State of the broad Republic. In the East, the South, and the unbounded West, their blood mingles freely with every kindred current. We have but changed our chamber in the paternal mansion; in all its rooms we are at home, and all who inhabit it are our brothers. To us the Union has but one domestic hearth; its household gods are all the same. Upon us, then, peculiarly devolves the duty of feeding the fires upon that kindly hearth; of guarding with pious care those sacred household gods.
vex the waters of every sea. Bold and restless | as the old Northern Vikings, they go forth to seek their fortunes in the mighty deep. The ocean is their pasture, and over its wide prairies they follow the monstrous herds that feed upon its azure fields. As the hunter casts his lesso upon the wild horse, so they throw their lines upon the tumbling whale. They "draw out Leviathan with a hook." They "fill his skin with barbed irons," and in spite of his terrible strength they "part him among the merchants." To them there are no pillars of Hercules. They seek with avidity new regions, and fear not to be "the first that ever burst" into unknown seas. Had they been the companions of Colum-ern blood; how shall it be separated; who shall bus, the great mariner would not have been urged to return, though he had sailed westward to his dying day.
We cannot do with less than the whole Union; to us it admits of no division. In the veins of our children flows northern and south
put asunder the best affections of the heart, the noblest instincts of our nature? We love the land of our adoption, so do we that of our birth. Let us ever be true to both; and always exert ourselves in maintaining the unity of our country, the integrity of the Republic.
Accursed, then, be the hand put forth to
Glorious New England! thou art still true to thy ancient fame and worthy of thy ancestral honors. We, thy children, have assembled in this far-distant land to celebrate thy birth-day. A thousand fond associations throng upon us, rous-loosen the golden cord of Union; thrice aced by the spirit of the hour. On thy pleasant valleys rest, like sweet dews of morning, the gentle recollections of our early life; around thy hills and mountains cling, like gathering mists, the mighty memories of the Revolution; and far away in the horizon of thy past gleam, like thine own Northern Lights, the awful virtues of our Pilgrim Sires! But while we devote this day to the remembrance of our native land, we forget not that in which our happy lot is cast. We exult in the reflection that though we count by thousands the miles which separate us from our birth-place, still our country is the same. We are no exiles meeting upon the banks of a foreign river, to swell its waters with our home-sick tears. Here floats the same banner which rustled above our boyish heads, except that its mighty folds are wider and its glittering stars increased in number.
The sons of New England are found in every
cursed the traitorous lips, whether of northern fanatic or southern demagogue, which shall propose its severance. But no! the Union cannot be dissolved; its fortunes are too brilliant to be marred; its destinies too powerful to be resisted. Here will be their greatest triumph, their most mighty development. And when, a century hence, this Crescent City shall have filled her golden horns; when, within her broadarmed port shall be gathered the products of the industry of a hundred millions of freemen; when galleries of art and halls of learning shall have made classic this mart of trade; then may the sons of the Pilgrims, still wandering from the bleak hills of the north, stand upon the banks of the great river, and exclaim with mingled pride and wonder, Lo! this is our country: when did the world ever witness so rich and magnificent a city-so great and glorious a Republic!
455; as President, 456; notices of, 54, 247, 281, 860, 886
436.
▲ Countryman," De Witt Clinton's essays under the ADAMS, JOHN, SENIOR, i. 819.
signature of, i. 565.
ADAIR, JAMES, his literary productions and character, i.
263.
ADAMS, ABIGAIL, mother of John Quincy Adams, ii. 247.
ADAMS, CHARLES, ii. 247.
ADAMS, JOHN, birth and parentage of; graduates at Harvard
College; teaches school in Worcester, Mass.; his opinion
of school-keeping; commences the study of law; enters
on practice in Braintree; death of his father; his mar-
riage; Stamp Act; deputed to appear as the counsel of
Boston, to urge the opening of the courts, i. 232; dis-
sertations on the Canon and Feudal law; removes to
Boston; labors of his profession; defence of the sol-
diers; ill health; returns to Braintree; contributions
to the Massachusetts Gazette; arrival of General Gage;
refusal of General Gage to admit him to a seat in the
Governor's council; elected to the Congress of 1774,
233; chosen commissioner to France; sails for Europe;
his return; appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to ne-
gotiate a treaty of peace with Great Britain; his ser-
vices in Europe; appointed to negotiate a loan, and a
treaty with Holland; the treaty of peace; appointed
first minister to England; returns to America; elected
Vice-president of the United States; elected President;
his appearance on the day of his inauguration, 284; re-
tirement; chosen President of the Massachusetts Con-
vention for the revision of the constitution; his death,
285.
