ELOQUENCE OF THE UNITED STATES : COMPILED BY E. B. WILLISTON. IN FIVE VOLUMES. VOL. II. MIDDLETOWN, CONN. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY E. & H. CLARK. 1827. HARVARD LIBRARY DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT, SS. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the seventeenth day of of July, in the fifty-second year of the Independence of the Festeskokatotisk stone United States of America, E. B. WILLISTON, of the said District, hath deposited in this Office, the title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as Author and Proprietor, in the words following-to wit: 6 Eloquence of the United States : compiled by E. B. Williston, in five volumes." In conformity to the Act of Congress of the United States, entitled, “ An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned.”-And also to the Act, entitled, “ An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled • An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned,' and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints.” CHA'S A. INGERSOLL, Clerk of the District of Connecticut. A true copy of Record, examined and sealed by me, CHA'S A. INGERSOLL, Clerk of the District of Connecticut. CONTENTS OF VOLUME SECOND. Mr. Livingston's Speech on the Alien Bill, in the House of Representatives of the United States, June 19, 1798, . . . . . . . . . . . Mr. HARPER's Speech on the Appointment of Foreign Ministers, in the House of Representatives of the United States, March 2, 1798,. . . . . . . President JEFFERSON's Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mr. Mason's Speech on the Judiciary, in the Senate of the United States, January 13, 1802, . . . . Mr. MORRIS' Speech on the same subject, in the Senate of the United States, January 14, 1802, . . . . 100 Mr. GILES' Speech on the same subject, in the House of Representatives of the United States, February 18, 1802, . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Mr. BAYARD's Speech on the same subject, in the House of Representatives of the United States, February 19, 1802, . . . . . . . . . : 163 CLINTON's Speech on the Navigation of the Mis- sissippi, in the Senate of the United States, Februa- ry 23, 1803, . . . . . . . . . . . . 236 Ross' Speech on the same subject, in the Senate of the United States, February 24, 1803, . . . . i rze, it ;' Speech on the same subject, in the Senate to the United States, February 25, 1803, . . . 286 11, Pary's Speech on the Amendment of the Consti. Litir of the United States, in the Senate of the d States, December 2, 1803, . . . . . 320 i suor's Speech on the same subject, in the Se- . .. of the United States, December 2, 1803, . . 349 inwitti JEFFERSON's Inaugural Address, March 4, . . . . . . . . . . . . 364 p o ncy's Speech on Foreign Relations, in the |