INDEX 



Seward, Secretary, 208, 215-217, 



222, 226, 233, 234, 240, 241, 244, 



245, 249, 253. 

 Shenandoah, the, 221, 256. 

 Silver, free coinage of, 3 19. 

 &quot;Six Acts,&quot; the, 61, 62. 

 Slavery, 73, 74, 165, 365; British 



hostility to, 204-206. 

 Slave-trade, African, 71-75, 105, 



107, 112-119, 170-172, 205. 

 Slidell, John, 210-217, 310. 

 Smith, Adam, 42, 63, 144. 

 Smith, Gold win, 296, 357. 

 Smith, Sydney, 82. 

 South Africa, 321, 324, 350, 351, 



354, 355, 369- 



South Pass, the, discovery of, 126. 



Spain, weakness of authority of, 

 in Florida, 35, 36; request for in 

 tervention in behalf of, in Amer 

 ican colonies, 48-51. 



Spanish- American War, 321-323, 



342, 369- 



Spoils system, the, 79-81. 

 Squier, Mr., 157, 158. 

 Stanley, Lord, 173, 241, 243. 

 Suez Canal, 332. 

 Sumner, Charles, 206, 245-250, 



253, 254, 256. 

 Sutter s mill, 362. 



Tariff, protective, in the United 

 States, 75-77, 283, 297-299, 325, 

 339; in Canada, 274, 275; abol 

 ished in Great Britain, 143, 144, 

 176, 185. 



Taylor, President, 157. 



Tecumseh, 34, 35. 



Texas, 96; annexation of, 120-124; 

 132, 134-137, 362. 



Theodore, King, 225. 



Thompson, Sir John S. D., 290. 



Tigre, island of, 157, 158. 



Times, the London, 216. 



Tocqueville, 83. 



Tories, views of, as to Americans, 

 6, 7; 43, 48, 49, 52, 59-62, 65-68, 

 81, 87, 142, 144, 146, 173-175; 



Canadian, 178, 180, 181; 183, 

 194, 229, 230, 322, 361, 366. 



Transvaal, the, 314. 



Treaty, of 1783, 8, 29; of arbitra 

 tion, of 1911, 341, 342; Clayton- 

 Bulwer, 158-165, 330-332, 362; 

 commerce and navigation, 39- 

 42, 59; Ghent, 1814, i, 2, 8, 9, 

 13, 20, 23, 24, 30, 192, 194, 342, 

 359; between Great Britain and 

 Venezuela, 316; Hay-Paunce- 

 fote, 331; with Honduras, 157, 

 164; inshore fisheries draught, 

 280, 288; Johnson-Clarendon, 

 242-244; London, 1818, 20-29; 

 with New Granada, 156; with 

 Nicaragua, 164; Olney-Paunce- 

 fote, 318-320; Oregon boundary, 

 132-134, 25 1, 259; of Portsmouth, 

 346; Reciprocity, 190, 191, 364; 

 Root-Bryce, 333-338; seal fish 

 eries arbitration, 289-291 ; Texan 

 independence, 121; of Washing 

 ton, 250-254, 259-262, 265, 276, 

 366; Webster-Ashburton, 107- 



113- 



Trent affair, the, 210-216, 218, 313. 

 Trevelyan, his &quot;Life of John 



Bright&quot; cited, 228. 

 Trollope, Mrs., her &quot;Domestic 



Life of the Americans,&quot; 84. 

 Tupper, Sir Charles, 288, 290. 

 Tyler, President, 124, 130. 



United Empire Loyalists, the, 91, 

 174. 



United States, weakness and in 

 significance of, in 1812, 3, 4; de 

 mocracy in, 5-7; rejoicing over 

 Treaty of Ghent in, 8; difficul 

 ties as to northwestern bound 

 ary of, 27-32, 130; northeastern 

 boundary dispute, 110-112, 120, 

 242, 361; commercial interests 

 of, 39, 40; industrial and polit 

 ical freedom in, 43, 44; Jack- 

 sonian democracy in, 46 et seq.; 

 policy of, in West India trade 



