action of Congress,280;British government refrains from assuming the act,280;extract from Capt. Drew's report,280;reply of McNab to the letter of District Attorney Rogers,280;remarks of Mr. Fillmore on the reading of the letter,281;answer to our demand for redress,281;at near the close of Van Buren's administration the British government had not assumed the act of Capt. Drew, and had not answered for that act,281;inquiries in the House of Commons relative to it,282;an important event,282;arrest of McLeod,282;a demand from the British Minister for his release,282;extract,282;reply of the American Secretary, Mr. Forsyth,283;extract,283;British government takes its stand relative to the Caroline after the Presidential election of 1840,283;queries in the House of Commons,284;remarks of Mr. Hume,284;admission of Palmerston,284;testimony of McNab,285;remarks,285;triumph of Palmerston policy,286;finale of the case,286;proceedings in the case,286;action of the administration,286;discussion in the House on this action,287;remarks of Mr. Ingersoll,287;"this in its national aspect is precisely the same as if it had been perpetrated in a house,"287;demand of the British,287;Mr. Fox's letter is a threatening one,287;a deplorable lapse from the position Mr. Webster first assumed,288;our position is false, lamentably false,288;never did man lose a greater occasion than Mr. Webster cast away,288.Success of the British Ministry in this experiment,289;another trial,289;Mr. Adams in defence of the administration,289;Mr. Cushing on the same side,289;remarks on their speeches,290;the case of the Poles and of the Hungarians,290;Butler's reply to Cushing,290;the fashion of the friends of Webster,291.Speech of Senator Benton,291;"the history of our country full of warning to those who take the side of a foreign country against their own,291;humiliating to see Senators of eminent ability consulting books to find passages to justify an outrage upon their own country,292;what is the case before us?293;a statement,293;further statement,294;a conclusive point settled,294;position of the British Ministry known on March 4th,295;action of the new administration,295;letter of Mr. Fox,295;instructions of Mr. Webster to the Attorney General,295;extract,295;proceedings of the Attorney General,296;duties of the Attorney General,296;the correctness and propriety of the answer given to Mr. Fox the main point in the case,297;the instructions erroneous in point of law, derogatory to us in point of character, and tending to the degradation of the republic,298;the law of nations,298;derogatory to our character,299;example of Walpole's foreign policy,300;the instructions to the Attorney General most unfortunate and deplorable,300;the letter to Mr. Fox from the Secretary of State,301;an unfortunate production,301;its faults fundamental and radical,302;abandonment of our claim,302;further remarks," 303,304.Rives, William C., in defence of the veto of the bank bill,322;on the disorder in the Senate gallery,351-352.Rodgers, Commodore,decease of.—His appearance,144;hero, by nature,144;sketch of his life,144;American cruisers in the last war,145;views of the Government on the employment of the public vessels,145;Rodgers opinion,146;his naval exploits,146;his humanity,147;feelings at the death of Decatur,147;death,148.SSalt.—Speech of Mr. Benton,176;perhaps the most abundant substance of the earth,176;the universality of the tax on it,177;a salt tax was not only politically, but morally wrong,177;a tax upon the entire economy of nature and art,177;determination to effect its repeal,178.Santa Anna.—His remark relative to Commander McKenzie.His downfall.—His return expected to secure a peace with Mexico,709;the sword, and not the olive branch, returned to Mexico,709;capture of Mexico put an end to his career,710;in three months, the treaty signed,710;the acquisitions,710;the payments,710;a singular conclusion of the war,710;the treaty a fortunate event,710;manner in which those who served the Government fared,711.Saunders, Romulus M., moves the adoption of the two-thirds rule in the democratic convention,591.Schlosser, Harbor of the steamboat Caroline,278.Seward's, William H., answer to the interrogatories of an anti-slavery meeting,776.Slade, William, on abolition petitions,150.Slavery agitation, progress of.—Movements for and against slavery, in the session of 1837-'38,134;memorial from Vermont against the annexation of Texas, and for the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia,134;petitions, &c.,134;little excuse,134;state of the case,134;residence of the petitioners,134;subject of the petitions disagreeable,134;leading to an inevitable separation of the States,134;remarks of Mr. Calhoun,134;question on the most judicious mode of treating these memorials,135;the course adopted, to lay the question of reception on the table,135;Calhoun endeavors to obtain, from the Senate, declarations which should cover all the questions of federal power over the institution of slavery,135;his resolutions,135;the fifth,135;the dogma of "no power in Congress to legislate upon the existence of slavery in territories," had not then been invented,135;reference