the importance of possession to France, 482; M. de la
Luzerne, 482; plan of negotiation, 483; -Oration over
Hamilton, 487.
MORRIS, LEWIS, the father of Gouverneur, i. 453, 454.
MORRIS, RICHARD, i. 453.
MORRIS, ROBERT, i. 120; anonymous letter to, from Alex-
ander Hamilton, 185; designs the Bank of North Amer-
ica, 1781, 68; superintendent of the finances of the
United States, during the revolution, 455.- See Fort
Wilson."
MORRIS, ROBERT HUNTER, i. 454.
MORRIS, SAMUEL C.-See "Fort Wilson."
MORRIS, SARAH, wife of Richard Morris, i. 458.
MORRIS, THOMAS.-See " Fort Wilson."
Mosquito Shore, English settlements on, i. 571.
MOULTRIE, GENERAL, John Rutledge's letter to, i. 119.
MULLER, the historian, ii. 180.
MUNRO, PROFESSOR, in Edinburgh Medical University, i.
346.
Murder and Manslaughter, the distinction between, i. 241.
MURPHY, ARTHUR, ii. 335.
MURRAY, JUDGE, death of, i. 48.
with other States, 478; De Witt Clinton elected mayor
of; the duties of the mayor, 566; meeting at, relative to
the British treaty, ii. 34; Huguenots settled in, 52; yel-
low fever in, 1803, 219.
New York, American, ii. 220.
New York Convention, 1812; incident of the, i. 558,
New York Federal Convention, Hamilton at, i. 560.
New York Gazette, i. 850, 454; ii. 147.
New York Gazetteer, i. 447.
New York Historical Society, Gouverneur Morris's discourse
before the, 1812, i. 466; James H. Raymond's paper on
Hillhcuse's proposition to amend the Federal Constitu
tion, read before the, ii. 146; collections of, 180; "The
jubilee of the Constitution," an address before the, i
251.
New York Journal, i. 454.
New York Society Library, nckice of, 83.
New Orleans, battle of, ii. 219; New England Society of;
address of S. S. Prentiss before the, 583.
NICHOLAS, MR., of Va., i. 503; ii. 23; remarks on the British
treaty, 140; his resolution for reducing the army, 1800,
ii. 156.
NICHOLS, WILLIAM.-See "Fort Wilson."
MURRAY, LINDLEY, estimate of the character of John Jay; Non-Importation, i. 271.
account of, i. 151.
MURRAY, WM. VANS, i. 403.
NAPPER TANDY, the case of, ii. 547.
NAPOLEON.-See Bonaparte.
NASH, THOMAS, alias Jonathan Robbins, case of, ii. 9.
National Bank, the bonus of, and the United States share
of its dividends, proposed to be set apart as a permanent
fund for the construction of roads and canals, ii. 479.
National Intelligencer, i. 449; ii. 335, 355, 856, 474; account
of the death of John Q. Adams, published in, ii. 250.
National Portrait Gallery, ii. 218, 474.
National Road, the originator of, ii. 132.
Navigation, assistance to be derived from, ii. 36.
Non-Intercourse with Great Britain, Elias Boudinot's
Nootka Sound, controversy about, 1790, i. 571.
NORRIS, ISAAC, i. 277.
North America, Bank of.-See Robert Morris.
North Carolina, the position of respecting the Federal
Constitution, i. 33.
North Carolina Convention, extract from the speech of
William Gaston in the, on the "thirty-second article"
of the State Constitution, ii. 558.
NORTH, LORD, inauguration of, i. 820; the conciliatory prop-
osition of, i. 451.
Oglethorpe, GEN., the failure of, ii. 847, 351.
Navigation Act, of Charles II.; i. 7; of England, 108; Rufus Oшio, slavery prohibited in the territory North-west of the,
King's speech on, 85.
Navigators of the 16th and 17th centuries, ii. 86.
NELSON, THOMAS, i. 396.
Neriede, William Pinkney's speech in the case of the, ii. 95.
NESBITT, ALEXANDER.-See "Fort Wilson."
NOSSELRODE COUNT, ii. 8.3.
