185;
recesses until after election, 185;
result submitted by legislature of 1869, 227;
unrestricted negro suffrage, 227;
defeated, 227.

Constitutional Union convention, The, 1863, iii. 79;
its platform, 79, note.

Constitutional Union party, organised, 1860, ii. 326;
Bell and Everett, 326;
platform of, 326;
fuses with Softs, 326;
scheme assailed, 327;
composition of, iii. 37;
opposes emancipation, 37;
its con., 1862, 37;
nominated Seymour for gov., 38.

Cook, Bates, state comp., ii. 36.

Cook, James M., nominated comp. of state, ii. 188;
ambitious to be gov., 1858, 247;
favours postponing Rep. nat. con., 1864, iii. 88.

Cooper, Edward, figures in cipher dispatches, iii. 351;
asked for money by Pelton, 351;
informs Tilden, 351;
nominated for mayor of N.Y., 393-4;
elected, 397;
strengthened by gov.'s appointments, 418.

Cooper, Peter, candidate for President, 1876, iii. 389.

Copeland, William, aids in exposure of Tweed ring, iii. 246.

"Copperheads," epithet first used, iii. 58, and note.

Cornell, Alonzo B., nom. for lt.-gov., 1868, iii. 196;
defeated, 215;
evidences of fraud in election, 215-8;
career and character, 251-2;
head of Rep. state organisation, 251;
efforts to crush Fenton-Greeley machine, 1871, 250-64;
bold ruling, 259;
defeated for nomination for gov. and lt.-gov., 1876, 337-8;
bitter feeling, 339;
his successor as naval officer appointed, 1877, 399;
confirmation defeated, 404-5;
President suspends him, 1878, 406;
reason for, 406;
successor confirmed, 409;
nominated for gov., 1879, 416;
alleged alliance with Kelly, 425;
reasons for the story, 426;
aided by Secretary Sherman, 427;
Sherman's excuse, 427, note;
elected, 427;
ran behind the ticket, 427;
did not attend Rep. nat. con., 1880, 465;
zenith of power, 465;
relations to Stalwart leaders, 465;
supports Platt for Senate, 1881, 465;
asks Garfield to withdraw Robertson's appointment, 472;
strained relations with Conkling, 478-9;
refused to become cand. against him, 479;
adm. as gov. approved by state con., 1881, 485;
cand. for renomination, 1882, 492;
opposed by Arthur, Conkling, and Jay Gould, 493;
coercion and fraud practiced, 493-4;
his defeat, 494.

Cornell, Oliver H.P., nominated for eng., 1874, iii. 325;
defeated, 331.

Corning, Erastus, at Charleston con., ii. 272;
at peace congress, 350.

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