Chapter CLXV (3)

_French Spoliation Claim._--
Ground of examined, 91;
assumptions on which their payment by the United States
rested, 487;
liability of the United States to become paymasters themselves,
in cases where failing, by war or negotiation, to obtain
redress they make a treaty settlement surrendering or
abandoning the claims, 487;
this point examined, 487;
governments not bound to push such interests to the extremity of
a war, 487;
ought not to go back thirty-four years and call in question the
judgment of Washington's administration, 488;
another instance of abandonment, 488;
speech of Mr. Webster, 488;
grounds of the claims, 489;
speech of Mr. Wright, 489;
relations between France and the United States prior to the
disturbances, 489;
stipulations of treaties, 490, 491;
origin of the claims which formed the subject of the bill, 491;
reference to acts of Congress to prove that war existed between
the United States and France, 493;
the treaty of 1800, 495;
what object in the negotiation of 1800, 496;
liability of the United States, 496;
further remarks, 497, 498;
propositions established, 500;
the advocates of the bill concede that two positions must be
established on their part to sustain it, 500, 501,
502, 503.
Speech of Mr. Webster, 505;
"essentially a judicial question, 505;
oldness of the claims, 505;
said most of them have been bought up, 505;
report of the Secretary of State presenting a general view of
the history and character of these claims, 506;
before the interference of our government with them they
constituted just demands against France, 507;
grounds upon which the claims are vested by the claimants, 507;
points admitted, 508;
propositions to be established, 508;
were these subsisting claims against France at the time of the
treaty? 508;
these claims released and relinquished by the amendment of the
treaty and its ratifications, 511;
these claims surrendered or released by the government on
national considerations, 511;
further remarks," 512, 513, 514.
Speech of Mr. Benton, 514;
"the whole stress of the question lies in a few simple
facts, 514;
assumed grounds on which the claims rest, 515;
on what grounds is it maintained that the United States received
a valuable consideration for these claims? 515;
the case as between France and us relative to these claims, 515;
our obligation under the guarantee of France, 515;
the justice and validity of the claims themselves, 516;
how can the American people be pressed to pay these claims when
it would be unreasonable to press France herself to pay
them? 516;
it is said the United States have received full consideration
from France for these claims, 517;
exertions made by the United States on behalf of these
claims, 518;
what were the losses which led to these claims? 519;
one of the most revolting features of this bill is its relation
to the insurers, 519;
what sum of money will this bill abstract from the
treasury?" 520;
bill passed the Senate, 521;
lost in the House, 521;
claim agencies and assignments should be broken up, 521;
assignees and agents constitute a profession, 521.

G

GAILLARD, JOHN, Senator from South Carolina, 7;
President of the Senate, 7;
votes for the Missouri Compromise, 8;
decease of, 77;
nearly thirty years in the Senate, 77;
nine times elected president of the Senate, 77;
his character as presiding officer, 77.

GALLATIN, ALBERT, candidate for the Vice Presidency in 1824, 45;
commissioner at Ghent, 71;
negotiates for joint occupation of Oregon, 109;
interview with Huskisson, 126.

GILES, WM. B., _decease of_, his peculiar talent, 683;
the Charles Fox of the House, 683;
his character, 683.

GILMER, GEORGE, Representative from Georgia, 7;
Governor, 7;
action relative to the Cherokees, 165.

_Globe Newspaper, the establishment of._--
An interview, 129;
scheme to set aside Gen. Jackson and run Mr. Calhoun for the next
President, 129;
propositions, 129;
communicated to General Jackson, 129;
the Telegraph newspaper, 129;
Francis P. Blair, 129;
how brought to the notice of General Jackson, 129;
establishes the _Globe newspaper_, 130;
stand taken by, 182.

_Gold currency_, remarks of Mr. Benton upon a, 436;
bills to equalize the value of gold and silver and legalizing the
tender of foreign coins in either, brought forward, 469;
the relative value of the two metals, 469;
experience of Mexico and South America, 469;
16 to 1, 469;
bill passed, 469;
its good effects, 469, 470.

_Government_, the, its personal aspect in 1820, 7.

GRANNY WHITE, the case of, 105.

GRUNDY, FELIX, offers anti-nullification resolutions, 34.

H

HALL, THOMAS H., Representative from North Carolina, 7.

HAMAR, THOMAS L., on the admission of Arkansas, 634.

HAMILTON, General, argument for a national bank drawn from the
Indian War, 2.

HAMILTON, JAMES A., acts as Secretary of State, 119.

HARDIN, BENJAMIN, Representative from Kentucky, 7.

_Hartford convention._--Design of secession imputed to, 4.

HAYNE, ROBERT Y., on revision of the tariff, 99;
on the duty on indigo, 99;
on sales of the public lands, 132;
debate with Webster, 138, 140;
in reply to Webster, 140;
against Van Buren as Minister to England, 215;
on southern resistance to the tariff, 274.

HENDRICKS, WILLIAM, Representative from Indiana, 7.

HILL, ISAAC, on abolition petitions, 614.

HOLMES, JOHN, Senator from Maine, 7;
votes for the admission of Missouri, 9;
against Van Buren as Minister to England, 215.

HORSEY, OUTERBRIDGE, votes for the Missouri Compromise, 8.

_House of Representatives._--
Errors of De Tocqueville, 205;
reputation of the work in Europe, 205;
immense superiority attributed to the Senate arising from the
different manner of election, 205;
statement of De Tocqueville, 205;
its tenor to disparage democracy--to attack the principle of
popular elections, 205;
advantage of extending instead of restricting the privilege of the
direct vote, 206;
further remarks on his statement, 206;
every man of eminence has owed his first elevation to popular
elections, 206;
experience of England, Scotland, Ireland and Rome, of the success
of a direct vote, 206;
popular election the safest and wisest mode of election, 206;
the difference then between the two Houses has vanished, 206;
causes to account for an occasional difference, 206;
statesmen not improvised, 207;
time often required to carry measures, 207;
instance parliamentary reform, 207;
other great British measures, 207;
short service the evil of the House, 207;
instances of Adams and Randolph retaken up by the people when
dropped from the Senate, 207;
this error disparages the controlling branch of our
Government, 207;
the British House of Commons, 208;
the Senate now occupies prominent public attention, 208.

HUNTER, WILLIAM, Senator from Rhode Island, 7.