New England, Tristam Burges' defences of, ii. 820, 822; the
course of, in relation to the public lands, ii. 879; peace
party in, during the War of 1812; the democracy of,
574; village school of, 586.
New England Society, of New Orleans, S. S. Prentiss' ad-
dress, ii. 583, 587.
New Haven, Conn., invasion of by General Tryon, ii. 144.
New Jersey, speech of William Livingston to the Legisla-
ture of, i. 88; outrages of the British in, during the revo-
lution, i. SS; women of, i. 268.
New Jersey College, i. 805; ii. 218.
New Jersey Historical Collections, i. 262.
New London, Conn., Caulkin's History of, ii. 144; second
Church in, 144.
New Orleans, Sergeant S. Prentiss's address before the New
England Society of, 1845; ii, 583.
New York, first Congress at, i. 3; Provincial Congress as-
semble at, 152; the Committee of Observation and Com-
mittee of Association; notice of, 152; meeting in, relative
to the Boston Port Bill, 152; Society of the Cincinnati,
i. 352; early settlement of, 467; population of, compared
Ohio and Chesapeake Canal, i. 490.
ONIS, DON, mission of, 845.
Orders in Council, author of the, ii. 271.
OSWALD, RICHARD, English Commissioner of Peace, i. 156.
OTIS, HARRISON GRAY, parentage and birth; education;
commences the study of law with John Lowell, i. 557;
his practice; serves as an aid to General Brooks in the
Massachusetts insurrection; chosen to the Legislature;
succeeds Fisher Ames in Congress; his career; Elect-
ed Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Repre-
sentatives, and President of the Senate; appointed
judge; his oratory; eulogy on Hamilton; incidents
of its delivery, 557, 558; New York Convention of
1812; anecdote of his oratory at; Hartford Convention;
mission to Washington, 558; defence of the convention;
elected to the United States Senate; speech on the
Missouri question; candidate for governor; elected
mayor; letter advocating the election of General
Taylor; Mr. Otis' death; eulogy on Hamilton, 559;
Hamilton at college; at the battle of Yorktown; the
Federal Convention; the treasury, 560, 563; the com-
prehensiveness of his mind, 563; his eloquence, 564.
OTIS, JAMES, date and place of birth, i. 1; studies with
Rev. Jonathan Russel; college habits; anecdote of his
wit; studies law; commences practice at Plymouth;
removes to Boston, 1; literary labors, 2; speech on
See "Fort Wilson."
PIERCE, WILLIAM.-See Knapp's trial.
PIERSON, DR.-See Knapp's trial.
PINCKNEY, CHARLES, sketch of the life of; heroism of his
wife; is chosen to the Federal Convention; his caroer
in that body; his "Plan of a Federal Constitution; "
elected Governor of South Carolina, i. 861; in the House
of Representatives, ii. 75, 340, 344.
the writs of assistance, 4; hated by the advocates of the | PICKERING, Mr.
crown, 2; chosen to the Legislature; publishes the
vindication, &c., see Massachusetts Bay; attends the
first Congress at New York, 1765; publishes vindica-
tion of the British colonies, and considerations on be-
half of the colonists; appointed on a committee to
reply to Governor Bernard; his reply; proposes the
opening of the galleries of the House of Representa-
tives, 8; advises moderation in relation to the Paper
and Glass Act, 4; the affray with Robinson, 4; death
of, 4; notices of, 225, 446, 557.
OTIS, JOHN, emigrates to America, 1. 1; settles at Hingham,
Massachusetts, 1.
OTIS, SAMUEL ALLYNE, i. 7, 557.
Oxford, Mass., Dr. Holmes' Memoir of the French Protest-
ants who settled at, ii. 287.
PAGE, ME.-See Knapp's trial.
PAINE, ROBERT TREAT, argument in the trial of the soldiers
of the Boston massacre, i. 247.
PAINE, THOMAS, his Rights of Man reviewed by John Quin-
cy Adams, ii. 249.
