Chapter II: Act 413

C. Mr. Tyler and the Whig Party--Confirmed
Separation 417

CI. Lord Ashburton's Mission, and the British
Treaty 420

CII. British Treaty--The Pretermitted Subjects--Mr.
Benton's Speech--Extracts 426

CIII. British Treaty--Northeastern Boundary
Article--Mr. Benton's Speech--Extracts 438

CIV. British Treaty--Northwestern Boundary--Mr.
Benton's Speech--Extracts 441

CV. British Treaty--Extradition Article--Mr.
Benton's Speech--Extract 444

CVI. British Treaty--African Squadron for the
Suppression of the Slave Trade--Mr.
Benton's Speech--Extract 449

CVII. Expense of the Navy--Waste of Money--Necessity
of a Naval Peace Establishment,
and of a Naval Policy 452

CVIII. Expenses of the Navy--Mr. Benton's Speech--Extracts 456

CIX. Message of the President at the Opening
of the Regular Session of 1842-'3 460

CX. Repeal of the Bankrupt Act--Mr. Benton's
Speech--Extracts 463

CXI. Military Academy and Army Expenses 466

CXII. Emigration to the Columbia River, and
Foundation of its Settlement by American
Citizens--Frémont's First Expedition 468

CXIII. Lieutenant Frémont's First Expedition--Speech,
and Motion of Senator Linn 478

CXIV. Oregon Colonization Act--Mr. Benton's
Speech 479

CXV. Navy Pay and Expenses--Proposed Reduction--Speech
of Mr. Meriwether, of Georgia--Extracts 482

CXVI. Eulogy on Senator Linn--Speeches of Mr.
Benton and Mr. Crittenden 485

CXVII. The Coast Survey--Attempt to diminish
its Expense, and to expedite its Completion
by restoring the Work to Naval and
Military Officers 487

CXVIII. Death of Commodore Porter, and Notice of
his Life and Character 491

CXIX. Refunding of General Jackson's Fine 499

CXX. Repeal of the Bankrupt Act--Attack of
Mr. Cushing on Mr. Clay--Its Rebuke 503

CXXI. Naval Expenditures and Administration--Attempts
at Reform--Abortive 507

CXXII. Chinese Mission--Mr. Cushing's Appointment
and Negotiation 510

CXXIII. The Alleged Mutiny, and the Executions
(as they were called) on Board the United
States man-of-war, Somers 522

CXXIV. Retirement of Mr. Webster from Mr.
Tyler's Cabinet 562

CXXV. Death of William H. Crawford 562

CXXVI. First Session of the Twenty-eighth
Congress--List of Members--Organization
of the House of Representatives 563

CXXVII. Mr. Tyler's Second Annual Message 565

CXXVIII. Explosion of the Great Gun on Board
the Princeton man-of-war--the Killed
and Wounded 567

CXXIX. Reconstruction of Mr. Tyler's Cabinet 569

CXXX. Death of Senator Porter, of Louisiana--Eulogium
of Mr. Benton 569

CXXXI. Naval Academy, and Naval Policy of
the United States 571

CXXXII. The Home Squadron--Its Inutility and
Expense 575

CXXXIII. Professor Morse--His Electro-Magnetic
Telegraph 578

CXXXIV. Frémont's Second Expedition 579

CXXXV. Texas Annexation--Secret Origin--Bold
Intrigue for the Presidency 581

CXXXVI. Democratic Convention for the Nomination
of Presidential Candidates 591

CXXXVII. Presidential--Democratic National Convention--Mr.
Calhoun's Refusal to
Submit his Name to it--His Reasons 596

CXXXVIII. Annexation of Texas--Secret Negotiation--Presidential
Intrigue--Schemes
of Speculation and Disunion 599

CXXXIX. Texas Annexation Treaty--First Speech
of Mr. Benton against it--Extracts 600

CXL. Texas or Disunion--Southern Convention--Mr.
Benton's Speech--Extracts 613

CXLI. Texas or Disunion--Violent Demonstrations
in the South--Southern Convention
proposed 616

CXLII. Rejection of the Annexation Treaty--Proposal
of Mr. Benton's Plan 619

CXLIII. Oregon Territory--Conventions of 1818
and 1828--Joint Occupation--Attempted
Notice to Terminate it 624

CXLIV. Presidential Election 625

CXLV. Amendment of the Constitution--Election
of President and Vice-President--Mr.
Benton's Plan 626

CXLVI. The President and the Senate--Want
of Concord--Numerous Rejections of
Nominations 629

CXLVII. Mr. Tyler's Last Message to Congress 631

CXLVIII. Legislative Admission of Texas into the
Union as a State 632

CXLIX. The War with Mexico--Its Cause--Charged
on the Conduct of Mr. Calhoun--Mr.
Benton's Speech 639

CL. Mr. Polk's Inaugural Address--Cabinet 649

CLI. Mr. Blair and the Globe superseded as
the Administration Organ--Mr. T. Ritchie
and the Daily Union substituted 650

CLII. Twenty-ninth Congress--List of Members--First
Session--Organization of
the House 655

CLIII. Mr. Polk's First Annual Message to
Congress 657

CLIV. Death of John Forsyth 659

CLV. Admission of Florida and Iowa 660

CLVI. Oregon Treaty--Negotiations commenced,
and broken off 660

CLVII. Oregon Question--Notice to abrogate the
Article in the Treaty for a Joint Occupation--The
President denounced in
the Senate for a supposed Leaning to
the Line of Forty-nine 662

