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with Spain, 340; navigation of the Mississippi, 340; the recommen-
dation of the Annapolis Convention obtains the sanction of Congress,
348; commissioners to settle the accounts of the States, 379; Ordi-
nance of the North-west Territory, 380; cession by South Carolina,
380; vote for the future admission of Kentucky, 381; proceedings,
381; termination of the old Congress, 382; its different positions in
the public estimation, 382.

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Congress, under the Federal Constitution The permanent Seat of
Government discussed, i. 407; republican simplicity, 408; compeu-
sation of members, 409; salaries of officers, 410; the public finances,
413; funding the public debt, 414; revenue, 415; discrimination
among public creditors, 416; debate on funding the debt, 417; on
the discrimination, 418; speculation in the public debt, 420; assump-
tion of State debts, 421; rejected, 424; motives which operated, 425;
the question compromised, 426; permanent Seat of Government set-
tled, 426; the policy of the assumption considered, 428; petition
against negro slavery, 431; report on the subject, 431; debate, 433;
tonnage duties, 435; commercial retaliation discussed, 436; naturali-
zation, 442; trade with Indians, 442; death of Franklin, 443; pun-
ishment of crimes, 444; military establishment, 444; diplomatic
intercourse, 444; sinking fund, 444; excise, 445; copyright, 445;
political parties, 445; opposition, 446; President's Speech, 446;
treaty with the Creeks, 447; land-office, 448; excise, 448; National
Bank, 450; debate, 450; construction of constitutions, 456; Bank
charter, 457; parties in Congress, 467; President's Speech, 468;
Apportionment Bill, 469; negatived by the President, 470; increase
of revenue and military force, 473; Letter from Louis XVI., 477;
opposition to the excise, 481; redemption of the debt proposed, 492;
Hamilton's report, 493; Giles's resolutions, 495; Hamilton's reply,
495; further resolutions, 495; debate, 496; Hamilton exculpated,
497; further assumption proposed, 497; reimbursement to the Bank,
498; the slave trade, 499; fugitive slave law, 500; why not executed,
500; review of the first Congress, 501; President's Speech, 524; his
Message, 525; Jefferson's report on commerce, 526; debate, 528;
policy of a navy discussed, 539; embargo laid, 542; thanks to Gene-
rals Wayne and Scott, 564; new taxes proposed, 565; inconsistency
of the Republicans, 565; direct taxes discussed, 566; treasury report,
567; new Naturalization Act, 568; French flag presented, 579;
Washington's reply to the French Minister, 579; corrupt offer to
members, 581; debate on the British treaty, 581; intercourse with
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the Indians, 593; the public lands, 594; three frigates authorized,
595; Tennessee becomes a State, 596; Washington's last Speech to
Congress, 612; his Message on the relations with France; the bill
reducing the military establishments negatived, 619; extra session
of Congress, ii. 28; President's Speech, 29; answers of the two
Houses, 32; his Messages to Congress, 35, 37; resolution to impeach
William Blount, 40; measures of national defence, 41; the President's
Speech, 48; report from the Secretary of State, 50; rencontre between
Griswold and Lyon, 52; motions for expulsion failed, 53; Message
from the President as to despatches from France, 54; Sprigg's reso-
lutions, 55; debate on the despatches, 56; Message from the Presi-
dent on French affairs, 68; measures of national defence, 73; change
in the naturalization law, 74; Alien and Sedition Acts, 74; a navy
department established, 77; Benjamin Stoddart, Secretary, 77; pro-
vision to purchase or build ships of war, 77; the treaties with France
declared void, 77; parties in the House, 80; their leaders, 81; Presi-
dent's Speech, 85; Message concerning the seizure of five American
seamen, 87; Message, with despatches from France, 88; report for
the repeal of the Alien and Sedition Acts, 92; salaries of public
officers raised, 92; an act to punish private interference in the foreign
relations, 93; for suspending all commercial intercourse with France,
93; great increase of military force, 93; petition from colored men, 106;
debate, 107; John Randolph's Letter communicated by the President,
108; a select committee approve of the President's course, 109; censure
the style of the letter, 109; case of Jonathan Robbins, alias Thomas
Nash, a British deserter, 109; debate, 110; repeal of the Sedition