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Speech on the Federal Constitution, i. 861; objects of
the convention; defects of the confederation, 862; rep-
resentation, 363; the Senate; the Executive; mode of
procedure in the Federal Legislature; delivery of fu-
gitives, 864; power of the States and the Federal
Government, 365; Helvetic and Belgic confederacies;
the army; impost, 366; post office; judiciary; coining
money; militia, 867; coercive power wanted; the ad-
mission of new States; citizenship; amendments, 868;
habeas corpus; trial by jury; freedom of the press and
religious tests; the seat of government, 369.
PINCKNEY, C. C. GEN., i. 48; appointed minister to France;
refused an audience, ii. 9; refusal of the French Direc-
tory to receive, i. 491.
PINCKNEY, THOMAS, i. 48, 150; ii. 344, 346, 351; sketch of the
life of, i. 861.
PINCKNEY, FRANCES, mother of Christopher Gore, i. 410.
testimony in the trial of J. F. Knapp, PINKNEY, WILLIAM, birth; enters King William school;
Panama, Congress of, ii. 860, 507.
Paper Currency, the depreciation of, i. 122.
Paper, Glass, &c., duties on, opposed by the people of Bos-
ton, i. 4; James Otis' opinion of, 4.
PARSONS, THEOPHILUS, Chief Justice of Massachusetts, i.
83; sketch of the life of, ii. 248; death of, 399; William
Pinkney's opinion of, 97.
"Parson's Cause," the.-See Patrick Henry.
Patriotism, i. 113.
PATTEN, JANE, wife of Thomas Addis Emmet, i. 525.
PATTERSON, ADJUTANT GENERAL of the British army, i.
294.
Pea Patch Island, ii. 507.
PRARSON, MR, from North Carolina, ii. 267.
"Peine du Boulet," description of, ii. 549.
PEMBERTON, LORD CHIEF JUSTICE, i. 7.
PENDLETON, EDMUND, i. 350; ii. 454.
PENN, WILLIAM, i. 346.
Pennsylvania, the position of respecting the Federal Con-
stitution, i. 30; puisne judges of; their compensation,
ii. 66; speech of John Dickinson in the House of As-
sembly of, 1764, i. 2/7.
Pennsylvania Journal, i. 294.
Pennsylvania Packet, i. 455; ii. 472.
Pensacola, Florida, resolutions of the House of Repre-
sentatives relative to the seizure of the posts at, ii.
273.
Perdido, the line of the, Henry Clay's speech on, ii. 260.
Periodical Literature, the state of in America, 1826, ii.
430.
PERKINS, THOMAS H.-See Hartford Convention.
PHELPS, MR.
See trial of R. M. Goodwin.
PHELPS, OLIVER, Indian agent, i. 429.
Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard University, Joseph
Story's discourse before the, ii. 424.
Philadelphia, Pa., in the hands of the British, i. 455;
United States Supreme Court at, ii. 9.
Phillips Academy, ii. 357.
PHILLIPS, JOSIAH, case of, i. 24
PHIPPEN, MR. ——————. See Knapp's trial.
PICKERING, TIMOTHY, treaty with the Six Nations, 1. 427.
the revolution; commences the study of law with
Judge Chase; his practice; his oratory, ii. 93; elected a
member of the Maryland Federal Convention; chosen
to the House of Delegates; his speeches; marries; elec-
tion to Congress; declines to serve; the Executive
Council; serves in the State Legislature, 93; appointed
commissioner under the seventh article of Jay's treaty;
his opinions; return to the United States; sent on a
mission to England; his duties, 94; appointed Attorney
General of the United States; the war of 1812; defens
the course of Mr. Madison; "Publius," 94; the attack
on Baltimore; battle of Bladensburg, 95; the case of the
Neriede, 95; election to Cc gress; speech on the Conven-
tion of 1815; appointed n inister to Russia and envoy
to Naples, 96; his mode of! in Russia; his opinion of
Chief Justice Parsons, 97; iected to the Senate; his
professional duties; last illness and death, 98.