I

_Imprisonment for debt, abolition of._--
Act of Congress passed to abolish all imprisonment on process
issuing from the courts of the United States, 292;
effect of the example, 292;
report, 292;
extracts, 292;
"power of the creditor over the debtor in ancient Greece and
Rome, 292;
the history of English jurisprudence furnishes the remarkable
fact that for many centuries personal liberty could not be
violated for debt, 292;
progress of imprisonment in England, 293;
further remarks," 293;
act passed, 293;
effect upon the States, 293;
imprisonment condemned by morality, by humanity, and by the
science of political economy, 294.

_Incendiary publications circulated by mail._--
Moved, that so much of the President's message as related to
this subject be referred to a select committee, 580;
opposed, should go to the committee on post-offices and
post-roads, 580;
object to secure a committee that would calmly investigate the
whole subject, 580;
discussion relative to the committee, 580;
special committee appointed, 580;
bill and report, 580;
dissent of various members of the committee from the sentiments
of the report, 581;
two parts exceptionable, 581;
the nature of the Federal Government founded in "compact" and on
interference of non-slave States with slavery in other
States, 581;
extracts from the report, 581, 582, 583;
insidiousness of the report consisted in the assumption of
impending danger of the abolition of slavery in all the
slave States, and the necessity for extraordinary means to
prevent these dire calamities, when the fact was that
there was not one particle of any such danger, 584;
the report foreshadows disunion, 584;
in vain to expect security or protection for the slaveholding
States except from themselves, and concert only wanted
among them to obtain this end, 584;
Calhoun recurs to secession for a new grievance, 585;
remark of Clay relative to the compromise of 1833, 585;
remarks of Mr. Webster, 586;
examination of the features of the bill, 586;
remarks of Mr. Clay on the bill, 586;
the bill not only unnecessary, but as a law of dangerous, if not
a doubtful authority, 586;
whence did Congress derive the power to pass this law? 587.
Votes on the bill, 587;
three successive tie votes, 587;
yeas and nays called, 587;
the Vice-President called for, 587;
gives the casting vote for engrossment, 587;
remarks on the vote of various Senators, 587.

_Indian Factory System._--
Its origin, 21;
objects, 21;
how carried on, 21;
its inside working, 21;
bill to repeal passed, 21;
shows how long the Indians and the Government may be cheated
without knowing it, 21.

_Indians, removal of._--
Large tracts held by the Indians in South and Western States in
1821, 27;
early policy of the Government, 27;
applications to the Federal Government incessant for their
removal, 27;
what has become of the tribes in the older States? 27;
speech of Elliot, 27;
views of Jefferson, 28;
action of Monroe's administration, 28;
process for effecting the removal, 28;
bill passed, 28;
treaties ratified, 29;
the system of removal begun, 29.
_Creeks, removal from Georgia._--
Agreement between the United States and Georgia, 58;
treaty of removal concluded in 1824, 58;
resisted by the nation, 59;
attempts to enforce it by the State of Georgia, 59;
interference of the Administration, 59;
new treaty negotiated, 59;
objections to it in the Senate, 59;
further negotiation, 59;
treaty ratified, 59;
an incident, 59;
remarks of Van Buren, 60;
remarks of Benton, 61;
others, 62, 63.

_Cherokees, removal from Georgia._--
Facts of the case, 624;
combination of obstacles, 624;
proceedings relative to, 624;
treaty with the Cherokees, 624;
amount of the stipulation, 624;
treaty opposed in the Senate, 624;
protest from the Cherokee nation, 625;
proposition to reject the treaty, 625;
close vote, 625;
saved by free State votes, 626;
involved an extension of slavery, 626;
just and fraternal spirit of the free States to their southern
brethren, 626.
_Final removal of._--
This policy when commenced, 690;
completed, 690;
effects, 690;
extent of the removals, 690;
increase of area of slave population, 691;
conduct of the northern States, 691;
outcry against General Jackson, 691;
statements of De Tocqueville, 691;
remarks, 692;
amount of payments to the Indians, 692;
the smaller remote tribes, 693;
the Indian bureau, 693.

_Indian sovereignties within States._--
Indian oligarchies set up in some of the States, 163;
remarks of President Jackson's message in 1829-30, 164;
"the condition and ulterior destiny of the Indian tribes within
States, an object of much interest, 164;
has the General Government a right to sustain them in erecting
an independent government within the limits of a State? 164;
reference to the constitution, 164;
their efforts discountenanced," 164;
passage of an act to enable their removal recommended, 164;
an old policy taken hold of by party spirit, 164;
proceedings in Georgia, 164;
proceedings of the Cherokees, 164;
action of Governor Gilmer relative to the suit of the
Cherokees, 165;
charge of Judge Clayton to the Grand Jury of the Indian
countries, 165;
address of Milner to the Foreign Missionary Society of
London, 165;
remarks, 166;
the case of George Tassels, 166;
answer of Governor Gilmer to a request to make up a case before
the United States Supreme Court, 166;
settlement, 166.

INGHAM, SAMUEL D., Secretary of the Treasury, 119;
resigns his seat in the cabinet, 181.

_Internal Improvements_ within the States, source of the
question, 3;
New York canal finished, 22;
roads and canals all the vogue, 22;
candidates for the Presidency spread their sails, 22;
advocates of the measure, 22;
two prominent subjects discussed, 22;
extent of the design, 22;
Monroe's veto, 22;
the statement of the question, 22;
constitutional point how viewed in the message, 23;
the post-office and post-road grant of power, 23;
the war power, 23;
the power to regulate commerce, 24;
to pay debts and provide for the general welfare, 24;
to make laws necessary and proper, 25;
to make needful rules and regulations, 26;
the point on which Mr. Monroe yielded, 26;
the act for surveys passed, 26;
places recommended for improvement, 26;
veto message of Jackson, 26;
fate of the system, 27.