Speech in defence of the British soldiers, 1770, 235;
the distinction between murder and manslaughter, 241;
Inaugural address, 1797; Batavian and Helvetic confed-
eracies, 248; tribute to Washington, 249; his summary
of Otis's speech on Writs of Assistance, 6; tenders the
chief-justiceship to John Jay, 158; at Amsterdam, 156;
notice of John Hancock's oration on the Boston massa-
cre; account of a conversation between, and Samuel
Adams, relative to John Hancock, 225; difference with
the Count de Vergennes, 801; anecdote of, 482; speech
to the Congress on French aggressions; answer to, 491;
notice of, 120, 296, 832, 850, 556; desirous of peace with
France, ii. 9; in England, 1785, 41; journal of, quoted,
134; John Randolph's definition of the republicanism
of, 185; William Wirt's discourse on the life and char-
acter of, 433; letter from Worcester, 1755, 446; in the
Continental Congress, 1774, 448; character of, by Wil-
liam Wirt, 450, 452; at the Hague, 454; "defence of the
American Constitutions," 455; discourses on Davila,
ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY, birth and ancestors; education; goes
to Europe, ii. 247; University of Leyden; visits Russia
and England, 247; Jefferson's opinion of; letter from
John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse; return to Amer-
ica; enters Harvard University; studies law with The-
ophilus Parsons, 248; his practice; contributes to the
Boston Centinel; "Publicola;" "Marcellus;" appoint-
ed on a mission to the Netherlands, &c.; return to
America; elected to Congress; the mission to Russia;
treaty of Ghent, 249; appointed Secretary of State; his
career; elected President of the United States, 249; re-
election to Congress; his character; his literary produc-
tions, 250; his "Poems of Religion and Society;" his
death, 250; oration at Plymouth, 1802; character of La-
fayette, 257; tribute to the memory of James Madison,
i. 126; address before the Massachusetts Charitable Fire
Society, 552; remarks in the case of John Smith, ii.
147; notice of, 541.
ADAMS, SAMUEL, notices of, i. 2, 225, 296; birth; Master
Lovell's school; Harvard College; preparation for the
ministry; college Thesis; "Englishmen's rights;" lit-
erary discipline; character; public duties, 319; enters
political life; "the Father of the Revolution;" pre-
pares instructions of the town of Boston; the opinion of
the loyalists, of the Stamp Act difficulties; chosen to
the Massachusetts legislature; his zeal for freedom;
death of Charles Townsend, and inauguration of Lord
North; election to the Continental Congress; the cir-
cular letter, 820; eloquence of; his writings; specimen
of his eloquence; anecdote of a rejoinder to Mather
Byles; popularity of; General Gage's overtures; ac-
count of his reply to General Gage, 321; his manuscripts,
321; Congress of 1774 suggested by him; chosen secre.
tary of Massachusetts; Gage's proclamation; Declara
tion of Independence; his oration; the American army;
the overtures of the British commissioners; instructions
to the committee of Congress, appointed to confer with
the commissioners; the "smallest" but "truest" Con.
gress, 322; treaty of peace; returns to Boston; elected
governor; his old age; his religion; personal appear.
ance of; his character, and death, 823; Sullivan's sketch
of the life of, 323.
Oration on American Independence, 324; England "a
nation of shopkeepers;" debaucheries of Caligula, Nero,
and Charles; expedition against Carthagena; treaty of
Utrecht, 325; natural freedom of man, 826; the su-
premacy of Great Britain and liberty of America incom-
patible, 827; method of acquiring eminence in mon-
archies, 228; benefits of independence; natural capa-
bilities of America; productions; duty to posterity,
829, 880.
Addresses; from the colonies to Great Britain, i. 43; to the
inhabitants of Great Britain, by John Jay, 152; to the
people of Great Britain, 159.
AGAZZIS, LOUIS, ii. 180.
Albany Confederacy, i. 37.
Albany, Burgoyne approaches, i. 154.
resentatives disapproving the trial and execution of,
ii. 273.
Arkansas, the number of slaves in 1804 in, ii. 46.
Army, increase of the; John Randolph's speech on, ii. 181;
John C. Calhoun's speech on, 475.
Army and Navy, James A. Bayard's remarks on the, ii. 91.
