passage of the new bill through the House,311;cost of collecting ad valorem duties,311.Bill in the Senate,311;Clay proposes to go on with the bill,311;Calhoun proposes to delay a few days,311;remarks,311,312;remarks of Mr. Benton,312;the present occasion illustrated the vicious and debauching distribution schemes,312;motion to include sumach in the dutiable articles,312;remarks of Clay,313;reply of Calhoun,313;origin of the term Whig in this country,314;duty imposed on sumach,315.Proposed to make salt a free article,315;annihilate the American works engaged in the manufacture,315;affects two great portions of the community in a very different manner,315;the consumers of the domestic and the imported article,315;amount of revenue collected from salt,316;the whole system will have to be revised,316;the universality of its use is a reason for its taxation,316;vote on,316;a combination of interests has kept up the tax,316;amount of revenue from the duty,316.Moved to exempt tea and coffee,316;carried,316;bill passed on the general ground that the Government must have revenue,316;defect of the compromise in making no provision for the reduction of drawbacks on sugars, &c.,316;attempts to amend and failure,317;carried in the present bill,317;the bounty to the fisheries claimed as a right,317;further remarks,317.Low state of the treasury and the credit of the Government,413;the result of three measures forced upon the previous administration by the opposition, and the aid of temporizing friends,413;these measures, the compromise act, the distribution of the surplus revenue, and the surrender of the land revenue to the States,413;remarks,413;a retributive justice in this calamitous visitation,413;it fell upon the authors of the measure,413;aprovisionaltariff passed,414;vetoed,414;reasons,414;remarks,414;deplorable condition of the administration,414;remarks of Fillmore on the endeavor of the President to get back, even temporarily, the land revenue,415;Stuart asserts that the land distribution bill was an intended part of the compromise from the beginning,415;extract,415;remarks of Carruthers,416;second bill, similar to the first, passed and vetoed,416;veto referred to a Committee of Thirteen,416;three reports,416;extract,416;the compromise and the land distribution were the stumbling-blocks,417;both sacrificed together,417;manner in which it was done,417.Taylor, Zachary, candidate for President,722;elected,723;his inauguration,737;his cabinet,—; his message,740;dangers of the Union,740;the claim of Texas,740;governments for the territories,741;reference to741;remark of Calhoun,741;Cuba,741;denunciation of unlawful expeditions,741.Decease of,765;occasion of his death,765;first President elected on a reputation purely military,765;deficiency of political wisdom,765;the Texas boundary,765;his death a public calamity,765.Texas, proposed annexation of.—Application of that republic,94;an insuperable objection,94;Texas was at war with Mexico, and to annex her was to annex the war,94;resolution for a legislative expression in favor of the measure, as a basis for a tripartite treaty,94;remarks of Mr. Preston,94;"the lead taken by Texas,95;all hostile purposes and ill-temper towards Mexico disavowed,95;the treaty of 1819 a great oversight,95;a mistake of the committee,95;it is supposed there is a sort of political impossibility resulting from the nature of things to effect the proposed union,96;there is no point of view in which any proposition for annexation can be considered, that any serious obstacle in point of form presents itself,"96;resolution laid on the table,97.Presidential Intrigue.—Letter of Mr. Gilmer, in a Baltimore newspaper, urging immediate annexation as necessary to forestall the designs of Great Britain,581;these alleged designs,581;no signs,581;nothing in the position of Mr. Gilmer to make him a prime mover,581;a counterpart of the movement of Mr. Calhoun in the Senate of 1836,582;finger of Mr. Calhoun suspected,582;its progress,582;Webster inflexibly opposed, accosting of Aaron V. Brown,582;reply of Senator Benton,582.Letter from General Jackson in the Richmond Enquirer,583;history of this letter,583;Calhoun a candidate for the Presidency in 1841-2,583;annexation the issue,583;importance of the favor of General Jackson to secure the success of the scheme,583;manner of approaching him,583;its success,584;mediums of transmission of Gilmer's letter,584;Jackson's answer sent to Brown,584;delivered to Gilmer,584;his expressions in the capitol,584;the state of the game,584;object now to gain time before the meeting of the convention,585;the Whigs induced to postpone their convention,585;discovery of the movements,586;denounced,586;explosion of the great gun on board the Princeton,586;the publication of Jackson's letter with change of date,587;interrogation of the candidates,587;reply of Van Buren,587;position of Calhoun,587;position of Mr. Clay,587;steps taken to obtain Van Buren's answer,588;necessity to obtain something from London to bolster up the accusation of that formidable abolition plot which Great Britain was hatching,589;the manner in which it was accomplished,589;Calhoun's letter to Lord Aberdeen,589;annexation conducted with a double aspect,590;failure of the annexation intrigue for the Presidency,590;further developments,590;position of the candidates,590.See Democratic Convention.Secret Negotiation.