J

JACKSON, ANDREW, views on the cession of Texas, 16;
on internal improvement, 22;
candidate for the Presidency in 1824, 44;
message relative to a removal of the Indians, 164;
veto of Maysville road bill, 167;
letter to Van Buren, relative to his agency in the rupture of
the cabinet, 217;
veto of the recharter of the bank, 251;
elected President, 282;
proclamation against South Carolina, 299;
retains the bill to distribute the proceeds of the sales of the
public lands, 364;
veto, 365.
_His administration._--
His inaugural address, 119;
his cabinet, 119;
members of Congress, 120;
Speaker, 121;
recommendations of his first annual message, 121;
"amendment of the constitution relative to elections of
President and Vice President," 121;
remarks, 122;
amendment to the constitution too far removed from the
people, 122;
events impressively urge it, 122;
not another example on earth of a free people surrendering the
choice of their President, 122;
exclusion of members of Congress from office recommended, 122;
remarks of the message on this point, 122;
the policy recommended respecting the navy, 122;
instructions to Virginia Senators in 1800, 122;
the army and navy as found by President Jackson, 123;
recommendations relative to ship building, 123;
the inutility of the Bank of the United States asserted, 123;
remarks of the message, 123;
manner in which they were perverted, 123;
the finances, 124;
other recommendations, 124.
_Breaking up of the Cabinet._--
Resignation of the members, 181;
courtesy of the proceeding, 181;
ground upon which the President placed the required
resignations, 181;
the new cabinet, 181;
excitement in party politics, 181;
attack on Mr. Crawford, 181;
his answer, 181;
exposure of errors of the pamphlet of Calhoun, 181;
the words of Mr. Crawford, 182;
change in the course of the Telegraph newspaper, 182;
the stand taken by the Globe.--_See Globe newspaper._
Twenty-second Congress, 208;
the Speaker, 209;
message, 210;
boundary between Maine and New Brunswick referred to the King of
Netherlands, 210;
his opinion on the case, 210;
our claims with France, 210;
a treaty made, 210;
differences with Spain, 210;
claims against Naples, 211;
our demands on the Sicilies, 211;
relations with Russia, 211;
effect of our treaty with Austria, 211;
China and the East Indies, 212;
Mexico, 212;
Central America, 212;
South American powers, 212;
state of the finances, 213;
insolvent debtors to the Government, 213;
election of President and Vice President by a direct vote of the
people, 213;
the bank of the United States, 213.
Message after a second election, 283;
wholly confined to business topics, 283;
the finances, 283;
extinguishment of the national debt, 283;
reduction of burthens on the people, 283;
protection should be limited to a few articles of indispensable
necessity, 284;
views on the public lands, 284;
should cease to be a source of revenue soon as practicable, 284;
the federal title should be extinguished in the States, 284;
donations or sales at barely reimbursing prices is the wise
policy of the government, 284;
after a fixed day the surrender of that unsold should take
place, 284;
advantages of this course, 284;
removal of the Indians nearly consummated, 285;
obstacles to the removal of the Indian tribes, 285;
the removals seized upon by party spirit, 285;
Congress appealed to and refused to intervene, 285;
the Supreme Court appealed to and refused the application, 285;
the case of the missionaries, 285;
the case of Tassells, 285;
interference in the affairs of Georgia, 286;
an intimation given of the insolvency of the bank and the
insecurity of the public deposits, 286;
this intimation received with scorn by the friends of the
bank, 286;
conduct of the bank in relation to the payment of five millions
of the three per cent. stock, 286;
the attitude of South Carolina, 286;
opposition to the revenue laws, 286.
Message to 23d Congress, 371;
the state of the finances, 371;
remarks relative to an economical administration, 371;
reasons for the removal of the public deposits, 371;
amendments to the constitution recommended, 372;
remarks on conventions, 372.
_Combination against General Jackson._--
Incident in the career of Mr. Fox, leader in the House of
Commons, 400;
union against Gen. Jackson, 400;
their movements take a personal and vindictive character, 400;
power of the bank to produce distress, 401;
speakers, 401;
the business of the combination divided--distress and panic
the object, 401;
the friends of General Jackson, 401;
speech of Mr. Clay on the removal of the deposits, 402.
"In the midst of a revolution, hitherto bloodless, 402;
the Judiciary has not been exempted from the prevailing rage for
innovation, 402;
a large proportion of the good nod enlightened men of the Union
are yielding to sentiments of despondency, 402;
at the close of last session the power of Congress over the
purse was left untouched, 403;
after all the testimonies of the safety of the public money,
who would have supposed that the place would have been
changed? 403;
by virtue of whose will, power, dictation, were the deposits
removed? 404;
the President has no power over the Public Treasury, 404;
some of the tremendous consequences which may ensue from this
high-handed measure, 405;
what security have the people against the lawless conduct of the
President? 405;
the instance of Cæsar, 405;
what is it our duty to do?" 406;
remarks in reply, 406.
"The first of the resolutions a direct impeachment of the
President, 406;
we are trying an impeachment, 406;
the Senate should consider well before they proceed
further, 407;
the right of the President to dismiss his secretaries, 407;
two other impeachments going on at the same time, 407;
the President on trial for a high crime, 407;
for a misdemeanor, 408;
the Secretary of the Treasury on trial, 408;
the charge of being the instrument of the President, 408;
people called upon to rise and drive the Goths from the
capitol, 409;
the bank was not the Treasury of the United States, 409;
fourteenth article of the bank charter, 409;
the legal existence of the Treasury brought out by the
debates," 410.
Union of Clay and Calhoun against Jackson, 411;
speech of Calhoun, 411;
gives Clay assurance of aid, 411;
the robbery of the Treasury, 411;
the revolution not to go backwards, 412;
entirely owing to the military nod nullifying attitude of South
Carolina that the compromise was passed, 412;
a political coalition to act against Gen. Jackson, 412;
opposition to the "usurpations" of the President, 413;
contempt and scorn at the Secretary's reasons for removing the
deposits, 413;
the removal of Secretary Dunne an abuse of power, 413;
Calhoun's independence of the bank, 414;
Clay disclaims all connection with the bank, 414;
the list of Congressional borrowers or retainers large, 415.
Message to Congress in 1834, 477;
relations with France, 477;
the indemnity stipulated in the treaty has not been paid, 477;
extracts, 477;
question of waiting on the action of France, or of action on our
part, referred to Congress, 478;
United States should insist on a prompt execution, 478;
consequences considered, 478;
collision with France to be regretted on account of her position
with regard to liberal institutions, 478;
condition of the finances, 479;
freedom from public debt, 479;
seizure of the dividends due the United States on stock, by the
bank, 479;
other proceedings of the bank, 480;
criminality of the bank in making the distress, 480;
bank losses commenced at this period, 480;
selling the stock in the bank, 480;
law relative to public deposits, 480;
increase of the gold currency, 481;
reform in the Presidential election, 481.
Meeting of twenty-fourth Congress, 568;
choice of Speaker, 569;
message of the President, 589;
"relations with France, 569;
origin of our claims against France, 569;
extent of the injuries we received, 569;
an affair of uninterrupted negotiation for twenty years, except
a short time when France was overwhelmed by the military
power of United Europe, 569;
subject brought up in the message of 1829, 570;
exceptions taken to the message by the French Government, 570;
the justice of the claims recognized and the amount stipulated
in the treaty of 1831, 570;
its ratification, 570;
delays of the French Government in their action upon the subject
of its fulfilment heretofore stated, 570;
expectations founded on the promises of the French Government
not realized, 571;
consultation with Congress relative to measures for
reprisal, 571;
regarded as an insult by the French Government, 571;
recall of their Minister and suspension of all diplomatic
intercourse, 571;
having vindicated the dignity of France, they next proceeded to
illustrate her justice, 571;
bill passed in the Chamber of Deputies to make the
appropriations necessary to carry into effect the
treaty, 571;
a stipulation that the money should not be paid until it was
ascertained that no steps had been authorized by Congress
of a hostile character towards France, 571;
this point ascertained, 572;
subsequently the bill amended to require a satisfactory
explanation of the President's message," 572;
the apology repulsed by the President as a stain on the national
character, 572;
injurious effects of the loss of the fortification bill in the
previous Congress, 572;
the humane policy which governed the United States in the
removal of the Indians, 573;
the revival of the gold currency and its influence on the
industry of the country, 573;
increase of specie in the country, 573;
the transportation of the mails by railroad and the extortion
of the companies, 574;
the transmission by mail into the slave States of incendiary
publications tending to excite servile insurrection, 574;
reform in the mode of electing the two first officers of the
Republic, 575.
_Foreign Diplomacy_.--Most alarm felt from this part of his
administration by the opponents of his election, 601;
no part more successful, beneficial, and honorable, 601.
The British West India trade recovered, 602.
The French Indemnity treaty, 602;
efforts previously for redress, 602;
the message, 602;
Rives sent as Minister, 602;
the treaty, 602;
further proceedings, 603.
The Danish treaty of indemnity for spoliations on American
commerce, 603;
consisted of illegal seizures and confiscations of American
vessels in Danish ports during the time of the British
orders in Council and the French decrees, 603;
negotiations of J. Q. Adams' administration, 603;
subsequent success of the negotiations, 603.
Neapolitan indemnity treaty for spoliations on American
commerce, 603;
previous efforts to obtain indemnity, 603;
cause of delay, 604;
embarrassments, 604;
success, 604.
Spanish indemnity treaty for causes of complaint since 1819, 604;
Spanish blockades of ports of South American colonies, 604;
state of negotiations, 604;
success, 605.
Russian commercial treaty, none before negotiated, 605;
many previous efforts, 605;
every thing else granted but a commercial treaty, 605;
final success of negotiations, 606.
Portuguese indemnity for seizures during the blockade of
Terceira, 606;
treaty made, 606;
inability of Portugal to pay, 606;
time extended and payment made, 606.
Treaty with the Ottoman Empire made in 1831, 606;
first treaty with that power, 606;
still further treaty in relation to our commerce needed, 607;
stipulations, 607;
success, 607.

