INDEX TO VOLUMES I AND II.
ABOLITION. (See Slavery.)
Adams, John, i, 22,51; Vice-President, i,
71, 176, 328; President, i, 341, 383, 430, 466,
469, 480; character of administration,
i, 493; in retirement, ii, 30, 197, 204, 431
Adams, John Quincy, i, 179, 272: ii, 28,
52, 160, 179, 288, 320, 377, 381, 401, 433,
437
Adet, Minister, i, 326
Alabama, Territory of, ii, 456
Alexandria, Commissioners at, i, 30
Algiers. (See Barbary Powers.)
Alien act, i, 394, 420
Amendment, impost, of 1783, i, 28, 34
to Articles of Confederation, i, 28
to Constitution, i, 46, 102, 274; ii, 59
Ames, Fisher, i, 83, 313, 351; ii, 29
Annapolis Conference, i, 31
Area of United States in 1783, i, 2; in
1809, ii, 205
Armstrong, John, minister, ii, 100; Sec-
retary of War, ii, 375, 387, 412
Army, i, 152, 191, 280, 354, 405, 435, 456; ii,
134, 165, 339
in war of 1812, 357, 358, 371, 382, 385,
386, 388, 390, 396, 403, 406, 438
militia and volunteers, ii, 356, 396;
close of war, 454
Arts, Fine, in 1809, ii, 265
Assumption of State debts, i, 136
Aurora, i, 248; ii, 321. (See Duane, Wil-
liam.)
Baltimore, riot, ii, 356; defence of, ii, 411
Bainbridge, Captain. (See Barbary Pow-
ers), ii, 362
Bank, National, Hamilton's, i, 159, 180,
259; ii, 316; new bank, ii, 466, 447
Bankrupt act, i, 456; ii, 53
Banks, focal, i, 180, 199; ii, 221, 415; sus-
pension of specie payments by, ii, 415;
resumption, ii, 449
Barbary Powers, i, 265, 306; war with
Algiers, etc., ii, 16, 67, 92, 110, 456
Barlow, Joel, ii, 261, 323, 377
Bayard, Thomas, ii, 30, 378, 400, 433, 437
Blennerhassett, Herman, ii, 121
Blue lights at New London, ii, 422
Blount, William, impeachment of, i, 364
Boston, i, 231; ii, 323
Boundaries of United States in 1783, i, 2;
in 1809, ii, 205
Bowdoin, James, i, 29, 34
Brown, Jacob, General, ii, 361, 404, 454
Burr, Aaron, i, 185, 482; Vice-President,
ii, 33, 61; conspiracy of, ii, 118-124
Cabot, George, i, 404; ii, 29, 426
Calhoun, John C., ii, 336, 342, 448, 450
Callender, Thomas, i, 450; ii, 34
Campbell, George W., ii, 157, 186, 403, 416
Caucus, ii, 168, 169
Census, i, 129, 188; ii, 205
Chase, Samuel, i, 61, 448; ii, 54, 76
Chesapeake, the, ii, 144, 325, 330, 392
Cincinnati, the, i, 19; city of, ii, 245
Clay, Henry, ii, 336, 343, 373, 403, 432, 437,
446, 448
Clinton, De Witt, ii, 33, 53, 171, 369
Clinton, George, i, 34, 62, 68, 70; ii, 33, 59,
66; Vice-President, ii, 88, 168
Cobbett, William, i, 367
Cockburn, Admiral, ii, 395, 407
Commerce and restrictions, i, 91; ii, 142,
284, 289, 294, 381, 450, 456. (See Em-
bargo.)
Compromise under the Constitution, i,
Confederation, Articles of, i, 14; gov-
ernment under, i, 1, 19, 28
Congress, the Continental, i, 13, 20, 73;
first, i, 80, 105, 127, 164, 165; second, i,
184, 215; third, i, 258, 283; fourth, i,
305, 333, 370; in Philadelphia, i, 339;
fifth, i, 351, 369, 419; sixth, i, 452, 475;
seventh, ii, 19, 40; eighth, ii, 52, 72;
ninth, ii, 98, 124; tenth, ii, 156, 185;
eleventh, ii, 286, 291, 309; twelfth, ii,
835, 371; thirteenth, ii, 378, 395, 414;
fourteenth, ii, 445
Congress, constitutional powers, i, 42
Connecticut, i, 11, 173. (See Convention,
Elections, Federalism.)
Constitution, State, i, 17; ii, 208
of United States. (See Amendment,
Convention.)
