to build roads, 136; manager at trial of Chase, 177, 180, 181; moves an amend- ment to Federal Constitution, 182; op- poses the purchase of Florida, 213-215; on the embargo, 278; on suspension of non-intercourse, 344, 345; on the non- intercourse bill, 392, 396; quarrels with Eppes, 396; is challenged, 396; on standing army, 433, 435; on the use of the army, 437, 438.
Ranges, 104 and note; survey of The Siren, 108, 109.
Raritan. The steamboat, 491, 492; ex- plosion of the boiler, 491. Ratford, Jenkin. Deserts from the Hali- fax and enters on the Chesapeake, 256; included in Berkeley's order, 257; taken from Chesapeake and hung, 259. Rateliff, Jacob. Mayor of New York,
Religion. "Section 29" set apart for use of religious bodies, 115, note. Representation. Massachusetts proposes to limit it to freemen, 44, 45; action of the States on, 46, 47. Representatives in State Legislatures. Qualifications for the office, 148. Resolutions. Virginia and Kentucky, of 1798, 1799, affirmed by Pennsylvania, 388 and note.
Resource. Case of the ship, 302, 303. Restrictions. On San Domingo trade,
216-218; rule of 1756, 219, 222; orders in council and French decrees, 220- 223; non-importation from England, 231-236.
Revenge, The. Sent to England with despatches, 264, 270.
Revenue. From sale of public lands, 120, 121; to be used to build roads, 135, 136.
Rhea, John. President of convention of New Feliciana, 371.
Rhode Island. On the land claims of the States, 92, 93; opposition to Force Act, 333; Governor refuses to call out the militia, 546.
Richard, The sloop. Murder of the helmsman, 236, 237; excitement over, 237-240.
Richmond. Burr brought before Mar-
shall, 76, 79; during the trial of Burr, 79, 80.
Rio Bravo, 14, 38, 39, 40. Rio Colorado, 38, 39. Rio Grande, 32.
Roads. Grant to Zane, 121; the United States to build roads to and in Ohio, 134, 135, 136; effect of western movement of population on, 462; rise of turnpike companies in the East, 462, 463; cost of land carriage, 463, 464; turnpike toll, 464; Cumberland Road, 469, 470. Rodney, Judge. Burr tried before, 75. Rodney, Cesar A., 177, 180. Rodgers, Commodore John. Commands fleet off Tripoli, 208; sails on the Presi- dent, 403; affair with Little Belt, 403- 405.
Rose, George Henry. English envoy to adjust Chesapeake affair, 269, 270; reaches United States, 270, 281, 282; instructions, 282; negotiations, 282, 283; takes formal leave, 283; corre- spondence with Pickering, 283, 284. Roxbury. Town of, in Massachusetts, 454. "Rule of 1756," 219-222. Rumsey, James, 487.
Russell, Jonathan. Chargé d'affaires at Paris; asks if decrees are repealed, 407; reads report of Cadore, 408; of Semon- ville, 408; protests against seizure of American ships, 408; demands mean- ing of Semonville's words, 408; is given two letters from Minister of Jus- tice and Minister of Finance, 408; de- livers Non-intercourse Act of 1811 to Bassano, 409; action of Napoleon, 409. Ryland, Herman W., secretary to Sir James Craig. Letters of Henry to, 285,
Sackett's Harbor. Embargo broken at,
Sailors. Suffering of, in the cities after embargo, 289, 290.
St. Albans. People of, answer the pro- clamation declaring them insurgents,
St. Augustine. Attacked by the East Florida rebels, 539, 540.
St. Clair, Arthur, Governor of North- west Territory, 112; organizes govern- ment, 113; laws adopted by, 113–115; on division of territory, 123. St. John's Plains. Convention at, 370. St. Louis, Burr at, in 1805, 59. St. Mary's, 537-540.
Salary Act of Massachusetts, 453, 454. Salcedo, Don Juan Manuel de. Delivers Louisiana to France, 10, 11. Salina. Salt works at, 480. Salem. Supports the embargo, 312; an- niversary of embargo, 323; representa- tion tax, 454.
Salt. Manufacture of, at Salina, 480; salt trade of New York, 480, 481; Te- cumthe refuses to receive the annual allowance, 531; seizes the allowance for the Northwest Indians, 532.
