U.S. bonds, 181;
drops Johnson, 182;
on canal frauds, 183;
on negro suffrage, 186-7;
president of Nat. Dem. con., 1868, 197;
favours Chase for President, 198;
approved platform with negro suffrage, 198;
refuses to be candidate for President, 200;
nominated, 201;
much affected, 201;
accepts, 204;
criticism, 205;
high character of, 208;
tours the West, 211;
defeated, 214;
but carries New York, 215;
evidences of fraud in election, 215-8;
in Dem. state con., 1871, 270;
shabbily treated, 270;
absent from Dem. state con., 1872, 287;
also from Dem. Nat. con., 1872, 287;
advises Tilden not to run for gov., 311;
writes platform, 1874, 314;
nominated for gov., 1876, 346;
declines, 346;
Tam. urges him for President, 1880, 451;
preferred a funeral to a nomination, 451.

Seymour, Horatio, Jr., nominated for state eng., 1877, iii. 384;
elected, 387;
renominated, 1879, 424;
elected, 427.

Seymour, Silas, nominated for state eng., 1882, iii. 485;
elected, 486.

Sharpe, George H., holds office of surveyor of port of New York, iii. 399;
successor appointed, 1877, 399;
suggests Arthur for Vice President, 1880, 444;
Conkling objects to it, 444;
fails to get Conkling to present Arthur's name, 444;
secures Woodford to do it, 444;
character and services, 464;
elected speaker of the Assembly, 464;
supports Crowley for U.S. Senate, 1881, 465;
urges Conkling to seek re-election at Albany, 1881, 481;
prophecy of Payn, 481, note;
aids election of Miller for U.S. senator, 481.

Sharpe, Peter B., speaker of Assembly, i. 262;
unfriendly to canal, 261-2;
opposition silenced, 262;
approves Tompkins' war accounts, 276;
opposes Jackson, 357;
nominated for Assembly, 1827, 358.

Shaw, Samuel M., Cooperstown _Freeman's Journal_, a leading Dem. editor,
iii. 420.

Sheldon, Alexander, speaker of Assembly, i. 194;
charges Southwick with bribery, 194.

Sherman, John, aids Cornell's election as gov., 1879, iii. 427;
reply to criticisms, 427, note;
indignant over Arthur's nomination for Vice President, 445, note.

Sherwood, Henry, nominated for speaker of Assembly, 1863, iii. 53;
defeated, 53.

"Short-hairs," faction of Tam., iii. 325, note.

Sickles, Daniel E., member of the Hards, ii. 209;
represented Tam., 249.

Early life of, iii. 8;
offers services to Government, 8;
interview with President, 9, note;
del. to Rep