SHILLABER, MR.-See Knapp's trial.
SHIPPEN, DE., i. 346.

SIGOURNEY, ANDRE, notice of, ii. 237.
SIGOURNEY, ANDREW, ii. 237.

SIGOURNEY, MARY, ii. 237.

Silesia, Journal of a Tour through, by John Quincy Adams,

ii. 250.

SISMONDI, the historian, ii. 130.

Six Nations, Col. Pickering's treaty with, i. 427.
“Slashes," The, birthplace of Henry Clay, ii. 259.
Slavery, in the original thirteen States, the question of de-
cided, ii. 44; impairs industry, 49; has any State in the
United States a constitutional capacity to originate or
establish a state of slavery? 521; an evil founded in
wrong, 526; danger from an extension of, 525; its in-
fluence on individual and national character, 562.
Slave Trade, abolished by England; reasons why, ii. 123;
prohibited by the United States, 44
Slave representation, ii. 49.

Staves, the introduction of, not imputable to the present
generation, ii. 48; property in, 49; condition of in the
United States, 1818, 50.

lege; studies law with Samuel Sewall; enters office of
Samuel Putnam, of Salem; declines office; early lite-
rary efforts; election to Legislature, ii. 422; his legal
publications; appointed Judge of Supreme Court; pro
fessorship at Cambridge; personal habits; death, ii. 423,
424; characteristics of the age, ii. 424, 437; the Ameri-
can Indians, 438; sketch of Samuel Dexter quoted, 237.
STORY, WM. W., life of Joseph Story by, ii. 422.
STOUGHTON, JAMES, killed by R. M. Goodwin, i, 537.
STRONG, NATHAN, ii. 84.

STUART, CAPT. JOHN, i. 52.

SULLIVAN, GENERAL, proposed by John Jay, for the Ameri
can Army, i. 152; taken prisoner, 293; at Rhode Island,
ii. 33, 336.

SULLIVAN, WILLIAM, his "Public men of the Revolution,"
i. 158, 226, 412, 449, 527; ii. 34, 239; remarks of, relative
to the conspiracy of Aaron Burr, i. 174; anecdote of
Samuel Dexter, recorded by, il. 239.-See Hartford
Convention.

SUMTER, GENERAL, Leroism of, i. 122.
SWANN, THOMAS, ii. 441.

SWARTWOUT, COL.-See "Miranda's Expedition."

SMITH, ELIZABETH, ii 428.

SMITH, JOHN, Senator from Ohio; participation in the con-

spiracy of Aaron Burr; resolution to expel, ii. 147.

SMITH, MAJOR, see trial of R. M. Goodwin.

SMITH, REV. MR., tutor of James A. Bayard, ii. 52.
SMITH, SAMUEL, of Maryland, i. 495; ii. 337.

SMITH, SAMUEL STANHOPE, President of New Jersey College,
ii. 189.

SMITH, WILLIAM, account of, i. 83, 270, 454.

SMITH, WILLIAM, Jr., biographical sketch of, i. 88, 350.
SMITH, WILLIAM, REV., ii. 247.

SMITH, WM. L., i. 94.

T

TALLEYRAND, M., ii. 59, his answer to Mr. Livingston, 341.
TALLIEN AND BARRAS," the nation of France," ii. 69.
Tariff, speech on the, by John Randolph of Roanoke, il
169; Henry Clay's speech on the, 1624, 296; John C.
Calhoun's speech on the, 1816, 488; the praises of, to be
sung to the tune of Old Hundred, 565.

TAYLOR, JAMES, COLONEL, testimony of, in the case of John
Smith, ii. 154,

TAYLOR, JOHN, ii. 84.

fence of, i. 528.

Songs and Ballads of the American Revolution, i. 275.
South, The, conduct of during the Revolution, ii. 567.
South America, Miranda's expedition against, i. 528; the
independence of, ii. 425.

South Carolina, history of, by David Ramsay, i. 309; revo-
lution in, by Ramsay, 309; speeches of John Rutledge
to the Assembly of, 1776, 1782, i. 120, 122; tribute to, ii.
888.

SOUTHWICK, MR.-See Knapp's trial.

