Falkirk, battle of, i. 290.
Falkland Islands, case of considered, i. 571. Farmer's Letters, the, i. 274.
Farewell Address, Washington's, i. 254; authorship of, 261. Farmington and Hampshire Canal, ii. 147. "Father of the Revolution," i. 820.
Federal Constitution, Patrick Henry's speeches on the, i. 18, 23, 28; the ratifying and non-ratifying States, i. 31; James Wilson's speech on the, 74; speeches of James Madison on the, 127; speech of Edmund Randolph on the, 165; speeches of Alexander Hamilton on the, i. 187, 191, 195, 198, 200: Charles Pinkney's observations on, 362; speeches of Oliver Ellsworth on, 404, 406; difficul- ties attending the adoption of, in Massachusetts, ii. 34; speeches of John Marshall on, 10, 16; James Hillhouse's propositions to amend the; opinions of Chief Justice Marshall; Wm. H. Crawford, James Madison and Chan- cellor Kent, 145, 146.
Federal Convention, account of, i. 878, 455. Federalist, the, 1. 157; the origin of, 185; authors of, 126. Ferdinand, King of Spain, ii. 841. FILLMORE, MILLARD, ii. 360, 581.
Finances, speech of John Witherspoon on the, i. 305. FINLEY, SAMUEL, President of New Jersey College, i. 262, 346.
FITCH, MARY, wife of Rev. James Hillhouse, ii. 144. Florida, East, Wm. Hunter's speech on the seizure of, ii. 336, 353.
FOOTE, GEN. H. S., ii. 580.
FOOT, MR., of Connecticut, ii. 860; resolution of, 870, 899, 556, 557, 578; Daniel Webster's speech on, 870; R. Y. Hayne's speech on, 557.
Force Bill.-See Revenue Collection Bill. Foreign Missions, Board of, i. 263.
Foreign Ministers, R. G. Harper's speech on the appoint- ment of, i. 503.
FORDYCE, CAPT., at the battle of the Great Bridge, ii. 8. FORRESTER, MR.-See Knapp's trial.
Forsey and Cunningham, the case of, i. 350. FORSYTH, MR., of Louisiana, ii. 881.
Fort George, Scotland, Thomas Addis Emmet confined in, i. 527.
Fort Necessity, Washington at, i. 251.
"Fort Wilson," account of, i. 66.
FOSTER, MR., of New Hampshire, ii. 878. Fowl-town, destruction of, ii. 277.
Fox, CHARLES, compared with William B. Giles, ii. 190; in Parliament, 247.
France, speech of R. G. Harper on the aggressions of L. 49L FRANCIS, DR. JOHN W., his sketch of Chancellor R. R. Living- ston, i. 351; comparison of Daniel Webster and Gouver neur Morris, 456.
FRANKLIN, DR. BENJAMIN, i. 153, 286, 302, 309, 850; il 41, 812, 458; Commissioner of Peace at Paris, L. 156; Preface to The Farmer's Letters, 274; letter from the Dake D'Enville to, ii. 180; on capital punishment, 233. FRANKLIN, WILLIAM, Governor, appearance before Con- gress, i. 293.
FREDERICK OF PRUSSIA in 1741, ii. 850.
Free Ships make Free Goods," i. 147.
"Free Trade and Seamen's Rights," ii. 272. FRENEAU, PHILIP, Editor of the National Gazette, attacks against the proclamation of neutrality, L. 521. French Aggressions, R. G. Harper's speech on, i. 491. French Court, interview of John Jay, Dr. Franklin, and Mr. Jefferson, with a secret agent of the, i. 158. Frontier Posts, surrender of, 1794, L. 114, 116. FULTON, ROBERT, i. 851; ii. 430.
