447-451: A NEW ENGLAND OPINION OF
THE DUTCH. 579-585-
Commissioners to the northern colonies,
report i, 428-430.

Committee of New York Legislature,

PERILS OF STATE BANKING, ii, 441-445-
Committee of Seven, Study of History in
Schools, ini, 1, 3. iv. 1.

"Common Sense," THREATS OF SECESSION,
IV, 159-162.

Commons, House of, THE STATE OF THE
COLONIES, 11, 407-411.

Compacts, among states, iii, 127-128.
Companies for colonization, records, i, 5-
17; Virginia, 172; Plymouth, 175: Council
for New England, 175; Massachusetts,
178. See also colonies by name.
Compensation. –
-See Salary.
Compromise, of 1850, in Congress, iv, 48-
58; Webster on, 52-55: opposed by
Seward, 56-58; extent of principle, 97.
112; attempts in 1860-1861, 193–195, 204-
210; objections to, 199-203; peace con-
ference, 204-209; Crittenden, 209-210;
futility of attempts at, 238. - See also
Missouri Compromise, Slavery.

Conciliation, opposed by Patrick Henry,
i1, 586-587.

Concord (Mass.), conflict at, ii, 546-550.
Concord (N.H.), Records, ii, 17.
Confederate States, proposed by Alabama,
iv, 188-189; Davis on principles of, 189-
192; reliance on cotton, 192; tax in kind,
226, 249; proceedings in Congress, 240-
243; hopes of foreign recognition, 240;
war policy, 241-243; conscription ex-
emption for large slaveholders, 241-242;
paper money, 247-251; speculation, 248,
252-255: prices, 248-255; financial legis-
lation, 249; barter in, 249-250; scarcity
in, 250-251; Richmond in 1865, 251-255;
criticism of the government, 251-255;
price of gold, 253: friendliness of
Napoleon III, 301-303; development of
war supplies, 319-323; government block-
ade-runners, 323; confidence of success,
371; Lincoln's offer of pardon, 459-460,
exceptions, 460; reëstablishment of state
governments in, by loyal citizens, 460-461,
463; no legal state governments in, 463-
464, 471; a conquered country, 473-474.

-See also Army (Confederate), Civil
War. Emancipation, Freedmen, Recon-
struction, Secession, Slavery, South.
Confederation, difficulties in framing Arti-
cles of, ii, 539-543: Maryland refuses to
join 591-593: completed, 604; in general,
in, 120-197; revenues, 120-122; public
debt, 121; preferred creditor, 121; inade-
quacy, 125; treatment by states, 126–130;
foreign relations, 127; Jedidiah Morse
on, 131-137: Thomas Paine on, 168;
Hamilton on, 177-182, 246; lack of au-
thority, 181; public opinion, 185-187.-
See also Congress, Revolution.
Confiscation Act, Greeley on, iv, 398.
Congress, First Continental, meeting, ii.
434-439; Adams's estimate, 438.
Congress, Second Continental, THE NE
CESSITY OF SELF-DEFENCE, ii, 442-445:
proceedings, 525-530; debate over inde-
pendence, 537-539; debate over slavery,
539-541; debate over voting. 541-542:
debate over state boundaries, 542-543.
falling-off in character, 543-545: appealed
to by Washington, 560-562; recompense
promised to Steuben, 585.

Congress, Stamp Act, statement of rights
and grievances, ii, 402-404.

Congress of the United States (Confeder-
ation), Journals, ii, 12, 445. iii, 8, 147.
200; Secret Journals, ii, 12, 593, 600, iii,
9; receives Washington's resignation, ii,
627-629; revenues, iii, 132; CHARTER
OF THE FIRST TERRITORIAL COLONY,
143-147; Northwest Ordinance, 154-158;
CALL OF A CONVENTION, 198-200.-
See also Confederation.
Congress of the United States, library, ii,
10; discussions on tariff, iii, 262-264. 434-
436; on seat of government, 269-272; on
Jay Treaty, 315-319; on Louisiana, 373-
376, 410-414; on War of 1812, 417-420;
on internal improvements, 436-440; on
the Constitution, 536-540, 544-548; on
slavery, 622-625, iv, 142-144; on free
speech, iii, 633-636; on Texas, 652-655; on
Wilmot Proviso, iv, 38-40; on extension
of the Constitution to territories, 40-43:
on compromise of 1850, 48-55, 56-58;
control of slavery in territories, 130-131,
133-135; debate on secession, 169-175,

