Chapter CCX: Conclusion (2)

_Contested Election of New Jersey._--Two sets of members, 159;
one set holding the certificates, the other claiming to have
received a majority of the votes, 159;
both referred to the committee of contested elections, 159;
House organize, 159;
issue put on the rights of the voters, 159;
the result, 160;
the contest in the House for Speaker, 160;
its result, 160;
its causes, 160.

CORWIN, THOMAS, Secretary of the Treasury, 768.

CRAWFORD, GEORGE W., Secretary at War, 737.

CRAWFORD, WILLIAM H., decease of, 562;
a great man, who became greater as he was closely examined, 562;
his appearance in 1821, 563;
a formidable candidate for the Presidency, 563;
pulled down in 1824, 563;
service in the Senate, 563;
talents, 563;
Minister to France, 563;
Secretary of the Treasury, 563;
a dauntless foe to nullification, 563.

_Creole, the American brig._--A case of slaves liberated by British
authorities while on the voyage from one American port to
another, 409;
brig bound from Richmond to New Orleans, mutiny and massacre by
the slaves, 409;
affidavit of the master at Nassau, N. P.--proceedings at Nassau,
410, 411;
this was the fifth of such outrages, 411;
the Caroline affair still unatoned for, 411;
call upon the President for information, 411;
remarks of Mr. Calhoun on moving a reference to the Committee on
Foreign relations, 411;
despatch of the Secretary of State, 412;
approved in the Senate, 413;
allusion to the mission of Lord Ashburton, 413.

CRITTENDEN, JOHN J., on the slavery resolutions, 138;
Attorney General, 209;
reasons for resigning his seat in President Tyler's Cabinet, 356;
eulogy on Dean, 487;
Attorney General, 768.
_See Index_, vol. I.

CUSHING, CALEB, attack on the President's message, 33;
on the organization of the House, 215;
defends the Administration in the McLeod affair, 289;
opposes the reduction of certain missions, 305;
replies to the Whig manifesto against Mr. Tyler, 359;
report on the third fiscal agent, 394;
in defence of the Bankrupt Act, 504;
his nomination rejected in the Senate, 629.

D

DALLAS, GEORGE M., elected Vice-President, 625.

_Danish Sound Dues._--Report of Mr. Webster, 362;
"the right of Denmark to levy these dues, 362;
recognized by European governments in several treaties, 362;
the tariff of 1645 never been revised, 362;
other charges, 363;
American commerce," 363;
negotiations to obtain the benefit of all reductions recommended,
363;
remarks, 364;
success of these recommendations, 364;
commerce of different nations through the Sound, 364.

DAVIS, G., reply to Mr. Cushing, 504, 506.

DAVIS JOHN W., chosen Speaker, 656.

DEAN, EZRA, on the home squadron, 577.

_Democratic Convention._--A motley assemblage, 591;
almost all under instructions for Mr. Van Buren, 591;
Van Buren to be nominated on the first ballot, unless a movement
made, 591;
motion to adopt the two-thirds rule, 591;
objected to as in violation of a fundamental principle, 591;
remarks of Morton, 591;
Butler enforces the majority rule, 591;
remarks, 591;
adoption of the rule, 592;
the ballotings, 592;
moved that Mr. Van Buren, having received a majority, be declared
nominated, 592;
violent debate, 592;
division in the Pennsylvania delegation, 593;
Van Buren withdrawn and Polk nominated, 594;
a surprise and a marvel to the country, 594;
nomination and declining of Silas Wright for the Vice-Presidency,
594;
object of stating these facts, 595.

_Refusal of Mr. Calhoun to submit his name._--His objections, 596;
the mode of choosing the delegates, and the manner of their
giving their votes, 596;
extract, 596;
the convention not constituted in conformity to the fundamental
articles of the republican creed, 596;
the working of the constitution on an election, 596;
Congressional presidential caucuses put down by the will of the
people, 597;
convention system more objectionable than the Congressional
caucus, 597;
the objection to the convention system that States voted which
could not aid in the election, 598;
extract, 598;
the danger of centralizing the nomination in the hands of a few
States by the present mode, 598;
danger of throwing the nomination into the meshes of a train-band
of office-holders and office-seekers, 598;
any President may now nominate his successor, 599;
remarks, 599.

_Deposits with the States, retention of._--Terms of the deposit, 36;
amounts deposited, 36;
wants of the Treasury, 36;
the cheat of the bill, 36;
bill to postpone the fourth instalment, 36;
its reception, 36;
remarks of Webster, 36;
of others, 36;
proposition of Mr. Buchanan, 37;
remarks of Mr. Niles, 37;
proposition carried, 37;
principle of the deposit act reversed, 37;
a disposition in the House to treat the act as a contract, and to
enforce it, 37;
remarks of Cushing on this point, 37;
remarks, 38;
carried, 38;
reconsidered and postponed to January 1st, 1839, 38;
fourth instalment finally relinquished, 38;
end of this scheme, 39;
remarks, 39.

DICKERSON, MAHLON, Secretary of the Navy, 9.

_Dictatorship_ charged upon Mr. Clay, 359.

_Distribution of the Public Lands Revenue._--Two hundred millions
due from states and corporations to Europe, 240;
indirect assumption by giving the public lands revenue recommended
by President Tyler, 241;
a violation of the constitution, 241;
remarks of Calhoun, 241;
what a time for squandering this patrimony, 241;
indebtedness, 241;
state of the national defences, 242;
picture of taxation in England, 242;
an open exertion of a foreign interest to influence our
legislation manifested, 243;
remarks of Fernando Wood, 243;
remarks of Mr. Benton, 243;
the bill denounced as unconstitutional, 244;
the constitution was not made to divide money, 244;
bill bound to pass, 245;
its features, 245;
supposed this scheme would be popular, 245;
passed, 245;
the course of these distribution bills, 246;
remarks, 247.

_Disunion movements._--Extract from a South Carolina paper, 780;
an organ of disunion established at Washington, 781;
disunion convention at Nashville, 781;
reasons given by the States for their action, 781;
an issue of fact taken on their truth, 781;
declarations of speakers in the South Carolina Legislature, 782,
783;
extracts from public addresses, 783;
Fourth of July toasts, 784;
failure of a Southern Congress, 784;
interpretation of Calhoun's last speech, 784;
changes in the causes ascribed for disunion, 785;
inauguration of the slavery agitation, how it was done, 786;
views of Mr. Madison, 786.

DOUGLAS, STEPHEN A., moves to extend the Missouri Compromise line
to the Pacific, 711.

DREW, CAPTAIN, his report of the capture of the Caroline, 279.

