Schurz, Carl—Continued
addresses the Anti-imperialistic
Conference, 77 n., 121; addresses
Civil Service Reform League at
Indianapolis, 122 n.; personal
experiments in civil service
reform, 138, 141; delivers address at
the Philadelphia Anti-imperialistic
Conference, 150 n.; responds
to toast at dinner to Dr. Jacobi,
192; not well enough to attend
the Liberty Congress at
Indianapolis, 201, 204; opposes reëlection
of McKinley in address at
Cooper Union, 215 n.; oath of
allegiance, 215; cannot vote for
McKinley because so strongly
opposed to imperialism, 262;
puzzling experiences with President
McKinley, 268-275; annoyed
at papers misquoting speech,
276; writes words of encouragement
to Shepard, 277; receives
birthday congratulations from
Shepard, 278; reluctant to take
up anti-imperialistic work, but
feels it a duty, 290; advises
college men, 291; selected to
prepare report on the Philippines,
296; funeral remarks for Franz
Sigel, 296; appreciation of Abram
Hewitt, 298; does not mind being
called “crank” in a good cause,
303; visits the South to recuperate
and to study the race
question, 349; offers his allegiance to
Parker, 351; asked to answer
addresses of Hay and Root,
358; declines and gives reasons,
358; pays tribute of love and
appreciation to George William
Curtis, 403; gently ridicules Miles
Lewis Peck, 423; excuses himself
from speaking at an international
arbitration meeting, 424; invited
to become member of advisory
council of New York Society of
the Friends of Russian Freedom,
427; uncertain health prevents
Schurz from promising to address
the Massachusetts Reform Club,
428; invited to attend Good
Citizenship Meeting in Philadelphia,
430; compliments Roosevelt
on ending war between
Russia and Japan, 431; urges
Roosevelt to work for gradual
disarmament of the Powers, 432;
“Major-General, Cabinet
Minister, Senator and Historian,”
436 n.; declines to make application
for pension, 441; prevented
by an accident from attending the
funeral of Dr. Preetorius, 442;
Autobiography completed to third
and last volume, 442, 443;
congratulates Cleveland on sixty-ninth
anniversary of his birth,
444; securing arbitration treaty
between U. S. and Germany a
“work of merit,” 445
Schurz, Mrs. Carl (Margarethe) , I., 1 and n.; to, 8; to, 11; to, 20; to, 21; to, 23; will spend winters in Milwaukee and summers in Watertown, 37; to, 46; to, 108; to, 119; to, 160; to, 164; to, 168; to, 177; to, 179; property of, in Germany, 182; at a water-cure establishment near Hamburg, Germany, 184; to, 252; from, 253 n.; to, 264; to, 268; to, 374 n.; loses letters from her husband, 375; to, 418; II., mentioned in letter from Sumner, 309; III., illness of, in Switzerland 161; message to, in letter from Charles Francis Adams, Jr., 216; death of, 224 n., 389; V., was present at Senate debate on French arms case, 35, 36
Schurz, Herbert, VI., death of, 200 n.
Schurz, Miss, translations by, IV., 507 n.; V., 181 n., 334 n., 466 n.; by the Misses Schurz, IV., 495 n.
Schuster, Captain, IV., asks advice about resigning, 456; discharged for political reasons only, 457
Schuyler, Charles, III., 117
Schwab, Gustav, IV., to, 197
Schwab, Gustav H., and others, VI., from, 38
Schwing, William H., III., 118
Scott, John, II., counting the electoral vote, 453
Scott (General), Winfield, V., Presidential candidate, 445
Sebastian, Don, I., 205
Seceders, I., no hesitancy in dealing with, 169; Buchanan suspected of favoring, 173
Secession, I., the threat of the South, 25; 241, 254, 261, 262
