propriety of the recommendation, 491; answer to Mr. Nicholas of Virginia; address from Mecklenburg Coun- ty, 492; recommendation unconstitutional and impolitic; "Is the concession necessary?" 493; law of nations, 493; rights of neutral ships; corrects Mr. Gallatin, 494; “Is concession valuable to France ?" 495; M. de la Croix's summary; M. Adet's correspondence; decrees of July 4th, 1796, and March 2d, 1797; Mr. Genet's recall, 497; the policy of France; conduct of England, 498; France and Austria, 499; consequences of a war, 500; object of France to compel the United States to break the British treaty; conduct of France; anecdote of the daughter of Louis XVI., 501.
Speech on the appointment of Foreign Ministers; reply to Mr. Nicholas, 503, 504; reply to Mr. Gallatin, 503, 504; Messrs. Monroe and Pinkney, 504; Washing- ton, "an assassin," 505; explanation of Mr. Nicholas, 505; further reply to Mr. Gallatin; salaries of ministers, 506; power of the House of Representatives over the appointment of Foreign Ministers, 507; responsibility of the President; "From what source is the office of Foreign Ministers derived?" 508; explanation of Mr. Gallatin, 509; two modes by which an office may exist, 509; inchoate office; ministers to Berlin and Lisbon, 511; political knaves and honest fanatics, 512; philoso- phers the pioneers of revolution; "Satis eloquentiæ, sapientiæ parum;" Jacobins, their armies, 513; philoso- phers and Jacobins in America; revolution the result of expense, war, and oppression; the destruction of free governments, how attained; England and Poland; Cortes of Spain, and Ximenes; States General of France and Richelieu and Mazarine; Germany and Russia, 514; Cæsar and Rome; England and Cromwell; consequence of the amendment to the United States; remarks of Mr. Thatcher, of Massachusetts, 515; the utility of foreign ministers, 516; Consuls, and Consul Ministers, 517; the mission to Berlin; ministers necessary to protect the rights of citizens in foreign countries, 518; political con- nections with foreign States; remarks of Mr. Findley, of Pennsylvania, 519; allusion to Messrs. Jefferson and Hamilton; war system, 520; neutrality 521; alliance with France, 522; Mr. Monroe quoted, 523. HARRISON, WILLIAM HENRY, ii. 355, 360; destruction of the Mississinaway towns, ii. 277.
HART, MR., testimony in the trial of J. F. Knapp, ii. 408. Hartford Convention, account of the, i. 558; ii. 375, 888, 558, 572.
Harvard University, ii. 422; removed to Concord, Massa- chusetts, 1775, i. 410; lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory, before the senior and junior sophisters of, by John Q Adams, ii. 251; "Phi Beta Kappa, society of; Joseph Story's discourse before the, 424.
HATFIELD, RICHARD, letter from John Jay to, quoted, i. 158. HAWLEY, ME., ii. 446.
Hawkins, Fort, letter from William Bell to the command- ant of, ii. 276.
HAYCOCK, MR.-See trial of R. M. Goodwin,
HAY, GEORGE, in the trial of Aaron Burr, i. 174, 872. HAYNE, ISAAC, Col., notice of, ii. 555.
HAYNE, ROBERT Y., birth; descent; early education; prac- tises law; election to the United States' Senate; resig nation; acceptance of Governorship of South Carolina; career in the Senate, ii. 555; Ordinance of Nullification; Compromise Act; death; his character and appear- ance, 556, 557; Daniel Webster's reply to, 370; sketch of the Life of Dr. David Ramsay, ii. 310; notice of, ii. 860.
Speech on Mr. Foot's resolution; reply to Mr. Web- ster's first speech, and the remarks of Mr. Benton, ii.
