liel, contributes, 559

Bradley, Gen. Stephen T., 23

“Bramble, Matthew,” contributes, 100

Brevoort, Henry, contributes, 95, 109, 110

Bridges, Robert, on staff, 439

Briggs, James A., on Lincoln at Cooper Union, 260

Bristow, Ex-Gov. Benj. H., trustee, 444

Bronson & Chauncey, 91

Brooklyn, 224, 365;

union with New York, 494

Brooks, James and Erastus, found the Express, 156;

later careers, 262, 271, 304

Brooks, Preston S., assaults Sumner, 252, 359

Brown, Charles Brockden, 15;

works reviewed, 109, 110

Brown, John, at Harper’s Ferry, 256–258

Brownell, W.C., 449, 554, 558

Bryce, James, 443, 448, 523, 532, 553;

as a contributor, 556, 557, 559

Bryan, Wm. J., and campaign of 1896, 500–503;

and campaign of 1900, 568, 569;

as Secretary of State, 574

Bryant, William Cullen, acquaintance with Coleman, 21–23, 96, 97;

comes to New York, 121;

associate editor E.P., 122;

early labors on E.P., 125–133;

becomes editor in chief, 134;

in Europe, 138;

returns in 1836, 163;

rescues E.P. from failure, 166–169;

free speech and free soil, 170–173;

in campaign of 1840 and Mexican War, 173–179;

travels, 182, 183;

buys Roslyn, 190;

literary friends, 191;

advocates Central Park, 192–201;

begins fight for international copyright, 211–216;

literary judgments, 216–224;

asks Bigelow to join E.P., 230;

anti-slavery utterances, 242–266;

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Committee of Seventy, in Tweed Affair, 388

Concrete sidewalks, first in New York, 365

Conkling, Roscoe, 450, 451

Connolly, Richard B., in Tweed Affair, 376–388

Conservation, 448

Constitution, frigate, 52, 53, 83

Cooke, George Frederick, 115

Cooper, Fenimore, visits E.P., 190, 191;

last years, 206, 215, 216;

E.P. on “Deerslayer,” 222;

contributes to E.P., 223, 224, 225;

mentioned, 338

Cooper, Peter, 524, 539

Copyright, international, E.P. contends for, 209, 212–216, 417, 418, 560–562

Corbett, Sergeant Boston, contributes, 318

Courier and Enquirer, New York, 137, 146;

assails E.P., 147, 154;

news enterprise, 155;

attacks Cooper, 223;

supports Fremont, 251;

absorbed by World, 270

Courrier des Etats Unis, on Dickens, 211;

on secession, 272;

on emancipation, 295;

a “copperhead” paper, 301

Cox, Dr. F.F., abolitionist, 145

Cox, Gen. Jacob 393, 394, 399, 559

Cox, Kenyon, contributes, 554

Cranch, Christopher Pearse, contributes, 189, 324

Crawford, W.C., supported in 1824, 124

Crime in New York in 1839, 192

Crimean War, news of, 189, 504

Crittenden Compromise, 298–300, 322

Ghent, treaty of, 58, 59, 87

Gibbons, John S., writes war-song, 325

Giddings, Joshua, 243

Gilbert, Mrs. C.H., 564

Gilbert, John, 564

Gilder, Richard Watson, 411

Gildersleeve, Basil, contributes, 559

Gilman, Daniel Coit, 492, 493

Gilroy, Thomas F., Tammany career of, 480–495 passim.

Gladden, Washington, and reading notices, 430

Gladstone, W.E., 523, 557

Goelet, Peter and R.H., 364

Godkin, E.L., Paris correspondent, 318;

on reconstruction, 327ff.;

and Liberal Republican movement, 394–400;

associate editor E.P., 438ff.;

career, 442, 443;

quarrel with Schurz, 454–457;

editor-in-chief, 457, 458;

campaign of 1884, 459, 466;

and Cleveland’s Administration, 466–470;

and Venezuela affair, 470–475;

war upon Tammany, 476–495;

fight against free silver, 496–503;

Spanish war and Philippines, 503–518;

resignation, 518;

character, 519–543;

influence, 543–545;

ideal of a newspaper, 546–550;

dispute with merchants, 566, 567

Goff, John W., and city reform, 487ff.

Godwin, Parke, on Bryant, 125;

on J.G. Bennett, 161;

joins E.P., 163, 164, 167, 168;

as Bryant’s associate, 179;

on Bryant’s habits, 190, 191;

lectures, 225, 229;

buys share of E.P., 238, 291, 313, 339, 343;

on Bryant as editor, 349, 352, 353, 354;

newspaper profits, 359, 392;

in Hayes-Tilden campaign, 403ff.; 188;

supports Taylor, 244, 256;

secession views, 267–283;

attacks Lincoln, 286;

and Stanton, 290;

and Lincoln’s Cabinet, 292;

on emancipation, 295ff.;

mob threatens, 301;

on draft, 305;

on Draft Riots, 309;

and censorship, 321;

war maps, 323;

on reconstruction, 326–337, 346, 360;

advertising in 1865, 361, 458;

on Spanish War, 511

Hergesheimer, Joseph, 567

Hewitt, Abram S., 478, 479

“Hiawatha” reviewed, 220

Hildreth, Richard, 346

Hill, David B., 468, 469, 544

Hoar, Gen. Ebenezer, 393

Hobson, R.P., 514

Hoffman, Ogden, 148

Hogs, in New York, 65, 66

Holmes, O.W., lectures reported, 225;

quoted, 315, 339

Holt, Charles, 25, 95

Holt, Henry, on Godkin, 545

Hone, Philip, 18

Hone, Philip, Jr., diary quoted, 139, 152, 356

Hooker, Gen. Joseph, 298, 322

Horse-railways in New York, 192, 372, 373

Hosack, Dr., 95

Housing crisis of 1864–66, 365ff.