GADSDEN, CHRISTOPHER, i. 810; biographical notice of 118; speech of in the South Carolina Commons House of As- sembly, 833; controversy with Wm. Henry Drayton,451 GAGE, GEN. THOMAS, i. 45, 52, 288, 410. GAINES, GEN. EDMUND P., in the Seminole war, ii. 234. GALLATIN, ALBERT, ancestors and birth of; death of his
parents, ii. 130; education and graduation at Genera University; Müller, the historian, and De Lolme; Du- mont, 180; embarkation for Boston; letter of recom- mendation to Dr. Franklin, 130; arrival at Cape Ann; journey to Boston; removal to Machias, Maine; the de- fence of Passamaquoddy, 181; appointed teacher in Harvard College; removes to Virginia, 181; Patrick Henry; Western expedition; interview with General Washington, 181; settles in Fayette County, Pennsylva nia; political career; whiskey Insurrection; his course; his speech on the, 132; elected to Congress; appointed Secretary of the Treasury, 288; treaty of Ghent, 249; appointed minister to France and Great Britain, 152; his diplomatic career; return to the United States; re- tires from public life, 133; currency and banking; phi- lological studies; Ethnological Society; "war with Mex- ico;" essays on the, 183; his death, 183; notices of, L. 494, 506; ii. 22, 54, 130, 261, 442; his seat in the Senate of the U. S. contested, 84.
Speech on the British treaty, 1794; resolution in relation to; the expediency of; consequences of a refusal to carry it into effect; negroes; western posts, 134, 138; Mississippi, 135; future intercourse between the United States and Great Britain; West Indies; "free bottoms make free goods,” 186; privateering; rights of British subjects holding lands in the United States, 187; confiscation, 188; British debts; the western ports the only positive loss from a defeat of the treaty, 189; British influence over the Indians; reference to the remarks of Messrs. Nicholas and Hill- house, 140; consequences of a rejection of, 141; post- ponement suggested, 143.
GALLOWAY, JOSEPH, i. 273; biographical sketch of, 66. Garden's Anecdotes, i. 861.
GARLAND, H. A., his life of John Randolph of Roanoke, i
GASTON, DR. ALEXANDER, ii. 583.
France, observations on the dispute between the United GASTON, WILLIAM, birth and descent; sketch of his father
ii. 538; early education; enters college at Georgetown;
graduates from Princeton College with highest honors; practises law; election to the House of Delegates; elect- ed to Congress; discussion to expunge the previous question from the House, 534; elevated to the Bench of Supreme Court of North Carolina; his decease, 535; speech on the Loan Bill, 535, 553; extract from his speech on the "Thirty-second Article " in the North Carolina Convention, to amend the State Constitution, 553, 554.
Speech on the Loan Bill, 1814; Mr. Grundy's doctrine of moral treason, ii. 535; case of Harry Croswell; opposes the appropriation as unnecessary, and a scheme to carry on an invasion of Canada, 537; answer to Mr. Ingersoll; "free ships make free goods;" Mr. Jefferson's letter to Genet, 24th July, 1793, quoted, 539; Indian wars insti- gated by the British, 540; impressment of seamen not a cause of the war, 541; orders in council, 542; alliance with France; the dispute about seamen, how to be set- tled, 543; the tendency of the invasion of Canada, 544; British allegiance; the cases of Colonel Townly and Eneas Macdonald, 546; the effects of a war in Canada, 546, 548; conscription in France; probability of success in Canada considered, 549; Gottenburg mission, 551; evils of violent opposition and intemperate party spirit considered, 552.
GATES, GEN., letter from General Burgoyne to, i. 299; at Saratoga, 450; notice of, ii. 866.
GENET, CITIZEN, the Revolutionary labors of; some ac- count of, i. 109, 496; ii, 22, 27, 28.
Geneva, Switzerland, University of, ii. 180. GEORGE II., death and funeral of, i. 2, 224.
GEORGE III., coronation of, i. 224; his reign a "war reign;" an account of, 570.
Georgetown, D. C., ii. 489; college at, 534.
GERARD, M., i. 66; sails for France, i. 156.
Germantown, Pa., battle of, ii. 8.
Germantown, Va., birth-place of John Marshall, ii. 7.
GERRY, ELBRIDGE, i. 59; ii. 59, 248, 873; envoy to France, ii. 9.
Ghent, Treaty of, consummated, ii. 55; contrasted with the treaty of Fort Jackson, 275.
GIBBS, GEORGE, memoirs of the administration of Washing- ton and Adams, i, 431.
