HOPKINSON, JOSEPH, î. 872; at the New York Convention, 1812, 558.
HOTTINGUER, M., his ball in honor of the treaty between Great Britain and America, 1814, ii. 261.
HOWE, LORD, message from, to Congress, i. 298; will never acknowledge the Independence of America, 295; pro- ceedings of Congress in relation to the message of, 296; John Witherspoon's speech on the conference with, i. 293.
Hudibras, quoted, ii. 876.
Huguenots, i. 151, 183; ii. 52, 237.
stitution a consolidated government; denies the right | Honduras, English settlements in, i. 571. of the Federal Convention to say "We the people" in- HOPKINS, STEPHEN, i. 296. stead of "We the States,," 14; object of the convention HOPKINSON, FRANCIS, i. 296. extended only to amend the old system, 14; encomium upon General Lee, 14; objects to the expression "We the people," 14; liberty; suspicion a virtue, 15; eulogy on the confederation, 15; representation, 15, 35; amend- ments, 16; militia, 17; Virginia Bill of Rights, 17, 19; the judiciary, 20; tax gatherers, 20, 27; powers of the President; "squinting towards monarchy," 20; elec- tions, 21, 88, 89; expenditures of public money; treaty power, 21; remarks on the confederacy of Switzerland, 22, 25; opposition to the constitution, 22; second speech, 23; remarks on Mr. Randolph's letter, 28; case of Josiah Phillips, 24; navigation of the Mississippi, 25; Spanish transactions, 25; the federal convention confined to revision only, 26; remarks on the Government of Hol- land, 26; style of "We the people" to oblige those likened to a "herd," 27; representation by "impli- cation," 28; "implication" in England, 28; third speech, 28; navigation of the Mississippi; danger from France; the ambassador at Paris, 29; Holland, Mary- land, Virginia and Pennsylvania, 29, 80; ratifying and non-ratifying States, 81; an American dictator, 82; Virginia and North Carolina, 38; patriotism and genius of Virginia, 88; checks, 84; sheriffs to be collectors of revenue, 35; government, national-federal, 87; State legislatures shorn of their consequence, 87; Albany confederacy, 37; origin of the American revolution, 87; treaty with France, 88; the absurdity of adopting and amending afterwards, 88.
"Henry's mission to Boston," ii. 267.
Helvetic Confederacy, i. 248, 866.
HEWES, JOSEPH, i, 296.
HEWITT, JOHN, murder of, i. 427.
Hildreth's History of the United States, i. 104. HILLHOUSE, JAMES, REV., notice of, ii. 144. HILLHOUSE, JAMES ABRAHAM, notice of, ii. 144. HILLHOUSE, JAMES, ii. 577; birth and education of; college life; invasion of New Haven, 144; elected to the State Legislature; treasurer of Yale College; chosen to Con- gress; remarks on the ratio of representation; elected to the Senate; propositions to amend the Federal Con- stitution;-Chief Justice Marshall's letter on the sub- Ject, 145; William H. Crawford's opinion; opinions of James Madison and Chancellor Kent; elected com- missioner of the Connecticut School Fund; his success, 146; the Farmington and Hampshire Canal; his last days and death, 147.
Speech in the case of John Smith, for participation in the conspiracy of Aaron Burr; reply to Mr. Adams, of Mass., 147; case of William Blount, referred to; Ken- tucky memorial, 148; case of Mr. Marshall considered, 149; Elias Glover; Aaron Burr, 150; Smith's intimacy with Aaron Burr; case of, compared with that of Com- modore Truxton, 151; deposition of General Eaton con- sidered, 152: Washita settlement; conduct of Mr. Smith reviewed, 153; testimony of Colonel James Taylor; the "Querist;" secret societies, 154; remarks on the Brit- ish treaty, ii. 140.
HILLHOUSE, WILLIAM, notice of, ii. 144.
HOFFMAN, OGDEN, in the case of the Neriede, ii. 96. Holland, government of, i. 26, 29.
HOLMES, A., his memoir of the French Protestants who
settled at Oxford, Mass., ii. 237.
