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"Coalition," ii. 558.

COBBETT, WILLIAM, ii. 185.

Corr, MR., of Connecticut, ii. 184.

COLDEN, CADWALLADER D., life of Fulton, i. 851.

COLTON, CALVIN, his Life and Times of Henry Clay, ii. 259.
Columbia College, New York, Alexander Hamilton at, i. 560;
John Randolph at, ii. 156.

Columbian Centinel, Boston, i. 552.
Concord, Mass., ii. 365.

DALRYMPLE, COLONEL, i. 60.

DANA, Chief Justice of Mass., i. 552.

DANA, FRANCIS, minister to Russia, ii. 247.

DANE, NATHAN, il. 872, 875, 428; remarks of Robert Y
Hayne in reference to, ii. 558.

DANDRIDGE, NATHANIEL W., i. 11.

DANDRIDGE, DOROTHEA, second wife of Patrick Henry, i. 11.
Danvers, Mass., ii. 418.
D'ARBLAY, MADAME, ii. 428.

Confederation, The, eulogy on, i. 15; John Witherspoon's DARRICOTT, MRS. ii. 259.
speech on, 296.

Congress, the powers of, respecting the disposal of the terri-
tory and property of the United States, ii. 44; to build
roads, 290; cutting canals, 292.

Congress of 1774, 1. 287; suggested by Samuel Adams, 822.
Considerations on behalf of the Colonists, by James Otis,

1. 8.

Constitution of the United States, Uriah Tracy's speech on
a proposed amendment to, relative to the mode of elect-
ing a president and vice-president, i. 432.

Continental Congress, declaration of, on taking up arms,

i. 286; John Adams in the, ii. 448.

Dartmouth College, ii. 857, 858, 859; discourse before the
Faculty, Students, and Alumni of; commemorative of
Daniel Webster, by Rufus Choate, il 362.
D'AUTERIVE, MARIGNY, ii. 320.

DAVIE, WILLIAM RICHARDSON, sketch of the life of, i. 403.
DAWES, THOMAS, quotation from, i. 4.
DEACON, PETER, ii. 259.

DEANE, SILAS, i. 234, 802.

DECANDOLLE, the botanist, ii. 130.
Declaration of Independence, ii. 453.
Declaration of Rights of Virginia, i. 11.
D'ENGHEIN, DUKE, execution of, ii. 282.

Convention Parliament of 1688, bill of rights enacted by, DELANY, SHARPE, see "Fort Wilson."

ii. 128.

COPPERTHWAIT, HUGH, i. 453.

CORBIN, MR., i. 33.

CORNWALLIS, LORD, i. 120; expression in reference to Vir-
ginia, ii. 177; French troops in Ireland surrender to,

526.

CORRELISSEN, N., his oration at Ghent, 1816, ii. 55.
COXE, ISAAC, see "Fort Wilson."

CRAIG, CAPTAIN, expedition under the command of, ii. 272.
CRAIG, JAMES H., governor of Canada, ii. 583.
CRAM, Mr., Red Jacket's reply to, i. 419.
CRAWFORD, W. H., ii. 882; his opinion of James Hillhouse's
proposition to amend the Federal Constitution, 146.
Creek Indians, see "Cherokee and Creek Indians:" treaty
between the United States and the, ii. 274; its charac-
ter, 275.

CROMWELL, OLIVER, 1, 7, 453; ships and troops of, invade
Virginia, 40.

CROSWELL, HARRY, Alexander Hamilton's speech in the trial
of, i. 204; ii. 587.
Crown Point, i. 45.

CROWNINGSHIELD, RICHARD, arrested for the murder of Jo-
seph White, ii. 399.

CROWNINGSHIELD, GEORGE, arrested for the murder of Jo-
seph White, ii. 899.

CRUGER, NICHOLAS, i. 183.

CRUSE, PETER HOFFMAN, his Life of William Wirt, ii. 440.
CULLEN, PROFESSOR in the Edinburgh Medical University,

i. 346.