Renewal of the treaty with Morocco, 608.
Treaty with Siam, 608.
Treaty with Sultan of Muscat, 608.
Last message, 684;
recapitulation of the auspicious state of things at home and
abroad, 684;
the deposit act, 684;
the distribution scheme, 685;
effects, 685;
issuance of the Treasury circular, 685;
attack upon the circular in Congress, 686;
Seminole hostilities in Florida, 686;
the stock in the Bank of the United States, 687;
the delay of appropriations, 688;
mail contracts with railroads, 688;
supervision over the Indian tribes, 689;
the mode of the Presidential election, 689.
Farewell address of President Jackson, 732;
on disunion, 732;
his apprehensions, 733.
Conclusion of his administration, 733;
remarks and reflections, 733, 734;
appearance at the inauguration of Van Buren, 735;
his reception, 735;
his retirement, 735;
his decease, 736;
his first appearance to the writer, 736;
first interview, 736;
intercourse, 736;
Mrs. Jackson, 737, 739;
his character, 737, 738;
elected Major-General in Tennessee, 738;
nephews, 739.

_Jackson and Calhoun, rupture between._--
Pamphlet of Mr. Calhoun relative to, 167;
its title, 167;
its contents, 167;
the case as it was made out in the pamphlet an intrigue on the
part of Van Buren to supplant a rival, 168;
this case confronted by Jackson, 168;
his previous opinion of Calhoun, 168;
the reply of Jackson never published heretofore, 168;
how it came into the possession of Benton, 168;
letter of Kendall, 168;
contents of Jackson's exposition, 168;
justification of himself under the law of nations and the treaty
with Spain for taking military possession of Florida, 168;
do. under the orders of Monroe and Calhoun as Secretary of
War, 168;
a statement of Mr. Calhoun's conduct towards him in all that
affair of the Seminole War, &c., 169;
"introduction, 169;
extracts from orders, 169;
letter of Calhoun, 169;
Jackson's letter to Monroe, 169;
manner of the reception the letter, 170;
reply by John Rhea, 170;
circumstances under which Jackson entered Florida, 170;
conduct of the Spanish authorities, 171;
the impressions under which Jackson acted, 171;
his dispatch to the Secretary of War, 172;
acted within the letter and spirit of orders, and in accordance
with the secret understanding of the Government, in taking
possession of St. Marks and Pensacola, 172;
letters to the Secretary of War, 172;
no replies of disapprobation, 172;
statements of a Georgia journal, 173;
no reason to doubt Mr. Calhoun's approval, 173;
further evidence, 173;
letter of Col. A. P. Hayne, 173;
his impressions derived from Mr. Calhoun, 174;
informed that Calhoun was the instigator of the attacks upon
him, 174;
and that Crawford was unjustly blamed, 174;
statement of Mr. Cobb, 174;
inquiries of Col. Hamilton of Mr. Calhoun, 174;
private letter of Gen. Jackson to Mr. Calhoun, 174;
Calhoun's reply, 175;
recapitulation, 175;
how the suspicions of Gen. Jackson were wakened against Mr.
Calhoun, 175;
statement of Mr. T. Ringold, 175;
the statement of Mr. Crawford obtained, 175;
inquiry relative to its correctness, of Calhoun, 175;
his reply, 175;
_note_, 175;
united testimony of the Cabinet, 176;
toast of Calhoun by Gen. Jackson, 177;
the report on the resolutions of censure in the House, 177;
its bitterness due to Mr. Calhoun, 177;
proceedings of Mr. Leacock, 177;
Calhoun's secret communications to him, 178;
report of Mr. Leacock, 178;
a darker shade added, 178;
success of Calhoun's management thus far, 179;
the mask worn by Mr. Calhoun, 179;
further statements," 180;
calamitous events followed this rupture, 180;
Crawford's words relative to the production of the private letter
of Jackson to Monroe in the Cabinet meeting, 180.