E

_Electric Telegraph._--Concerted signals for communicating
intelligence, 578;
first telegraphs, 578;
idea of using electricity first broached by Dr. Franklin, 578;
Prof. Morse gave practical application to the idea, 578;
his progress in the invention, 578;
application to Congress, 578;
results as relates to public defence, 578.

EWING, THOMAS, Secretary of the Treasury, 209;
states the readiness of President Tyler to sign a second bank
bill, 343-345;
reasons for resigning his seat in President Tyler's cabinet, 354;
Secretary of the Home Department, 737.
_See Index_, vol. I.

_Exchequer Board._--The plan for a bank proposed by President Tyler,
376;
Mr. Benton's speech against it, 376;
"we have gone back beyond the times of Hamilton, 376;
to those of Walpole and Queen Anne, 376;
the administration of Walpole, the fountain-head of British woes,
377;
extract from Smollett's continuation of Hume, 377;
corporations brought into existence by him, 377;
further extract, 378;
contrast with those in the United States, 378;
corporation credit ruined by the explosions of banks and companies
in both countries, 379;
the origin of our exchequer scheme, 379;
the manner in which this exchequer system has worked in England,
and from its workings there we may judge of its workings
here, 380;
amount of exchequer bills issued, 380;
the rapid growth and dangerous perversion of such issues, 381;
the British debt is the fruit of the exchequer system in Great
Britain, the same that we are now urged to adopt and under
the same circumstances, 381;
let no one say the exchequer and funding system will not work in
the same way in this country, 382;
if there were a thousand constitutional provisions in favor of
paper money, I should still be against it on account of its
own inherent baseness and vice, 383;
remarks of Webster on hard money in 1816, 383;
felicitation of the Senator from Virginia over these exchequer
bills, 384;
remark of Hamilton against Government paper money, 385;
division of the Whigs, 385;
the Tyler-Webster Whigs for Government banking, 385;
what are the pretexts for this flagrant attempt? 385;
distress still the staple of all whig speeches made here, 386;
action of the Biddle King Bank, 386;
was not all distress to cease when the democracy were turned out?
387;
the cry is distress! and the remedy a national poultice of
lamp-black and rags;
a national currency of uniform value, and universal circulation is
what modern whigs demand, meaning all the while a national
currency of paper money, 388;
specie acquisitions during the last twenty years, 388;
Gallatin on the quantity of gold and silver in Europe and America,
388;
points upon which the statesman's attention should be fixed, 388;
the quantity of paper money per head which any nation can use,
389;
the facility with which any industrious country can supply itself
with a hard money currency, 390;
the currency of Cuba, 390;
Holland and Cuba have the best currencies in the world, 391;
no abundant currency, low interest, and facility of loans except
in hard money countries, 391;
the soldiers of Mark Antony, 391;
people believe the old continental bills are to be revived and
restored to circulation by the Federal Government, 392;
proposition to supply the administration with these old bills,
instead of putting out a new emission, 393;
advantages of the old bills," 393.

The measure immediately taken up in either branch of Congress,
394;
a select committee of the House, 394;
report, 394;
extracts, 394;
the measure recommended for adoption, 394;
the bill, 395;
died a natural death, 395;
committee of the Senate discharged from the consideration of the
measure, 395.

_Expenditures of the Government._--Tendency of all governments to
increase their expenses, and it should be the care of all
statesmen to restrain them, 198;
economy a principle in the political faith of the Republican
party, 198;
gradual increase, 198;
report of the Secretary on the ordinary and extraordinary payments
and the public debts, 199;
three branches of public expenditure, 199;
evils of extravagance, 199;
room for reduction, 199;
speech of Senator Benton, 200;
"character and contents of the tables reported by the Secretary of
the Treasury, 200;
expenses of 1824 and of 1839 compared, 200;
expenses of 1824, 201;
expenses of 1889, 201;
further remarks on the statements," 202.

The civil list, its expenditures, 397;
extract from Calhoun's speech, 397;
"the contingent expenses of the two Houses of Congress, 398;
increased expense of collecting the duties on imports," 398;
facts to be gleaned from these statements, 398.

_Expense of the Navy._--The naval policy of the United States a
question of party division from the origin of parties, 452;
the policy of a great navy developed with great vigor under Mr.
Tyler, 452;
recommendations of the new Secretary, 452;
remarks of Mr. Calhoun, 452;
"aggregate expense of the British navy in 1840, 452;
its force, 453; force of our navy, 453;
the great increase proposed in the navy over last year is at the
head of the objects of retrenchment, 453;
expenses of the government of three classes, 453;
estimates," 453;
remarks of Mr. Woodbury, 454;
extract, 454;
present naval establishment a war rate, 455;
limitations of the act of 1806, 455;
increase carried, 455;
remarks of Mr. Benton, 456.

"The attempt made in 1822 to limit and fix a naval peace
establishment, 456;
actual state of the navy in 1841 and 1842, 456;
extract from Bayard's report, 456;
examine the plan in its parts, and see the enormity of its
proportions, 457;
the cost of each gun afloat, and the number of men to work it,
457;
I am asked how I get at these $9,000 cost for each gun afloat,
458;
correctness of the statement, 458;
Clay's resolutions, 459;
it is an obligation of imperious duty on Congress to arrest the
present state of things, to turn back the establishment to
what it was a year ago," 459.

Remarks of Mr. Merriweather, 482;
no hostility to the service led to a desire to reduce the pay of
the navy, 482;
pay at different periods, 482, 483;
fifty thousand dollars required to defray the expenses of
court-martials the present year, 483;
further points on which reduction can be made, stated, 484.

Annual appropriation considered, 507;
amendment moved to reduce number of master-mates, 507;
remarks of Cave Johnson, 507;
"should have a peace establishment for the navy as well as the
army, 507;
table of the British service, 507;
expenditures, 508;
squadrons," 508.

Principle of a naval force establishment nowhere developed, 508;
the amount of danger must be considered to measure the amount of
a naval peace establishment, 508;
remarks of Mr. Hamlin on abuses in the navy, 509;
enormous increase in the number of officers of the navy, 509;
items of extravagance, 509;
Hale's remarks on the abuses in the navy expenditures, and the
irresponsibility of officers, 509;
excess of navy-yards, 509;
no results attended the movement, 509.
_See Index_, vol. I.

"_Experiment_," the staple word of distress oratory, 16.

_Explosion of the Great Gun._--Excursion on board the Princeton,
567;
the company, 567;
the day, 567;
the guns of the vessel, 567;
trip down the Potomac, 567;
the firing, 568;
the President called back as he was about to witness it, 568;
the explosion, 568;
the fatal results, 568;
the effect on Col. Benton of the concussion, 569.

