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, 153; 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. 235; tribute to, by T. A.
Emmet, i. 536; ii. 41, 218, 308, 312, 345, 360, 436, 442; his
first election to the Presidency described, 53; 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, 433; 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. 443, 460.
Jackson, Fort, treaty of, 1814, ii. 274; compared with that JONES, SIR WILLIAX, frnishes the motto for the alliance
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.
JOHNSON, THOMAS, 1. 296.
JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM, i. 428.
JONSON, BEN, i. 163.
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, 320, 322.
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, ii. 441, 443.
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. 273.
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, ii. 33; 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, 84; 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, 34; 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 LEE, ARTHUR, i. 275; biographical sketch of, 42.
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, 36; commercial
aggrandizement of England; the commercial system of
the United States; tornage and seamen of the United
States before the revolution, 37; 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, 1753, 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, CHARLES, i. 50; Brackenridge's strictures on, L. 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, L. 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, i. 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. 899.
KNAPP, JOSEPH J., arrested for the murder of Joseph White,
ii. 899.
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.
859.
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.
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, 43;
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. 153.
LEIGHTON, MR., testimony in the trial of J. F. Knapp, iL
406.
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. 819, 365.
Lexington, Kentucky, ii. 259; Henry Clay's speech at, June
6, 1842, 260.
Liberty, Patrick Henry's remarks on, i. 15.
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. 814.
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,
ii. 453.
Law, the study of, by James Otis, i. 7.
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, il 73.
LINNEN, WILLIAM, assassinates Dr. David Ramsay, i. 810.
Lisbon, minister to, i. 511.
LISTON, MR., British Minister, i. 431.
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; destrue-
tion of Esopus; removal to Hurley; graduates at
Princeton College; law studies, il. 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, 228; a system of espionage,
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, 280; advantages of capital punishment
considered, 281; Dr. Franklin's opinion of, 233; fero-
cious character impressed on the people, 284; 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. 350.
LIVINGSTON, R. R., Chancellor, i. 43, 159, 296, 341; 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, 350; 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, 83; 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.
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. 85.
LORING, ME., 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. 344; 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. 850.
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. 882.
LowRIE, MR., of Pa., ii. 122.
"Lucius Junius Brutus."-See Fisher Ames.
LYON, ME., of Vermont, ii. 75.
MACKINTOSH, SIE 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, 1. 558, 565, il. 54, 289, 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, 184: 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
Laxes; 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, 1. 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,
i. 100; Fisher Ames' speech on, i. 92.
MALBONE, GODFREY, il. 835.
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. 358.
MARION, GENERAL, tribute to, i. 122.
MARSH, JOSEPH, tutor of Josiah Quincy, Jr., i. 831.
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, 18; 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, 28; 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,
80; 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. 371; 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. 872; estimate of his character and oratory, 872.
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, 373; propositions originally submitted to the con-
vention, 874; acceded to by a majority; position of
Washington, 375; parties in the convention, 876; 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, 855; eligibil-
ity of senators and representatives, 386; the veto power;
powers of Congress to collect a revenue, 887; loans, $88;
the army; militia, 391; slave trade; position of Georgia
and South Carolina, 890; navigation act; slavery a nation-
al crime, 891; suspension of the habeas corpus act, in
cases of rebellion; state ports; currency, 392; States
prohibited from laying imposts, 893; 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, 397; religious tests;
ratification of the constitution, 398.
Maryland, the position of, respecting the Federal Constitu-
tions, i. 80; Huguenots settled in, ii. 52.
Maryland Gazette, ii. 35.
Maryland Federal Convention, ii. 93.
MARY, QUEEN OF Scors, 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
adopted in, to embarrass the financial operations of
government, 570; Daniel Webster's tribute to, 389.
Massachusetts Bey, vindication of the conduct of the House
of Representatives of, i. 3; John Adams's opinion of, 8;
galleries of the House of Representatives of, opened, 8.
Massachusetts Charitable Fire Society, Minot's address be-
fore the, i. 552; John Q. Adams's address before the, i.
552.
Massachusetts, Federal Convention of, i. 226, 859, 551; Ru-
fus King in the, ii. 34.
Mohawks, treaty with the Dutch, i. 468.
MONK, CHRISTOPHER, i. 229.
Monmouth, battle of, ii. 8, 364.
Monongahela, battle of, i. 251.
MONROE, JAMES, ii. 249, 268, 541; recalled from France, 9;
advocates the right of Albert Gallatin to a seat in the
United States Senate, 84; on impressment of seamen,
83.
MONTGOMERY, GENERAL, i. 330, 559.
MONTGOMERY, HUGH, ii. 319.
Massachusetts Gazette, contributions of John Adams to the, Monticello, the home of Jefferson, ii. 458.
i. 233.
Mr.- -See trial of R. M. Goodwin.
MCKEAN, THOMAS, i. 296.
McKenney's Indian Biography, i. 426.
MCLANE, LOUIS, his remarks on the Missouri question, ii. 508.
MCLEAN, ALLEN.-See "Fort Wilson."
