ight, 80-1;
confident of election, 88;
defeated, 89;
elected state comp., 127;
nominated for Vice President, 1848, 137-8;
elected, 143;
breaks with Weed, 148;
becomes President, 151;
approves the fugitive slave law, 151-2;
opposes Seward's indorsement, 153;
Fish on, 166;
not nominated for President, 166-8;
career after defeat, 168-9;
nominated for President by Americans, 238;
indorsed by old-line Whigs, 238;
condemned Rep. party, 238;
defeated, 242;
helped Buchanan's election, 242;
criticised by Southern press, iii. 10.

Financial crisis, cause of, 1837, ii. 16-20.

Finch, Francis M., nominated judge of Court of Appeals, 1881, iii. 485;
elected, 486.

Fish, Hamilton, nominated for lt.-gov., 1846, ii. 118;
defeated, 120;
elected lt.-gov., 1847, 128;
nominated for gov., 1848, 139;
popularity of, 139;
career of, 140;
elected gov., 144;
elected U.S. senator, 162;
on Fillmore, 166;
relations with Conkling, 243;
not returned to U.S. Senate, 243;
approves Weed's compromise, 338;
attends Saratoga con., 1866, iii. 144.

Fish, Nicholas, nominated for lt.-gov., i. 173;
father of Hamilton Fish, 173;
character of, 173;
popularity of, 185;
defeated for lt.-gov., 185.

Fitch, Charles E., editor of Rochester _Democrat-Chronicle_, iii. 376;
character as a writer, 376;
deprecates Conkling's attack on Curtis, 376;
Conkling's retort, 376;
a leading Rep. editor, 414.

Flagg, Azariah, member of Albany Regency, i. 294;
member of Assembly, 325;
career and character of, 326;
appearance, 326;
opposes election of presidential electors, 326;
insists on Yates' renomination, 326.

Comp. of state, ii. 52;
leader of Radicals, 58;
against Seymour for speaker, 90;
re-elected comp., 92.

Flower, Roswell P., presented for gov., 1882, iii. 488;
early career, 488-9;
supported by anti-Tilden leaders, 489;
distrusted by Manning, 489;
associated with Jay Gould, 489;
contest with Slocum, 491;
defeated, 496.

Folger, Charles G., character of, iii. 77;
approves emancipation, 77;
favours postponing Rep. nat. con., 1864, 88;
aspires to the U.S. Senate, 1867, 166;
nominated for chief judge of Court of Appeals, 1880, 460;
elected, 463;
appointed sec. of treas., 1881, 486;
nominated for gov., 1882, 494;
bad methods used, 495;
not suspected of complicity, 496;
advised to decline, 496;
dissuaded by