his opinion of James Hillhouse's proposition to amend
the Federal Constitution, ii. 146; his report of, 1799,
ii. 575; notices of, i. 558, 565, ii. 54, 239, 249, 261, 312,
842, 390.

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, 188, 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, 139; 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
taxes; 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, i. 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, 1793,
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, ii. 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. 881.
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

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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, 13; 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 ever
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, 31; 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. 584.
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. 871; early political life; his writings;
appointed attorney-general of Maryland; the Federal
Constitution; defence of Judge Chase; notices of, 489,
ii. 468, 488; President Jefferson; trial of Aaron Burr;
appointed judge; district attorneyship; ill health and
death, i. 872; estimate of his character and oratory, $12.

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, 878; propositions originally submitted to the con-
vention, 874; acceded to by a majority; position of
Washington, 875; parties in the convention, 376; the
Jersey resolutions; suffrage; the rights of individuals,
877; representation, 879; checks; Adams, 882; the
Senate; State governments to be annihilated, 853; seat
of government, 384; representation and direct taxation,
854; slaves-the number of freemen and, 885; eligibil-
ity of senators and representatives, 386; the veto power;
powers of Congress to collect a revenue, 887; loans, $88;
the army; militia, 891; slave trade; position of Georgis
and South Carolina, 390; navigation act; slavery a nation-
al crime, 891; suspension of the habeas corpus act, in
cases of rebellion; state ports; currency, 892; States
prohibited from laying imposts, 398; the election of
president-his powers and term of office, 393; vice-pres-
ident; president-when to be impeached, 891; the
Supreme Court, 395; jury trials; treason defined, 896;
erection of States within States, 897; religious tests;
ratification of the constitution, 398.

Maryland, the position of, respecting the Federal Constitu-
tions, i. 30; Huguenots settled in, ii. 52.
Maryland Gazette, ii. 85.

Maryland Federal Convention, ii. 98.
MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS, opinion of the prayers of John
Knox, i. 290.

MASON, GEORGE, i. 83, 126, 178.
Massachusetts, House of Representatives of; their answer
to Governor Eustis's Message, 1823, ii. 569; measures

MONK, CHRISTOPHER, i. 229.

| Monmouth, battle of, ii. 8, 364.
Monongahela, battle of, i. 251.

552.

MONTGOMERY, HUGH, ii. 319.

MCKEAN, THOMAS, i. 296.

McKenney's Indian Biography, i. 426.

MCLANE, LOUIS, his remarks on the Missouri question, fl. 508.
MCLEAN, ALLEN.-See "Fort Wilson."

MCWILLIAMSs.-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 Penu-
sylvania, i. 449.

Ministers, Foreign, the utility of, i. 507, 516.

MINOT, GEORGE, father of George R. Minot; notice of, i. 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 Ricer, 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.
156.

Mississippi Repudiation, 11. 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, 336, 507, 556; John Sergeant's
speech on, 509.

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. 346.
MORLAND, JOHN, i. 278.

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 clo-
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, 346.

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, 463; 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 1768 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, 478.

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;

the importance of possession to France, 482; M. de la
Luzerne, 482; plan of negotiation, 483; Oration over
Hamilton, 487.

MORRIS, LEWIS, the father of Gouverneur, i. 453, 454.
MORRIS, RICHARD, i. 453.

MORRIS, ROBERT, i. 120; anonymous letter to, from Alex-
ander Hamilton, 185; designs the Bank of North Amer-
ica, 1781, 68; superintendent of the finances of the
United States, during the revolution, 455.-See Fort
Wilson."

MORRIS, ROBERT HUNTER, i. 454.

MORRIS, SAMUEL C.-See "Fort Wilson."

MORRIS, SARAH, wife of Richard Morris, i. 453.

MORRIS, THOMAS.-See " Fort Wilson."

Mosquito Shore, English settlements on, i. 571.

Moultrie Fort, ii. 555.

MOULTRIE, GENERAL, John Rutledge's letter to, i. 119.
MULLER, the historian, ii. 130.

MUNRO, PROFESSOR, in Edinburgh Medical University, i.
846.

Murder and Manslaughter, the distinction between, i. 241.
MURPHY, ARTHUR, ii. 335.

MURRAY, JUDGE, death of, i. 48.

with other States, 473; De Witt Clinton elected mayor
of; the duties of the mayor, 566; meeting at, relative to
the British treaty, ii. 34; Huguenots settled in, 39; yel-
low fever in, 1808, 219.

New York, American, ii. 220.

