South American Republics, 41; rec- ommends recognition, 42; Monroe Doctrine, 44-54; on internal im- provements, 148, 149; Indian policy, 178; message of, favoring protec- tive tariff, 231.
Monro, Timothy. His body mistaken for Morgan's, 117. Moose Island, 466, 467.
Morelos. Leads rebels in Mexico, 5. Morgan, William, 109; his book on masonry, 109-110; kidnapped, 111- 112; excitement over it, 113; Gov- ernor offers rewards, 113; trial of the kidnappers, 113-114; Morgan meetings, 114; charges against Brant, 114; and Lieutenant-Gover- nor of Upper Canada, 115; Antima- sonic party formed, 115; appeal to New York Legislature, 115-116; Warsaw Convention, 116; body of Timothy Monro mistaken for Mor- gan's, 117; appeal to Congress, 118; Legislature investigates, 119. Morris, Gouverneur. Life and writ- ings of, 306.
Moving day in New York, 122.
Mules. Boycott on Kentucky, 257, 259, 262.
Murphy, Archibald D. "Father of the common schools," 367. Murray's "English Grammar," 284. Music. Journal of, 275.
Naples, 33; revolution in, 35-36; the Carbonari, 38; constitution granted, 39; Ferdinand called Laybach, 39- 40; Austria crushes liberal move- ment in, 40.
Napoleon. Action of the allies against, 32; returns from Elba, 00; the hun- dred days' campaign, 34. Nashoba. Founded, 97-98. Nashville, 166.
Negro Seaman Act, 200-204; resolu- tions of South Carolina, 417. Negro schools. In Philadelphia, 359, 360, 361.
Negroes, Status of the free.
Free States, 184; in Delaware and Mary- land and Tennessee, 185; in District of Columbia, 186; in Virginia and South Carolina, 186; in Ohio and In- diana, 186-187; in Illinois, 187-188; the struggle for a pro-slavery Con- stitution, 188-191; New Jersey, 192; in New York, 192; work of the Col- onization Society, 193-194; feeling toward free negroes, 194-196; status in Massachusetts, 196-197; debates in New York Constitutional Con- vention, 198-199; projected insur- rection in South Carolina, 199-200; Negro Seaman Act, 200-204; Ohio on colonization, 204; Delaware on, 204; New Jersey, 204; Georgia on the Colonization Society, 206-207; South Carolina fugitive slave laws and kidnapping, 215-219; in the Dis- trict of Columbia, 219–222. Netherlands, 13, 15. New Brunswick.
formed, 466; Plaster of Paris Act, 484; trade with, 486.
New England. Industrial develop- ment of, 229; effect of tariff act of 1824, 240, 241; depression of woollen industry, 1826, 241; meeting of
woollen manufacturers at Boston, 241; the tariff of 1828 accepted by, 255; resistance to "Force Act,' 406, 407; refuses militia, 407, 408; vote on admission of Louisiana, 411; resistance to embargo, 411; to "Conscript Bill," 411, 412. New Hampshire. Applies to Con- gress for advice, 374; reply of, to Ohio's bank resolutions, 413. New Harmony, Indiana, 90-96. New Jersey. Resolution of, favor- ing tariff, 254; schools in, 356, 357; case of Holmes vs. Walton, 395, 396.
New Lanark. Owen's work at, 88-89. New York city. Free Enquirer estab- lished, 99; Working-men's Advo- cate, 100; rise of labor party in, 99-101; platform of the party, 99- 100, 100-101; Russell Comstock, 101-102; the Working-men's ticket, 102-103; trade societies disavow the Free Enquirers, 103-104; The Friend of Equal Rights and Daily Sentinel established, 106; labor ticket in, 107-108; population of 1825, 122; moving day, 122; new buildings, 122, 123; duties collected, packet lines, banks, 123; emigrants, 124; government, 124; street clean- ing, 124; fire department, 124-125; night watch, 125; curious ordi- nances, 125-126; gas introduced, 127; anthracite coal, 128-130; Schuylkill Company, 129-130; open- ing of Erie Canal, 132-133; maga- zines of, number, 269, 271; Society for establishing a Free School, 354-356; case of Rutgers vs, Wad- dington, 397; opposition to Federal law, 417.