GILES, WILLIAM B., Sketch of the life of; elected to Con- gress; opposition to the British treaty; retires from Congress and is elected to the Virginia House of Dele- gates; his career; re-election to Congress; transferred to the Senate; acknowledged leader of his party in that body, ii. 189; his resignation, and reasons for that step; letter to the Governor of Virginia, 189; re-election to the House of Delegates; reply to Mr. Clay's speech on the tariff; elected Governor; his death; Jefferson's let- ter to, on consolidation, 577; estimate of his character, by Thomas H. Benton, 190; compared with Charles Fox, 190; notices of, ii. 55, 80, 62, 577.
Speech on the British treaty; refusal of the President to lay the papers relating to the, before the House; considered, 190; examination of the treaty; inexecution of the treaty of peace, 191; British subjects, 192; British debts, 193; morality of sequestration considered, 195; East and West Indian trade, 196; equalization of duties, 197; enemy's property in American vessels subject to condemnation, 197; contraband goods defined, 199; con- sideration of the article "prohibiting American citizens from entering into any foreign service against Great Britain," 199; impressment, 199; privateering against France, 200; probable consequences of refusing or giving efficacy to the treaty, 200; believes the treaty to be a bad one, 205.
Speech on the judiciary bill, 205; difference of opin- ion on the subject, 205; history of the government, 206; reply to Mr. Morris, 207; the existing judiciary law ex- amined, 208; appointment of judges, 209; compensation of judges, 210; sinecure offices, excluded from the fed- eral government, 211; independence of the English ju- diciary explained, 212; English and United States judges compared, 212; consequences of the doctrine against the repeal examined, 213; history of the law to be repealed, 214; how carried into effect, 215; expediency of the re- peal, 216; case of Messrs. Green and Read; number of causes instituted at the courts, 1796, 1801, 216. Glasgow, Scotland, University of, ii. 144. GODDARD, CALVIN, see Hartford Convention. GODWIN, PARKE, his sketch of the life of John C. Calhoun, ii. 471.
GOODRICH, CHAUNCEY, the personal appearance of his wife, i. 481.
GOODWIN, ROBERT M., trial of; Sampson's report of; T. A. Emmett's argument in the trial of, i. 587. GORDON, WILLIAM, history of the American war, i. 274. GORE, CHRISTOPHER, birth and parentage of; education; career at college; studies law; the invasion of Rhode Island, i. 410; his success in business; elected to the Massachusetts federal convention; appointed United States attorney; goes to England; assists in the settle- ment of the claims for British spoliations; his life in England; return to America; elected to the legislature of Massachusetts; prepares State papers; elected Gov- ernor; declining health; literary and benevolent activ- ity, 411; personal appearance; his death; sketch of his life in the Massachusetts Historical Collections, 412; no- tices of, ii. 358, 94; speech in the Senate of the United States, on the prohibition of certain imports, 1814, 412; speech on direct taxation, 417.
Government, national, federal, i. 37.
GRAHAM, MISSs, wife of Lewis Morris, i. 454.
GRANT, CHARLES, JR., ii. 406; letter from, 407. GRAY, HARRISON, account of, i. 557.
GRAY, SAMUEL, i. 60, 63.
GRAY, WILLIAM, examination of before the Massachusetts legislature, in relation to the impressment of Ameri- cans, ii. 543.
Great Bridge, on Elizabeth river, Va.; account of the ac- tion at, 1775, ii. 8; bravery of Capt. Fordyce and Col. Stevens at, 8.
Great Britain, Address of the colonies to; names of the
committee appointed to draft it, i. 43, 159; non-inter- course with; Boudinot's speech on 270; address to the inhabitants of, 350; eulogium on "brave men who have fallen in the contest with," 1779, 858.
Greek Prosody, the rudiments of, by James Otis, i. 2. GREEN, ASHBEL, life of, i. 293.
GREENE, N., GENERAL, tribute to the bravery of, i. 122; reads Ramsay's History of the Revolution in South Carolina, 309; notices of, 443, 450, 489, 559, ii. 366.
Gregg's Resolution, John Randolph's speech on, ii. 157, 159. GREGORY, PROFESSOR, in the medical university of Edin- burgh, i. 346.