to the Missouri Compromise line,136;Calhoun's remarks on this compromise,136;remarks,136;Clay's substitute,137;further proceedings,137;repugnance of the Senate to the movement,138;remarks of senators on the tendency of the resolutions to aggravate the excitement,138;justification of Calhoun,139;action of the Senate and the House,140;the important part of the debate,140;remarks on Calhoun's views of the Missouri Compromise,140.Remarks of Calhoun on the ordinance of 1787, in the Oregon bill,141;three propositions laid down by him,141;their conflict with the power exercised by Congress,in the establishment of the Missouri Compromise,141;his views in the Cabinet,141;old writings produced,141;denial of Mr. Calhoun that Monroe's Cabinet was consulted on the subject,142;circumstances favoring the denial,142;views of Calhoun in 1820, in 1837-'38, and in 1847-'48,142;changes in his opinions on the constitutional power of Congress,143;remarks,143;records of the Department of State,143.In the House, a most angry and portentous debate,150;motion on the subject of petitions and memorials,150;manner in which it is advocated,150;course of Mr. Slade,150;suggestion of Legare,150;excited action of the House,150;further excitement, Wise requests his colleagues to retire with him,151;the invitation renewed by Rhett,151;McKay interposes the objection that heads Slade,151;question on leave taken,152;adjournment moved and carried,152.Invitation to Southern members to meet together,152;the meeting,152;result,153;amendment of the rules,153;vote,153;remarks,154;prominent members for the petitions,154.Abolitionists classified by Mr. Clay.—Speech of Mr. Clay,154;"the most judicious course to be pursued with abolition petitions,154;difference in the form of proceeding,155;three classes of persons opposed to the continued existence of slavery,155;the attempt to array one section of the Union against another,155;the means employed for the end,156;the spirit of abolitionism has displayed itself at three epochs of our history,156;further remarks,156."Calhoun's resolutions,696;the real point of complaint,696;speech of Mr. Calhoun,696;extract,696;never voted upon,697;"firebrand,"697;commencement of the slavery agitation founded upon the dogma of "no power in Congress to legislate upon slavery in the territories,"697;position of Mr. Calhoun up to this time,697;further remarks,697;the resolutions characterized as nullification,697.Disunionletter of Mr. Calhoun to a member of the Alabama Legislature,698;disavows the design of a dissolution of the Union, and at the same time proves it,698;opening paragraph,698;"to forcethe issue,"698;notices the act of the Pennsylvania Legislature,698;his secret views of the Wilmot proviso,699;measures of retaliation suggested,699; further extracts,700;a further feature in the plan of forcing the issue,700;a Southern Convention,700;the letter furnishes the key to unlock Calhoun's whole system of slavery agitation,700.Special message of President Polk,712;a delusive calculation,713;a new dogma invented,713;the slavery part of the Constitution extends itself to territories,713;broached by Mr. Calhoun,713;remarks,714;remarks of Mr. Calhoun on the Missouri case,714;his error exposed,714;passed by the South,714;remarks of Mr. Calhoun on the dissolution of the Union,715;remarks of Mr. Benton,715.Extension of the Constitution.—The territories without a government,729;motion of Mr. Walker of Wisconsin as an amendment to the appropriation bill,729;a disorderly motion,729;an amendment inserting an extension of the Constitution,729;remarks of Mr. Webster,729;reply of Mr. Calhoun,730;the Constitution made for States, not Territories,731;examination of Calhoun's position,731;debate takes a slavery turn,732;bill passed after midnight on the last day of the session,732;declining to vote,732;remarks,732;"forcing the issue,"733.Nightly meetings of members from the slave States,733;Calhoun at the bottom of the movement,733;his manifesto superseded by a new address in the grand committee,733;replaced,733;changed from the original draft,734;saluted as the second Declaration of Independence,734;remarks,734;extracts,734;emancipation held to be certain, if not prevented,735;the means of prevention,735;takes the attitude of self-defence,735;further contents of the manifesto,736;last speech of Mr. Calhoun,744;read by Mr. Mason,744;first cause of the slavery disease, the ordinance of 1787,744;the second, the Missouri Compromise,744;third, slavery agitation,744;history of the agitation,744;process of disruption going on,745;successive blows required to snap the cords asunder,745;extract,745;the last cord,746;extracts,746;the remedy,746.Slaves, American, liberation of in British Colonies.—Three instances of this kind had occurred,182;details of each,182;redress obtained from Great Britain in the first two cases,182;resolution offered on the subject by Mr. Calhoun,182;can a municipal regulation of Great Britain alter the law of nations?183;Calhoun's argument,183;referred,183.Slaves, Fugitive.