A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y

A.
Adams, John, 310, 372, 399, 411, 427, 460;
Vice-President of the United States, favors Gallatin’s claim to eligibility for the Senate, 120, 121;
elected President, 178;
suspects intrigue, 178;
his first speech to Congress, 183;
his second speech, 188;
declines invitation to birthday ball, 194;
nominates William Vans Murray to France, 220, 221;
remark on mediation, 223;
his third speech to Congress, 223;
ostensibly renominated for the Presidency, 241;
his conduct in 1801, 258, 265, 266;
calls the Senate, 260, 263.
Adams, Mrs. John, 185.
Adams, John Quincy, 429, 502, 634;
rejected by the Senate as minister to Russia, 389;
his account of the conduct of the Senate in 1809, 389-391;
his account of Duane and Binns, 442;
commissioner under the mediation, 479;
parallelism of his career with Gallatin’s, 495-497;
his antagonism to Mr. Clay, 520, 522;
his account of his colleagues at Ghent, 523, 527, 528;
prepares articles, 540;
his struggle to secure the fisheries, 540-545;
minister to England, 548;
joined in negotiating commercial convention, 548;
his character, 552, 592, 599;
Secretary of State, 562, 566;
his negotiation with France in 1819-1822, 573-575, 579;
his character of Gallatin, 576, 626, 629, 676;
W. H. Crawford’s comments on, 580, 584, 586, 588;
Gallatin’s character of, 599;
chosen President, 602, 606;
his reasons for not offering the Treasury to Gallatin, 609;
on the distrust of Mr. Clay, 609;
on relations with England in 1827, 624, 625, 627, 628;
his comments on Mr. Canning, 624, 627, 628;
his comments on men and measures, 636;
his death, 677.
Adams, William, British commissioner at Ghent, 519, 543;
negotiator of the commercial convention, 552.
Addison, Alexander, 177, 223.
Aix-la-Chapelle, Congress of, 572.
Alexander, Emperor of Russia, invites diplomatic relations in 1808, 390;
offers mediation, 477, 498;
renews the offer, 498, 503;
causes misunderstanding, 503, 510, 511;
receives a note from Mr. Crawford, 511;
his conversation with La Fayette at the house of Madame de StaËl, 512, 514;
his visit to London, 514;
his interview with Gallatin, 514, 515;
his influence on the negotiation, 516, 518, 537;
his friendliness, 553.
Alien laws, 202, 204, 206, 274, 320.
Algerine powers, war with, 300, 306, 307, 349.
Allegre, Sophia, Gallatin’s first wife, her family, 69;
her engagement, 70;
her mother, 70, 71;
her marriage, 71, 72;
her death, 72, 75, 80, 83.
Allen, John, M.C. from Connecticut, on the sedition law, 207.
Alston, Joseph, reports of his character, 244, 245.
Ames, Fisher, 154;
his speech on Jay’s treaty, 155, 165, 198;
his opinion on the use of the army in domestic politics, 170;
favors war with France, 184;
his political formulas, 199, 214.
Amory, scholar of Gallatin’s at Harvard College, 43, 59.
Anderson, Joseph, Senator from Tennessee, 429, 484, 490.
Armstrong, John, 290, 389, 400;
appointed Secretary of War, 471;
his conduct, 481;
wishes to be commander-in-chief, 485;
his account of how he ceased to be Secretary of War, 530.
Assumption of State debts, 87, 168.
Astor, John Jacob, 455, 477, 488, 588;
on Gallatin’s rejection by the Senate, 488, 489;
offers to take Gallatin into partnership, 555;
his account of American habits, 584;
establishes the National Bank for Gallatin, 642.
B.
Bache, Franklin, 15.
Bache, Richard, 554.
Bacon, Ezekiel, M.C. from Massachusetts, 450, 454.
Badollet, Jean, schoolmate of Gallatin’s, 15, 16, 64, 120;
urged by Gallatin to come to America, 51, 53, 60;
comes to George’s Creek, 63, 66;
settles at Greensburgh, on the Monongahela, 144;
his opinion of Judge Brackenridge, 133, 134;
appointed register of the land-office at Vincennes, 404, 405;
his struggle against the introduction of slavery in Indiana, 404, 406;
Gallatin’s opinion of, 610, 646, 647;
death of his wife, 649.
Baer, George, M.C. from Maryland, 250, 262.
Bainbridge, Commodore, 462, 466.
Baldwin, Abraham, Senator from Georgia, 253, 302.
Bank of the United States, 157, 308, 309;
Mr. Jefferson’s views regarding, 308, 321, 665;
its dissolution in 1811, 416, 417, 426-430;
rechartered in 1816, 429;
consequences of its dissolution, 451, 474, 475;
Gallatin declines Presidency of, 578, 583, 584;
question of recharter in 1830-1842, 636, 638, 639, 651;
its power, 651;
rechartered as U.S. Bank of Pennsylvania, 659;
opposes return to specie payments, 659, 660;
becomes bankrupt, 661;
Gallatin’s views on rechartering, 639, 659, 665, 666.
Bank, National (Gallatin), of New York, 642, 643, 647, 658, 662.
Banking, Gallatin’s writings on. (See Currency.)
Baring, Alexander (Lord Ashburton), 552, 564, 565;
his relations with Gallatin in the Louisiana purchase, 317, 318;
his letters to Gallatin on the Russian mediation, 499, 500, 502, 504;
his negotiation in 1842, 668-670;
his opinion of Gallatin, 668;
his death, 677.
Barlow, Joel, 424, 436, 461.
Bassano, Duke de, Napoleon’s Minister of State, 421.
Bathurst, Lord, his notes and instructions to the British commissioners at Ghent, 527;
his offer of the uti possidetis, 535;
his instructions regarding the fisheries, 543.