F

FEATHERSTONHAUGH, Mr., remarks on the results of the Ashburton
Treaty, 423.

FICKLIN, ORLANDO, on the appropriation for the military academy,
468.

FILLMORE, MILLARD, on the veto of the provisional tariff, 415;
candidate for Vice-President, 722;
elected, 723;
his inauguration as President, 767;
first official act, 767;
public funeral of Gen. Taylor, 763.

_Florida Armed Occupation Bill._--Armed occupation, with land to the
occupant, is the true way of settling and holding a conquered
country, 167;
fashion to depreciate the services of the troops in Florida, 168;
besides their military labors, our troops have done an immensity
of service of a different kind, 168;
the military have done their duty, and deserved well of their
country, 169;
the massacre on the banks of the Calvosahatchee, 169;
the plan of Congress has been tried and ended disastrously, 169;
we have to choose between granting the means, or doing nothing,
170;
Florida cannot be abandoned, 170;
it is the armed settler alone whose presence announces dominion,
170;
this is the most efficient remedy, 171;
the peninsula is a desolation, 171.

_Florida Indian War._--See _Indian War_.

_Florida and Iowa_, admission of, 660;
admitted by a single bill, 660;
arose from the antagonistic provisions on the subject of Slavery,
660;
free and slave States thus numerically even, 660.
_See Index_, vol. I.

_Foreign Missions, Reduction of._--Moved to strike from the
appropriation bill the salaries of some missions, 305;
question how far the House had a right to interfere with these
missions, and control them by withholding compensation, 305;
"the appointment of ministers gives them certain vested rights,"
305;
idea of vested rights scouted, 306;
time to inquire into their propriety when voting the salaries,
306;
remarks of Mr. Ingersoll, 306;
resolution of Mr. Adams to reduce the expenditures by reducing
the number of ministers, 306;
the subject should be pursued, and the object accomplished, 306;
many branches belong to the inquiry, 306.

FORSYTH, JOHN, Secretary of State, 9;
decease of, 659;
career of honor, 659;
connection with Crawford, 659;
rank as a debater, 659;
in social life, 659.

FORWARD, WALTER, Secretary of the Treasury, 356.

FRANKLIN, WALTER S., elected Clerk, 29.

FRAZER, Mr., on the nomination of Van Buren, 593.

FRELINGHUYSEN, THEODORE, candidate for the Vice-Presidency in 1844,
625.

FRENCH, B. B., chosen Clerk of the House, 656;
chosen clerk, 703.

FREMONT, JOHN C.--His first expedition to the Rocky Mountains, 478;
how it came about, 478;
Senator Linn moves the printing of the report of this expedition,
478;
remarks upon the objects and results of the expedition 478-479.

_Second Expedition._--Its grand results, 579;
not an offspring of the Government, 579;
countermanded after it began, 579;
his wife retains the countermanding order, and the expedition goes
forward, 579;
her conduct approved by her father, 579;
occasion of countermanding the expedition, 579;
object of the expedition, 580;
maps up to that time, 580;
crossing the mountains, 580;
progress south, 581;
discoveries, 581;
return of Fremont, 581.

_Third Expedition._--When commenced, 688;
the line of observation, 688;
start for Oregon, 689;
overtaken by two men, 689;
a messenger from the Government, 689;
turns towards California, 689;
the night of the interview, 690;
attack of savages, 690;
succeeding events, 690;
arrival in the Valley of Sacramento, 691;
three great operations going on, 691;
deputation of American settlers, 691;
approach of Castro, 691;
California secured as an independent country, 691;
efforts of Great Britain to secure the country, 692;
how the prize escaped them, 692;
remarks, 692.

_Court Martialled._--Brought home a prisoner from his third
expedition, 715;
speech of Lieut. Emory, 715;
his offence in the eyes of officers of the army, 716;
specifications of mutiny, 716;
justice to Gen. Kearney, 716;
the gravamen of the charge, 717;
proof of his innocence derived from the journals of Kearney's
officers, 717;
statement of Carson, 718;
result of the trial, 718;
course of the President, 719;
resignation of Fremont, 719.

_Fourth Expedition._--Undertaken at his own expense, 719;
the line of exploration, 719;
the march on foot, 719;
error of the guide, 720;
terrors of their situation, 720;
extricated by the aid of Indians, 720;
a new outfit obtained, 721;
march, 721;
meeting hostile Indians, 721;
subsequent explorations, 721.

G

GALLATIN, ALBERT, on the quantity of gold and silver in Europe and
America, 388.
_See Index_, vol. I.

GARDINER, Mr., killed on board the Princeton, 568.

GILMER, THOMAS W., against the bill for the relief of Mrs. Harrison,
258;
against the abrogation of the compromise, 309;
killed on board the Princeton, 568;
his letter relative to Texas, 581.

GILPIN, HENRY D., Attorney General, 9.

GIRARD, STEPHEN, memorial of, 181.

_Globe Newspaper superseded._--A visit to Mr. Polk, 651;
condition on which he could receive the vote of South Carolina,
651;
Mr. Blair and the Globe were to be given up, 651;
to whom obnoxious, 651;
position of Mr. Tyler, 651;
withdraws, 651;
reason, 651;
$50,000 transferred from a bank in Philadelphia to a village bank
in the interior of Pennsylvania, 651;
letters to Andrew Jackson Donnelson, 651;
proposition of Mr. Polk to Mr. Blair, 652;
letter of General Jackson to Mr. Blair, 652;
the Globe sold, 654;
letter of Mr. Van Buren to Mr. Rives, 654;
payment for the Globe, 655;
_see Index_, vol. I.

GOUGE, WILLIAM, on the quantity of gold and silver, 389.

GRAHAM, WILLIAM A., Secretary of the Navy, 768.

GRUNDY, FELIX, Attorney-General, 9.

GRANGER, FRANCIS, Postmaster General, 209;
on the course of Mr. Cushing, 514.

H

HALE, JOHN P., on abuses in the navy, 509;
on the home squadron, 575-576.

HALL, NATHAN K., Postmaster General, 768.

HAMLIN, HANNIBAL, on abuses in the navy, 509.

HANNEGAN, EDWARD A., on the Oregon question, 663-664.

HARALSON, H. A., on the appropriation for the military academy, 468.