Culloden, Battle of, ii. 885.

Culpepper C. H., Va., ii. 441.

Cumberland Island, Ga., General Henry Lee died at, i. 449.
Cumberland Road, ii. 287, 295, 296, 882.
CUNNINGHAM, the case of Forsey and, i. 350.
CURRAN at Westminster, i. 525.

Currency and Banking system of the United States, con-
siderations on, ii. 133.

CURTIS, GEORGE T., his History of the Constitution of the
United States, i. 164, ii. 85.
CUSHING, THOMAS, i. 225.

D

D'AGUESSEAU, on capital punishment, ii. 235.
DALLAS, A. J., notice of, ii. 95.
DALLAS, ROBERT C., notice of, ii. 95.

Delaplaine's Repository, quoted, ii. 85.

DE LOLME, the writer on Legislation, ii. 130.
Democratic Review, quoted, ii. 218.
DENNY, RICHARD, ii. 259.

D'ENVILLE, LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, letter from to Dr. Frank-
lin, ii. 180.

"Dermot, Mac Morrogh;" or, the Conquest of Ireland, by
John Q. Adams, ii. 251.
DESAUSSURE, H. W., ii. 472.

DE STAEL, MADAME, ii. 285; account of Henry Clay's inter-
view with, 261.

D'ESTAING, COUNT, at Rhode Island, ii. 88.
Detroit, action at, 1814, ii. 271.
DEXTER, RICHARD, notice of, ii. 237.
DEXTER, SAMUEL, senior, notice of, ii. 287.
DEXTER, SAMUEL, ancestry and birth of; graduates at Har-
vard College, ii. 287; studies law; anecdote of practice,
237; election to Congress; appointed Secretary of War;
transferred to the Treasury Department; his practice
in the Supreme Court; his oratory, 238; his habits;
temperance; the Massachusetts State Temperance So-
ciety; anecdote of; Mission to Spain tendered him;
ill health; his death, 289; argument in the trial of
Thomas O. Selfridge, 239; Red Jacket's reply to, 1. 426;
at Philadelphia, ii. 9; Webster's tribute to, 894; coun-
sel in Knapp's trial, 399, 409; notice of, 572.
Dictator, an American, i. 82.
DICKINSON, JOHN, birth, parentage, and early education;
studies law; enters the Temple at London; returns to
Philadelphia; elected to the Pennsylvania Assembly;
his oratory; reply to a piece called the speech of Joseph
Galloway; member of the Congress of New York; his
career; political writings, i. 278; address to the Com-
mittee of Correspondence in Barbadoes; the Farmer's
Letters; address of the inhabitants of Boston; Dr.
Franklin's preface to the Farmer's Letters; Richard
Henry Lee, 274; Liberty Song; Arthur Lee; elected to
Congress; Address to the people of Quebec; petition to
the King; Declaration of Congress, 1775; second peti-
tion to the King; opposes the Declaration of Independ-
ence, 275; political writings, 275; leads a regiment;
serves as a private soldier; appointed Brigadier Gen-
eral; elected to Congress; address to the States; que-
tation from; chosen member of the Delaware Assembly;
President of the State; Dickinson College; the Federal
Constitution; writes the letters of Fabius; his last lite-

rary production; his death, 276; speech attributed to, | ELLSWORTH, OLIVEE, ancestors of, birth and education; com
by Botta, ii. 452; notices of, i. 66, 296.

Speech in the Pennsylvania House of Assembly, 1764;
attempted change of government, 277; prudence to be
used in effecting great ends; Duke of Monmouth and
the Prince of Orange compared; Tacitus, 278; consider-
ation of the attempted change, 279; consequences upon
the change, 280; Church of England; government of
Carolina and the Jerseys; Quakers, 282.

The Declaration on taking up arms; the early colo-
nists, 286; trial by jury; Congress of 1774; petitions
neglected, 287; General Gage; Battle of Lexington;
Boston; Proclamation of June 12th, 1775; burning of
Charlestown, Mass., 288.

