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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

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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.

HOLLAND, LORD, ii. 84.

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,

577.

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

of Ghent, 275.

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.

581.

K

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.

JAY, PIERRE, i. 151.

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.

KUHN, ADAM, DR., i. 346.

LACTANTIUS, quoted, i. 265.

L

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.

406.

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.

LEVERETT, JOHN, L. 7.

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.

LOCKE, JOHN, 1. 7.

London, Address to the Lord Mayor and Magistrates of, i.

152.

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.

M

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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