inated for President, 192;
elected, 215;
fails to carry New York, 215;
evidences of fraud in election, 215-8;
adm. criticised, 276-81;
renominated, 1872, 292;
elected, 302;
severely criticised, 317;
talk of a third term, 1874, 317;
his letter ends it, 1875, 329;
renewed on his return from abroad, 428;
an active candidate, 428;
gets fifty votes from N.Y., 441;
defeated, 442;
the faithful, 306, 442.
Graves, Ezra, nominated for prison insp., 1872, iii. 296;
elected, 302;
renominated, 1874, 315;
defeated, 319.
Gray, David, Buffalo _Courier_, a leading Dem. editor, iii. 420.
Greeley, Horace, edits the _Jeffersonian_, ii. 26;
early career of, 26;
came to N.Y., 1821, 26;
political conditions, 27;
first meeting with Weed, 28;
gifts of, 29;
relations with Weed, 32;
failed of election to constitutional con., 1846, 105;
chafes under Weed's control, 116;
elected to Congress, 1848, 138;
assails Castle Garden meeting, 157;
at Anti-Nebraska con., 194;
wants to be gov., 198;
appeals to Weed, 198, note;
offended at Raymond's nomination, 199, 200;
favoured a Rep. party, 1854, 200;
at birth of Rep. party, 1855, 213;
active in 1856, 240;
favours Douglas for U.S. senator, 247;
dislike of Seward, 247;
at Chicago con., 286;
Seward and Weed think him faithful, 284, note, 286, note;
for Bates for President, 287;
jubilant over Seward's defeat, 289-90;
reply to Raymond, 308-9;
demands his letter of 1854, 310;
publishes it, 311-17;
character of campaign, 1860, 332;
peaceable secession, 335-6;
"no compromise" theory, 343;
defeated for U.S. Senate, 363-5, note;
reasons for, 365, note;
_Tribune_ on, 366;
persistent office-seeker, 366;
charges Seward with favouring Weed's compromise, 380, 382;
criticised Seward's appointments, 399;
as to Dickinson, 398, 401;
relations with Lincoln not cordial, 402-3.
On Scott's insincerity, iii. 11, note;
heads radical anti-slavery sentiment, 14;
prayer of twenty millions, 35;
his force, 36;
contest with Bennett, 36;
favours Wadsworth, 44;
ambition for U.S. Senate, 1863, 54;
tries to defeat Morgan, 56;
Seymour's complicity in draft-riot, 69;
at Rep. state con., 1863, 75;
qualities as a party leader, 75, note;
susceptible to flattery, 75, note;
favours postponing Rep. nat. con., 1864, 89;
preferred Chase, Fremont, or Grant to Lincoln, 89;
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