Hudson River, secret committee, appointed by the New York Convention, to obstruct the, i. 153. HUNT, JAMES, ii. 439.
HUNT, WILLIAM P., ii. 441. HUNTER, JOHN, ii. 885.
HUNTER, WILLIAM, birth; descent; early education; grad- uates from Brown's University; studies medicine; en- ters Temple at London as student at law; dintinguished associates; admission to Rhode Island Bar; elected to General Assembly; chosen United States Senator, ii. 835; his politics; speech on the seizure of East Florida, 836, 358; questions constitutionality of Missouri restric- tion; appointed Chargé d'Affaires to Brazil; life at Rio de Janeiro; elevation to position of Minister Pleni- potentiary; returns home; his decease; anecdotes, $36.
Speech on the proposition for seizing East Florida; importance of the question considered, ii. 887 conse- quences of a war with Spain, 838; further remarks; the proposition, a presidential measure, 339; debates upon the theories of a constitution in relation to the observ ance of treaties, are idle, 341; the measure is to wage war against Spain; offensive war, 842; Mr. Madison's definition of war, 842; there cannot be constitutionally a constructive declaration of war, 343; the measure un- constitutional; causes of the measure, 343; treaty of 1795, 844; negotiation with Spain considered, 845; Louisiana convention with France, 344; President Jefferson's message, 1808, considered, 345; mission of Don Onis, 845; Mr. Ross's resolutions; Spanish spoli- ations, actual sufferers from, 846; further remarks; the necessity of the measure, 347; Spaniards will ex- cite the Indians; black troops, 848; insurrections; war with Spain will ruin the war with England; case of Mathews, 349; Louis XIV., and Frederick of Prussia; seizure of the Danish fleet by England considered, 850; political consequences resulting from the measure, 852.
Increase of the Navy, Henry Clay's speech on an, li. 261. Indian Corn, amount exported from the United States in 1803, ii. 299.
Indians, the American, i. 470; Samuel G. Drake's history of the, ii. 855; fate of the, 488. INGERSOLL, JARED, ii. 52, 506.
HOLMES, ME., of Massachusetts, remarks on the Seminole Imports, for protection, unconstitutional, ii. 483. war, ii. 279, 284.
Holt's New York Gazette, 1. 350, 454.
Inaugural Address, of John Adams, 1797, i. 248; of George Washington, 1789, 252.
Independent Reflector, account of the, i. 88.
Internal Improvement, system of; originated with James Monroe, ii. 158; Henry Clay's speech on, 1824, 286; Mr. McDuffie's speech on, 882; John Caldwell Calhoun's speech on, 479.
Ireland, the condition of, in 1791, 99; i. 525; Letter from Congress to the people of, 158; History of, by T. A. Emmet, 527.
Irishmen, Societies of United, i. 526.
IRVING, WASHINGTON, his Life of Washington, i. 251.
JACKMAN, trial of, "for the Goodridge robbery," ii. 401. JACKSON, GEN. ANDREW, i. 126; ii. 262, 274, 836, 581; at the battle of New Orleans, 219.
JACKSON, MR., i. 443, 476.
1775, 48; his opinion of the "Address to the inhabitants of Great Britain," 152; trial of Harry Croswell, for a libel on, 204; death of, i. 285; tribute to, by T. A. Emmet, i. 586; ii. 41, 218, 308, 812, 845, 860, 436, 442; his first election to the Presidency described, 58; his ad- ministration, 75; his opinion of John Q. Adams, 248; tribute to, by Henry Clay, 266; William Wirt's discourse on the life and character of, 483; the character of, by Wil- liam Wirt, 449; "resistance to tyrants is obedience to God;" a summary view of the rights of British Amer- ica, by, 450; his Notes on Virginia, 454; as Vice-Presi- dent; his administration, 456; his house at Monticello, 458; protest for the Virginia Legislature prepared by him, 576; letter to William B. Giles, on Consolidation, 577.
JEFFERSON AND ADAMS, Wirt's Discourse on the Lives and Characters of, ii. 448, 460.
Jackson, Fort, treaty of, 1814, il. 274; compared with that JONES, SIR WILLIAK, rnishes the motto for the alliance of Ghent, 275.