DICKINSON, SAMUEL, i. 278.

DINWIDDIE, GOVERNOR, i. 251.

Direct Taxation, Christopher Gore's speech on, i. 417.
DORCHESTER, LORD, i. 109.

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DRAYTON, WILLIAM HENRY, Judge, ancestry of; birth of;
his early education; graduates at Oxford; his marriage;
writes under the signature of a Freeman; controversy
with Christopher Gadsden; appointed to the Privy
Council of South Carolina; appointed Judge, 1774; his
removal from the bench and Council; elected to the
Provincial Congress of South Carolina; is chosen Presi-
dent of that body; appointed Chief Justice of South
Carolina; delivers his celebrated charge to the Grand
Jury; his address to Congress, 1774, i. 48; writes under
the signature of a Carolinian; answer to the declaration
of Lord and General Howe, 1776; elected to the Conti-
nental Congress, i. 49; death of; his literary produc-
tions; "History of the American Revolution;" memoirs
of him, by John Drayton; challenged by General Charles
Lee; his reasons for declining; charge to the Grand
Jury of Charleston, 8. C., i. 50.

DUDLEY, PAUL, Chief Justice of Massachusetts, death of, i. 2.
DUMONT, the writer on legislation; anecdote of, ii. 130.
DUNCANNON, CAPTAIN.-See "Miranda's Expedition."
DUNLAP, WILLIAM, his History of New York, i. 453.
DUNMORE, LORD, enters Virginia, 1775, i. 10, ii. 7; defeated by

the Americans at the Great Bridge, Va., 8; notice of, 155.
Dutch, the treaty between the Mohawks and, i. 468; Eng-
land's Navigation Act, ii. 86.

DUYCKINCK, E. A. and G. L., i. 357.

DWIGHT, THEODORE, history of the Hartford Convention, i.
558.

E

East Florida, William Hunter's speech on seizing, ii. 337.
Eastern States, their opposition to the embargo, 1809, ii. 88.
EASTMAN, ABIGAIL, ii. 357.

EATON, GENERAL, ii. 462; deposition in the trial of Aaron
Burr, 152.

EDGEWORTH, MARIA, ii. 428.

Edinburgh, Medical University of, ii. 533; the professors
in, i. 346.

EDWARDS, BENJAMIN, ii. 441.

EDWARDS, NINIAN, ii. 441.

Education Female, prejudices against, ii. 427.
ELIOT, JOHN, i. 3.

Eliot's Biographical Dictionary, i. 823.

ELIOT, LIEUTENANT, bravery of, ii. 272.

Elizabeth River, Virginia, action at, ii. S.

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mences the study of law; anecdote of his early practice.
i. 401; appointed States Attorney; elected to the State
Legislature and the Continental Congress; member of
the "Committee of Appeals;" the "Rhode Island Ex-
pedition;" the Federal Constitution, 402; elected to
the Senate of the United State; appointed Chief Jus-
tice; his career; appointed on a mission to France;
anecdote of an English lawyer; failing health; resigns
his seat on the bench; return to America; his last days
and death; tribute to, 403, opposes Mr. Gallatin's tak-
ing a seat in the Senate, ii. 34; notices of, i. 120; ii. 9.
Speech on the Federal Constitution; on opening the
debates; a more energetic system necessary, 404; re-
ference to ancient and modern history; necessity of
coercion; present weakness, 405; on the power of Con-
gress to lay taxes, 406; reasonable checks; reference to
Rhode Island, 408.

Embargo, James A. Bayard's speech on the repeal of the,
ii. 80.