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Speech in the case of the Neriede; the case consid-
ered, 100; rights of neutrals, 101; Azuni's Treatise on
the Maritime Law of Europe, 103; case of the Haase,
103; cases of the Rebeckah, San Bernardo, the Spitfire,
and Glutton, 104; the Fortuna and Melomasne, 105;
relative rights and duties of belligerent and neutral pow-
ers, 106; "Free ship, free goods." 107; the character of
the Neriede, 108; "What are Mr. Pinto's intentions?"
109; case of the Swedish convoy in 1798 examined, 112;
cases of the Catharine, Elizabeth; of the Sampson, Bar-
ney, 112; Robinson's Admiralty reports, 99, 114.
Speech on the Missouri question; reply to Rufus
King, 114; compromise suggested, 115; domestic legis-
lation of Missouri; admission of Maine; power of Con
gress to admit new States considered, 116; danger from
restriction; slavery; enthusiasm; moral, political and
religious, 118; the Union; a State, 119; "No State or
Territory, in order to become a State, can alienate or
surrender any portion of its sovereignty to the Union,
a sister State, or foreign nation," 120; relation of the
restriction, 121; answer to Messrs. Roberts, Lowrie, and
Morril; compared with the duelist in the Rivals; fur-
ther remarks in answer to Mr. King, 122; abolition of
the slave trade by England considered, 123; fugitive
slaves, 128; the people the source of all power; Federal
and local rights, no difference between, 124; further re-
marks on slavery, 125; involuntary servitude and a re-
publican form of government, 126; farther reply to Mr.
Morril, 126; women should have political rights, 127;
Elizabeth of England, Catharine of Russia; Semiramis
and Zenobia; Mrs. Wolstoncraft, 127; migration of slaves
from State to State considered, 128; answer to Mr. Bur-
ril, 129;-anecdote of, i. 527; remarks on the impress-
ment of seamen, ii. 83.
PINTO, MANUEL.-See Pinkney's speech in the case of the
PITKIN, MR., of Connecticut, ii. 267.
PITT, MR., in Parliament, 1792, i. 100.
PLATT, COL-See "Miranda's Expedition."
Plenipotentiaries, speech of John Witherspoon on the ap-
pointment of, i. 301.
Plymouth, Mass., John Quincy Adams's oration at, 1802; ii.
251; history of the first settlement at, 253; incidents of,
254.
POINSETT, JOEL R., quotation from, ii. 176, 299.
Politics, improvements in, ii. 429.
POLK, JAMES K., ii. 582.
QUINCY, JOSIAH, JR., birth and parentage of; early educa
tion; graduates at Harvard College; oration on "Pa-
triotism;" study of law; his eloquence; commences his
political career; his contributions to the Boston Ga
zette; "Hyperion," i. 331; opposition of the crown offi-
cers; the non-importation agreement; Boston massa-
cre; trial of the soldiers; public feeling at the time; his
political writings, 332; ill health; voyage to South Car-
olina; visit to the Commons House of Assembly at
Charleston; Christopher Gadsden's speech; returns to
Boston; observations on the Boston Port Bill; warned
to desist from political writing; sails for England; his
correspondence; letter to Joseph Reed, 333, 334; returns
to America; he dies; his life by his son, 834.
An appeal under the signature of "Hyperion," 334;
sentiments of the North Americans; stringent patriot-
ism required, 884.
Speech in defence of the soldiers of the Boston mas-
sacre, 836; the soldiers' rights, 336; the citizen and the
soldier, 837, liberty, 838; Farmer's letters, 389; the
spirit of English jurisprudence, 845.
POLLOCK, SIR ROBERT, daughter of, marries "Alexander QUINCY, JOSIAH, quotation from his speech on the admission
Portugal, the accession of signed; ratification of, 1. 495.
Post Roads, extent of in the United States in 1824, ii. 292.
POTTS, JOHN.-See "Fort Wilson."
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Federal Convention meet at, i. 157.
POWNAL, THOMAS, i. 2; governor; returns to England, 224.
PRATT, BENJAMIN, biographical sketch of, 1, 2.
