ic@vhost@g@html@files@37656@37656-h@37656-h-6.htm.html#Page_355" class="pginternal">355;
prepares his "Abridgment of the Debates of Congress," 356;
death, 356;
value of his works 357;
criticism of the Dred Scott case, 358;
and of the new Democratic theories, 358;
domestic relations, 360;
extensive knowledge, 360;
on board the Princeton at time of explosion of great gun, 361;
generous temper, 362.
Biddle, Nicholas:
president of Bank of United States, 116;
his errors, 124;
his bank goes to pieces, 208.
Birney, James G.:
abolitionist candidate for Presidency, 291, 292;
folly of nominating him, 293, 294, 310.
Blair, Francis C., displaced, 317.
Buchanan, James:
on annexation of Texas, 310;
Benton votes for him, 354.
Burr, Aaron:
introduces "spoils system" in New York, 81;
compared with Benedict Arnold, 163.
Calhoun, John C.:
rupture with Jackson, resignation from Vice-Presidency, 86;
position concerning tariff in 1816, 89;
position as a nullifier, 96;
introduces nullification resolutions, 103;
threatened with hanging, 104;
arranges compromise with Clay, 106;
subsequent quarrel with Clay concerning this, 110;
his purposes at this time, 111;
assails Jackson, 132;
opposes Webster's bill for rechartering bank, 133;
on the expunging resolution, 141;
proposes constitutional amendment for distribution of Treasury
surplus, 144;
opposes appropriating Treasury surplus for fortifications, 146;
attack on President Pierce, 166;
his honesty, 168;
on admission of Texas, 180;
in connection with trouble with Mexico, 260;
on the Oregon question, 285;
instrumental in election of Polk, 292;
letter to Lord Aberdeen, 300;
assailed by Benton as to annexation of Texas, 307, 309;
action as to legislation about Texas, 313;
relations as to Mexican war, 314;
and the Wilmot Proviso, 323;
resolution as to power of Congress over slavery in the territories,
323-326;
not a "Union man," 326;
on the admission of Oregon, 326, 163.
Marcy, Wm. L., adopts "spoils system," 81;
cringes to the South, 108.
McDuffie, passage at arms with Benton, 304, 305;
deceives Benton as to taxes, 313.
McLeod, Alexander, case of, 271.
Missouri, character of its population, 39;
admission to the Union, 43, 47;
land titles in, 45.
Missouri Compromise bill, 43;
not the beginning of the slavery and anti-slavery divisions in the
Union, 48;
Benton concerning repeal of, 349.
Monroe, James, remarks, 47, 58, 59;
signs bill for trading road, 53.
New Orleans, Benton's astonishing description of, 93.
Oregon, disputed between Great Britain and the United States, 50;
Benton's remarks concerning, 51;
comes into notice again in J. Q. Adams's term, 65;
final settlement of the matter, 260-273;
neglected in Ashburton treaty, 278,
and by Calhoun, 278,
and others, 279;
Benton's feeling about, 281, 284;
bill for settlement of, 284;
Calhoun on the admission of, 326-328.
Panama mission, disputes concerning, 63-65.
Phillips, Wendell, estimate of, 160.
Pierce, Franklin, assailed by Calhoun, 166;
relations with Benton, 344, 345;
a valuation of, 345;
Benton upon pro-slavery tendencies of, 359.
Polk, James K., character of his following, 234;
and the Southwestern boundary, 287;
elected President, 290, 310;
estimate of, 292;
deceives Benton as to Texas, 313;
displaces Blair, 317;
relations with various portions of Democratic party, 317, 318.
Randolph, John:
duel with Clay, 62.
Rynders, Isaiah, a type, 291, 292.
Seminoles, war with, 209-216.
Taney, Roger B., removes the deposits, 130;
afterward made chief justice, 131;
criticised by Benton for his opinion in Dred Scott case, 358.
Taylor, Zachary, elected President, 329;
character, 330, 337;
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