Jacksonburgh, S. C., Legislature meets at, i. 309.
JAMES THE SECOND compared with George the Third, i. 53. JOHNSON, SAMUEL, D. D., President of King's College, New JAQUITH, MISS.-See Knapp's trial. JAY, AUGUSTUS, i. 151.
York, i. 151. JOHNSON, THOMAS, i. 286. JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM, i. 428. JONSON, BEN, i. 168.
Judiciary, Uriah Tracy's speech on the, 1802, i. 442; speech of Gouverneur Morris on the, 1802, i. 457; William B. Giles, speech on the, ii. 205. Judiciary Act, Mr. Bayard's speech on the, ii. 55; Tristam Burges' speech on, 820, 822.
Judiciary Committee, Sergeant S. Prentiss, chairman of, il
JAY, JOHN, ancestry and birth of; education aud tutor; enters King's College; college life; intimacy with Pres- Ident Johnson; graduates and commences the study of law with Benjamin Kissam; enters on practice, i. 151; partnership with R. R. Livingston; marries; Boston Port Bill; minutes of the committee appointed to con- sider the Boston Port Bill; appointed to the Continent- al Congress; "address to the inhabitants of Great Brit- ain;" the "Committee of Observation;" the "Commit- tee of Association;" letter to the Lord Mayor and Jurisprudence, improvements in, ii. 429. Magistrates of London; elected to the second Con- gress; battle of Lexington; Congress raises militia; rules and regulations of the American army adopt- ed; General Sullivan proposed by Mr. Jay, 152; let- ters to the inhabitants of Canada and Ireland; ap- pointed colonel of the New York militia; singular inter- view with a French officer; elected to the colonial Con- gress of New York; Declaration of Independence; ap- pointed on a secret committee to obstruct the Hudson river; visits Connecticut, 153; Constitution of the State of New York; appointed chief justice, and member of the Council of Safety; charge to the grand jury; Bur- goyne's campaign, 154; delegate to Congress on a special occasion; elected President of Congress; ap- pointed minister to Spain; arrival at Madrid; difficulty in negotiating loans; treaty of peace, 156; arrives at New York; receives the freedom of the city; re-elected to Congress; secretary of Foreign Affairs; "the Federa list;" member of the Federal Convention of New York; appointed Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court; letter from President Washington; treaty with Great Britain; letter to President Washington; Jay's life and writings quoted, 157; opposition to his treaty; anecdote of the King of England; Hamilton's "Camil- lus;" Fisher Ames' speech; elected Governor of New York; declines a re-election; nominated for the Chief Justiceship of the Supreme Court; retirement from public life, and death; William Sullivan's estimate of his character; letter to Richard Hatfield, quoted, 158; Address to the people of Great Britain, 159; speech of Fisher Ames on the Treaty of, 104; list of the papers contributed to the Federalist, by, 126; notices of, i. 43, 120, 286, 565.
KEITH, MARY, mother of Chief Justice Marshall, ii. 7. KENNEDY, J. P., his life of William Wirt, i. 490, ti. 441, 448. KENT, JAMES, Chancellor, his opinion of James Hillhouse's
propositions to amend the Federal Constitution, ii. 146. Kentucky, powers of the district judges of, under the old establishment, ii. 77; Colonization Society of, Henry Clay's address before, 262.
JEFFERSON, THOMAS, I. 6, 92, 126, 150, 153, 286, 350, 429, 489, 557; appointed to fill the place of R. H. Lee, in Congress,
KILEN, WILLIAM, Chancellor of Delaware, i. 278. Killala, Ireland, French troops land at, i. 526. KING, SIR PETER, account of, i. 7. KING, RICHARD, ii. 33.