HARRISON, WILLIAM H., candidate for the Presidency, 204;
meeting of the Senate, 209;
oath administered to the Vice-President, 209;
scene in the chamber, 209;
the eastern portico, 209;
the inaugural, 209;
the oath administered, 209;
cabinet nominations confirmed, 209;
proclamation convoking an extra session of Congress, 209;
sickness of Harrison, 210;
death, 210;
character, 210;
public manifestations, 210;
origin of the family, 210;
Benton's remarks on Harrison, 210;
his fidelity to public trust, 216.

HARRISON, Mrs., widow of President H.--Bill for the relief of,
introduced, 257;
to indemnify the President for his expenses in the Presidential
election, and in removing to the seat of government, 257;
words of the bill, 257;
motives on which the bill had been founded, explained by J. Q.
Adams, 258;
vehement opposition to the principle of the bill, 258;
reasons of Mr. Payne, of Ala., for voting against the bill, 258;
a precedent which might hereafter be strained and tortured, 259;
remarks of Mr. Underwood, 259;
passage of the bill in the House, 259.

In the Senate, remarks of Mr. Calhoun on the bill, 259,
"this is no new thing, 260;
the enormous pension-list of the government, 260;
no part of the constitution authorizes such an appropriation,"
260;
remarks of Senator Woodbury, 260;
first application of a pension to a civil officer likely to
succeed, 260;
protest against any legislation based upon our sympathies, 260;
claim did not come from the family of General Harrison, but from
persons who had advanced money for the purposes stated in
the bill, 260;
moved to recommit the bill, 260;
amendments proposed so as to secure the money to the widow, 260;
motion to recommit lost, 261;
Benton's remarks in reply to the argument founded on the alleged
poverty of General Harrison, 261;
the poverty of Jefferson, Monroe, Madison, 261;
bill passed, 262.

Speech of Senator Benton on the bill, 262;
a bill to make a grant of money, 262;
first case of the kind on the statute-book, 262;
it was said at the last session that a new set of books was to be
opened, 263;
the federal constitution differs fundamentally from those of the
States, 263;
it is said this is a payment in hand, 263;
by the constitution, the persons who fill offices are to receive a
compensation for their services, 264;
it is in vain to look to general clauses of the constitution, 264;
gentlemen refuse to commit themselves on the record, 265.

HAYNE, ROBERT Y., his gifts, 186;
appearance, 186;
mental qualities, 186;
talents, 186;
exemplary morals, 186;
habits, 186;
position in South Carolina, 187;
marriage, 187;
becomes member of Congress, 187;
associates, 187;
estimate put upon him, 187;
his debate with Webster, 187;
remarks, 187;
assistance of Mr. Calhoun, 188;
retires from the Senate, 188;
subsequent occupation, 188.
_See Index_, vol. I.

HAYWOOD, WILLIAM H., on the Oregon question, 662.

HENSHAW, DAVID, nomination rejected in the Senate, 630.

HICKMAN, Mr., on the nomination of Van Buren, 592.

_Home Squadron and Aid to Private Steam Lines._--Reasons for the
home squadron of Great Britain, 271;
United States has no need of a home squadron, 271;
Great Britain had one, therefore we must, 271;
bill passed, 271;
reasons given for it, 271;
appropriation made in gross, 272;
objected to, 272;
contrary to democratic practice, which required specific
appropriations, 272;
an increase of the navy in disguise, 272;
comparative statement of expenses of the navy, 272;
statement of the French and British navies, 273;
the railroad and electric telegraph have opened a new era in
defensive war, 273;
bill passed in the house almost unanimously, 273;
recommendation relative to ocean steamers, 273;
a useless waste of money, 273.

Resolution to inquire into the origin, use and expense of the
home squadron, 575;
remarks of Mr. Hale, 575;
"indebted to the present administration for a home squadron, 575;
said to be necessary for protecting the coasting trade, 575;
we need not such a navy as Great Britain," 575;
remarks of Mr. J. Ingersoll, 575;
in favor of retrenchment and economy, but the process ought to
begin in the civil and diplomatic department, 575;
the army and the navy the two great objects of wasteful
expenditure, 575;
reply of Mr. Hale to those who, without offering a word in favor
of this domestic squadron, were endeavoring to keep it up,
576;
no result followed, 576;
remarks of Mr. Dean on this item in the appropriation bill, 577;
more ships built and building than can be used, and three times
as many officers as can be employed, 577;
remarks of Mr. McKay, 577;
the illegality and wastefulness admitted, 577;
but the money has been earned by work and labor, 577;
the abuse sanctioned, 577;
a powerful combined interest pushes forward an augmented navy
without regard to any object but its own interest, 577.

_Hour Rule in the House._--Institution of, 247;
permanent injury done in order to get rid of temporary annoyance,
247;
such an anomaly never seen in a deliberative assembly, 248;
the English remedy for license in debate, 248;
the first instance of enforcing this new rule, 248;
described, 248;
same thing undertaken in the Senate, 249;
reason, 249;
numerous amendments offered to bills, 249;
the opposition speakers, 249;
Clay's remark on the anxiety of the country for action, 250;
sharp reply of Calhoun, 250;
a succession of contradictory asseverations, 250;
question asked of Clay if he meant to apply to the Senate the "gag
law," 251;
resolution of the democratic Senators, 251;
taunts of Calhoun, 251;
determination of Clay, 251;
remarks of Senator Linn, 252;
subject dropped and revived again, 252.

Another measure to be introduced, 252;
the previous question, 253;
issue made up, to introduce and to oppose it, 253;
remarks of Mr. Benton on the effect of the previous question, 253;
the previous question annihilates legislation, 254;
the previous question and the old sedition law are measures of the
same character, 254;
change of tone in Mr. Clay, 255;
intimation of going into executive session, 255;
hesitation, 255;
friends of the measure dared by Mr. Calhoun, 255;
remarks of Senator Linn on the words of Mr. Clay, 256;
executive session, 256;
an explanation by Mr. Calhoun relative to the declaration of war,
in 1812, 256;
further taunts, 257;
loan bill taken up, 257.

HUBBARD, SAMUEL D., Postmaster General, 768.

HUNTER, R. M. T., elected Speaker, 160.

HUNTINGTON, JABEZ W., on making salt free of duty, 315.

I

_Independent Treasury._--The crowning measure of the extra session,
39;
vehement opposition, 39;
the divorce of bank and state, 39;
attitude of Mr. Calhoun, 40;
taunts upon him, 40;
his reply, 40;
proposes to discontinue the use of bank paper in the receipts and
disbursements of the government, 40;
his remarks, 40;
divorce of bank and state treated as a divorce of the bank from
the people, 41;
Webster's main argument for a bank, 41;
regulator of the currency and the domestic exchanges, 41;
the founders of the bank never thought of such arguments for its
establishment, 41;
the discussion, 41;
remarks, 42.