_Jackson, attempted assassination of._--
The President and Cabinet attend the funeral of William E.
Davis, 521;
circumstances of the attempt to shoot the President, 521;
the assailant knocked down and secured, 521;
the prisoner, 521;
the pistols, 521;
prisoner examined by physicians relative to the soundness of his
mind, 522;
report of physicians, 522;
diseased mind acted upon by a general outcry against a public
man, 523;
not tried, but treated as insane, 524.

_Jackson, President, Senatorial Condemnation of._--
Clay and Calhoun the leading spirits in this measure, 423;
the resolution passed, 423;
irrelevance of the resolution to any right or duty of the
Senate, 423;
its effect, 423;
composure of President Jackson, 424;
course of his friends, 424;
mischief of the distress, 424;
the Protest of the President, 425;
its contents, 425;
extracts, 425;
"it wants both the form and substance of a legislative
measure, 425;
the whole phraseology judicial, 425;
its charges, 425;
in substance an impeachment of the President, 425;
this impeachment originated in the Senate without the aid or
concurrence of the House, 426;
Senators from three States voted contrary to the sense of their
legislatures, 426;
words of the Protest, 427;
an appeal to his private history for the patriotism and
integrity of his life," 427;
the excitement which ensued upon its reading in the Senate, 427.
Notice of the Expunging resolution given, 428;
remarks, 428;
"instance of the House of Commons, 428;
the question brought before the American people, 428;
motion to reject the President's message, is the question, 429;
the charges of the resolution, 429;
speeches in support of the resolution, 430;
three characters in which the Senate can act, 430;
one of the most difficult and delicate tasks in the convention
was to select a court for the trial of impeachments, 430;
it is an object not more to be desired, than difficult to be
obtained, 431;
further remarks, 431;
the Star Chamber Court, 432;
what occasion has the Senate, sitting as a court of impeachment,
for the power of execution," 432;
motion carried, 432;
reasons for the Senate's refusal, 433.

JEFFERSON, THOMAS, rejects the treaty of 1807, 1;
his idea of a commercial communication with Asia, 14;
his interview with the traveller Ledyard, 14;
seeks discovery of the Columbia river, 14;
projects the expedition of Lewis and Clarke, 14;
views on the cession of Texas, 16;
letter to Dr. Breckenridge, 16;
as a statesman, 28;
remarks on future French affairs, 31;
remarks on the road from Georgia to New Orleans, 43;
decease of, 87;
character, 87, 88;
his connection with the doctrine of nullification, 148.

JESUP, Gen., second to Mr. Clay in the duel with Randolph, 70;
his statement, 70.

JOHNNY, the servant of Randolph, anxiety for his master at the duel
between Randolph and Clay, 75.

JOHNSON, CHARLES, on reference of the Bank memorial to a select
committee, 235.

JOHNSON, HENRY, Senator from Louisiana, 7;
governor, 7.

JOHNSON, RICHARD M., Senator from Kentucky, 7;
votes for the Missouri Compromise, 8;
Judge of Supreme Court, 8.
On committee of bank investigation, 241;
reports on imprisonment for debt, 292.

_Joint Committee_ of both Houses on the admission of Missouri, 9.

JONES, FRANCIS, Representative from Tennessee, 7.

K

KENDALL, AMOS, letter to Calhoun, 168;
Postmaster General, 181.

KING, RUFUS, Senator from New York, 7;
appointed Minister
to England, 57;
long service in the Government, 57;
his manners, 57;
dress, 57;
courtesy between him and Van Buren, 57;
his suggestions to Senator Benton, 58;
his statement of the sentiment of the revolutionary period, 58.

KING, WILLIAM R., Senator from Alabama, 7;
votes for the Missouri Compromise, 8;
on the Expunging resolutions of Alabama, 525, 526, 527.

KING, JOHN P., on abolition petitions, 613, 617;
on the independence of Texas, 666.

KREMER, GEORGE, avowed author of an anonymous publication against
Clay, 71.

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LAFAYETTE, _his visit_.--
An absence of forty years, 29;
manner of his reception, 29;
address of Speaker Clay, 30;
Lafayette in the presence of posterity, 30;
appropriation of money and land to Lafayette, 30;
the grants opposed 30;
reasons, 30;
advocated, 31;
his sacrifices, 31;
views of Jefferson, 31;
return of Lafayette to France, 31.

LANMAN, JAMES, _the case of_.--On the expiration of the Senatorial
term of Lanman, the Legislature of Connecticut failing to
elect, the governor appointed him, 56;
debate on the validity of the appointment, 56;
not a case in which a governor can fill a vacancy, the vacancy
foreseen, not _happened_, 56;
precedents reported to the Senate, 56;
unsatisfactory, 56;
motion to admit, rejected, 56.

LAWRENCE, RICHARD, attempts to assassinate President Jackson, 521.

LEAKE, WALTER, votes for the Missouri Compromise, 8.

LEDYARD, JOHN, attempts the discovery of the Columbia river, 14.

LETCHER, ROBERT P., moves the compromise tariff bill, 309.

LEWIS, of North Carolina, on the admission of Arkansas, 632.

LIVINGSTON, EDWARD, Secretary of State, 181.

LLOYD, EDWARD, Senator from Maryland, 7;
governor, 7;
votes for the Missouri Compromise, 8.

LOGAN, WILLIAM, votes for the Missouri Compromise, 8.

LOWNDES, WILLIAM, Representative from South Carolina, 7;
weight of his opinions, 8;
on the committee to whom was referred the application of
Missouri, 9;
decease, 18;
his character, 18.

LOWRIE, WALTER, votes for the Missouri Compromise, 8.

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MACAULAY, his description of removals from office, 162.

MACON, NATHANIEL, Senator from North Carolina, 7;
votes for the Missouri Compromise, 8;
opposes the grants to Lafayette, 30;
his vote for Vice-President in 1824, 45;
answer relative to the authorship of the report on the Panama
mission, 68.
Retirement of, 114;
his temperament, 114;
fixed the time for his retirement long before, 114;
his resignation, 114;
his death, 114;
his character, 114;
sketch of his life, 115;
enters the army, 115;
refuses to leave the camp for the legislative assembly of his
native State, 115;
the battle of Guilford, 115;
Macon's civil life, 116;
his political principles, 116;
disregard of wealth, 117;
his friendships, 117;
his executor, 117;
codicil to his will, 117;
his charity, 118;
his dress, 118;
his disinterestedness, 118;
his simplicity, 118;
letter on the Military Academy, 182;
his character, 534.