Bayard, James A., M.C. from Delaware, 154, 155, 156, 205, 316, 458, 459;
his course in the contested Presidential election of 1801, 250, 254, 260, 262;
sent as envoy to Russia, 479, 490, 493, 495;
goes with Gallatin to London, 506;
his influence in the negotiation, 522, 523;
conversation with Goulburn, 524, 525;
death, 549.
Baylies, Francis, M.C. from Massachusetts, 620, 624, 625.
Bentley, William, tutor at Harvard College, and clergyman at Salem, 43, 69.
Benton, Thomas H., his defence of Mr. Van Buren, 618.
Berkeley, Admiral, 358, 359.
Bibb, W. W., M.C. from Georgia, 480.
Biddle, Nicholas, 637, 660.
Binns, John, 439, 442.
Bledsoe, Jesse, Senator from Kentucky, 484.
Bonaparte, Napoleon, 381, 383, 399;
his Berlin, Milan, and Bayonne decrees, 374, 376, 567;
his apparent change of policy in 1810, 420, 421;
his secret Trianon decree, 421, 422, 425;
succeeds in leading the United States into war with England, 425;
anecdote of Count Romanzoff, 444;
returns from Elba, 547.
Boston, 55, 68;
description of, in 1780, 27, 28, 45;
Mr. Clay’s opinion of, 509.
Boundary, North-Easte s="pginternal">596, 597.
Champagny, Duke de Cadore, his letter of August 5, 1810, 420, 421.
Chapman, Maria, 671.
Chase, Judge Samuel, his impeachment, 327;
his successor, 440.
Chateaubriand, Vicomte de, French Minister of Foreign Relations, 567.
Chesapeake, affair of, 357, 359, 360.
Cheves, Langdon, M.C. from South Carolina, 445, 472, 473, 475, 476;
President of the U.S. Bank, 582, 583.
Circular to collectors. (See Civil Service.)
Citizenship, Gallatin’s, 48, 49, 62, 109, 111, 112;
statement of the question regarding, 119, 120;
adverse decision, 110, 121;
amendment of the Constitution concerning, 203, 211.
Civil service in 1801, 273;
Gallatin’s circular to collectors, 278, 279.
Claiborne, W. C. C., Governor of Louisiana, 319, 325;
establishes a bank at New Orleans, 322.
Clare, Thomas, 55, 62, 71, 99, 120;
his death, 560.
Clark, John, Governor of Georgia, 581.
Clay, Henry, 154, 445, 577;
opposes the bank charter in 1811, 428, 429, 430;
supports the war policy, 449;
forces Mr. Madison to recommend a declaration, 456-459;
sent to negotiate treaty of peace, 505;
his views on the political situation and the New England Federalists, 509, 546;
his antagonism to Mr. Adams, 520, 522, 544-546;
his criticisms, 523;
opposes offer to renew the treaty of 1783 in regard to the fisheries and the Mississippi, 541;
carries a compromise, 541, 542;
continues his opposition, 577.
Clinton, George, consents to be candidate for the Assembly, 234, 237;
averse to accepting the Vice-Presidency in 1800, 239, 242;
recommends Burr, 242;
chosen Vice-President, 312;
throws casting vote against the bank charter, 429, 430;
annoys Administration, 471, 606.
Clopton, John, M.C. from Virginia, 202.
Coast Survey, 350.
Cobb, T. W., M.C. from Georgia, 593.
Coit, Joshua, M.C. from Connecticut, 202.
Collectors, circular to. (See Civil Service.)
Colonial trade, 151, 550, 551, 569, 570, 571;
British orders in council of 1826, 615-617;
failure of negotiations, 617, 621, 622, 623, 624, 625, 628.
Committee of Ways and Means, its origin, 157, 172.
Connecticut, 68;
manners, 191.
Constitution of 1787, 68, 76, 79, 648;
its provisions regarding eligibility to the Senate, 119, 120;
its grants of power: regarding a national bank, 157;
internal improvements, 157;
the making of treaties, 160, 161, 162, 163, 319, 674;
amendment proposed regarding citizenship, 203, 211, 224;
the acquisition of territory, 319-321, 674;
its great defect the monarchical principle, 606;
its guarantees to the slave power, 673.
Cooper, Dr. Samuel, 15;
obtains for Gallatin a position as instructor in French at Harvard College, 38, 39, 42;
joins in giving him a certificate, 43, 44.
Copenhagen, 495.
Coxe, Tench, 228.
Craik, William, M.C. from Maryland, 262.
Cramer, Mr., 9, 11.
Crawford, William H., Senator from Georgia, 433, 435, 469;
supports the bank charter in 1811, 428;
sent as minister to France, 509, 510;
attempts to approach the Emperor Alexander, 611;
returns home with Bayard in 1815, 552;
Secretary of the Treasury under Monroe, 559, 562, 566;
his political plans, 578, 580;
his comments on J. C. Calhoun, 580, 581;
on J. Q. Adams, 579, 580;
on William Lowndes, 581;
on Henry Clay, 582;
his bitterness,
586;
candidate of the triumvirate for the Presidency, 589, 592, 599;
struck by paralysis, 590, 593, 594;
reproached with intrigue, 597;
offered the Treasury by J. Q. Adams, 607.
Cumberland Road. (See Internal Improvements.)
Currency, Gallatin’s opinions on, 638, 664;
his essays on, 638, 647, 648, 662, 664, 665.
Curtius. (See John Thompson.)
D.
Dallas, Alexander J., 245, 259, 281, 312;
comes to America in 1783, 67;
Secretary of State for Pennsylvania, 86;
his intimacy with Gallatin, 99, 109, 113, 303;
his part in the whiskey campaign, 142, 143;
on Pennsylvania politics, 326, 328, 330, 333, 439;
on the impeachment of the judges, 327;
offered the chief-justiceship of Pennsylvania, 333;
on the last year of Mr. Jefferson’s Presidency, 372;
recharters the U.S. Bank, 429;
on the succession to Justice Chase, 440-442;
imposes war taxes, 468;
on Gallatin’s rejection by the Senate, 479;
retires from the Treasury, 557;
differs from Gallatin on returning to specie payments, 657.