Consists of two distinct parts, 124;
1st, keeping the public money--2d, the hard money currency in
which they were to be paid, 124;
a bill reported, 124;
hard money section added to the bill, 124;
struck out, 124;
bill opposed by Mr. Calhoun, 124;
reasons, 124;
passed the Senate and lost in the House, 125.

Repeal of, 219;
No. 1 in the list of bills, 219;
no substitute provided, 219;
motion to exclude the bank of the U.S., 220; vote, 220;
speech of Senator Benton, 220;
"artifices used against the independent treasury," 220;
French explanation of the vote, 221;
artifices exposed, 221;
what constitutes the independent treasury system, 221;
the advocate of British systems, 222;
history of our fiscal agents, 222;
proved by experience to be the safest, cheapest, and best mode of
collecting, keeping, and disbursing the revenue, 223;
no other system provided in its place, 223;
who demands the repeal of this system, 224;
this system was established by the will of the people, 225;
the spirit which pursues the measure, 225;
the deposits may go to the bank of the United States, 226;
laudations of Biddle, 227;
the State charter made no difference in the character or
management of the bank, 227;
the conduct of those who refused a re-charter was wise and
prudent, 228;
further remarks, 228.

Good effects of a gold and silver currency during the war, 726;
Government bills above par and every loan taken at a premium, 726;
triumph of the gold currency, 726.

_Indian War in Florida._--One of the most troublesome, expensive,
and unmanageable of Indian wars, 70;
its continuance and cost, 70;
its origin, 70;
one of flagrant and cruel aggression on the part of the Indians,
70;
the murder by a party under Osceola, 70;
other massacres, 70;
escape of a soldier of Dade's command, 70;
the struggle, 70;
the slaughter, 71;
misrepresentation of the origin and conduct of the war, 72;
speech of Mr. Benton, 72.

Charged that a fraud was committed on the Indians in the treaty
negotiated with them for their removal, 72;
affixed to the Payne's Landing treaty, 72;
afterwards transferred to the Fort Gibson treaty, 72;
the posts, 72, 73;
pretexts and excuses of the Indians for not removing, 73;
their real object, 73;
the agreement with the Creeks, 73;
article four of the treaty, 73;
extract from the treaty at Fort Gibson, 74;
how stands the accusation? 74;
every thing was done that was stipulated for, done by the persons
who were to do it, and done in the exact manner agreed upon,
74;
proved that no fraud was practised upon the Indians, 75;
moderation with which the United States acted, 75;
statement of Lieut. Harris, 75;
hostile proceedings not expected by the Government, 75;
the prime mover in all this mischief, 76;
our sympathies particularly invoked for him, 76;
statements tending to disparage the troops, answered, 76;
great error and great injustice in these imputations, 76;
reason why the same feats are not performed in Florida as in
Canada, 77;
eight months in the year military exertions are impossible, 77;
conduct of the army in Florida, 77;
charges of inefficiency against Gen. Jesup, 78;
of imbecility, 78;
with how much truth and justice is this charge made? 78;
his vindication, 78;
a specific accusation against the honor of this officer, 79;
justification of the seizure of Osceola, 79;
he had broken his parole, 79;
he had violated an order in coming in, with a view to return to
the hostiles, 79;
he had broken a truce, 79;
the expediency of having detained him, 80;
complaint of the length of time Gen. Jesup has consumed without
bringing the war to a conclusion, 80;
his essential policy, 81;
the little said to be expected by his large force, 81;
false information given to the Indians, 81;
remarks respecting his predecessors, 81;
the expenses of the war, 82;
concluding remarks, 82.

INGERSOLL, CHARLES J., on the administration in the McLeod case,
287;
moves the reduction of certain missions, 305;
on the repeal of the compromise tariff, 310;
on the home squadron, 575.

_Iowa and Florida_, admission of, 660.

J

JACKSON, GEN., _refunding his fine_.--Fined at New Orleans in the
winter of 1814-'15 for contempt of court, 499;
paid under protest, 499;
Senator Linn brings in a bill for refunding the fine, 499;
letter of Gen. Jackson to him on receiving notice of the bill,
500;
Jackson would only receive it on the ground of an illegal
exaction, 500;
the recourse to martial law vindicated, 500;
the measures could not be relaxed which a sense of danger had
dictated, 501;
reasons given at the time against the fine, 501;
proceedings of the court, 502;
bill passed both Houses, 502.
_See Index_, vol. I.

JEFFERSON, THOMAs, his views on the surrender of fugitive
criminals, 445.
_See Index_, vol. I.

JESUP, GEN., conduct of, the Florida war, 78.

JOHNSON, R. M., a candidate for the Vice-Presidency, 204.

JOHNSON, CAVE, on the appropriation for the military academy, 567;
on naval expenditures, 507;
Postmaster General, 650.

JOHNSON, REVERDY, on the Oregon question, 665;
Attorney General, 737.

JONES, JOHN W., candidate for Speaker, 160;
chosen Speaker, 565.

K

KENDALL, AMOS, Postmaster General, 9.

KENNEDY, JOHN P., Secretary of the Navy, 768.

KENNON, COMMODORE, killed on board the Princeton, 568.

KING, THOMAS B., on the previous question, 253;
reports a bill for a home squadron, 271;
on exempting salt from duty, 315;
on the committee on the bank bill, 335.

L

LEGARE, HUGH S., Attorney General, 356.

LINN, LOUIS F., opposition to the hour rule, 252, 256;
on the disturbance in the Senate galleries, 352;
in favor of the Oregon settlement bill, 472.

Remarks on his decease by Senator Benton, 485;
birth, 485;
parentage, 485;
education, 485;
honors, 484;
character, 486;
talents, 486;
amiable qualities, 486;
character in party times, 486;
remarks of Senator Crittenden, 487;
introduces a bill to refund the fine of Gen. Jackson, 500.

_London Bankers' Circular._--On assumption of State debts, 171.

M

MADISON, JAMES, on the dangers to the Union, 132;
his views on the subject of disunion, 786.

MAGOFFIN, JAMES, conducts Gen. Kearney and troops to New Mexico,
683.

MALLORY, FRANCIS, on the coast survey, 488.

MANGUM, WILLIE P., opposes the repeal of the pension act of 1837,
266.

_Map of_ the original North-eastern boundary, 423.

MARCY, WILLIAM L., Secretary of War, 650;
answer to the interrogatories of an anti-slavery meeting, 775.

