 205
Issues of 1874, The, especially in Missouri, III., 74; unstable political and social conditions, lack of old-time enthusiasm, 75; Congressional investigations, 77; independence of thought and growing interest in good government, 78; disputed Louisiana elections, 79; duty of the National Government, 84, 93; duty of the South, 86; dishonest and unscrupulous leaders of the Southern negroes, 88; Sumner's civil rights bill, 90; what the colored people can do for themselves, 94; financial question, 97; restoration to political rights, 98; fraternal spirit, mitigation of partisan spirit, 101; brigandage, 103; continuing the 1870 movement, 106; a word to ex-Confederates, 108; to the independent men of Missouri, 112
Itinerary in Lincoln campaign, I., 163
J
Jackson, Andrew, II., 68; III., 179, 408; V., supported and opposed by Daniel Webster, 438, 439
Jackson, James (Georgia), IV., formulates pro-slavery argument, 342
Jackson (Mrs.), Helen Hunt, III., to, 496; from, 499; to, 501
Jacobi (M.D.), Abram, II., 448; III., 406; VI., responds to toast at complimentary dinner to, 192
James, D. Willis, IV., 349
James, William, VI., from, 190
Japan and Russia, VI., intervention of United States, 431, 432, 435, 440
Jefferson City, I., radical state convention, 510
Jefferson, Thomas, I., 65, 93, 96, 97, 99, 100, 102, 103, 146, 229;