New York Convention, 1812; incident of the, i. 558.
New York Federal Convention, Hamilton at, i. 560.
New York Gazette, i. 850, 454; ii. 147.
New York Gazetteer, i. 447.

New York Historical Society, Gouverneur Morris's discourse
before the, 1812, 1. 466; James H. Raymond's paper on
Hillhouse's proposition to amend the Federal Constitu-
tion, read before the, ii. 146; collections of, 180; The
jubilee of the Constitution," an address before the, i
251.

MURRAY, WM. VANS, i. 408.

N

NAPPER TANDY, the case of, ii. 547.
NAPOLEON.-See Bonaparte.

NASH, THOMAS, alias Jonathan Robbins, case of, ii. 9.
National Bank, the bonus of, and the United States share

of its dividends, proposed to be set apart as a permanent
fund for the construction of roads and canals, ii. 479.
National Intelligencer, i. 449; ii. 335, 355, 356, 474; account
of the death of John Q. Adams, published in, ii. 250.
National Portrait Gallery, ii. 218, 474.

National Road, the originator of, ii. 182.

Navigation, assistance to be derived from, ii. 36.

Non-Intercourse with Great Britain, Elias Boudinot's

speech on, i. 270.

Nootka Sound, controversy about, 1790, i. 571.
NORRIS, ISAAC, i. 277.

North America, Bank of.-See Robert Morris.

North Carolina, the position of respecting the Federal
Constitution, i. 83.

North Carolina Convention, extract from the speech of
William Gaston in the, on the "thirty-second article"
of the State Constitution, ii. 558.

NORTH, LORD, inauguration of, i. 820; the conciliatory prop-
osition of, ii. 451.

OGDEN, DAVID, i, 262.

OGLETHORPE, GEN., the failure of, ii. 347, 851.

Navigators of the 16th and 17th centuries, ii. 86.
NELSON, THOMAS, i. 396.

Neriede, William Pinkney's speech in the case of the, ii. 95.
NESBITT, ALEXANDER.-See "Fort Wilson."
NOSSELRODE COUNT, ii. 8:3

New England, Tristam Burges' defences of, ii. 320, 822; the
course of, in relation to the public lands, ii. 879; peace
party in, during the War of 1812; the democracy of,
574; village school of, 586.

New England Society, of New Orleans, S. S. Prentiss' ad-
dress, ii. 583, 587.

New Haven, Conn., invasion of by General Tryon, ii. 144.
New Jersey, speech of William Livingston to the Legisla-
ture of, i. 88; outrages of the British in, during the revo-
lution, i. 88; women of, i. 268.

New Jersey College, i. 805; ii. 218.
New Jersey Historical Collections, i. 262.

New London, Conn., Caulkin's History of, ii. 144; second
Church in, 144.

New Orleans, Sergeant S. Prentiss's address before the New
England Society of, 1845; ii, 583.

New York, first Congress at, i. 3; Provincial Congress as-
semble at, 152; the Committee of Observation and Com-
mittee of Association; notice of, 152; meeting in, relative
to the Boston Port Bill, 152; Society of the Cincinnati,
i. 852; early settlement of, 467; population of, compared

ii. 88.

Ohio and Chesapeake Canal, i. 490.

ONIS, DON, mission of, 845.

Orders in Council, author of the, ii. 271.

OSWALD, RICHARD, English Commissioner of Peace, i. 156,
OTIS, HARRISON GRAY, parentage and birth; education;
commences the study of law with John Lowell, i. 557;
his practice; serves as an aid to General Brooks in the
Massachusetts insurrection; chosen to the Legislature;
succeeds Fisher Ames in Congress; his career; Elect-
ed Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Repre-
sentatives, and President of the Senate; pointed
judge; his oratory; eulogy on Hamilton; incidents
of its delivery, 557, 558; New York Convention of
1812; anecdote of his oratory at; Hartford Convention;
mission to Washington, 558; defence of the convention;
elected to the United States Senate; speech on the
Missouri question; candidate for governor; elected
mayor; letter advocating the election of General
Taylor; Mr. Otis' death; eulogy on Hamilton, 559;
Hamilton at college; at the battle of Yorktown; the
Federal Convention; the treasury, 560, 563; the com-
prehensiveness of his mind, 563; his eloquence, 564.
OTIS, JAMES, date and place of birth, i. 1; studies with
Rev. Jonathan Russel; college habits; anecdote of his
wit; studies law; commences practice at Plymouth;
removes to Boston, 1; literary labors, 2; speech on