Dallas, George M., 493;
sent to England, 502.
Dana, Samuel, M.C. from Connecticut, 154, 155, 156, 185, 205;
the most eloquent man in Congress, 188.
Davis, Matthew L., 228;
editor of the Time-Piece, 197;
Burr’s most active friend, 232;
presses him for the Vice-Presidency, 239, 240;
candidate for the post of naval officer, 282, 283;
goes to Monticello, 284, 287;
his rejection a declaration of war on Burr, 288.
Davy, Albert, 666.
Dayton, Jonathan, M.C. from New Jersey, speech on sequestering British debts, 121;
Speaker, 191, 192, 202.
Dearborn, Henry, Secretary of War, 265, 274, 303, 345, 373;
his character, 276;
general, 485.
Debt, public. (See Finances.)
Degen and Purviance, navy agents at Leghorn, 400-403.
Democracy, its dogmas in 1801, 270, 272, 655, 666.
Dennis, John, M.C. from Maryland, 262.
De StaËl, Mme., 563;
La Fayette’s interview with the Emperor at her house, 513;
on the negotiations at Ghent, 531, 532;
her death, 566.
Dexter, Samuel, Secretary of the Treasury, 258, 265, 277.
Drayton, William, M.C. from South Carolina, 642.
Duane, William, editor of the Aurora, Treasury books in his hands, 258;
urges removals from office, 277, 278, 281;
cause of his hostility to Gallatin, 281, 311, 331;
his schism, 311, 312, 326, 328, 329, 330, 331;
his war on Gallatin, 322, 329, 388, 400, 414, 417, 419, 427, 437, 439, 442, 558;
account of, by J. Q. Adams, 442;
his treatment by Jefferson and Madison, 443, 483.
Dumont, Etienne, schoolmate of Gallatin’s, 16, 52, 289, 519.
D’Yvernois, 144, 145, 146.
E.
Edgar, James, 136, 176.
Education, 84, 90;
Mr. Jefferson’s scheme for a national university, 350;
Gallatin’s scheme for a popular university, 648.
Ellsworth, Oliver, 112, 228, 486.
Embargo decided upon, 366;
Gallatin’s opinion on, 366, 370-372, 375, 622;
Jefferson’s opinions on, 367, 368, 369;
adopted, 369;
amended, 369;
effects of, 370, 412;
Robert Smith’s opinion on, 373;
Enforcement Act, 378, 379;
repeal of, 375, 380, 382, 383;
to give place to war, 383, 384, 385;
removed, 386.
England, her political condition in 1789, 71;
her conduct towards America in 1793, 104, 112;
Jay’s treaty, 158-166;
the danger of war, 165, 169;
relations with, in 1798, 224;
in 1801, 255;
in 1805, 334;
revival of the rule of 1756, 348;
Monroe and Pinkney’s treaty, 355, 356;
her change of policy in 1807, 356;
affair of the Chesapeake, 357-362, 364;
orders in council, 364, 365, 366, 367, 374, 376, 378, 393, 460, 472;
Rose’s mission, 364, 367, 394, 397;
Erskine’s arrangement, 392, 393;
disavowed, 394, 396;
Jackson’s mission, 394, 396, 411;
proposed Navigation Act against, 413, 414;
Macon’s Act, 416;
her refusal to withdraw the orders in council, 425, 444;
approach of war, 444, 460;
refuses Russian mediation, 497, 499, 500, 503;
offers direct negotiation, 504;
refuses concessions on impressment, 506;
her attempts to isolate the Unite " class="pginternal">276;
internal taxes, removed in 1801-2, 270, 291, 293, 295;
restored in the war of 1812, 452, 453;
Mediterranean Fund, 295, 318, 319, 336, 349, 412, 446;
loans, 447, 452, 473;
in 1812, 454;
in 1813, 477;
war taxes, 451, 452, 454, 475, 480;
threatened collapse in 1812, 474;
suspension of specie payments in 1814, 553, 556, 561, 657;
in 1837, 667;
resumption in 1838, 658-662.
Findley, William, 92, 136, 176, 177, 222, 323, 453.
Fisheries, nature of the question at Ghent, 540, 541;
disputes in the American commission, 541, 542, 544;
doubts on the British side, 542, 543;
omitted from the treaty, 545;
settlement in 1818, 571;
Gallatin’s opinion of, 572.
Fisk, James, M.C. from Vermont, 456.
Florida, proposed purchase of, in 1805, 336, 337, 339, 341;
cession of, in 1819, 572, 573.
Foster, Augustus, British minister, 444.
Fox, Charles James, 355.
France, her conduct towards Geneva, 52;
her cause in 1793, 104, 110, 112;
how affected by Jay’s treaty, 158, 166, 178, 186;
relations with, in May, 1797, court of Louis XVIII., 563;
commercial negotiations and treaty, 1819-1822, 573-575, 579, 582;
case of the Apollon and Alligator, 575, 576, 579;
threatened rupture with, in 1835, 655.
Franklin, Benjamin, 15, 24, 38, 519, 520, 567.
Free trade, 640;
memorial, 640.
Freneau, Philip, 197.
Friendship Hill, 63, 589, 590, 610.
G.
Gaddis, 147, 148.
Gailliard, John, Senator from South Carolina, 484.
Gallatin, Abraham, of Pregny, grand-father of Albert Gallatin, 5, 10, 64;
his death, 94.
