Jefferson, Thomas, opposed to slavery,72;favours religious freedom,81;minister to France,138,155;assists Gouverneur Morris in arranging our decimal currency,166;his plan for the government of the northwestern territory,196;wishes to prohibit slavery in the national domain,198,205;his purchase of Louisiana,207;absent from United States at the time of the Federal Convention,225;his faith in the people,226,337;his opinion of the Constitution,309;approves the action of the Massachusetts convention,331.Johnson, W.S.,229.Johnston, Alexander,223.Jones, Paul,339.Jonesborough, convention at,200.Judiciary, elective,69;federal,242,300,301.Juilliardvs.Greenman,275.Kentucky,18,189,199,202,209,210.Keppel, Lord,5,16,45.King, Rufus,217,221,228,246,249,250,256,261,276,279,282,324,326.King's Mountain,28,200,321.Kings, election of, in Poland,279.Know Ye men and Know Ye measures,177,243.Knox, Henry,114.Lafayette,50,54.Langdon, John,229,269,274,276,283,346.Lansing, John,225,242,244,246,254,340,341.Laurens, Henry,2,22.Lecky, W.,103.Ledyard, Isaac,128.Lee, Henry,307,337.Lee, Richard Henry,57,143,204,205,225,307,313,318,328,336,337,347."Letters from a Federal Farmer," by R.H. Lee,314.Lexington,50,321.Lincoln, Abraham,72,198,207.Lincoln, Benjamin,181–183,319,332.Livingston, Robert,36,340,350.Livingston, William,171,229.Locke, John,64,225.Long Lane becomes Federal Street,331.Long Parliament,92,235.Lords, House of,66,68;contrasted with Senate,295.Lowndes, Rawlins,332–334.Loyalists, compensation of,28–33;persecution of,120–130;did not form, in any proper sense of the word, an opposition party,308.Luzerne, Chevalier de,35,54.Lykian League,249.Macdougall, Alexander,107.McDuffle, George,60.McKean, Thomas,316.McMaster, J.B.,151.Madison, James, and the Religious Freedom Act,81;on right of coercion,100;advocates five per cent. impost,104;on the ordinance of 1787,206;moves that a convention be held to secure a uniform commercial policy,214;succeeds in getting delegates appointed,220;his character and appearance,226,227;his journal of the proceedings,229;chief author of the Virginia plan,233,267;one of the first to arrive at the fundamental conception of our partly federal and partly national government,239;approves at first of giving Congress the power to annul state laws,241;opposes the New Jersey plan,246;declares that the real antagonism is between slave states and free states,249,256;author of the three fifths compromise,260,261;condemns paper money,275;disapproves of election of the executive by the legislature,279;approves of a privy council,299;supports the Constitution in Congress,307;called a boy by the Antifederalists,313;supports the Constitution in the Virginia convention,337;part author of the "Federalist,"341,342;denies that there can be a constitutional right of secession,344.Maine as part of Massachusetts,317.Manchester, Duke of,45.Marbois, François de Barbé,22,35.Marion, Francis,122.Marshall, John,82,276,301,337.Martin, Luther,229,242–244,246,249,250,254,275,322.Maryland, government of,65;insists upon cession of northwestern lands,93,192,195;paper money in,170;message to Virginia,215;ratifies the Constitution,332.Mason, George,229,243,252,264,265,275,276,277,279,281,282,283,299,303,304,335,337.Massachusetts, government of,67;abolishes slavery,75;religious bigotry,76;on the five per cent. duty,104;tries to propose a convention for increasing the powers of Congress,142;lays claim to a small part of Vermont,152;paper money in,172–179;western claims of,189;changes her attitude,221;local self-government in,317;debates on the Constitution,320–330;ratifies it, suggesting amendments,331.Massachusetts Chronicle, quoted,120.Massacre, Boston,321.Mayhew, Jonathan,92.Meade, William,79,83.Mentor and Phocion,128.Mercer, J.F.,274.Methodists,85.Middletown convention,113.Mifflin, Thomas,52.Minisink,122.Mirabeau, Count de,116.Mississippi River, attempt to close it,209–211,335;valley of the,18,188.Monroe, James,216.Montesquieu, C.,225,291.Moonshiners,334.Morris, Gouverneur,108,166,228,242,251,261,264,269,273,276,279,282,303.Morris, Robert,108,167,228,312.Moultrie, William,143,334.Muley Abdallah,158.Mutiny act,321.Names of persons and places, fashions in,197.Nantucket,163.Nason, Samuel,321.Naval eminence of New England,20,139.Navigation acts,138–143,164.Negroes carried away by British fleet,131.Nelson, Samuel,276.New Connecticut,152.New Hampshire lays claim to Vermont,151–153;riots in,183;hesitates to ratify the Constitution,331;ratifies