SPARKS, JARED, LL.D., i. 454, 456; ii. 180.

Spain, the transactions of, i. 25; treaty between the United
States and, relative to the navigation of the Mississippi,
475.

Spectator, The, ii, 155.

"Squinting towards Monarchy," i. 20.

TECUMSEH, birth; early exploits; forms a plan of uniting
all the Western tribes of Indians, to oppose the Ameri-
cans; his speeches; abuse of the United States; his
council with General Harrison at Vincennes; ally of
the British; holds the rank of Brigadier General; bat-
tle of Brownstown; leads his Indians against General
Miller; death at the battle of the Thames; anecdotes,
ii. 854, 355; speech at Vincennes; speech to General
Proctor, ii. 355, 856.

TENNENT, WILLIAM, life of, by Elias Boudinot, i. 263, — 809.
Tennessee, powers of the district judges of, under the old
establishment, ii, 77.

TERRY, NATHAN. See Hartford Convention.

THACHER, OXENBRIDGE, opposes the writs of assistance;'
author of "The Sentiments of a British American,"
1. 2; notice of, ii. 446.

Statesmen, John Randolph's definition of, ii. 188.
Steamboats, the first in America, i. 351.

STEPHEN, MR., author of the Orders in Council, ii. 271.
STEVENS, COL., at the battle of the Great Bridge, ii. 8.
STEWART, DUGALD, ii. 430.

"STIFF ARMED GEORGE," Red Jacket's defence of, i. 427.
STILES, EZRA, Holmes' life of, ii. 144.

STOCKTON, JOHN, i. 262.

STOCKTON, RICHARD, biographical notice of, i. 262
STONE, THOMAS, i. 296.

STONE, WM. L., lives of Brant and Red Jacket, by, i. 424.

STOOPE, REV. ME., tutor of John Jay, i. 151.

STORY, DR., the case of, ii. 547.

Adams, 1. 823.

"The Jubilee of the Constitution," an address before the
New York Historical Society, by John Q. Adams,
ii. 250.

"The Millboy of the Slashes." ii. 259.
Theology, a new era în, ii. 429.

Thesaurus Medicus, edited by Smellie, i. 525.

"Thirty Years' View," quoted, ii. 190.

THOMPSON, MR. of Va., ii. 72.

THORPE, T. B., his reminiscences of S. S. Prentiss, ii. 580.
Ticonderoga, i. 54.

VOL. II.-39

TOWNSEND, CHARLES, death of, i. 320.
TRACY, URIAH, his early youth; graduates at Yale College;
his eloquence; studies law; practice; elected to Con-
gress; his wit and repartee; anecdote of a retort upon
the British Minister; his Congressional speeches; poli-
tics, i. 481; society in Philadelphia in 1796; Mrs.
Wolcott, and Mrs. Goodrich, 431; anecdote of John
Adams, 432; "Boston Junto;" death of Abraham
Baldwin; his funeral; Mr. Tracy's last illness and
death, 432.

Speech on the amendment of the Constitution; relative
to the mode of electing President and Vice-President; a
full and fair discussion necessary; the resolution; has a
tendency to injure the small States; the great States
objects of jealousy; "man is man," 432; Compromise
a principle of the Constitution; the Senate, 433; Dela-
ware; debates in the Virginia Convention; the amend-
ment tends to a consolidation of the Union into a simple
republic, 484, 435; struggle in framing the Constitution,
435; great States destroy the small; powers of the Pres-
ident: mode of electing the President, 436; compre-
hensiveness of the Constitution; dangers to be feared
from the amendment, 438; speech on the judiciary sys-
tem, 1802, 442.

Treason, definition of, ii. 463, 465.

Vincennes, Ohio, Tecumseh's speech at, 1810, fi. 855.
Vindication of the British Colonies, by James Otis, i. &
Vinegar Hill, battle of, i. 526.