199-201; coercion of seceding states, 198;
discussion of emancipation, 402-405; re-
admission of southern members, 452,
461, 471; power of reconstruction in, 463-
464. 473-474; amendments to the Con-
stitution, 465-467, 482-485, 492-494:
Johnson on reconstruction policy of,
469-470; reconstruction theory of, 471-
475; usurpations of, 477; basis of repre-
sentation in, 483; control of suffrage,
493; electioneering-fund appropriations,
501-502; discussion on coinage, 529-531;
resolutions on Cuba, 577; discussion on
imperialism, 608-611. See also Consti-
tution, Government, Politics.
Congress (ship), destroyed by the Merri-
mac, iv, 331-333.

British, ii, 144-149; of New Hampshire,
534-537. See also Charters, Govern-
ment, colonies by name, and next title.
Constitution, of the United States, framing
of, iii, 211-232; arguments against, 228-
232, 235-237, 247-249, 251-254; ratifica-
tion of, 233-254; action of Congress, 233-
234; adoption in Massachusetts, 239-242;
Hamilton's defence of, 242-246; difficulties
in framing, 243; balance of powers under,
245; adoption in Virginia, 249-251; Mar-
shall on, 446-450; Webster on, 536-540;
Calhoun on, 544-548; extension over terri-
tories, iv, 40-43, 130-131, 133; framed to
foster free labor, 140; a compact, 170;
acts directly on the people, 176; supreme
law, 176; not a compact, 176-178; per-
petual, 178; and Republican party, 199-
203; amendments proposed, 204, 208;
secession inoperative against, 462, 470;
only law over states in rebellion, 463, 473:
thirteenth amendment, 465-467; Congress
endangers, 477; fourteenth amendment,
482-485; fifteenth amendment, 492-494.

See also Articles of Confederation, Con-
federation, Convention (Federal), Gov-
ernment, Secession, States, United States.
Constitution (ship), combat with the Java,
iii, 414-417.
Constitutionalists, in Pennsylvania, iii, 73-76.
Contraband of war, question in Trent affair,
iv, 298-301; slaves as, 390-391.
Convention, Federal, called by Congress, iii,
198-200; preparations for, 203-204; char-
acters in, 205-211; debate on slavery and
the slave trade, 214-221; close, 221-228.
Convention, Maryland, proceedings, ii, 519-
524; Annapolis, iii, 185-187.- See also
Revolution, and next title.
Convention of Hampshire County, A
SCHEDULE OF GRIEVANCES, iii, 183-184.
Conway, Henry Seymour, THE REPEAL
OF THE STAMP ACT, ii, 411-412.
Cooper, Peter, steam railroading, iii, 561-
563.

Cooper, Thomas, prosecuted, iii, 338.
Cooper, William, How To FOUND A SET-
TLEMENT, iii, 97-101; Guide in the Wilder-
ness, IOI.

Copy of Letters sent to Great Britain by
Thomas Hutchinson, ii, 423.

Corn, Indian, in United States, iii, 64; in
Mexico, 492.

Cornell University Library, i, 8, ii, 10.
Cornwallis, Marquis, Correspondence, ii, 19,
618; in the Carolinas and Virginia, 606-
608; THE CAPITULATION OF YORK-
TOWN, 615-618.

Coronado, expedition, i, 60-64.
Corporations, beneficial effects, iv, 660.
Correspondence, committees of, attitude
toward Tories, ii, 470-472.
Cortez, Hernando, in Mexico, i, 49-53.
Corwin, Thomas, AN OPPONENT OF THE
WAR, iv, 24-26.

Cosby, William, A GOVERNOR'S PLEA
FOR PATRONAGE, ii, 153-154; libelled,
193-194.
Cotton, introduced, iii, 67; gin, 71; method
of cultivation, 71-72; in Mexico, 492;
reliance of South on, iv, 451; planting
after Civil War, 451-452.

