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Lien laws. Attempt to secure, 86.
Lincoln, Benjamin, 465.

Lincoln, Levi. On schools, 346.
Literature, American. British criti-
cism of, 329, 341; Everett's defence
of, 335, 336.

Literature. Lack of early, 268; age
of political writing, 268, 269; age
of magazines, 269; number and
character of, 269-271; the new
epoch, 272; medical journals, 272,
273; scientific journals, 273; legal
magazines, 273; theological and re-
ligious magazines, 273, 274, note;
theatrical magazines, 275, note;
ladies' magazines, 275, note; liter-
ary magazines, 276, 277; books for
young women, 277, 278; juveniles,
275, note, 278; political, 278–279;
French influence on, 279, 280; Eng-
lish books read, 280-283; Philadel-
phia a centre for, 281-283, notes;
new school of fiction, 283; diversity
of early writing, 284; pessimistic
view of American literature, 284,
285; optimistic view, 285, 286; Eng-
lish influence upon American, 286-
290; Irving's writings and influence,
291-293; Marshall's Life of Wash-
ington," 293, 294, note; Franklin's

Life and Writings," 293-297;
Cooper's novels, success at home
and abroad, 297-301; Cooper's liter-
ury contemporaries, 301; Bryant's
early verse, 301, 302; review of
American poetry, 302; compensa-
tion of authors, 303, 304; Sparks's
work, 304-306; Quarterly Review's
criticism, 315, 316, 323; Sydney
Smith's criticism, 318; Blackwood
Magazine criticism, 324, 325; Brit-
ish Review's comments, 325, 326.
Livingston, Edward, 475.
Locomotive. Model of a steam loco-
motive in Baltimore, 141; early
kinds, 146, 147.

London. Newspapers of, on Monroe
Doctrine, 48-50.

Long Island Sound. Steam naviga-
tion, 130.

Long, Major. Description of the
Northwest, 27, note.

Long, James. Leads an expedition
in Texas, 6; establishes a republic,
7; fate of the expedition, 7.
Longfellow, H. W. Early writings
of, 301, 303.

Lotteries for schools. In New York,

353, 354; in Maryland, 363.
Lotteries. Forbidden by New York,
388.

Louisiana. Grant to, for schools, 364;
discussion over the admission of,
408-411.

Louisville, 166–167.

Lowndes, William. Named for Presi-
dent, 56.

Lundy, Benjamin. Sketch of, 209;
genius of universal emancipation,
209; meets Garrison, 210, 211.

Maclure, William. At New Harmony,
94.

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Madison, James. On European in-
tervention, 50-51; cited by Cal-
houn, 266.

Magazines. Age of, 269; number and
distribution of early, 269; a typical
prospectus, 269, 270; character and
contents, 270, 271; titles of, 2.1;
the new epoch, 272; medical, 272,
273; scientific, 273; legal, 273; theo-
logical and religious, 273, 274, note;
theatrical, 275, note; juvenile, 275,
note; musical, 275; ladies' journals,
275, note; the Port Folio, 276;
the North American Review, 276,
277.

Magee, Lieutenant A. W. In Texas, 4.
Maine. Disputed boundary, 463-

476; resistance to northeast bound-
ary award, 473-476.
Mallory, Rollin C., Representative.
Member of Harrisburg Convention,
250; chairman of Committee on
Manufactures, 251.

Manufactures. Investments in, in
North and South in 1820, 229, 230;
variety of industries in North, 229,
230; capital and number of workers
in 1825, 230; committee on, in
House of Representatives, 1823,
1824, 231, 232; 1827, 251; report of
South Carolina, 252, 253; resolu-
tions of Georgia, 253; resolutions
of Alabama, 253, 254.
Manufacturers. Petitions of, for pro-
tective tariff, 232; competition of
British, 240, 241; meeting of New
England, in Boston, 1826, 241; com-
mittee of, visit Congress, 242.
Manumission Society of North Caro-
lina, 214.

