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for internal improvements at Govern-
ment expense, 473.
Addison, Alexander, Judge. Sketch of,
154-156; quarrel with Judge Lucas,
156; impeached and removed, 157.
Admiralty decisions. Case of the Polly,
223; Mercury, 223; the Essex, Enoch,
Rowena, 226; effect of, in United States,
227, 228.

Alabama Indians, 535, 536.
Alburg, 305.

Alcaldes, 19.

Alcalde, Provincial, 19, 20.

Alcalde de Barios, 20.

Alferez, Royal, 19.

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Astoria, 542.

Auction. Sale of land at, 105.
Aurora. The case of ship, 247.

Baggage. Amount allowed by the stage
companies, 492, note.
Commands the
Philadelphia, 202; is captured off Trip-
oli, 202, 203.

Alfred. Resolutions on the Force Act, Bainbridge, William.

328.

Alguazil, Mayor, 19.

Alston, Willis, Jr. On war with Eng-
land, 320.

Amelia Island. A nest of smugglers,
537; taken by the rebels, 538, 539;
given up to the United States, 539;
English vessels seized at, 540.
Amendments to the Federal Constitution.
Jefferson desires one providing for the
admission of Louisiana, 1-3; Massa-
chusetts proposes one limiting repre-
sentation to freemen, 44, 45; answers
of the States, 46, 47; Randolph pro-
poses one to give the President power to
remove judges of the Supreme Court,
182; Nicholson proposes one giving
the States power to recall Senators,
182; the twelfth amendment, 183-186;
ratified, 187; North Carolina asks for
one giving Congress power to pro-
hibit the importation of slaves, 517,
518; moved by Massachusetts, 518;
answers of the States, 518.
American Philosophical Society, 142.
Amusements in New Orleans, 18.
Architecture of New Orleans, 18.
Argus, The, 202, 206, 207.

Arkansas River. Sources of, explored by
Pike, 144, 145.

Armistice concluded by Dearborn and
Prevost, 560.

Armstrong, John. Minister to France, 39;
carries Monroe's letter to Talleyrand,
39; answer of Talleyrand, 209; advises
seizure of Texas, 209; invites Napoleon
to arbitrate on Louisiana boundary, 211,
212; demands that American ships be
exempt from Berlin decree, 270, 271;
answer of Napoleon, 271; lays Non-
intercourse Act before Napoleon, 363;
answer of Napoleon, 363, 304; instructed
to ask Napoleon for conditions, 364;
protest against seizure of American
ships, 366; lectured by Champagny,
366, 367; receives Rambouillet decree,
367; sends copy of Macon Act to Cham-
pagny, 367, 368; notified of future re-
peal of decrees of Berlin and Milan,
368; sends word to Pinkney, 368.
Army. Debate on the bills to increase
the regular, 432-438; number of regi-
ments, 542, 543; enlistments, 543;

Bakers of New York refused leave to im-
port flour, 303.

Ballads on the embargo, 324, 325.
Ballot. Separate, for Vice-President. 183-

187; printed law regarding, in Massa-
chusetts, 197.
Baltimore. Rage for American manu-
factures, 500; manufacturers parade
at, 502; mob destroys office of Federal
Republican, 553-556; strike of tailors
in, 511, 512-513.

Bank of the United States. Enemies of,
879; charges against, 381; friends of,
381, 382; memorial for recharter, 384;
substance of petitions for recharter,
384, 385; bill reported, 385, 386; Clay's
speech against, 386-388; speech of
Crawford for recharter, 388, 389; reso-
lutions of Virginia, 388; of Pennsyl-
vania, 388 and note; charter refused,390;
bank goes out of business, 390, note;
banks, numbers of, in United States,
380, 381.

Barlow, Joel. Appointed Minister to
France, 184; ordered to depart, 411.
Baring, Sir Francis, 320.
Barron, James. Sent to Barbary Coast,
204: relieved, 207; reports on enlist-
ment of British deserters, 255; com-
mands the Chesapeake, 257; surrender
to the Leopard, 258.

Bastrop, Grant. Burr's connection with,
65 and note.

Bassano, Duc de. Receives Non-inter-

course Act from Russell, 409; answers
Russell, 409.