New York. On caucus nomination, 61, 65; Albany regency, 70, 71; struggle in the Legislature over manner of choosing electors, 1824, 70-73; Owenite communities, 96; Free Enquirers and Working-men's party, 99-104, 105-107; convention at Salina, 107; Liberal Working- men's Party Convention at Syra- cuse, 108; Poor Man's party, 108; the Morgan affair, 108-112; excite- ment and trial of the kidnappers, 113-115; rise of Antimasonic party, 115-119; conventions at Utica and LeRoy, 120; vote polled, 120; open- ing of Erie Canal, 132-133; journey to Buffalo by, 133-134; trade of Erie Canal, 135-136; abolition of slavery, 192; restricts free negro voters, 198-199; tariff memorial of Legislature, 251; no common school, in colonial times, 352; Governor Clinton's message, 352; the Board
"Regents" established, 352, 353; Columbia College arouses op- position, 353; University of the State of New York established, 353; lotteries and other attempts to raise a revenue, 353, 354; appeals of Clinton and his successors, 354; legislation, 354; a New York city so- ciety incorporated, 354, 355; school- district system, 356; struggle for new constitution, 383-388; rights of property vs. rights of man, 383, 385-388; Council of Appointment
abolished, 384; Council of Revision, 384, 385; views of Chancellor Kent, 385, 386; of Martin Van Buren, 387; white suffrage, 388; negro suffrage, 388; white manhood suffrage, 392; resolutions of, election of Presi- dent, 510, 511; vote of, in election of 1828, 517, 518. Newspapers, Early labor. The Advo- cate, 100-101; journals in the differ- ent States, 105-106; Daily Sentinel, 106, 107; Friend of Equal Rights, 106.
Newspapers. French, in America,
Niles, Hezekiah. Delegate to Har- risburg Convention, 250. Nobility, Titles of. Amendment pro- posed by Congress, 431. North. The. Industrial condition of, 1816-20, 229, 230; division of inter- ests of North and South, 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248, 253, 254; po- sition of, on tariff of 1828, 255; boy- cott of, proposed, 256-259, 262. North American Clay Working-men's party, 108.
North American Review, The. Char- acter of, 276-277; reply to British criticism, 326, 331, 335-337, 339, 340.
North Carolina. Crawford's strength
in, 60, 68; in Pennsylvania, 69; re- port of Legislative committee on the tariff, 251, 252; schools in, char- acter of, 366, 367; educational movement for, 367, 368. Northwest Ordinance. Political Ideas of, 378, 379.
Northwest Territory, Schools in. Dif- ficulties of establishment, 369, 370; universities and colleges, 370, 371. Northwest, The, 20-27.
Novels read in early part of century, 280, 283-284.
Nullification. Proposed by "Sidney," 261; resolutions proposed in South Carolina Legislature, 263: South Carolina Exposition," 263-267; Ken- tucky resolutions, 403; Massachu- setts resists Force Act," 406, 407; Message of Governor Trumbull, of Connecticut, 407: refusal of New England States to furnish militia, 407 408; resolutions of Massachu- setts on embargo, 411; resolutions of Maine and Massachusetts, 473- 476.
Oath. Masonic oath attacked, 119. Oaths. Required of office holders, 390, note, 391, notes. Occupying claimant laws, 414-416. O'Donojú, Lieutenant-General Juan, 10.
Office holders. Removal of, 521-536. Ohio. Free negro in, 186; on coloni- zation, 254; resolutions of, favoring protection, 254; grant to, for schools, 363, 364; schools in, pro- visions of first constitution, 370; difficulty of enforcement, 371; con- flict between the Legislature and the judiciary, 399, 400; State rights resolutions of, 413.
Ohlo river. Voyage down, 150-151. Olmsted case, Gideon. Pennsylvania
and the Federal courts, 403-406;
proposed amendment suggested by, 430.
Ordinance of 1787, 378.
Ordinances. Curious, in New York, 125-126; in Philadelphia, 126. Oregon. Prevost in, 18; Russians on the Pacific coast, 18; occupation of, discussed, 18-20, 21; the Russian ukase, 20; the Alaskan boundary, 21-23; no use for Oregon, 23-27; claims of United States and Great Britain, 477-479; debate in Con- gress over value of, 479-483. Osborn, Charles, 209, 212. Otis, James. Speech of, 395. Otis, Samuel Allyne, 523. Oven. The frontier out-oven," 154. Owen, Robert. At New Lanark, 88; buys Harmony, 90; lectures on his plan, 90-91; the preliminary so- ciety, 92-93; community of equal- ity, 93-94; condition of New Har- mony, 94; dress reform at, 95; Dec- laration of Mental Independence, 95; effects, 95-96; failure of New Harmony, 96; Owenite communities elsewhere, 96-97; with Miss Wright founds Free Enquirer, 99.