Virginia, declaration of rights of, i. 11; the position of, re-
specting the Federal Constitution, 30, 33; patriotism and
genius of, 38; origin of the name Ancient Dominion,
40; Cromwell's ships and troops invade, 40; Baptists in;
persecution of, 125; union necessary to, i. 165; Arnold's
invasion of, ii. 8; letter to the Governor of, from Wm.
B. Giles, resigning his seat in the United States Senate,
189; Court of Appeals of, 259; resolutions of 1798 con-
sidered, 895; reception of the Stamp Act in, 450; resolu-
tions of 1798, 575.

Virginia, Convention of, 1776, i. 164.
Virginia Gazette, i. 164.

VOLTAIRE, his history of Charles XII., ii. 155.

W

Wabash River, the massacre on the, ii. 183; Indian towns
on the, destroyed, 272.

WADDELL, REV. DOCTOR, ii. 472.
WADSWORTH, J., of Conn. at Philadelphia, ii. 9.
Ward's Essay on Contraband, ii. 106.

ly in the President, 111.

Trenton, New Jersey, Continental Congress met at, ii. 83;
battle of, 364.

TRIMBLE, MR., ii. 307.

TROWBRIDGE, Edmund, i. 8.

TRUXTON, COMMODORE, his connection with Aaron Burr's
conspiracy; his deposition in the trial of, ii. 151.
TRYON, GENERAL, invades New Haven, Conn., ii. 144.
TUCKER, ST. GEORGE, notice of, ii. 155.
TUCKERMAN, HENRY T., his biographical essays, i. 456; his

sketch of Gouverneur Morris, 456; his sketch of the life
of De Witt Clinton, 566; his "essays biographical and
critical, 567.

TUDOR, WILLIAM, i. 2, 551; sketch of the life of, 91.

J

WARREN, JOSEPH, birth of, his parentage, graduates at
Harvard University; an anecdote of his college life;
studies medicine; success in the treatment of small-pox;
marries a daughter of Dr. Richard Hooton; commences
his political life; quotation from a private letter of
concerning the imposition of England, i. 57; contrib-
utes to the Boston Gazette, under the signature of a
true patriot; quotation from; orations in commemora-
tion of the Boston massacre; anecdote illustrative of
his fearlessness of character, i. 58; narrow escape from
death, during an engagement with the British on their
return from Lexington; elected President of the Pro-
vincial Congress of Massachusetts; the battle of Bunker
Hill; death of Warren, i. 59; oration on the Boston
massacre, i. 60, 330, 559; tribute to, ii. 364.

WASHINGTON, AUGUSTINE, i. 251.

Washington City, Rufus King's speech on the destruction
of, ii. 85.

services of Henry Clay, ii. 263.

United States, exports from to England, year ending 30th
September, 1790, i. 94; address to the people of, on the
past, present, and eventual relations of that country to
France, 276; address to the people of, by Benjamin
Rush, 847; observations on the dispute between the
and France, 489; the commercial system of; tonnage
and seamen employed in before the Revolution, ii. 87;
value of exports from the to the British West Indies, 39.
United States Bank, Wm. B. Giles' remarks on, ii. 189.
United States Supreme Court, at Philadelphia, ii. 9.
UPHAM, CHARLES W., his sketch of John Quincy Adams,
ii. 247.

Utrecht, the treaty of, compared with the British treaty,
1794, i. 112.

Valley Forge, ii. S.

VAN RENSSELAER, NICHOLAS, i. 82.

VAN SANTVOORD, GEORGE, his lives of the Chief Justices, 1.
401.

VERGENNES, COUNT DE, difference with John Adams, i. 301.
VERVALEN, MR.-See trial of R. M. Goodwin.

of military life; desire to enter the British navy; mid-
shipman's warrant; the surveying expedition; appoint-
ed major in the Virginia militia; visits the valley of the
Ohio; placed in command of troops; march to Great
Meadows; capture of a body of the enemy; Fort Ne-
cessity; Braddock's defeat; narrow escape; appointed
"Commander-in-chief of all the forces raised, and to
be raised in Virginia," i. 251; expedition to Fort Du
Quesne; marriage; delegate to the Congress of 1774;
chosen Commander-in-chief of the American army; his
career; retires to Mount Vernon; the Federal Conven-
tion; appointed its President; elected President of the
United States; farewell address; appointed Lieutenant-
general of the American army; his death, 252; inaugural
address, 1789, 252; reception at New York, 252.

