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One hundred million people, all with a strong sense of liberty, but
not of license; all educated, or desirous and able to become so; all
ambitious, because the highest prizes are within their reach; nearly
all speaking one language: with private fortunes greater than the
world has ever seen, and with the natural resources of the country
then in their flower.

One cannot dwell upon this prospect without swelling with pride, and
at the same time almost trembling at its very grandeur.

The mighty Republic of the United States, which sprang into existence
less than a century ago, will be the acknowledged law-giver and
arbiter of the entire world.

Perhaps at no time has the temptation for us to mix in the affairs of
Europe been so strong as today, because, selfishly speaking, we have
everything to gain and nothing to lose. (It must be remembered that
_every word_ of this article was written in 1870.) A mere spark which
could any moment be struck at Washington would in three months’ time
set Europe in flames.

An excuse like the Cuban difficulty (The independence of Cuba,
achieved at the close of the century by the assistance of the United
States in its war with Spain), the long pending question of the
Alabama Claims, (Claims of the United States upon Great Britain for
damages by the _Alabama_ and other Confederate cruisers, settled in
1872, at Geneva, by a court of arbitration.) the relations between the
Sultan and the Khedive, or the foolishness now between France and the
United States about the postal treaty or the Atlantic cable. Any of
these would be sufficient to do the work, and what would be the
result? (The postal union was formed by a congress of delegates
representing the principal governments of Europe and the United
States, assembled at Berne, Switzerland, in September, 1874. A treaty
was concluded establishing a uniform rate of postage for letters of 5
cents per half ounce.)

Thousands and thousands of able-bodied men, with no taste for war, and
especially war for the gratification of crowned heads, would seize
every opportunity of leaving their native lands and hastening to
America. It would be impossible to prevent them.

Millions and millions of treasure seeking safe investment, would find
its way to the United States, and all that is wanted to develop the
country, is hands to work the natural resources and money to pay for
it.

America would become what England has been for many years, the strong
box of the world. England can be so no more.

Telegraph communication and steam have put her so near the continent
of Europe, that she can no longer be regarded as a sure land of refuge
for men or money. Nay, it is doubtful if she could actually keep out
of the conflict. The safe must be separated from the combatants by a
broader piece of water than the Straits of Dover. Three thousand miles
are not too much for perfect security. The action of the United States
could bring on any war it wished, but the country itself would have
nothing to fear. Its strength is so great that it could meet fairly in
the field any possible combination of the nations of Europe. The
feeling of animosity between the northern and southern states, which
has existed during the civil war, but which is happily now almost
over, would end in fraternal enthusiasm if the country should engage
in a popular war against any other nation. But the carnage once begun
in Europe could not be carried over the Atlantic, as there would be
enough to keep it there. The United States would be in any case the
attacked and not the attacking party, and modern warfare has arrived
at the point that, other things being equal, the party which attacks a
distant land is almost sure to be worsted.

What would fall to the lot of the United States would be the business
of the world. The carrying trade of the nations would be done by her,
and the problem of the revival of her shipping be by the action of
others solved. All the merchant vessels which plough the Atlantic and
Pacific oceans, would claim the protection of the Stars and Stripes,
and this means limitless sums of money poured into her treasury,
wealth to the country, and wealth to private individuals. The prestige
of her flag would be such as none ever had before.

THE PATH OF PEACE.

Such is the prospect which opens before the vision of the people of
the United States today. Deeply conscious of our great power, let us
be equally conscious of our responsibility in best employing that
power for the benefit of mankind. Let us remember that our path is the
path of peace, and not that of war, let us endeavor not to be turned
from it by the constant temptations of false glory, for, if we are, we
shall ourselves suffer for it later, and cause others to suffer.

It is for its to show to Europe, not what advantages can be derived
from war and diplomacy, which are the weapons of the past, but what
greater advantages can be derived from the weapons of the present and
the future,—the weapons of our own peculiar fabrication,—such as the
nobility of labor and universal education and freedom. Only by acting
thus shall we be able to prove to the nations who are even now
‘hanging breathless on our fate,’ that we truly carry with us a
grander civilization than has ever yet been seen.”

FROM A LETTER TO MY SISTER AT MANCHESTER.

“Club House, Newport, August 7, 1870: I was in Boston yesterday, and had just about ten minutes at 39 Beacon street, where I found your nice letter. I am very comfortably established here, in a little apartment with my friend Bob. Winthrop of New York, and here I mean to have my headquarters, running off occasionally to New York or Boston and I hope before long to turn up at ‘Sharksmouth.’ I have been really very much occupied the last month, what with my own affairs, _la haute finance_ at Washington and New York, with the thermometer at 90°, and with occasional visits to my friends, and have been very happy with all the work. I have my old horse ‘Trumps’ from South Carolina, and he is in as fine a condition as when I left him, more than two years ago. He reposes in solitary dignity in the stable.