Owen, Robert Dale, 99, 103-104, 107. Owenite communities. New Har- mony, 90-96; Macluria, Feiba Pe- ven, 96; in other States, 96-97.
Packet lines from New York city, 124. Painters' Society, New York City, 104.
Panama Congress. Early sugges- tions of, 433; South American Min- isters confer with Clay relative to, 434; the United States formally in- vited to, 440; proposed programme, 440, 441; Adams's message and nomination of envoys, 441, 442; op- position to, in the Senate, 442-450; question of debate in open session, 442, 443; partisan attempt to cen- sure Adams, 442, 443; reasons for opposition to, 443, 444; Hayne's speech on the Monroe Doctrine, 444; White's views of the same and Its application, 444, 445; pro-slav- ery interests aroused, 445-449; Hayne's speech, 445-447; White's speech, 447; Berrien on danger of the liberation of Cuba, 447. 448; Benton on recognition of Hayti, 448, 449; nomination of envoys con- firmed, 449, 450; debate in the House, 450-459; House calls for papers, 450, 451; resolution on ex- pediency of appropriating funds, 451; Webster's constitutional argu- ment, 451, 457-459; Buchanan's resolution, 451, 452; Administra- tion's policy attacked, 452-456; obli- gation of the House to make the appropriation, 456, 457; Webster's view of the Monroe Doctrine, 457- 458; appropriation bill passed, 459; failure of the Congress, 459. Pardoning power, 380.
Parties. Minor political parties. The Free Enquirers. 99-106; Working- men's party, 100-108; Antimasonic, 108-120.
Patterson, Justice, 401.
Paulding, James K., 301; reply to British criticism, 312. Peale's Museum. Gas in, 127. Pennsylvania. Anti-caucus address of, 63; nomination of Jackson, 67; charters a railroad, 139-140; com- mission to explore route from Philadelphia to the Ohio, 141-142; Canal Convention, 142; Board of Canal Commissioners, 142; work on canals begun, 141; railroad char- tered, 142-143, 144; fugitive slave law, 216-217; agitation In, in favor of an increased protective tariff, 1827, 245-247; Harrisburg Conven- tion, 250, 251; tariff memorial of Legislature, 251; schools in, provi- sions of early constitutions, 357; act of 1802, 357, 358; agitation for, 358, 359; free private schools, 359; Phil- adelphia the first school district, 359; controller's report, 359-361; negro schools, 360, 361; poor char- acter of country schools, 361, 362; defects of the system, 362; defiance of the Federal courts-Gideon Olm- sted case, 403-406; amendment pro- posed, 406; proposes amendment for impartial tribunal, 430. Peters, Judge, 405.
Petitions. Protective tariff, pro and con, 1824, 232, 233; of New England woollen manufacturers, 1826, 241. Philadelphia. Early labor strikes, 84: labor party in, 87-88; free schools in, 87-88; labor party, 104- 105; government of, 126; introduc- tion of gas, 126-128; anthracite coal, 129; railroad meeting, 141; magazines of, number of, 269, 271; medical, 272, 273; religious, 273, note, 274, note; theatrical and ju- venile, 275, notes; The Port Folio, 276, 286; the Analectic Magazine, 275, 276, note; Irving editor of, 292; a literary centre, 281-283; Medical and Physical Journal founded, 272; schools in, 359; at- tendance, 359, 360. Philanthropist, The, 209.
"Pilot," The. Publication of, 299, 300.
Pinckney, C. c. Anti-tariff toast proposed by, 258; other seditious toasts, 261.
Piracy. The United States makes African slave trade piracy, 16. Pitcher, Nathaniel. Working-men's candidate, 107; Governor of New York, 118-119.
Plaster of Paris Act, 484.
Platforms. Of the Working-men's party, 99-100, 101-102. Poetry, American. Review of, by Bryant, 302.
Poinsett, Joel R. Clay's instruction to, on Monroe Doctrine, 53; first Minister to Mexico, 439; instruc- tions of, 439, 440: opens negotia- tions with Mexico, 440; signs boundary treaty with Mexico, 461; installs a York lodge of Masons in Mexico, 540; renews negotiations for purchase of Texas, 542-543; re- call of, 549.