MASON, JOHN G., Secretary of the Navy, 569;
Attorney General, 650.

MAXEY, VIRGIL, killed on board the Princeton, 568.

MCDOWELL, JAMES, remarks on the decease of John Quincy Adams, 708.

MCDUFFIE, JAMES, on the Oregon country, 471.

MCKAY, JAMES J., on the appropriation for the home squadron, 272;
on the appropriation for the military academy, 467.

MCKEON, JOHN, on the Chinese Mission, 511.

MCKINLEY, JOHN, Judge of the Supreme Court, 9.

MCLEAN, JOHN, declines the secretaryship of war, 356.

MCLEOD, the case of, 282.

MEREDITH, WILLIAM M., Secretary of the Treasury, 737.

MERRICK, WILLIAM D., on the disturbance in the Senate gallery, 352.

MERRIWEATHER, JAMES A., on reduction of navy pay and expenses, 482;
on the Chinese mission, 511.

_Military Department._--The progress of expenses of the army, 404;
comparative view presented by Mr. Calhoun, 404;
extract, 404;
cost of each man, at different periods, in the service, 405;
Adams proposes retrenchment in the army and navy, 405;
extract, 405.

_Military Academy._--The instincts of the people have been against
this academy ever since it took its present form, 466;
all efforts to abolish it are instantly met by Washington's
recommendation of it, 466;
Washington never saw such an institution as shelters under his
name, 466;
attack upon the institution by moving to strike out the
appropriation for its support, 467;
remarks of Mr. McKay in defence of it, 467;
points shown by him, 467;
remarks of Mr. Johnson against the bill, 467;
remarks of Mr. Haralson in favor, 468;
remarks of Mr. Ficklin against it, 468;
Mr. Black proposes an amendment that the cadets be compelled to
serve ten years, 468.
_See Index_, vol. I.

MILLER, Mr., moves the nomination of Van Buren, 592.

_Missouri Compromise._--Message of President Polk, 712.

MORTON, MARCUS, on the adoption of the two-thirds rule in the
democratic convention, 591.

MUTINY on board the brig Somers.
_See Somers._

N

NAPOLEON, his ideas of the art of war, 572.

_Naval Academy._--Remarks, 571;
instructions of Virginia to her Senators in 1799, 572;
the Great Emperor's idea of the whole art of war, 572;
remark of Alison the historian, 573;
the lesson taught by the war of 1812, 573;
officers now made in schools, whether they have any vocation for
the service or not, 573;
the finest naval officers the world over saw were bred in the
merchant service, 574;
no naval victory of Great Britain over France had the least effect
on the war, 574;
commerce wants no protection from men-of-war, except from
piratical nations, 574.

_Naval Pension System._--Annual bill for these pensions on its
passage, 265;
abuse introduced by the act of 1837, 265;
four things done by that act, 265;
absorbed and bankrupted the fund, 266;
manner of the passage of this act, 266;
its power to resist correction, 266;
amendment moved to repeal the act of 1837, 266;
debate, 266;
lost, 267;
character of the vote, 267;
difference in the two parties always the same without regard to
their name, 267.

Calhoun's remarks on confining all future pensioners to the act of
1800, &c., 267;
"the act of 1837 was not only inexpedient, but something much
worse, 267;
it is proposed to introduce new and extraordinary principles into
our pension list, 268;
object of the amendment to correct a monstrous abuse," 268;
remarks of Mr. Pierce on the abuses to which the pension law gave
rise, 168.

Adams asks who were the authors of the act of 1837, 269;
reply of Mr. Thomas, 269;
manner in which the bill passed the House, 269;
losses sustained by the action of the House, 270;
the debates show in what manner legislation can be carried on
under the silencing process of the previous question, 270;
no branch of the public service requires the reforming and
retrenching hand of Congress more than the naval, 270;
its cost, 270;
fallen chiefly under the management of members from the sea-coast,
270;
compared with Great Britain, 271.

NELSON, JOHN, Attorney General, 569.

NILES, JOHN M., on the surrender of the deposits, 36.

_North and South._--The working of the government on the two great
Atlantic sections, 131;
complained of as unequal and oppressive, 131;
history of the complaint, 131;
commercial conventions at Augusta and Charleston, 131;
distribution of foreign imports before the Revolutionary war, 131;
in 1821, 131;
the difference, 131;
effects, 132;
points of complaint, 131;
foundation for them, 132;
remark of Madison, 132;
remedy proposed by the conventions, 133;
the point on which Southern discontent arose, 133;
separation as a remedy, 133.

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_Oregon._--Carrying and planting the Anglo-Saxon race on the shores
of the Pacific took place at this time, 468;
an act of the people going forward without government aid or
countenance, 469;
the action of the government was to endanger our title, 469;
first step of the treaty of joint occupation in 1818, 469;
the second false step, the extension of the treaty, 469;
third blunder, in omitting to settle it in the Ashburton treaty,
469;
fourth blunder, the recommendations of President Tyler to
discountenance emigration by withholding land from the
emigrants, 469;
the people saved the title thus endangered, 469;
a thousand emigrants in 1842, 469;
government attempts to discourage and Western members to encourage
it, 469;
Senator Linn introduces a bill for the purpose, 469;
its provisions, 469;
remarks, 470;
McDuffie's remarks to show the worthlessness of the country, 471;
Calhoun opposes it on the ground of infractions of the treaty and
danger of war--the difficulty and danger of defending a
possession so remote, 471;
his course when Secretary of War, 472.

Senator Linn's remarks in reply, 472;
the effect of temporizing in Maine, 473;
losses of our citizens by ravages of Indians, 473;
backwardness to protect our own citizens contrasted with the
readiness to expend untold amounts to protect our citizens
engaged in foreign commerce, or to guard the freedom of the
African negro, 473;
it is asked, why not give notice to terminate the treaty? 474.

Remarks of Mr. Benton on the clause allotting land, 474;
actual colonization going on at Columbia river, attended by every
circumstance that indicated ownership and the design of a
permanent settlement, 474;
our title, 475;
answer of the President to the call for the "informal conferences"
which had taken place on the subject, 476;
the north bank of the Columbia river, the object of the British,
476;
bill passed, 477;
bill sent to the House, 477;
the effect intended to encourage settlers produced, 477;
a colony planted and grew up, 477;
it saved the territory, 477.

All agree that the title is in the United States, 479;
a division on the point of giving offence to England by granting
the land to our settlers, 479;
has she a right to take offence? 479;
the fear of Great Britain is pressed upon us at the same time her
pacific disposition is enforced and insisted on, 480;
remarks of Ashburton, showing a want of inclination in the British
Government to settle the Creole case, 480;
the objection of distance examined, 481;
also that of expense examined, 481;
another objection, the land clause, 481;
time is invoked as the agent which is to help us, 481;
time and negotiation have been bad agents for us in our
controversies with Great Britain, 482.

