.
chosen President of the Confederacy, III.
his career and powers, III.
sends cannon to St. Louis boxed up, III.
and his government leave Richmond, IV.
his capture, IV.
excluded from Mexican war pension, V.

Debs, Eugene V., Social Democratic Party candidate, VI.

Debt, the Federal,
at close of the Revolution, II.
the foreign debt, II.
domestic debt, II.
state debt, II.
scheme for payment, II.
reduction of national, IV.

Decatur, II.

Declaration of Independence, II.
mooted, II.
drafted, passed, and signed, II.
the language and spirit of, II.
its effect, II.

"Declaratory Act," the, II.

De Kalb, General, II.
the hero of Camden, II.

Delaware, Lord, governor of Virginia, I.
his mild sway, I.

Delaware,
settlement begun, I.
intimately related to Pennsylvania, I.
its legislature, I.
population in 1700 and later, I.
ratifies the Constitution, II.
and secession, III.

De Lesseps, Ferdinand, VI.

De Lome, Dupuy, V.

Democratic Party,
the origin of, II.
enters a long lease of power, II.
its policy, II.
and the tariff, III.
in 1840, III.
favored annexation of Texas, III.
and Whigism, III.
revolt from, at the North, III.
disagreements in, III.
wished to compromise with the South, III.
opposition of, to the administration on slavery question, IV.
views of, on effect of secession, IV.
recovery of power by, IV.
tariff policy of, IV., V.
convention 1896, V.
defeat, V.
in campaign 1900, V.
defeat, V.
convention of, 1904, VI.
convention of 1908, VI.
platform of, 256, VI.

Demont, Adjutant, treason of, II.

Deneen, Governor Charles S., VI.

Depew, Chauncey M., quoted, VI. 25.

Des Moines, Iowa, adopts commission plan of government, VI.

Dewey, Commodore George,
in Manila Bay, V.
Schley court of inquiry, V.
and Aguinaldo, V.

Dickinson, Jacob M., Secretary of War, VI.

Dickinson, John, of Pennsylvania, II.

Dighton Rock, the writing on. I.

Dingley, Nelson, chairman, V.

Dingley Tariff Bill, V. 204; VI.

"Dollar of the Fathers," the, IV.

Dolliver, Senator, of Iowa, VI.

Donelson, Fort, capture of. IV.

Douglas, Judge,
and the Missouri compromise, III.
his "squatter sovereignty," III.
his theory, III.
how far he was right, III.
his nomination, III.
his voice for war, III.

Drake, Sir Francis,
sails around world, I.
takes Virginia settlers back to Englan