Gallatin, Albert, his origin and family, 1-5;
his birth, 9, 10;
his education, 10-15;
graduates from college, 16;
refuses a commission in the Hessian service, 17;
secretly quits Geneva, 17, 18;
writes from Pimboeuf, 23;
lands at Gloucester, 26, 27;
arrives at Boston, 26, 27, 35;
his account of Boston in 1780, 27, 28;
his voyage to Machias, 30, 32, 36;
his life at Machias, 33-37, 40;
returns to Boston, 38;
instructor in French at Harvard College, 39, 42, 43, 70;
departs to Philadelphia, 44;
associates himself with Savary in land speculations, 46, 50, 53, 59, 60, 61, 70;
his political opinions in 1783, 47-49, 51, 52;
decides to become an American citizen, 48, 49;
goes to Richmond, 53, 54;
his first expedition to the Ohio, 54, 65;
his first meeting with General Washington, 56-59;
brings Badollet to America, 60;
his second expedition to the Ohio, 61, 62;
attempts to settle there, 62;
becomes a citizen of Virginia, 62;
leases land at George’s Creek, 62;
returns to Richmond, 63;
buys Friendship Hill, 63;
rumor of his death, 65;
his indolence, 22, 65, 73;
his awkwardness, 103;
attains his majority, 65;
his life at George’s Creek, 66, 67;
result of his land speculations, 67;
makes a winter expedition to Maine, 68, 69;
falls in love with Sophia Allegre, 69, 70, 71;
his first marriage, 71, 72;
death of his wife, 72, 75, 80;
meditates returning to Geneva, 73, 75;
his political tendencies, 76, 77;
attends the Harrisburg conference, 77;
his draft of report, 78;
opposes the calling of the convention of 1789 to revise the State constitution of Pennsylvania, 79, 80;
becomes a member of it, 80;
his share in its proceedings, 81, 83;
is elected to the State Legislature, 83;
his share in legislation, 84-86, 89, 90, 95;
his report in favor of the abolition of slavery, 86;
his resolutions on the excise, 87, 88;
his report on the finances of Pennsylvania, 85;
his plan for a county school system, 84, 90;
for county taxation, 91, 97;
elected Senator, 86, 95, 96, 97, 98;
clerk of the Pittsburg meeting of August, 1792, 91, 92;
his responsibility for the resolutions, 92;
his opinion of them, 92, 93, 94;
his inheritance, 66, 94;
question as to his citizenship, 98;
falls in love with Hannah Nicholson, 99, 102;
his views on European politics in 1793, 104, 110, 112;
his marriage, 108;
his election as Senator disputed, 109, 111, 113;
takes his seat in the Senate, 110, 112;
goes into business, 113, 152, 153, 175, 176, 221, 226;
his action as Senator, 114;
his call for financial statements from the Treasury, 115;
declared ineligible to the Senate, 119, 120, 121;
sells western lands to Robert Morris, 121, 122, 179;
returns to George’s Creek, 123;
attends meeting at Uniontown on outbreak of insurrection, 124;
attends meeting at Parkinson’s Ferry, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135;
at Redstone Old Fort, 135-137;
urges that the army should not march, 138;
elected to Congress, 140; returns to the Assembly, 141;
election disputed, 141, 143, and annulled, 142;
his speech on the occasion, 141, 142;
his re-election, 142, 144;
his scheme for emigration from Geneva, 144, 145, 146, 150, 151;
his opinion of New York and Pennsylvania society, 146, 147;
of Jay’s treaty, 151;
enters Congress, 154;
his account of his Congressional service, 155-157;
his speeches on Jay’s treaty, 155, 156, 161, 162, 163, 165, 166;
his views on constitutional construction, 157, 205;
Executive encroachments, 157;
specific appropriations, 157, 180, 299;
the finances in 1796, 157, 169, 173, 174;
originates the standing committee of Ways and Means, 157, 172;
his views on the navy, 157, 170, 171, 172, 180, 217, 218, 229, 334, 335;
his share in originating the land-system, 167, 297, 298;
his financial principles compared with Hamilton’s, 169, 174, 175;
re-elected to Congress, 176-178;
birth of his eldest son, 179, 180, 181, 182;
on the political situation in 1797, 183, 185, 187;
his opinion of Washington, 182;
of John Adams, 265, 266;
the political situation in 1798, 189, 190, 195, 196, 199, 200, 201, 202, 203, 223, 224;
on foreign intercourse, 189, 195, 197, 198, 611;
on the alien bill, 205, 219, 220;
on the sedition bill, 207, 208, 219;
on the exclusion of slavery from the Southwestern Territory, 209;
re-elected to Congress, 210;
his character described by Curtius, 213;
his nationality of character, 214;
on R. G. Harper, 216, 217;
state of his affairs, 222, 225;
on the political situation in 1799, 226, 227, 228;
on a sinking fund, 230, 231, 296;
on John Marshall’s argument in the case of Jonathan Robbins, 232;
on the New York City election of 1800, 240, 241;
on the finances in 1800, 243;
his account of the Jefferson-Burr contest in 1801, 248-251, 253-262;
his plan in the event of usurpation, 248, 251, 254, 255, 256;
his description of Washington in 1801, 252, 253;
named as Secretary of the Treasury, 258, 259;
nomination communicated by Mr. Jefferson, 263;
fears of rejection by the Senate, 264, 510;
his interview with the Emperor, 514, 515;
meets Dumont and Bentham, 519;
arrives at Ghent, 518;
delicacy of his ground there, 522;
expects the negotiation to fail, 523, 524;
ascendency over the mission, 528;
on the financial outlook, 533;
draws article offering to confirm the provisions of the treaty of 1783 regarding the fisheries and the Mississippi, 541;
accepts Mr. Clay’s compromise, 542;
offers an article to continue the liberty of taking fish, 544;
carries an article referring the subject to future negotiation, 544;