Army Bill, the new; Henry Clay's speech on the, ii. 264
ARMSTRONG, Mr., i. 532.
ARNOLD, BENEDICT, invasion of Virginia, ii. 8; expedition
to Quebec, 144.
ALEXANDER, JAMES, biographical sketch of, i. 82; origin of Ashburton Treaty, ii. 360.
William Livingston's difficulty with, 83.
Alien Bill, Edward Livingston's speech on the, ii. 220.
ALLEN, JOHN, commandant of the fort at Machias, Maine,
ii. 181.
ALLEN, MR., testimony in the trial of J. F. Knapp, ii. 406.
Alliance Medal, see Sir William Jones.
ALSTON, WASHINGTON, ii. 335.
AMBLER, MISS, wife of Chief Justice Marshall, ii. 8.
AMBRISTER, ROBERT C., resolutions of the House of Repre-
sentatives disapproving the trial and execution of, ii.
273.
America, the late regulations respecting the British colo-
nies on the continent of; considered, i. 278; rewards of
authorship in, ii. 427.
American Annual Register, i. 528; ii. 85.
American Army, rules and regulations of, adopted, 1. 152.
American Bar, sketches of the, ii. 858.
American Colonies, vindication of, by James Wilson, i. 68.
American Independence, the advantages of, i. 810; Samuel
Adams' oration on, 824.
American Indians, The, ii. 438.
Athens, N. Y., death of Samuel Dexter at, ii. 239.
ATTALUS, compared with Washington, i. 554.
ATTUCKS, CHRISPUS, i. 60.
Augmentation of Military Force, Henry Clay's speech on,
ii. 260.
AUSTIN, CHARLES, murder of, ii. 239.
Authorship, the rewards of, in America, ii. 427.
BACON, LEONARD, D. D., his sketch of the life of James Hiv
house, ii. 145.
BALCH, MR.-See Knapp's trial.
BALDWIN, ABRAHAM, death of, i. 432.
BALL, MARY, the mother of Washington, i. 251.
BALL, MR.-See trial of R. M. Goodwin.
Baltimore, Md., General Henry Lee injured in a riotst
i. 449.
BANCROFT, GEORGE, manuscripts of Samuel Adams in the
possession of; i. 821.
American Navigation Act, Rufus King's speech on the, | Bank of North America, established, i. 185.
ii. 85.
American Quarterly Review, quoted, i. 83.
American Revolution, songs and ballads of the, i. 275; the
consequences of, ii. 367; Botta's history of, 452.
Americans," the hope of human nature," i. 266.
American Ships, imprisonment of seamen on board, ii. 83.
American Statesmen, the homes of, ii. 261.
American System, ii. 260, 304.
American Whig Review, ii. 580.
Ames' Astronomical Diary, i. 91.
AMES, FISHER, birth and parentage of; early education; en-
ergy of his character; early manifestations in oratory;
graduates at Harvard University; studies law; enthu-
siastic admiration of the old poets; commences prac-
tice; enters into politics; political writings; "Lucius
Junius Brutus;" "Camillus," i. 91; elected to the Mas-
sachusetts legislature; chosen a member of Congress;
opposes Mr. Madison's resolutions; supports Mr. Jay's
treaty; failing health; returns to his home, and resumes
the practice of law; his political writings; is called to
the presidency of Harvard College; declines on account|
of ill health; his death; speech on Madison's resolu-
tions, i. 92; Dr. Charles Caldwell's estimate of the ora-
tory of, 92; speech on the British treaty, 104; notices
of, 551, 557, 558; at Philadelphia, ii. 9; in the Massachu-
setts Federal Convention, 34.
AMES, LEVI, i. 552.
AMES, NATHANIEL, i. 91.
AMHERST, SIR JEFFREY, ii. 857.
Analectic, i. 400; ii. 53, 55.
"Ancient Dominion,” origin of the term of, i. 40.
Annapolis, Md., Robert Goodloe Harper's speech at, i. 490;
King William school at, ii. 93.
Apportionment Bill, John Randolph's remarks in the de-
bate on the, ii. 156.
ARBUTHNOT, ALEXANDER, resolutions of the House of Rep-
Bank of Pennsylvania, i. 185.
Bank of the United States, John Randolph opposes the
establishment of; remarks on, ii. 158; notice of, 159,
859; Clay's speech on the charter of, 261.