—A paragraph in the President's message,599;intended to break the way for the production of a treaty of annexation covertly conceived and carried on with all the features of an intrigue,600;its adoption to be forced for the purpose of increasing the area of slavery, or to make its rejection a cause of disunion,600;the scheme presents one of the most instructive lessons of the workings of our government,600;early views of Mr. Calhoun contrasted with his later ones,600.Speech of Senator Benton,600;"a map and memoir sent to the Senate,600;let us look at our new and important proposed acquisitions,601;the treaty in all that relates to the Rio Grande is an act of unparalleled outrage on Mexico,602;the President says we have acquired a title by his signature to the treaty, wanting only the action of the Senate to perfect it,602;war with Mexico is a design and an object with it from the beginning,602;another evidence the letter of the present Secretary of State to Mr. Green,602;the war is begun,603;and by orders issued from the President,603;the unconstitutionally of the war with Mexico,603;its injustice,603;this movement founded on a weak and groundless pretext,604;resolution relative to the author of a private letter,605;the letter of the Secretary of State to Mr. Murphy,605;commencement of the plan,606;details in its progress,606,607;treaty sent to the Senate and delayed forty days,608;reasons,608;the messenger to Mexico,609;instructions,609,610;disavowal of Great Britain of all designs against slavery in Texas,611;Southern men deprived us of Texas and made it non-slaveholding in 1819,612;object of Mr. Tyler,"613.Texas or Disunion.—The projected convention at Nashville,613;a strange collection anticipated,613;what if disunion should appear there,613;nullification and disunion are revived, and revived under circumstances which menace more danger than ever,614;intrigue and speculation co-operate, but disunion is at the bottom,614;secession is the more cunning method of dissolving the Union,614;the intrigue for the Presidency was the first act of the drama, the dissolution of the Union the second,615;the rejected treaty compared to the slain Cæsar,615;the lesson of history,615;all elective governments must fail unless elections can be taken out of the hands of politicians and restored to the people,616.Violent Demonstrations in the South.—Soon as the treaty was rejected and the nominating convention had acted, the disunion aspect manifested itself,616;the meeting at Ashley, in Barnwell district,616;views of the meeting,616;resolutions,617;meeting at Beaufort,617;resolutions,617;meeting in Williamsburg district, S. C.,617;Texas or disunion the standing toast,617;general convention at Richmond and at Nashville spoken of,617;repelled by citizens of those cities,617;counter meeting at Nashville,617;resolutions,618;the movement brought to a stand, its leaders paralyzed, and the disunion scheme suppressed for the time,618.Rejection of the Treaty.—Rejected by a vote of two to one against it,619;the vote,619;annexation desirable,619;bill introduced by Mr. Benton to authorize the President to open negotiations with Mexico and Texas,619;speech,619;an honest mass desire to get back Texas,620;the wantonness of getting up a quarrel with Great Britain exposed,620;the course of Mr. Calhoun,621;the folly of any apprehension shown by the interest which Great Britain has in the commerce of Mexico,621;the magnitude and importance of our growing trade with Mexico, the certainty that her carrying trade will fall into our hands, &c., are reasons for the cultivation of peace with her,621;political and social considerations and a regard for the character of republican government, were solid reasons for the annexation without breaking peace with Mexico,622;remarks on the course of annexation,623;resolutions offered by Mr. Benton,623,624.Legislative admission of.—Words of the joint resolution,632;the anomaly presenting free and slave territory in the same State,632;passed,633;members from both sections voted for these resolutions, and thereby asserted the right of Congress to legislate on slavery in territories,633;resolutions sent to the Senate,633;gratification of Mr. Buchanan with them,633;his remarks,633;the Missouri Compromise line,633;solid ground upon which the Union rested,634;Mr. Benton's bill,634;his remarks on the bill,634;the joint resolution from the House and the bill of the Senate combined, and the President authorized to act under them as he thought best,635;Missouri Compromise reaffirmed,636;astonishment of Congress to hear that Tyler had undertaken the execution of the act,636;views and purposes of President Polk,636;statement of Mr. Tappan,636;statement of Mr. Blair,637;the possibility that Mr. Calhoun would cause Mr. Tyler to undertake the execution of the act repulsed as an impossible infamy,638;remarks of Senators,638;the results,638.Thirty Years' View.—Concluding remarks,787.Thomas, Francis, on the Pension act of 1837,269.Thompson, R. W., reply to Mr. Cushing,505.Trist, Nicholas P., Commissioner to Mexico,704.Tyler, John, candidate for the Vice-Presidency,204.Administration.—His absence in Virginia,211;interregnum in the government,211;repairs to Washington, takes the oath and reappoints the Cabinet,211;address in the nature of an inaugural issued,211;remarks on his predecessor,211;two blemishes seen in the paragraph,212;other points of bad taste,212;another extract,212;remarks,212;extract relative to a bank,212;circumstances and declarations which led to an inference of his opinion relative to a bank,213.Message,215;grant of money to President Harrison's family recommended,215;considered without the pale of the constitution and of dangerous precedent,215;Harrison's fidelity,216;Congress would not have been called by President Tyler,216;compromise of 1833,216;remarks,216;fiscal agent recommended,217;Hamilton's reasons for a national bank,217;a grant of money to the States recommended,217;extract,217;the President's early views on the constitution,218;change,218;remarks,218;programme of measures in the form of a resolve offered by Mr. Clay,219;remark of Mr. Cushing,219.Resignation of the Cabinet.