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visits Europe at the suggestion of 

 Thru-low Weed, i. 93; finds bitter 

 feeling against the United States, i. 

 93-95 ; published reply to Dr. Rus 

 sell s &quot; American Diary &quot; in the Lon 

 don &quot;Times,&quot; i. 94, 99; met Cairnes 

 in Dublin, i. 95 ; found Frenchmen 

 indifferent, i. 96; at Frankfort-on- 

 the-Main met Consul-General Mur 

 phy, i. 97; contributed to paper 

 called &quot; L Europe,&quot; i. 97 ; Fourth of 

 July anniversary at Heidelberg, i. 

 98 ; return to America, i. 99 ; speech 

 in the New York Senate, on the war 

 bounty bill, concerning the issue of 

 paper money during the French 

 Revolution, i. 113-115 



1864-1867, senatorship at Albany : elec 

 tion to Senate, i. 99 ; equipment for 

 senatorial duties, i. 100, 101 ; young 

 est member of the Senate, i. 101; 

 colleagues, i. 101-105 ; appointment 

 to various committees, i. 105 ; maiden 

 speech on the governor s message, i. 

 105 ; attitude toward the land-grant 

 fund, i. 106, 295, 330 ; codification of 

 the educational laws, i. 107; State 

 normal school bill, i. 107 ; work on 

 the special committee investigating 

 the &quot;Health Department&quot; in New 

 York City, i. 108-111; opposes plan 

 of Catholic priests for acquiring 

 Ward s Island, i. Ill ; speech in the 

 Senate on the bounty bill, i. 112-115 ; 

 substitute delegate to National Con 

 vention at Baltimore, i. 117 ; visit to 

 Washington and meeting with Presi 

 dent Lincoln, i. 121 ; 18G5 : efforts to 

 secure the charter for Cornell Uni 

 versity, i. 123; death of Lincoln, i. 

 123 ; delivers oration in the Senate, 

 i. 123, 124; renomination to Senate, 

 i. 125 ; 1866 : reports on the in vesti- 

 gation of the New York &quot;Health 

 Department,&quot; i. 126; commence 

 ment address at Yale, &quot;The Great 

 est Foe of Republics,&quot; i. 127 ; election 

 to a professorship at Yale declined, 

 i. 127 ; the trial of an Oneida County 

 judge for &quot;bounty jumping,&quot; i. 128; 

 President Johnson s visit to the 

 North and his reception by the New 

 York Senate, i. 128-132; 1867: his 

 speech seconding the nomination of 

 Roscoe Conkling for United States 

 senator, i. 135-137 ; efforts for the bill 

 to improve the procedure in crimi 

 nal cases, i. 137-139; relations with 

 Judge Folger, i. 137, 140; efforts to 

 defeat the Sodus Canal Bill, i. 140- 

 142 ; interest in the Constitutional 

 Convention, i. 142-146; delegate to 

 State Convention, political speeches, 

 i. 148 



1868-1871, General Grant and Santo 

 Domingo: visit to Auburn to hear 

 Mr. Seward, i. 150; at State Judici 

 ary Convention of 1870 nominated 

 Charles Andrews as judge of Court 

 of Appeals, i. 152; secured Judge 

 Folger s nomination, i. 153 ; meeting 

 with General Grant, i. 154; a dele 

 gate to State Convention of 1870, i. 

 156 ; a member of the Santo Domingo 

 Commission, i. 157, 159, 434, 483-507 



1872, Greeley campaign : public recep 

 tion of Greeley in New York, i. 159 ; 

 W. becomes president of State Con 

 vention in 1871, i. 164-167 ; attacks 

 by newspapers, bribing charges, i. 

 168, 169; a substitute delegate to the 



Republican National Convention in 

 1872, i. 171; speeches, i. 172; Grant 

 reelected, i. 172 ; meeting with Sam 

 uel J. Tilden, i. 174; an elector at 

 the meeting of the Electoral College, 

 i. 174; visit to the South, i. 175 

 1871-1881, Grant, Hayes, and Garfleld : 

 impressions of President Grant, i. 

 177 ; and meetings with, in Europe, 

 i. 180; the President s purpose to 

 make W. Secretary of State, i. 181 ; 

 commissioner to the Paris Exposi 

 tion in 1878, i. 181, 435, 511 ; interest 

 in the Hayes campaign of 1878, i. 

 182-188; minister to Germany in 

 1879, i. 188, 434, 528 ; address at cele 

 bration of Garfield s funeral, i. 191 

 1881-1884, Arthur, Cleveland, and 

 Elaine : efforts for reform in the civil 

 service, i. 194-197; address in New 

 York in &quot;The New Germany,&quot; i. 

 198; address at Yale on &quot;The Mes 

 sage of the Nineteenth Century to 

 the Twentieth,&quot; i. 200; address at 

 the funeral of Eduard Lasker, i. 201 ; 

 delegate to the National Conven 

 tion of 1884, i. 201-207 ; supports Mr. 

 Elaine, i. 208 ; experience as presid 

 ing officer of a Syracuse mass-meet 

 ing, i. 210 



1884-1891, Hendricks, Sherman, Ban 

 croft, and others : visit to Washing 

 ton, meetings with public men, i. 

 213-221 ; resignation of presidency of 

 the university, i. 222 ; a position on 

 the Interstate Railway Commission, 

 offered by President Cleveland, de 

 clined, i. 222 ; trip to Europe, i. 222 ; 

 urged to accept nomination to Con 

 gress, but declined, i. 223 ; member 

 of a committee on civil-service re 

 form, i. 224 ; argument before Presi 

 dent Harrison, i. 225 

 1891-1904, McKinley and Roosevelt: 

 candidacy for the governorship of 

 New York, interviews with Thomas 

 C. Platt, not the choice of the con 

 vention, i. 229-235; minister to Rus 

 sia, i. 235, ii. s-116; member of a 

 commission to investigate the Vene 

 zuelan-Guiana boundary line, i. 237, 

 ii. 117-130; part in the McKinley 

 campaign of 1896, i. 237 ; addresses in 

 Western universities, i. 239 ; experi 

 ence in the Minnesota legislature, i. 

 239-241; appointed ambassador to 

 Germany, i. 241, ii. 131 ; president of 

 the American delegation at The 

 Hague Peace Conference, ii. 250; 

 urged to accept candidacy for the 

 vice-presidency in 1900, i. 242 ; but sug 

 gested the name of Theodore Roose 

 velt, i. 242; address at Cornell on 

 &quot; The True Conduct of Student Life,&quot; 

 i. 244; visits to Washington, inter 

 views with PresidentMcKinley,i. 244- 

 246 ; with President Roosevelt, i. 247 

 Politics, dislike of, i. 253 

 &quot; Politics and religion, Mr. White s, are 



Cornell University,&quot; i. 201 

 Religious development, first rec9llec- 

 tions of public worship, ii. 515 ; influ 

 ence of Henry Gregory, ii. 517, 518; 

 family influences, ii. 519; revelations 

 of the &quot; Ursuline Manual,&quot; ii. 523 ; in 

 fluence of Bishop DeLancey, ii. 524 ; 

 results of &quot;Christian evidences,&quot; ii. 

 527; influence of New England Con 

 gregationalism, ii. 529-541 ; of histor 

 ical reading, ii. 532; religious views 

 broadened by experiences in Europe, 