KING, RUFUS, ancestry and birth of; Byfield Academy; enters Harvard College; his career; his early powers of oratory; the study of law and admission to the bar, ìi. 83; ac- companies General Sullivan to Rhode Island; success at the bar; his first cause; elected to the Massachusetts Legislature; speech on commercial regulations, 1784; chosen to the Continental Congress; slavery restriction, 83; Federal Constitution; Massachusetts Convention; labors in the difficulties in the adoption of the constitu- tion, 34; removes to New York; elected to Congress; advocates the British Treaty; essays under the title of "Camillus"; eligibility of Albert Gallatin; his speech in opposition to the right of taking his seat, 84; appoint- ed minister to Great Britain; his great personal in- fluence abroad, 35; removal to Long Island; re-elected to the United States Senate; the War of 1812; his position; speech on the destruction of Washington; nominated for governor; defeated; again elected to the Senate; the public lands and navigation system; appointed minister to Great Britain; ill health and death, 35; at Philadelphia, ii. 9; New York Convention, 1812, 558, notice of, 270.
Speech on the Navigation Act; agriculture; manufac- | LECHLER, JOHN, execution of, ii. 227. tures and commerce the true source of the wealth of nations, 35; assistance to be derived from navigation; the value and importance of national shipping and sea- men; the Colonial system; navigators of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; Navigation Act of England, of the seventeenth century; its object, 86; commercial aggrandizement of England; the commercial system of the United States; tonnage and seamen of the United States before the revolution, 87; loss in freights; the importance of an efficient navy, 38; timber and lumber trade, 39; reciprocity; Jay's treaty; Mr. Pitt's bill; poli- cy of the treaty of peace, 1783, 40; account of the peace; negotiations with England, after the revolution, 42; bill before the Senate not unfriendly to England; the charac- ter of England; Americans and Englishmen; the fisher- ies, 43; speech on the Missouri bill; powers of Congress, respecting the territory and property of the United States; Missouri; admission of new States, 44; slavery In the old thirteen States; slave trade; the Confederation; the ratification of, 44; influence of the small States upon the large ones; the ordinance of 1787; Louisiana; the population of in 1804; State rights, 46; the term "prop- erty," 47; introduction of slaves not imputable to the present generation; equalization of taxes; dispute be- tween England and the Colonies, considered; slave representation, 48; property in slaves; equal rights a vital principle in a free government; slavery impairs industry, 49; the consequence of the exclusion of slavery from Missouri; condition of slaves in the United States, 1818, 50.
LEE, ARTHUR, i. 275; biographical sketch of, 42. LEE, CHARLES, i. 50; Brackenridge's strictures on, i. 356. LEE, GENERAL, Patrick Henry's encomium on, i. 14. LEE, HENRY, ii. 555; birth and parentage; college life, and graduation; enters the Virginia line, and joins the Amer- ican army, 1777; account of one of his earliest military exploits, i. 447; bravery at the battle of Germantown; promotion; attack on Paulus Hook; appointed Lien- tenant-colonel commandant; his memoirs of the War in the Southern Department; retires to private life; elected to the Legislature of Virginia, and to Congress; member of the Federal Convention; elected governor; the "Whiskey Insurrection," 448; elected to Congress; selected to pronounce an oration in memory of Presi- dent Washington; injured in a political riot at Balti- more; visit to the West Indies; death; his literary productions, 449; eulogy on Washington, 449; defeat of Braddock; Washington at Trenton, Morristown Brandywine, and Monmouth; Gates and Greene, 450; the administration of Washington; the pacification of the Indians; neutrality, 451; “First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen,” 452. LEE, Richard, i. 40.
King William School, at Annapolis, Md., ii. 93. KIRKLAND, DR., his sketch of the life of Fisher Ames, L. 92; his sketch of the life of George Cabot, 558. KISSAM, BENJAMIN, i. 151.
KNAPP, JOHN F., trial of, for the murder of Joseph White; Daniel Webster's argument in, ii. 399.
KNAPP, JOSEPH J., arrested for the murder of Joseph White, ii. 399.
KNAPP, N. P.-See Knapp's trial.
KNAPP, SAMUEL H.-See Knapp's trial.
KNAPP, SAMUEL L., his address on the deaths of Adams and Jefferson, ii. 446.
Knickerbocker Magazine, sketches of the American bar, ii. 855.
KNIGHT, FRANKLIN, his fac simile of General Washington's accounts, i. 254.