Bath. Opposition to Force Act, 327.
Baton Rouge. Spanish troops at, 210;
rebellion in, against Spain, 370–373.
Bayard, James A., 450.
Bayonne. Decree of, April 17, 1808, 309,
310; American ships seized under, 310;
protest of Armstrong, 311; ships set
free, 312; Napoleon at, 310; crowns his
brother King of Spain at, 312.
Bayou Pierre. Burr at, 73.
Beacon Hill. Railway on, 494.
Bee, Thomas. District Judge, 302.
Berkeley, George Cranfield, Vice-Admi-
ral of the White. His order regarding
Chesapeake, 256, 257, and note: sent

INDEX.

by Leopard to Chesapeake Bay, 257;
demand for his recall, 269; Rose's in-
structions regarding, 281, 282; Ers-
kine's instructions, 340, 341.
Berlin. The decree of, 249, 250; effect
of, on treaty with England, 250, 251;
enforced by Spain, 270; Armstrong
asks for interpretation of, 270, 271; en-
forced in the Horizon case, 271, 272;
England retaliates with orders in
council of November, 1807, 272-274.
Bibliography of Ordinance, 1787.

Of

neutral trade, 235, note; of Chesa-
peake affair, 264, note.

Berthier. Seizes United States ships in
Spain, 366.

Bidwell, Barnebas. Explains wishes of
Jefferson in regard to Florida, 213.
Bibb, William, 299.

Bingham, captain of Little Belt, 454.
Bishop, Abraham. Speech at Hartford.
Demands a Constitution for Connecti-
cut, 190, 191.

Bissell, Daniel, Captain of First Infantry.
Welcomes Burr at Fort Massoc, 73.
Blennerhasset, Harman, 56, 57; meets
Burr, 57; Burr enlists him in his plans,
64; writes the "Querist," 64, 65; flees
from Ohio, 72; meets Burr at the mouth
of the Cumberland, 72; at Richmond,
81; indicted, 83; committed for trial
in Ohio, 86; fails to appear, 86; later

career, 87.

Bland, Theodorick. Plan for the use of
the Western lands, 98, 99.
Blockades, 220, 223; British blockade of
Martinique and Guadeloupe, 226, 245;
of French and German coast, May 16,
1806, 248; Pinkney asks if still in
force, 364; Wellesley's answer, 364, 365;
express withdrawal of, demanded, 368;
order in council of November 21, 1806,
249; of all ports and places under the
Government of France, April 26, 1809,
347; repeal of, deinanded by Pinkney,
368; French, of Great Britain, see De-
cree of Berlin; of New York Harbor
in 1803, 246, in 1807, 253; of Chesa-
peake Bay, 1207, 253.
Bloomfield, Joseph.
General, 547.

Made Brigadier-

Blount, William. Governor of territory
south of Ohio, 117.
Boatmen, Wages of, 510.
Board of Treasury.

To sell Western
lands, 104-107; to report a plan for
selling, 109, 116.

Bollmann, Julius Erich. Confederate of
Burr, 63; arrested at New Orleans, 74;
sent north by sea, 74; reaches Washing-
ton and is arrested, 78; set free, 79; la-
ter career, 87.
Boyle, John, 177.
Bonaparte, Joseph.
Spain, 312.
Boston. Dinner to King, 197; attempt
to use printed ballot, 197; Chesapeake
resolutions, 261, 262; effects of embar-
go, 289; efforts for repeal of embargo,

Crowned King of

563

312; answers of the towns, 312, 313;
first anniversary of embargo, 323;
deputy collector refuses to execute Force
Act and resigns, 329; scenes on the re-
ception of the news of embargo of
1812, 452.

Bounty. Land bounty promised by the
Continental Congress, 89; petition of
the soldiers, 99; to encourage manu-
factures, 500, 501, 502, 503, 504; offered
at opening of war in 1812, 543.
Boundary. The Indian, 118; of the
Louisiana purchase not defined, 14;
American claims, 14, 31; origin of the
claim, 32-34; negotiations regarding, in
Madrid, 36-41; considered by Jefferson
and the Cabinet, 209, 211.

Bowdoin, James. Succeeds Pinckney at
Madrid, 41.

Brackenridge, H. H., 156, 157, 159.
Bradley, Stephen Roe, 175; calls the
congressional caucus of 1804, 187; calls
the caucus in 1808, 314; revolt against
caucus, 314-316.

Brent, Richard, Senator from Virginia.
Refuses to vote against recharter of
bank, 390; denies the right of instruc-
tion, 390; is condemned by Virginia,
390; asked to persuade Monroe to take
the office of Secretary of State, 400.
Briggs, Isaac, 468.

