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,
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."
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,
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,
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'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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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
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
GASTON, DR. ALEXANDER, ii. 538.
France, observations on the dispute between the United GASTON, WILLIAM, birth and descent; sketch of his father
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.
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.
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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