557; the coalition; Banquo's ghost; Nathan Dane; Hart- ford Convention, 558; public lands ought not to be treated merely as "a fund for revenue," 559; the feel- ings of the different portions of the country concerning internal improvement contrasted; the East, West, and South, 559; the Cumberland Road; American system, 560; the South repudiates the idea that a pecuniary de- pendence on the Federal Government is one of the legitimate means of holding the States together; reply to Mr. Webster's tribute to Ohio, 561; influence of sla- very on individual and national character, 562; slave labor, the product of; relative importance to the Union of the Southern and Eastern States; Matthew Carey, 568; difference of opinion as to the effect of slavery on national wealth and prosperity; Southern States unsur- passed in their devotion to liberty; consolidation, 564; national republicans; federalists; praises of the tariff to be sung to the tune of Old Hundred, 565; allusion to Mr. Webster's speech on the tariff, in 1824, 566; "Will carry the war into the enemy's country;" conduct of the South during the Revolution; the war of 1812, 567; conduct of New England during the war, 568; Massa- chusetts, 569; Boston banks; measures adopted to em- barrass the financial operations of government, 570; Massachusetts clergymen, 571; Samuel Dexter; Hart- ford Convention, 572; Mr. Adams and the Embargo, 573; consolidation leads to disunion; Josiah Quincy quoted; peace party in New England; the democracy of New England, 574; the doctrine of 1798; the doctrine of South Carolina; Virginia Resolutions of 1798; Madi- son's report of 1799, quoted, 575; protest of the Vir- ginia Legislature, 1825, 576; Jefferson's letter to William B. Giles; quotation from James Hillhouse, on the em- bargo, 577; "Resistance to unauthorized taxation," a principle sacred to the South, 578.
HEATH, WILLIAM, General, i. 59. HEMANS, MRS. ii. 428.
HENRY, PATRICK, i. 42, 43, 120, 126; ii. 156, 454; birth of, 1. 8; his ancestors; the oratory of his uncle, William Win- ston; his youth and fondness of fishing, 8; a mer- chant's clerk; established in trade and becomes bank- rupt; his marriage, 8; turns farmer; resumes mer- cantile pursuits and again fails, 9; commences the study of law; enters upon practice; the Parson's cause, 9; success in his profession, 10; elected to the House of Burgesses; opposition to the Stamp Act; elected to the first Congress, 1774; his speech; mem- ber of the Virginia Convention; his resolutions advo- cating a military defence of Virginia; appointed with George Washington to prepare a plan of defence, 10; leads a body of troops against Lord Dunmore; his suc- cess; elected governor of Virginia, 1777, 1778; declines a reduction; death of his wife; removed to Henry County; marries Dorothea Dandridge; resumes the practice of law, 11; chosen to the State Assembly; de- fence of the loyalists; opposes the "restraints upon British commerce;" advocates intermarriages of the whites and Indians; again elected governor; resigns; a member of the Federal Convention of Virginia; re- tirement from public life; offered the office of Secre- tary of State, by President Washington; re-elected governor, 11; declining health; alarmed at the alien and sedition laws; offers himself as a candidate for the House of Delegates; his speech at the March court, 1798, 12; his support of the constitution; his election; last illness and death, 18; his frienship for Albert Gal- latin, ii. 131.
Speeches on the Federal Constitution, 18, 14, 23; alarm- ed at the proposed change of government, 13; the con
HOPKINS, STEPHEN, i. 296. HOPKINSON, FRANCIS, i. 296.
HOPKINSON, JOSEPH, i. 872; at the New York Convention, 1812, 558.
HOTTINGUER, M., his ball in honor of the treaty between Great Britain and America, 1814, ii. 261.
HOWE, LORD, message from, to Congress, i. 293; will never acknowledge the Independence of America, 295; pro- ceedings of Congress in relation to the message of, 296; John Witherspoon's speech on the conference with, i 293.
Hudibras, quoted, ii. 876.
Huguenots, i. 151, 183; ii. 52, 237.
