  a cabinet meeting on the new bill and proceedings, 345; statement of Mr. Ewing, 345; the sixteenth fundamental article, 345; every part of the bill made to suit the President, 346; further exposition, 346; statement of Mr. Bell, 346; proceedings of the members of the Cabinet under instructions to prepare a majority of each House for the passage of the second bill, 346; grounds of the veto, and the explanations and careful preparation of the point on which it turned, 347; reason for Mr. Berrien's motion to postpone the consideration of the veto and take up the bank bill, 347; statement of Mr. A. H. Stuart, 347; another side to this statement that the President was in favor of the second bill, 348; signs and facts which show against it from the beginning, 348; letter of Mr. Webster, 349; letter of Mr. Botts noticed, 349; "Head him or die," 349; how the phrase was intended and how interpreted, 349; solution of the views of Mr. Tyler, 350; he would have signed no bank bill under any name after the eighth or ninth day of the session, 350. Reception of the veto message in the Senate, 350; hisses and applause in the galleries, 350; Mr. Benton moves that the Sergeant-at-Arms take into custody those who hissed, 351; debate on the amount of the disorderly proceedings, 351, 352. See Tyler's Administration. Bank of the United States.—Changes to a State institution, 23; history since the expiration of her charter, 23; the bill reported in the Assembly of Pennsylvania, 24; the tail to a bill to repeal a tax and make roads and canals, 24; its reception in the House, 24; an explanation demanded, 24; letter of Mr. Biddle to J. Q. Adams, 24; the first step in the movement, 24; how managed, 24; the bonus, 24; passage of the bill through the legislature, 25; indignation of the people, 25; investigation of the next legislature, 25; remarks, 25. Refuses to cease its operations after its legal existence had expired, 67; its proviso charter made no difference in its condition, 67; its use of the defunct notes of the expired institution, 68; statement of its conduct by Mr. Buchanan, 68; remarks of Calhoun on the right of Congress to pass a bill on this subject, 69; it rests on the general power of legislation, 69; character of the bill, 69; this the last question between the bank and the Federal government, 69. Resumption by the Pennsyl law, 238; comparison of sections of the bill with the English law, 239; voluntary and involuntary bankruptcy under the bill, 240. An attempt to Repeal.—Repeal commenced at the outset of the session, 395; passed the House and lost in the Senate, 395; repealed at the next session, 396; the fate of the confederate bills, 396. Repeal.—A repeal of a great act of legislation by the same Congress that passed it, 463; a homage to the will of the people, 463; remarks of Mr. Benton on offering a petition from the State of Vermont for the repeal of the act, 463; "the act unconstitutional in abolishing debts with the consent of a given majority of the creditors, 463; principles of the act of 1800, 464; forms which the wisdom of the law provided for executing itself, 464; an invasion of the rights of the States over the ordinary relations of debtor and creditor within their own limits," 465; the passage of the act has been a reproach to Congress, its repeal should do them honor, and still more the people under whose will it was done, 465; a bankrupt act has never been favored by the American people, 465; the system has been nearly intolerable in England, 466; further remarks, 466. An act to repeal promptly passed both houses, 503; a splendid victory for the minority, who had resisted the passage of the original bill, 503; all the authorities had sustained the act, 503; sense of the people revolted against it, 503; former act repealed in two years, 503; its repeal a bitter mortification to the administration, 503; Cushing in defence of the act, 504; extract, 504; an unparliamentary reference to Mr. Clay, 504; reply by Mr. Davis, 504; Cushing upon the impotent attacks on the administration, 504; extracts, 505; the seductive arguments of persuasion and enticement used to gain adherents to the new administration, 505; appeals to the democratic party, 505; reply of Mr. Thompson, 505; Cushing states that there are persons connected with the administration who will yet be heard of for the Presidency, 505; indignant reply of Mr. Thompson, 505; reproaches cast upon Cushing, 506; Davis upon the charges of Cushing, 506; his versatility in defending vetoes, 507. Banks, Suspension of Payment by.—Deranged finances and broken up treasury awaited the nascent administration, 9; first object when a bank stops payment, 129; the issuing of currency is the prerogative of sovereignty, 130; proportion required of the deposit banks, 130; effect of the Treasury order of 1836 upon them, 130. Bank Notes, Tax on.