MADISON, JAMES, yields in favor of the second bank, 3;
on the regulation of commerce, 156;
his veto of an internal improvement bill, 167;
his letter on slavery agitation, 609;
remarks, 623;
decease of--time of his death, 678;
remarks of Dr. Witherspoon, 678;
his talent, 677;
his writings, 679;
characteristics, 679.

MCGUIRE, J. C., publishes a quarto volume of Madison's letters, 149.

MANGUM, WILLIE P., on the branch Mints, 550.

MARCY, WILLIAM L., for Van Buren as Minister to England, 216.

MARSHALL, JOHN, Chief Justice, 7;
administers the oath of office to Jackson, 119;
decease of Chief Justice, 681;
his character, 681;
his speech in the case of Jonathan Robbins, 681.

MCDUFFIE, GEORGE, moves amendment to the constitution, 37;
expresses the views of the South on the revised tariff, 100;
on revision of the tariff, 100;
on the Committee of Bank Investigation, 241.

MCINTOSH, WILLIAM, Chief of Creek Indians, 58;
negotiates a treaty, 58.

MCLANE, LOUIS, Representative from Delaware, 7;
sent Minister to England, 127;
Secretary of the Treasury, 181.

MCLEAN, JOHN, Postmaster General, 7;
Postmaster-General, 58;
appointed Justice of the Supreme Court, 120.

MCKINNEY, THOMAS L., superintendent of the Indian factory
system, 21.

MEIGS, R. J., coadjutor with Clay on the Missouri question, 10.

_Memorial_ of the Bank Directors to Congress relative to the
removal of the public deposits, 379;
of the rejected Government Directors of the Bank to Congress, 389.

MERCER, CHARLES FENTON, Representative from Virginia, 7.

_Message_ on the South Carolina proceedings, 303;
relative to the distribution of the proceeds of the sale of public
lands, 365;
to twenty-third Congress, 369;
on the renomination of the Bank Directors, 386.

METCALFE, THOMAS, Representative from Kentucky, 7;
governor, 7.

_Michigan_, admission of. _See Arkansas_.

_Military Academy._--
Numerous desertions in the army, 182;
difficulty to find a remedy for the evil, 182;
letter from Mr. Macon, 182;
not a government in the world so unfriendly to the rights of the
people as ours since the establishment of the West Point
Institution, 182;
officers rise from the ranks in all countries of Europe, 183;
returns to Parliament, 183;
how is it in our service? 183;
difficulty of obtaining a commission for a citizen in the
regular regiments, 183;
case of Hermann Thorn, 183;
admitted to service in Austria, 183;
case of Kit Carson, 183;
rejected because he did not come through the West Point
gate, 183;
this rule of appointment become the law of the land, 183;
popular opposition to the institution, 184;
it is said Washington was the founder of the institution, 184;
the institution of his day a very different affair, 184;
explained, 184;
all was right until 1812, 184;
extract from the act of 1812, 184;
the deception of the clause, 184;
other deceptions which follow, 185;
this establishment is mainly a school for the gratuitous
education of those who have influence to get there, 184;
gratuitous instruction to the children of the living is a
vicious principle, 185;
vital objections to the institution, 185;
a monopoly of the appointments how effected, 185;
the President and the academy are the real appointing power, and
the Senate an office for the registration of
appointments, 186;
act of 1812 rests its constitutionality on fictions, 186;
the title of the act fictitious, 186;
its title, 186;
our academy an imitation of European military schools, 186;
the remedy for these evils is to repeal the act of 1812, 186.
_Attempted Inquiry into._--
Organized under the act of 1812, 638;
movements against early commenced, 638;
committee appointed, 638;
report 638;
no attention given to it, 638;
other motions, 638;
debate, 639;
a monopoly for the gratuitous education of the sons of the
rich and influential, 639;
some rule should apply to the army as applies to members of
Congress, 640;
further efforts to obtain an investigation, 640;
attack on the appropriation resorted to, 641;
remarks of Franklin Pierce, 641;
"grounds of opposition, 641;
why has this investigation been resisted? 641;
from the middling interest comes the most efficient support in
trying periods, 642;
exclusiveness of the institution, 642;
the military academy not calculated to make the army
effective, 642;
the institution in the times of Washington, &c., and the
institution as it is now, 643;
gratuitous education in Great Britain examined, 644;
further remarks," 645.
A clause in the appropriation bill for the purchase of forty
horses, &c., erection of a building, a riding house in bad
weather, 712;
struck out, 712;
opposition to its restoration, 712, 713;
further debate, 714.

_Missouri, admission of._--
Exciting question of session of Congress of 1820-'21, 8;
the state admitted without restriction, 8;
the compromise, 8;
work of the South, 8;
unanimity of the President's cabinet, 8;
unanimity of the Senate on the compromise, 8;
its constitutionality called in question, 8;
Senators voting for it, 8;
vote in the House, 8;
the increase of slave States avowed to be a question of political
power between the two sections of the Union, 8;
provision in the Missouri Constitution forbidding Legislative
interference, 8;
clause authorizing the prohibition of the emigration of free
people of color, 9;
its treatment by Congress, 9;
the real point of objection, 9;
application for admission presented and referred, 9;
report of committee, 9;
resolution rejected, 9;
its fate in the Senate, 9;
House reject the resolution of the Senate, 9;
joint committee ordered and appointed in both Houses, 9;
report, 9;
adopted in the House, 9;
in the Senate, 10;
compliance of the General Assembly of Missouri, 10;
defeat of the attempt to restrict a State from having slaves if
she chose, 10;
the real struggle, object of, 10;
the objectionable clause, how since regarded, 10;
excitement of the occasion, 10;
a federal movement, 10;
sentiments of the northern democracy, 10;
a movement for the balance of power, 10.

_Missouri resolutions._--
Not now discussed, 360;
the old confederation was a league with a legislature acting on
sovereignties, 361;
the Federalist on the defects of the old system, 361;
on the certain destruction of the Union when the sword is once
drawn between the members, 361;
advantage of working if the laws operate on citizens and not on
States, 361.

_Missouri Question, extension of._--
Object to extend the boundary on the Missouri river, 626;
difficulties, 626;
threefold, 626;
a bill for the alteration of the compromise line and the extension
of the boundary reported, 627;
passed both Houses, 627;
this was the answer which northern members gave to the imputed
design of abolishing slavery, 627.

MITCHELL, GEORGE E., on reference of the bank memorial, to a select
committee, 284.