GRENVILLE, LORD, commissioner of Great Britain, i. 137. GRIDLEY, JEREMIAH, i. 1; defends the writs of assistance, 2; biographical sketch of, 2; ii. 446. GRIGSBY, HUGH Blair, i. 164. GRUNDY, FELIX, ii. 494, 540, 550; remarks on the Wabash massacre, 183; further remarks of, 185; his doctrine of moral treason, 535.
GUION, JOHN J., ti. 580. GWINNETT, BUTTON, i. 296.
HAINES, CHARLES G., 1. 526, 529. HAMILTON, ALEXANDER, "of Grange," L. 183; birth and early education of, fondness of literary pursuits; merchant life in Santa Cruz; habits of study; description of the hurricane of the Leeward Islands; removal to New York; the grammar school at Elizabethtown, New Jer- sey; his tutor, Francis Barber, i. 158; enters college; his career; his doggrel rhyme; the "meeting in the fields," to consider the Boston port bill; his speech; po- litical writings; controversy with Dr. Cooper; military service; battles of Long Island; White Plains; Trenton and Princeton; appointed to Washington's staff; his popularity and services; surrender of Burgoyne; visit to Albany, 184; bravery at the battle of Monmouth; public finances; anonymous letter to Robert Morris; letter to Mr. Duane on the reorganization of the gov- ernment; origin of the Federalist;" marries Miss Schuyler; established in the State of New York; retires rom the family of Washington; plan of a national bank; bank of North America; bank of Pennsylvania; "The Continentalist;" bravery at Yorktown; com- mences the study of law, 185; appointed to Congress; essays under the signature of "Phocion;" replies of "Anti Phocionite" and "Mentor; " elected to the Gen- eral Assembly; the federal convention; "The Federal- ist," i. 126; the Vermont difficulties; appointed Secre- tary of the Treasury; the war between England and France; writes under the signature of "No Jacobin," and "Pacificus;" Jay's treaty; returns to the practice of law; his success; "Titus Manlius; " troubles with France; appointed inspector-general of the provincial army; his death, 186, 187; Gouverneur Morris' oration on, 487; Harrison Gray Otis' eulogy upon, 559; notices of, 447, 489, 559, 564, 565; ii. 34, 184, 215, 812.
Speech on the Federal Constitution; consequences of a rejection, 187; thirteen different bodies embarrassing requisitions; sufferings of the States in 1779, 80; want of a vigorous government; New York exposed to invasion; wholly complied with requisitions; coercion; old con- federation could not be formed on federal principles, 188; Amphictyonic league; Philip; Dutch, German and Prussian governments; Lycian and Achæan leagues; clashing of interests, 189; representation of three-fifths of the negroes and taxation; representation; number of the whites, 190; state governments; their advantages over the national government; no danger from the fed- eral head to the States, 191; representation further con- sidered, 191; aristocracy; the federal farmer; large and small districts; the rich and the poor, 193; the old con- federation; notices the; republics founded on a firm basis; federal constitution a cure, and will answer ben- eficial purposes, 194; speech in opposition to Gilbert Livingston's amendment; for some permanent body, of limited numbers; another to possess popular features, 195; recall would "make the Senator a slave;" unrea- sonable apprehension of State governments; local preju- dices, 196; senatorial terms; senators will look up to the States; the duties of senators; responsibility, 197; two objects in government; safety and energy, people irresistible; factions; legislature of Rhode Island, "the picture of a mob;" the Senate should be so formed as to operate as a check on the State governments, 198; senatorial terms; equal votes in the Senate; State gov- ernments inviolable; factions grow out of State preju- dices; self-interest, 199, 200; corruption in the Presi- dent's disposal of offices, 200; free representation and
mutual checks; representatives return to the people, 200; sword and the purse; representation; distribution of powers; civil list, 201; exclusive revenues, 201, 209; loans; extent of a representative government; not the interest of the national to destroy the State govern- ments, 202; jurisdiction of the two governments, 203, 204 Speech in the case of Harry Croswell; liberty of the press, 204; the indictment of Croswell, 203; libelling, a crime; Lord Camden; Blackstone and Hawkins; def- nition of a libel; quotation from Lord Loughborough, 206, 207, murder; manslaughter; duelling; Lord Mate- field; Dean of St. Asaph's case, 207, 203; "Falsehood must be the evidence of libel," 209; power and right equivalent in politics; power of the jury a "Landmark to liberty," 211; the decla story law of Great Britain not binding; Mr. Fox's bill; Lord Mansfield, 214.