Cotton, John, Norton's life of, i, 23, 335-339;
relations with Antinomians, 385.
Councils, records of, as sources, i, 5, ii, 6;
Council for Foreign Plantations, i, 184-
186; Maryland, Proceedings, 261; Council
for New England, MEETINGS OF A COLO-
NIZATION COMPANY, 175-178; REASONS
FOR THE SURRENDER OF THE NEW
ENGLAND CHARTER, 444-447; His Maj-
esty's Council in New Jersey, CON-
CERNING THE RIOTS & INSURRECTIONS
IN NEW JERSEY, ii, 80-84; business of a
council, 175-179; Mayor, Recorder, Al-
dermen, and Common Council of Albany,
RECORDS OF A CITY GOVERNMENT, 208-
211. See also Government.
Country Porcupine, NORTHERN OPINION
OF THE VIRGINIA RESOLUTIONS, iii,
329-331.

County, on the Delaware, ii, 72-74; juries,
188-189; court, 205-208.

County Court of Middlesex, THE PENALTY

FOR NOT GOING TO CHURCH, i, 487-488.
Courcel, Alphonse de, BERING SEA ARBI-
TRATION, iv, 564-567.
Courts, colonial, records of, i, 5, ii, 6; judg-
ments valid in other colonies,
Court of Perquimans, RECOR
PRECINCT COURT, ii, 191-192;
tion, 192-199; appointment of ju

defects, 203-204; need of court of appeal
and equity, 204: business of a county
court, 205-208; admiralty, 396-397.- See
also Government, Juries, Missouri, Su-
preme Court, Trials.

Coxe, Tench, INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED
STATES, iii, 62-66; View, 66.
Cradock, Matthew, house, i, 2; governor of
Massachusetts, 178.

Cranston, Samuel, AN EXPLANATION BY
RHODE ISLAND, ii, 49-52.

Crawford, Samuel Wylie, CRISIS IN
SOUTH CAROLINA, iv, 182-186; Genesis
of the Civil War, 186.

Credit, public, iii, 255-257.-See also
Finances, Money.

Creditors, American and British, ii, 624.
Crèvecœur, Hector St. John, Letters, iii, 11,
22; ARCADIA IN NANTUCKET, 18-22.
Crittenden, John Jordan, EXPLANATION
OF THE CRITTENDEN COMPROMISE,
iv, 209-210.

Cuba, negotiations concerning, iii, 502-506;
a southern notice of, 507-508; concern of
United States in insurrection in, iv, 557-
561; intervention threatened, 560; reasons
for war, 573-575; condition in 1898,
576; message on, 576; independence
recognized, 577; control of, disavowed,
577; Santiago campaign, 586-588;
Spanish sovereignty relinquished, 589;
American government in, 601-603. - See
also Spain.

Cumberland (ship), destroyed by the Merri-
mac, iv, 329-333.
Currency, continental, ii, 601-603; power
over, iii, 178; Hamilton on, 276-281;
State, 441-445: Sherman on proper use
of, iv, 532; Sherman Act, 533-536; re-
demption of, 540.-See also Finances,
Money.

Cushing, Caleb, COMMERCIAL EFFECTS
OF THE WAR [of 1812], iii, 430-433; His-
tory of Newburyport, 433.
Cutler, Manasseh, Life, etc., iii, 109.
Cutts, J. M., Brief Treatise, iv, 100.

DAL

ALE, SIR THOMAS, in Virginia, i, 216.
Dana, Charles Anderson, IN THE WIL-
DERNESS, iv, 412-415; Recollections of
the Civil War, 415.

Dana, Richard Henry, ON THE COAST OF
CALIFORNIA, iv, 11-15; Two Years
before the Mast, 15; ATTACK ON A
UNITED STATES COURT-HOUSE, 87-91.
Dancing, sermon on, iii, 510-511.
Dane, Nathan, THE NORTHWEST ORDI-
NANCE, iii, 154-158.

Danforth, Thomas, THE REVOLUTION
AGAINST ANDROS, i, 463-466.
Dankers, Jaspar, A GODLESS EMIGRANT
SHIP, i, 197-199; Journal, 199, 501, 590;
TWO DUTCHMEN IN BOSTON, 496-501;
CONDITION OF NEW YORK IN 1679,
586-590.