his delicate management, 545;
the treaty his special triumph, 546;
visits Geneva, 547, 598;
returns to Paris, 547;
appointed minister to France, 548;
negotiates commercial convention with England, 551;
returns to America, 553;
on the situation of America and Europe in 1815, 553, 554;
declines mission to France, 554;
declines nomination to Congress, 554;
declines offer of partnership with Mr. Astor, 555;
declines the Treasury, 558, 559;
reconsiders and accepts mission to France, 556, 557;
urges return to specie payments, 556, 561;
his residence in Paris, 561, 562, 563, 564, 565;
his arrival there, 562;
his opinion of Talleyrand, 564;
his negotiation for indemnities, 567, 568;
or a commercial treaty with the Netherlands, 568;
his negotiations with England in 1818, 568-572;
his opinion of the fisheries convention, 572;
his share in the commercial negotiations with France, 573-575, 577;
his argument in the case of the Apollon, 575, 576;
character of, by J. Q. Adams and J. C. Calhoun, 576, 577, 676;
declines the presidency of the U. S. Bank, 578;
decides to return to New Geneva, 578;
returns to America, 684-586, his views on politics in 1828-9, 630, 631, 633, 634;
would accept mission to France in 1829, 632, 633;
disapproves removals from office, 633, 634;
on quitting public life, 634;
publishes his first essay on banks and currency, 637, 638, 647;
his attitude regarding the U. S. Bank, 638, 639, 651, 665, 666;
composes the free-trade memorial, 640, 642;
attacked by Mr. Clay, 641;
becomes president of the National Bank, 643, 647, 652;
resigns, 662;
his ethnological writings, 643-645, 652;
tries to establish a popular university, 648;
on politics in 1833, 648, 649;
in 1834, 650;
favors annual Presidency, 650;
on American society, 646, 650, 651, 653, 663, 664;
on universal suffrage, 654;
his share in the resumption of specie payments in 1838, 657-662;
his second essay on banks and currency, 662, 663, 664, 665;
asked by President Tyler to take the Treasury Department, 666, 667;
republishes his argument on the North-Eastern boundary, 668;
Alexander Baring’s opinion of him, 668;
his views on the Ashburton negotiation, 670;
his pamphlet on the Oregon question, 671;
his speech on the annexation of Texas, 670-675;
J. Q. Adams’s remarks regarding him, 676;
his pamphlet on peace with Mexico, 677;
his religious opinions, 678; his death, 678.
Gallatin, Mrs. Albert. (See Allegre, Sophia, and Nicholson, Hannah.)
Gallatin, James, 179, 180, 316, 480, 493, 606, 607, 608, 610, 632, 650; his son, 650, 667.
Gallatin, Jean, enrolled as citizen of Geneva in 1510, 2.
Gallatin, Jean, father of Albert Gallatin, 9;
his death, 10.
Gallatin, Paul Michel, Albert’s guardian, 19-22.
Gallatin, Pierre, Count de, WÜrtemberg minister at Paris, 3, 563.
Gallatin-Rolaz, Mme., mother of Albert Gallatin, 7, 9, 10.
Gallatin-Vaudenet, Mme., grandmother of Albert Gallatin, 5, 16;
Voltaire’s notes to, 6, 7;
her figs, 6, 7;
her children, 9;
gives her grandson a “cuff,” 17;
her decline, 94.
Gambier, Lord, British commissioner at Ghent, 519.
Genet, Edmund, French minister, 86, 104, 111.
Geneva, its government, 3; its society, 5, 10, 11, 15, 40;
its academy, 11-15;
its politics, 28, 33, 48, 47, 48, 51, 52, 73, 75, 96, 97, 144, 145, 199;
emigration from, 145, 146, 150;
condition in 1814, 531;
revisited by Gallatin in 1815, 547;
his account of, 600, 601.
George IV., 650.
George’s Creek, 55, 56, 58, 59, 66, 68, 69, 72, 123.
Georgetown, 253, 259, 530.
German, Obadiah, Senator from New York, 484.
Gerry, Elbridge, nominated envoy to France, 185;
vote on his confirmation, 185.
Ghent, negotiations at: meeting of the commissioners, 519;
American terms of peace, 520;
British terms, 520, 521;
Indian sovereignty, 521, 527;
antagonisms among the American commissioners, 520, 521, 522, 523;
expected failure of the negotiation, 523, 524, 525, 526;
first modification of the British terms, 526, 527;
effect on the American commissioners, 527, 528;
settlement of the Indian question, 535;
British offer of the basis of uti possidetis, 535, 536;
rejected, 536;
effect of the rejection, 536-538;
negotiation considered at an end, 636, 537;
interposition of the Duke of Wellington, 538, 539;
second modification of the British terms, 539, 540;
articles on impressment, blockade, and indemnities, 540;
straggles over the fisheries and the Mississippi, 540-545;
signature of the treaty, 546;
the treaty peculiarly a triumph of Mr. Gallatin, 546;
Castlereagh’s opinion of, 546.
Giles, William B., 154, 156, 298, 678;
leaves Congress in 1798, 202;
favors war in 1808, 376;
opposes Gallatin’s appointment as Secretary of State, 388, 389, 401;
opposes the bank charter, 427, 428, 429;
his taunts at Gallatin, 448, 449;
opposes Gallatin’s confirmation to Russia, 484, 490;
thought of for President of the Senate, 485.
Gilman, Nicholas, Senator from New Hampshire, 484.
Girard, Stephen, 477.
Glass, manufacture of, 176.
Goodhue, Benjamin, Senator from Massachusetts, 185.
Goodrich, Chauncy, M.C. from Connecticut, his speech for Jay’s treaty the best, 155.
Gottenburg, 493, 494, 495.
Goulburn, Henry, British commissioner at Ghent, 519;
his reports of the Ghent negotiations, 524, 525, 534, 535, 545;
checked by his chiefs, 525, 526;
his mortification, 540;
his views on the fisheries, 543, 545;
negotiates commercial convention, 550.
Granger, Gideon, 329, 429.
Granges, estate in Bugey, 1, 2.
Greenville, treaty of, 521.