Speech on the revenue system, 215; the Hartford con- vention, 218; non-compliance of New Hampshire, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, with the requisi- tions of Congress, 1782, 1787; payments of the several States; impost; foreign debt, 220; paper money; its value in the several States, 221; standing armies a source of real danger to the liberties of the people; the Eo- mans; a dissolution of the Union soonest effected by "sowing jealousies of the federal head," &c. 223. HAMILTON, JAMES, notice of, l. 183. HAMILTON, JOHN C., his life of Alexander Hamilton, 1138, 186.
HAMMOND, ME., British Minister, i. 100, 431; il 449. HANCOCK, JOHN, i. 60, 309, ii. 406; ancestors and birth of; death of his father; early education and graduation st Harvard College; mercantile life; visits England in company with Thomas Pownal, ex-governor of New Jersey; funeral of George II.; coronation of George III.; death of his uncle; receives his immense estate, i. 224; elected to the General Assembly; chosen speak- or; political activity; seizure of sloop Liberty; the Bos- ton massacre; removal of the troops; oration com- memorative of the massacre; John Adams' notice of it, 225; speech attributed to, 225 (note); elected President of the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts, and Presi dent of Congress; Declaration of Independence; resigns his position in Congress; elected Governor of Massa- chusetts; the federal constitution; his death; estimate of his character and services, 226; oration on the Boston massacre, 227.
HANCOCK, THOMAS, death of, L. 224; death of the wife of 224.
HANNIBAL, the victories of, i. 503. Harlem, N. Y, i. 453.
HARPER, ROBERT GOODLOE, i. 872; ii. 53; birth and ances try of; removal to North Carolina; enters the Ameri- can service; college life; discourse on "The Proper Objects of Education," i. 489; settles in Charleston, S. C.; studies law; his success; political writings; elected to the legislature; retirement, and election to Congress; the British treaty; he advocates it, 489; "Observations on the dispute between the United States and France;" speeches in Congress; marriage; removal to Maryland; his practice, 489: trial of Judge Chase; elected to Congress; speech in honor of the Russian victories; appointed General; the attack on Baltimore; the colonization of Africa; slavery; Ohio and Chess- peake Canal, 490; his death; an account of, by William Wirt, 490.
Speech on the aggressions of France; refusal by the French Directory to receive Mr. Pinckney; Message of the President; answer from the Congress; concilia- tory measures recommended; concessions to be offered
propriety of the recommendation, 491; answer to Mr. Nicholas of Virginia; address from Mecklenburg Coun- ty, 492; recommendation unconstitutional and impolitic; "Is the concession necessary ?" 493; law of nations, 493; rights of neutral ships; corrects Mr. Gallatin, 494; "Is concession valuable to France ?" 495; M. de la Croix's summary; M. Adet's correspondence; decrees of July 4th, 1796, and March 24, 1797; Mr. Genet's recall, 497; the policy of France; conduct of England, 498; France and Austria, 499; consequences of a war, 500; object of France to compel the United States to break the British treaty; conduct of France; anecdote of the daughter of Louis XVI, 501.