San Domingo. The island, 215, 216; L'Ouverture, 216; trade suspended and renewed, 216, 217; fall of L'Ouverture, 217; ports opened, 217; trade with, 217, 218; Napoleon orders it stopped, 218, 219; a law passed, 219. Sargent, Winthrop, Secretary of North- west Territory, 112; Governor of Miss issippi Territory, 129; describes people of Mississippi, 129, 130; charges against him, 130.
Saunders, Henry. Deserter from the Halifax and from the Chesapeake, 256; included in Berkeley's order, 257. Sauvé, Pierre, 28.
Savannah. Cyclone of 1804 at, 196. Schenectady boat, 480.
Schuyler, Philip. Delegate to the Con- tinental Congress, 94; on land troubles, 94; letter to Congress on Indian mat- ters, 94.
Schuylkill and Susquehanna Canal, 478. (See Union Canal.)
Secession. Existence of a desire for, 43; sentiments of public men on, 44, note, 47, 48; Pickering's plan for a northern confederacy, 48, 51, 52; Burr's plan for a southwestern, 54-56; begins his move- ments, 56, 57, 58, 60; hints of his plan made public, 60.
"Section," 104 and note; "section 16" re- served for education, 105; "section 29" reserved for use of religious bodies, 115, note.
Semonville, Comte. Speech to French Senate on the decrees, 408, 425. Senate, United States. (See Congress.) Senators. In the State Legislatures, qualification for the office, 148, 150. Serurier. Succeeds Turreau as French Minister, 394; protests against delay in sending Barlow to France, 410; asked to write a letter stating that the decrees are repealed, 410.
"Servants." Law concerning, in In- diana, 525.
"Seven Ranges" surveyed, 108, 109. Shippen, Edward. Impeached, 159. Shrewsbury, Against war, 552. Simpson, Slingsby, 239. Sinclair, Lieutenant.
from English ships, 256. Siren, The, 202, 206. Skipwith, Fulwar, Governor of State of West Florida, 372. Slaves. Massachusetts proposes to abol-
ish three-fifths representation of, 44, 45 ; answers of the States, 46, 47; excluded from Northwest Territory, 114; admit- ted to territory south of Ohio, 117, 118. Slave trade. Restrictions on, 515, 516; South Carolina opens her ports to, 517; North Carolina proposes a constitution al amendment, 517; abolished by Con- gress, 520, 521.
Slavery. Feeling toward, at end of Revo- lution, 514, 515; powers of Congress over, stated, 515; Fugitive-Slave Act, 515; restriction on the slave trade, 515,
516; State laws on slave trade, 517; South Carolina repeals hers, 517; North Carolina proposes a constitutional amendment, 517; South Carolina de- fended, 518, 519; in the Northwest Territory, 521-524; in Indiana Terri- tory, 524-527; in Michigan, 527, 528. Sloan, James. Resolutions on trade, 230,
Smith, Israel, indicted for treason, 83. Smith, Israel, 175.
Smith, John, of New York, 175. Smith, John, Senator from Ohio, in- dicted for treason, 83; later career, 88; in the trial of Judge Chase, 175. Smith, Robert, Secretary of State, 339; dismissed from office, 400, 401. Smith, Thomas. Impeached, 159. Smuggling. Over the frontier, 293, 294, 296, 297, 304–307. Snyder, Simon, 161, 162. Societies. To encourage manufactures, 500, 501; manufacturing, 504, 505; be- nevolent, 511; trade unions, 511; jour- neymen trade, 511-513.
Somers, Captain. Lost in the Intrepid,
South, the. Feeling toward, in New England, 42-45, 47.
South Carolina. On the Ely amend- ment of the United States Constitu- tion, 46; land cession, 115; land dis- pute with Georgia, 125, 126; franchise in, 147; office-holder's qualification, 148; opens her ports to slave trade, 517; action defended, 528, 529. Spain. Delivers Louisiana to France, 10, 11; protests against sale of Louisi- ana to United States, 11, 12; keeps troops at New Orleans, 27, 28; protests against Mobile Act, 31, 32; dispute with, regarding West Florida, 31, 34; indemnity demanded of, for spolia- tion, 34, 35; Yrujo takes opinion of American lawyers on, 35, 36; conven- tion regarding, 34-41; conduct of Pinck- ney concerning, 36, 37; Monroe sent to, 37; negotiations of Monroe and Pinckney regarding Louisiana bound- ary, 37-41; Spanish decree of Febru- ary 19, 1807, 270; Spanish Minister applies for interpretation of Berlin decree, 270; attacked by Napoleon, 309, 310; Carlos IV abdicates, 310; people rise, 310; Napoleon at Bayonne, 310; Bayonne decree, 310; Joseph Bonaparte made king, 312; French re- verses in, 312.