Farewell address, 254; speech on receiving his ap
pointment as Commander-in-chief of the American
army, 254; union, 255; North and South; East and
West; geographical discriminations, 256; Mississippi;
treaties with Spain and Great Britain; a government
for the whole indispensable; danger from factions, 257
faction enfeebles administration parties; reciprocal
checks; religion and morality necessary to political
prosperity; education; public credit, 258; revenue;

peace to be cultivated; foreign influence, 259; alliances;
proclamation of 22d April, 1798; neutrality, 260; antici-
pations, 261; authorship of farewell address, 261; ap-
pointed with Patrick Henry, by the Va. House of Bur-
gesses, to prepare a plan of defence for the colony, i. 10;
offers the position of Secretary of State to Patrick
Henry, 11; member of Congress, 1774, 42; letter to
John Jay, tendering him the Chief Justiceship, 157;
John Adams's tribute to, 249; Elias Boudinot's dedication
to, 269; the title given to, by Lord Howe, 294; life of,
by Ramsay, 309; oath of office administered to, 851; at
Trenton, 450; "First in War, first in peace, and first in
the hearts of his countrymen," 452; Henry Lee's Eulogy
on, i. 449; correspondence with Gouverneur Morris, 455;
George Minot's Eulogy of, 552; "an assassin," 504;
Marshall's life of, ii. 8; origin of Chief Justice Mar-
shall's acquaintance with, 8; appoints John Marshall
Attorney General of the United States, 9; Albert Gal-
latin's first interview with, 181; Tristam Burges' speech
on the removal of the remains of, 822.
Washington National Journal, i. 490.
Watch Tower, the account of, i. 83.

397; "Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and in-
separable," 899.

WEBSTER, Ebenezer, ii. 357.
WEBSTER, EZEKIEL, ii. 859.

WEBSTER, PETER E., testimony in the trial of J. F. Knapp

ii. 415.

WELLINGTON, Duke of, ii. 261.

WELLS, WM. VINCENT, his life of Samuel Adams, i. 825.
WELSH, JOHN, son-in-law of John Knox, i. 290.
West Indies, British, i. 100, 101.

Westmoreland County, Va., the birth-place of Washington,
i. 553.

Westphalia, treaty of, 1648, 467.

West Point, cannon conveyed to, i. 154.

Wexford County, Ireland, insurrection of, i. 526.
WHEATLAND, MR., testimony in Knapp's trial, ii. 419.
WHEATON, HENRY, his life of William Pinkney, ii. 98, 237.
Whiskey Insurrection, the, in Penn., i. 448; Albert Galla-
tin's speech on the, ii. 182.
WHITE, HENRY, ii. 404.

WHITE, JOSEPH, murder of, ii. 399.
White Plains, battle of, ii. 357.

248.

Waterloo, battle of, ii. 261.

WATKINS, HENRY, ii. 259.

WAYNE, GEN. ANTHONY, i. 572.
WEBB, MB.-See Knapp's trial.

WEBSTER, DANIEL, birth; ancestry; education; anecdotes
of his early life; student at Phillip's Academy, ii. 857;
returns to Salisbury; preparation for and admission to
Dartmouth College; commences the study of law; stu-
dent in the office of Christopher Gore, Boston; refusal
of a clerkship in the Court of Common Pleas; commences
practice at Boscawen; removal to Portsmouth; elected
to Congress; speeches; residence in Boston; Dartmouth
College case; argument before United States Supreme
Court; delegate to Massachusetts Convention for re-
vision of State constitution; oration at Plymouth;
elected to Congress from Massachusetts, ii. 859; enters
Senate of United States; reply to Hayne; visits Europe;
appointed Secretary of State by General Harrison; Ash-
burton treaty; resignation, and return to Massachusetts;
re-election to Senate; re-appointed Secretary of State
by President Fillmore; death; estimates of his character,
ii. 360; address at Bunker Hill, 17th June, 1825, ii. 362,
869; argument in Knapp's trial, 399, 421; tribute to
Alexander Hamilton, i. 186; notices of, ii. 288, 807, 557.