Constitutionalists, Pennsylvania, i, 58
Convention, plan of, i, 29; constitu
tional of 1787, i, 36; its organization and
rules, i, 36; assembles, i, 36; rules, i, 36;
membership, i, 37; Randolph plan, i,
38; New Jersey plan, i, 39; other
plans, i, 39; compromises, i, 41; pow-
ers of Congress, i, 42; chief executive,
i, 42; judiciary, i,44; State and federal
authority, i, 44; miscellaneous pro-
visions, i, 45; signing the Constitution,
i, 46; discussions, 1787; i, 54-56; State
( 469 )
Conventions: Delaware, Pennsylva-
nia, and New Jersey ratify, 1, 58;
Georgia and Connecticut, i, 59; Mas-
sachusetts Convention, i, 59; Mary-
land and South Carolina, i, 61; New
York, i, 62; Virginia, i, 62; New
Hampshire, i, 66; Ratification rejoic-
ings, i, 66; New York ratifies, i, 68;
Rhode Island and North Carolina, i,
69, 127; attempt to hold second Con-
vention, i, 69; of new States for admis-
sion, see Respective States; for nomi-
nating candidates, see Caucus; at Hart-
ford, see Hartjord
Cooper, Thomas, i, 449; ii, 320
Copyright, i, 129'
Crawford, William H., ii, 157, 377, 437, 452
Creeks (see Indians), ii, 390
Crowninshield, Benjamin W., ii, 403
Dallas, Alexander J., ii, 32, 416, 452
Dayton, Jonathan, i, 267, 305, 340; ii, 120
Dearborn, Henry, ii, 12, 359, 386, 403
Debt, public, in 1790, etc., i, 130, 286; in
1807-9, 11, 130, 198, 215; during war of
1812, ii, 398, 415; close of war, ii, 451
Decatur, Captain, navy, ii, 362, 455
Direct tax. (See Revenue.)
Democratic clubs, i, 257, 283.
Parties.)
Departments, executive, i, 93
Dexter, Samuel, i, 285, 466; ii, 423, 461
Duane, William, i, 368, 464; ii, 33, 90, 116,
D'Yrujo, i, 366; ii, 108, 143. (See Spain.)
Eaton, General. (See Barbary Powers.)
Education in United States in 1809, ii, 255
Elections, Presidential (first), i, 70; (sec-
ond), i, 213; (third), i, 334; (fourth), no
choice by electors, i, 461, 481; (fifth),
ii, 66; (sixth), ii, 183, 198; (seventh),
ii, 370; (eighth), ii, 461
Elections, State, and State political ten-
dencies (1791-1793), i, 166, 167, 213, 214;
(1798-1795), i, 259: (1797-1799), i, 372;
(1799-1801), i, 444, 445, 461, 464; (1801-
1803), ii, 14, 32; (1803-1805), ii, 60, 66;
(1805-1807), ii, 85; (1807-1809), ii, 169,
172, 184, 193: (1809-1811), ii, 299; (1811-
1813), ii, 323, 351, 368; (1813-1815), ii,
417; (1815-1817), ii, 460
Electoral plan, i, 43, 85
Ellsworth, Oliver, i, 28, 332, 431
60, 66, 184, 299, 323; resistance to em-
bargo, ii, 173, 193; to war with Great
Britain, ii, 314, 323, 325, 417, 424; blue
lights, ii, 422; the Hartford Conven-
tion, ii, 425; local dissolution, ii, 460
Federalist, The, i, 57
Fenno's Gazette, i, 175, 178, 208.
Florida, ii, 44, 95, 99, 117, 142, 313, 390
France, influence of revolution, i, 168,
241, 243, 306; Genet's mission from, i,
246; Monroe's mission to, i, 317, 325;
tendency to war with, i, 325; envoys
to, Talleyrand, etc., i, 344, 351, 355, 386,
402, 429; new envoys to a convention,
i, 430, 439, 477; ii, 16, 456. (See Napo-
leon.)
Frankland, i, 32, 73
Franklin, Benjamin, i, 36, 43, 47, 150
Freneau's Gazette, i, 177, 208, 261
Fries riot, i, 447
Fulton, Robert, steamboat, etc., ii, 266,
Funding measures (see Debt), i, 131
Gallatin, Albert, i, 258, 311, 389; Secre-
tary of Treasury, ii, 12, 70, 281, 318, 321,
344; abroad, ii, 377, 380, 400, 432, 437
Genet, Citizen, i, 246
Georgia, i, 128; ii, 74. (See Convention.)
