Cassa Calvo, Marquis of. Delivers Louisi- | ana te France, 10, 11; lingers at New Orleans, 27.
Catskill. Wages at, 509.
Catholics, Roman. Disfranchised, 148; enfranchised, 149.
Caucus, Congressional. For nominating President and Vice-President, origin, 187; caucus of 1804, 187, 188; of 1812, 448, 456.
Census of manufacture ordered, 507. Cession of Louisiana to England and Spain, 33; of land to the Federal Gov- ernment, 95, 97, 100, 112. Cevallos, Dom Pedro. Spanish Minister of foreign affairs, 36; refuses to ratify the convention, 36; Pinckney threat- ens him, 36, 37; negotiations with Pinckney and Monroe, 38-41. Champagny, Duc de Cadore. Letter to Armstrong; remonstrates with Napo- leon on behalf of the United States, 362; answers Armstrong as to the repeal of decrees, 363, 364; action of Secretary Smith on the letter, 364; lectures Arm- strong, 366, 367; receives copy of Ma- con Act, 367, 368; promises the repeal of decrees, Nov. 1, 1810, 368; report to Napoleon, 408, 425; succeeded by Duc de Bassuno, 409.
Champlain. Smuggling on the lake, 304, 305 steamboat on, 491; leave to run a ste imboat on, refused by Jefferson, 304. Charters. For manufacturing companies from 1809 to 1812, 584.
Chase, Samuel, Associate Justice. On reforms in Maryland, 162; impeached, 168-172; trial of 173-175, 177-181; ac- quitted, 181, 182.
Chesapeake, The United States Frigate. Deserter from the Melampus to enlist in her crew, 255; and from Halifax, 255, 256; correspondence regarding 255, 256; Berkeley's order regarding, 256, 257; sails, 257, 258; followed and at- tacked by the Leopard, 258; surrenders and is searched, 259; excitement over, 259,264.
Chesapeake Bay. Attempts to establish a steamboat line on, 493.
Cheves, Langdon, 420; on the bill to equip the navy, 439.
Chew, Samuel, captain of the Thames. Reports French outrages, 449. Children. Punishment of, in Northwest Territory, 114.
Chillicothe. Land office, 124.
Clay, Joseph. Resolutions on trade, 230. Clay, Henry. Defends Burr, 68, 69; fa- vors protection of American manu- factures, 502; challenges Marshall, 502; efforts in behalf of English common law 418; Speaker of twelfth Congress, 427; sketch of his early life, 427-430; meaning of his election to speakership, 430; speech against bank charter, 386- 388; speech on war measures, 436, 437; plan for an embargo, 446. Clark, Christopher, 177. Clarke, William. Exploration of North- west, by, 142-144.
Clermont, The steamboat, 490, 491. Clinton, De Witt. Efforts to persuade him to join with the Federalists in supporting his uncle for the presi- dency, 317; Mayor of New York, 513; candidate for the presidency, 456. Clinton, George. Nominated Vice-Presi- dent, 188; candidate for the vice-presi- dency, 1808, 315; elected, 317. Clothes. Motion in House of Represen- tatives to wear clothes of domestic manufacture, 299; in Pennsylvania, 502; in Virginia, 502; North Carolina, 503; Vermont, 503; resolutions by the people, 500, 501.
Coal. Cost of transporting, 472. Coast survey. Plans for survey of coast of Georgia and North Carolina, 465, 466; survey of Long Island Sound, 467; of Orleans territory, 467; of Southern coast, 467; the coast survey established, 467, 468; Hassler sent to London, 468, 469.
Cockspur Island. Cyclone at, 196. Code. The criminal, of Northwestern Territory, 112.
Coins. Act to make foreign coins legal tender, 382, 383
College. Manner of choosing the elec- toral colleges in the States in 1804,
Columbia, cost of transportation from,
Columbine, The. Defies the proclama- tion, 267; outrages in New York Har- bor, 268; desertions from, 268. Columbia River. The sources of, ex- plored by Lewis and Clark, 142–144. Common Law of England. Democratic hatred of, in Pennsylvania, 159, 160; in Tennessee, 501; lawyers forbidden to cite in New Jersey courts, 417, 418; in Kentucky, 418; in Pennsylvania, 418.