Poor Europe in 1870, is terribly changed!

I am going to print my little article in a pamphlet by itself, with an introduction suited to the times, and will send you a copy when it appears. I came to the conclusion that to alter it to suit the ever changing news from Europe would be impossible, and would really spoil it, and so I will let it remain as it is as one of my first literary attempts.

I have been to Long Branch, and it is the most extraordinary American political rendezvous I ever saw.

The war in Europe sickens me, so many thousand poor fellows to be murdered and maimed for wicked personal ambition. The whole business of the world is thrown into our hands,—I mean the United States of America,—if we only take it.”

GOUBAREFF THE RUSSIAN.

Demetrius Goubareff was a very intelligent Russian, to whom I was first introduced in 1871 or 1872. As a young man he had liberated his serfs before the emancipation action of Alexander II. and had been a progressive man in every way. He wrote a book entitled “Philosophie—Religion.” He had, I believe, taken part in the Crimean war, and then again in 1879, entered the service of his country at the time of the later attempt to obtain possession of Constantinople, which I have been informed was balked only by the interposition of Bismarck. The matter I thought ought to have been settled then and there.

Mr. Goubareff lived much at Nice and Paris, and often visited London. He kept up an extensive correspondence with many interesting persons.

He passed Sunday with me at Vevey, Switzerland, in March, 1876, and we had an excellent chance to talk there quietly and at our leisure. I found that he was much interested in the “Association for the Codification and Reform of the Law of Nations,” of which, on my proposing him, he became a member. I was very glad of this because he proposed to make a good deal of occupation for himself out of it, getting acquainted, and opening correspondence with many of the distinguished persons who were on the list of its members, and would prove a very valuable addition to the organization.

The following month in Paris Mr. Goubareff introduced me to the Golovine family, and we dined with them and strolled together in the beautiful gardens of St. Germain.

RUSSIA AND THE UNITED STATES.
WRITTEN IN BOSTON IN 1873.

“A good deal has been said and written the last ten years, about the
strong friendship existing between Russia and the United States, the
coquetting, as it has been called, of these two nations with each
other.

That such an _entente cordiale_ has existed is beyond all dispute, but
the causes of it open a wide field for discussion.

The nations of Europe who have watched its progress with some evident
alarm for themselves, have come forward with many unasked-for
explanations, to clearly prove that such a thing is out of all reason,
that it should not be, that it is all nonsense, thereby admitting all
the more plainly the ugly fact. Particularly kind and disinterested
have they been in their advice to the youthful United States, warning
her to be careful, lest she be outwitted by the shrewd diplomacy of
the Muscovite Cabinet, telling her that it was all a smart trick on
the part of the Russian government, from which they only wanted to
carry out their own ambitious ends, and this done, they would be ready
at any moment to give the innocent and confiding Americans the slip.

It is pleasant, as a citizen of the United States to feel what good
friends we have on the other side of the Atlantic,—real friends,
too,—who are ready to come forward, now that we are out of the woods,
to save us from the terrible fate of being killed by too much
kindness.

Like the almost historic personage who was talked to death, perhaps
there is danger in store for the American Republic of being _advised_
to death by her older brothers and sisters.

It does not take an over-intelligent person to see that between a
military autocracy, under the sway of an almost absolute ruler, and a
government of the people, intrusting the management of its affairs
temporarily to its chosen representatives, there cannot be,
theoretically, certainly, much genuine and heartfelt sympathy. This is
superficially the view which any one would take. But deeper reflection
on the traits, or, better still, living among the people of whom such
a comparison is made, will show that this curious sympathy is not by
any means a matter of government alone,—important as that is to aid
it,—but lies hidden in the life of the people themselves, only to be
brought out by a curious combination of circumstances.

THE DOUBLE EVENT OF EMANCIPATION.

At times the spark will be struck, and blaze forth into a great
conflagration. Such a time was the late civil war in North America,
which was the cause of the emancipation of the slaves in the Southern
states, when, to correspond with it, at about the same epoch, but from
entirely different causes, came the liberation of the serfs all
through Russia.