PRENTISS, SERGEANT S., birth; his early life; graduates
from Bowdoin College; accepts a tutorship at Natchez,
Mississippi; admitted to the bar, ii. 579; literary pur-
suits; removal to Vicksburg; his appearance before the
Supreme Court of the United States; duel with General
H. S. Foote, 580; visits is home in Maine; elected to
Congress; his political career, 581; opposition to the
Mississippi repudiatiobe, removal to New Orleans: anal-
ysis of his character, 582, 583; address before the New
England Society of New Orleans, 583, 587.
RABELAIS, quoted, i. 824.
RADCLIFFE, Mrs., ii. 428.
Raleigh Star, ii. 55.
RAMSAY, DAVID, i. 52, 275; birth and education; early hab
its; tutor at Carlisle : Princeton College; studies medi-
cine; Dr. Bond, College of Pennsylvania; Dr. Rush;
commences practice; removes to Charleston, S. C.; his
character, i. 808; oratory; oration on the fourth of Ju-
ly, 1778; surgeon in the American army; siege of Sa-
vannah; elected to the Legislature of South Carolina;
taken prisoner by the British; elected to Congress; his
career; his literary productions; his character as an au-
thor, 809; "Universal History Americanized," 809; his
death; assassinated by a madman, 310.
Oration on "The Advantages of American Independ
ence," 310; equality; industry and frugality; home
spun; private economy; the arts and sciences; edu-
cation, 311; eloquence "the child of a free state," 812;
authority of the States; commerce, 313; benefit to Car-
olina; the tobacco trade; cotton and rice; slitting mills;
strength of the people in their numbers, 814; conse-
quences of independence; population, 815; union the
pleasure of God, 817; the aborigines of Louisiana, 318.;
"Progress of Science," Samuel Dexter's poem on the, ii. | RANDOLPHI, ANNE CARY, wife of Gouverneur Morris, i. 456.
237.
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RANDOLPH, EDMUND, i. 43; ii. 373, 463, 465; birth of; joins
the military family of General Washington; death of
his uncle Peyton Randolph; delegated to the Virginia
Convention; appointed Attorney General of Virginia;
clerk of the House of Delegates; practises law; sue-
cess; elected Governor of Virginia; Annapolis Con-
vention; Federal Convention; his career in that body;
the Virginia Convention; appointed Attorney General
of the United States; Secretary of State; trial of Aaron
Burr; his death; his literary productions, i. 164; expla-
nation of Patrick Henry's allusion to, 27; Patrick Hen-
ry's remarks on the letter of, 23.
Speech on the Federal Constitution; picture of the
country; case of Josiah Phillips, i. 165; union; neces
sary to Virginia, 166, 167; British debts, 168; navigation
of the Mississippi; bordering States; Rhode Island; pa-
per money, 169; want of a navy; public credit, 170; ob-
ject of a confederacy, 171; state of the country, 171, 172;
answer to George Mason, 178; speech in the trial of
Aaron Burr, 174; tribute to Lord Mansfield, 176; firm-
ness of Washington, 176; Blannerhassett, 176; Henry
II. and Thomas à Becket, 177; felony, 178; case of
Bollman and Swartwout, 179; Henry IV. and the Jes-
uits, 181.
RANDOLPH, JOHN, the father of Edmund, notice of, i. 164.
RANDOLPH, SIR JOHN, account of, i. 163.
RANDOLPH, JOHN, father of John Randolph of Roanoke, ii.
155.
RANDOLPH, JOHN, OF ROANOKE, born at Cawsons; death of
his father; education and incidents of his early life; his
mother; her second marriage; St. George Tucker, ii.
155; letters to Dudley, quoted, 155; college life; appear-
ance at Charlotte court; Patrick Henry; his eloquence,
156; election of Mr. Randolph to Congress; his first
speech; career in Congress; impeachment of Judge
Chase, 156: the Yazoo question; the embargo; remarks
on, 157; retirement; re-elected to Congress; Bank of
the United States, 158; declining bealth; anecdote of;
visits England; his reception; the Greek question;
opposes Mr. Clay and Mr. Webster; opposes the tariff
and internal improvement, 158; duel with Mr. Clay; the
Virginia Convention; last illness and death, 159.