BAPTISTS in Virginia, persecution of, i. 125.
Barancas, San. Carlos, de, the fortress of taken, ii. 284.
Barbadoes, address to the committee of correspondence in,
by John Dickinson, i. 274.
BARBAULD, Mrs., ii. 428.
BARBER, FRANCIS, tutor of Alexander Hamilton, i. 183.
BARBOUR, P. P., John Randolph's reply to the speech of,
on the Tariff, 1824, ii. 170; notices of 83, 287, 296, 303,
810.
BARLOW, JOEL, ii. 841, 850.
BARRE, COL., speech of, on the stamp act, ii. 876.
BARSTOw, Dr., see Knapp's trial.
BARTLETT, JOHN R., Reminiscences of Albert Gallatin by,
ii. 130.
BARTLETT, JOSIAH, i. 296.
BASSETT, Mr., ii. 800.
Batavian Confederacy, i. 248.
BAYARD, Dr. JAMES A., father of James A. Bayard, ii. 52.
BAYARD, JAMES A., ancestry of; birth and education; death
of his father; joins the family of his uncle, ii. 52.; enters
the College of New Jersey; College life; studies law with
General Joseph Reed; removes to the office of Jared
Ingersoll, 52; admitted to practice; election to Congress;
his career, 52; the impeachment of William Blount; the
first election of President Jefferson, described; appointed
minister to France, declines; defence of Mr. Bayard's
political course, by William Sullivan, 58; debates on
the judiciary; chosen to the United States Senate;
appointed Peace Commissioner; the treaty of Ghent, 54;
appointed minister to Russia; declines; visits Paris; ill-
ness; death, 55.
Speech on the Judiciary; reference to the remarks o
Mr. Giles, 56; State debts; internal taxes, 57; X. Y. Z.
Talleyrand, Mr. Gerry, Washington; the constitution,
59; the responsibility of judges; impeachment of justice
in England, 60; sedition act; the ecclesiastical establish-
ment, 61; Mr. Giles explains; the pulpit charged with
federalism; the expediency of the judiciary law consid-
ered, 62; Supreme Court; district courts; circuit courts,
63; the effect of placing judges of the Supreme Court in
circuit courts, 64; circuit court described; character of
the judges; inconvenience felt from division in opinion;
defects of the former judicial system, 65; the new sys-
tem an improvement; jurisdiction; compensation;
Judges of the Supreme Court, 66; state of the circuit
courts considered; jurisdiction of the district courts;
objections to the late establishment, answered, 67; ex-
pense of the federal judiciary; paucity of causes in fede-
ral courts, 68; changes in the nation of France; Brissot,
Robespierre, Tallien and Barras; Bonaparte, 69; "Has
the legislature a right by law to remove a judge?" 69;
judges to hold their offices through good behavior;
further remarks, 70; tenure of office, 70; ordinance of
1787; answer to Mr. Thompson; statute of William III.,
72; court of "piepoudre;" the constitution predicated
upon the integrity of man, 73; parties in the House at
the time of the passage of the judiciary act, 78; Mr.
Read of S. C., Mr. Green of R. L, 74; election of Mr.
Jefferson, his conduct reviewed, 75; power of Congress
to establish courts; judges have their offices for one
term, 76; district judges of Kentucky and Tennessee;
power of the government limited, 77; the judicial act
of 1789, 79; judges should be independent of political
changes, 80.
Speech on the repeal of the embargo, 1809; the reso-
lution of Mr. Giles; motion to amend Mr. Giles" plan
considered, 80; orders in council and imperial decrees;
England and France; war with England, the object of
the resolution, 81; means to secure peace neglected,
81; differences between the nations considered; the rule
of 1756; constructive blockade, 82; impressment of sea-
men on board American ships, 83; Mr. Fox, 85; attack
of the Leopard upon the Chesapeake, 86; further remarks;
the purpose of the embargo, 87; opposition in the East-
ern States, 88; correspondence between Mr. Canning
and Mr. Pinkney; considered, 89: benefits not to be gain-
ed by non-intercourse and embargo, 90; further remarks
upon the speech of Mr. Giles, 91; the army and navy;
extract from Mr. Bayard's speech of 12th of February,
1810, 91; notices of, i. 120; ii. 22, 261.
BAYARD, JOHN, notice of, ii. 52.
BAYARD PIERRE DU TERRAIL, Chevalier sans peur et sans
reproche, ii. 52.