Speech on the appointment of Foreign Ministers; reply to Mr. Nicholas, 503, 504; reply to Mr. Gallatin, 503, 504; Messrs. Monroe and Pinkney, 504; Washing- ton, "an assassin," 505; explanation of Mr. Nicholas, 505; further reply to Mr. Gallatin; salaries of ministers, 506; power of the House of Representatives over the appointment of Foreign Ministers, 507; responsibility of the President; "From what source is the office of Foreign Ministers derived ?" 508; explanation of Mr. Gallatin, 509; two modes by which an office may exist, 509; inchoate office; ministers to Berlin and Lisbon, 511 political knaves and honest fanatics, 512; philoso- phers the pioneers of revolution; "Satis eloquentiæ, sapientiæ parum;" Jacobins, their armies, 513; philoso- phers and Jacobins in America; revolution the result of expense, war, and oppression; the destruction of free governments, how attained; England and Poland; Cortes of Spain, and Ximenes; States General of France and Richelieu and Mazarine; Germany and Russia, 514; Cæsar and Rome; England and Cromwell; consequence of the amendment to the United States; remarks of Mr. Thatcher, of Massachusetts, 515; the utility of foreign ministers, 516; Consuls, and Consul Ministers, 517; the mission to Berlin; ministers necessary to protect the rights of citizens in foreign countries, 518; political con- nections with foreign States; remarks of Mr. Findley, of Pennsylvania, 519; allusion to Messrs. Jefferson and Hamilton; war system, 520; neutrality 521; alliance with France, 522; Mr. Monroe quoted, 523. HARRISON, WILLIAM HENRY, ii. 355, 360; destruction of the Mississinaway towns, ii. 277.
HART, MR., testimony in the trial of J. F. Knapp, ii. 408. Hartford Convention, account of the, i. 558; ii. 375, 888, 558, 572.
Harvard University, ii. 422; removed to Concord, Massa- chusetts, 1775, i. 410; lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory, before the senior and junior sophisters of, by John Q. Adams, ii. 251; "Phi Beta Kappa, society of; Joseph Story's discourse before the, 424.
HATFIELD, RICHARD, letter from John Jay to, quoted, i. 158. HAWLEY, MR., ii. 446.
Hawkins, Fort, letter from William Bell to the command- ant of, ii. 276.
HAYCOCK, MR.-See trial of R. M. Goodwin.
HAY, GEORGE, in the trial of Aaron Burr, i. 174, 872. HAYNE, ISAAC, Col., notice of, ii. 555.
HAYNE, ROBERT Y., birth; descent; early education; prac- tises law; election to the United States' Senate; resig- nation; acceptance of Governorship of South Carolina; career in the Senate, ii. 555; Ordinance of Nullification; Compromise Act; death; his character and appear- ance, 556, 557; Daniel Webster's reply to, 870; sketch of the Life of Dr. David Ramsay, ii. 810; notice of, ii. 360.
Speech on Mr. Foot's resolution; reply to Mr. Web- ster's first speech, and the remarks of Mr. Benton, ii.
557; the coalition; Banquo's ghost; Nathan Dane; Hart- ford Convention, 558; public lands ought not to be treated merely as "a fund for revenue," 559; the feel- ings of the different portions of the country concerning internal improvement contrasted; the East, West, and South, 559; the Cumberland Road; American system, 560; the South repudiates the idea that a pecuniary de- pendence on the Federal Government is one of the legitimate means of holding the States together; reply to Mr. Webster's tribute to Ohio, 561; influence of sla- very on individual and national character, 562; slave labor, the product of; relative importance to the Union of the Southern and Eastern States; Matthew Carey, 563; difference of opinion as to the effect of slavery on national wealth and prosperity; Southern States unsur- passed in their devotion to liberty; consolidation, 564; national republicans; federalists; praises of the tariff to be sung to the tune of Old Hundred, 565; allusion to Mr. Webster's speech on the tariff, in 1824, 566; "Will carry the war into the enemy's country;" conduct of the South during the Revolution; the war of 1812, 567; conduct of New England during the war, 568; Massa- chusetts, 569; Boston banks; measures adopted to em- barrass the financial operations of government, 570; Massachusetts clergymen, 571; Samuel Dexter; Hart- ford Convention, 572; Mr. Adams and the Embargo, 573; consolidation leads to disunion; Josiah Quincy quoted; peace party in New England; the democracy of New England, 574; the doctrine of 1798; the doctrine of South Carolina; Virginia Resolutions of 1798; Madi- son's report of 1799, quoted, 575; protest of the Vir- ginia Legislature, 1825, 576; Jefferson's letter to William B. Giles; quotation from James Hillhouse, on the em- bargo, 577; "Resistance to unauthorized taxation," a principle sacred to the South, 578.