Chittenden, Martin. Moves repeal of Confederacy. Tecumthe's plan for a con-
Cincinnati. Land office at, 124. Circuits of the Federal Court, 163, 164. Civi! Government of Louisiana, 21, 22. Claiborne, William Charles Cole. Sketch
of, 12, 13; receives Louisiana from France, 13, 14; governor of Orleans, 26; opposition to, 26, 27; hated at New Orleans, 58; sends word of frontier troubles, 210; sent inte West Florida, 371; puts down insurrection, 371, 372.
Confederacy, A Northern. Plan of Pick- ering, 48; Burr's part in, 49, 50. Congress, The Continental. Land bounty offered, 89; petitioned to make State of Westsylvania, 91; Western lands be- fore, 91, 92 attempts to give it power to settle land claims of the States, 92, 93; action of Virginia, 94; action of New York, 94, 95; appeals to the States to cede, 96; cessions of the States, 97;
question of accepting Virginia cession, 97, 99, 100; cession accepted, 100; promises to Virginia, 100; ordinance, 1784, 100-102; ordinance for the sale of lands, 102-105; ordinance against squatters, 107; question of dividing the Western territory, 110; plan for temporary government of, 110, 111; ap- plication of the Ohio Company, 111; ordinance of 1787, 111, 112.
Congress, the eighth.-In the Senate. Debate on purchase of Louisiana, 8- 10; conference Orleans bill, 26; ratify the Spanish convention of 1802, 34.
Congress, the ninth.-In the Senate. Bill passed to suspend the writ of habeas corpus, 77.
Congress, first session, eighth.- House of Representatives. Called by proclamation, 3; call for treaty papers, 3-6; debate on right to buy Louisiana, 6-8; appropriate money to pay for Louisiana, 10; petition from New Or- leans merchants, 22, 23; debate on government for Orleans, 23-25; Mo- bile act, 31.
Second session, eighth Congress.— Protest from District of Louisiana, 29; report of Randolph on protests, 30; bills for Territorial governments in Louisiana and Orleans, 30; Michigan Territory formed, 137.
First session of ninth Congress.- Call for information, 77; debate on the bill to suspend the habeas corpus act, 77, 78.
Congress. Action of, on Louisiana pur- chase, 8-10, 22-23, 23-25, 29, 30; on suspension of habeas corpus, 77, 78; on use of public domain, 89; on land claims of the States, 91-92, 94, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100; ordinance of 1784, 100- 103; ordinance of 1785, 104, 105; on squatter rights, 106, 107, 108, 109; or- dinance of 1787, 109-112; on land sales, 116-121; land grants, 121; on division of Northwest Territory, 123, 124; on Yazoo land claims, 128, 130-133; on land sales in small quantity, 124, 125; on taxation of land sold, 134-136. Congress. Action of, on protection to manufactures, 299, 496-498, 505-506; on slavery and the slave trade, 514- 521; act excluding negroes and mulat- toes from the United States, 517; on slavery in Northwest Territory, 521- 523, 524-526; on the Kentucky petition for protection, 506; orders a report on manufactures, 507; another Kentucky petition for protection, 507-509; on slavery and the slave trade, 514-517, 518-521; on suspension of Art. VI. of Ordinance of 1787, 522-524, 526; on war taxes, 549.
Twelfth Congress, first session. Character of members. Young men in control, 419, 420; Clay chosen Speaker, 427; significance of his election, 430; report on foreign relations, 431, 432;
six resolutions offered, 432; speech of Porter, 432, 433; resolution to fill the ranks of the regular army passed, 433; Randolph on the second resolution for additional regulars, 433; resolution passed, 435; bill from the Senate for more regulars, 435-437; bill passed, 437; Randolph on the use of the troops, 437, 438; bill for volunteer army, 438; naval bill, 439, 440; war taxes, 442-444; the Henry letters, 445– 447; Clay's plan of embargo and war, 449; the embargo, 450-452; the war message, 456, 457; act declaring war, 457; the vote on war, 457.
Special session, May, 1809. Mes- sage, 343; debate on suspension of non-intercourse, 344–346.