KNOX, DR., Alexander Hamilton's tutor, i. 183. KNOX, ELIZABETH, daughter of John Knox, i. 290.
KNOX, JOHN, Mary Queen of Scots' opinion of the prayers of, i. 290.
LACTANTIUS, quoted, i. 265.
LAFAYETTE, GENERAL, ii. 581; at the battle of Monmouth, i. 185; John Q. Adams' oration on the life and character of, ii. 257; Henry Clay's address to, 1824, 317. LAKE, GENERAL, at Vinegar Hill, i. 526. LANSDOWN, MARQUIS OF, commercial treaty of, i. 99. LA PLACE, the astronomer, ii. 430.
LAS CASAS, his life of Napoleon, ii. 314.
Latin Prosody, the rudiments of, by James Otis, i. 2. LAURENCE, THOMAS.-See "Fort Wilson."
LAURENS, HENRY, i. 802; ii. 134; in England; President of Congress, resignation of, i. 156; in the Tower of London,
Law, the study of, by James Otis, i. 7.
LEE, RICHARD HENRY, ancestry of; birth and education, i. 40; death of his father, 40; takes command of a volunteer company; tenders his services to General Braddock, 40; appointed a justice of the peace; made President of the court, 41; elected to the House of Burgesses; na- tural diffidence; speech in opposition to the importation of slaves, 41; joins the "Republican" party; opposition to, and exposure of Robinson; supports Patrick Henry's Stamp Act resolutions, 41; letter to John Dickinson, in reference to the declaratory act, 41; a member of the Congress of 1774, 42, 449; notices of, 159, 350; denies the right of England to bind the Colonies, 42; commands the Virginia militia, i. 43; advocates the payment of debts due England; the establishment of a paper cur- rency and taxation for the support of the clergy, 49; prepares the address of the colonies to Great Britain; elected to Congress, 1784; death of in 1794; compared with Patrick Henry, 43; preface to the Farmer's letters, 274; speech attributed to, by Botta, ii. 452.
Leeward Islands, a hurricane at, i. 183.
LEIGHTON, MB., testimony in the trial of J. F. Knapp, iL
LEIPER, THOMAS. See "Fort Wilson."
LENNOX, MAJOR. See "Fort Wilson."
Leopard, attack of the, on the Chesapeake, ii. 86. Letters to Dudley, John Randolph's, ii. 155.
LEWIS, CAPT., of the "Miranda Expedition," i. 532. Lexington, Battle of, i. 152; ii. 319, 365.
Lexington, Kentucky, ii. 259; Henry Clay's speech at, June
Liberty, Patrick Henry's remarks on, i. 15.
“Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and insepara ble," ii. 399.
"Liberty Song," the, i. 275.
LINCOLN, LEVI, ii. 237.
LINN, MR., of New Jersey, at Jefferson's election, ii. 75. LINNEN, WILLIAM, assassinates Dr. David Ramsay, i. 810. Lisbon, minister to, i. 511.
LISTON, MR., British Minister, i. 481.
Literature, the dangers which beset, ii. 433. LIVERPOOL, LORD, anecdote of, ii. 262. LIVINGSTON, BROCKHOLST, judge, i. 429.
LIVINGSTON, EDWARD, ii. 75; birth and education; destruc- tion of Esopus; removal to Hurley; graduates si
Princeton College; law studies, ii. 218; commences practice; New York Federal Convention; election to Congress; his career; opposes the British treaty, 218; appointed United States Attorney for New York; elected Mayor; the yellow fever in New York, 219; re- moval to New Orleans; the laws of Louisiana; attack on New Orleans, 1812; appointed aid to General Jack- son; penal code of Louisiana, 219; election to Congress; speech in the Senate on Mr. Foot's resolution; appoint- ed Secretary of State and minister to France; his last illness and death, 220.
Speech on the Alien Bill; provisions of the, consid- ered, 220; at war with the fundamental principles of Government; constitutional objections to, 222; conse- quences of its operation, 223; a system of espionage, 224.
