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John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Chapter 23: period of reconstruction (search)
rtments of government Approves general amnesty Recommends Greeley for Grant's cabinet or minister to England manifest Destiny or Continental Union annexation of Haiti and Santo Domingo repeal of tenure of office act arrest of Samuel Bowles Dana closed the contract for the control of the New York Sun late in December, 1867, or early in January, 1868, for himself and his associates, among whom were such distinguished men as William M. Evarts, Roscoe Conkling, Thomas Hitchcock, Alonzo B. Cornell, Cyrus W. Field, Edwin D. Morgan, George Opdyke, David Dows, Salem H. Wales, William H. Webb, and Freeman Clarke. Several other gentlemen of nearly equal prominence were included in the list of stockholders. They were nearly all Republicans, and all influential in the political or commercial life of New York and of the country at large. The prospectus of the new management of the newspaper was printed in its editorial page of January 27, 1868. After giving notice that the Sun would
John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Chapter 24: Grant's first administration (search)
cluded him from the Treasury, they generally concurred with Dana, not only in pronouncing the proposal to be a mistake, but in holding that the law which interdicts from the Treasury every person engaged in trade, and every dealer in public securities, was wise and salutary. While this was the independent view of the matter, it was doubtless distasteful to the thick-and-thin supporters of the administration, if not to Grant in person. Although Dana followed it by the commendation of Alonzo B. Cornell's appointment to the office of Surveyor of the Port as one of perfect fitness, and by hearty praise of the President for recalling the order by which he had placed the administration of the army and the military bureaus under the general-in-chief, and returned it to the Secretary of War, where the law puts it, the other newspapers, and especially the Tribune, were swift to attribute Dana's criticism, mild as it was, to personal disappointment. While Dana ridiculed this imputation, h
John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Index (search)
lector of Customs, 407. Collins line, 131. Coleridge, 21, 26-28, 56. Colored troops, 235. Columbus, Tennessee, 204. Commerce, editorial on, 51. Commercial Advertiser, 62. Comstock, Colonel, 325, 352. Concord, Massachusetts, 26. Conkling, Roscoe, 45, 195, 357. Considerant, Victor, 56, 66, 136. Consolidation of military departments, Mississippi Valley, 267, 268. Continental Union Association, 477. Cooper, 47. Corbin's Bridge, 319. Corinto affair, 471. Cornell, Alonzo B., Surveyor of Port of New York, 413. Corporate power-trusts, 458, 459, 475, 476, 479. Correspondence, official. See note, page 205, also Dana's Recollections of Civil War. Cottage, the, 44. Cotton, buying, 195-197. Cousin, 56. Cox, Jacob D., 410, 418. Cranch, 51. Crawfish Springs, 257. Credit Mobilier, 428, 433, 434, 438, 441, 442, 449. Cresswell, Postmaster--General, 433. Crittenden, General, 98, 180, 254, 259, 262, 265, 328. Croats of Jellachich, 74. Crock