Eleventh Congress, first session. Resolutions on Jackson affair, 355, 356, 357; Macon Bill No. 1, 357-360; lost in Senate, 360; Macon Bill No. 2, 360, 361; passed, 361.
Connecticut. Franchise in, 147; rejects twelfth amendment to Federal Consti- tution, 187; attempt to form a new State Constitution, 190, 193; general election, 193, 194; Governor refuses to execute Force Act, 331, 332; encourages do- mestic manufactures, 503; Governor refuses to detach the militia, 544, 545; asserts State rights, 545. Conspiracy.
The trials of the cord- wainers for, in Philadelphia, 511, 512; in New York, 513.
Constitution. The ship, 202.
Constitution of New Jersey, 147, 150, 151; of Ohio, 152, 153; of Pennsylvania, de- mand for reform, 159-162; demand for a Constitution for Connecticut, 190-194. Constitution, The Federal. Jefferson's
proposals to amend, regarding Louisi- ana, 1-3; debate on right to call for treaty papers, 3-6; on right to incor- porate foreign territory, 6; meaning of this Union" and "new States," 6; Pickering's "partnership" theory, 8; status of the Territories under, 10; amendment proposed by Massachu- setts, 44, 45; answers of the States, 46, 47; the twelfth amendment, 47; amend- ment offered by Randolph, 182; by Nicholson, 182; the twelfth amend- ment, 183-186; ratified, 187; amend- ment asked for by North Carolina, 517; by Massachusetts, 518; strict construc- tion of, by Pennsylvania, 388, note; meaning of preamble, 376. Constellation, The, 208. Contador, 21.
Convention. Call for one to amend Con- stitution of Pennsylvania, 150-162; of New England States. Call for, 330,
Convention of 1802 with Spain. Origin of, 34; ratified by Senate, 34; opinion of American lawyers on, 35; rejected by Spain, 36; negotiations regarding, 36, 38, 39-41.
Cooper, Charles D. Letters to Andrew Brown, 52.
Cooper, Thomas, 160.
Copenhagen. Bombarded and captured by the English, 272, 273. "Copenhagen Jackson," 350. Cordwainers. Strike of, and trial of, in Philadelphia, 511, 512; in New York,
Cost. Of travel between New York and Philadelphia, 492, note; of operating steamboats, 493, note; of embargo, 414- 416; of transportation, 463-465, 472. Council of Prizes. Decree of, in case of Horizon, 271.
Counties. Increase of, in New York, 461. Courts of Louisiana, 20.
Court, The Mayor's. At New York city. Trial of journeymen cordwainers, 513. At Philadelphia. Trial of journey- men cordwainers, 512.
Court. The U. S. Supreme. Decision in the Yazoo case, 132. Craig, Sir James, Governor-General of Canada Sends John Henry to New England, 285, 286; sends Henry to Boston in 1809, 446, 447. Crawford, William Henry. Speech in favor of recharter of bank, 388, 389. Creek Indians. Tecumthe visits, 535; excitement among the young warriors, 535, 536.
Crillon, Count Edward de. Meets Hen- ry, 444; comes to the United States, 445; employed by Henry to negotiate with Monroe, 446; sells the letters for Henry, 446; an impostor, 447. Crown land. Dispute as to ownership, 89, 90.
Cumberland Road, 469, 470.
Curaçoa. Blockaded by Great Britain, 226. Cyclone of 1804. Damages along the coast, 195, 196.
Dallas, Alexander, 159.
Dallas, Alexander James, Third Lieu- tenant, on the President, 403. Dane, Nathan. Asked for a committee to frame a plan of temporary govern- ment for the West, 110, 111; report of committee, 111.
Daviess, Joseph Hamilton.
Owner of Western World, 64; warns Jefferson of Burr's schemes, 64, 65; arrests Burr, 67; prosecution fails, 68, 69; killed at Tip- pecanoe, 534, 535,
Dayton, O. Troops assembled at, 556; Hull marches from, 557.
Dayton, Jonathan. Sent by Burr to the Spanish Minister, 62; plan to seize the President, etc., 62.
Dearborn, Henry. Made a Major-Gen- eral, 546; plan for the campaign, 556; urged to attack Canada, 559; concludes an armistice, 560.