Danvers, General Gage's house at, ii, 2.
Dartmouth, Earl of, A REPRIMAND TO A
COLONIAL GOVERNOR, ii, 169–170.
Dates, use of, i, 17, ii, 24.
Davenport, John, A DEFENCE OF THEOC-
RACY, 1, 330-333; Discourse about Civil
Government, 333; founder of New Haven,

DeBow, J. D. B., Marquette and Joliet's
Voyage to the Mississippi, i, 140.
Debt, national, state of, ii, 598-600; Jefferson
on, iii, 286; Anti-Federalists on, 293.-
See also Finances.

414.

Davis, Charles Augustus, JACKSON'S
POLITICAL SPECTACLES, iii, 540-544;
Letters of Major Jack Downing, 544.
Davis, Jefferson, PRINCIPLES OF THE
CONFEDERACY, iv, 189-192; satire on,
229-230; criticism of, 255; SUPPLIES FOR
THE CONFEDERACY, 319-323: Rise and
Fall of the Confederate Government, 323.
Davis, John C. B., United States Reports,
iii, 9, iv, 8.

Davis, Reuben, Recollections of Mississippi,
iv, 9, 182, 243; SECESSION SPIRIT IN
MISSISSIPPI, 180-182; IN THE CONFED-
ERATE CONGRESS, 240-243.
y, William Rufus, ULTIMATUM IN THE
EGOTIATION OF PEACE, iv, 588-590.
e, Charles, Documentary History of
e, i, 160, 430.
Silas, Papers, ii, 19.

Declaration of Independence, facsimile, ii,
II; debates on, 537-539.
Dedham Historical Register, ii, 272, iii, 339-
De Kalb, Baron, in America, ii, 585.
Delano, Alonzo, A FORTY-NINER, iv, 43-
48; Life on the Plains, 48.
Delaware, De Vries in, i, 521; Swedish set-
tlements, 548-551; New Haven settle-
ments, 551-553: Penn's settlement, 554-
557: Jersey boundary, 570; separation
from Pennsylvania, ii, 72-74.
Delaware River, navigable, i, 555, 560.
Democracy, spirit of, iii, 86-89.
Democratic party, principles of, iii, 73-75.
344-347; slavery necessary to, iv, 143;
split in 1860, 151-155; satire on, 224-227;
a peace Democrat's views, 402-405; con-
trol in the South, 501-504; Blaine on, 508-
511; effect of success in 1884, 511-512.-
See also Politics, Republican Party.
De Monts, Pierre, in America, i, 118-121.
Department of State, Correspondence con-
cerning American Commercial Rights in
China, iv, 618.

De Soto, Fernando, expedition, i, 57-59.
Destiny, manifest. See Manifest Destiny.
De Vries, D. P., voyage to America, i, 18; A
DUTCH TRADER, 520-525; Voyages from
Holland to America, 525.

Dew, Thomas R., THE PRO-SLAVERY
ARGUMENT, iii, 597-602; Review of the
Virginia Debate of 1831, 602.
Dewey, George, BATTLE OF MANILA
BAY, iv, 579-581.

Diaries as sources, i, 2, ii, 2, 7-8; lists, ii,
18, iii, 10, iv, 8.

Dibdin, Charles, Collection of Songs, iii, 328.
Dickens, Charles, American Notes, iii, 11,
571; DELIGHTS OF TRAVEL, 567–571.
Dickinson, Anna Elizabeth, THE DRAFT
RIOT, iv, 376-381; What Answer? 381.
Dickinson, John, Farmer's Letters, ii, 2, 426;
Writings, 21; THE PENNSYLVANIA
FARMER'S REMEDY, 423-426; letter to
Congress, iii, 198; character, 208; in
Federal Convention, 212, 219.

Dinwiddie, Robert, CHARGE TO A GRAND
JURY, ii, 189-191; Official Records, 191.
Diplomatic Correspondence of the United
States, iii, 8, 172.

Directory, French, iii, 322-326.
Disallowance, of a paper-money bill, ii, 183-
184; of a slave act, 297-298.
Discoverers, value of narratives, i, 5, 19;
accounts of, 28-144.

Dissenters, in New England, ii, 52-53. —
See also Religion.