Political ideas. Of the forefathers, 873; in early State constitutions, 374-378; in Northwest Ordinance
and Federal Constitution, 378, 379; in new State constitutions, 379, 380; in the second decade of the century, 380, 381; the reforms in New York, 383-388, 392; in Massa- chusetts, 388-389; in Maryland, 390- 392; in Virginia, 392-393; changes of half a century, 393, 394; power of judiciary over legislative acts, 394; early State practice, 395-400; Federal practice, 400-406; relation between the State and the Fed- eral governments, 401-418; juris- diction of Federal Courts, 401- 406, 414-418; division of powers, 407-413; the Federal executive, ideas of convention, 418-421, 425, 426; changes effected, 422-425, 426- 428.
Political literature, 278–279.
Polk, James K. Resolution on Pan- ama Congress appropriation, 455, 456.
"Poor Man's Party," 108.
Population. Of the States, 82; of cities, 82; of New York, 122.
Port Folio, The. Character of, 276, 286.
Porto Rico. America fears transfer to Great Britain, 434-436; instruc- tions to our Minister to Spain, 435, 436; fear of South American inter- vention in, 434, 436, 437; the Ad- ministration attempts to mediate, 437-440.
Port Royal, Nova Scotia, 464. Portugal. Agreement as to slave- trade, 13, 14, 15; revolution in, 39.
Postage. Rates of, 533; trouble over the administration of the law, 533- 536.
Post-Office, The. Removal of post- masters by Jackson, 532, 533; growth of postal business, 533; rates of postage, 533, note; new ad- ministration of postal laws, 533, 534; arouses complaints, 534-536. Preliminary Society of New Har- mony, The, 92-93.
Prescott, W. H., 304.
President. Powers regarding slave- trade, 16; method of election, 420, 421; twelfth amendment, 424, 425; veto power, 421; speech or message, 422, 424: Cabinet and, 422, 425; term of, 425-427; no third-term tra- dition, 427, 428; proposed amend- ment to restrict terms of, 428, 429; the twelfth amendment, 430; for abolition of the vice-presidency, 431; choice of, by lot, 431; num- ber and character of proposed amendments, 432; Adams's elec- tion," corrupt bargain" charged, 489-494; Clay's reply, 494, 495; Jackson letter and speeches, 492- 496; Jackson renominated by Ten- nessee, 496, 497; amendment pro- posed. 497, 500; Jackson's charges, 504-508: Tennessee proposes amend- ment, 508; New York's resolutions, 510, 511; Adams renominated, 513; the campaign of 1828, 513-517; the vote, 517-520, note.
Presidential Election of 1824. Lowndes and Calhoun nominated, 56; Jackson nominated, 57; feeling
In the West, 58; Calhoun nominated by caucus in South Carolina, 60; Crawford in Georgia, 60; Tennessee on caucus, 60-61; other States on caucus, 61; Virginia on, 61-62; Pennsylvania anti-caucus address, 63; congressional committee report on, 63-64; caucus nominates Craw- ford and Gallatin, 64; caucus ad- dress, 64-65; Adams nominated, 65; action by the people, 65, 66, 67, 68; De Witt Clinton nominated, 66; Jackson indorsed, 67; Clay nomi- nated, 67; standing of the candi- dates, 69; Gallatin withdraws, 70; contest over electors in New York, 70-73; election day in the States, 74-75; no choice by the electors, 76; Kremer's charge of bargain and corruption, 78-79; election of Adams, 79-81; election of 1828, an- ger over the result, 489; members of Congress explain, 490-492; Jack- son's letter on, 492; Clay answers Jackson, 493-495; popularity of Jackson, 495 496; Clay, 496; Jack- son resigns from United States Senate, 496; renominated by Ten- nessee, 496-497; the campaign in Congress, 498; Branch attacks Clay, 499; John Randolph, 500; Blifil and Black George, 500; the Clay-Ran- dolph duel, 500; McDuffie's speech, 501; the East Room, 503; the bil- liard table, 503-504; Carter Bever- ley letter, 505; Jackson's state- ment, 505-506; Clay's reply, 506- 507; Jackson names Buchanan, who denies, 507-508; Tennessee investi- gates, 508-509; New York on Adams, 509-510; nominations of Adams and Rush, 513; choice of electors, 513-514; abuse of Jackson and Adams, 514-516; the election, 517; table of popular and electoral vote, 518.
Prevost, J. B. Goes to Oregon, 18; reports Russian settlements on Pa- cific, 18; receives surrender of As- toria, 25.
Produce. Kentucky, boycotted, 257, 259, 262.