Speech on Mr. Gregg's resolution for the non-impor-
tation of British merchandise; the resolution a war
measure, 159; situation of the nation, power of Great
Britain on the ocean; the carrying trade the question
in dispute; Sir Robert Walpole quoted, 160; relations
with Spain considered; navies of France and England
compared; impolitic to aid France; has no ambition to
possess Nova Scotia, 162; fur trade; 1793; origin of the
revolution, 164; the continental influence of Great Brit-
ain gone, 165; the situation of England, 166; Great
Britain and the United States, the two great commer-
cial nations, 167; duty of the Executive explained, 169.
Speech on the tariff, 1824, 169; reply to P. P. Bar-
bour; situation of the country, 170; all policy, suspi-
cious, that sacrifices the interest of a part of a com
munity to the ideal good of the whole, 171; England as
a manufacturing country, 172; her example not to be
followed, 178; Ireland; the effect of the tariff upon
the people, 174; the English judge and Horne Tooke;
union, 175; quotation from Joel R. Poinsett, 176; Vir-
ginia; Lord Cornwallis' remarks concerning, 177; Gay,
Ganilh, Adam Smith, and Ricardo, referred to, 177;
economists, the theory and practice of; Alexander, Ca-
sar, and Napoleon, 178; the Constitution a "curious
one;" made for foreigners, 179; evils of the policy; fur-
ther remarks on, 181.
Speech on an increase of the army, 1811; importance
of the question; republicans of 1798, 181; closing of the
Mississippi by Spain in 1803, referred to, 182; massacres
on the Wabash; Canada; war spirit in the South,
183; French alliance, 184; republicanism of John Ad-
ams and William Cobbett; the people will not submit to
be taxed for a war of conquest; the defenceless state of
the Chesapeake referred to; slaves, 185; Spain; notices
the importation of British attachment, &c., 186.
Genuine statesman, an extract from a speech on re-
trenchment, 188; comparison of Wm. B. Giles and
Charles Fox, by, 190; Henry Clay's reply to, ii. 818;
John C. Calhoun's reply to the speech of, on an increase
in the army, 476; Tristam Burges' reply to, 320, 822.
RANDOLPH, PEYTON, i. 226; death of, 164.
RANDOLPH, THOMAS, account of, i. 163.
KANDOLPH, WILLIAM, account of, i. 163.
RAYMOND, JAMES H., his paper on James Hillhouse's propo-
sition to amend the Federal Constitution, ii. 146.
READ, MR. of South Carolina, ii. 74; see William B.
Giles' speech on the Judiciary, 216.
REDMAN, JOHN, M. D., i. 846.
RED JACKET, his early history lost; incidents of his military
career; hatred of Brant; his oratory; his cowardice at
Canandaigua lake; indignation and rebuke of Corn-
planter; origin of his name "Red Jacket," i. 428; at-
tains his chieftainship by working on the superstitions
of his tribe; the council at Fort Stanwix; opposition to
Cornplanter; his speech; war of 1812; his neutrality;
overruled by the Americans, and joins their forces;
anecdotes illustrative of his character and eloquence,
424; eloquence of the Six Nations, compared with that
of other tribes, 424; opposition to the missionaries; his
reasons, 425; his death; his last hours, 426; his reply to
Samuel Dexter, Secretary of War, 426; defence of
"Stiff Armed George," 427; reply to the young mission-
ary, Cram, 429.
REED, JOHN OTIS, estimate of, 1. 7.
REED, JOSEPH, General, ii. 52.
Rehearsal, The, newspaper established, 1. 2.
Religious Toleration, an extract from the speech of Wil-
liam Gaston on the "thirty-second article," in North
Carolina Convention; called to amend the State Consti-
tution, ii. 553.
RENWICK, JAMES, his life of De Witt Clinton, i. 565.
Representation, i, 15, 35.
Republicans, in the Virginia House of Burgesses, i. 41
"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God," ii. 450.
Retrenchment, extract from John Randolph's speech on, il
188.
Revolution, The American, origin of, i. 87.
Revenue System, speech of Alexander Hamilton on the, i.
215.
Revenue Collection (Force) Bill, John Caldwell Calhoun's
speech on the, ii. 483.