Brock, Isaac, military commander of
Upper Canada, 558; his energy, 558,
559; captures Detroit, 559.
"Broken Voyage," 222-224.
Brougham, Henry. Argues against or-
ders in council, 307.

Brown, Andrew. Letters of Charles D.
Cooper to, 52.

Brown, John, Senator from Kentucky.
Connections with Burr, 57.
Bruin, Peter B., District Judge of Missis-

sippi Territory. Burr visits, 73, 129.
Bryant, William Cullen. "The Embar-
go," etc., 324, 325 and note.
Buenos Ayres. Insurrection in, 369.
Bull's Head Tavern, Philadelphia. Leip-
er's railway at, 494.

Burr, Aaron. The delegates from Or-
leans, 31; nominated for Governor of
New York, 49, 50; opposed by Hamil-
ton, 50; efforts of Pickering to elect,
51; defeated, 51; remarks of Hamilton
on Burr, 52; challenges Hamilton and
kills him, 53; flees to Philadelphia, 54;
indicted in New York and New Jersey,
54; asks aid of the English Minister in
his attempt to split the Union, 54, 55
and note; goes south, 55; plans a west-
ern confederacy, 55, 56; second appeal
to the English Minister, 56; starts for
New Orleans, 56; meets Blennerhas-
set, 56; reception in the West, 56, 57;
at New Orleans in 1805, 58, 59; meets
Wilkinson at St. Louis, 59, 60; visits
W. H. Harrison, 60; returns to Phila-
delphia, 60; hints of his plan made pub-
lic, 60, 61; reports to Merry, 61; sends
Dayton to Spanish Minister, 62; plan to

seize President, etc., 62; seeks to enlist
public men in his scheme, 62, 63; goes
west to begin his revolution, 63; inter-
view with Morgan, 63; warning of his
schemes sent to Jefferson, 64; at Blen-
nerhasset's island, 64; the "Querist,"
64, 65; begins the expedition, 65, 66;
rumors of the expedition, 66; Jefferson
informs his Cabinet regarding, 66; ac-
tion taken, 67; Graham sent south to
warn the governors, 67; Burr arrested
in Kentucky, 67; defended by Henry
Clay, 68; is discharged, 68; acquitted
a second time, 69; entertained at Frank-
fort, 69; Ogden and Swartwout go to
New Orleans, 69, 70; Swartwout delivers
Burr's letter to Wilkinson, 70; Wilkin-
son betrays Burr, 70; proclamation of
Jefferson, 71; Burr's letter to Yrujo, 71;
both seized at Marietta, 72; Blenner-
hasset flees, 72; Jackson questions
Burr, 72; passes Fort Massoc, 72; visits
the commander, 73; hears that he is
betrayed, 73; agents arrested at New Or-
leans, 74; leaves jurisdiction of Missis
sippi, 74; surrenders to Governor of
Mississippi Territory, 75; grand jury
acquit him, 75; flees, 75; letter to the
Governor, 75; proclamation for his
arrest, 75; arrested and taken to Rich-
mond, 76; brought before Marshall and
held, 79; Richmond during his trial,
79-81; the grand jury, 81; indicted by
grand jury, 83; trial begins, 81; the
charge of treason argued, 84, 85; ac-
quitted on, 85; charge of misdemeanor
tried,85; acquitted on,85; motion to send
him to Mississippi Territory, 86; held
for trial in Ohio, 86; fails to appear,
86, 87; later career, 87, 88; presides at
trial of Chase, 175; treatment of, by
Jefferson, 175, 176.

Bullus, Dr. John. Present at the Chesa-
peake attack, 264; sent to England
with despatches, 264; delivers the
packet to Monroe, 268; returns, 269.

Cabal. The Republican, 399.
Cabildo, 19.

Cabinet officers, 1801-1813:
State, Secretaries of:

James Madison, March 5, 1801.
Robert Smith, March 6, 1809.
James Monroe, April 2, 1811.
Treasury, Secretary of:

Albert Gallatin, May 14, 1801.
War, Secretaries of:

Henry Dearborn, March 5, 1801.
William Eustis, March 7, 1809.
John Armstrong, January 13, 1813.
Navy, Secretaries of:

Robert Smith, July 15, 1801.
Paul Hamilton, March 7, 1809.
William Jones, January 15, 1813.
Attorneys-General:

Levi Lincoln, March 5, 1801.
Robert Smith, March 3, 1805.
John Breckinridge, August 7, 1805.
Cæsar A. Rodney, January 20, 1807.