MCWILLIAMS.-See trial of R. M. Goodwin.
Medical Inquiries and Observations, by Dr. Benjamin
Rush, i. 347.
Medicine, improvements in, ii. 429.
MERCER, HUGH, General, i. 559.
MEREDITH, WILLIAM M., his eulogium on John Sergeant, ii.
508.
MIFFLIN, JOHN T.-See "Fort Wilson."
MIFFLIN, THOMAS, at the Whiskey Insurrection in Penn-
sylvania, i. 449.
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Ministers, Foreign, the utility of, i. 507, 516.
MINOT, GEORGE, father of George R. Minot; notice of, 1. 551.
MINOT, GEORGE RICHARDS, ancestry of; birth and early
education, i. 551; graduates at Harvard University; his
oratory; studies law with William Tudor; Fisher
Ames; appointed clerk of the Massachusetts House of
Representatives; writes the history of the Massachu-
setts Insurrection, 551; oration on the Boston massacre;
appointed Secretary of the Massachusetts Federal Con-
vention; elected judge; incident of his judicial life,
551; the portrait painter; Mr. Sharpless; writes the
History of Massachusetts; the Historical Society; the
Charitable Fire Society; death of Washington; Mr.
Minot's last effort; his death; eulogy on Washington,
552.
MIRANDA, GENERAL, account of, i. 529.
"Miranda's Expedition," i. 528.
Mr. See Knapp's trial.
MIRICK,
Mississippi River, navigation of, i. 25, 29, 169, 257, 185;
Gouverneur Morris's speech on the, 475; Dewitt Clin-
ton's speech on, 567; John Randolph's remarks on, ii.
Mississippi Repudiation, ii. 582.
Missouri, slaves in, in 1804, ii. 46; the effect of the exclu-
sion of slavery from, 50; compromise, ii. 556.
Missouri Question, Otis's speech on the, i. 559; Rufus King's
speeches on the, ii. 44; speech of William Pinkney on
the, ii, 114; further notice, 836, 507, 556; John Sergeant's
speech on, 508.
MITCHELL, DR. SAMUEL L., at Edinburgh, i. 525.
MOODY, SAMUEL, ii. 33.
MOORE,, Gen., ii. 366.
MOORE, HANNAH, ii. 428.
"Moral Treason," ii. 535.
MORGAN, DR. WILLIAM, i. 846.
MORLAND, JOHN, i. 273.
MORRILL, Mr., of New Hampshire ii. 122, 126.
Morrisania, N. Y., origin of, i. 453.
MORRIS, GOUVERNEUR, ancestry of, i. 453; education; placed
with M. Tetar at New Rochelle; graduates at King's
College; oration on "Wit and Beauty;" studies law
with William Smith; oration on "Love;" the love of
Liberty; opposes the emission of bills of credit by the
State, 454; commences the practice of law; his elo-
quence; elected to the Provincial Congress of New
York; delegated to the General Congress; appointed
on a committee to visit Valley Forge; correspondence
with General Washington; removes to Philadelphia;
contributions to the Pennsylvania Packet over the sig-
nature of "An American;" injured by being thrown
from his carriage; amputation of his left leg; anecdote
of the operation; appointed assistant to Robert Morris;
death of his mother; member of the Federal Conven-
tion; estimate of his services, by Mr. Madison, 455;
visits France; incident of his sojourn recorded by H. T.
Tuckerman; appointed "private agent" to England;
Minister to France; return to America; elected to the
United States Senate; his speeches; his marriage;
retirement and death; account of his last hours; his
literary productions, 456; at the New York convention,
1812, 558; notices of, ii. 27, 816.
Speech on the Judiciary, 1802; the dignity of the
Senate; the people the most dangerous enemy to them-
selves; the constitution, 457; the judicial power, 458;
the Judiciary Act defective, 459; government, a sys-
tem of salutary checks, 460; salaries; coinage, 461; the
future of the United States, 462; constitutionality of
the courts, 468; reply to Mr. Mason of Virginia, 464;
situation of the country, 465.
Discourse before the New York Historical Society,
466; sketch of the history of New York from 1763 to
1783; its geographical position, 466; early settlement;
the Dutch; treaty of Westphalia, 467; Mohawk treaty;
Fort Orange; Duke of York; Cromwell; Charles II.;
Edict of Nantes; Governor Hunter, 468; the ancestry
of the "New Yorkers," 469; the Indians, 470; the
spirit of 1776, 471; "Man an imitative animal;" the
practice of law, 472; population of New York compared
with other States, 473.
Speech on the navigation of the Mississippi; resolutions
of Mr. Ross, 475; his object is peace; the horrors of war;
national honor to be preserved; reply to Mr. Jackson,
476; reply to Mr. Clinton, Breckenridge, and Wright;
Island of Orleans, and Florida; their consequence to
the United States; the treaty of Luneville, 477; duty
of the States, 478; position of Napoleon; consequence
of the possession of Florida by France, 479; effect upon
the several States, 480; effect upon other nations, 481;
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