Property qualifications. In early State constitutions, 377; abolition of, 379, 380; advocated by Chancel- lor Kent, 385, 386; by Webster, 388. Proscription of office holders, 521-536. Protective tariff. Act of 1816 a dis- appointment, 229; effort to secure, 230, 231; bill defeated in Senate, 1820, 231; House of Representatives opposed to, 1821-23, 231; Monroe's messages favor, 231; bill reported in House, 1824, 231, 232; petitions and memorials, pro and con, 1824, 232, 233; argument in the House, 233-240; Hamilton's speech against, 234; Clay's speech in favor of, 234- 237; Webster's reply, 237-240; divi- sion of the country over bill, 240; vote and passage of bill, 240; effect of the act of 1824 on New England, 240-242; increased protection for woollens sought by New England, 241, 242: new bill, 242, note; de- feated, 1827, 242; rejoicing in the South over defeat, 242; reasons for opposition in the South, 242-243;
agitation against, in South Caro lina, 243-245; agitation in favor, in Pennsylvania and call for Harris- burg Convention, 246, 247, 248; re- newed agitation in South Carolina, 247-249; speech of Dr. Cooper at Columbia, 247-249; Dr. Cooper's resolutions, 249; Georgetown, South Carolina, resolutions, 249; the Har- risburg Convention and its memo- rial, 249-251; tariff and anti-tariff memorials, 251-254; tariff abominations," 254, 255; resistance to, 255-267; anti-tariff meetings in South Carolina, 255, 256; southern newspapers on a, 256-258, 259; nul- lification urged, 261; message of Governor of South Carolina, 262; action of Legislature, 262, 263; the "South Carolina Exposition," 263- 267; protests of South Carolina, Alabama, and Georgia, 267.
Qualifications. For the franchise, 376-377, 379, 381, 382, 383-388; for office, 377, 379, 380, 385-386, 388, 390-392; in Virginia, 392-394. Quarterly Review, The. Southey's attack on the American people, 309-312; reviews of works of travel in the United States, 315, 316; ar- ticles on America, 319, 321-324, 337- 339, 342.
Quincy, Josiah. Speech on the ad- mission of Louisiana, 409-411.
Railroads. The Stevens charter, 138; Dearborn applies to Congress, 138- 139; Stevens's letter to Mayor of Philadelphia, 139; charter from Pennsylvania, 139-140; "What is a railroad?" 140-141; model of loco- motive, 141; meeting at Philadel- phia, 141; Pennsylvania commis- sion, 141-142; Columbia, Lancaster and Philadelphia Railroad char- tered, 142; Mohawk and Hudson, 143; Granite Railway Company, 143; Massachusetts plans for rail- roads, 143; Stevens's circular road, 43-144; Pennsylvania charters, 144; Baltimore and Ohio, 144; railroads in the South, 144; in New Jersey, 144:-145; in Virginia, 145; mileage in 1830, 145; mechanical difficulties, 145; early road-beds, 145-146; early locomotives, 146-147.
Rails. Early kinds of, 146. Ramsey's History of the Revolu- tion in South Carolina," 284, 306. Randolph, John. Charges against, and duel with Clay, 500. Rapp, George, 89.
Rappites, 89; built Harmony, Pennsylvania, 89: New Harmony, Indiana, 89-90; sell to Owen, 90. Regency. The Albany, 70, 71. Religion. Lack of, in United States, 322.
Religious journals. Early number, 269; Virginia magazine, 271; early Philadelphia, 272: Presbyterian, 273; Episcopalian, 273; other maga- zines, 273, note; the Religious Re- membrancer, 274; of Boston, 274; number and circulation, 274, 275. Religious qualifications. In early State constitutions, 377; abolition
of, 378, 379; contest to abolish, in Maryland, 390-392; qualifications in Massachusetts, 390, note; New Jer- sey, Delaware, and North Caro- lina, 391, note. Founded,
Religious Remembrancer.
274. Removals from office. Jackson's theory, 525-526; removals under him, 527-537.
Representation. In early State con- stitutions, 375, 376, note; new ap- portionment in Virginia, 1829, 393. Republics, Spanish American. Rec- ognized by United States, 41-42; at- titude of Great Britain toward, 43; Canning on European intervention in affairs of, 44; Rush and Gallatin on, 44, note; Monroe on, 45. Resolutions. Congress, on independ- ence of South American repub- lics, 41, 42; Tennessee, nominating Jackson, 57; South Carolina, State rights, 252-253; Georgia, 253; Alabama, 253; South Carolina Ex- position," 263, 266, 402, 403; Penn- sylvania, 403-406; Delaware, 407; Connecticut, 408; Ohio, 413; Geor- gia, 413; Virginia, 414; Kentucky, 415-417; New York, on election of President, 510, 511; Maine and Mas- sachusetts, on State rights, 473–476. Revision. The Council of, in New York, 384-385.