William Pinkney, December 11,

1811.

Postmaster-General :

Gideon Granger, November 28, 1801,
Calhoun, John Caldwell. Elected to
Congress, 420; announces the coming
embargo to his friends, 451; reports in
favor of war, 457.

Campaign, The presidential, of 1804. The
congressional caucus, 187; candidates,
188; contest in the States, 188-195; re-
sult, 197; meaning of result to Jeffer--
son, 197, 198; inauguration speech, 198,
199; the presidential, of 1808, 313; the
caucus, 313, 314; revolt against it, 314-
316, 317, 336, 337; in Massachusetts in
1811, 420-423; plan for, on Northern
frontier, 556.

Campbell, G. H. Commands the gun-
boats at St. Mary's, 538.
Campbell, George Washington, 177, 180,
297; chairman of Ways and Means
Committee, 297, 318; presents "Camp-
bell's Report" on foreign relations, 318,
319-320; debate on, 320, 321.

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Campbell's Report." Written by Gal-
latin, 318; substance of, 319; debate on,

319-321.

Cambrian.

Ordered to leave waters of
United States, 239; affair of, at New
York, 246, 247.

Campus Martius at Detroit, 140.
Canada, The province of Upper, 557, 558;
Hull invades, 558; activity of Brock,
558; sympathy of people of, for the
United States, 558.

Canals, 465; Delaware and Chesapeake,
471, 472; applies to Congress for aid,
471; proposition to give land, 472, 473;
Gallatin's plan for canals, 473-475; peti-
tions for aid, 475; Carondelet, 475;
Dismal Swamp, 471, 474; Ohio, 475,
478; Union, 478, 479; Erie Canal, 479.
Canning. Note to Monroe on Chesapeake
affair, 268; refuses satisfaction, 269
Rose sent to United States, 269, 270;
instructions to Rose, 282; receives let-
ters from John Henry, 285, 286; de-
fends orders in council, 807; Erskine
urges concessions to the United States,
322, 323; concessions made, 339–341;
Erskine's arrangement as to non-inter-
course, 341, 342; disavows the arrange-
ment, 348, 349; sends out F. J. Jackson,

349.

Caracas, The insurrection in, 369.
Caramalli, Hamet. Eaton's plan to re-
store him, 205; Eaton organizes an
army, 206, 207.

Caramalli, Jussuf, 200, 205, 207; peace
made with, 207, 208.

Carlisle. Meeting of friends of peace, 553.
Carlos IV. Driven from Spain, 309, 310.
Carondelet Canal, 475.

Castlereagh, Lord. Urges retaliation for
Berlin decree, 272; Henry letters sent
to, 286.

Cass, Lewis. Writes Hull's proclamation,

558.

INDEX.

Cassa Calvo, Marquis of. Delivers Louisi-
ana to France, 10, 11; lingers at New
Orleans, 27.

Catskill. Wages at, 509.

Catholics, Roman. Disfranchised, 148;
enfranchised, 149.

Caucus, Congressional. For nominating
President and Vice-President, origin,
187; caucus of 1804, 187, 188; of 1812,
448, 456.

Census of manufacture ordered, 507.
Cession of Louisiana to England and
Spain, 33; of land to the Federal Gov-
ernment, 95, 97, 100, 112.
Cevallos, Dom Pedro. Spanish Minister
of foreign affairs, 36; refuses to ratify
the convention, 36; Pinckney threat-
ens him, 36, 37; negotiations with
Pinckney and Monroe, 38-41.
Champagny, Duc de Cadore. Letter to
Armstrong; remonstrates with Napo-
leon on behalf of the United States, 362;
answers Armstrong as to the repeal of
decrees, 363, 364; action of Secretary
Smith on the letter, 364; lectures Arm-
strong, 366, 367; receives copy of Ma-
con Act, 367, 368; promises the repeal
of decrees, Nov. 1, 1810, 368; report to
Napoleon, 408, 425; succeeded by Duc
de Bassano, 409.

Champlain. Smuggling on the lake, 304,
305; steamboat on, 491; leave to run a
steamboat on, refused by Jefferson, 304.
Charters. For manufacturing companies
from 1809 to 1812, 584.

Chase, Samuel, Associate Justice. On
reforms in Maryland, 162; impeached,
168-172; trial of 173-175, 177-181; ac-
quitted, 181, 182.