Springfield. Wages at, 509. Spoliations, French. On American com- merce in Spanish ports, 34-36; demand for indemnity, 38.
Squatters. Driven from the public lands, 105-107, 108.
Stage-coach line. Philadelphia to New York, 492, note.
State. Call for a convention to frame a government for one north of Ohio river, 106 and note.
State rights. Contest for, 183-186; as- serted by Massachusetts towns, 327- 329; by General Court, 330; asserted by Connecticut, 331, 332, 545; resolu- tion of Pennsylvania affirming the Vir- ginia and Kentucky doctrine of 1798, 388 and note.
States. Admission of "new States," 6. States, The original thirteen. Land claims and disputes of, 90-92; land cessions of, 92, 93; plans for forming new States, Westsylvania, 91 and note; petition from Kentucky, 97, 98; Bland's plan, 98, 99; promises to Virginia, 100. States, number of, in 1812, 459. Statira, British frigate, 270.
Stay laws. Under embargo, 416, 417. Steamboat, 486; early history of, 487; Fulton's labor, 488; Livingston's la- bors, 488; Fulton's experiments on the Seine, 489; the Clermont, 490, 491; Livingston and Fulton monopoly, 491; the Phoenix, 491; the Raritan, 491, 492; New Jersey attacks the Livingston- Fulton monopoly, 492, 493; rival com- pany on the Hudson enjoined, 493; Stevens attempts to establish a line on Chesapeake Bay, 493 and note; steam- boat on the Mississippi, 493; on ferry to New Jersey, 493; on ferry to Cam- den, 494.
Stele, John. Secretary of Mississippi Territory, 129.
Steubenville. Land office at, 124. Stevens, John Cox. His steamboat on
the Hudson, 487; builds and operates the Phoenix, 491, 492; attempt to estab- lish a steamboat line on Chesapeake Bay, 493 and note.
Stockbridge. Wages at, 509. Stoddart, Amos. Receives Upper Louisi- ana and delivers it to United States, 13,
Susquehanna Bridge Company, 475. Swartwout, Samuel. Confederate of Burr, 63; goes to New Orleans, 69, 70; delivers Burr's letter to Wilkinson, 70; arrested at Fort Adams, 74; sent north by sea, 74; arrested at Washington, 78; set free, 79.
Symmes, John Cleve, Judge of New York Territory, 113; land purchase of, 115. Syndic, 21.
Tailors. Strike of journeymen, at Balti- more, 511.
Talleyrand. Consulted as to Louisiana boundary by Monroe, 39; informed of Burr's conspiracy, 56; succeeded by Champagny, 270.
Tammany Society, of New York City. Attends funeral of Pierce, 237, 238; of Philadelphia, resolutions, 239, 240. Tardiveau, Bartholomew. Asks for inter- pretation of Article VI of ordinance of 1787, 521, 522.
Tariffs. The first, 495; rise of the pro- tective system, 496-498; desire for
home manufactures, 499; attempt to tax slaves imported, 518, 519. Taxes. Spanish, in Louisiana, 22; land sold by United States not to be taxed for five years, 134, 135; war taxes, 442–
Tecumthe. Sketch of, 529; his plan for an Indian confederacy, 529, 530; oceu- pies Tippecanoe, 530; meets Harrison at Vincennes, 531; his demands, 531, 582; comes to Vincennes with his war- riors, 532; goes to Georgia, 532; people demand that his town be broken up, 532; his journey to Georgia, 585; effect on the Indians there, 535, 536. Tennessee. Stay laws, 416; trade in, 484; lack of money in, 484; plan for improvement of trade, 485, 486; on the Erie Canal, 479; trade and commerce of, 484-486.
Tenure of office. Life tenure, 152; at- tempt to abolish, in Pennsylvania, 153- 159.