—Motion for leave to bring in a bill to tax the circulation of banks, bankers, and all corporations issuing paper money, 179; nothing more just than that this interest should contribute to the support of government, 179; in other countries it was subject to taxation, 179; has formerly been taxed in our country, 179; manner of levying the bank tax in Great Britain, 180; taxation of the Bank of England, 180; equity of the tax, its simplicity, and large product, 180; unknown how the banking interest would relish the proposition, 181; petition of Stephen Girard, 181; objects of the bill, 181. Banks, District, Re-charter of.—Amendment proposed to the bill prohibiting the issue of bills less than five dollars, &c., 273; "the design is to suppress two evils of banking—that of small notes and that of banks combining to sustain each other in a state of suspension," 273; shall notes banish gold and silver from the country? 274; one a curse to the public, 274; why are banks so fond of issuing these small notes? 274; counterfeiting is of small notes, 274; an Insurance Company of St. Louis, 275; a proper opportunity to bring before the people the question whether they should have an exclusive paper currency or not, 275; some merchants think there is no living without banks, 275. See Index, vol. I. Barbour, Philip P., decease of, 202; his mess, 202; his character, 203; intellect, 203; death, 203; instance of self-denial and fidelity to party, 203; position in Virginia, 203. See Index, vol. I. Barrow, Senator, decease of, 706; early life, 706; his character, 706; his intellect 706; youth, 706. Bates, Isaac C., on exempting salt from duty, 315. Bayard, R. H., on the slavery resolutions, 139. Bell, John, candidate for Speaker, 160; Secretary at War, 209; on the readiness of President Tyler to sign a second bank bill, 343, 346; his reasons for resigning his seat in President Tyler's cabinet, 355. Benton, Thomas H., on the bankrupt act for banks, 45; on the divorce of bank and State, 56; on the Florida war, 72; on bank resumption, proposition of a British traveller to turn the line down from Isle-Royale near two hundred miles to St. Louis River, 442; reasons, 442; words of Ashburton, 443; what he claimed, he got, 443; the value of the concession, 443; the Secretary put himself to the trouble to hunt testimony to justify his surrender of the northern route to the British, 443; his letter, 443; answer of Mr. Ferguson, 444; do. of Mr. Delafield, 444; the answers refused to follow the lead of the questions, asked," 444. Extradition Article.—"It stipulates for the mutual surrender of fugitive criminals, 444; no light on the origin, progress, and formation of this article, 445; this is a subject long since considered in our country, 445; Jefferson's views, 445; these surrenders could only be under three limitations, 445; his proposition, 445; compared with the article of the treaty, 445; it is said to be copied from the article in Jay's treaty, 446; the two articles, 446; difference between them, 446; another essential difference, which nullifies the article in its material bearing, 447; words of the message relative to this article, 448; nothing can be more deceptive and fallacious than its recommendation, 448; what offences are embraced, and what excluded," 448. African Squadron for the Suppression of the Slave Trade.—Nothing in relation to the subject in the shape of negotiation is communicated to us, 449; the immediate and practical effects which lie within our view, and display the enormous expediency of the measure, 449; the expense in money, 449; in what circumstances do we undertake all this fine work? 450; Great Britain is not the country to read us a lesson upon the atrocity of the slave trade, or to stimulate our exertions to suppress it, 450; these articles of the treaty bind us in this alliance with Great Britain, 451; the papers communicated do not show at whose instance these articles were inserted, 451. Brougham, Lord, speech relative to the Ashburton treaty, 422. Brown, Charles, on the coast survey, 488. who went in 1825, 115; charges me with always riding some hobby, 115; he is free from all reproach of sticking to hobbies," 115. Rejoinder of Mr. Calhoun, 116; "the Senator tells us that he is among the most constant men in this world, 116; his speech remarkable both for its omissions and mistakes," 116. Rejoinder of Mr. Clay, 116; "he says, if I have not changed principles, I have at least got into strange company, 117; extract from his speeches, 117; the dispute about the protection of cotton manufacture," 117. Rejoinders, 118; conclusion, 118; reconciliation