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Map, Mitchell's, 464, 471.
Marshall, John. Life of Washing-
ton, 293, 294, note.
Marshall, John. Influence of, 412.
Mars Hill, 468–472.

Maryland. Status of free negro in,
185; wants more stringent fugi-
tive slave laws, 217; Delaware
and Pennsylvania comply, 218;
schools in, character of, 362; Bal-
timore religious and benevolent
schools, 362, 363; beginnings of pri-
mary system, 363; State seeks pub-
lic lands from Congress, 363, 364;
State legislation, 365, 366; dis-
qualifications of Jews, 390-391; op-
position of, to Conscript Bill,"
412.

Mason, George, 395.

Masonic orders. Rivalry in Mexico,
540, 541.

Masons. Kidnapping of Morgan, 109-
112: trial of, 113-114: rise of anti-
masonic party, 112-120.
Massachusetts. Status of free negro
in, 196-197.
Massachusetts.

Seat of woollen
manufactures. 241; vote of senators
of, on tariff. 1827, 242: the common-
school system of, 343-348; begin-

INDEX.

nings of, 343, 344; later colonial
acts, 344; provision of constitution
of 1780 and act of 1789, 344, note,
345; school-houses, 345; school tax,
345; the district school, 345, 346; in-
troduction of text-books, 346; char-
acter of teachers, 346; grammar
schools decline, 346, 347; academies
founded, 347, note; faults of the
system, 347, 348; applies to Con-
gress for advice, 374; Constitu-
tional Convention, Webster on suf-
frage, 388-390; proposed amend-
ment limiting duration of embargo,
430, 431; opposition to suits against
States, 402; refusal to furnish mili-
tia, 407, 408; opposition to embargo,
411; calls Hartford Convention,
412; reply of, to Ohio's bank reso-
lutions, 414; protest against north-
east boundary award, 474.
Medical Museum. Founded, 272.
Medicine and Surgery, New England
Journal, 272, 273.

Medical Journals. Early number,
269; early Philadelphia, 272; new
journals, 272, note, 273.

Memorials to Congress. Protective
tariff, pro and con, 1824, 232, 233;
of New England woollen manufac
turers, 1826, 241; Massachusetts,

increased protection to woollen

manufactures, 1826, 242; from vari-
ous bodies in South Carolina
against a protective tariff, 1827,
244, 245; Harrisburg Convention,
250, 251; its memorial referred to
Committee on Manufactures, 251;
tariff memorials from Northern
States, 251; from Southern States,
251-254; from Ohio and New Jer-
sey, 254; various tariff and anti-
tariff, 254; protests of South Caro-
lina, Alabama, and Georgia, 267;
protest against jurisdiction of Fed-
eral courts, 415.

Message. Origin of the President's
annual, 424-425.

Methodist magazines, 272, 274, note;
Zion's Herald, 274.

Metternich. His reactionary work
in Naples, 33.

Mexico. Rebels against Spain, 3;
Hidalgo, 3, 4; Gutierres, 4; Toledo,
4; Moselos, 5; Aury, 5; fate of the
expedition, 6; Mina, 5-6; Long's
Texas expedition, 6-7; Austin seeks
a land grant, 7-8; rebels against
Spain, 9; Iturbide, the plan of Igua-
la, 9, 10; approved by O'Donojú, 10;
the treaty of Cordova, 10; First
Mexican Congress, 10; applicants
for Texas land grants, 10; Iturbide
proclaimed Emperor, 10; dismisses
Congress, 11; colonization law, 11;
Santa Anna rebels, 11; Iturbide ex-
pelled, 12; constitution formed, 12;
calls on the United States to en-
force Monroe Doctrine, 53-54: inter-
est in Panama Congress, 433, 434;
United States urges suspension of
expedition against Cuba, 438; in-
structions of our Minister. 439, 440;
fears French fleet, 439, 440; criti-
cism of Administration's policy
with, 445, 452, 453; boundary con-
troversy with, 459-463; refusal to
sell Texas, 460, 461; Jackson ad-