Territories, The formation of. Orleans, 23; Louisiana, 30; Northwest, 100–102,
110,112; south of Ohio, 117, 118; status of, under the Constitution, 10, 24-26. Tests. Religious, for office-holders, 148; for voters, 147; abolition of, 149, 150. Testaments. Belief in the inspiration of the, a qualification for voting, 148. Texas. Armstrong urges Jefferson to seize, 209; action of Spaniards in, 210. Theatre in New Orleans, 18. Thomas, Philemon. Leader in New Fe- liciana rebellion, 371, 872. Tilsit. Peace of, 272.
Tilton, Daniel. Judge in Mississippi Territory, 129.
Title. The Indian, to Western land extinguished, 103.
Tippecanoe. Indian town at, 530, 531; alarm of the people at, 532; Harrison
marches against, 533; battle of, 533, 534; destruction of, 534. Tivoli Garden, 19.
Toasts. At dinner to Rufus King, 197; to the "virtuous minority," 337; at Ded- ham, 552; "The Potomac, the Bound- ary," 43.
Tobacco. Cost of transporting, 463. Toronto, or York. Capital of Upper Can- ada, 558.
Torpedo, Fulton's, 488, 489.
Toussaint L'Ouverture, 216, 217. Township, 104 and note; sections re- served for education, 105. Trade with San Domingo, 216-218, 219; restriction of, by Great Britain, 219; direct trade defined, 222-224; British licenses, 274; cost of trade under the license system, 307, 308; Non-inter- course Act of March 1, 1809, 335, 336; suspended after June 10, 1809, as to England, 342; effect of suspension, 342, 343; rejoicings over, 346, 347; non-inter- course renewed, 349, 361; Napoleon restores limited trade with United States, 368; promise of repeal of Berlin and Milan decree, 368.
Trade unions, 511; strikes of, 511-513. Transportation in the United States.
Effect of Western movement of popu- lation, 461, 462; turnpikes, 462, 463; cost of, 463, 464; tolls, 464; effect of embargo on routes of, 464, 465; cost of, from New York towns to Canada, 464, 465; difficulties of, between Albany and Pittsburg, 480, 481.
Travel. By steamboat, 490-492; by stage coach between New York and Philadelphia, 492, note.
Treason. Overt act defied by prosecu- tors of Burr, 84; decision of Marshall,
Treasury notes. Issue of, 549.
Treaty of 1806 with England. Instruc- tions of Monroe and Pinckney, 248; negotiation, 249-251; rejected by Jef- ferson, 252, 253.
Treaty. Louisiana purchase, ratifica- tions exchanged, 3; Griswold calls for papers, 4; of Greenville, 118; Indian treaty of Fort Stanwix, 103; Fort Mc- Intosh, 103; new treaties with the In- dians, 529; anger of the Indians, 530. Trenton. Meeting of peace party at, 552. Trial of Aaron Burr at Richmond, 79- 88; of Judge Addison, 157; of Shippen, Yeates, and Smith, 159; of Pickering, 165, 166-168, 172, 173; of Chase, 177- 182; of the Philadelphia cordwainers for conspiracy, 512; of the New York cordwainers for conspiracy, 513. "Triangle, The." In Pennsylvania, origin of, 112, note.
Trinity. Belief in, a necessary qualifica- tion for voting, 148.
Tripoli. War with, 200-202; Philadel- phia captured off, 202, 203; Eaton's plan to restore Hamet, 205; siege of, by Preble, 206; loss of the Intrepid, 206;
Eaton's march from Cairo, 206, 207; capture of Derne, 207; peace, 207, 208. Troup, George M., 420; on war with Eng- land, 320.
Trumbull, Jonathan, Governor of Con- necticut. Refuses to execute Force Act, 331, 332.
Truxton, Commodore. Entertains Burr after the duel, 54; Burr attempts to enlist him in his plans, 63, 70, 84. Tuckaubatchee, a Creek town. Tecum- the at, 535.
Turner, Judge. Attempts to free slaves under the ordinance of 1787, 522. Turner, Charles. Insulted at Plymouth,
Turnpikes. Beginning of, in United States, 462, 463; rate of toll, 464. Turreau, Louis Marie, French Minister to the United States. Acquainted with Burr's schemes, 56; asks for stoppage of San Domingo trade, 218, 219. "Two thirds of both Houses." Meaning of, 186. Tyler, Comfort. Indicted for treason,
Union Canal Company. Applies to Con- gress for aid, 478, 479.