Alexander II. and Abraham Lincoln then found a bond of fellowship
existing between them, which nothing could break, and the masses in
Russia and in the United States, were only too ready to take up the
double event and magnify it in their feeling to an unlimited extent.
Then many other points of similarity were discovered; the great extent
of territory of both nations, giving each a future in the development
of the resources placed there by nature, whether on the surface of the
earth or under it, which restricted limits had denied to the other
nations of the continent. This same vastness of land, educating many
to be merchants, and farmers, and miners, and railroad owners on a
grand scale, caused a corresponding freedom of thought and
independence of action,—in other words democratized the people who had
come under its influence,—in a way which cannot well be appreciated by
those whose life is passed in crowded cities alone, where the prestige
of courts and the presence of cliques make individuality much less
marked.

The two nations, the republic and the empire, owned a wide frontage on
the Pacific ocean, which they came in imagination to regard as a huge
lake, and this their common property. Other events, too, at this time
were used with great effect; such as the arrival of the Russian
squadron in America (The Russian fleet in New York, Boston, and San
Francisco in 1863.), the visit of Assistant Secretary of the Navy Fox
in 1866, and that of Admiral Farragut in 1867, (Admiral Farragut was
in Russia the greater part of August in that year, and it was said the
friendship and courtesy of both government and people were especially
marked.) the purchase of Alaska (In 1867, organized July 27, 1868.)
and the return call of the Grand Duke Alexis to the United States.
(The third son of the Emperor Alexander II. of Russia visited this
country in December 1871, and at a banquet Oliver Wendell Holmes
welcomed him with the following words:—

‘Bleak are our shores with the blasts of December,
Fettered and chill is the rivulet’s flow,
But throbbing and warm are the hearts that remember
Who was our friend when the world was our foe.’

There was a gift to the poor of New York when the Russian squadron
took leave of New York in 1863, a voluntary subscription of $4,760
from the officers, and during the famine in Russia in 1891, our
government sent over five large steamers loaded with grain collected
from almost every state in the Union.)

But, supposing there were no characteristics in common, it will not
soon be forgotten in America that, during the long years of the
terrible war, while many of the nations of Europe were clinging to the
policy of keeping an uncompromising but none the less watchful armed
neutrality, rulers and aristocracies in their hearts against the cause
of the North, while the lower classes everywhere went with it, Russia,
of all the great nations, alone came forward, and gave openly its
sympathy to the side which represented a more advanced civilization,
and which as such, in spite of its many disheartening defeats, was
bound to triumph in the end. A person who is hard pressed in life,
when a friend comes up to give him encouragement, does not stop to
reflect why it is given, and try to put a selfish construction on the
offer, he accepts it on the spot, and is not apt to forget the donor
in a hurry. So Americans are not to be easily persuaded that Russia’s
assistance to them at that critical period in their country’s history,
was a mere diplomatic sham and meaningless parade. They are willing to
be ignorant still, if this is so, and need more powerful arguments to
disprove them than have yet been raised by their officious
counsellors.”

THE RUSSO-AMERICAN FEVER.

In the year of my first journey to Russia, 1866, the Russo-American fever was at its height, and it was a very pleasant thing for those who caught it when travelling in the other country. They were fêted and hugged, and wined, and tossed, according to the customs of the people, and their nationality alone was a sufficient passport to pass them along the lines of sight-seeing and pleasure, passing unchallenged,—nay, rather invited in. The entire nation was in the attitude of “present arms” to him from the other country who desired to pass through on a tour of inspection.

* * * * *

“And the great ships sail outward and return,
Bending and bowing o’er the billowy swells,
And ever joyful, as they see it burn,
They wave their silent welcomes and farewells.”
—_Henry W. Longfellow, The Lighthouse._

FINIS.

PORT SAID. OPENING OF THE SUEZ CANAL.
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INDEX
TO
PERSONS, PLACES, AND SUBJECTS

Academy of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, 151.

Academy of Music, Brooklyn, N. Y., 90.

Academy of Music, Newport, R. I., 32.

Admiralty, St. Petersburg, 151.

After Emancipation, 58, 200.

Agricultural Exhibition, 174.

Alabama Claims, 219.

Alaska, 172, 186, 225.

Albania, 108.

Alexander I., 186, 192.

Alexander II., 77, 81, 92, 94–96, 106, 134, 136–138, 161, 162, 164,
173–175, 184, 194–197, 200, 211, 216, 222, 224, 225.

Alexander II., Death of, 203–205.

Alexander II., Monument, 205.

Alexandria, 179.

Alice, yacht, 17–19, 23, 25, 27, 117.

Allston, Washington, 125–132.

Andrews, Christopher Columbus, 169, 170.

Appleton, D. & Co., 146, 153.

Appleton, Thomas Gold, 17–20, 23, 25, 42, 117, 123, 126, 129–132, 148.

Appomattox Court House, Va., 62, 64.

Army of the Potomac, 21, 22, 156, 158.

Artillery Brigade, 157.