it,338.New Jersey quarrels with New York,146;paper money in,171;opposes the attempt to close the Mississippi,211;instructs her delegates to the Annapolis convention,217;her plan for amending the articles of confederation,245;ratifies the Constitution,315.New Roof,338.New York passes navigation and tariff acts directed against neighbouring states,146;lays claim to Vermont,151–153;paper money in,170;western claims of,190,193;defeats the impost amendment,218–220;debates on the Constitution,340–344;ratifies it,344;asks for a second convention,344;fails to choose electors,346.New York Central Railroad,212.Newburgh address,108–112,118.Nicola, Louis, his letter to Washington,107,118.Non-importation agreement,142.North, Frederick, Lord, fall of his ministry,1;coalition with Fox,38–42;his blindness,41;his proposals after Saratoga,91;his subservience to the king,297.North Carolina issues paper money,169;cedes her western lands to the United States,199;repeals the act of cession,201;delays her ratification of the Constitution,345.Ohio,203–206.Old Sarum,249.Old South Church,321.Onslow, George,2.Ordinance of 1787,199,203–206.Oregon,60.Oswald, Richard,9–14,22–26,32,45.Paine, Thomas,50,55,191.Paper currency,163–179,205,218,273–276.Parker, Theodore,264.Parsons, Samuel Holden,203.Parsons, Theophilus,319,324.Parties, formation of,308.Paterson, William,229,245–248,255,258,274.Patterson, militia officer in Wyoming,149.Payson, Rev. Philip,322.Pendleton, Edmund,336.Pennsylvania, government of,65;first tariff act,142;quarrels with Connecticut,148–150;paper money in,170;opposes the closing of the Mississippi,211;contest over the Constitution,309–314;ratifies it,315.Petersham, scene of Shays's defeat,182,319.Philadelphia, Congress driven from,112;Federal Convention meets at,222;unparliamentary proceedings in legislature,311;celebrates ratification by ten states,339.Phocion and Mentor,128.Pinckney, Charles,228,243,261,265,266,269,276,277,334.Pinckney, Cotesworth,228,243,258,261,263,265,266,276,333,334.Pitt, Thomas,44.Pitt, William, chancellor of exchequer,16;denounces the coalition,39;defends the treaty,43;refuses to form a ministry,44;character,47;prime minister,47;wins a great political victory,48;favours free trade with the United States,136.Polish kings, election of,279.Population as an index of wealth,257.Portland, Duke of,16,45.Potomac, navigation of,213–216.Poughkeepsie, convention at,340–344.Powers granted to federal government,268.Presbyterians,81,86.Presidents of Continental Congress,96.Prevost's march against Charleston,27.Prime minister contrasted with president,292–294.Primogeniture, abolition of,71.Proprietary governments,65,71.Providence, R.I., barbecue and mob at,339.Public lands,188.Putnam, Israel,151.Putnam, Rufus,203.Quebec act,18.Quesnay, François,141.Quorum, how to make a,311.Railroads, political influence of,60.Randolph, Edmund,229,233,235,239,242,246,265,269,275,276,277,282,300,303,335,337.Rayneval, Gérard de,21.Read, George,242,274.Reform, parliamentary,6.Religious freedom, progress in,76–87.Religious tests opposed by Massachusetts clergymen,322.Representation of slaves,258–262.Representatives, House of,236,252.Republican party,238.Republics, old notion that they must be small in area,59.Reserve, Connecticut's western,194.Revenue bills,270.Revere, Paul,327.Revolution, American, its conservative character,64;the French,64,118.Rhode Island, government of,65;extends franchise to Catholics,77;on the five per cent. duty,104;paper money in,172–177;opposes the closing of the Mississippi,211;does not send delegates to Philadelphia,222;delays her ratification of the Constitution,345.Richmond, Duke of,2,16.Rittenhouse, David,111.Rockingham, Marquis of,4;instability of his ministry,5;its excellent work,7;his death,15.Rodney's victory over Grasse,12,13.Roman republic not like the United States,59.Rousseau, J.J.,64,117.Rutgers, Elizabeth,127.Rutledge, John,228,243,261,265,278,279,281,300,334.St. Clair, Arthur,197,206.Saladin and Cœur-de-Lion,161.Sandy Hook light-house,147.Sargent, Winthrop,203.Schuyler, Philip,126,146,151,193.Scott, Sir Walter,153.Scottish representation in Parliament,249.Seabury, Samuel,84.Secession, threats of,211,218;no constitutional right of,344.Secrecy of the debates in Federal Convention,230.Sedgwick, Theodore,122,319.Self-government,57,63,88.Senate, federal, made independent of lower house,253;contrasted with House of Lords,295.Senates, origin of,66.Seven Years' War,13,