'Union, This." Meaning of the words, 6-8.
Van Ness, William P. Defends Burr, 49; carries the challenge to Hamilton,
Varnum, James W. Judge of North- west Territory, 112.
Varnum, James B.
Sert to United States Senate in place of Pickering, 422, 423.
Venezuela. Insurrection in, 369. Vermont. Embargo evaded in, 297; proclamation declaring the people in- surgents, 297; answer of people, 297; turnpikes in, 463.
Vessels. Number of, in the navy in 1812, 548.
Vice-President. Separate ballot for, 183- 187; candidates for, in 1804, 188; in 1808, 314; death of Clinton, 456; can- didates for, in 1812, 456. Vincennes. Capital of Indiana Terri- tory, 524; Teeumthe at, 531, 532. "Vincennes Convention." Petition from, for the introduction of slaves into Indiana, 524, 525; Randolph's report
Virginia. Answers Ely amendment to Constitution, 45, 46; feeling toward, in New England, 47, 48, 51; dispute with Maryland over Western lands, 93, 94; opens a land office, 93; protests against, 94; her position, 94; dispute with Pennsylvania, 95; with Kentucky, 96; Paine's pamphlets, “Public Good," 96, and "Plain Facts," 97; question of ac- cepting the cession, 97, 99, 100; cession accepted, 100; Stay Law, 416; against
Wagner, Jacob. Editor of Federal Re- publican, 553, 554.
Wagons going toward the frontier stopped by the embargo, 304.
War. Question of going to, discussed, 265-267; the war message, 456, 457; the declaration, 457, 458; the proclama- tion, 458; the declaration, opposition to, in New England, 551, 552. War taxes. Debate on, 442-444. Ware, William. Deserts from Melam- pus, 255; takes service on Chesapeake, 255; taken from Chesapeake, 259. Washington, George, 240, 241. "We, the people of the United States," 377. Webster, Pelatiah. On the use to be made of Western lands, 96 and note. Wellesley, Arthur. In Spain, 312. Wellesley, Marquis. His reply to Pink- ney regarding orders in council, 364, 365; his reply to Champagny's letter of August 5, 369.
West Indies, French. Negroes and mu- lattoes from, excluded from the United States, 517.
"Westsylvania." Petition to form the State of, 91; boundary of, 91, note. Western World, The, 64, 65. Wheat. Cost of transporting, 463. Whitby, Henry, 239.
Widgery, William. Insulted at Boston,
Wilkinson, James. Receives Louisiana from France, 13; military commander
of Orleans Territory, 26; aids Burr, 55; Burr visits, at Fort Massac, 58; at- tempts to corrupt the army, 59; Burr visits, at St. Louis, 59, 60; Burr's letter to, 70; betrays Burr, 70; activity after the betrayal, 73; goes to New Orleans, 73; begins to arrest the conspirators at New Orleans, 74; attached for con- tempt, 74; defies the Court, 74; chal- lenged by Swartwout, 81; appears as a witness against Burr, 83.
Williamson, Colonel. Agent of Burr, 54, 55, note, 56.
Wilmington, N. C. Free negroes land at, 517; memorial from the citizens, 517; action of Congress, 517. Winchester, James, 547.
Windmill Bay. Smuggling at, 304. Wirt, William. At Burr's trial, 79, 80; his famous oration at Burr's trial, 85. Women. Vote in New Jersey, 147. Wool and woollen mills, 503, 504. Worcester. On the embargo, 312. Wyandots. Join Tecumthe, 531; join the English, 559. Wyeth, George, 428.
Yazoo Land Companies. Origin of Geor- gia claim, 125, 126; the sales by Geor- gia, 127, 128; claims before Congress, 132; before Supreme Court, 132; settle- ment, 132, 133.
Yeates, Jasper. Impeached, 159. Yellow Creek. Squatters driven from,
York, or Toronto, capital of Upper Cana- da, 558.
Yrujo, Don Carlos Martinez, Spanish Minister at Washington. Protests against sale of Louisiana to the United States, 11, 12; against "Mobile Act," 31; takes opinion of American lawyers on our demand for indemnity, 35, 36; Dayton makes known Burr's plan to 62; Burr's letter to, 71; warns Spanish Governors against Burr, 71, 72.
Zane, Ebenezer. Land grant to, 121. Zanesville, 121.
« AnteriorContinuar » |