stitution a consolidated government; denies the right | Honduras, English settlements in, i. 571. of the Federal Convention to say "We the people" in- stead of "We the States,," 14; object of the convention extended only to amend the old system, 14; encomium upon General Lee, 14; objects to the expression "We the people," 14; liberty; suspicion a virtue, 15; eulogy on the confederation, 15; representation, 15, 35; amend- ments, 16; militia, 17; Virginia Bill of Rights, 17, 19; the judiciary, 20; tax gatherers, 20, 27; powers of the President; "squinting towards monarchy," 20; elec- tions, 21, 88, 89; expenditures of public money; treaty power, 21; remarks on the confederacy of Switzerland, 22, 25; opposition to the constitution, 22; second speech, 23; remarks on Mr. Randolph's letter, 23; case of Josiah Phillips, 24; navigation of the Mississippi, 25; Spanish transactions, 25; the federal convention confined to revision only, 26; remarks on the Government of Hol- land, 26; style of "We the people" to oblige those likened to a "herd," 27; representation by "impli- cation," 28; "implication" in England, 28; third speech, 28; navigation of the Mississippi; danger from France; the ambassador at Paris, 29; Holland, Mary- land, Virginia and Pennsylvania, 29, 30; ratifying and non-ratifying States, 81; an American dictator, 32; Virginia and North Carolina, 83; patriotism and genius of Virginia, 33; checks, 34; sheriffs to be collectors of revenue, 85; government, national-federal, 87; State legislatures shorn of their consequence, 87; Albany confederacy, 87; origin of the American revolution, 87; treaty with France, 88; the absurdity of adopting and amending afterwards, 88.
"Henry's mission to Boston,” ii. 267.
Helvetic Confederacy, i. 248, 366.
HEWES, JOSEPH, i, 296.
HEWITT, JOHN, murder of, i. 427.
Hildreth's History of the United States, i. 104. HILLHOUSE, JAMES, REV., notice of, ii. 144. HILLHOUSE, JAMES ABRAHAM, notice of, ii. 144. HILLHOUSE, JAMES, il. 577; birth and education of; college life; invasion of New Haven, 144; elected to the State Legislature; treasurer of Yale College; chosen to Con- gress; remarks on the ratio of representation; elected to the Senate; propositions to amend the Federal Con- stitution;-Chief Justice Marshall's letter on the sub- ject, 145; William H. Crawford's opinion; opinions of James Madison and Chancellor Kent; elected com- missioner of the Connecticut School Fund; his success, 146; the Farmington and Hampshire Canal; his last days and death, 147.
Speech in the case of John Smith, for participation in the conspiracy of Aaron Burr; reply to Mr. Adams, of Mass., 147; case of William Blount, referred to; Ken- tucky memorial, 148; case of Mr. Marshall considered, 149; Elias Glover; Aaron Burr, 150; Smith's intimacy with Aaron Burr; case of, compared with that of Com- modore Truxton, 151; deposition of General Eaton con- sidered, 152: Washita settlement; conduct of Mr. Smith reviewed, 158; testimony of Colonel James Taylor; the "Querist;" secret societies, 154; remarks on the Brit- ish treaty, ii. 140.
HILLHOUSE, WILLIAM, notice of, ii. 144.
HOFFMAN, OGDEN, in the case of the Neriede, ii. 96. Holland, government of, i. 26, 29.
HOLMES, A., his memoir of the French Protestants who
settled at Oxford, Mass., ii. 287.
Hudson River, secret committee, appointed by the New York Convention, to obstruct the, i. 158. HUNT, JAMES, ii. 489. HUNT, WILLIAM P., ii. 441. HUNTER, JOHN, ii. 335.
HUNTER, WILLIAM, birth; descent; early education; grad- uates from Brown's University; studies medicine; en- ters Temple at London as student at law; dintinguished associates; admission to Rhode Island Bar; elected to General Assembly; chosen United States Senator, ii. 835; his politics; speech on the seizure of East Florida, 836, 353; questions constitutionality of Missouri restrie- tion; appointed Chargé d'Affaires to Brazil; life at Rio de Janeiro; elevation to position of Minister Pleni- potentiary; returns home; his decease; anecdotes, $56.
Speech on the proposition for seizing East Florida; importance of the question considered, ii. 837 conse- quences of a war with Spain, 888; further remarks; the proposition, a presidential measure, 339; debates upon the theories of a constitution in relation to the observ- ance of treaties, are idle, 841; the measure is to wage war against Spain; offensive war, 342; Mr. Madison's definition of war, 342; there cannot be constitutionally a constructive declaration of war, 843; the measure un- constitutional; causes of the measure, 343; treaty of 1795, 844; negotiation with Spain considered, 845; Louisiana convention with France, 844; President Jefferson's message, 1808, considered, 845; mission of Don Onis, 345; Mr. Ross's resolutions; Spanish spoli- ations, actual sufferers from, 846; further remarks; the necessity of the measure, 347; Spaniards will ex- cite the Indians; black troops, 848; insurrections; war with Spain will ruin the war with England; case of Mathews, 849; Louis XIV., and Frederick of Prussia; seizure of the Danish fleet by England considered, 850; political consequences resulting from the measure, 852.