Gerry, Elbridge, i, 46, 60, 355, 373, 415; ii,
299, 324, 352
Giles, William B., i, 185, 217; ii, 292
Granger, Gideon, ii, 12, 74, 403
Great Britain, influence of, i, 167, 241;
grievances against, i, 260, 264, 267, 268;
Jay's mission and treaty, i, 289, 290,
314, 316; ii, 25; new aggressions, ii, 96,
161, 133; new treaty with rejected, ii,
135, 138; measures lead to war, ii, 144,
151, 178, 282, 288, 299, 305, 311, 329, 334,
338, 349; war against, ii, 353, 363, 367,
381,399; peace overtures and peace, ii,
400, 429, 431, 444, 452, 456. (See Impress-
ment, Orders in Council.)
Griswold, Roger, i, 370; ii, 299, 356
Hamet. (See Barbary Powers.)
Hamilton, Alexander, i, 24, 40, 57; Sec-
retary of the Treasury, i, 110, 130, 158,
171, 200, 217, 286, 367; Major-General,
etc., i, 408, 426, 438; private life, i, 465,
471; ii, 32; death, ii, 61; character of,
Hamilton, Paul, ii, 280, 371, 375
Embargo, i, 267; ii, 158, 173, 185, 194, 349, Hampton, Wade, ii, 387, 403
Emigration, i, 221; ii, 205
England. (See Great Britain.)
Epidemics, i, 234
Eppes, John W., ii, 53, 157, 286, 295
Erskine arrangement, the, ii, 281, 288
Eustis, William, ii, 28, 280, 374, 403
Excise. (See Revenue.)
Federalism (see Parties), i, 53, 166, 176,
372, 373, 445; downfall as a National
party, i, 500; National in opposition,
ii, 26; feeble in South and Middle
States, ii, 32, 33; in New England, ii,
Hancock, John, i, 34, 260
Harmer, General, i, 154
Harrison, William H., i, 460; ii, 73, 75,
331, 358, 382, 404
Hartford Convention, ii, 425, 430, 461
Henry, John, ii, 346
Henry, Patrick, i, 62, 440, 446
Hull, General, surrender of, etc., ii, 357
Hull, Isaac, Captain in navy, ii, 362
Illinois, Territory of, ii, 198, 456
Impeachment trial, i, 364; ii, 53, 54, 76,
78
Impressment, i, 315; ii, 101, 136, 367, 431
INDEX TO VOLUMES I AND II.
Inauguration of Washington, i, 76, 221;
of John Adams, i, 341; of Jefferson, ii,
1, 88; of Madison, ii, 280, 376
Indiana, ii, 456
Middle States, general traits in 1783, i,
11; in 1809, ii, 230, 239. (See Elections.)
Mifflin, General Thomas, i, 18, 129, 445
Indians, i, 151, 156, 216, 267, 280; ii, 74, Milan decree. (See Napoleon.)
Inns, American, in 1809, ii, 277
Insurrection, whiskey, i, 214, 275
Intelligencer, National, ii, 31, 410
Internal improvements, ii, 132, 450
Jackson, Andrew, i, 333; ii, 388, 391, 404,
414, 438, 458, 462
Jay, John, i, 51, 57, 109, 170, 173; mission
to England and treaty, i, 270, 289, 290,
307, 48; later life, i, 465, 480; ii, 14, 30,
Jefferson, Thomas, i, 62; Secretary of
State, i, 110, 130, 173, 203; retires, i, 261,
328; Vice-President, i, 355, 341, 359,423,
474, 483; President. ii, 1, 4, 5, 20, 58, 59,
66, 80, 87, 198, 200; character of, etc., ii,
200; in retirement, ii, 282, 354, 458
Jones, Captain in navy, ii, 362
Jones, William, ii, 375, 403
Journalism, American, i, 177, 402; ii, 31,
Judiciary, federal, etc., i, 44, 96, 273, 455,
489; ii, 23, 54, 75
Junto, Essex, i, 469. (See Parties.)
Kentucky, i, 150; ii, 242
King, Rufus, i, 37, 60, 82; ii, 11, 379
Knox, Henry, i, 109, 130, 157, 408
Miranda enterprise, i, 411; ii, 124
Mississippi, valley of, in 1809, ii, 247;
Territory of, ii, 456. (See Louisiana,
New Orleans.)