MONROE, JAMES, negotiates the treaty of 1807, 1;
efforts for the declaration of war in 1812, 6: President, 7;
letter showing the unanimity of his cabinet on the Missouri
question, 8;
his letters to Jackson on the cession of Texas, 15;
ditto to Jefferson, 16;
cause of these letters, 17;
veto on internal improvement bill, 22;
veto of Cumberland road bill, 167;
decease of, his place in history, 679;
his character, 679;
genius, 679;
discretion, 679;
foundation of his political career, 680;
remark of Jefferson, 680;
his career, 680.

MONROE doctrine, 67.

MOORE, GABRIEL, anecdote respecting the rejection of Van Buren as
Minister to England, 215;
against Van Buren as Minister to England, 215.

MORRIS, THOMAS, on abolition petitions, 612.

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_New Mexico_, _internal trade with_.--All foreign ingress cut off
until 1821, 41;
intercourse between Missouri and the "Western Internal
Provinces," 41;
a branch of interior commerce, 41;
a bill brought into the Senate to open road and to afford
protection against the savages, 41;
statement of facts relative to the trade, 41;
precedents for the construction of a road, 42;
remarks of Mr. Jefferson on the road from Georgia to New
Orleans, 43;
the foreign part of the road the point of difficulty, 43;
moved to strike out the extra territorial part of the national
highway, 43;
views of Senators, 43, 44;
bill passed, 44;
road to New Mexico built under Adams' administration, 44.

NILES, JOHN M., on the Independence of Texas, 668.

NOBLE, JAMES, votes for the Missouri Compromise, 8.

_Nullification_--Event of its origin, 95;
the assumed right of a State to annul an act of Congress, 138;
new turn in the debate, 138;
allusions to the conduct of New England in 1812, 138;
meetings in South Carolina on the Tariff, 138;
resolves passed, 138;
their defence, 183;
the doctrine summed up, 138;
counter explanation, 139;
the Virginia resolution, 139;
how the South Carolina doctrine would have operated in New
England, 139;
the doctrine has no foundation in the constitution or in
Virginia resolutions, 139;
"the character of the government," 139;
"supremacy of the constitution and laws, 140;"
interpretation of the Virginia resolutions disputed, 140;
remarks, 140;
Hartford Convention, 140;
pledge of forcible resistance to any attempt to enforce
unconstitutional laws, 140;
remarks, 141;
Webster's peroration, 141;
remarks of Benton, 142;
his slowness to believe in any design to subvert the Union, 142.

Anniversary of Jefferson's birth-day, 148;
a subscription dinner, 148;
the guests, 148;
the regular toasts, 148;
conversation excited by them, 148;
toast of the President, 148;
toast of Calhoun, 148;
remarks relative to Mr. Jefferson, 148;
his vindication, 148;
resolves of Virginia, 149.

_Ordinance in South Carolina_.--The fate of the American system
was sealed by the elections of 1832, 297;
the course of South Carolina, 297;
words of the ordinance, 297, 298;
it placed the State in the attitude of open and forcible
resistance to the laws of the United States to take effect
in the February following, 298;
officially communicated to the President, 298;
his oath of office, 298.

_Proclamation against nullification_.--Proceedings of the South
Carolina convention stated, 299;
the ordinance founded not on the indefeasible right of resisting
acts which are plainly unconstitutional and too oppressive
to be endured, 299;
but on the position that a State may declare the acts of Congress
void and prohibit their execution, 300;
two appeals from an unconstitutional act, 300;
words of the social compact, 300;
if this doctrine had been established at an early day the Union
would have been dissolved in its infancy, 300;
our constitutional history shows it would have been repudiated if
proposed for a feature of our Government, 300;
the constitution declares, &c., 301;
a law repealed by a small majority of the voters of a single
State, 301;
the constitution forms a government, not a league, 301;
address to the members of the convention, 302.

_Message on the South Carolina proceedings_.--Notice in the annual
message, 303;
continuation and aggravation of the proceedings, 303;
special message, 303;
"ordinance transmitted by the Governor of South Carolina, 303;
hope indulged that by explaining the recommendations proposed to
Congress, the authorities of South Carolina might
recede, 303;
hence proclamation issued, 303;
the reasonable expectations not realized, 303;
neither the recommendations of the Executive nor the disposition
manifested by Congress, nor the unequivocal expression of
public opinion, have produced any relaxation in the measures
of opposition, 303;
the State authorities actively organizing their military
resources, 304;
proclamation of the Governor has openly defied the authority of
the Executive of the Union, 304;
determination of the authorities of South Carolina, 304;
acts on the part of South Carolina, 304, 305;
no sufficient cause for such proceedings on the part of South
Carolina, 306;
she still claims to be a component part of the Union, 306;
the duty of the Executive, 307;
recommendations of the President, 307;
importance of the crisis," 307.

Deep feeling of discontent in South Carolina operated upon by
politicians, 308;
this feeling just and reasonable, and operated upon by politicians
for personal and ambitious objects, 308;
twofold aspect of his proclamation and message, 308;
one of relief and justice in reducing the revenue; and the other,
firm and mild in enforcing the laws against offenders, 308;
two classes of discontented--the honest and the politicians, 308;
bills proposed in Congress, 308.

_Revenue Collection or Force Bill._--Bill to secure the execution
of certain laws in South Carolina, 330;
remarks, 330;
"contains no novel principle, 330;
provision for removal of the Custom House, 330;
legislation necessary, 330;
secession on one hand, and nullification on the other, 331;
state of affairs in South Carolina, 331;
the bill confers on the President the power of closing old ports
of entry and opening new ones, 331;
a prominent cause which led to the revolution, 331;
empowered to employ the land and naval forces to put down all
abettors, 332;
no ambiguity about this measure, 332;
the President is charged by the constitution with the execution of
the laws, 332;
the President's measure, 332;
the resemblance between this bill and the Boston Port bill, 333;
the war is waged against the measures of the administration," 333;
the support or Mr. Webster, 333.

