274;
Tweed proposes to stop the paper, 274.

_National Advocate_, edited by Noah, i. 262;
opposition to Erie canal, 262;
silenced, 262.

National Greenback Labor Reform party, iii. 389;
hist. of its organisation, 389;
con. Syracuse, 1878, 389;
its principles, 389;
represents large vote, 397;
its influence on Dem. party, 397;
holds state con., 1879, 412.

National Republicans, followers of Adams, 1828, i. 361;
adopt ticket of Anti-Masons, 1832, 393;
reason for defeat, 396;
party, 1834, becomes Whig, 399.

National Union state convention, 1866, iii. 154;
substitute for Dem. state con., 154;
attended by Reps. and Dems., 155;
Dix defeated by Hoffman for gov., 1866, 159;
platform for home rule, 160.

Native American party, organised, 1844, ii. 82;
opposed foreigners voting or holding office, 82;
confined to New York City, 82;
elected a mayor, 1844, 82;
in constitutional con., 1846, 97-100;
revived, 1854, as Know-Nothings, 201;
secret methods of, 201;
Seward opposed to, 201-2;
unknown strength of, 202-3;
Silver-Grays partial to, 202;
nominations, 1854, 202;
defeated, 204;
its con., 1855, 214;
elected its ticket, 216;
defeated, 1858, 255;
endorse Reps. and Dems., 1859, 258-9;
Wilson on, 259.

Negro suffrage, i. 299-300.

Left it to Southern state, iii. 128;
Greeley advocates it, 128;
Weed and Raymond oppose it, 130;
Rep. state con., 1865, dodges it, 133;
not squarely met, 1866, 153;
aids to defeat Rep. party, 1867, 185-7;
defeats Constitution of 1867, 227.

Nelson, Absolom, nominated for canal com., 1870, iii. 238;
defeated, 244.

Nelson, Homer A., nominated for sec. of state, 1869, iii. 226;
elected, 227;
aspires to be gov., 1872, 297;
again an aspirant for gov., 1882, 488.

Nelson, Samuel, member of constitutional con., 1821, i. 298;
career of, 298;
investigates death of Morgan, 360;
made justice of U.S. Supreme Court, ii. 97, 103;
in constitutional con., 1846, 103.

Nepotism, practised by DeWitt Clinton, i. 117, 347;
Gov. Lewis, 147;
Gov. Yates, 321;
Gov. Bouck, ii. 57.

Gov. Seymour, iii. 80;
Gov. Dix, 316.

Newspapers, leading Rep. journals in state, iii. 413-4;
leading Dem. journals in state, 420.

New York City merchants, their losses, 1861, iii. 31.

New York City, work of radicals in, i. 1;
census of, 1820, 295.

New York, Colony of, tainted with Toryism, i. 23.