CLVIII. Oregon Territorial Government--Boundaries
and History of the Country--Frazer's
River--Treaty of Utrecht--Mr.
Benton's Speech--Extracts 667

CLIX. Oregon Joint Occupation--Notice authorized
for terminating it--British Government
offers the Line of 49--Quandary of
the Administration--Device--Senate
Consulted--Treaty made and Ratified 673

CLX. Meeting of the Second Session of the 29th
Congress--President's Message--Vigorous
Prosecution of the War Recommended--Lieutenant-general
proposed to be created 677

CLXI. War with Mexico--The War Declared,
and an Intrigue for Peace commenced
the same Day 679

CLXII. Bloodless Conquest of New Mexico--How
it was Done--Subsequent Bloody Insurrection,
and its Cause 682

CLXIII. Mexican War--Doniphan's Expedition--Mr.
Benton's Salutatory Address, St.
Louis, Missouri 684

CLXIV. Frémont's Third Expedition, and Acquisition
of California 688

CLXV. Pause in the War--Sedentary Tactics--"Masterly
Inactivity" 693

CLXVI. The Wilmot Proviso--Or, Prohibition of
Slavery in the Territories--Its Inutility
and Mischief 694

CLXVII. Mr. Calhoun's Slavery Resolutions, and
Denial of the Right of Congress to Prohibit
Slavery in a Territory 696

CLXVIII. The Slavery Agitation--Disunion--Key
to Mr. Calhoun's Policy--Forcing the
Issue--Mode of Forcing it 698

CLXIX. Death of Silas Wright, Ex-Senator and
Ex-Governor of New York 700

CLXX. Thirtieth Congress--First Session--List of
Members--President's Message 702

CLXXI. Death of Senator Barrow--Mr. Benton's
Eulogium 706

CLXXII. Death of Mr. Adams 707

CLXXIII. Downfall of Santa Anna--New Government
in Mexico--Peace Negotiations--Treaty
of Peace 709

CLXXIV. Oregon Territorial Government--Anti-Slavery
Ordinance of 1787 applied to
Oregon Territory--Missouri Compromise
Line of 1820, and the Texas Annexation
Renewal of it in 1845, affirmed 711

CLXXV. Mr. Calhoun's New Dogma on Territorial
Slavery--Self-extension of the Slavery
Part of the Constitution to Territories 713

CLXXVI. Court-martial of Lieutenant-colonel Frémont 715

CLXXVII. Frémont's Fourth Expedition, and Great
Disaster in the Snows at the Head of
the Rio Grande del Norte--Subsequent
Discovery of the Pass he sought 719

CLXXVIII. Presidential Election 722

CLXXIX. Last Message of Mr. Polk 724

CLXXX. Financial Working of the Government
under the Hard Money System 726

CLXXXI. Coast Survey--Belongs to the Navy--Converted
into a Separate Department--Expense
and Interminability--Should
be done by the Navy,
as in Great Britain--Mr. Benton's
Speech--Extract 726

CLXXXII. Proposed Extension of the Constitution
of the United States to the Territories,
with a View to make it carry
Slavery into California, Utah and
New Mexico 729

CLXXXIII. Progress of the Slavery Agitation--Meeting
of Members from the Slave
States--Inflammatory Address to
the Southern States 733

CLXXXIV. Inauguration of President Taylor--His
Cabinet 737

CLXXXV. Death of Ex-President Polk 737

CLXXXVI. Thirty-first Congress--First Session--List
of Members--Organization of
the House 738

CLXXXVII. First and only Annual Message of
President Taylor 740

CLXXXVIII. Mr. Clay's Plan of Compromise 742

CLXXXIX. Extension of the Missouri Compromise
Line to the Pacific Ocean--Mr.
Davis, of Mississippi, and Mr.
Clay--The Wilmot Proviso 743

CXC. Mr. Calhoun's Last Speech--Dissolution
of the Union proclaimed unless
the Constitution was amended,
and a Dual Executive appointed--one
President from the Slave States
and one from the Free States 744

CXCI. Death of Mr. Calhoun--His Eulogium
by Senator Butler 747

CXCII. Mr. Clay's Plan of Slavery Compromise--Mr.
Benton's Speech Against
it--Extracts 749

CXCIII. Death of President Taylor 765

CXCIV. Inauguration and Cabinet of Mr. Fillmore 767

CXCV. Rejection of Mr. Clay's Plan of Compromise 768

CXCVI. The Admission of the State of California--Protest
of Southern Senators--Remarks
upon it by Mr. Benton 769

CXCVII. Fugitive Slaves; Ordinance of 1787--The
Constitution--Act of 1793--Act
of 1850 773

CXCVIII. Disunion Movements--Southern Press
at Washington--Southern Convention
at Nashville--Southern Congress
called for by South Carolina
and Mississippi 780

CXCIX. The Supreme Court--Its Judges,
Clerk, Attorney-Generals, Reporters
and Marshals during the Period
treated of in this Volume 787

CC. Conclusion 787

THIRTY YEARS' VIEW.

ADMINISTRATION OF MARTIN VAN BUREN.