Griswold, Roger, M.C. from Connecticut, 154;
his speech on Jay’s treaty, 155, 162, 163;
his altercation with Matthew Lyon, 191-193, 194, 195;
his political opinions, 192, 199, 214, 249;
nominated Secretary of War, 258;
his attack on Gallatin in 1803, 309, 314, 315.
Grundy, Felix, M.C. from Tennessee, 445, 457.
Gun-boats, Gallatin’s views on, 352, 353;
Mr. Jefferson’s views on, 353, 354;
results of, 354.
Gurney, Francis, 85, 88.
H.
Hamilton, Alexander, 67, 101, 106, 120, 153, 154, 202, 320;
his financial policy, 87;
regarding excise, 89;
his jealousy of control, 114;
his letter on calls for financial information, 116, 117;
his course in regard to the whiskey rebellion, 139, 140, 141;
his antagonism to Jefferson, 159, 170;
his financial principles, 167, 168, 169;
his sinking fund, 173, 174, 296;
his reduction of debt, 174;
his political formulas, 199;
commander of the army, 211;
his statement of the political situation in 1798, 223;
pitted against Burr in 1800, 232, 242;
active in the New York City election of 1800, 233;
fears Burr’s influence, 234;
not present at the nominating caucus, 235;
opposed to making Burr President, 254;
the vigor and capacity of his mind, 268;
compared with Gallatin, 268, 269.
Hamilton, Paul, Secretary of the Navy, his report on gun-boats, 353, 354;
his administration of the navy, 462, 467;
Gallatin’s remarks on, 463;
his cruising orders, 465;
his resignation, 470.
Hamilton, Dr. Robert, his work on the British National Debt, 230.
Hanson, A. C., M.C. from Maryland, 457, 530.
Harper, R. G., M.C. from South Carolina, 154, 155, 156, 201, 202;
his qualities, 188;
chairman of Ways and Means, 188;
439, 443;
on the constitutional power to acquire territory, 321;
on the United States Bank, 308, 321, 322, 665;
re-elected President, 326;
his Spanish policy in 1805, 334, 335, 336, 337, 347;
his defence of Gallatin against Randolph, 342, 343;
on the dissensions of 1806, 344;
on a national university and internal improvements, 349, 350;
on gun-boats, 353;
his rejection of Monroe’s treaty, 355;
his faith in commercial restrictions, 367, 368;
his abdication of power, 376, 377, 383;
his discouragement, 376, 379;
disastrous close of his Administration, 380, 390, 391;
Erskine’s remarks on, 381;
on the defeat of the war-policy of 1809, 385, 386;
on Gallatin’s proposed resignation, 407, 408;
on the dissensions of 1810, 418;
his alleged partiality to France, 418, 419;
his scheme of administration, 491, 492;
his views on Presidential candidates of 1822, 591, 593;
his mind impervious to argument on the extension of slavery, 671.
Johannot, 15.
Jones, Walter, M.C. from Virginia, 190, 222, 228.
Jones, William, Secretary of War, 471.
Judiciary bill, repeal of, 274, 301.
K.
Kanawha River, 56, 61.
Kentucky, 56.
King, Rufus, 104, 484, 490, 612, 613;
his political theories, 272.
Kinloch, Francis, 15, 22, 24.
Kirkpatrick, Major, burning of his barn,
La Place, Pierre Simon, 564.
Law, Mrs. (Custis), 191, 194, 252, 303, 305.
Lawrence, Cornelius W., 658.
Lawrence, William Beach, 622, 628.
Lee, Henry, 249.
Leib, Michael, U. S. Senator from Pennsylvania, 313, 322, 328, 330, 388, 389, 400, 401, 414, 429, 459, 484, 490.
Lesdernier de Russin, friends of Gallatin and Serre at Machias, 30, 31, 35, 36, 40.
Lincoln, Levi, Attorney-General, 265, 274, 298, 373;
his character, 276; story told of him, 277.
Livermore, Samuel, 112.
Liverpool, Lord, on the Emperor of Russia, 516;
obliged to check his commissioners at Ghent, 526;
accepts the Indian article, 535;
his embarrassment, 536, 537;
his appeal to the Duke of Wellington, 538;
accepts the status quo ante, 539;
his death, 626.
Livingston, Brockholst, 236.
Livingston, Edward, 154, 156, 162, 212, 228, 245, 246, 283, 284;
begins the debate on Jay’s treaty, 160;
on the alien bill, 207, 219;
his defalcation, 290.
Livingston, Chancellor Robert R., his character, 239;
minister to Paris, 307.
Logan’s Act, 215.
Louis XVIII., 563.
Louis Philippe, 650.
Louisiana, purchase of, 307, 310, 318;
incorporation of, 325, 673.
Lowndes, William, M.C. from South Carolina 445, 449, 473, 562;
Mr. Crawford’s comments on, 581.
Lowrie, Walter, Senator from Pennsylvania, 582, 592;
advises Gallatin to withdraw, 602, 603.
Lyon, Matthew, M.C. from Vermont, 560;
his altercation with Roger Griswold, 191-195;
his imprisonment, 219;
his relations with Randolph, 325, 329.
M.
Machias in 1780, 30, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37.
McClanachan, Blair, 77, 185, 188.
McKean, Thomas, Chief Justice of Pennsylvania, 84;
candidate for governor, 227;
governor, 249;
offered nomination for Vice-Presidency, 312;
declines, 312, 313;
his account of Pennsylvania politics, 313;
re-elected governor by Federalists, 330;
his mistakes, 331, 333, 442.
McLane, Louis, his instructions as minister to England, 618, 619.
Macon, Nathaniel, M.C. from North Carolina, 302, 473;
on the Chesapeake affair, 359, 362;
on the war policy of 1808, 384;
his navigation bill of 1809, 413, 414, 415, 416;
his Act of May 1, 1810, 416;
its effect, 419, 420, 421;
opposes the bank charter, 427;
refuses to go into caucus, 591, 595-597.