_Nullification resolutions._--Resolutions on the powers of the
government introduced into the Senate, 334;
counter-resolutions offered, 334;
source whence Mr. Calhoun obtained the seminal idea of
nullification as a remedy in a government, 335;
Virginia resolution of, 98, 99;
the essential idea derived from the Roman tribunitian veto, 335;
considered a cure for all the disorders of a Roman State, 335;
remarks, 335;
"the Roman system, 335;
operation of the Roman veto, 335;
the right of a State to interfere, 336;
governments of several States might be cited as an argument
against this view, 336;
the tendency to conflict in this action," 336;
Calhoun's opinion of the defects of our form of government,
and the remedy for these defects, 337;
the defect of an unchecked authority of the majority, 337;
the remedy an authority in the minority to check that majority and
to secede, 337;
example of Jewish history, 337;
its squint to the Virginia resolutions, 337;
circumstances under which this remedy contended for, 337;
object to create or find this remedy in our system, 337;
nullification, resistance, secession, found by Calhoun in the
Virginia resolutions, 337;
all that was intended by the Virginia resolutions, being merely
an appeal to public opinion, 337;
debate, 337;
"what was the conduct of Virginia in the memorable era of 98 and
99, 338;
her real intentions and policy were proved not by declarations
and speeches merely, but by facts, 338;
the constitution does not provide for events which must be
preceded by its own distraction, 338;
secession and nullification revolutionary, 338;
its tendency is to break up the constitution as to all the other
States, 339;
it strikes a deadly blow at the vital principle of the whole
Union, 339;
it arrests the power of the law, absolves the citizen from duty,
and elevates another authority to supreme command, 339;
the laws must be repealed throughout the whole Union, or executed
in Carolina as well as elsewhere, 339.

"Nature of our federal government, 339;
a union in contradistinction to a league, 339;
it is not a compact or confederacy between the people of the
several States in their sovereign capacities, 339;
no State authority has power to dissolve those relations, 340;
the constitution, acts of Congress, &c., the supreme law, 340;
an attempt of a State at nullification a direct usurpation of the
just powers of the federal government," 340;
some other cause than the alleged one at the bottom of this
desire of secession, 340;
ambitious and personal proceedings intimated as involved in the
proceedings of South Carolina, 340;
expression of Calhoun, 340;
a contest between power and liberty, 341;
the freedom and the slave property of the South involved, 341;
exclusion of patriotic men of the South from the Presidency, 341;
contradicted by all history of our national elections, 341;
protective tariff the sole or main cause of the South Carolina
discontent, 341;
remarks on this point, 341;
"another subject connected with this which will prevent the return
of peace and quiet, 341;
the force bill a practical assertion of one theory of the
government against another, 341;
the bill cannot be acquiesced in, unless the South is dead to the
sense of liberty," 341;
these positions not sustained by Southern sentiment, 342--_See
Tariff, Reduction of duties._

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_Ordinance of 1787._--Authorship claimed for Nathan Dane, 133;
claimed for Jefferson, 133;
history of the case, 133;
its ultimate passage the work of the South, 133;
extracts from the Journal of Congress, 134;
remarks on the claim for Dane of authorship, 134;
"origin of the measure, 134;
an attempt to transfer the honor to the South, 135;
proposed a second time," 135;
statements compared with facts, 135, 136.

_Oregon Territory._--Proposition for the settlement of, first made
at the session of 1820-21, 13;
causes that led to it, 13;
committee moved, 13;
carried, 13;
the committee, 13;
report, 13;
proceedings in the House, 13;
consequences of neglect by the Government, 13;
advantages from its settlement, 13;
historical facts, 14.

_Joint occupation of._--Astoria captured during the war of
1812, 109;
not restored under the treaty of Ghent, 109;
convention for joint occupation concluded at London, 109;
words of the convention, 109;
article written by Benton on the subject, 109;
out traders driven out of the country, 110;
other effects of the joint occupation, 110;
resolutions against the ratification of the subsequent treaty
relative to continuance of the joint occupation, 111.

OTIS, HARRISON GRAY, Senator from Massachusetts, 7.

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PALMER, WILIAM A., votes for the Missouri Compromise, 8.

_Panama Mission._--A master subject in its day, 65;
gave rise to grave questions, 65;
designed as a popular movement to turn the tide running against
Adams, 65;
the Congress at Panama, 65;
debate in the Senate on the nomination of ministers, 65;
invited by the South American States to send deputies, 65;
motion to debate the question with open doors, 65;
reference to the President, 65;
his answer, 65;
indignation of the Senate, 66;
nominations confirmed, 66;
patronage distributed to advocates of the measure, 66;
the basis of the agreement for the Congress, the existing state of
war between all the new States and the mother country, 66;
its object, 66;
relations of the United States, 66;
message of the President relative to objects of the Congress, 67;
the Monroe doctrine, 67;
extract from Adams' message respecting it, 67;
entirely confined to our own borders, 67;
other objects--advancement of religious liberty, 67;
proofs of our good will, 67;
reference of the message, 67;
adverse report, 67;
expressive of the democratic doctrines of the day, 67;
its general principle that of good-will and friendship, but no
entangling alliances, 68;
remarks of committee on religious freedom, 68;
their views on the Monroe doctrine, 68;
our present unconnected and friendly position regarded as most
beneficial to the republics, 68;
the advantages of friendly relations without entangling
alliances, 69;
right of the President to institute the mission, 69;
relations with Haiti, on what principle established, 69;
excitement produced by the proposed mission, 69.

_Paper_ read to the cabinet by General Jackson relative to the
removal of the public deposits, 376.

_Patronage, Executive, reduction of._--Committee appointed to report
on the expediency of reducing, 80;
the committee, 80;
report, 80;
the six bills reported, 80;
extract from the report, 80;
"grounds of the committee's opinion, 80;
multiply the guards against the abuse of power, 81;
the extent of patronage," 81;
subsequent increase of patronage, 81;
remarks on the bills reported, 81, 82.

PARROTT, JOHN F., votes for the Missouri Compromise, 8.

PIERCE, FRANKLIN, on abolition petitions, 615.

PINCKNEY, CHARLES, Representative from South Carolina, 7.

PINKNEY, WILLIAM, Senator from Maryland, 7;
negotiates the treaty of 1807, 1;
votes for the Missouri Compromise, 8;
decease, 19;
rank as an orator, 19;
speeches, 19;
on the Missouri controversy, 19;
abilities, 20;
manner in which Randolph announces his death, 20;
character, 20.

PLEASANTS, JAMES, Senator from Virginia, 7;
governor, 7;
votes for the Missouri Compromise, 8.

POINDEXTER, GEORGE, against Van Buren as Minister to England, 215;
on the protest of General Jackson, 427.

POLK, JAMES K., on the non-payment of the three per cents., 289;
on continuing the deposits in the bank, 289;
chosen Speaker of the House, 569.

_Presidential election of 1824._--The candidates, 44;
how brought forward, 44;
number of electoral votes, 44;
vote for each, 44;
candidates for the Vice Presidency, 45;
vote, 45.