of Calhoun with Van Buren, 118; sinister motives charged, 119; further taunts of Mr. Clay, 119; the change of Clay to the side of Adams, 119; expositions of the compromise of 1833, 119; bargain charged between Clay and Adams, 120; remarks, 120; Calhoun for the succession, 120; Calhoun and Van Buren, 120; source of the real disorders of the country, 121; Adams and Clay, 121; the threat of Gen. Jackson, 120; the compromise measure, 122; Webster on the side of Jackson at the time of nullification, 122; "he my master," 123; further remarks, 123. Clay, Henry, on the slavery resolutions, 138; offers a programme of measures for Tyler's administration, 219; proposes to introduce the hour rule in the Senate, 250; on exempting salt from duty, 316; on the veto of the bank by President Tyler, 318; his feelings on the veto of the bank bill by President Tyler, 356. Retirement of.—Resigns his seat in the Senate, and delivers a valedictory address, 398; reasons, 398; formally announces his retirement, 399; extract, 399; period at which he had formed the design of retiring, 399; time when the design was really formed, 399; could have been elected when Harrison was, 399; that triumph a fruitless one, 399; reasons for not resigning at the time intended, 400; reasons for appearing at the regular session, 400; the formation of a new cabinet wholly hostile to him, and the attempt to take the whig party from him, 400; the failure of his measures, 400; review of the past, 401; extract, 401; thanks erg@html@files@44837@44837-h@44837-h-20.htm.html#Page_305" class="pginternal">305; replies to the Whig manifesto against Mr. Tyler, 359; report on the third fiscal agent, 394; in defence of the Bankrupt Act, 504; his nomination rejected in the Senate, 629. D Dallas, George M., elected Vice-President, 625. Danish Sound Dues.—Report of Mr. Webster, 362; "the right of Denmark to levy these dues, 362; recognized by European governments in several treaties, 362; the tariff of 1645 never been revised, 362; other charges, 363; American commerce," 363; negotiations to obtain the benefit of all reductions recommended, 363; remarks, 364; success of these recommendations, 364; commerce of different nations through the Sound, 364. Davis, G., reply to Mr. Cushing, 504, 506. Davis John W., chosen Speaker, 656. Dean, Ezra, on the home squadron, 577. Democratic Convention.—A motley assemblage, 591; almost all under instructions for Mr. Van Buren, 591; Van Buren to be nominated on the first ballot, unless a movement made, 591; motion to adopt the two-thirds rule, 591; objected to as in violation of a fundamental principle, 591; remarks of Morton, 591; Butler enforces the majority rule, 591; remarks, 591; adoption of the rule, 592; the ballotings, 592; moved that Mr. Van Buren, having received a majority, be declared nominated, 592; violent debate, 592; division in the Pennsylvania delegation, 593; remarks of Mr. Benton, 456. "The attempt made in 1822 to limit and fix a naval peace establishment, 456; actual state of the navy in 1841 and 1842, 456; extract from Bayard's report, 456; examine the plan in its parts, and see the enormity of its proportions, 457; the cost of each gun afloat, and the number of men to work it, 457; I am asked how I get at these $9,000 cost for each gun afloat, 458; correctness of the statement, 458; Clay's resolutions, 459; it is an obligation of imperious duty on Congress to arrest the present state of things, to turn back the establishment to what it was a year ago," 459. Remarks of Mr. Merriweather, 482; no hostility to the service led to a desire to reduce the pay of the navy, 482; pay at different periods, 482, 483; fifty thousand dollars required to defray the expenses of court-martials the present year, 483; further points on which reduction can be made, stated, 484. Annual appropriation considered, 507; amendment moved to reduce number of master-mates, 507; remarks of Cave Johnson, 507; "should have a peace establishment for the navy as well as the army, 507; table of the British service, 507; expenditures, 508; squadrons," 508. Principle of a naval force establishment nowhere developed, 508; the amount of danger must be considered to measure the amount of a naval peace establishment, 508; remarks of Mr. Hamlin on abuses in the navy, 509; enormous increase in the number of officers of the navy, 509; items of extravagance, 509; Hale's remarks on the abuses in the navy expenditures, and the irresponsibility of officers, 509; excess of navy-yards, 509; no results attended the movement, 509. See Index, vol. I. "Experiment," the staple word of distress oratory, 16. Explosion of the Great Gun.