Monroe, James, i, 82, 271, 317, 347; ii, 44,
173, 135, 166; in Madison's Cabinet, ii,
322, 413, 414; elected President, ii,
439
Morris, Gouverneur, i, 47, 170
Muhlenberg, Frederick A., i, 81, 82
Municipal wants in 1797, i, 238; charac-
teristics in 1809, i, 268-277
Murray, William Vans, i, 430
Napoleon, ii, 16, 86; Louisiana cession,
etc., ii, 36, 41, 46; belligerent rules, ii,
133; Berlin and Milan decrees, ii, 138,
153, 178, 291, 303; Napoleon's repeal,
etc., ii, 303, 311, 326, 329; Rambouillet
decree, ii, 302; downfall of, ii, 399
Nash, Thomas, i, 457
Naturalization, i, 129, 393; ii, 25
Navy, i, 315, 354, 404, 435, 439, 459; ii, 16,
67, 92, 109, 134, 144, 339; in war of 1812,
ii, 362, 371, 882, 392, 395, 407; close of
war, ii, 44, 456
New England, general traits, ii, 225, 268
(See Elections, Massachusetts, etc.)
New Hampshire. (See Convention, Elec-
tions.)
Land public, government policy, i, 97, New Orleans, Spanish occlusion of, ii,
Lawrence, James, Captain, ii, 392
Leander affair, ii, 118
Lincoln, Levi, ii, 12, 92, 182, 191
Literature, American, in 1809, ii, 259
Little Belt, the, ii, 329
Livingston, Edward, i, 306; ii, 33, 53, 73,
Livingston, Robert R., i, 78; ii, 33, 38, 44
Logan, George, i, 417; ii, 19
Louisiana, its cession and purchase, ii,
46, 49, 72, 95, 247; State of, admitted,
ii, 313; British invasion of, ii, 438
Lyon, Matthew, i, 352, 370, 421
Macon, Nathaniel, ii, 19, 98, 294, 296
Madison, James, i, 26, 30, 37, 57, 82, 134,
177; Secretary of State, ii, 12, 70, 113,
168; President, ii, 279, 280, 301,348,352,
370, 376, 445, 462
Mails and mail coaches in 1809, ii, 275
Manufactures, American, i, 88, 186; ii,
217, 297, 4570
Marshall, John, i, 63, 355, 373, 466, 480
Martin, Luther, i, 36
Maryland. (See Convention.)
Massachusetts, early character of, i, 6.
(See Convention, Elections, Federalism.)
Mazzei letter, i, 360
McDonough's victory, ii, 406
McGillivray, Andrew, i, 156
McKean, Thomas, i, 67, 444, 463; ii, 32,
91, 171
Meigs, Return J., ii, 403
40, 44; described, ii, 247; battle of, ii,
414, 438. (See Louisiana.)
New York, State, i, 12; rejects impost, i,
34; ratifies Constitution, i, 62, 68, 69;
city, i, 72. 80, 113; ii, 273
Non-importation act, ii, 109, 142. (See
Great Britain.)
Non-intercourse. ii, 294, 296, 301, 311.
(See Great Britain.)
North Carolina. (See Convention, Elec-
tions.)
Nullification, i, 424; ii, 178, 190
Ohio, admission of, ii, 43; valley of, in
1809, ii, 214
Orders in Council, British, ii, 96, 150, 326,
352, 365, 381. (See Great Britain.)
Ordinance of 1787, i, 73, 100
Otis, Harrison G., i, 351; ii, 180, 191, 420,
425, 462
Paine, Thomas, ii, 35
Parties, political, origin of, i, 48: Whig
and Tory, in America, i, 51; Revolu-
tionary, etc., i, 52; Federal and anti-
Federal, i, 53; anti-Federal ruined, i,
72; eflect of French revolution upon,
i, 165, 242; Republican organized, i,
176, 202; downfall of Federalism as a
national party, i, 500. (See Democratic
Clubs, Elections, Federalism.)
peace party, ii, 368, 418; religious and
secular combination, ii, 460
Patents, i, 129; ii, 299
Payments, specie, suspended, ii, 415; re- | Smith, William, i, 83, 352
sumed, ii, 449
Penal discipline in 1809, ii, 257
Pennsylvania, i, 11, 128, 158. (See Con-
vention, Elections, Insurrection.)
Perry, Oliver H., victory of, ii, 383
Philadelphia, i, 31, 35, 36, 66; as tempo-
rary capital, i, 158, 232, 336
Pickering, Timothy, as cabinet officer,
i, 181, 191, 288, 302, 441, 466; in the op-
position, fi, 29, 53, 60, 192, 315, 431, 439
Pinckney, Charles, i, 39; ii, 11
Pinckney, Charles C., i, 315, 373, 408; ii,
30
Pinckney, Thomas, i, 307, 327
Pinkney, William, ii, 118, 135, 323, 403
Pioneer life, i, 228; ii, 242
Pittsburg, i, 275; ii, 244
Snyder, Governor, ii, 91, 398
Social manners in 1809, ii, 268
South Carolina, i, 11, 61, 231. (See Conven-
tion, Elections, Slavery.)