Law rejected, 111; bankrupt law, 112; Connecticut and Georgia
claims settled, 113; report in favor of Oliver Wolcott, 129; change
in the judical system, 129; the choice of President devolves on the
House, 131; after frequent ballotings, Jefferson was elected, 135;
apportionment of members, 157; repeal of the Judiciary Act pro-
posed, 157; debate on the question, 164; Giles's attack on the Presi-
dent, 166; Bayard's reply, 166; secret session on relations with Spain,
178; Griswold's resolutions, 179; debate, 180; Judge Pickering im-
peached, 184; the act raising salaries revived, 212; bankrupt law
repealed, 212; bill to protect the commerce of the United States, 221;
branch bank at New Orleans established, 221; impeachment of Judge
Chase, 229; the managers appointed, 231; his acquittal, 232; his
character, 233; refusal of the House to pay his witnesses, 234; paid
at the next session, 235; Gideon Granger solicits an inquiry, 235;

rule of order, 235; retrocession of the District of Columbia discussed,
236; conditions imposed on armed merchantmen, 237; the Territory
of Michigan created by dividing Indiana, 238; rewards to Commodore
Preble and others, 238; President's Message, 250; a confidential
Message respecting Spain, 252; referred to a select committee, 253;
their report, 253; Randolph's and Bidwell's resolutions, 254; mea-
sures of the opposition, 256; debate, 258; trade with Hayti inter-
dicted, 261; retaliation against Great Britain proposed, 264; Gregg's
resolution, 264; Joseph Clay's, 264; Nicholson's, 265; Sloan's, 265;
Nicholson's adopted, 266; report on Roads and Canals, 267; road
from Cumberland to Ohio, 267; tax on imported slaves proposed, 267;
not finally acted on, 268; Message on Lewis and Clarke's Expedition,
268; appropriation for the purchase of Florida, 271; how misrepre-
sented, 271; President's Message, 273; the Non-importation Act
suspended, 276; the President communicates Burr's projects, 277;
the Senate vote for the suspension of the habeas corpus act, 278;
rejected by the House, 279; the President communicates a plan of
defence of the harbors, 280; the slave trade prohibited, 281; mea-
sures of defence by Congress, 291; the duty on salt repealed, 291;
exchange of public stocks, 291; the coast-survey authorized, 291;
compensation to Lewis and Clarke, 291; the importation of any negro
or mulatto prohibited, 292; President's Message, 301; report of a
committee on the attack on the frigate Chesapeake, 303; the Presi-
dent communicates the proclamation of Great Britain to her subjects,
304; embargo laid, 307; the expulsion of John Smith moved in the
Senate, 308; two-thirds did not vote for it, 308; he resigned, 308;
report on the modes of redress, 320; embargo continued, 320; Presi-
dent's Message, 326; report on the foreign relations, 337; debate,
338; plan of resistance proposed, 339; party calumny, 340; extra
session, 355; President's Message, 356; very favorable reception of
it, 357; Randolph's resolutions, 357; debate, 358; trade to Hayti
indirectly proposed, 361; rejected, 361; petition from certain fol-
lowers of Miranda, 361; President's Message, 373; Giles's resolutions
supporting the Administration, and censuring Jackson, the British
Envoy, 375; passed almost unanimously in the Senate, 375; much
debated in the House, 375; Troup's resolution, 377; plans of national
resistance, 378; M'Kim's resolutions, 378; Burwell's proposition,
378; bill to enforce the non-intercourse law, 401; debate, 401; party
recrimination, 404; banks established in the District, 407; loan
authorized, 407; report of the committee on foreign relations, 423;

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Speech of Peter B. Porter, 423; debate, 425; Randolph's Speech,
426; Richard M. Johnson's, 427; John C. Calhoun's, 430; Speeches
of Desha, Macon, Smilie, Dawson, Finley, M'Kee, Stanford, King,
Boyd, and Randolph, 430; votes on the resolutions, 437; debate in
the Senate, 442; Henry Clay's Speech, 443; Widgery's Speech, 445;
debates, 445; the employment of soldiers on roads and canals, 445;
debate on employing volunteer corps out of their State, 446; debate
on a navy, 447; votes on the several propositions, 454; apportion-
ment of members, 454; rule on the previous question discussed, 455;
plan of finance by Gallatin, 456; preparations for war, 458; war
taxes, 459; twenty additional frigates proposed by Mr. Lloyd, 459;
John Henry's disclosure of British intrigues, 460; embargo, 464;
Randolph's resolution against war with Great Britain, 466; not con-
