  - A
- Adams, Charles Francis, Minister to England, 3
- Adams, Henry, opinion concerning Virginia’s estimation of validity of United States laws, 100;
- controverted, 113-115
- Adams, John, influence of Alien and Sedition laws on re-election, 112
- Alien and Sedition laws of 1798, 88;
- Jefferson’s opposition to, 88;
- influence in defeating federal party, 112
- Amendments to Constitution, how made, 40;
- first ten articles, 78, 79
- B
- British opinion of right of secession, 2-3
- Bryce, James, on right of Southern States, 3;
- theory of his book, 3, note
- C
- Calhoun, John C., United States a confederacy, not a nation, 24;
- his youthful prominence in Congress, 34;
- his early opinions of the Constitution, 134, 135;
- change of opinion, 137, 138;
- personal appearance, 138, 139;
- his reasoning on right of nullification, 140;
- his argument considered, 140, 141
- Chase, Salmon P., decision on secession, 34, 35
- Clay, Henry, tariff compromise, 23
- Clinton, George, his opinion as stated by Mr. Lodge, 5;
- his written declaration that the United States Government is perpetual, 77, 78
- Compact, may be for national, indissoluble government, 28, 29;
- a voluntary union of independent nations must be by compact, 28;
- Southern views of, 30
- Confederacy of the Southern States, constitution and compact as to slavery, 158
- Confederacy of the United States, its failure, 31, 32;
- dependent upon the States, 48
- Constitution of United States, adoption by Continental Congress, States, and people, 32;
- perpetuity declared in preamble, 33, 34;
- supremacy, 35, 36, 49;
- oath of every State officer and judge to support, 36;
- supremacy in all sovereign powers, 37, 38;
- prohibitions to States, 38, 39, 47;
- power to coerce States in articles punishing treason, 41, 42, 43;
- can take all powers from States by amendments, 45, 46;
- made States suable, 75;
- submission to embargo, 30
- Military academies in Southern States, 158
- Missouri Compromise, 135, 136
- Morley, John, on British opinion, 2, 3
- Morris, Gouverneur, report of draft of Constitution, 64;
- on the importance of the Mississippi, 123
- N
- New England, discontent with embargo and submission, 130
- New York, consideration of the acceptance of the Constitution, 72, 73;
- unanimous assertion of its convention that the adoption was for perpetuity, 77, 78
- Nullification, claim that validity of laws of general government are at the caprice of each State, 25, 26;
- no suggestion of such right in conventions, 75;
- no claim of such right save in Kentucky resolutions until 1830, 133;
- so stated by Jackson, Marshall, and the nullifiers of South Carolina, 141, 142
- P
- Pennsylvania, resistance to excise law, 84, 85;
- resistance to United States in Gideon Olmstead case, 118-122;
- proposition to Virginia for amendment of Constitution as to questions between States and United States, 122, 123
- Pinckney, Charles C., declaration in convention of South Carolina that the States never had sovereignty, 74;
- satisfaction with Constitution, 67
- Pinckney, Charles, declaration as to nationality of the Constitution, 74
- Q
- Quincy, Josiah, his declaration a threat of rebellion, not a claim of right of secession, 124, 125;
- non-concurrence of Massachusetts, 124, 130, 131;
- not made delegate to Hartford convention, 132
- R
- Randolph, Edmund, introduced national resolutions in convention, 51;
- did not sign Constitution, 69;
- supported it in Virginia convention, 71
- Resolutions of State legislatures are mere opinions, 89;
- even when declaring laws of United States null and void, 148
- S
- Secession, general belief in right of, by Southern and English writers, 1-4;
- belief of some Northern writers, 5, 6;
- impracticability of claim, 25;
- declaration of perpetuity in preamble of Constitution, 33, 34;
- historically no claim of such right until 1830, 142
- Senate, equality of States in, merely a compromise of representation, 60, 61
- Slavery abolished by power given in Constitution, 46, 158
- South Carolina, declaration concerning tariff, warlike preparations, 138;
- original adoption of the Constitution, 73, 74;
- nationality asserted in convention,
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