HUNTINGTON, MR., ii. 878.
HUSTON, GENERAL FELIX, ii. 579. HUTCHINSON, THOMAS, opinion of writs of assistance, i. 8; notice of, ii. 247.
"Hyperion," Josiah Quincy's essays, under the signature of, i. 334.
Increase of the Navy, Henry Clay's speech on an, fi. 261. Indian Corn, amount exported from the United States in 1808, ii. 299.
Indians, the American, i. 470; Samuel G. Drake's history of the, ii. 355; fate of the, 438. INGERSOLL, JARED, ii. 52, 506.
HOLMES, MR., of Massachusetts, remarks on the Seminole Imports, for protection, unconstitutional, ii. 488. war, ii. 279, 284.
Holt's New York Gazette, i. 850, 454.
Inaugural Address, of John Adams, 1797, i. 248; of George Washington, 1789, 252.
Independent Reflector, account of the, i. 83.
Internal Improvement, system of; originated with James Monroe, ii. 158; Henry Clay's speech on, 1824, 286; Mr. McDuffie's speech on, 882; John Caldwell Calhoun's speech on, 479.
Ireland, the condition of, in 1791, 99; i. 525; Letter from Congress to the people of, 158; History of, by T. A. Emmet, 527.
Irishmen, Societies of United, i. 526.
IRVING, WASHINGTON, his Life of Washington, i. 251.
JACKMAN, trial of, "for the Goodridge robbery," ii. 401. JACKSON, GEN. ANDREW, 1. 126; ii. 262, 274, 836, 581; at the battle of New Orleans, 219.
JACKSON, MR., i. 443, 476.
1775, 43; his opinion of the "Address to the inhabitants of Great Britain," 152; trial of Harry Croswell, for a libel on, 204; death of, i. 235; tribute to, by T. A. Emmet, i. 586; ii. 41, 218, 308, 312, 345, 360, 436, 442; his first election to the Presidency described, 53; his ad- ministration, 75; his opinion of John Q. Adams, 248; tribute to, by Henry Clay, 266; William Wirt's discourse on the life and character of, 433; the character of, by Wil- liam Wirt, 449; "resistance to tyrants is obedience to God;" a summary view of the rights of British Amer- ica, by, 450; his Notes on Virginia, 454; as Vice-Presi- dent; his administration, 456; his house at Monticello, 458; protest for the Virginia Legislature prepared by him, 576; letter to William B. Giles, on Consolidation,
JEFFERSON AND ADAMS, Wirt's Discourse on the Lives and Characters of, ii. 448, 460.
Jackson, Fort, treaty of, 1814, ii. 274; compared with that JONES, SIR WILLIAY, Tnishes the motto for the alliance
Jacksonburgh, S. C., Legislature meets at, i. 809.
medal, i. 3. JONES, SAMUEL, i. 565.
JAMES THE SECOND compared with George the Third, i. 53. JOHNSON, SAMUEL, D. D., President of King's College, New JAQUITH, MISS.-See Knapp's trial. JAY, AUGUSTUS, i. 151.
York, i. 151. JOHNSON, THOMAS, i. 286. JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM, i. 428. JONSON, BEN, i. 163.
Judiciary, Uriah Tracy's speech on the, 1802, i. 442; speech of Gouverneur Morris on the, 1802, i. 457; William B. Giles, speech on the, ii. 205. Judiciary Act, Mr. Bayard's speech on the, ii. 55; Tristam Burges' speech on, 320, 322.
Judiciary Committee, Sergeant S. Prentiss, chairman of, ii.