Argument against capital punishment, 225; is the punishment of death in any civilized society necessary? Egypt, Rome, Tuscany, and Russia, proofs to the con- trary, 226; punishment of the knout, anecdote of, 227; capital punishment demoralizing and heart-hardening, 227; the execution of John Lechler, 227; case of the Irish forger, 228; Bentham's Theory of rewards and punishments, 230; advantages of capital punishment considered, 281; Dr. Franklin's opinion of, 233; fero- cious character impressed on the people, 234; D'Agues- seau quoted, 235; Cicero quoted, 236. LIVINGSTON, GILBERT, Hamilton's opposition to his amend- ment of the Federal Constitution, i. 195. Livingston Manor, Clermont, New York, ii. 218. LIVINGSTON, PHILIP, i. 82.
LIVINGSTON, ROBERT, account of him, i. 82. LIVINGSTON, R. R., father of the Chancellor, i. 850. LIVINGSTON, R. R., Chancellor, i. 43, 159, 296, 841; ancestry of; birth and education; college life and graduation; studies law; partnership with John Jay, i. 152; appointed Record- er of New York; hostile to the crown officers; ejected from office; elected to Congress; the Declaration of Inde- pendence, 850; Secretary of Foreign Affairs; appointed Chancellor of New York; Federal Convention; admin- isters the oath of office to Washington; appointed minister to France; Louisiana treaty; Robert Fulton; steam navigation; return from France; his literary and scientific character; his death, 351; Dr. John W. Fran- cis' sketch of, 351; oration before the Cincinnati, 352; the Purse and the Sword, 355. LIVINGSTON, WILLIAM, i. 152, 286; birth and parentage of;
graduates at Yale College; studies law; contributes an essay on the study of law, to the New York Post Boy, under the signature of Tyro Philolegis, i. 82; difficulty with his law teacher; marries and settles at New York; publishes the poem, Philosophic Solitude; admitted to practise; assists William Smith in the publication of the Digest of the Colonial Laws; commenced the publi- cation of the Independent Reflector; it is denounced by the pulpit, and is discontinued; aids in the estab- lishment of the New York Society Library; writes the essays entitled the Watch Tower, 88; literary pro- ductions; "The Sentinel;" "A New Sermon to an Old Text;" letter to the Bishop of Llandaff on the estab- lishment of an episcopate in America; "A Soliloquy," 84; elected president of the Moot; retires to New Jer- sey; elected to the Continental Congress; takes com- mand of the New Jersey militia; elected Governor; acquires the name of "Dr. Flint;" contributes to the New Jersey Gazette, under the signature of Horten- sius; essays on the "Conquest of America," 85; con- tributes to the United States Magazine; acquires the hatred of the British; attempts to make him prisoner;
account of attempt to seize him; scurrilous titles and epithets applied to him by James Rivington, 86; his services during the Revolution; his correspondence; confidence of Washington in his abilities; elected a councillor of the American Philosophical Society; re- tires to private life; writes the "Primitive Whig;" ap- pointed a delegate to the Federal Convention; Mr. Madison's opinion of his influence; patron of Alex- ander Hamilton, i. 183; Governor of New Jersey; his death, 87; speech to the New Jersey Legislature, 88.
LIVINGSTONE, JOHN, i. 82.
LLOYD, DR. JAMES, i. 57.
LLOYD, EDWARD, Gov. of Maryland, ii. 185.
Loan Bill, 1814, William Gaston's speech on the, ii. 535. Loan Office Certificates, John Witherspoon's speech on, i. 803.
London, Address to the Lord Mayor and Magistrates of, i. 152.
Long Island, N. Y., Battle of, i. 293; Rufus King's residence on, ii. 35.
LORING, Mr., his "Boston Orators," i. 559. LORING, MR.-See Knapp's trial.
Louisiana, the aborigines of; an extract from David Ram- say's oration on the cession of, i. 318; the purchase of; John Randolph's remarks on, ii. 156; convention with France respecting, ii. 844; the cession of to the United States; the population of in 1804, 46; laws of reformed by Edward Livingston, 219; penal code of, 219; the ad- mission of, 515.
LOUIS XIV. in the Netherlands, ii. 350.
LOUIS XVI., anecdote of the daughter of, i. 501. LOVELL, JAMES, i. 60.