Artists’ Club, St. Petersburg, 99.

Ashuelot, man-of-war, 136.

Asniéres, 24.

Astor, W. W., 146.

Augusta, man-of-war, 136.

Avenue de l’Opera, Paris, 35.

Ball, Thomas, 66.

Baltic Sea, 24, 73, 186.

Baltimore, Md., 44, 55, 99.

Banks, Nathaniel P., 160, 168–174, 176, 179, 181, 183, 207, 213.

Barlow, S. L. M., 145.

Bartlett, Joseph J., 30.

Battle of Antietam, 52.

Beaumont, Sir George, 130, 131.

Behring Straits, 103.

Behring, Vitus, discoverer, 103.

Bellevue Avenue, Newport, R. I., 29.

Belmont, August, 33, 145–147.

Bennett, James Gordon, 27, 28.

Bennett, James Gordon, Jr., 27–29, 34, 36, 159.

Berdan, Hiram, 173, 176.

Berlin, 24, 26, 39, 68–74, 167.

Besborodko, Koucheleff, Count, 93, 141.

Bicknell, Albion H., 64.

Bismarck-Schonhausen, Otto Edward Leopold, Prince von, Chancellor of
the Empire, 222.

Black Sea, 214.

Bois de Boulogne, 20, 23, 38–40, 111, 162, 165.

Boit, Edward D., 203.

Boston, 9, 19, 66, 103, 116, 119, 127, 128, 221, 224.

Boston Athenæum, 128.

Boston Board of Trade, 177.

Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 129.

Boston Public Library, 141.

Boulevard des Italiens, Paris, 36.

Bowditch, Henry P., 158.

Bowles Brothers & Co., Bankers, 168.

Bowles, Charles, 34, 168, 177.

Bowles, Drevet & Cie, Paris, 17.

Bowles, Robert, 127.

Boyer, Alexandre, 183.

Brest, 9, 11, 14, 16, 24.

Brevoort House, New York, 90.

Brevoort Place, New York, 89.

Bric-a-Brac Club, Boston, 148.

Brighton Road, Brighton District, Boston, 87, 123, 135.

Brindisi, 179.

Brown, Edward Ingersol, 132.

Brown, John Murray, 181.

Brussels, 24, 26, 39, 68.

Bullock, Alexander H., 167.

Burgess, Frank, 9, 16, 23, 39, 84, 122, 144.

Burlingame, Anson, 165–169, 180.

Burlington Arcade, London, 85.

Café Napolitaine, Paris, 26, 27.

Cairo, Egypt, 179, 216.

Cambridge, Mass., 159.

Cameron, Simon, 50.

Camp Douglas, 21.

Carnatz Connection, 106.

Carolina Filly, 30.

Caspian Sea, 108.

Catherine II., 193.

Caucasus, 186.

Centennial Exposition, Philadelphia, 129.

Cercle des Capucines, 38.

Cercle Franco-Américain, 37, 38.

Champ de Mars, St. Petersburg, 173.

Chandler, Zachariah, 168.

Charing Cross Hotel, London, 20.

Chase, Salmon P., 55, 64.

Chicago, 10.

Chicago Exposition, 66, 129.

China, steamship, 18.

Chinese Embassy, 167–169.

Christmas Day, 81, 92, 98, 103, 113, 114, 122, 132, 133.

Church of Saint Sophia, 140.

Church of Sault Isaac, 86, 87.

Circassia, 83, 85, 92, 108, 142, 145, 147, 204.

Clark, Arthur H., 17, 18.

Clay, Cassius M., 82, 94–96, 98, 137.

Clyde Park, 30.

Coaching Club, 28.

Coffey, Titian J., 172, 173, 177.

Colfax, Schuyler, 65.

Cologne, 69.

Commune, France, 36, 37.

Commune, or Mir, Russia, 201–203.

Compiègne, 20.

Comte, Auguste, 181.

Constantinople, 39, 76, 102, 169, 179, 180, 213–216, 222.

Copenhagen, 168, 171.

Corbin, Austin, 29.

Costume Ball, 144–147.

Cotton Exposition, New Orleans, 21.

Country Club, Brookline, Mass., 30, 32, 33.

Cowdin, Elliot C., 166.

Cowes, 18, 19.

Cowes Roads, 18.

Cracow, 154, 155.

Crane, Edward A., 182.

Crimea, 23, 193, 194.

Crimean War, 193, 194, 197, 215, 216, 222.

Cronstadt, 97, 136.

Crowninshield, B. W., 156.

Cuba, 26, 172.

Curtin, Andrew G., 168, 172, 173, 177, 180.

Curtin, Jeremiah, 81, 103, 118, 134, 181.