Chesapeake, The United States Frigate.
Deserter from the Melampus to enlist
in her crew, 255; and from Halifax,
255, 256; correspondence regarding 255,
256; Berkeley's order regarding, 256,
257; sails, 257, 258; followed and at-
tacked by the Leopard, 258; surrenders
and is searched, 259; excitement over,
259, 264.

Chesapeake Bay. Attempts to establish
a steamboat line on, 493.

Cheves, Langdon, 420; on the bill to
equip the navy, 439.

Chew, Samuel, captain of the Thames.
Reports French outrages, 449.
Children. Punishment of, in Northwest
Territory, 114.

Chillicothe. Land office, 124.

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Clay, Joseph. Resolutions on trade, 230.
Clay, Henry. Defends Burr, 68, 69; fa-
vors protection of American manu-
factures, 502; challenges Marshall, 502,
efforts in behalf of English common
law, 418; Speaker of twelfth Congress,
427; sketch of his early life, 427-430;
meaning of his election to speakership,
430; speech against bank charter, 386-
388; speech on war measures, 436, 437;
plan for an embargo, 446.
Clark, Christopher, 177.
Clarke, William. Exploration of North-
west, by, 142-144.

Clermont, The steamboat, 490, 491.
Clinton, De Witt. Efforts to persuade
him to join with the Federalists in
supporting his uncle for the presi-
dency, 317; Mayor of New York, 513;
candidate for the presidency, 456.
Clinton, George. Nominated Vice-Presi-
dent, 188; candidate for the vice-presi-
dency, 1808, 315; elected, 317.
Clothes. Motion in House of Represen-
tatives to wear clothes of domestic
manufacture, 299; in Pennsylvania,
502; in Virginia, 502; North Carolina,
503; Vermont, 503; resolutions by the
people, 500, 501.

Coal. Cost of transporting, 472.
Coast survey. Plans for survey of coast
of Georgia and North Carolina, 465,
466; survey of Long Island Sound,
467; of Orleans territory, 467; of
Southern coast, 467; the coast survey
established, 467, 468; Hassler sent to
London, 468, 469.

Cockspur Island. Cyclone at, 196.
Code. The criminal, of Northwestern
Territory, 112.

Coins. Act to make foreign coins legal
tender, 382, 383

College. Manner of choosing the elec-
toral colleges in the States in 1804,

194.

Columbia, cost of transportation from,

463.

Columbine, The. Defies the proclama-

tion, 267; outrages in New York Har-
bor, 268; desertions from, 268.
Columbia River. The sources of, ex-
plored by Lewis and Clark, 142–144.
Common Law of England. Democratic
hatred of, in Pennsylvania, 159, 160; in
Tennessee, 501; lawyers forbidden to
cite in New Jersey courts, 417, 418; in
Kentucky, 418; in Pennsylvania, 418.

Chittenden, Martin. Moves repeal of Confederacy. Tecumthe's plan for a con-

embargo, 319.

Cincinnati. Land office at, 124.
Circuits of the Federal Court, 163, 164.
Civil Government of Louisiana, 21, 22.
Claiborne, William Charles Cole. Sketch
of, 12, 13; receives Louisiana from
France, 13, 14; governor of Orleans,
26; opposition to, 26, 27; hated at New
Orleans, 58; sends word of frontier
troubles, 210; sent inte West Florida,
371; puts down insurrection, 371, 372.

federacy, 529, 530.

Confederacy, A Northern. Plan of Pick-
ering, 48; Burr's part in, 49, 50.
Congress, The Continental. Land bounty
offered, 89; petitioned to make State of
Westsylvania, 91; Western lands be-
fore, 91, 92 attempts to give it power
to settle land claims of the States, 92,
93; action of Virginia, 94; action of
New York, 94, 95; appeals to the States
to cede, 96; cessions of the States, 97;

question of accepting Virginia cession,
97, 99, 100; cession accepted. 100;
promises to Virginia, 100; "ordinance,
1784, 100-102; ordinance for the sale
of lands, 12-195; ordinance against
squatters, 107; question of dividing
the Western territory, 110; plan for
temporary government of, 110, 111; ap-
plication of the Ohio Company, 111;
ordinance of 1787, 111, 112.

Congress, the eighth.-In the Senate.
Debate on purchase of Louisiana, S-
10; conference Orleans bill, 26; ratify
the Spanish convention of 1802, 34.

Congress, the ninth.-In the Senate.
Bill passed to suspend the writ of
habeas corpus, 77.