Southern States, traits in 1809, ii, 231.
(See Elections, Slavery.)
Spain, i, 365; ii, 40, 94, 456. (See Florida,
Louisiana.)
Star-spangled Banner, ii. 411
States. (See Convention, Elections and
the several States.)
St. Clair, Arthur, General, i, 153, 191, 216;
ii, 43
Stoddert, Benjamin, i, 404; ii, 12
Story, Joseph, ii, 188, 321
Strong, Governor. (See Federalism.)
Population of United States in 1783, i, 3; Talleyrand, i, 874, 417, 430. (See France.)
Porter, Peter B., ii, 338, 360
Post Office, i, 190; ii, 275, 299
Preble, Commodore, of navy. (See Bar-
bary Powers.)
President, constitutional powers, title,
etc., i, 42, 96, 102, 106. (See Elections,
Inauguration.)
Privateers in 1812, ii, 363, 455
Tammany Society, i, 156
Tariff. (See Protection, Revenue.)
Tecumseh, ii, 332
Tennessee, i, 314
Territories, i, 97. (See different Terri-
tories.)
Theatricals, American, i, 230
Tippecanoe, Battle of, ii, 332
Tompkins, Daniel D., ii, 171, 299, 413, 458
Protection to manufactures, etc., i, 86, Treaty, Jay's, i, 293,310, 458; with Spain,
Quincy, Josiah, ii, 98, 189, 314, 372, 420
Randolph, Edmund, i, 38, 63, 110, 261, 297
Randolph, John, i, 453; ii, 74, 77, 99, 105,
111, 113, 340, 430
Redemptioners, i, 224
Religion in United States in 1809, ii, 251,
460
Republicans, Pennsylvania, i, 58; na-
tional. (See Parties.)
Revenue, under Confederation, i, 28,
34; under Constitution, i, 86, 187, 354;
ii, 71, 131, 319, 344, 398, 415, 446, 450; in-
ternal, i, 158, 214, 272, 275, 288; ii, 21,
379,450
Revolution, United States at close of,
i, 1; debt of, i, 130
Rhode Island, i, 28, 35, 69, 127. (See Con-
vention, Elections.)
Rodney, Cæsar A., ii, 92
Rush, Richard, ii, 403
Russia, mission to, ii, 287, 376, 400
Scott, Winfield, ii, 405, 454
Sedition act, i, 396, 421, 488; ii, 117
Sedgwick, Theodore, i, 429, 491
Shay's Rebellion, i, 32
Slavery, i, 65, 142, 220, 240; ii, 57; in 1783,
i, 3: in 1809, ii, 231; constitutional
compromises, etc., i, 41, 44; abolition
conventions, i, 272; slave trade abol-
ished, ii, 125; first anti-slavery move-
ment subsides, ii, 125, 314
Smith, Robert, ii, 12, 281, 321
1, 306, 310; miscellaneous, i, 437, 479;
with France, i, 477; ii, 16; for Lou-
isiana, ii, 46; of peace in 1814, ii, 400,
430, 431, 437. (See Barbary Powers,
Indians.)
Tripoli. (See Barbary Powers.)
Trumbull, Governor, ii, 173
Trumbull, John, ii, 458
Union, progress towards, 1783, i, 11
United States in 1809, ii, 205, et seq.
Vermont, i, 149. (See Elections.)
Virginia, early traits, i, 6 (see Conven-
tion, Elections, Slavery)
War (see Army, Indians, Navy.)
Washington City, i, 139, 181, 475; ii, 20,
80, 408, 457
Washington, George, i, 18, 29, 36, 63, 74;
President, i, 70, 107, 114, 117, 120, 179,
205, 213, 336, 343; lieutenant-general, i,
405, 431; death, i, 451; character, i, 120,
451
Wayne, Anthony, i, 185, 280
Webster, Daniel, ii, 379, 448-450
West, in 1797, i, 224; the far, in 1809,
traits, Western travel, etc., ii, 242
Wilkinson, General, ii, 73, 120, 387,
454
Wilson, James, i, 37, 58, 111
Wirt, William, ii, 122
Wolcott, Oliver, i, 288, 471, 479; ii, 29, 460
Wyoming land controversy, i, 167
Yellow fever, i, 234, 368
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