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Family Suffrage. - American Woman's Influence. - Credit.

not true to their duty. — Legislation of the several States on Bankruptcy

Suppletive. France. - Germany. - President Buchanan's Message on

a Congressional Bankruptcy Law. - Congressional Committee report

against it. - Denies the Power of Congress.....

Coining Money. Its Value.

Standard of Weights and Measures.

Mints. Assay Offices. Decimal Coinage. — Counterfeiting. - Punish-

- Post-Offices. - Post-Roads. - Roman Custom.

Competition. - Internal Improvement Policy.....

Sciences and Useful Arts. Copyright. - Patents. - Progress of Science. -

Ripening of the Understanding. - Locke. Smithson.

Anti American. - Political Patronage of Arts and Sciences in Europe. -

Goethe.-Fourierism...

Inferior Courts. - United States District Courts. - Piracies. - Felonies. -

Law of Nations. - Ocean Police. - Branches of the Ocean. - English

Law curiosity.— War. — Letters of Marque and Reprisal. — Captures on

Land and Water. Justice the end of Wars.- Court of Nations.-Ju-

risdiction of Congress. War defensive or aggressive. - Property of Neu-

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Armies. Appropriation of Money for them Biennial. - The United States

disliked by Monarchs. - Necessity of Protection.-Navy. Not exactly

needed for the Protection of Commerce. The Hanse Towns without a

Navy.- Land and Naval Forces. Militia. -Crimean War. - Serf Sol-

diers. Discipline. - Training of the Militia. - Equal confidence in Con-

gress as in State Governments. - Christian brotherly Love. - Priests...67

District of Columbia. - Exclusive Legislation over it and Forts, Magazines,

Arsenals, Dock-yards. - Paris. German Diet in a Free City. - Legis-

lative Powers concerning all National Business.

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Interpretation of the Grant. - Congress, the Agent of the People, who re-

main the Proprietors. Rights of Self-government. - National Bank.

Precedents. Shoemaking in Time of War. — Expediency. - National

Banks in England, France, Russia, Austria, Prussia. - Public Debts..

Washington. - Jackson. Good Temper in Public Affairs. - Pulpit.

Migration and Importation of Persons.-Importation of Slaves declared

Piracy. Slave Labor, disposing of, in the States. - Habeas Corpus.

Rebellion. Invasion. - Middle Ages. Rogues. Charles I.-Attain-

der and "Ex-Post-Facto" Bills. - Habeas Pursam.

Negative Provisoes.- Capitation Tax. - Free Commerce and Navigation

between States. Appropriation Laws. Title of Nobility. Presents

to Officials from Foreign Princes.....

Checks upon State Legislation in regard to Treaties. —Alliance. - Money

of Metal and Paper. - Attainder. - Ex-post-facto Laws. - Contracts.

Nobility. English Banking. - State Banks.. Merchants make their own

Paper Money. Clearinghouses.- Political Defaulters.

Honesty. Checks upon State Legislation in regard to Imports, Duties,

Exports (under control of Congress), Tonnage, Soldiers, Navy, Treaties,

War. German National Congress at Frankfort. Greek Confedera-

tions. United States and States separate Business Concerns.- Wicked

Men. Well-informed Women...

Their Election. Term of

Four Years. -No Titles. - Santa Anna. — Vulgar Political Papers.

Respect of Public Officers. - English Grumbling. Second Term.

Swiss Presidential Election....

Electors. How Chosen.- Qualification of Presidential Candidates.....84

Willard. — Mrs. Howe.—Mrs. Hale. — Presidential Vacancy. — Acting

President. Non-election.

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- Commander-in-chief of the Army and Navy and

Militia. Opinions of the Heads of the Departments. Reprieves.

Pardons. The Union a Government, no League. - Prompt Protection

analogous to Policc. - State Governors Commanders-in-chief. — Treaties.

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- Consent of two-thirds of the Senate.-Jefferson. - Hamilton. - Re-

moval from Office. Treaty with France. - French and English Alli-

- Slave Treaty. - Vacancies....

ment of President, Vice-President, and other Officers, for Treason, Bribery,

or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.-Pensions...

Officers, their desire to earn Money like the rest.—Parties kept together by

monied Interest.—Majority in Elections. Right to the Spoils. Oppo-

sition to the Party in Power. Court Favor in Monarchies. -Election Ex-

penses. Difficulties in filling Offices.-Catherine de Medicis. - Chancel-

lor Hopital. Selling of Offices. - Swiss sell Offices. Self-government

curtails Offices. - Paul. - Parties outside the Constitution. - Platforms.

Logrolling. Party should cease in Congress when sworn in. - Presiden-

tial Patronage. — Political Martyrs a Nuisance. - Factitious Speaking.

Demagogues. -American Women. - Benjamin Franklin. -Office-seek-

Judiciary. — Supreme Court. - Inferior Courts. — Salaries. —Appointed

during Good Behavior.―Judiciary a Product of State. -Elective Judges

inclining to favor Mobism. - Public Morals under an Elective Judiciary. 96

National Judicial Business.- Court of Claims.- Checks upon State Wars.98

National original Jurisdiction.-Appellate Jurisdiction. - Sovereign Scru-

ples.-Jurisdiction makes no Subjects. — Jury Trial of Crimes. Place of

Trial. Abolitionists. - Magna Charta.- Runneymede.....

Utah. - Madness, its fair

play. Rebellion. - Vigilance Committees. -Major André.-Washing-

ton and his Steward. - Justice...