REYNOLDS, THOMAS, treachery of, i. 526.
Rhode Island, opposition of to national duties, i. 169; Brit-
ish at, ii. 33.
RICHARDSON, MR., in the trial of Thomas O. Selfridge, il
242.
Richmond, Va., trial of Aaron Burr at, i. 174.
RIDGE, the Cherokee chief, ii. 469.
RITTENHOUSE, DAVID, director of the mint, i. 263; sketch of
the life of, 268.
RIVARDI, MAJOR, i. 427.
RIVES, W. C., ii. 496.
RIVINGTON, JAMES, i. 86, 87, 447.
Roads and Inland Navigation, John Sergeant, chairman
of, ii. 506; the bonus of the National Bank, and the
United States' share of its dividends, proposed to be set
apart as a permanent fund for the construction of roads
and canals, 479; the importance of, 480.
ROANE, MR., anecdote of John Randolph of Roanoke, re-
lated by, ii. 158.
ROBBINS, JONATHAN, ii. 266; see Thomas Nash;-John
Marshall's speech in the case of, ii. 20.
ROBERTS, ME., of Pa., ii. 122.
ROBERTSON, DONALD, tutor of James Madison, i. 125.
ROBESPIERRE, "the nation of France," ii. 69.
ROBINSON, ANDREW.-See "Fort Wilson."
ROBINSON, JOHN, ELDER, his argument against Episcopus,
ii. 254.
ROBINSON, JOHN, his affray with James Otis, i. 4.
Robinson's Admiralty Reports, quoted, 99, 114.
RODGERS, ANN MARIA, wife of William Pinkney, ii. 93.
ROGERS, DR. -, of New York, at Edinburgh, i. 525.
ROGERS, ROBERT, ii. 835.
ROSEZ, ALBERT ROLAZ DU, ii. 130.
Ross, JAMES, resolutions of, relative to the navigation of the
Mississippi, i. 475, 567; ii. 346, 350.-See Gouverneur
Morris and De Witt Clinton.
ROUSSEAU, J. J., quoted, i. 827.
Runnymede, the Convention of, 1. 71.
BUSH, BENJAMIN, ancestry of; death of his father; studies
with Doctor Finley; enters college; college life; studies
medicine under Dr. John Redman; university at Edin-
burgh; the professors; visits London and Paris; returns
to Philadelphia; elected professor; Drs. Bond, Morgan,
Shippen and Kuhn; succeeds Drs. Morgan and Kuhn,
i. 846; enters political life; his patriotism; elected to
Congress; signs the Declaration of Independence; ap-
pointed physician general; member of the Federal
Convention of Pennsylvania; "address to the people of
the United States;" resumes his practice; appointed
President of the Mint; his literary labors; "medical
inquiries and observations; " history of the yellow fever;
elected President of the American Abolition Society,
&c.; his character, 347.
Address to the people of the United States, 847; the
confederation, 847; the deficiency of coercive power;
of exclusive power to issue paper money, and regulate
commerce; the defect in vesting the sovereign power
of the United States in a single legislature, and in the
too frequent rotation of its members, 348; "the revolu-
tion is not over," 849; commissioner to England, ii. 182.
RUSH, JAMES, i. 346.
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RUTLEDGE, JOHN, parentage of; birth of; education; death
of his father; studies in the Temple; commences prac.
tice in Charleston, South Carolina; his professional en-
gagements; action in the Gadsden controversy, 1764;
member of the Congress at New York, 1765; his elo-
quence; elected to the Continental Congress; advocates
unlimited powers to the representatives, i. 118; elected
President of South Carolix address of the legislature
to; his answer; serves in the action at Sullivan's
Island; his note to General Moultrie; elected governor,
i. 119; chosen a member of Congress; appointed, with
George Clymer, to visit the several States and induce
them to carry out the requisitions of Congress; his
eloquence before the Virginia Assembly; appointed
minister to Holland; declines to serve; elected Judge
of the Court of Chancery; appointed Judge of the Su-
preme Court of the United States; elected Chief Justice
of South Carolina; his death; speech to the South
Carolina Assembly, i. 120; speech to the General As-
sembly of South Carolina, i. 122, notice of, 286; ii. 485.