Curtis, T. B., 25, 39.

Danube River, 181, 217.

Dauntless, yacht, 29.

Davis, Tom Kemper, 126.

De Gogorza, Anthoine, 183.

De Lesseps, Ferdinand, Count, 164, 165, 179, 182, 183.

Delmonico’s, New York, 144.

De Long, George W., 159.

Demidoff Mines, 87.

De Richelieu, Armand Emanuel du Plessis, Duke, 178.

De Trobriand, Philippe Regis, 20, 21, 24, 91.

Dieppe, 24.

District of Columbia, 45, 49.

Dix, John A., 165–167.

Dneiper River, 185.

D’Osuna et de l’Ynfantado, Duke, Spanish Ambassador, 82, 93, 98.

Dresden, 25, 106, 155.

Drexel, A. J., 34, 35, 168.

Drexel, Harjes & Co., 34, 168.

Dumaresq, Armand, 37.

Dvina River, 185.

Easton’s Beach, Newport, R. I., 31.

Elsinore, 170, 184.

Emancipation, Compensated, 48–50, 60, 196, 197, 199.

Emancipation, Double Event of, 224.

Emancipation, Gradual, 48–50, 196, 197.

Emancipation Law of Russia, Manifesto, 198, 199, 200.

Emancipation, Proclamation in the United States, 52–54.

Emancipation, Result of War, 50, 193.

Emperor of Austria, Franz Joseph I., 182.

English Channel, 18, 117.

English Club, St. Petersburg, 134.

Erlanger, Emile, 183.

Erlanger, Louis, Count Excelmans, 183.

Europe and America in 1870, 207, 209–222.

Evans, Thomas W., 35, 180, 182, 183.

Executive Mansion or White House, 48, 51, 62.

Faneuil Hall, Boston, 41.

Farragut, David Glasgow, Admiral, 224.

Fearing, H. S., 145.

Fetridge, William Pembroke, 34, 36, 38.

Fifth Avenue, New York, 29.

Fifth Corps, Army of the Potomac, Union Forces, War of 1861-’65, 156,
157, 158.

Fifth Mass. Battery, Light Artillery, 63, 116, 157.

Fifteenth Amendment, 57, 58, 60.

Fifty-fifth N. Y. Regt. Inf., 21.

Finland, 186.

Finland, Grand Duchy of, 186.

Finland, Gulf of, 97, 172, 186.

First Mass. Battery, Light Artillery, 158.

First Mass. Cavalry, 16, 156–158.

Fish, Hamilton, 22.

Fleetwing, yacht, 27.

Fogg Museum, Harvard College, 71.

Folies Dramatiques, Paris, 10.

Fontainebleau, 162.

Forbes, Paul, 161, 183.

Ford’s Theatre, Washington, D. C., 61, 66.

Forest of Fontainebleau, 42.

Four-in-Hand Club, 28.

Fourteenth Amendment, 56, 57, 59.

Fox, Gustavus Vasa, 36, 135, 136, 185, 224.

Fox’s Mission, 135, 136.

Fremont, John C., 47, 48, 50.

Friederichshamm, Peace of, 186.

Frog Pond, Boston Common, 85.

Fugitive Slave Law, repeal of, 55.

Gagarine, Julie, Princess, 121.

Galitzine, Prince, 150.

Garcia, John, 36.

Gare de l’ Ouest, Paris, 15.

Garrison, William Lloyd, 44.

Gautier, Théophile, 40.

General Kotzebue, steamship, 179, 182.

German Club, Moscow, 115.

Gettysburg, Penn., 64.

Gillig, Henry F., 26.

Goddard, Ely, 33.

Golden Horn, 181.

Gortschakoff, Alexander Michailowitsch, Prince, 95, 96, 150, 211.

Gostinny Dvor, Moscow, 108.

Gott, Daniel, 45.

Goubareff, Demetrius, 222, 223.

Grand Duchess Helena, 200.

Grand Duke Alexis, 225.

Grand Duke Constantine, 194, 200.

Grand Duke Nicholas, 174.

Grand Hotel, Paris, 15, 16, 24, 35, 166.

Grand Opera, Moscow, 115.

Grand Opera, Paris, 24.

Grand Opera, St. Petersburg, 84, 88, 141, 143, 149.

Grand Prix, Paris, 161.

Grand Theatre, Moscow, 105.

Grant, Ulysses S., 65, 66, 173.

Gray Collection of Engravings, 70, 71.

Gray, Francis Colley, 70.

Gray, George Griswold, 28, 33.

Great Eastern, steamship, 18.

Greek Church, 181, 182, 188.

Green, J. Orne, 72.