JAY, JOHN, ancestry and birth of; education and tutor; enters King's College; college life; intimacy with Pres- ident Johnson; graduates and commences the study of law with Benjamin Kissam; enters on practice, i. 151; partnership with R. R. Livingston; marries; Boston Port Bill; minutes of the committee appointed to con- sider the Boston Port Bill; appointed to the Continent- al Congress; "address to the inhabitants of Great Brit- ain;" the "Committee of Observation;" the "Commit- tee of Association;" letter to the Lord Mayor and Jurisprudence, improvements in, ii. 429. Magistrates of London; elected to the second Con- gress; battle of Lexington; Congress raises militia; rules and regulations of the American army adopt- ed; General Sullivan proposed by Mr. Jay, 152; let- ters to the inhabitants of Canada and Ireland; ap- pointed colonel of the New York militia; singular inter- view with a French officer; elected to the colonial Con- gress of New York; Declaration of Independence; ap- pointed on a secret committee to obstruct the Hudson river; visits Connecticut, 153; Constitution of the State of New York; appointed chief justice, and member of the Council of Safety; charge to the grand jury; Bur- goyne's campaign, 154; delegate to Congress on a special occasion; elected President of Congress; ap- pointed minister to Spain; arrival at Madrid; difficulty in negotiating loans; treaty of peace, 156; arrives at New York; receives the freedom of the city; re-elected to Congress; secretary of Foreign Affairs; "the Federa- list;" member of the Federal Convention of New York; appointed Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court; letter from President Washington; treaty with Great Britain; letter to President Washington; Jay's life and writings quoted, 157; opposition to his treaty; anecdote of the King of England; Hamilton's "Camil- lus;" Fisher Ames' speech; elected Governor of New York; declines a re-election; nominated for the Chief Justiceship of the Supreme Court; retirement from public life, and death; William Sullivan's estimate of his character; letter to Richard Hatfield, quoted, 158; Address to the people of Great Britain, 159; speech of Fisher Ames on the Treaty of, 104; list of the papers contributed to the Federalist, by, 126; notices of, i. 43, 120, 286, 565.
KEITH, MARY, mother of Chief Justice Marshall, ii. 7. KENNEDY, J. P., his life of William Wirt, i. 490, ii. 441, 443. KENT, JAMES, Chancellor, his opinion of James Hillhouse's
propositions to amend the Federal Constitution, ii. 146. Kentucky, powers of the district judges of, under the old establishment, ii. 77; Colonization Society of, Henry Clay's address before, 262.
JEFFERSON, THOMAS, i. 6, 92, 126, 150, 153, 286, 350, 429, 489, 557; appointed to fill the place of R. H. Lee, in Congress,
KILEN, WILLIAM, Chancellor of Delaware, i. 273. Killala, Ireland, French troops land at, i. 526. KING, SIR PETER, account of, i. 7. KING, RICHARD, ii. 33.
KING, RUFUS, ancestry and birth of; Byfield Academy; enters Harvard College; his career; his early powers of oratory; the study of law and admission to the bar, ii. 33; ac- companies General Sullivan to Rhode Island; success at the bar; his first cause; elected to the Massachusetts Legislature; speech on commercial regulations, 1784; chosen to the Continental Congress; slavery restriction, 83; Federal Constitution; Massachusetts Convention; labors in the difficulties in the adoption of the constitu- tion, 34; removes to New York; elected to Congress; advocates the British Treaty; essays under the title of "Camillus"; eligibility of Albert Gallatin; his speech in opposition to the right of taking his seat, 34; appoint- ed minister to Great Britain; his great personal in- fluence abroad, 35; removal to Long Island; re-elected to the United States Senate; the War of 1812; his position; speech on the destruction of Washington; nominated for governor; defeated; again elected to the Senate; the public lands and navigation system; appointed minister to Great Britain; ill health and death, 35; at Philadelphia, ii. 9; New York Convention, 1812, 558, notice of, 270.