SALLUST, Catiline conspiracy of, i. 551.
Saratoga, ii. 864.
SARGENT, LUCIUS MANLIUS, his sketch of the life of Samuel
Dexter, ii. 287.
"Satis eloquentiæ, sapientiæ parum," i. 513.
Savannah, siege of, i. 809.
SAVARY, MR., testimony in the trial of J. F. Knapp, ii.
SCHUYLER, GEN. PHILIP, daughter of marries Alexander
Hamilton, i. 185.
Scotch Rebellion of 1745, i. 290.
SCOTT, LIEUT., masssacre of, ii. 277.
SCOTT, SIR WILLIAM, ii. 104, 270.
SEDGEWICK, THEODORE, at the New York Convention, 1812,
i. 558; at Philadelphi, 'i. 9.
SEDGEWICK, THEODORE, Jr., quotations from, i. 83.
Sedition Act, conduct of the judges in relation to the,
ii. 61.
SELFRIDGE, THOMAS O., trial of, for killing Charles Austin;
Samuel Dexter's argument, ii. 239.
Seminole War, President's message in reference to the, il
282; Henry Clay's speech on the, ii. 278.
SERGEANT, Jonathan DICKINSON, ii. 306.
SERGEANT, JOHN, birth and parentage; study of law; ad-
mission to the bar; appointed Deputy Attorney Gene-
ral; appointed by Jefferson, Commissioner of Bank-
rupts; argument in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania;
chosen to the House of Representatives of Pennsylvania,
ii. 506; elected to Congress; discussion of the Missouri
question; appointed minister to the Congress of Pana-
ma by President Adams; re-election to Congress;
declines a position in the cabinet of General Harrison;
his decree on the question of the title to the Pea-patch
Island; death; sketch of his character, 507.
Speech on the Missouri question; Pennsylvania,
cessions of territory or claims to territory, 509; ces-
sion from the United States to Pennsylvania, 1788;
States have a capacity to contract with individ
uals; the admission of a State a compact; a new
State may contract, 510; the ordinance of 1787, 511;
power of Congress to admit new States; its extent, 512;
power of Congress on the death of the President and Vice-
President, 513; government an evil; case of Louisiana,
515; State rights; a new State the creature of the con-
stitution, 516; slavery, 516; is it essential, by the prin-
ciples of our constitution, to the character of a State,
that it should have the power of originating, establish-
ing, or perpetuating the condition of slavery within its
limits? 517; political equality, 519; ninth section of the
first article of the constitution considered, 520; has a
State the power to originate slavery? &c., 521; “migra-
tion," 521; applies to freemen arriving from abroad, 522;
further remarks, 523; treaty of cession, 524; case of
Louisiana further considered, 525; dangers from an ex-
tension of slavery, 525, 526; expediency of the measure,
526; slavery an evil founded in wrong, 526; “diffusion,"
527, 528; where to end-answer to Mr. Clay, 529.
SERRE, M., companion of Albert Gallatin, 1780, ii. 130.
SEWALL, SAMUEL, i. 2; ii. 422.
St. Helena, the governor of, 1. 526.
St. Mark's, Florida, resolutions of the House of Represen-
tatives relative to the seizure of the posts at, ii. 278.
ST. VINCENT, LORD, ii. 270.
SEWALL, STEPHEN, biographical sketch of, i. 2; ii. 448.
SHARP, MARGARET, ii. 533.
SHARPLESS, Mr., portrait painter, anecdote of, i. 552.
SHAW, MRS., daughter of Gen. Greene, i. 449.
SHELTON, MISS, first wife of Patrick Henry, i. 8; death of, 11
SHEPARD, ME.-See Knapp's trial.
SHERMAN, ROGER, i. 296, 350.
Salem, Mass., writs of assistance, first applied for, at, i. 2; SHERIDAN, MR., in Parliament, ii. 122, 247.
trial of John F. Knapp at, ii. 399.
Sheriffs, to be collectors of revenue, i. 35.
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