Gregg, John I., 156, 157.

Hamburg, 168.

Harvard College, 22, 70, 89.

Havana, Cuba, 26.

Hayti, 44, 51.

Healy, G. P. A., 203.

Henrietta, yacht, 27, 28.

Hereditary Medals, 205.

Hermitage, 84, 151.

Higginson, Frank L., 17.

Holland, J. G., 44.

Holy Synod, 188, 205, 206.

Hooker, Joseph, 62.

Hotel de la Paix, 9.

Hotel Dusaux, Moscow, 103.

Hudson River, 28.

Hunnewell, Hollis, 17.

Hunt, William Morris, 40–42.

Hunter, David A., 50.

Hurlburt, William Henry, 145.

Hyde Park, London, 111.

Imperial Library, St. Petersburg, 151.

Invitation, Note of, 94.

Isla, 141.

Ismail Pasha, Khedive of Egypt, 216.

Ismailia, 179.

Ivan III., 185.

Jackson, Charles C., 17, 25.

Jagellon, Duke of Lithuania, 154.

Jamaica Pond, Roxbury, Mass., 135.

Jay, William, 28.

Jeannette, steamship, 159.

Jerome, Lawrence, 29.

Jerome, Leonard W., 27.

Jockeys’ Ball, 32.

Johnson, Andrew, 117, 136.

Johnson, “Ned”, 27.

Jonesville, East Tennessee, 44.

Khedive, 180, 182, 216, 219.

Kimball, Moses, 66.

King of Prussia, William I., 161, 164.

Knapp, A. W., 29.

Königsberg, 24, 70, 73.

Kosciusko, Thaddeus, 153, 154.

Kremlin, Moscow, 103, 105, 107, 108, 114, 116, 121, 187.

Kremlin, Novgorod, 140.

Kronborg Castle, 170.

Kropotkin, Prince, 204.

Kung, Prince, 166.

Lafayette, Gilbert Motier de, 37, 44.

Lamson, Daniel S., 89, 90.

Lane, David, 89.

Lee, John C., 168.

Lee, Robert E., 21, 52, 62.

Le Ray, Maurice, 16.

Lincoln, Abraham, 41–67, 166, 204, 224.

Lincoln, Abraham, Death of, 61–63.

Lincoln, Abraham, Statues of, 64, 66.

Lithuanian Provinces, 74, 194.

Lockwood, Alfred, 36.

London, Eng., 17, 23, 39, 120, 207, 222.

Long Branch, New Jersey, 221.

Longchamps, 25, 161.

Longfellow, Charles A., 16–19, 23–25, 26, 38, 39, 69, 70, 72, 82, 84,
94, 97, 98, 105, 114, 118, 119, 123, 138–140, 142, 148, 151,
153–159.

Longfellow, Ernest, 23, 122.

Longfellow, Henry W., 16, 38, 70, 88, 125.

Lorillard, George, 36.

Lorillard, Louis, 36.

Loubat, J. F., Duc de, 35, 36, 136.

Louvre, Paris, 23.

Lundy, Benjamin, 43.

Lyrique, Paris, 23.

Manchuria, 186.

Manhattan Club, New York, 145.

Manifesto of Emancipation, Russia, 198.

Marble, Manton, 145.

Martin, Augustus P., 157.

Maximilian, Ferdinand Joseph, Emperor of Mexico, 163.

Mazourka, 115, 121, 154.

McClellan, George B., 52.

McVickar, William H., 28.

Meade, George G., 156.

Mediterranean Sea, 179.

Merrill, T. Watson, 159.

Mesnil, Baron de, 31.

Metropolitan, Moscow, 181.

Metropolitan, St. Petersburg, 137.

Miantonomoh, monitor, 136.

Mickiewicz, Adam, 155.

Mill Dam Road, Boston, 83.

Mine Run, 156, 157.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Russia, 96, 188.

Ministry of Public Instruction, Russia, 186, 188.

Mississippi River, 47.

Morley, Henry, 19.

Moscow, 24, 38, 39, 76, 81, 86, 98–103, 105, 114, 116–118, 121, 134,
139, 176, 177, 181, 185, 187, 189, 194, 205.

Moscow, gas-lighting of, 152.

Mount Cenis Tunnel, 179.

Mount Pleasant, Ohio, 44.

Muscovy, 187.

Nahant, Mass., 18, 153, 159.

Napoleon Bonaparte, 73, 102, 176.

Napoleon III., 25, 161–164, 180, 216, 217.

Narragansett Avenue, Newport, R. I., 32.

National Museum, Washington, D. C., 67.

Navy and Army Club, Cronstadt, 97.

Neva Club, 134.

