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in Congress, 773 ; National Convention of the 

 Labor Reform party, 773 ; platform, 773 ; nom- 

 inations, 774 ; letter of Judge Davis, 774 ; let- 

 ter of Governor Joel Parker, 774 ; Temperance 

 Convention, 774; resolutions, 774; Colored 

 National Convention at New Orleans, 775; 

 platform, 775 ; letter of Charles Sumner, 775 ; 

 movement in Missouri, 776 ; action of the 

 Democrats, 776 ; response of Republicans, 776 ; 

 letter of Charles Francis Adams respecting his 

 nomination for President, 777 ; Liberal Repub- 

 lican Convention in Cincinnati, 777 ; platform, 

 777; nomination, 777; letter of Mr. Greeley, 

 778; dissatisfaction of Liberal Republicans, 

 778 ; proceedings in New York, 779 ; nomina- 

 tions, 779 ; Republican Convention, 779 ; plat- 

 form and nominations, 779, 780 ; letter of 

 General Grant, 780 ; Democratic Convention, 

 780 ; platform, 780 ; nominations, 781 ; verbal 

 reply of Mr. Greeley, 781 ; his letter subse- 

 quently, 781 ; trips to Maine and Indiana, 782 ; 

 " Straight-out " Democratic Convention at 

 Louisville, 782 ; resolutions, 782 ; nominations, 

 783 ; candidates refuse to stand, 783 ; Colored 

 Liberal Republican Convention at Louisville, 

 783; other conventions, 783; Women's Suf- 

 frage Association, 783; resolutions, 784; re- 

 sults of the election, 784; the Agricultural 

 Convention, 784; the convention to urge a 

 religious amendment to the Constitution, 784 ; 

 its history, 784 ; its call, 785 ; resolutions 

 adopted, 785; the amnesty act of Congress, 

 785 ; statistics of agriculture, 786 ; live-stock, 

 786 ; farm-products, 786 ; churches, 786 ; li- 

 braries, 787. 



XIII. Reinauguration of President Grant, 

 749 ; his address, 749 ; changes of salaries, 

 750 ; changes in the cabinet, 750 ; W. M. Rich- 

 ardson, Secretary of the Treasury, 750 ; bio- 

 graphical sketch, 750 ; M. R. Waite appointed 

 Chief -Justice, 750; biographical sketch, 750; 

 changes in the postal system, 750 ; disturbances 

 in Southern States, 751 ; policy of the Govern- 

 ment relative thereto stated by Attorney-Gen- 

 eral Williams, 751 ; number of civil suits, 751 ; 

 decision of the Court of Claims on the legal 

 existence of certain Southern corporations, 

 752 ; decision of the New Orleans u Slaughter- 

 House " cases, 752 ; facts, 752 ; construction of 

 the amendments of the Constitution, 753 ; dis- 

 tinction between a citizen of the United States 

 and a citizen of a State, 753 ; privileges and 

 immunities of a citizen of a State, 753 ; general 



scope and purpose of the constitutional amend- 

 ments, 753; decision relative to licensing a 

 woman to practise law, 754; conventiona of 

 the year, 754 ; cheap transportation, 754 ; con- 

 vention of the Governors of Southern States, 

 754 ; National Cheap Transportation Associa- 

 tion of New York, 754 ; resolutions, 755 ; ap- 

 plications to Congress for laws regulating rail- 

 roads, 755; constitutional power of Congress 

 over railroads, 755 ; emigration to the United 

 States, 757 ; countries represented, 758 ; dis- 

 tribution of sex and age, 758; occupations, 

 758 ; destination, 758. 



XIV. Changes in the President's cabinet, 

 796 ; biographical sketch of Secretary Bristow, 

 796 ; do. of Postmaster-General Jewell, 796 ; 

 revision of the United States statutes, 796; 

 members of the revision commission, 796; 

 Justice Field explains his and Justice Bradley's 

 views in the decision of the " Slaughter-House " 

 cases, 796 ; fourteenth amendment does not 

 interfere with the police powers of the States, 

 796 ; powers of Congress to enforce the con- 

 stitutional amendments, T97 ; Justice Bradley's 

 opinion, 797 ; numbers of civil suits, 798 . 

 affairs in Louisiana and South Carolina, 798 ; 

 letter of the Attorney-General to the Presi- 

 dent, 798 ; his reply from Long Branch, 798 ; 

 the Chattanooga Convention, 799 ; proceed- 

 ings, 799 ; Cheap Transportation Convention, 

 799 ; proceedings, 799 ; National Grange Con- 

 vention, 799 ; proceedings, 799 ; Women's Na- 

 tional Temperance Convention, 800 ; other 

 conventions, 800 ; Fish-culture Association, 

 800. 



XV. Changes in the cabinet, 742 ; sketch 

 of Edwards Pierrepont, 742 ; Zachariah Chan- 

 dler, 743 ; John 0. New, 743 ; Daniel D. Pratt, 

 743 ; Thomas W. Ferry, 743 ; letter of Presi- 

 dent Grant to Henry White, 743; speech at 

 Des Moines, 744 ; explanation, 744 ; discussion 

 of the school question, 744 ; effect of the Presi- 

 dent's speech, 744 ; letter of John Y. Foster, 

 745 ; principles of the Order of American 

 Union, 745 ; whiskey frauds, 745 ; sketch of 

 Secretary Bristow, 745; sketch of Speaker 

 Kerr, 746 ; inflation or contraction of the cur- 

 rency, 746 ; the friends of inflation, 746 ; the 

 opponents of inflation, 746 ; the National Tem- 

 perance Convention, 746 ; resolutions, 746 ; 

 conventions of Granges, 747 ; decision of the 

 Supreme Court on the claim of the Union Pa- 

 cific Railroad, 747; decision on the right of 