Public Faith.-Natural Rights of Citizens. - Acts. — Records. -

exclusive. Clanish Nationalities. - Union Sentiments. - Privileges and

Immunities Mutual. - Missouri Compromise. - Fugitives from Justice,

their Extradition. -Treaties. Mutual Control shared by the Women. -

Sharpe's Rifles. -Slip-shod Sermons...

Man given to Lying. -Imperfect Laws. - Force opposed to Law. - Fugi-

tives from Service and Labor, their Extradition. Apprentices. - Sailors.

-Bound Laborers. - Claim upon them for Outlay, to be respected and

protected by all Civil Governments. Property-right to Labor-forces. -

Its Market Price. — Property-right of Parents to the Use of the Labor-

forces of their Children. — Bound Labor is Personal, Serfdom is Glebose.

Abolition Agitation is Glebose. Englishmen and Russians are Glebose. -

Territorial Feudal Rights. -Free Labor-force, increased by Migration.

-Gradually extending South. - Seigneurs. - Manor-born Subjects. -

Labor in Spain and Portugal and the Southern States. - Jamaica. — Few

real Free Men. Immense Number of Laws. - Europeans are Subjects

or Matter. Captain Ingraham. - Austrian Emperor. - English King in

the War of 1812. - English Abolitionism explained. — American Society

Africanized by Abolition of Slavery. - Duke of Southerland, - Property

in Man. Men of Property. - Loafers. — Hereditary Governments.

France. - Subordinate Races.-Difference between Monarchies and Re-

publics. — Industry of the Southern People. — Savage Men, their Training

by Industry. Manumission of Bound Laborers. - Serfs sold with Prop-

erty, and belong to it. -Judge Loring. - Travelling with Bound Servants.

- Africa no Place for Culturing their Savage Inhabitants. - -Not improved

by the Greeks and Romans. - Frenchmen. -Bound Labor is under Mu-

nicipal Government. A Bound Laborer is no Citizen. - Territories.

Missouri Line. - District of Columbia. — Fanaticism in Law-making. -

Party Press. - Boston Journal in favor of Constitutional Monarchy.-

Canadian Paper prognosticating the end of the Union. Nobility after

Abolition of Bound Labor. - King Bomba, Emperors of France, and

Austria, and Hayti. - Boston Notions. - American Women..

Annexation of Texas. - Portentous in regard to the Union. - New States.

Their Admission into the Union. - Territory. - Land Surveying.— Indian

Territory. Indian Agents. - Indemnification. - Selling of Land. - Cul-

ture of Indians impossible in their own Country.—Acquisition of Foreign

Country. Florida. - Louisiana. - Mexico. - Division of States.- Over-

grown Municipal States, as New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania. — Mutual

Control and Power of Self-government lost therein. — France. — Monar-

chies with blended National and Municipal Business. Increase of Free

States compared with that of Slave States...

Territories.Their Disposal and Regulation.-Three Periods. - Indian

Policy. Territorial Policy. - State Policy. - Kansas Nebraska Act.

Missouri Compromise not Constitutional. - Dred Scott Case........122

Guaranty of a Republican Form of Government.

vasion and Domestic Violence.. Switzerland.

Protection against In-

- Hanse Republics. -

Monarchs. -Greeks. - King Philip.- Amphyctionic Congress.- Euro-

pean Opinion of the American Political System.-Rev. T. S. Hughes's

Opinion. - Dangers of our Republic to the whole World...

Amending the Constitution. - Check upon large States.-Public Debts. -

Supreme Law of the Land.-Higher Law Reveries. - Religious and

Moral Precepts.- Channing. -Philosophical Opinions and Truths, no

Law. Sharpe's Rifles......

Unconstitutional Plat-

Official Oath.-Religious Test abolished. - Party.

forms. Sliding Constitutions or Platforms. - Perjury. - Chaplains.

Object of Religion.— Separation of Religion from the State.- E Pluribus

Unum.- Norvus Ordo Seculorum Religious Intolerance.- Ratification

by a Majority of the States. -No Preference of, or Difference between,

the Old and New States..

Exceptions and Mob Commotions against the Constitution. - Bill of Rights.

— Amendments. — Religious Establishment. - Freedom of Speech and of

the Press. Assembling. - Petition. Great Britain. - Municipal Le-

gislation. Right to bear Arms. - European Legislation. - Municipal.—

District of Columbia. — Quartering of Soldiers in Time of Peace.

Unreasonable Searches in Houses. - Grand jury Indictment.

Trials Process of Law. - Private Property for Public Use.

cipal Legislation. Speedy Public Trial by Jury.- Witnesses.

sel. Trial by Jury in $20 Cases. - Blackstone.

Enumeration of Certain Rights. Powers reserved to the States. - Ex-

tension of the Judicial Power. - Electors. - Presidents compared with

Crowned Heads. Executive. - Judiciary compared with the Legislative

Branch. Stability of the Federal Constitution...

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LETTER XXXVIII.

Washington's Letter to Congress with the Constitution. - Duties of Con-

federated States and Individuals. - Consolidation of the Union. - Spirit

of Amity and Mutual Deference. - Marriage. — No Industry secure with-

out the Political Organization of Society....

Committees. Appointed in the House by the Speaker, in the Senate by

Ballot. - The Committee of Ways and Means. Standing Committees.

Select Committees. - Committee of the Whole- Three times Read-

ing of Bills. Massachusetts. - Twenty-nine Standing Committees.

Accusations of Fraud, Corruption, Bribery. - Judiciary. — English Cus-

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