LOVELL, MASTER JOHN, biographical sketch of, i. 224, 819, 410.
LowE, SIR HUDSON, the jailer of Napoleon, i. 526. LOWELL, JOHN, i. 410, 557. LOWELL, JUDGE, i. 410. LOWNDES, WILLIAM, ii. 382. LOWRIE, ME., of Pa., ii. 122. "Lucius Junius Brutus."-See Fisher Ames. LYON, ME., of Vermont, ii. 75.
MACKINTOSH, SIR JAMES, at Edinburgh, i. 525. MACLAY, MR., resolution of, concerning the British treaty, 1794, i. 144.
MADISON, JAMES, Bishop, ii. 8. MADISON, JAMES, birth and early education; graduates at
Princeton, New Jersey; ill health; advocates religious and civil liberty; defence of the Baptists; commences his political career; chosen to the Virginia legislature, i. 9; appointed a councillor; takes his seat in the Con- tinental Congress; reform of the federal system; dele- gate to Annapolis, 1786; member of the Federal Con- vention; his services and reports of the debates, i. 125; a member of the Virginia Convention; his oratory; "The Federalist;" list of the numbers contributed by him; congressional career; elected to the Virginia legisla- ture; opposes the Alien and Sedition laws; appointed Sec- retary of State; elected President of the United States; war with Great Britain; treaty of Ghent; success of his administration; his death; tribute to his memory by John Quincy Adams, i. 126; Fisher Ames' speech on the resolutions of, 1794, 92; estimate of the services of Gouverneur Morris in the Federal Convention, 455;
his opinion of James Hillhouse's proposition to amend the Federal Constitution, ii. 146; his report of, 1799, ii. 575; notices of, i. 558, 565, ii. 54, 239, 249, 261, 812, 842, 890.
Speech on the Federal Constitution; replies to Patrick Henry, i. 127: Rhode Island; exclusive legislation; the militia, 128; the army, 129; religion free and unshackled; amendments, 130; taxation; senators and representa- tives, 181; taxes; Amphictyonic League resembled our confederation; the Achæan League; the Germanic sys tem without energy, 182; Swiss, Holland, unstable, produce anarchy; weakness; merit of the war not at- tributable to the confederation; object of the con- federacy, 183, 134: a change necessary, 184; taxation- is it necessary? 185; how far practicable, 187; how far it may be safe, as well with the public liberty at large as to the State legislatures, 189; with respect to econ- omy; powers of general government compared with that of the States; requisitions unfriendly to currency, 140; concurrent collection of taxes, 141; uniformity of taxes; a navy a security against insults; prospects of population in twenty-five years, 142; Holland not a re- public; the Mississippi; its navigation, 143; carrying and non-importing States, 144.
Speech on the British treaty, i. 189; treaty of 1783, 144; western posts; negroes carried off during the war; compensation for, 145; navigation of the Mississippi, 146; "free ships make free goods; " merchandise not contraband; Jefferson's letter to Mr. Pinckney, 1798, 147, 148; sequestration of British property prohibited; evils of the treaty; non-exhibition of sea papers; West India trade, 148; nation may prohibit all trade between a colony and a foreign country, 149; consequence of re- fusing to carry the treaty into effect, 150.
Madison's Resolutions, operations of, on different nations, 1. 100; Fisher Ames' speech on, i. 92.
MALBONE, GODFREY, ii. 335.
MALLORY, DANIEL, his life and speeches of Henry Clay, ii. 260.
"Marcellus," John Q. Adams's essays, ii. 249.
MARCH, C. W., reminiscences of Congress by, ii. 858. MARION, GENERAL, tribute to, i. 122.