sidered, 466; Correspondence between Foster and Monroe, 469;
report of a committee in favor of war, 471; war declared, 474; address
by the minority, 475; bill respecting District Judges negatived, 475;
relief granted to Caraccas, 475; Act for enlisting apprentices, 495;
increase of the navy, 496; revenue, 496; forfeiture of merchandize
remitted, 496; Act concerning impressed seamen, 499; President's
Message, iii. 34; Webster's resolutions, 36; President's answer to
them, 39; Massachusetts remonstrance, 41; prohibition of exports,
42; rejected by the Senate, 42; report on the conduct of the enemy,
43; ways and means, 44; the President and Senate, 44; Hanson's
resolution, 67; inquiry as to Turreau's Letter, 68; the President's
answer, 68; debate on the bill concerning enlistments, 69; doctrine
of expatriation, 70; Clay resigns as Speaker, 70; Cheves succeeds,
70; Cyrus King's resolutions, 71; debate on the loan bill, 73; Yazoo
claims settled, 74; the embargo repealed, 75; the power to fill vacan-
cies discussed in the Senate, 76; report from the Secretary of State
relative to the practice of Great Britain, 77; President's Message,
110; Treasury Report of George W. Campbell, 112; removal of the
Seat of Government debated, 113; Dallas's Treasury Report, 116;
Mr. Jefferson offers his library to Congress, 116; virulent opposition
speeches, 117; Calhoun's Speech, 121; the course of the opposition
examined, 123; bill for a National Bank passed, 125; negatived by
the President, 125; plans of national defence, 126; classification of
the militia, 127; thanks to General Jackson, 141; Longitude of
Washington, 142; debate on the Convention with Great Britain, 159;
on the treaty-making power, 160; conference between the two Houses,
162; military academies, 165; National Bank established, 166; com-

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pensation of members changed, 169; public dissatisfaction, 169;
Forsyth's resolution against the Bank, 176; the Bank vindicated,
177; pay of members debated, 178; the Colonies of Spain, 182;
neutrality of the United States between Spain and her Colonies, 182;
retaliation as to the British colonial trade proposed, 183; bill to
establish a bank passed, 185; negatived by the President, 185; report
on Roads and Canals, 185; paintings by Trumbull, 188; internal
taxes repealed, 201; report on Roads and Canals, 202; debate, 204;
the power affirmed, 209; Anderson offered to bribe a member, 212;
proceedings, 212; he was reprimanded and discharged, 214; law of
expatriation rejected, 222; commercial regulations against Great
Britain, 224; commutation of bounty lands, 226; sending a Minister
to La Plata debated, 228; the Seminoles defeated, 230; execution of
Ambrister and Arbuthnot, 231; Treasury Report, 234; debate on
the Constitution of Illinois, 236; inquiry into the conduct and condi-
tion of the Bank, 240; report of the committee, 242; motion to repeal
its charter, 246; review of its measures, 247; resolutions against
General Jackson, 249; debate, 250; jealousy of power manifested
this session, 254; slavery in Arkansas and Missouri debated, 254;
report on trading with Indians, 257; report on Weights and Measures,
257; on foreign coins, 258; the Treasury Report, 268; the admission
of Missouri opposed, 270; arguments for and against it in the House,
270; debate in the Senate, 278; great public excitement, 280;
amendment of the rules proposed, 281; Lowndes and Randolph, 282;
Missouri admitted by a compromise, 284; Maine admitted, 286;
Crawford's currency report, 287; report on the foreign relations, 288;
bill for occupying Florida, 289; abolition of the slave trade, 291;
sales of land for cash, 291; restrictions on pensions, 292; supple-
mental navigation act, 292; occupation of Columbia River, 293;
bank charters in the District, 294; certain offices limited to four years,
294; Constitution of Missouri, 298; debates in the two Houses, 298;
joint committee of twenty-three, 300; their report, 300; vote for the
admission of Missouri, 300; President's Message, 318; resolutions
against General Jackson, 320; apportionment of members, 322; ces-
sation of party spirit, 323; candidates for the Presidency, 326; Bank
charged with usury, 331; report of a committee in favor of the Bank,
332; electioneering in Congress, 354; debate on roads and canals,
371; on protection, 372; Webster's Speech, 374; Tariff Bill, 376;
report of the cessions by Indians to Georgia, 376; Letter from the
Georgia delegation, 377; Webster's Speech in behalf of the Greeks,