-

Disunion, Jefferson on, iii, 288; Calhoun on,
438, iv, 48-51; Weed on, iv, 194. — See
also Secession.

Dix, John Adams, Speeches and Occasional
Addresses, iv, 10; IF ANY ONE ATTEMPTS
TO HAUL DOWN THE AMERICAN FLAG,
204.

Dix, Morgan, Memoirs of John Adams Dix,
iv, 204.

Documents, collections of, i, 9, ii, 11-13, iii,
7-9, iv, 6-7; Documents relative to New
York, i, 10, 14, 15, 186, 520, 541, 549, 551,
ii, 13, 17, 21, 79, 131, 154, 162, 164, 170,
184, 247, 250, 253, 290, 334, 339, 356, 357,
367, 387, 412; Documentary History of
Maine, 1, 160, 430; Documentary History
of New York, 544; Documents relating
to New Jersey, 566, 569, ii, 13, 21, 84, 161,
166, 179, 181, 254, 289, 298, 302, 351. -
See also Sources.
Doddridge, Joseph, shows hardship of fron-
tier life, ii, 25; THE SETTLEMENT OF
THE WESTERN COUNTRY, 387-391;
Notes on the Settlement of the Western
Parts of Virginia & Pennsylvania, 391.
Domestic life, among the Indians, ii, 327-
330; in the Ohio River settlements, 387-
391; on the frontiers, 392-393. - See also
Colonies.

Donck, Junker Adriaen van der, and ten
others, OF THE REASONS AND CAUSES
WHY AND HOW NEW NETHERLAND IS
SO DECAYED, i, 532–537.
Donelson, Fort, capture of, iv, 324-328.
Dongan, Thomas, CONDITION OF NEW
YORK IN 1687, i, 542-544.
Donne, W. Bodham, Correspondence of
George the Third, ii, 453, 620.

ner, Sir C. C., and John Adams, iii,

Dorset, Duke of, WHY ENGLAND WOULD
NOT TREAT, iii, 171–172.
Doughtie, Thomas, executed by Drake, i, 82.
Douglas, Stephen Arnold, Defence of
THE KANSAS-NEBRASKA BILL, iv, 97-
100; Lincoln on, 137-138; support in
convention of 1860, 153-154.
Douglass, Frederick, LIFE WITH A SLAVE-
BREAKER, iii, 579-583; Life, 583.
Douglass, William, Summary of the First
Planting of the British Settlements, ii, 21,
143; views tinged and descriptions poor,
31; VARIOUS Kinds of ColoNIAL GOV-
ERNMENT, 141-143.

Doyle, J. A., English in America, i, 16, 21, 27.
Draft riot, in New York, iv, 376-381.
Drake, Sir Francis, voyage round the
world, i, 81-88; PIETY OF A SEA ROVER,
88; at the Huguenot colony, 115; dis-
covery of New Albion, 314.
Drake, Samuel G., The Old Indian Chron-
icle, i, 461.

Drayton, William Henry, prejudiced, ii,
31; THE TYRANNY OF KING GEORGE
THIRD, 449-451.

Dred Scott case, papers in, iv, 122-124;
statement of case, 122; Supreme Court
decision, 126-131; Benton on, 132-135:
Lincoln on, 136-138.
Drowne, Solomon, LIFE ON A Privateer,
ii, 497-499; Journal, 499.
Duane, James, THE STATE OF THE
NATIONAL DEBT, ii, 598-600.
Dummer, Jeremiah, DEFENCE OF THE
NEW-ENGLAND CHARTERS, ii, 4, 133-

137.

Dunmore, Earl of, narratives colored by
rumors, ii, 31; COLD WATER ON AN
OHIO COLONY, 386-387; ENFORCE-
MENT OF THE ASSOCIATION, 439-441.
Dunne, Finley Peter, THE PRESIDENT'S

MESSAGE, iv, 639–641; Mr. Dooley's Phi-
losophy, 641.

Dunning, W. A., Essays on the Civil War
and Reconstruction, iv, 2.

Dunster, Henry, knowledge of Indian
tongue, i, 320; president of Harvard, 468.
and New Englanders, i, 25; English
ent of claims, 164-166; workmen
Virginia, 171; opinion of New
334-335: Plymouth opinion of,