Howard, Bronson, on staff, 422

Howe, Timothy, 237

Howe, Julia Ward, tribute to Bryant, 339

Howells, W.D., applies for work, 407;

novels reviewed, 417, 557, 558;

on Schurz, 448;

on Godkin, 476, 513, 522, 543

Hull’s surrender, 55, 82, 83

Hunt, Richard M., architect, 566

Nadal, E.S., on newspaper reviewing, 415, 416

Napoleonic Wars, 34, 39–44, 59, 60;

news of, 87, 88

Napoleon III, 504

Nast, Thomas, 377, 399

National Advocate, New York, 95, 124

National-Zeitung, New York, 302

Nation, New York, on reconstruction, 327ff.;

on Liberal Republican Movement, 390–400 passim;

connected with E.P., 438ff.;

political views, 458, 459;

influence, 543, 545;

separated from E.P., 578

Neilson, Adelaide, 564

Newbern, attack on, 321

Newcomb, Simon, contributes, 527, 554

New England Magazine, criticises Bryant, 137

New Madrid earthquake, 82

“Newspaper waifs,” 450

New Orleans, battle of, 84, 85

New York city, description in 1801, 63ff.;

hogs, 65, 66;

street-cleaning, 67;

health, 68–70;

morals, 70–72;

amusements, 72, 73;

transit, 73;

coal and gas, 75, 76;

police, 76;

burials, 76;

growth to 1850, 192;

parks, 192–201;

crime, 201;

police, 202;

fire department 1840–65, 202–204;

street cleaning, 204, 205;

corruption in fifties, 205, 206;

and Draft Riots, 300ff.;

growth after Civil War, 364, 365;

housing difficulties, 365–371;

health after Civil War, 369–372;

rapid transit, 372–375;

and the Tweed Ring, 376–388;

municipal misgovernment and reform, 476–495;

improvements under Mayor Strong, 492, 493;

109

Randall, S.J., E.P. on, 547

Randolph, John, 61, 135

Rapid Transit, 372ff.

Raymond, Henry J., editor of the Times, 252, 255, 261, 281, 311, 326, 345, 362, 425

“Reading-Notices,” 430, 431

Reclus, Elie, 415, 416

Reconstruction, see Chapter Fourteen

Reed, T.B., 496

Rehan, Ada, 564

Reid, Whitelaw, 326, 411, 532

Repplier, Agnes, contributes, 414

“Representative Men” reviewed, 222

Republican, Springfield, in campaign of 1872, 390–400;

in Mugwump movement, 460ff.;

and Philippines, 515

Rhett, R.B. 317

Rhinelander, Wm. C., 364

Rhodes, James Ford, quoted, 247, 298, 306, 443

Riardon, W.L., reporter, 550ff.

Riggs, Caleb S., 17

Riis, Jacob, 551

Ripley, George, literary editor the Tribune, 216, 347, 406, 407

Ripley, Philip, war correspondent, 318

Robinson, A.G., war correspondent, 552

Roe, E.P., contributes, 414

Rogers, Samuel, contributes, 99

Ropes, John C., contributes, 554, 559

Rose, John C., on staff, 527

Roosevelt, C.V.S., 364

Roosevelt, James, 91

Roosevelt, Theodore, 447;

in city politics, 478, 479, 486;

Police Commissioner, 492, 551;

opinion of Journal, 511;

runs for Governor, 516;

on Quay, 537;

E.P. opposes in 1904, 570;

and Panama, 570;

his Presidency, 571;

and Taft, 181;

E.P. defends, 208, 209

Troup, Robert, 11, 14, 17, 62

Trumbull, Lyman, 285, 334

Trusts, 539

Tupper, Martin F., 223, 355

Tweed, W.M., emerges, 206;

his career, 376–388

Typhus in New York, 370ff.

Tyler, President, E.P. attacks, 175, 176

“Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” 249

Union, Brooklyn, 412

Union League Club, 382

Union, Washington, 248

Unions, Trade, defended by E.P., 164, 165

United States Bank, hostility of E.P. to, 131, 142, 143, 168

United States Review, 123

Van Buren, John, 247, 250, 339, 362

Van Buren, Martin, on E.P. tariff policy, 130;

befriends Leggett, 167;

E.P. supports, 169, 170;

on slavery, 172, 174;

renomination asked, 175, 176, 182;

supported in 1848, 243, 247

Vanderbilt, Commodore, 94

Vanderbilt, W.H., 336

Van Wyck, Augustus, 516

Van Wyck, Robert, 494, 510

Varick, Richard, 11, 17, 45, 51, 54

Vauxhall, 112

Veiller, Bayard, 577

Venezuela affair, 470–475

Verplanck, Gulian C., 110, 121, 130;

disagrees with E.P., 148, 216, 338

Vicksburg, capture of, 300, 309

Victoria, Queen, 398–400;

on Henry Villard, 453, 454, 465;

on Venezuela, 474;

and Tammany, 485, 486;

and free silver, 502, 503;

and Spanish war, 509–515;

E.L. Godkin upon, 549ff.

World War, the, 574–576

Wright, Fanny, 126

Wright, H.J., on Godkin, 525–529 passim;

as city editor, 550ff.;

becomes editor of Commercial Advertiser, 577

Wright, Silas, 229, 258