Speech on Foot's resolution; reference to Mr. Ben-
ton; "matches and over matches," ii. 871; the coalition;
Banquo's ghost; Nathan Dane, 872; ordinance of 1787;
Missouri question, 878; resolution of March, 1790, 374;
north-west territory; Hartford Convention, 875; further
remarks; speech of Colonel Barre in the British Parlia
ment, 876; sale of public lands, 877; internal improve-
ment, 378; education to be promoted by the States, 878;
the course of New England relative to the public lands,
879; powers of government in regard to internal affairs,
880; Mr. McDuffie's speech; "Consolidation; " Cumber-
land Road, 382; reply to Mr. Calhoun, 883; the tariff,
384; parties; General Washington and John Adams,
386; Essex Junto, 887; character of South Carolina, 888;
Massachusetts, 889; Virginia resolution, 889, 890; con-
stitutional resistance, 390; origin of government, and
the source of its power, 390, 391; tariff of 1828; an usur-
pation in South Carolina, 391; New England puts forth
no such doctrine, 892; the embargo law, 893; tribute
to Samuel Dexter, 894; Virginia resolutions of 1798;
right of States, 395; consequences of State interference,

WHITMAN, ME., in the trial of Thomas O. Selfridge, il. 242.
WHITNEY, STEPHEN, the inventor of the cotton-gin, ii. 480.
WICKHAM, JOHN, counsel in the trial of Aaron Burr, ii 461;
answer to his argument by Wm. Wirt, 462.
Wicklow County, Ireland, insurrection of, i. 526.
WIER, MR.-See trial of R. M. Goodwin.
WILBERFORCE, ii. 123.

WILCOCKS, JOHN.-See "Fort Wilson."
WILKINSON, JUDGE, Prentiss's defence of, ii. 582.
William and Mary College, i. 163; John Marshall at, ii. &
WILLIAMS, ELISHA, 1. 527.

WILSON, JAMES, birth of; early education; emigrates to
Pennsylvania; studies law; his success in his profes-
sion; the great land case; chosen to the command of the
militia of Carlisle, Penn.; pecuniary misfortunes; com-
mences political life, i. 65; elected to the Provincial
Convention of Pennsylvania; nominated to the Con-
tinental Congress; is opposed by Joseph Gallaway;
elected to Congress; removes to Maryland; appointed
advocate-general of the French nation in the United
States; signs the Declaration of Independence; the
affair of "Fort Wilson," i. 66; appointed director of
the Bank of North America; re-elected to Congress;
appointed on a commission to settle the difficulties be-
tween Pennsylvania and Connecticut, 1782; a mem-
ber of the Federal Convention of the United States;
advocates the ratification of the Constitution, in the
Pennsylvania Convention; appointed judge of the Su-
preme Court of the United States; professor in the
College of Philadelphia; revises the laws of Pennsyl-
vania; his death; his literary productions; speech in
vindication of the colonies, 1775, i. 68; resolution against
the Boston Port Bill, i. 71, 120.

Speech on the Federal Constitution; difficulties the
Federal Convention were obliged to encounter in the
formation of the Constitution, and the difficulty of pre-
paring an efficient system, i. 74; diversity of sentiment
among the members of the convention; the citizens of
the United States warm and earnest in their sense of
freedom; voted according to his judgment; extent of
country to be governed, considered, 75; confederate
states of Europe; the Swiss Cantons, the United Nether-
lands, the Achæan League, the Lycian Confederacy, the
Amphictyonic Council, differ from the United States;
the science of government yet in its infancy; govern
ments, in general, the result of force or accident; repro

sentation not the sole principle of government in Europe,
76; line between national and state governments; suc-
cess of the convention; society requires civil restraint;
civil government necessary to man, 77; division danger-
ous; one confederate republic best, 78; "federal liber-
ty" the end of the system; States should resign a part
of their political liberty; States and citizens represented;
illustration of the end proposed to be obtained by the
convention; the confederation inadequate, 79; supreme
power; parliamentary power absolute; in the United
States, constitutions are superior to legislatures; the
people superior to constitutions; all authority derived
from the people, 80, 81.