Rhode Island. Case of Trevett vs. Weeden, 397-399, note; refusal to furnish militia, 407, 408; tariff me morial of Legislature, 251; schools in, few free, in colonial times, 351; first free school law, 1800, 352; re- pealed, 1803, re-enacted, 1828, 352; constitution of 1824, 390. Ritner, Joseph. Governor of Penn- sylvania, president of Harrisburg Convention, 250.
Rittenhouse, David. Heirs of, sued by Olmsted, 405–406.
Road. The national, 149, 150. Robbins, Ashur, Senator. Delegate to Harrisburg Convention, 250. Rochester, 135.
Working-men's can-
didate for Governor of New York, 107.
Ross, Judge, 403-404. Rouse's Point, 469-473.
Rush, Richard, 15; instructed as to our claims in Oregon, 22-23; Can- ning's proposition to, and reply of, 44; appointed Secretary of the Treasury, 433; nominated for Vice- President, 513.
Russia. Colonizes on Pacific coast, 18; claims to Oregon country, 20; the Alaskan boundary, 20-22; United States seeks assistance of, to end Spanish-South American war, 437-439.
Rutgers vs. Waddington, 397. Rutledge, Henry. Toast of, 258.
Santa Anna. Rebels against Itur- bide, 11; Secretary of War, 541. Santa Fé. Trade with, 168.
St. Croix. Settlement of De Monts, 464; determination of the river, 464-467.
St. John, New Brunswick, 485.
St. Mary's Bay, 464.
Say, Thomas. At New Harmony, 94. School, The Common. Present status, 343: in 1824, 343; beginnings in Massachusetts, acts of 1642, 1647, 343, 344; later colonial acts, 344; provision of first constitution and act of 1789, 344, note, 345; school- house, 345; the school tax, 345; the district school, 345, 346; introduc- tion of text-books, 346; the charac- ter of teachers, 346; grammar schools decline, 346, 347; acade- mies founded, 347, note; faults of the Massachusetts system, 347, 348; system of Connecticut, the colonial period, 348, 349; the Western Re- serve and the school fund, 349- 351; services of James Hillhouse, 350; decline of schools, 351; in Rhode Island, few free, 351; first free-school law, 1800, 352; repealed, 1803, re-enacted, 1828, 352; in New York State, no free schools in colo- nial times, 352; Governor Clinton's message, 352, 354; Board of Regents established, 352, 353; rivalry of Co- lumbia College, 353; University of the State of New York, 353; lot- teries and other efforts to raise a fund, 353, 354; a New York city society incorporated, 354, 355; the Lancastrian method, 355, 356; school districts system established, 356; in New Jersey, 356, 357; backward- ness of Delaware, 357; provisions of Pennsylvania's constitutions, 357; act of 1802, 357, 358; agitation for, 358, 359; free private schools, 359; Philadelphia schools, 359; Pennsyl vania, report, 359-361; negro schools, 360, 361; poor character of country schools, 361, 362; defects of the system, 362; character of, in Mary- land, 362; Baltimore schools, 362, 363; beginnings of primary system, 363; Maryland seeks Federal land grant, 364, 365; action of Congress and States, 365; State legislation, 365, 366; Virginia schools, Jeffer- son's plan for, 366; failure of legis- lation, 366; North Carolina, char- acter of, 366, 367; educational move- ment in Legislature, 367, 368; South Carolina system, 368; Georgia, early legislation, 369; Northwest Terri- tory, difficulties of establishment, 369, 370; Ohio, provisions of first constitution, 370: difficulty of en- forcement, 371; Indiana, neglect of, 371: Illinois, taxation for, resisted, 371; Kentucky, early efforts, 371, 372; Tennessee, 372. Schools. Working-men's, in Philadel- phia denounced, 87; free school in Pennsylvania, 87-88.
Scientific journals. Silliman's, 273; American Mineralogical, 273. Seamen. South Carolina Negro Sea- man Act, 200-204.
Search, The right of. In connection with slave-trade, 14, 15. 17. Secession. Suggested in South Caro- lina, 256; toasts at Charleston, 258, note; letter in Charleston Mercury, 259; sentiment in favor of, 260, 261.
Secretaries, Under Adams: State,
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