Congress first session, eighth.-
House of Representatives. Called by
proclamation. 3; call for treaty papers,
3-6; debate on right to buy Louisiana,
6-8: appropriate money to pay for
Louisiana, 10; petition from New Or-
leans merchants, 22, 23; debate on
government for Orleans, 23-25; Mo-
bile act, $1.

Second session, eighth Congress.-
Protest from District of Louisiana, 29;
report of Randolph on protests, 30;
bills for Territorial governments in
Louisiana and Orleans, 30; Michigan
Territory formed, 137.

First session of ninth Congress.-
Call for information, 77; debate on the
bill to suspend the habeas corpus act,
77,78.

Congress. Action of, on Louisiana pur-
chase, 8-10, 22-23, 23-25, 29, 30; on
suspension of habeas corpus, 77, 78;
on use of public domain, 69; on land
claims of the States, 91-92, 94, 96, 97,
98, 99, 100; ordinance of 1784, 100-
103; ordinance of 1785, 104, 105; on
squatter rights, 106, 107, 108, 109; or-
dinance of 1757, 109-112; on land sales,
116-121; land grants, 121; on division
of Northwest Territory, 123, 124; on
Yazoo land claims, 128, 130-133; on
land sales in small quantity, 124, 125;
on taxation of land sold, 134–136.
Congress. Action of, on protection to
manufactures, 299, 496-498, 505-506;
on slavery and the slave trade, 514-
521; act excluding negroes and mulat-
toes from the United States, 517; on
slavery in Northwest Territory, 521-
523, 524-526; on the Kentucky petition
for protection, 506; orders a report on
manufactures, 507; another Kentucky
petition for protection, 507-509; on
slavery and the slave trade, 514-517,
518-521; on suspension of Art. VI. of
Ordinance of 1787, 522-524, 526; on war
taxes, 549.

Twelfth Congress, first session.
Character of members. Young men in
control, 419, 420; Clay chosen Speaker,
427; significance of his election, 480;
report on foreign relations, 431, 432;

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six resolutions offered, 432; speech of
Porter, 432, 433; resolution to fill the
ranks of the regular army passed. 432;
Randolph on the second resolution for
additional regulars, 433; resolution
passed, 435; bill from the Senate for
more regulars, 435-437; bill passed.
437: Randolph on the use of the
troops, 437, 495; bill for volunteer
army, 435; naval bill, 439, 440; war
taxes, 442-444; the Henry letters, 445-
447; Clay's plan of embargo and war.
449; the embargo, 450-452; the war
message, 456, 457; act declaring war,
457: the vote on war, 457.

Special session, May, 1809. Mes-
sage, 343; debate on suspension of
non-intercourse, 344-346.

Eleventh Congress, first session.
Resolutions on Jackson affair, 355, 356,
357: Mason Bill No. 1, 357-360; lost
in Senate, 330; Macon Bill No. 2, 800,
361: passed. 361.

Connecticut. Franchise in, 147; rejects
twelfth amendment to Federal Consti-
tution. 187; attempt to form a new State
Constitution, 190, 193; general election,
193, 194; Governor refuses to execute
Force Act, 331, 332; encourages do-
mestic manufactures, 503; Governor
refuses to detach the militia, 544, 545;
asserts State rights, 545.
Conspiracy.

The trials of the cord-
wainers for, in Philadelphia, 511, 512;
in New York, 513.
Constitution. The ship, 202.

Constitution of New Jersey, 147, 150, 151;
of Ohio, 152, 153; of Pennsylvania, de-
mand for reform, 159-162; demand for
a Constitution for Connecticut, 190–194.
Constitution, The Federal. Jefferson's
proposals to amend, regarding Louisi-
ana, 1-3; debate on right to call for
treaty papers, 3-6; on right to incor-
porate foreign territory, 6; meaning of
this Union" and "new States," 6;
Pickering's "partnership" theory, 8;
status of the Territories under, 10;
amendment proposed by Massachu-
setts, 44, 45; answers of the States, 46,
47; the twelfth amendment, 47; amend-
ment offered by Randolph, 182; by
Nicholson, 182; the twelfth amend-
ment, 183-186; ratified, 187; amend-
ment asked for by North Carolina, 517;
by Massachusetts, 518; strict construc-
tion of, by Pennsylvania, 388, note;
meaning of preamble, 376.
Constellation, The, 208.
Contador, 21.

Convention. Call for one to amend Con-
stitution of Pennsylvania, 150-162; of
New England States. Call for, 330,

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