WINSTON, WILLIAM, anecdote of the oratory of, i. 8.
WIRT, JACOB, ii. 439.

WIRT, WILLIAM, birth; parentage; early life and education;
anecdotes, ii. 439; tutor in the family of Benjamin Ed-
wards; studies law with William P. Hunt; removes to
the office of Thomas Swann; commences practice at
Culpepper Court House, Va., ii. 441; marriage; resi-
dence in the county of Albemarle; literary pursuits;
removal to Richmond; elected clerk of House of Dele-
gates; counsel for Callender; chosen Chancellor of
Eastern Chancery District; resignation; the British
spy; trial of Aaron Burr; election to Virginia House of
Delegates; prepares Biography of Patrick Henry; ap-
pointed by President Madison United States Attorney
for Virginia, 443; appointed by Mr. Monroe Attorney-
General of United States; his practice in Supreme
Court; impeachment of Judge Peck; death; discourse
on Jefferson and Adams, 443, 460; speech on the trial
of Aaron Burr, 461, 470; speech on the Cherokee case,
469, 470; account of Patrick Henry's appearance in the
Parson's Cause, i. 9; account of the death of R. G.
Harper, 490; the character of Jefferson, ii. 449.
WISTAR, CASPAR, at Edinburgh, i. 525.
WITHERSPOON, JOHN, i. 262, 309; ancestry, birth, and educa-
tion; licensed to preach; church at Beith; his reputa-
tion as a preacher; Scotch rebellion of 1745; raises a
corps of militia; marches to Glasgow; battle of Fal-
kirk; taken prisoner and confined in the Castle of
Doune; his fellow-prisoners; attempted escape, i. 290,
291; injury of his comrades, 291; battle of Culloden;
release; removal to Paisley; emigrates to America;
presidency of New Jersey College; literary productions;
"ecclesiastical characteristics," 291, 292; Warburton's
opinion of them; apology for the "characteristics;"
opposes theatrical exhibitions; death of Dr. Finlay;
New Jersey College; elected to Congress; anecdote of,
292; reply to Governor Franklin; opposition to Thomas
Paine; his speeches in Congress; addresses of Congress
recommending fasts; his literary labors; death, 293;
Bodgers' sketch of his life.

Speech on the conference with Lord Howe, 298;
Washington's title; message of Lord Howe to Con-
gress;-should have been secret, 294; the Scotch rebel-
lion of 1745; cowardice of the British troops at Preston
and Falkirk; militia of England compared with that of
America; Lord Howe's letter to Dr. Franklin; the
three classes in America; the tories, the whigs, and the
army, 295, 296.

Speech on the Confederation; necessity of union; a
lasting confederacy desirable, 296; danger from treach-
ery among the colonies; slaves of freemen most griev-
ously oppressed; Lacedæmonians and Helotes; Romans;
Cæsar; danger from postponement, 297; human pro-
gress; rights of conscience in England; Cantons of
Switzerland, 298.

Speech on the convention with General Burgoyne;
non-compliance with its terms, 298; Burgoyne's letter
in the London Gazette, 298; General Gates; British
army humiliated; Romans at the Caudine Forks; Sam-
nites; letter from General Burgoyne to General Gates;
convention of the Duke of Cumberland, 299; the use
of books and systems; character of Burgoyne; his proo
lamations, 800.

Speech on the appointment of plenipotentiaries; dif-
ference between John Adams and the Count de Ver-
gennes, 801; Dr. Franklin; Mr. Lee; Mr. Deane; Mr.
Laurens, 302; speech on the Loan Office certificates;
public credit, 803; part of a speech on the Finances;
Loan Office certificates; continental money; College of
New Jersey, 305.

WOLCOTT, OLIVER, i. 431; resigns the Treasury Department,
ii. 238.

WOLFE, GENERAL, i. 450; ii. 857.
WOLSTONCRAFT, MARY, ii. 127.

Women, rights of, of New Jersey, 1. 268.
WOODS, REV. SAMUEL, ii. 358.
WRIGHT, Mr.

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mittee, ii. 326.

of Ohio, 1. 477; on the Judiciary Com-