BECK, PAUL, see "Fort Wilson,"
BECKFORD, Mrs., in the trial of J. F. Knapp, fi. 404.
Beef and Pork, sent from the United States to the British
West Indies, 1773; and from England, 1780; exported
from Ireland seven years prior to 1777, i. 101
BEEKMAN, HENRY, i. 350.
Beith in Ayrshire, i. 290.
Belgic Confederacy, i. 366.
BELL, WILLIAM, letter to the commandant of Fort Hawkins,
September 1817, ii. 276.
Belsham's Memoirs of the reign of George III. i. 275.
Bennington, battle of, ii. 357, 364.
BENTON, THOMAS H., estimate of the character and services
of William B. Giles, by, ii. 190; sketch of the character
of Robert T. Hayne, ii. 556, 557; notice of, 371.
BERKELEY, ADMIRAL, ii. 86.
BERKELEY, SIR WILLIAM, i. 40.
Berlin, ministers to, i. 511, 513.
Blackwood's Magazine, i. 290.
Bladensburg, Md. ii. 439.
BLAND, FRANCES, wife of John Randolph, ii. 155.
BLAND, THEODORIC, notice of, ii. 153.
BLANDY, MARY, trial of, i. 539.
BLANNERHASSETT, Wirt's description of, ii. 467.
BLANNERHASSETT'S ISLAND, i. 174; ii. 467.
BLEECKER, MR., of New York, ii. 267, 276.
BLOUNT, WILLIAM, the case of, ii. 53, 147; expulsion of, 143;
Kentucky memorial, 148.
BLOUNT, MR, resolutions of concerning the British treaty, L
104, 111.
BOERHAAVE H. DR., his opinion of the poor, i. 347.
BOLLMAN AND SWARTWOUT, case of, ii. 463.
Bolton's History of Westchester County, New York, 1. 458.
BONAPARTE, JOSEPH, his claim to the crown of Spain, ii. 341.
BONAPARTE, the jailer of, i. 526; "the nation of France,"
ii. 69, 356; his opinions of protection, 314.
BOND, DR, of Philadelphia, i. 308, 346.
BONHAM
Boston evacuated by the British, i. 557; banks of, ii. 570.
Boston Centinel, ii. 249.
Boston Chronicle, quotation from, i. 60.
Boston Gazette, i. 274.
Boston Massacre, account of, i. 60; Joseph Warren's oration
on, 60; John Hancock's oration on, 227; John Adams'
defence of the soldiers of the, 235; Robert Treat Paine's
argument in the case of the, 247; notice of, ii. 448;
Minot's oration on the, i. 551; Josiah Quincy, Jr., de-
fence of the soldiers of the, i. 336.
Boston Port Bill, James Wilson's resolution against the;
offered in Convention of Pennsylvania, January, 1775,
i. 71; meeting in New York relative to the, 152; the
"meeting in the fields" at New York, in reference to
the; Alexander Hamilton's speech on, 184; notice of, 233.
Boston Transcript, Sigma's sketches in the, ii. 238.
BOTTA, CHARLES, his history of the American Revolution,
ii. 452; his reports of the speeches of R. H. Lee and John
Dickinson, 452.
BOUDINOT, ELIAS, parentage and education of; studies law
with Richard Stockton; marries; death of his wife; his
political course; appointed commissary-general of prison.
ers; delegate to the Continental Congress; elected pres-
ident of Congress; Federal Constitution; re-elected to
Congress, i. 262; appointed director of the Mint; retire-
ment; New Jersey College; Board of Foreign Missions;
American Bible Society; elected president of; donation
to the Society; his death; literary tastes and produc-
tions, 263; his life of William Tennent, 263.
Oration before the Cincinnati; great men raised up
for great events; obligations of mankind to patriots;
Warren and Montgomery, 264; equality and rights of
men; universal brotherhood; self-government, 265;
Americans, "the hope of human nature;" the "highest
officers the first servants of the people;" origin of the
Society of the Cincinnati, 266, 267; equality; capability;
rights of women; Columbus and Isabella, 268; dedica-
tion to General Washington, 269; speech on Non-Inter-
course with Great Britain; reasons for his vote; Mr.
Clark's motion; Mr. Smith, of Maryland; his services;
prisoners at Algiers; constitutionality of Mr. Clark's
motion, 270; America in 1776; non-importation agree-
ment; Mississippi and the Lakes, 271; patron of Alez
ander Hamilton, i. 183.
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