Neva River, 39, 84, 85, 108, 137, 151, 153, 184, 185.

Neva Skating Club, 84, 85, 93.

Nevski Prospect, St. Petersburg, 83, 87, 111, 134, 205.

Newfoundland, 18.

New or Mount Hope Church, Va., 16, 156–158.

New London, Conn., 29.

New Orleans, La., 21.

Newport, N. H., 29.

Newport, R. I., 16, 28–33, 147, 150, 221.

Newport, R. I., Beach, 30–33, 121.

Newport, R. I., Jockey Club, 31.

New York City, 9, 10, 14, 21, 28, 29, 36, 60, 63, 77, 89, 90, 120, 135,
136, 166, 221, 224, 225.

New York Club, 90, 91.

New York Yacht Club, 27, 28.

Nice, 207, 222.

Nicholas I., 95, 192, 193, 194.

Nicholas II., 202, 203, 205, 206.

Nisbet, W. F., 153.

Nobility Club, 115.

Non-Intervention of the United States, 218–220.

Norton, Charles B., 183.

Nottaway Court House, Va., 62.

Novgorod, 135, 140, 141, 185.

Nuba Pasha, 182.

Odessa, 24, 98, 177–179, 187, 208.

Oglesby, R. J., 65.

Oldroyd Lincoln Memorial Collection, 67.

Opera House, Berlin, 72.

Oriental Quadrille, 144, 146, 147.

Oscar, King of Sweden and Norway, 170.

Otis, James, 147.

Otis, William C., 28.

Ourousoff, Prince, 31, 121, 150.

Ourousoff, Princess, 150.

Palais Royal, Paris, 10.

Panama Canal, 29, 37, 164, 178, 183.

Paris, 9–11, 14–17, 20, 22, 24, 25, 27, 34–40, 68, 69, 73, 83, 85, 86,
88, 103, 115, 117, 126, 153, 155, 161–169, 176, 179, 183, 203, 207,
222, 223.

Paris Exposition of 1867, 39, 41, 151, 160, 164.

Passage, St. Petersburg, 85.

Passage des Panoramas, Paris, 85.

Patriarch Adrian, 188.

Patriarch of Constantinople, 181, 182.

Patriarchal Cathedral, 114.

Patti, Adelina, 26, 27.

Paul, Emperor, 191.

Peabody, George, 152, 153.

Peabody, S. Endicott, 168.

Perkins, C. C., 26.

Peter the Great, 85, 98, 187, 188, 190.

Peter III., 193.

Philippe’s, Paris, 39.

Phœnix, Lloyd, 36.

Picpus Cemetery, Paris, 37.

Pierce, Josiah, Jr., 88.

Place de la Concorde, Paris, 161.

Place de l’Opera, Paris, 35.

Place du Nouvel Opera, Paris, 9.

Plevna, 204.

Poland, 75, 80, 153–155, 186, 195.

Polar Sea, 186.

Pompeiian Villa, 24.

Pomutz, George, 176.

Port Said, 179, 182, 226.

Post, Albert Kintzing, 21.

Postal Union, 219.

Post, Waldron Kintzing, 22.

Prague, Peace of, 210.

Pratt, Thomas, 36.

Pré Catalan, 165.

Presentation, 92, 173.

Proclamation of Emancipation, 52–54.

Raasloff, Waldemar Rudolph, 168, 171.

Rappahannock River, Va., 63.

Rescript of Nazimof, 195.

Review of Troops in France, 161, 162.

Review of Troops in Russia, 121, 173–176.

Review of Troops in Sweden, 170.

Rhodes, 179.

Rice, Alexander H., 177.

Rice, A. Thorndike, 146.

Riggs, Elisha, 36.

Ristori, Adelaide, 25, 26.

River Rhine, 218.

Riverside Park, Cambridgeport, Mass., 115.

Roberts, Benjamin Stone, 97.

Rome, 39, 87, 93, 130, 211.

Rosalie, 123, 125–129, 131.

Rue Auber, Paris, 36.

Rue Castiglione, Paris, 176.

Rue de là Paix, Paris, 9, 17, 24, 35.

Rue Royale, Paris, 176.

Rue St. Honoré, Paris, 176.

Rurik, yacht, 136, original settler, 185.

Russell, Harry, 32.

Russia and the United States, 186, 223–225.

Russian Beggar, 75, 201.

Russian Horse, 77, 78, 81, 97, 98, 105, 106, 108–113, 115, 120, 121,
150.

Russian Navigation Company, 179.

Russian Sleigh, 77, 78, 81, 83, 87, 94, 105, 120, 149.

Russian Yacht Club, 84.

Saint Cloud, 164.