Speech on the Navigation Act; agriculture; manufac- | LECHLER, JOHN, execution of, ii. 227. tures and commerce the true source of the wealth of nations, 35; assistance to be derived from navigation; the value and importance of national shipping and sea- men; the Colonial system; navigators of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; Navigation Act of England, of the seventeenth century; its object, 36; commercial aggrandizement of England; the commercial system of the United States; tonnage and seamen of the United States before the revolution, 37; loss in freights; the importance of an efficient navy, 88; timber and lumber trade, 39; reciprocity; Jay's treaty; Mr. Pitt's bill; poli- cy of the treaty of peace, 1783, 40; account of the peace; negotiations with England, after the revolution, 42; bill before the Senate not unfriendly to England; the charac- ter of England; Americans and Englishmen; the fisher- ies, 43; speech on the Missouri bill; powers of Congress, respecting the territory and property of the United States; Missouri; admission of new States, 44; slavery in the old thirteen States; slave trade; the Confederation; the ratification of, 44; influence of the small States upon the large ones; the ordinance of 1787; Louisiana; the population of in 1804; State rights, 46; the term "prop- erty," 47; introduction of slaves not imputable to the present generation; equalization of taxes; dispute be- tween England and the Colonies, considered; slave representation, 48; property in slaves; equal rights a vital principle in a free government; slavery impairs industry, 49; the consequence of the exclusion of slavery from Missouri; condition of slaves in the United States, 1818, 50.
LEE, ARTHUR, i. 275; biographical sketch of, 42. LEE, CHARLES, i. 50; Brackenridge's strictures on, i. 856. LEE, GENERAL, Patrick Henry's encomium on, i. 14. LEE, HENRY, ii. 555; birth and parentage; college life, and graduation; enters the Virginia line, and joins the Amer- ican army, 1777; account of one of his earliest military exploits, i. 447; bravery at the battle of Germantown; promotion; attack on Paulus Hook; appointed Lien- tenant-colonel commandant; his memoirs of the War in the Southern Department; retires to private life; elected to the Legislature of Virginia, and to Congress; member of the Federal Convention; elected governor; the "Whiskey Insurrection," 448; elected to Congress; selected to pronounce an oration in memory of Presi dent Washington; injured in a political riot at Balti- more; visit to the West Indies; death; his literary productions, 449; eulogy on Washington, 449; defeat of Braddock; Washington at Trenton, Morristown Brandywine, and Monmouth; Gates and Greene, 450; the administration of Washington; the pacification of the Indians; neutrality, 451;"First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen," 452 LEE, RICHARD, i. 40.
King William School, at Annapolis, Md., ii. 93. KIRKLAND, DR., his sketch of the life of Fisher Ames, i. 92; his sketch of the life of George Cabot, 558. KISSAM, BENJAMIN, i. 151.
KNAPP, JOHN F., trial of, for the murder of Joseph White; Daniel Webster's argument in, ii. 399.
KNAPP, JOSEPH J., arrested for the murder of Joseph White, ii. 899.
KNAPP, N. P.-See Knapp's trial.
KNAPP, SAMUEL H.-See Knapp's trial.
KNAPP, SAMUEL L., his address on the deaths of Adams and Jefferson, ii. 446.
Knickerbocker Magazine, sketches of the American bar, ii. 858.
KNIGHT, FRANKLIN, his fac simile of General Washington's accounts, i. 254.
KNOX, DR., Alexander Hamilton's tutor, i. 183. KNOX, ELIZABETH, daughter of John Knox, i. 290.
KNOX, JOHN, Mary Queen of Scots' opinion of the prayers of, i. 290.
LACTANTIUS, quoted, i. 265.
LAFAYETTE, GENERAL, ii. 581; at the battle of Monmouth, 1. 185; John Q. Adams' oration on the life and character of, ii. 257; Henry Clay's address to, 1824, 817. LAKE, GENERAL, at Vinegar Hill, i. 526. LANSDOWN, MARQUIS OF, commercial treaty of, i. 99. LA PLACE, the astronomer, ii. 430. LAS CASAS, his life of Napoleon, ii. 314. Latin Prosody, the rudiments of, by James Otis, i. 2. LAURENCE, THOMAS.-See "Fort Wilson."
LAURENS, HENRY, i. 802; ii. 134; in England; President of Congress, resignation of, i. 156; in the Tower of London, ii. 458.
Law, the study of, by James Otis, i. 7.