Debates in Congress. On the purchase
of Louisiana, 3-9; on a government for Territory of Orleans, 23-25; on Twelfth Amendment to Federal Constitution,
183-187; on purchase of Florida, 213 215; on trade with San Domingo, 218; on non-importation, 231-236; on sup- plementary embargo, 295, 296; on mo- tion to wear home-manufactured goods, 299; on Campbell's report, 319-321; on repeal of embargo, 333-336; on sus- pension of non-intercourse, 344–346; on conduct of Jackson, 355-357; on Macon Bill No. 1, 357-360; on Macon Bill No. 2, 360; on admission of Louis- iana to the Union, 375-378; on circula- tion of foreign coin, 383, 384; on re- charter of U. S. Bank, 386-389; on non- intercourse, 392-394, 395-397; on war measures, 432-444; on taxing slaves imported, 518, 519; on abolition of slave trade, 520, 521.
Debtors. Increase in number of, under embargo, 415; stay laws, 416, 417. Decatur. Burns the Philadelphia off Tripoli, 203.
Decrees. Of France, 1793-1800, 220-223; Berlin, 249-250, 271-272; Milan decree, 292, 293; refusal to revoke, 363,364; con- ditions of revocation, 364, 365; new de- cree, 366; Rambouillet decree, 367; re- peal of Berlin and Milan promised, 368; Napoleon to the deputies, 425; Napo- leon to the bankers, 425, 426; no evi- dence of repeal of decrees comes from France, 456; evidence of repeal sent to Congress by Madison, 394; Foster's statement of England's position on, 406, 407; not repealed, 407, 408; Mon- roe asserts that they are, 410, 411; Fed- eralist evidence that they were not, 424; Cadore's report, 425; Semonville's speech, 425.
Decres, Denis Duc, 366.
Delassus, Don Carlos Dehautl, Governor of West Florida, 370; insurrection un- der, 370, 371; taken prisoner, 371. Delaware River. Steamboat on, 491, 492, 493.
Delaware and Chesapeake Canal. Origin of, 471; applies to Congress for aid, 471, 472; plan to give it land, 472, 473, 479. Delaware and Raritan Cenal, 474, note. Delaware. Qualifications of office-hold- ers, 148; of voters, 149; rejects twelfth amendment, 187.
Denmark. Threatened by Napoleon, 272; Copenhagen burned by English, 272, 273; fleet seized by English, 273. De Pestre or Dupiestre. Confederate of Burr, 63; delivers Burr's letter to Yrujo, 71; reports to Yrujo, 72. Dobbyn, H. W. Petitions for leave to buy land, 117.
Depository, General, 19.
Derbigny, Pierre, 28; meets Burr, 55. Derne. Capture of, by Eaton, 207; aban- doned, 208.
Desertion of sailors. From English ships, 242; not recoverable, 242, 243; action of Virginia, 244; from Melampus, 255; from Halifax, 255, 256; order of Berke- ley regarding, 256, 257.
Detroit. Burned in 1805, 138, 139; new city laid out, 139, 140; "Campus Mar- tius," 140; "Grand Circus," 140; fort at, 541, 542.
Direct trade defined, 222-224; again for- bidden, 224: new proviso, 224, 225. Disfranchisement of Roman Catholics, Hebrews, etc., 148.
Dismal Swamp Canal, 471, 474, note. District of Columbia. Judiciary of, 164, 165; case of Marbury vs. Madison, 165- 167.
District system of choosing electors of President, 194.
Districting Act of Massachusetts, 452. Disunion. Sentiment in New England, 43-48; Burr's attempt, 54-86; Henry's report on, 285, 286; resolutions on the Force Act, 328, 329; Pickering's at- tempt, 330, 331.