Conventions of 1818 and 1828 provided for the joint occupation
of the countries, 624;
impropriety of such engagements, 624;
motion to give notice to terminate the joint occupation, 625;
arguments in opposition, 625;
the talk of war alarmed the commercial interest, and
looked upon the delivery of the notice as the signal for a
disastrous depression of foreign trade, 625;
motion for the notice lost, 625;
omitted in the Ashburton treaty, 660;
references to the subject, 660;
taken up by Mr. Calhoun, and conducted in the only safe way of
conducting negotiations, 661;
the negotiations come to a stand, 661;
declaration of the President's message, 661;
feeling in England, 661;
negotiations recommended by us as a means of avoiding war, 662;
the offer of 49°;
withdrawn, 662;
meeting of Congress and debate on the subject, 662.

Speech of Mr. Hayward on the line of 49° as the correct line, 662;
"the course pursued by the President in his offer, 662;
nothing improper in his repeating it, 662;
under no necessity to refuse the line of 49° if offered," 663;
his speech expressive of the sentiments of the President, 663;
a demand made of him if he expressed the views of the President,
663;
a call to order, 664;
remarks on the President's position from the extreme members,
665;
advantages of concurring in the line of 49° if offered, 665;
the merits of the question discussed, 666.

Speech of Mr. Benton, 667;
"the true extent and nature of our territorial claims beyond the
Rocky Mountains," 667;
the assumption that we have a dividing line with Russia is a great
mistake, 667;
circumstances of the convention of 1824, 667;
Great Britain and ourselves treated separately with Russia and
with each other, 668;
we proposed that fifty-four forty should be the northern
boundary for Great Britain, 668;
the line of Utrecht, 669;
items of testimony, 669, 670;
_note_, containing a letter of Edward Everett, 671;
Frazer's River, 671;
Harmon's Journal, 671;
New Caledonia, 671;
ground taken by Mr. Monroe, 672;
their action, 672;
notice to terminate the joint occupation voted, 673;
amended in the Senate, 674;
character of the vote, 674.

Negotiations renewed, 674;
49° offered by England, 674;
quandary of the administration, 674;
advice of the Senate asked, 674;
a message with a _projet_ of a treaty, sent in upon the advice of
Senator Benton, 675;
extract, 675;
treaty or no treaty depended on the Senate, 676;
advice of the Senate given in favor of 49°, 676;
treaty sent in, 676;
ratified, 667;
daily attack of the organ upon the Senators who were accomplishing
the wishes of the President, 676;
Mr. Benton assailed, 677;
remarks, 677.

On the bill for the Oregon territorial government, Mr. Calhoun
makes trial of his new doctrine, 711;
proofs of his support of the Missouri Compromise, 711;
motion of Mr. Hale, 711;
motion of Mr. Douglas, 711;
vote of Mr. Calhoun on it, 711;
bill passes both Houses, 712;
excitement of Mr. Calhoun, 712;
invocation to disunion, 712;
special message on the slavery agitation, 712;
extract, 712.--_See slavery agitation._

OSCEOLA, capture of, 79.

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_Pairing off_, when first exhibited, 178;
a breach of the rules of the House, 178;
violation of the constitution, 178;
rebuked by J. Q. Adams, 178;
now a common practice, 178;
the early practice, 178;
leave always asked and obtained, 178.

PALMERSTON, LORD, his boldness, 285.

_Paper Money Payments._--Crisis in the struggle between paper money
and gold, 406;
recourse had to treasury notes reissuable, 406;
the government paid two-thirds in these notes and one-third in
specie, 406;
Mr. Benton determines to resist, 406;
has protested a check drawn for compensation for a few days as
Senator, 406;
his speech, 406;
"time come when every citizen will have to decide for himself,
407;
Hampden's resistance of the payment of ship money, 407;
there is no dispute about the fact, and the case is neither a
first nor a solitary one, 407;
a war upon the currency of the constitution has been going on for
many years, 408;
the remedy of the present disgraceful state of things is the point
now to be attended to, 408;
here is a forced payment of paper, money, 408;"
offers a resolution, 408.

PAYNE, Mr., against the bill for the relief of Mrs. Harrison, 258.

PICKENS, F. W., on the repeal of the compromise tariff, 310.

PIERCE, FRANKLIN, on the bill for the relief of Mrs. Harrison, 260;
on the abuses of the Pension Act, 268.

POINSETT, JOEL R., Secretary at War, 9.

POLK, JAMES K., chosen Speaker of the House, 29;
elected President, 625.

_Administration_, the longest address of the kind yet delivered,
649;
our title to Oregon asserted as clear and indisputable, 649;
the return voice from London equally positive on the other side,
650;
the cabinet, 650;
neither Mr. Calhoun nor any of his friends would take office under
the administration, 650;
circumstances affecting the formation of the cabinet, 650;
message, 657;
Texas the leading topic, 657;
position of Mexico and the United States, 657;
causes of war against Mexico from injuries to our citizens, 657;
treaty of indemnity never complied with, 658;
the mission to Mexico, and the consequences of its failure, 658.

Negotiations relative to Oregon had come to a dead stand, 658;
state of the case, 658;
the finances and public debt, 658;
revision of the tariff recommended, 659;
revenue the object and protection to home industry the incident,
659.

Message at second session of the twenty-ninth Congress, 677;
greatly occupied with the Mexican war, 677;
the real beginning of the war, 678;
the conquered provinces governed under the law of nations, 678;
Mr. Benton's plan of conducting the war adopted, 678;
to carry the war straight to the city of Mexico, 678;
a higher rank than Major-General required to execute this plan,
678;
negotiation a part of the plan, 678;
Lieutenant-Generalship proposed, 678;
defeated in the Senate by Marcy, Walker, and Buchanan, 679;
overrules his cabinet relative to the conduct of the war with
Mexico, 693.

His message at first session of the thirteenth Congress, 703;
gratifying intelligence to communicate, 703;
commissioner sent with the army, 704;
operations of a female to secure the absorption of Mexico and the
assumption of her debts, 704;
extract from the message relative thereto, 704;
do. relative to the absorption of a part of Mexico, 704;
return to the line rejected from the message at a former session,
705;
reason, 705;
a wish of the slave interest, 705;
expenses of the government, 705;
the good working of the independent treasury system, 705;
special message on the slavery agitation, 712;
extract, 712.