Saint Gaudens, Augustus, 66.

Saint Germain, 223.

Saint Louis, Mo., 47.

Saint Michel Theatre, St. Petersburg, 88.

Saint Petersburg, 17, 19, 24, 38, 39, 72, 74, 78, 81, 82, 91, 92, 96,
98, 102, 103, 108, 116–118, 121, 122, 132–134, 136, 138, 139, 143,
145, 152–154, 167–169, 172, 173, 176, 177, 181, 187, 197, 203, 215,
216.

Saint Petersburg and Moscow Railroad, 99, 101, 177.

Saint Petersburgh and Warsaw Railroad, 80, 177.

Saint Thomas, island, 171.

Samanos, Augustus, 36.

San Francisco, 10, 91, 124, 167, 181, 224.

Sargent, Harry, 17.

Sayles, Henry, 132.

Scilly Islands, 9.

Secession of Southern States, 46.

Serfs, 189–191.

Serfs, Emancipation of, 192–203.

Seward, William H., 51, 54, 55, 64.

Shattuck, George B., 70, 124, 143.

Sherman, William T., 65.

Siberia, 191, 193.

Simpson, Matthew, 62.

Sixteenth Mass. Infantry, 90.

Smith, Charles K., 86, 89–91.

Snead, Thomas L., 48.

Soldiers’ Home, Washington, D. C., 43.

Somerset Club, Boston, 22.

Southwell, Viscount, 32, 33.

Souworoff, or Suwarrow, Alexander Vasilievitch, Count Rymnikski, 143.

Spanish Ambassador, St. Petersburg, 93, 98, 99.

Spencer, Lorillard, 35.

Springfield, Ill., 62.

Staigg Portrait, 117, 122, 124, 132, 133.

Staigg, Richard M., 123, 124, 152.

Stanfield, Harry, 17–19, 23, 24, 29.

Stevenson, Robert H., 25, 27.

Stockholm, Sweden, 167, 169, 170, 180.

Straits of Dover, 220.

Strogonoff, Count, 177.

Suez Canal, 35, 164, 168, 169, 178–180, 208, 215–217, 226.

Sully, Thomas, 126–128.

Sultan of Turkey, Abdul-Aziz, 162, 163, 216, 219.

Sykes, George, 156.

Synod, Holy, 188, 205, 206.

System of Government in Russia, 187–189.

Talleyrand-Perigord, Charles Maurice, Prince of Benevento, 13.

Tchudova, 140.

Thies, Louis, 70.

Thirteenth U. S. Infantry, 21.

Thirty-first U. S. Infantry, 20, 21.

Tilsit, Peace of, 73.

Tivoli, 152.

Trumbull, Lyman, 46.

Tsarskoë Selo, 150.

Union Club, San Francisco, 91.

Union Pacific Railroad, 167.

United States Treasury, 62, 117, 178.

Upsala, 170.

Ural Mountains, 108.

Venice, 102.

Versailles, 23, 36, 98.

Vesta, yacht, 27.

Vevey, Switzerland, 222.

Vice Roi of Egypt, 182, 216.

Victoria Theatre, Berlin, 70.

Vienna, 25, 39, 102, 153, 155.

Ville de Paris, steamship, 9, 14.

Virginia, 156.

Voisin, Armand, 36.

Volga River, 108.

Wainwright, Charles S., 62.

War Department, Washington, D. C., 67.

Warsaw, 24, 148, 153.

War with Spain, 172, 219.

Washburn, Elihu B., 165, 168.

Washington Club, Paris, 22, 29, 34–38.

Washington, D. C., 11, 16, 43, 61, 127, 165, 166, 181, 183, 213, 219.

Washington Heights, 27, 28.

Waterloo, 26, 39, 68.

Wayman, Bishop, 65.

Wheeling, West Virginia, 43.

Whistler, George W., 98, 99.

Whistler, James A. McN., 98.

White Sea, 185.

Willett, “Bronnie,” 34.

Wilna, 24, 70, 73, 74, 79.

Wilson, Henry, 65.

Winans, Ross, 88, 98, 99, 177.

Winans, Thomas de Kay, 99.

Winans, William Louis, 99.

Winter Palace, St. Petersburg, 95, 121, 134, 137, 149, 173, 205.

Winthrop, Eugene, 35.

Winthrop, Robert, 221.

Wood, Fernando, 168.

Wordsworth, William, 131, 132.

Woronzoff, Prince, 178.

Wright, Frances, 44.

Wright, Joseph A., 72.

Wright, Smith, 129, 130.

Yacht Club Pond, 84.

Yacht Club Skating Ground, 141.

Young, Samuel P., 105.

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