—History of the slave recovery clause,773;act of 1793,773;third section,773;a fair interpretation of the Constitution,773;the penal section,774;the law of Pennsylvania,774,777;the act of New York,775;Marcy's reply to an anti-slavery meeting,775;Seward's reply to the interrogatories of the same meeting,776;sentence on a citizen of Maryland for recapturing his slave in Pennsylvania,778;decision of the Supreme Court,778;a bill reported on the subject of fugitive slaves,778;proviso in favor of a jury trial rejected,779;sentiments of Mr. Cass,779;further remarks,780.Smith, Gen. Samuel, decease of,176;forty years in Congress,176;industry,176;punctuality,176;characteristics,176;long life and service,176.Smith, William, declines the appointment of Judge of the Supreme Court,9.Somers, Brig, alleged Mutiny on Board.—Manner of entering the harbor of New York,523;astonishment of the public at the news,523;the vessel and her crew,523;how first communicated,523;ridicule the only answer first given,524;further relative to the first discovery,524,525;means for arrest of the suspected,525;the arrest,516;treatment,526;evidences sought for,527;further arrests,528;the turning point of the case,529;suspicious circumstances,530;interrogatories,530;facts,531;treatment of the prisoners,532;the handspike sign,532;missing their muster,533;the African knife,533;the battle-axe alarm,534;letter of the commander to the officers,534;council of officers,535;testimony before the council,535;incidental circumstances,536;new arrests,537;the way in which three men were doomed to death,537;trial of Governor Wall at Old Bailey,537;further proceedings,538,539;informing the prisoners of their fate,540;their conduct,540,541,542,543,544,545;the executions,546;report of the confessions false upon its face,547;the cases of Small and Cromwell,548;death and innocence of the men,549;conclusion of the execution,549;speech of the commander,550;speech on the Sunday following,551;the letter in the Bible,551;four men in irons,551;interval after the execution,552;evidence of Gansevoort,552;conclusion of the report,553;the purser's steward,554;Sergeant Garty,555;the commander's clerk,556;recommendations for reward and promotion,556;proceedings of the court-martial,557;precipitation,557;the reason,557;the composition of the court,558;end of the prosecutions,559.The real design of Spencer,559;the case of Lieut. Col. Wall of the British service,560;subsequent career of Commander Mackenzie,561;remark of Santa Anna,561;the work of fourteen years,561.South Sea scheme, its origin, and pretensions,378.Specie circular, its issue,14.Spencer, John C., Secretary of War,356;Secretary of the Treasury,569.Strange, Robert, on the slavery resolutions,139.Stuart, A. H., on the veto of the provisional tariff,415; Secretary of the Interior,768.Supreme Court.—Its Judges, Clerk, Attorney Generals, Reporters, and Marshals, during the period from 1820, to 1850,787.TTappan, Benjamin, vindicates the martial law at New Orleans,500;statement of the declarations of Mr. Polk, relative to the mode of Texas annexation,636.Tariff, specific duties abolished by the Compromise.—Distinction between specific and ad valorem duties,189;statements relative to the practical operation of the ad valorem system,189;examples of injurious operation,189;losses in four years on three classes of staple goods,189.Sugar and Rum drawbacks, their abuse.—Motion for leave to bring in a bill to reduce the drawbacks allowed on sugar and rum,190;Benton's objections to the act of 1833,190;facts relative to the drawback on sugar,191;operation of the act on the sugar duties,191;tables,191,192;effect of the compromise act on the article of rum,193.Fishing Bounties and their allowance.—Motion for leave to introduce a bill to reduce the fishing bounties, &c.,194;it is asked whether these allowances are founded on the salt duty, and should rise or fall with it,194;proofs,— the original petition and acts of Congress,194;numerous acts referred to,194,195;defects of the compromise act,196;mischiefs resulting from the act,197;the whole revenue of sugar, salt, and molasses, is delivered over annually to a few persons in the United States,197;amount taken under these bounties,198.Tariff Compromise, infringement of.—Errors of opinions respecting the act of 1833,307;agency of John M. Clayton and Robert P. Letcher,307;composed of two parts,307;neither lived out its allotted time,307;regulation of the tariff taken out of the hands of the Government by a coalition between Mr. Clay and Mr. Calhoun, and a bill concocted as vicious in principle as it was selfish and unparliamentary in its conception and execution,308;foresight of the results,308;a cry of danger to the Union carried it,308;calls of the Secretary of the Treasury for loans,308;revenue expected under the reduced duties of the compromise on half what was needed,308;statement of Mr. Fillmore,308;proposed to abrogate the compromise,309;complaints of the opposition,309;remarks of Mr. Gilmer,309;the compromise contemplated only revenue duties,309;it is said the law is not binding,309;wait until sufficient information is obtained to enable us to act judiciously,309;Ingersoll's sarcastic taunts of the two chiefs of the compromise,310;Pickens' remarks against the abrogation of the compromise,310;