Last message, 724;
extract relative to the Mexican war, 724;
remarks, 724;
extension of the Missouri Compromise recommended, 724;
various parties on the subject, 725;
finances, 725;
expenditures, 725;
decease of, 737;
first President put on the people without previous indication,
737;
faults of the administration, the faults of his cabinet, 737;
his will, 738;
the Mexican war, 738;
acquisition of Mexico, 738.

PORTER, ALEXANDER.--Decease of, 569;
eulogium by Col. Benton, 569;
early life, 569;
lawyer in lower Mississippi, 570;
Senator, 570;
his example, 570;
remarks, 571.

PORTER, COMMODORE.--Decease of, 491;
his career--an illustration of the benefits of the cruising
system, 491;
ardor for the service, 492;
the Essex frigate, 492;
her cruise towards the Grand Banks, 492;
capture of the Alert, 492;
cruise to Brazil, 493;
cruise in the Pacific Ocean, 493;
Valparaiso, 493;
prizes taken, 494, 495, 496;
capture of the Essex, 497;
end of the cruise, 498;
incidents of Porter's personal history, 498;
resignation, 498;
cause, 498;
features of his character, 499.

PORTER, JAMES MADISON.--Secretary at war, 579.

_Presidency._--Bold intrigue for. _See Texas annexation._

_Presidential election of 1840._--The candidates, 204;
availability sought for by the opposition, 204;
Clay not available, 204;
submits himself to a convention, 204;
rule of the convention, 204;
the process, 204;
an embittered contest foreseen, 205;
influence of the money power, 205;
mode of operating, 205;
inducements addressed to the people, 205;
mass conventions, 205;
one at Dayton, Ohio, 205;
description, 206;
election carried by storm, 206;
result, 206;
belief of fraudulent votes, 207.

_of 1844._--The candidates, 625;
the votes, 625;
the popular vote, 625;
causes of the difference in the popular vote, 626;
aid of Silas Wright, 626;
aid from the withdrawal of Mr. Tyler, 626.

_of 1848._--Proceedings of the Baltimore convention, 722;
difficulties in the convention, 722;
the candidates, 722;
a third convention at Buffalo, 723;
three principles laid down, 723;
remarks on the unfortunate acceptance of Van Buren, 723;
result, 723;
its moral, 724.

_Public Lands._--New States bound by contract not to interfere with
the primary disposition of the public lands, nor to tax them
while remaining unsold, nor for five years thereafter, 125.

_The Graduation Bill_, 126;
proposed for twelve years, 126;
reduction of price the principal feature, 126;
favorable auspices under which the bill comes, 126;
its original provisions, 126;
a measure emphatically for the benefit of the agricultural
interest, 126;
bill passed in the Senate and failed in the House, 126.

Pre-emptive system, 127;
to secure the privilege of first purchase to the settler on any
lands, 127;
moved to exclude unnaturalized foreigners from its benefits, 127;
remarks of Senator Benton, 127;
it proposes to make a distinction between aliens and citizens in
the acquisition of property, 127;
who are the aliens it was proposed to affect, 127;
motion rejected, 127;
bill passed, 127.

_Taxation of Public Land when sold._--Early sales on credit, 127;
time of exemption from taxation, 128;
change in 1821 to the cash system, 128;
modifications proposed, 128;
bill passed the Senate, 128.

PRESTON, WILLIAM, on the annexation of Texas, 94;
on the slavery resolutions, 139.

PRESTON, WILLIAM B., Secretary of the Navy, 737.

_Princeton Steamship_, explosion of her gun. (See explosion.)

PROFFIT, GEORGE H., His nomination rejected in the Senate 630.

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_Recess Committees, refusal of the House to allow._--The
proposition, 304;
adopted, 304;
reconsideration moved, 304;
carried, 304;
laid on the table, 304;
a modification attempted, 304;
question raised on the words "to sit during recess," 305;
no warrant found in the constitution, 305;
practical reasons against it, 305;
laid on the table finally, 305.

_Revolt in Canada._--Its commencement, 276;
and progress, 276;
excitement on the border line, 276;
steps taken by the President, 277;
the fidelity and sternness with which all these lawless
expeditions were suppressed by Van Buren, 277;
he discharged all the duties required, 277;
neutral relations preserved in the most trying circumstances,
278;
whole affair over, but the difficulty revived by an unexpected
circumstance, 278;
stand made by insurgents on Navy Island, 278;
supplies carried by a small steamboat, 278;
attacked and destroyed when moored to the American shore, 278;
affidavit of the captain, 278;
report of the British officer, 279;
adds the crimes of impressment and abduction to all the other
enormities, 279;
state of the parties reversed, 279;
part of the United States now to complain, 279;
communication of Mr. Forsyth to Mr. Fox, 279;
message of President Van Buren to Congress, 279;
extracts, 279;
feeling in Congress, 280;
action of Congress, 280;
British government refrains from assuming the act, 280;
extract from Capt. Drew's report, 280;
reply of McNab to the letter of District Attorney Rogers, 280;
remarks of Mr. Fillmore on the reading of the letter, 281;
answer to our demand for redress, 281;
at near the close of Van Buren's administration the British
government had not assumed the act of Capt. Drew, and had
not answered for that act, 281;
inquiries in the House of Commons relative to it, 282;
an important event, 282;
arrest of McLeod, 282;
a demand from the British Minister for his release, 282;
extract, 282;
reply of the American Secretary, Mr. Forsyth, 283;
extract, 283;
British government takes its stand relative to the Caroline after
the Presidential election of 1840, 283;
queries in the House of Commons, 284;
remarks of Mr. Hume, 284;
admission of Palmerston, 284;
testimony of McNab, 285;
remarks, 285;
triumph of Palmerston policy, 286;
finale of the case, 286;
proceedings in the case, 286;
action of the administration, 286;
discussion in the House on this action, 287;
remarks of Mr. Ingersoll, 287;
"this in its national aspect is precisely the same as if it had
been perpetrated in a house," 287;
demand of the British, 287;
Mr. Fox's letter is a threatening one, 287;
a deplorable lapse from the position Mr. Webster first assumed,
288;
our position is false, lamentably false, 288;
never did man lose a greater occasion than Mr. Webster cast away,
288.

Success of the British Ministry in this experiment, 289;
another trial, 289;
Mr. Adams in defence of the administration, 289;
Mr. Cushing on the same side, 289;
remarks on their speeches, 290;
the case of the Poles and of the Hungarians, 290;
Butler's reply to Cushing, 290;
the fashion of the friends of Webster, 291.