Madison, James, 79, 83, 86, 154, 155, 156, 166, 214, 219, 298, 300, 496, 636;
his speech on Jay’s treaty, 155, 162, 163;
retires from Congress, 181;
his nullification resolves, 211, 212, 374;
appointed Secretary of State, 265;
his influence in the scheme of administration, 268, 269, 272;
John Randolph’s attack upon, in 1806, 339, 340, 341, 342, 344, 345;
candidate for the Presidency, 346;
his pamphlet on the rule of 1756, 348;
elected President, 374;
urges Mr. Jefferson to fix a policy, 377, 378;
his views on the war policy, 384;
his character, 384, 399, 459;
attempts to make Gallatin Secretary of State, 388-391, 633;
unfortunate beginning of his Administration, 391, 392;
his message of 1809, 412;
his course towards France in 1810, 423, 424, 425, 461;
his course regarding the bank charter, 416, 427;
dismisses Robert Smith, 435;
appoints Monroe Secretary of State, 435;
his treatment of Duane, 443;
his attitude towards the war party, 445, 448, 455, 460;
his opinion of their measures, 449;
his share in causing the declaration, 456-459;
his supposed wish to lay up the frigates, 462-466;
reorganises his Cabinet, 468-470;
accepts Russian mediation, 477;
sends Gallatin to Russia, 477-479;
his dangerous illness, 484-488;
refuses to vacate the Treasury, 486, 487;
disaffection towards him in Washington, 529;
his dismissal of General Armstrong, 530;
offers the Treasury to Gallatin in 1816, 557.
Marbois, BarbÉ, 52.
Marshall, Humphrey, Senator from Kentucky, 185.
Marshall, James, 91;
his course at the Mingo Creek meeting, 128;
at the Parkinson’s Ferry meeting, 131, 132.
Marshall, John, 213, 277;
his encouragement to Gallatin, 54;
his talent, 83;
his views on blending common law and equity, 81-83;
member of Congress, 154-156;
on the sedition law, 211;
on the case of Jonathan Robbins, 231, 232;
Chief Justice, 258.
Martineau, Harriet, her notes of Gallatin’s conversation, 650, 651.
Massachusetts, account of, in 1780, 28, 29.
Masters, Josiah, M.C. from New York, 342, 343.
Mediterranean Fund. (See Finances.)
Mexico, war with, 672, 673, 676, 677;
Gallatin’s pamphlet on, 677.
Mifflin, Thomas, Governor of Pennsylvania, 86, 223.
Mississippi, navigation of, at the Treaty of Ghent, 540-545;
in 1818, 570.
Mitchell, Stephen N., 112.
Mitchill, Samuel L., 237, 238.
Monongahela River, 55, 62, 63, 630, 646.
Monongalia County, 55, 58, 311, 326, 327, 328, 330, 331, 332;
Duane’s schism, 290.
Perceval, Spencer, Attorney-General of England, author of the orders in council, 365.
Perry, Commodore, 529.
Peters, Judge Richard, 148.
Philadelphia, 46, 46, 54, 90;
yellow fever in, 105, 106, 107;
gentlemen corps, 142, 143.
Pickering, Timothy, 95, 184, 188, 436, 467, 458.
Pictet, Catherine, adoptive mother of Albert Gallatin, 10, 16, 19, 24, 38, 39, 42, 52, 74, 75, 94;
her death, 152, 153.
Pinckney, C. C., 223;
to be supported for the Presidency in place of John Adams by the Federalists, 241.
Pinckney, Charles, 260.
Pinckney, Thomas, 178, 241.
Pinkney, William, sent minister to England in 1806, 348;
negotiates treaty, 355, 361;
Attorney-General, 395, 440.
Pitt, William, his sinking fund, 173, 174, 230, 296, 326.
Pittsburg, 54, 56, 61, 68;
meeting of August, 1792, 91, 92, 93, 123, 204;
seizure of its mail, 128; march through, 129;
occupied by the U. S. militia, 139.
Porter, Commodore, 529.
Posso di Borgo, 564, 389, 394, 459, 581;
causes repeal of internal taxes, 295;
moves resolutions regarding Louisiana, 308;
on Mr. Griswold’s attack, 314, 315;
on politics in 1804, 324;
on a naval force, 325;
his attack on the Yazoo settlement, 328, 329;
on the management of the navy, 330, 335;
on politics in 1805, 331-333;
on Mr. Jefferson’s retirement, 333;
his course regarding the purchase of Florida in 1805, 338-344;
against continuing the embargo, 384;
on Gallatin’s resignation, 430, 431;
his temper and eccentricities, 598.
Redstone Old Fort, meeting at, 135-137.
Reed, Jacob, Senator from South Carolina, 185.
Richelieu, Duke de, French Minister of Foreign Affairs, 567.
Richmond, 1783-1789, 53, 54, 59, 61.
Robbins, Jonathan, case of, 231, 232.
Roberts, Jonathan, M.C. from Pennsylvania, 473, 588;
his reminiscences of the war, 476, 480.
Robinson, Frederick (Lord Goderich), 550, 552, 570, 571, 618;
Prime Minister, 626.
Rochefoucauld d’Enville, Duc de la, 24.
Rodgers, Commodore, 465, 466, 529.
Rodney, CÆsar A., Attorney-General, 366;
resigns, 440, 493.
Rogers, Richard, naval officer of the port of New York, 281, 282;
question of his retention in office, 282-289.
Rolas of Rolle, Alphonse, 10, 11, 21, 74.
Romanzoff, Count, Chancellor of the Russian Empire, 497;
anecdote of Napoleon I., 444; his policy, 498;
renews offer of mediation, 499, 503;
retires from office, 504.
Rose, George, British Minister, 364, 367, 394, 397.
Ross, James, U. S. Senator from Pennsylvania, 122, 185, 227.
Rush, Richard, minister to England, 569, 588.