MARSH, JOSEPH, tutor of Josiah Quincy, Jr., i. 881. MARSHALL, JOHN, ii. 359, 580; birth of; early education; dif-
ficulties between Great Britain and the American colo- nies; relinquishes his studies and enters the service, ii. 7; chosen lieutenant, and marches against Lord Dunmore, 7; account of the action at Great Bridge; appointed first lieutenant in the Continental army; promoted to a captaincy; battles of Germantown, Brandywine, and Monmouth; winter at Valley Forge; acts as deputy judge advocate; Generals Washington and Hamilton; enters the College of William and Mary; law studies; returns to the army; Arnold's invasion; commences the practice of law; elected to the legislature and the executive council; marriage, and settlement at Rich- mond; services in the legislature, 8; the Virginia Fede. ral Convention; election to the State legislature; return to practice; Jay's treaty; visits Philadelphia; meets the celebrated men of the north; his opinion of them; appointed attorney-general of the United States, but declines; appointed minister to France-declines; the commission to France; visits the Continent; return to the United States; elected to Congress; his speeches; appointed Secretary of War and State; appointed to the Supreme Court, 9; his judicial career; his death; Justice Story's sketch of his life delivered before the Suffolk Bar, at Boston, 10.
Speech on the Federal Constitution; democracy, well
regulated, idolized; reply to Mr. Henry, 10; taxation, 11; reference to Governor Randolph's remarks; govern- ment should have that power in peace necessary in war; confederation, 12; objects of taxation, 13; people's affec- tions the best support of government, 14; advocates adoption; equal taxes, 15; judicial system-its benefits, 16; erroneous principle on which objections are founded; examination of them; cognizance, 16; State courts; protection from infringements on the Constitution; appeals; disputes between States and the citizens of other States, 17; contracts; trial by jury, 18; challeng ing jurors; Lord Fairfax's title, 19; bill of rights merely recommendatory, 20.
Speech in the Robbins case, 20; the case of Thomas Nash, alias Jonathan Robbins, stated; jurisdiction of s nation over its members; jurisdiction of nations over offences committed at sea; principle of the American government, 21; pirates and piracy, 22; reply to Mr. Nicholas, 23; treason, 24; executive and judicial deci- sion, cases for, 26; consular connection with France, 26; case of the ship William, 27; trial of crimes by jury; power of the president, 29; independent of judicial aid, 30; impressed seamen, 81; his opinion of James Hill- house's proposition to amend the Federal Constitution, ii. 145.
MARSHALL, THOMAS, father of John Marshall, ii. 7. MARTIN, FRANCIS XAVIER, ii. 534. Martin, Luther, birth and parentage; childhood and early education; graduates at Princeton; teaches school; law studies; enters upon the practice of law at Wil- liamsburg, Virginia; his cotemporaries and associates; his success, i. 871; early political life; his writings; appointed attorney-general of Maryland; the Federal Constitution; defence of Judge Chase; notices of, 489, ii. 468, 483; President Jefferson; trial of Aaron Burr; appointed judge; district attorneyship; ill health and death, i. 372; estimate of his character and oratory, 372.
Remarks on the proceedings of the Federal Conven- tion; diversity of powers among the members from the several States; the object of Virginia and the large States, 878; propositions originally submitted to the con- vention, 874; acceded to by a majority; position of Washington, 875; parties in the convention, 376; the Jersey resolutions; suffrage; the rights of individuals, 877; representation, 879; checks; Adams, 382; the Senate; State governments to be annihilated, 883; seat of government, 384; representation and direct taxation, 884; slaves-the number of freemen and, 885; eligibil- ity of senators and representatives, 886; the veto power; powers of Congress to collect a revenue, 887; loans, 888; the army; militia, 891; slave trade; position of Georgia and South Carolina, 890; navigation act; slavery a nation- al crime, 391; suspension of the habeas corpus act, in cases of rebellion; state ports; currency, 892; States prohibited from laying imposts, 398; the election of president-his powers and term of office, 393; vice-pres- ident; president-when to be impeached, 894; the Supreme Court, 895; jury trials; treason defined, 396; erection of States within States, 897; religious tests; ratification of the constitution, 898.
Maryland, the position of, respecting the Federal Constitu- tions, i. 80; Huguenots settled in, ii. 52. Maryland Gazette, ii. 85. Maryland Federal Convention, ii. 98. MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS, opinion of the prayers of John Knox, i. 290.
MASON, GEORGE, i. 33, 126, 173. Massachusetts, House of Representatives of; their answer to Governor Eustis's Message, 1823, ii. 569; measures
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