Dogs. Tax on, in Pennsylvania for pur- chase of Merino rams, 503. Domain, The public. [See also Public Lands.] Claims of the States to the Mississippi Valley, 89, 90; attempt to settle ownership, 91, 92; action of Maryland, 92; of Rhode Island, 92; of New Jersey, 92; of Virginia, 93, 94; cession by New York, 95; cession by the States, 97; Pelatiah Webster's plan for the use of, 96, note; plan of Con- gress, 96, 97; Bland's plan, 98, 99; promises to Virginia, 100; ordinance for government of, 100-102; ordinance for sale of land, 102, 103; squatters driven from, 105-108; survey of, be- gun, 108, 109; plan for cutting into States, 110; ordinance of 1787, 112; Territory south of Ohio formed, 117; Indiana Territory established, 121-124; dispute over Yazoo lands, 128, 129 Mississippi Territory formed, 129; Michigan formed, 137; exploration of Lewis and Clarke, 142-144; of Z. M. Pike, 144, 145.
Douglas, John Erskine. Berkeley's or-
der reaches, 257; public feeling to- ward, 260; threatens Norfolk, 260, 261. Driver, The. Ordered out of waters of United States, 239; affair of, in New York Harbor, 246, 247; return, 254. Duane, William J. Pamphlet on inter- nal improvements in Pennsylvania, 481, 482; effect, 482, 483.
Duane, William, 80; hatred of English common law, 159; calls for amendment of Constitution of Pennsylvania, 160-
Du Ponceau, P. S. On claims for Span- ish indemnity, 35; refuses to prosecute Pennsylvania judge, 159.
Eagle Tavern, at Richmond. Burr brought before Marshall at, 76, 79; scenes at, 81.
Early, Peter, 173, 177, 180; speech on slave trade, 520.
Eaton, General William. Sounded by Burr, 63; warns Jefferson, 63, 69; at
Richmond during the trial of Burr, 79, 81, 84; life of, 204, 205; relations with Hamet Caramalli, 205; sent out as navy agent, 205; at Cairo, 206; organ- izes his army, 206, 207; march across the desert, 207, 208; capture of Derne, 207; peace made, 207, 208; Derne evacuated, 208.
Education. "Section 16" reserved for education, 105; school lands in Ohio, 134, 136.
Election. The presidential, in 1804, 197- 199; in 1808, 313–317.
Electors of President and Vice-President. Struggle for a general ticket in Massa- chusetts, 188, 189; law regarding, 188, note; manners of choosing, in the State,
194. Electoral vote in 1804, 197; in 1808, 817. Ellicott, Andrew, 468.
Ellisburg. Embargo riots, 306. Embargo. Laid at New Orleans at Wil- kinson's request, 74.
Embargo, The, or Sketches of the Times, by W. C. Bryant, 323, 325 and note. Embargo of 1807. Cause of, 276; Madi- son frames the message, 276; Gallatin opposes, 276, 277; embargo laid, 277, 278; evaded, 279; first supplementary act, 280, 281; effects of, 289; "O-grab- ""Go-bar-em," me," Dambargo," 291, 292; denounced by Federalists, 290, 291; defended by Republicans, 292; not enforced along the border, 293, 294; debate on second supplementary act, 295, 296; the act, 296; evasions along the Canadian border, 296, 297; procla- mation of Jefferson concerning Ver- mont, 297; authorized to suspend, 298; third supplementary act, 298; effect of, 300; circular of Gallatin, 300, 301; flour certificates, 302, 303; Gallatin cir- cular declared illegal, 302; importa- tion of food stopped, 303, 304; smug- gling on Lake Champlain, 304; fight- ing on, 305; at Oswego, 305; at Sackett's Harbor, 305; Salmon river, 306; at Lewiston, 306; at Newburyport, 306; no effect on England, 307; duty laid on American ships and cargo, 307, 308 Bayonne decree, 309; explanation of decree, 311; efforts to secure a suspen- sion of embargo, Boston letter, 312; answers of the towns, 312, 313; effect of the embargo on the election, 317; anniversary of the embargo, 823-325; ballads on, 324, 325; the Force Act," 325, 326; excitement in New England over Force Act, 326-330; action of Massachusetts, 329, 330; Connecticut re- fuses to execute, 331, 332; petitions for repeal of embargo, 332, 333; the repeal, 333-336; effect on trade, 412, 413; monetary loss caused by, 414, 415; in- crease of debtors, 415; stay laws, 416, 417.