—Excursion on board the Princeton, 567; the company, 567; the day, 567; the guns of the vessel, 567; trip down the Potomac, 567; the firing, 568; the President called back as he was about to witness it, 568; the explosion, 568; the fatal results, 568; the effect on Col. Benton of the concussion, 569. F Featherstonhaugh, Mr., remarks on the results of the Ashburton Treaty, 423. Ficklin, Orlando, on the appropriation for the military academy, 468. Fillmore, Millard, on the veto of the provisional tariff, 415; candidate for Vice-President, 722; elected, 663-664. Haralson, H. A., on the appropriation for the military academy, 468. Harrison, William H., candidate for the Presidency, 204; meeting of the Senate, 209; oath administered to the Vice-President, 209; scene in the chamber, 209; the eastern portico, 209; the inaugural, 209; the oath administered, 209; cabinet nominations confirmed, 209; proclamation convoking an extra session of Congress, 209; sickness of Harrison, 210; death, 210; character, 210; public manifestations, 210; origin of the family, 210; Benton's remarks on Harrison, 210; his fidelity to public trust, 216. Harrison, Mrs., widow of President H.—Bill for the relief of, introduced, 257; to indemnify the President for his expenses in the Presidential election, and in removing to the seat of government, 257; words of the bill, 257; motives on which the bill had been founded, explained by J. Q. Adams, 258; vehement opposition to the principle of the bill, 258; reasons of Mr. Payne, of Ala., for voting against the bill, 258; a precedent which might hereafter be strained and tortured, 259; remarks of Mr. Underwood, 259; passage of the bill in the House, 259. In the Senate, remarks of Mr. Calhoun on the bill, 259, "this is no new thing, 260; the enormous pension-list of the government, 260; no part of the constitution authorizes such an appropriation," 260; c@vhost@g@html@files@44837@44837-h@44837-h-5.htm.html#Page_72" class="pginternal">72, 73; pretexts and excuses of the Indians for not removing, 73; their real object, 73; the agreement with the Creeks, 73; article four of the treaty, 73; extract from the treaty at Fort Gibson, 74; how stands the accusation? 74; every thing was done that was stipulated for, done by the persons who were to do it, and done in the exact manner agreed upon, 74; proved that no fraud was practised upon the Indians, 75; moderation with which the United States acted, 75; statement of Lieut. Harris, 75; hostile proceedings not expected by the Government, 75; the prime mover in all this mischief, 76; our sympathies particularly invoked for him, 76; statements tending to disparage the troops, answered, 76; great error and great injustice in these imputations, 76; reason why the same feats are not performed in Florida as in Canada, 77; eight months in the year military exertions are impossible, 77; conduct of the army in Florida, 77; charges of inefficiency against Gen. Jesup, 78; of imbecility, 78; with how much truth and justice is this charge made? 78; his vindication, 78; a specific accusation against the honor of this officer, 79; justification of the seizure of Osceola, 79; he had broken his parole, 79; he had violated an order in coming in, with a view to return to the hostiles, 79; he had broken a truce, 79; the expediency of having detained him, 80; complaint of the length of time Gen. Jesup has consumed without bringing the war to a conclusion, 80; his essential policy, 81; the little said to be expected by his large force, 81; false information given to the Indians, 81; remarks respecting his predecessors, 81; the expenses of the war, 82; concluding remarks, 82. Ingersoll, Charles J., on the administration in the McLeod case, 287; moves the reduction of certain missions, 305; on the repeal of the compromise tariff, 310; on the home squadron, 575. Iowa and Florida, admission of, 660. J Jackson, Gen., refunding his fine.—Fined at New Orleans in the winter of 1814-'15 for contempt of court, 499; paid under protest, 499; Senator Linn brings in a bill for refunding the fine, 499; letter of Gen. Jackson to him on receiving notice of the bill, 500; Jackson would only receive it on the ground of an illegal exaction, 500; the recourse to martial law vindicated, 500; the measures could not be relaxed which a sense of danger had dictated, < foreign imports before the Revolutionary war, 131; in 1821, 131; the difference, 131; effects, 132; points of complaint, 131; foundation for them, 132; remark of Madison, 132; remedy proposed by the conventions, 133; the point on which Southern discontent arose, 133; separation as a remedy, 133. O Oregon.