—Occurred two days after the second veto message,353;the impelling circumstance a letter,353;allusion to this letter by Mr. Ewing,354;reasons of the resignation,354;statement of Mr. Ewing,354;statement of Mr. Badger,354;statement of Mr. Bell,355;statement of Mr. Crittenden,356;Webster's reasons for not resigning his seat in President Tyler's Cabinet,356;influences upon Webster,356;new Cabinet,356.Repudiated by the Whig Party.—Denounced in both Houses of Congress,357;formal meeting of the Whigs,357;resolutions,357;report of Committee,357;how cherished hopes were frustrated,357;extract,357;loss by the conduct of the President,358;what is to be the conduct of the party in such unexpected and disastrous circumstances?358;establish a permanent separation of the Whig party from Mr. Tyler,359;course recommended to be pursued,359;a new victory promised at the next election,359;manifesto announced by Mr. Cushing by a counter manifesto,359;justification of the President for changing his course on the fiscal corporation bill,359;thrust at Mr. Clay,359;the design,360;relations of Clay and Webster,360;extracts from Cushing's manifesto,360;interest of the President in the second bill,361;further details,361;the results,362.End and results of the Extra Session.—Replete with disappointed expectations and nearly barren of permanent results,372;defection of Mr. Tyler not foreseen,373;repealability the only remedy thought of, for the law creating a bank,373;other acts of the session,373;three only remain,377;a triumphant session to the democracy,373.First Annual Message.—Acquittal of McLeod the first subject mentioned,373;remarks on the Caroline,374:condition of the finances,374;new plan of a fiscality,374;remarks of Mr. Benton on this plan,375;reference to the report of the Secretary of the Treasury,376.Separation from the Whig Party.—Effort to detach the Whig party from Mr. Clay,417;its failure,418;impeachment suggested,418;the protest of Mr. Tyler,418;difference from the case of General Jackson,418;remarks of Mr. Adams,418;remarks of Mr. Botts,419;introduces resolutions of the Senate in 1834 on the case of President Jackson,419;passage in the House,419.Message at the Session 1842-3.—The treaty with Great Britain the prominent topic of the forepart of it,460;in public opinion it was really a British treaty,460;important subjects omitted,460;the Oregon Territory,460;excuses in the Message for omitting to settle it,460;extract,460;the excuse lame and insufficient,460;termination of the Florida war,461;a government bank a prominent object and engrossing feature,461;its features,461;impossible to carry a passion for paper money farther than President Tyler did,461;the low state of the public credit, the impossibility of making a loan, and the empty state of the Treasury, were the next topics,462;extract,462;the low and miserable condition to which the public credit had sunk at home and abroad,462;remarks,463.Second Annual Message,565;remarks on the Oregon territorial boundary,565;error of the Message in saying the United States had always contended for 54° 40' as the limit,565;always offered the parallel of 49°,566;prospective war with Mexico shadowed forth,566;reference to the exchequer scheme,566;regret at its rejection,566;extract,566;his sighings and longings for a national paper currency,567;reconstruction of his Cabinet,569.The President and Senate.—Mr. Tyler without a party,629;incessant rejection of his nominations by the Senate, and the pertinacity of their renewal,629;case of Mr. Cushing,629;the case of Mr. Wise,630;the case of George H. Proffit,630;case of David Henshaw,630.His last message.—Texas was the prominent topic of this message,631;Mr. Calhoun the master-spirit,631;speculations gave the spirit in which the Texas movement was conducted,631;conduct and aspect towards Mexico,631.UUnderwood, Joseph R., on the bill for the relief of Mrs. Harrison,259.Upshur, Abel P., Secretary of the Navy,356;Secretary of State,562;killed on board the Princeton,568.VVan Buren's Administration.—Inauguration,7;subjects of his address,7;extract relative to the foreign policy of the country,7;remarks,7;the subject of slavery,8;remarks of the inaugural upon,8;declaration to sanction no bill which proposed to interfere with Slavery in the States, or to abolish it in the District of Columbia while it existed in the adjacent States,9;the only point of fear at this time,9;the Cabinet,9;extra session of Congress,29;the Message,29;good effects of the specie order,30;objections to any bank of the United States,30;total and perpetual dissolution of the government from all connection with banks,30;remarks on the recent failure of all the banks,30;the foundation of the Independent Treasury,31;recommended to subject the banks to the process of bankruptcy,31;four cardinal recommendations,31;cause of the extra session stated,31;recommendation,31.Attacks on the Message.—The answers to Messages in former days,32;the change when made,32;its effects,32;assaults upon the message under thirty-two heads, equal to the points of the compass,33;assailants,33;defenders of the administration,33;the treasury note bill,33;remarks of Mr. Webster,33;paper money,33;