"Embargo Day," 323-325. Embargo of 1812. Plan of Clay regard- ing, 449; Madison accepts, 450; Porter
brings in the bill, 450; passed, 450; | rumors that it was to pass, 451; notice sent to the seaports before the bill passed, 451; scenes at Philadelphia, 451; at New York, 451; at Boston,
Emerson, John. Handbill regarding State in North west Territory, 106, note. England. Colonial trade of, 219; “Rule of 1756," 220; orders in council and blockades, 220-223; the broken voy- age, 222, 223; the Polly, 223; the Mercury, 223, 224; new rule, 225; case of Essex, Enoch, Rowena, 226; effect of, in the United States, 227-229; action in Congress, 231–236; Non-importation Act passed, 236; impressinent of American sailors, 240-245; desertion of English sailors, 242-244; grievances of United States against, 245, 246; af- fair of Cambrian and Driver, 246, 247; mission of Monroe, 247-249; treaty made with, 249-251; rejected by Jef- ferson, 251-253; Chesapeake affair, 255-264; burns Copenhagen, 272, 273; scizes Danish fleet, 273; orders in council, Nov. 11, 1807, 272-274; Rose mission and failure, 281-283; the license system of trade for neutrals, 274; cost of, to neutrals, 307, 308; orders in council attacked in Parliament, 307; Erskine affair, 322, 323, 339-342; dis- avowal, 348, 349; Erskine recalled and F. J. Jackson sent to the United States, 349; quarrels with Madison, 351-353; Pinkney asks what orders in council are in force, 364; answer, 364, 365; informed of Napoleon's terms of recall of decrees, 365–368; answer, 369; sends A. J. Foster to replace F. J. Jackson, 401; instructions to, 402; Foster's statement of her position as to repeal of decrees, 406, 407; war declared with, 456-458.
Enlistment. Bounties to encourage, 543. Enterprise, The, 202.
Eppes, 299; on non-intercourse, 396: quar- rel with Randolph, 396; challenges him, 396.
Erie Canal. Applies to Congress and the States for aid, 478, 479; answer of the States, 497; refusal of Congress, 479. Erskine, Lord Chancellor. Speech against orders in council, 307. Erskine, David Montague. Succeeds
Anthony Merry as English Minister, 63; sounds Madison and Gallatin, 322; recommendations to Canning, 322, 323; Canning's answer, 339, 340; the ar- rangement with Madison, 341,342; Non- intercourse Law suspended, 342; disa- vowed by England, 348, 349; recalled,
Eustis, William, Secretary of War, 339; authorizes new Indian treaties, 529; anger of the Indians, 529.
Evans, Oliver. His Oruktor, 487; in- ventions of, 495.
Flint, Royal, 115.
Flintoph, John, Lieutenant. Passamaquoddy, 254.
Florida. Jefferson's proposed constitu- tional amendment for the admission of, to the Union, 2; Spanish garrisons strengthened in, 210; Jefferson decides to buy, 211, 212; question in the House, 213-215; money voted, 219.
Florida, East. History of, 33; ceded by England to Spain, 33; Governor Folch offers to cede, 373; Madison asks au- thority to receive, 373; authority given, 374, 375; George Matthews appointed commissioner to receive the province, 375; proceeds to St. Mary's, 537; en- courages a revolution in, 537, 538; reb- els seize Fernandina, 538, 539; Amelia Island surrendered to the United States, 539; St. Augustine besieged, 539; Mat- thews recalled, 539; Governor Mitchell of Georgia succeeds him, 539, 540; seizes English ships on the opening of
Florida, West. Claim of the United States to, 31-34; made a collection district, 31; protest of Yrujo, 31; history of, 33; Armstrong and Talleyrand on, 39, 209; views of Cabinet on in 1805, 209; rebellion in, 370, 371; State of, formed, 371; taken possession of by the United States, 371-373; offer of Governor Folch to surrender province, 373; action of Congress, 374; secret act concerning, 374; independence of West Florida proclaimed, 371; governor elected, 372; rebellion ended, 373; province annexed to Louisiana and Mississippi, 540. Flour certificates, 301; use of, by Sul- livan, 301.
Flour. Shipment of, over the frontier, 293, 294; shipment stopped, 301; flour certificates, 301, 302; importation of, stopped, 303; cost of transporting, 463. Floyd, David. Indicted for treason, 83. Folch, Vincente. Governor of Florida,
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