EMMET, CHRISTOPHER TEMPLE, death of, i. 525.
EMMET, ROBERT, father of Thomas Addis, i. 525.
EMMET, THOMAS ADDIS, parentage and birth; designed for
the practice of medi ́ne; his studies; graduates at the
Medical University of Edinburgh; his fellow-students,
i. 525; Medical Thesis published by Smellie; travels in
Germany and Italy; death of his brother; studies law;
Erskine commences practice; his marriage; success
at the bar; Curran; the condition of Ireland, 525; the
French Revolution; societies of United Irishmen; Em-
met joins them; the adherence of the people; arrest of
Mr. Emmet; insurrections of Wexford and Wicklow;
defeat at Vinegar Hill, 526; French force land at Killala;
surrender to Lord Cornwallis; suffering in prison; the
jailer of Napoleon; Mrs. Emmet, 526; removed to Fort
George; writes the history of Ireland; liberation and
removal to the Continent; Brussels and Paris; sails for
New York; commences the practice of law; admitted
to the Supreme Court; death of Hamilton, 527; success
at the bar; politics; appointed Attorney General of New
York; anecdote of his practice; manners and appearance
in court; retort upon William Pinkney, 527; Mr. Em-
met's habits of business; estimate of his powers as an
advocate; his eloquence; the Astor cause; trial of Lieu-
tenant Percival; and the case of the Sailors' Snug Harbor,
528; his last illness and death; memoir of his life, by
Haines, 528; counsel in the case of the Neirede, ii. 96.

Speech in defence of William S. Smith; Miranda's
expedition, 523; account of General Miranda, 529; charac-
ter of Mr. Smith, 530; Mr. Adams and Mr. Genet, 580;
the statute considered, 531; captain Lewis and Mr. Arm-
strong; the misrepresentations of Fink, 532: the Lean-
der, 534; conduct of Spain towards the United States,
535; the rescue of the Kempers; Colonels Swartwout
and Platt, 536; letter of Captain Duncanson, 536.

Speech in the trial of Robert M. Goodwin, 587;
duty of the jury, 588; burthen of the proof not thrown
on the defence, 588; Mary Blandy's case, 539; act of
manslaughter must be voluntary; interpretation of the
word" wilful," 540; distinction between murder and
manslaughter, 541; Hawkins' definition of manslaughter,
542; Sir John Chichester's case, 543.

ENDICOTT, MR., testimony in the trial of J. F. Knapp, ii. 405.
England, "implication" in, see Patrick Henry; resolution

of the Lords and Commons, of February 7, 1688, i. 52;
the Navigation Act of, 103; Navigation Act of the
seventeenth century, ii. 36; object of, to curtail the
navigation of the Dutch, 36; the disposition of, in 1788,
41; the manufacturing resources of, 172.

English Judiciary, independence of the, il, 212.
Englishmen's Rights, by Samuel Adams, i. 819.
"Enthusiasm a merit," i. 109.

EPPES, MR., of Va., elected to Congress, ii. 189.

Erie Canal, projection of, i. 566.

ERSKINE, at the bar, i. 525.

Essex Historical Society, extract from Joseph Story's dis-

course before the, ii. 438.

"Essex Junto," ii. 887.

Esopus, N. Y., burnt by the British, 1777, ii. 218.

EUSTACE, J. S., il, 535.

EUSTIS, WILLIAM, governor of Mass. i. 559, 565, 569.

EUSTIS. DR., Commissioner to the Netherlands, 1817, ii. 182.
EVERETT, EDWARD, quotation from, i. 59; ii. 859.
Exports from the United States, i. 101; to England, 1790; i.
95, 96.

F

France, speech of R. G. Harper on the aggressions of, 1. 491
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 Duke
D'Enville to, ii. 180; on capital punishment, 233.
FRANKLIN, WILLIAM, Governor, appearance before Con-
gress, i. 293.

FREDERICK OF PRUSSIA in 1741, ii. 350.

"Free Ships make Free Goods," 1. 147.

"Free Trade and Seamen's Rights," il. 272.
FRENEAU, PHILIP, Editor of the National Gazette, attacks
against the proclamation of neutrality, i. 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. 153.
Frontier Posts, surrender of, 1794, i. 114, 116.
FULTON, ROBERT, i. 851; ii. 480.