Russell, Jonathan, rejected by Senate as minister to Sweden, 484;
sent to negotiate treaty of Ghent, 505;
his share in negotiation, 523, 541, 544;
his controversy with J. Q. Adams, 584.
Russia. (See Alexander.)
Rutherford, John, 112.
S.
St. Lawrence, navigation of, 550, 551, 621, 625.
Savary de Valcoulon, 99, 643;
his business in America, 45;
assists Gallatin, 46, 55, 64;
enters with Gallatin into land speculations, 46, 53, 56, 59, 60, 61, 70;
his brick house at Richmond, 59;
attempts a settlement on the Ohio with Gallatin, 62;
returns with him to George’s Creek and leases land, 62;
returns to Richmond, 63;
signs Gallatin’s marriage bond, 71, 72;
his death, 560.
Schools. (See Education.)
Scott, Sir Walter, 578.
Sedgwick, Theodore, Senator and M.C. from Massachusetts, 173, 185.
Sedition law, 203, 204, 206, 207, 208, 209, 274.
Seney, Joshua, M.C. from Maryland, Gallatin’s brother-in-law, 101.
Serre, Henri, schoolmate of Gallatin’s, 15;
runs away with Gallatin from Geneva, 17;
his account of life at Machias, 34, 35, 40;
his character, 34, 39, 64;
his project of life, 40, 41;
goes to Jamaica, 46, 49, 56;
dies, 46, 66;
Gallatin’s attachment to him, 50, 53, 55, 63.
Sewall, Judge Samuel, M.C. from Massachusetts, 154, 200;
the first man of his party, 188;
on the alien law, 205.
Sheldon, Daniel, secretary of legation and chargÉ d’affaires, 585, 586.
Shepherd, Abraham, on Mr. Madison’s share in declaring war, 457, 458, 459.
Short, William, rejected as minister to Russia, 390.
Sidmouth, Lord, 364.
Sinking fund. (See Finances.)
Sitgreaves, Samuel, M.C. from Pennsylvania, 122, 156.
Slavery, abolition of, 86; evils of, 109, 259;
exclusion from the territory, 209, 406;
Gallatin’s opinions on, 671, 673, 674.
Smilie, John, 91, 93, 125, 560.
Smith, Robert, appointed Secretary of the Navy, 276, 333, 335;
Gallatin’s complaints of his administration, 294, 386, 410;
Randolph’s complaints, 330;
on the embargo, 373;
appointed Secretary of State, 389, 390, 633;
his course in the Cabinet, 400, 415;
his purchases of exchange on Leghorn, 401, 404;
his despatches in July and November, 1810, 423;
his removal from office, 430, 431, 435, 436, 437, 439, 468.
Smith, Samuel, M.C. from Maryland, 253, 316, 490;
his account of the Lyon-Griswold affair, 191;
his intervention in the election of Mr. Jefferson, 247, 250, 251;
declines the Navy Department, 265, 276;
U. S. Senator, 400;
makes his brother Secretary of State, 389, 390;
his drafts on Leghorn, 400-403;
becomes hostile to Gallatin, 403;
opposes Macon’s bill, 415;
opposes the bank charter, 417, 428, 429, 430;
opposes everything, 466;
takes command in Baltimore, 530;
resumes relations with Gallatin, 590.
Smith, William, M.C. from South Carolina and minister to Portugal, 15, 154, 173, 184.
South Carolina, her acts in 1833, 648.
Spain, her conduct towards America in 1793, 104;
interdicts right of deposit, 307;
protests against the Louisiana purchase, 319;
her course in 1805, 334;
Mr. Jefferson’s policy regarding, 334-338, 347;
his proposed purchase of Florida, 336;
her affairs, 513;
her course regarding the sale of Florida, 572.
Specie payments, suspension of. (See Finances.)
Specific appropriations, 157, 180, 299.
Spencer, John C., Secretary of the Treasury, 666, 667.
Stewart, Andrew, M.C. from Pennsylvania, 594, 606, 608.
Stewart, Commodore, 462, 463, 464, 466.
Stockton, Lucius H., nominated Secretary of War, 258.
Stoddart, Benjamin, Secretary of the Navy, 265, 277.
Stokeley, Thomas, 176.
Stone, David, Senator from North Carolina, 484.
Stuart, Gilbert, his portrait of Gallatin, 301.
Suffrage, universal, Gallatin’s opinions on, 664, 655.
Swanwick, John, M.C. from Pennsylvania, 188.
Symmes, John Cleves, 182.
T.
Tahon, keeper of a boarding-house in Boston, 26, 42.
Talleyrand, 227;
Gallatin’s opinion of, 564.
Tariff in 1832, 640, 641, 642.
Taxation, local, 654.
Tayloe, Benjamin Ogle, 564.
Taylor, John, M.C. from South Carolina, 416.
Taylor of Caroline, John, 212.
Texas, annexation of, 672;
Gallatin’s speech on, 672-675.
Thacher, George, M.C. from Massachusetts, his motion to exclude slavery
from the Southwestern Territory, 209.
Thomas, J. B., Senator from Illinois, 592.
Thomas, John Chew, M.C. from Maryland, 261, 262.
Thompson, John, his letters of Curtius, 212, 213, 214, 227.
Time-Piece, New York newspaper, 196.
Tom the Tinker, 149.
Tompkins, D. D., candidate for the Presidency, 559.
Tracy, Uriah, Senator from Connecticut, 185.
Treasury Department, its importance, 114, 167, 267;
its severe duties, 300, 558;
its early position towards the Executive and Legislature, 114;
annual report from, 114;
Gallatin’s call for statement from, 115, 116, 118;
auditor’s office burned, 258;
Gallatin named for Secretary, 258;
threatened collapse in 1812, 473, 474;
offered to Gallatin in 1816, 557, and in 1843, 666, 667.
Tripoli. (See Algerine Powers.)
Triumvirate, Jefferson, Madison, Gallatin, 269, 274, 470, 471, 496, 589, 598, 599

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