—Carrying and planting the Anglo-Saxon race on the shores of the Pacific took place at this time, 468; an act of the people going forward without government aid or countenance, 469; the action of the government was to endanger our title, 469; first step of the treaty of joint occupation in 1818, 469; the second false step, the extension of the treaty, 469; third blunder, in omitting to settle it in the Ashburton treaty, 469; fourth blunder, the recommendations of President Tyler to discountenance emigration by withholding land from the emigrants, 469; the people saved the title thus endangered, 469; a thousand emigrants in 1842, 469; government attempts to discourage and Western members to encourage it, 469; Senator Linn introduces a bill for the purpose, 469; its provisions, 469; remarks, 470; McDuffie's remarks to show the worthlessness of the country, 471; Calhoun opposes it on the ground of infractions of the treaty and danger of war—the difficulty and danger of defending a possession so remote, 471; extension of the Missouri Compromise recommended, 724; various parties on the subject, 725; finances, 725; expenditures, 725; decease of, 737; first President put on the people without previous indication, 737; faults of the administration, the faults of his cabinet, 737; his will, 738; the Mexican war, 738; acquisition of Mexico, 738. Porter, Alexander.—Decease of, 569; eulogium by Col. Benton, 569; early life, 569; lawyer in lower Mississippi, 570; Senator, 570; his example, 570; remarks, 571. Porter, Commodore.—Decease of, 491; his career—an illustration of the benefits of the cruising system, 491; ardor for the service, 492; the Essex frigate, 492; her cruise towards the Grand Banks, 492; capture of the Alert, 492; cruise to Brazil, 493; cruise in the Pacific Ocean, 493; Valparaiso, 493; prizes taken, 494, 495, 496; capture of the Essex, 497; end of the cruise, 498; incidents of Porter's personal history, 498; resignation, 498; cause, 498; features of his character, 499. Porter, James Madison.—Secretary at war, 579. Presidency.—Bold intrigue for. See Texas annexation. Presidential election of 1840.—The candidates, 204; availability sought for by the opposition, 204; Clay not available, 204; submits himself to a convention, 204; rule of the convention, 204; the process, 204; an embittered contest foreseen, 205; influence of the money power, 205; mode of operating, 205; inducements addressed to the people, 205; mass conventions, 205; one at Dayton, Ohio, 205; description, 206; election carried by storm, 206; result, 206; belief of fraudulent votes, 207. 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. S Salt.—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; 44837@44837-h@44837-h-35.htm.html#Page_523" class="pginternal">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, —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; h-24.htm.html#Page_362" class="pginternal">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. Ty span> honor required us to fight for Texas if we intrigued her into a war, 643; the treaty of annexation was signed, and in signing it the Secretary knew that he had made war with Mexico, 644; the alternative resolutions adopted by Congress in the last days of the session of 1844-45, and in the last moments of Mr. Tyler's administration, 645; instructions to newspapers, 647; authorship of the war, 647; further remarks, 649. Commencement of hostilities, 679; effect of the hostilities, 679; country fired for war, 679; Calhoun opposed to the war, although his conduct had produced it, 679; claims upon Mexico and speculations in Texas land scrip were a motive with some to urge on a war, 680; it was said the war would close in ninety or one hundred and twenty days, 680; an intrigue laid for peace before the war was declared, 680; the return of the exiled chief Santa Anna, 680; a secret that leaked out, 680; the manner, 680; explanation of the President, 681; two millions asked of Congress as a means to terminate the war, 681; extract from the confidential message, 681; this intrigue for peace a part of the war, 682; an infinitely silly conception, 682; consequences of Santa Anna's return, 682. Conquest of New Mexico.—Conquered without firing a gun, 683; how it was done, 683; details, 683; the after-clap, 683; cause and results of the insurrection, 683; career of Magaffin, 683; his services and final escape, 684; his reward, and the manner of obtaining it, 684. Doniphan's Expedition.—Address of Col. Benton to the returning volunteers, 684; the wonderful march, 685; meeting and parting with savage tribes, 685; the march upon Chihuahua, 685; its capture, 686; the starting point of a new expedition, 686; the march to Monterey, 686; the march to Matamoras, 687; the expedition made without Government orders, 687; advice of Senator Benton to the President, 687; |
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