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. 81;
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. 373, 455.
Federalist, the, i. 157; the origin of, 185; authors of, 126.
Ferdinand, King of Spain, ii. 341.
FILLMORE, MILLARD, ii. 360, 581.

Finances, speech of John Witherspoon on the, i. 805.
FINLEY, SAMUEL, Presidзa: of New Jersey College, i. 262,
846.

FITCH, MARY, wife of Rev. James Hillhouse, ii. 144.
Florida, East, Wm. Hunter's speech on the seizure of, ii.
836, 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, 370; 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. 508.

FORDYCE, CAPT., at the battle of the Great Bridge, ii. 8.
FORRESTER, MR.-See Knapp's trial.

Forsey and Cunningham, the case of, i. 850.

FORSYTH, MR., of Louisiana, ii. 381.

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. 373.

Foul-town, destruction of, ii. 277.

Fox, CHARLES, compared with William B. Giles, ii. 190; in

Parliament, 247.

G

GADSDEN, CHRISTOPHER, i. 810; biographical notice of, 119;
speech of in the South Carolina Commons House of As-
sembly, 333; controversy with Wm. Henry Drayton,481
GAGE, GEN. THOMAS, i. 45, 52, 288, 410.
GAINES, GEN. EDMUND P., in the Seminole war, ii. 284.
GALLATIN, ALBEET, ancestors and birth of; death of his

parents, ii. 180; education and graduation at Geneva
University; Müller, the historian, and De Lolme; Du-
mont, 130; 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, 131; 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, 238; treaty of Ghent, 249;
appointed minister to France and Great Britain, 182;
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, 184, 183; Mississippi, 185; 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, 139; 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, 148.

GALLOWAY, JOSEPH, i. 278; biographical sketch of, 66.
Garden's Anecdotes, i. 861.

GARLAND, HI. A., his life of John Randolph of Roanoke, il

155.

GASTON, DR. ALEXANDER, ii. 538.

France, observations on the dispute between the United GASTON, WILLIAM, birth and descent; sketch of his father

States and, i. 489.

ii. 533; 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, 585, 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. 366.

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.

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GEORGE III., coronation of, i. 224; his reign a war reign;"
an account of, 570.

Georgetown, D. C., ii. 439; college at, 584.

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-estion 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, 198; 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,
1. 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. 87.

GRAHAM, MISS, wife of Lewis Morris, i. 454.

GRANT, CHARLES, JR., ii. 406; letter from, 407.
GRAY, HARRISON, account of, i. 557.

GRAY, SAMUEL, i. 60, 68.

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 so-
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, 358.

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, 448, 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, LOED, commissioner of Great Britain, i. 157.
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., ii. 580.
GWINNETT, BUTTON, i. 296.

H

HAINES, CHARLES G., i. 526, 528.
HAMILTON, ALEXANDER, "of Grange," i. 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. 183; 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, 155; 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. 84, 184, 218, 312.

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, 202;
loans; extent of a representative government; not the
interest of the national to destroy the State govern-
ments, 202; jurisdiction of the two governments, 208, 204.

Speech in the case of Harry Croswell; liberty of the
press, 204; the indictment of Croswell, 205; libelling,
⚫ a crime; Lord Camden; Blackstone and Hawkins; def-
nition of a libel; quotation from Lord Loughborough,
206, 207, murder; manslaughter; duelling; Lord Mans-
field; Dean of St. Asaph's case, 207, 208; "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 atory 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 Ro-
mans; a dissolution of the Union soonest effected by
"sowing jealousies of the federal head," &c. 223.
HAMILTON, JAMES, notice of, i. 183.

HAMILTON, JOHN C., his life of Alexander Hamilton, i. 188,
186.

HAMMOND, MR., British Minister, i. 100, 431; ii. 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, i. 224; death of the wife of
224.

HANNIBAL, the victories of, i. 503.
Harlem, N. Y., i. 453.

HARPER, ROBERT GoodLoe, i. 372; 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 Chesa-
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

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