HEATH, WILLIAM, General, i. 59. HEMANS, MRS. ii. 428.
HENRY, PATRICK, i. 42, 43, 120, 126; ii, 156, 454; birth of, i. 8; his ancestors; the oratory of his uncle, William Win- ston; his youth and fondness of fishing, 8; a mer- chant's clerk; established in trade and becomes bank- rupt; his marriage, 8; turns farmer; resumes mer- cantile pursuits and again fails, 9; commences the study of law; enters upon practice; the Parson's cause, 9; success in his profession, 10; elected to the House of Burgesses; opposition to the Stamp Act; elected to the first Congress, 1774; his speech; mem- ber of the Virginia Convention; his resolutions advo- cating a military defence of Virginia; appointed with George Washington to prepare a plan of defence, 10; leads a body of troops against Lord Dunmore; his suc- cess; elected governor of Virginia, 1777, 1778; declines a reduction; death of his wife; removed to Henry County; marries Dorothea Dandridge; resumes the practice of law, 11; chosen to the State Assembly; de- fence of the loyalists; opposes the "restraints upon British commerce;" advocates intermarriages of the whites and Indians; again elected governor; resigns; a member of the Federal Convention of Virginia; re- tirement from public life; offered the office of Secre- tary of State, by President Washington; re-elected governor, 11; declining health; alarmed at the alien and sedition laws; offers himself as a candidate for the House of Delegates; his speech at the March court, 1798, 12; his support of the constitution; his election; last illness and death, 13; his frienship for Albert Gal- latin, i 131.
Speeches on the Federal Constitution, 13, 14, 23; alarm- ed at the proposed change of government, 13; the con
stitution a consolidated government; denies the right | Honduras, English settlements in, i. 571.
of the Federal Convention to say "We the people" in- stead of "We the States,," 14; object of the convention 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, 85; 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, 39; 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, 23; 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, 31; an American dictator, 82; Virginia and North Carolina, 83; patriotism and genius of Virginia, 38; checks, 84; sheriffs to be collectors of revenue, 85; government, national-federal, 87; State legislatures shorn of their consequence, 87; Albany confederacy, 87; origin of the American revolution, 87; treaty with France, 88; the absurdity of adopting and amending afterwards, 38.
"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, IL 144.
HOFFMAN, OGDEN, in the case of the Nerlede, ii. 96. Holland, government of, i. 26, 29.
HOLMES, A., his memoir of the French Protestants who
settled at Oxford, Mass., ii. 237.
HOPKINS, STEPHEN, i. 296. HOPKINSON, FRANCIS, í. 296.
HOPKINSON, JOSEPH, i. 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. 293; 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.
Hudibras, quoted, il. 876.
Huguenots, i. 151, 183; ii. 52, 237.
Hudson River, secret committee, appointed by the New York Convention, to obstruct the, i. 158. HUNT, JAMES, ii. 489.
HUNT, WILLIAM P., ii. 441. HUNTER, JOHN, il. 835.
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, il 885; his politics; speech on the seizure of East Florida, 836, 353; 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, S
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, 342; 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, 843; treaty of 1795, 344; negotiation with Spain considered, 345; Louisiana convention with France, 844; President Jefferson's message, 1808, considered, 345; mission of Don Onis, 345; 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, 348; insurrections; war with Spain will ruin the war with England; case of Mathews, 849; Louis XIV., and Frederick of Prussia; seizure of the Danish fleet by England considered, 850; political consequences resulting from the measure, 852.
HUNTINGTON, MR., il. 373.
HUSTON, GENERAL FELIX, ii. 579. HUTCHINSON, THOMAS, opinion of writs of assistance, i 3;
notice of, ii. 247. “Hyperion," Josiah Quincy's essays, under the signature of, i. 834.
Increase of the Nary, Henry Clay's speech on an, ii. 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, 438. INGERSOLL, JARED, ii. 52, 506.
HOLMES, MR., of Massachusetts, remarks on the Seminole Imports, for protection, unconstitutional, ii. 488.
Holt's New York Gazette, i. 850, 454.
Inaugural Address, of John Adams, 1797, i. 248; of George Washington, 1789, 252.
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