200;
elected, 204;
at birth of Rep. party, 213;
active, 1856, 240;
favours Douglas for U.S. senator, 247;
at Chicago con., 283;
calls Greeley a disappointed office-seeker, 306-7;
Greeley's letter to Seward, 1854, 307;
endorses Weed's compromise, 337.

Elected to Assembly, iii. 29;
upholds Lincoln's policy, 42;
favours Dix, 1862, 42;
ch'm. Rep. state con., 1862, 44;
replies to Seymour, 44;
candidate for U.S. senate, 1863, 55;
del.-at-large to Rep. nat. con., 1864, 92;
reports the platform, 93;
supports Johnson for Vice-President, 94;
zenith of his influence, 95;
why he supported Johnson, 95;
did Lincoln whisper to him, 96;
writes Lincoln of hopeless situation, 105-6;
elected to Congress, 1864, 126;
great victory, 126;
supports President Johnson, 132;
enters Congress, 137;
prestige of, 138;
his maiden speech, 138;
defeated, 141;
sustains veto, 142;
his fickleness, 142;
satirised by Stevens, 142, note;
hesitates to attend Philadelphia con., 1866, 143;
Seward urges him on, 143;
extreme views, 145;
removed from Rep. Nat. Ex. Com., 145;
Congress added no fame, 145;
mental weariness, 146;
refuses to support Hoffman for gov., 161;
returns to Rep. party, 161;
supports Fenton with loyalty, 161;
declines to run for Congress, 161;
sincerity of, 161;
brilliant life cut short, 175.

Redfield, Herman J., kept out of office, i. 348.

Ch'm. Dem. state con., 1861, ii. 17;
his views on the war, 18;
prophecy of, 18.

Reed, Thomas B., Conkling's attack on Curtis found in scrap-book,
iii. 374, note;
listed among masterpieces of sarcasm and invective, 374.

Reeves, Henry A., Greenport _Republican Watchman_, a leading Dem. editor,
iii. 420.

Reid, Whitelaw, N.Y. _Tribune_, iii. 414;
leading Rep. editor, 414;
telegram about Robertson's appointment, 472-3.

Renwick, James, characteristics of Tompkins, i. 215.

Republican national conventions,
Baltimore, 1864, iii. 93;
Chicago, 1868, 192;
Philadelphia, 1872, 291-2;
Cincinnati, 1876, 333-5;
Chicago, 1880, 438-46.

Republican party, Anti-Nebraska con., ii. 194;
Greeley favoured its organisation, 1854, 200;
Weed and Seward opposed, 200;
Greeley named it, 211;
Executive Committee appointed, 1854, 211;
formal organisation, 1855, 211-4;
its platform, 213;
Seward's speech for, 217-8;
Silver-Grays defeat it, 219;
Weed and Seward criticis