eople, 318;
love match, 319;
slow in getting established, 319;
helped Southwick, 1822, 319;
supports Adams, 1824, 324;
opposes Clinton's removal, 328;
sleepless and tireless worker, 338;
united friends of Clay and Adams, 338-9;
well kept secret, 339;
Van Buren hit, 340, 344;
kept faith, 340-1;
predicts Granger's defeat, 368;
accepted leader against Van Buren, 369-70;
founded _Anti-Masonic Enquirer_, 370;
a born fighter, 371;
investigates crime of 1826, 370;
selects able lieutenants, 371;
incident of his poverty, 373;
founds _Evening Journal_, 374;
pungent paragraphs, 374, note;
met Croswell in boyhood, 374;
rival editors estranged, 375;
Croswell seeks aid of, 375;
growth of the _Journal_, 375;
"the Marcy patch," 395;
opposed to the United States Bank, 396, note;
organisation of Whig party, 394-401;
favours Seward for gov., 1834, 401.
On Democratic organisation, ii. 2;
Seward for gov., 1838, 19-21;
Fellows-Allen case, 22;
Seward's election, 29;
Dictator, 31-3, 36-8;
creates trouble, 38-9;
carries state Senate, 39;
made state printer, 39;
supports Harrison, 40;
unhappy, 1844, 84-5;
Clay's Alabama letter, 87-8;
opposed to Young for gov., 118;
for Taylor, 1848, 135-7;
breaks with Fillmore, 148;
assails Castle Garden meeting, 157;
defeats Fillmore, 166-7;
favours Scott, 166-7;
Scott's defeat, 178-9;
Greeley's appeal to, for gov., 198, note;
opposed to a Rep. party, 1854, 200;
at birth of party, 1855, 213;
criticised for delaying it, 219-21;
Seward and the Presidency, 229-32;
controlled election of U.S. senator, 1857, 243-5;
at Chicago con., 283;
Bowles on, 283;
offered Lane money to carry Indiana, 287, note;
weeps over Seward's defeat, 291;
returns Greeley's letter of 1854, 311;
denies seeing it, 318, 323;
replies to it, 318-23;
predicts Lincoln's election, 332;
proposed compromise, 336-44;
Greeley opposed, 343;
Lincoln opposed, 344;
work as a boss, 362;
relations with Lincoln, 362;
opposed Greeley for U.S. Senate, 363-5;
strained relations with Harris, 366;
Barney's appointment, 390-7.
Criticised by Southern press, 1861, iii. 10;
proposed conduct of the war, 14;
names Dix for gov., 1862, 37;
return from London, 41;
view of emancipation, 42;
pushes Morgan for U.S. Senate, 56;
controls canal patronage, 56;
withdraws from _Evening Journal
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