LEE, RICHARD HENRY, ancestry of; birth and education, L. 40 ; death of his father, 40; takes command of a volunteer company; tenders his services to General Braddock, 40; appointed a justice of the peace; made President of the court, 41; elected to the House of Burgesses; na- tural diffidence; speech in opposition to the importation of slaves, 41; joins the "Republican" party; opposition to, and exposure of Robinson; supports Patrick Henry's Stamp Act resolutions, 41; letter to John Dickinson, in reference to the declaratory act, 41; a member of the Congress of 1774, 42, 449; notices of, 159, 350; denies the right of England to bind the Colonies, 42; commands the Virginia militia, i. 43; advocates the payment of debts due England; the establishment of a paper cur- rency and taxation for the support of the clergy, 49; prepares the address of the colonies to Great Britain; elected to Congress, 1784; death of in 1794; compared with Patrick Henry, 43; preface to the Farmer's letters, 274; speech attributed to, by Botta, ii. 452.
Leeward Islands, a hurricane at, i. 183. LEIGHTON, ME., testimony in the trial of J. F. Knapp, il.
LEIPER, THOMAS. See "Fort Wilson."
LENNOX, MAJOR. See "Fort Wilson."
Leopard, attack of the, on the Chesapeake, ii. 86. Letters to Dudley, John Randolph's, ii. 155.
LEWIS, CAPT., of the Miranda Expedition," i. 532. Lexington, Battle of, i. 152; ii. 319, 365.
Lexington, Kentucky, ii. 259; Henry Clay's speech at, June 6, 1842, 260.
Liberty, Patrick Henry's remarks on, i. 15.
"Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and insepara ble," ii. 399.
"Liberty Song," the, i. 275.
LINCOLN, LEVI, ii. 237.
LINN, MR., of New Jersey, at Jefferson's election, ii. 75. LINNEN, WILLIAM, assassinates Dr. David Ramsay, L. 310. Lisbon, minister to, i. 511.
LISTON, MR., British Minister, i. 481. Literature, the dangers which beset, ii. 433. LIVERPOOL, LORD, anecdote of, ii. 262. LIVINGSTON, BROCKHOLST, judge, i. 429.
LIVINGSTON, EDWARD, ii. 75; birth and education; destrue- tion of Esopus; removal to Hurley; graduates så
Princeton College; law studies, ii. 218; commences practice; New York Federal Convention; election to Congress; his career; opposes the British treaty, 218; appointed United States Attorney for New York; elected Mayor; the yellow fever in New York, 219; re- moval to New Orleans; the laws of Louisiana; attack on New Orleans, 1812; appointed aid to General Jack- son; penal code of Louisiana, 219; election to Congress; speech in the Senate on Mr. Foot's resolution; appoint- ed Secretary of State and minister to France; his last illness and death, 220.
Speech on the Alien Bill; provisions of the, consid- ered, 220; at war with the fundamental principles of Government; constitutional objections to, 222; conse- quences of its operation, 223; a system of espionage, 224.
Argument against capital punishment, 225; is the punishment of death in any civilized society necessary? Egypt, Rome, Tuscany, and Russia, proofs to the con- trary, 226; punishment of the knout, anecdote of, 227; capital punishment demoralizing and heart-hardening, 227; the execution of John Lechler, 227; ease of the Irish forger, 228; Bentham's Theory of rewards and punishments, 230; advantages of capital punishment considered, 281; Dr. Franklin's opinion of, 233; fero- cious character impressed on the people, 284; D'Agues- seau quoted, 235; Cicero quoted, 286.
LIVINGSTON, GILBERT, Hamilton's opposition to his amend- ment of the Federal Constitution, i. 195. Livingston Manor, Clermont, New York, ii. 218. LIVINGSTON, PHILIP, i. 82.
LIVINGSTON, ROBERT, account of him, i. 82. LIVINGSTON, R. R., father of the Chancellor, i. 850. LIVINGSTON, R. R., Chancellor, i. 43, 159, 296, 841; ancestry of; birth and education; college life and graduation; studies law; partnership with John Jay, i. 152; appointed Record- er of New York; hostile to the crown officers; ejected from office; elected to Congress; the Declaration of Inde- pendence, 350; Secretary of Foreign Affairs; appointed Chancellor of New York; Federal Convention; admin- isters the oath of office to Washington; appointed minister to France; Louisiana treaty; Robert Fulton; steam navigation; return from France; his literary and scientific character; his death, 351; Dr. John W. Fran- cis' sketch of, 351; oration before the Cincinnati, 352; the Purse and the Sword, 355.