567

ministration futile attempt to re-
adjust boundary, 461-463; rival ma-
sonic parties in, and politics, 540,
541; insurrection in, 541, 542; Vau
Buren opens negotiations with, for
Texas, 542, 543; request recall of
Poinsett, 549; Butler appointed
chargé d'affaires to Mexico, 549;
Van Buren's letter to, reviews hos-
tility to Mexico, 549-551; popular
opposition to sale of Texas in, 551,
552; Alaman, Mexican Secretary of
State, reviews policy of United
States, 552, 553; advises prompt
action in Texas, 553, 554; passes
law excluding citizens of United
States from Texas, 554, note.
Middle States. Industrial develop-
ment of, 230.
Middleton, Henry. Instructed as to
our claims to Oregon, 21-22; con-
cludes a convention, 22; instructed
to ask Russia to interpose in behalf
of Spanish colonies, 437-439.
Milledgeville on tariff, 259.
Miller, David C., 109; his connection
with Morgan, 109-110, 111.

Mills, Lack of. In South, 228; in
New England, 229; in Middle States,
230; increase in cotton and woollen,
after tariff act of 1824, 240.
Mina, Xavier, 5, 6.

Miner, Charles, Member of Congress.
Efforts to abolish slave-trade in
District of Columbia, 221–226.
Mineralogical Journal, American.
Founded, 273.

Mirror, The Thespian, 275.
Mississippi river. Navigation of, 166;
scenes on the river, 167-168.
Mitchell, Dr. Samuel L., 291.
Monroe Doctrine. Washington on
our European relations, 29; Jeffer-
son on, 30; Holy Alliance formed,
31-32; quadruple treaty, 32; liberal
movements in Europe, 32-35; Con-
gress of Aix, 35-36; revolt of Span-
ish colonies, 35-36; Monroe on dan-
gers from, 36-37, note; rebellion
In Spain, 37-38; in Naples, 38-39; in
Portugal, 39; Congresses at Trop-
pau and Laybach, 39; the Laybach
circular, 39; liberalism crushed in
Naples, 40; United States recog-
nizes independence of South Amer-
ican Republics, 41-42; Congress
of Vienna and Verona, 43; France
invades Spain, 43-44; Canning's
proposal to Rush, 44; Gallatin's
letter to Chateaubriand, 44, note;
Monroe consults Jefferson, 45-46;
the doctrine announced, 46-48; re-
ception of, in England, 47-48;
Clay's resolution on, 51-52; instruc-
tions to Poinsett. 53; Mexico calls
on the United States to enforce,
53-54: Hayne's interpretation of
the, 444; White's view of, 444, 445;
Adams's and Clay's views of, at-
tacked, 452-455; Buchanan's view
of, 456, 457; Webster's presenta-
tion of, 457-459.
Monroe, James. Inaugurated, 1;
makes Jackson Governor of Flor-
ida. 1; action regarding the slave-
trade. 16-18; Oregon message, 20;
on dangers from Europe, 36-37;
authorized to send Ministers to

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.

367.

Murphy, Archibald D. Father of
the common schools,'
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.

Province

of,

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.

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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
of "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

INDEX.

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.
280.

French, in America,

Delegate to Har-
Niles, Hezekiah.
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-
366, 367: educational
acter of,
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
"South
Carolina Legislature, 263:
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.

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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
Owen, Robert.

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SO-

"154.
out-oven,
At New Lanark, 88;
buys Harmony, 90; lectures on his
plan, 90-91; the preliminary
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.
New Har-
Owenite communities.
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,
message and
440, 441: Adams's
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-
445-449;
aroused,
ery interests
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-
debate in the
firmed, 449, 450;
House, 450-459; House calls for
papers, 450, 451; resolution on ex-
pediency of appropriating funds,
451; Webster's constitutional argu-
Buchanan's
ment. 451,
Administra-
resolution, 451, 452;

457-459;

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.

Parley, Peter, 301.

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,
373: 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

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