LIVINGSTON, WILLIAM, i. 152, 286; birth and parentage of;
graduates at Yale College; studies law; contributes an essay on the study of law, to the New York Post Boy, under the signature of Tyro Philolegis, i. 82; difficulty with his law teacher; marries and settles at New York; publishes the poem, Philosophic Solitude: admitted to practise; assists William Smith in the publication of the Digest of the Colonial Laws; commenced the publi- cation of the Independent Reflector; it is denounced by the pulpit, and is discontinued; aids in the estab- lishment of the New York Society Library; writes the essays entitled the Watch Tower, 83; literary pro- ductions; "The Sentinel;" "A New Sermon to an Old Text; letter to the Bishop of Llandaff on the estab- lishment of an episcopate in America; "A Soliloquy," 84; elected president of the Moot; retires to New Jer- sey; elected to the Continental Congress; takes com- mand of the New Jersey militia; elected Governor; acquires the name of "Dr. Flint;" contributes to the New Jersey Gazette, under the signature of Horten- sius; essays on the "Conquest of America," 85; con- tributes to the United States Magazine; acquires the hatred of the British; attempts to make him prisoner;
account of attempt to seize him; scurrilous titles and epithets applied to him by James Rivington, 86; his services during the Revolution; his correspondence; confidence of Washington in his abilities; elected a councillor of the American Philosophical Society; re- tires to private life; writes the "Primitive Whig;" ap- pointed a delegate to the Federal Convention; Mr. Madison's opinion of his influence; patron of Alex- ander Hamilton, i. 188; Governor of New Jersey; his death, 87; speech to the New Jersey Legislature, 88.
LIVINGSTONE, JOHN, i. 82.
LLOYD, Dr. James, i. 57.
LLOYD, EDWARD, Gov. of Maryland, ii. 185.
Loan Bill, 1814, William Gaston's speech on the, ii. 535. Loan Office Certificates, John Witherspoon's speech on, i. 803.
London, Address to the Lord Mayor and Magistrates of, i.
Long Island, N. Y., Battle of, i. 293; Rufus King's residence on, ii. 35.
LORING, MR., his "Boston Orators," L. 559. LORING, MR.-See Knapp's trial. Louisiana, the aborigines of; an extract from David Ram- say's oration on the cession of, i. 818; the purchase of; John Randolph's remarks on, ii. 156; convention with France respecting, ii. 344; the cession of to the United States; the population of in 1804, 46; laws of reformed by Edward Livingston, 219; penal code of, 219; the ad- mission of, 515.
LOUIS XIV. in the Netherlands, ii. 850.
LOUIS XVI., anecdote of the daughter of, i. 501. LOVELL, JAMES, i. 60.
LOVELL, MASTER JOHN, biographical sketch of, i. 224, 819, 410.
LowE, SIR HUDSON, the jailer of Napoleon, i. 526. LoWELL, JOHN, i. 410, 557. LOWELL, JUDGE, i. 410. LowNDES, WILLIAM, ii. 882. LowRIE, MR., of Pa., ii. 122.
"Lucius Junius Brutus."-See Fisher, Ames. LYON, ME., of Vermont, ii. 75.
MACKINTOSH, SIR JAMES, at Edinburgh, i. 525. MACLAY, MR., resolution of, concerning the British treaty, 1794, i. 144.
MADISON, JAMES, Bishop, ii. S. MADISON, JAMES, birth and early education; graduates at Princeton, New Jersey; ill health; advocates religious and civil liberty; defence of the Baptists; commences his political career; chosen to the Virginia legislature, i. 9; appointed a councillor; takes his seat in the Con- tinental Congress; reform of the federal system; dele- gate to Annapolis, 1786; member of the Federal Con- vention; his services and reports of the debates, 1. 125; a member of the Virginia Convention; his oratory; "The Federalist;" list of the numbers contributed by him; congressional career; elected to the Virginia legisla- ture; opposes the Alien and Sedition laws; appointed Sec- retary of State; elected President of the United States; war with Great Britain; treaty of Ghent; success of his administration; his death; tribute to his memory by John Quincy Adams, i. 126; Fisher Ames' speech on the resolutions of, 1794, 92; estimate of the services of Gouverneur Morris in the Federal Convention, 455;
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