INDEX 



Aberdeen, Lord, 400, 402. 



Adams, John, urges appointment of 

 Washington as commander-in-chief, 

 70-71 ; letter from, to Charles Lee, 

 75; jealousy between Hamilton and, 

 136-137, 174; death of, 181; aristo- 

 cratic notion of location of political 

 power, 223 ; Webster's eulogy on, 

 38o. 



Adams, John Quincy, 215, 311; as 

 Monroe's Secretary of State upholds 

 Jackson's course in Florida, 257 ; 

 elected President, 281-282; "prince 

 and protagonist of mugwumps," 322; 

 and policy of internal improvements, 

 323; as a member of Congress in 

 President Tyler's administration, 358. 



Adams, Samuel (the elder), 17-18. 



Adams, Samuel (the younger), 152, 154, 

 176; British opinion of, 5; elected a 

 member of the legislature, 31 ; at- 

 tempt to arrest and send to England 

 for trial, 32 ; demands removal of 

 soldiers from Boston, 35 ; replies to 

 Hutchinson's defence of supremacy 



Annapolis convention of 1786, 117-118, 

 196. 



Anti-federalism, the beginning of, 117, 

 1 68 ; Governor George Clinton a 

 champion of, 118-119, 124; Me- 

 lanchthon Smith defends, 125 ; the 

 Waterloo of, 125. 



Antinomians, 365. 



" Anything to beat Van Buren," 349. 



Arbuthnot, Alexander, 256, 257, 261- 

 262. 



"Aristocracy of office," theory of an, 

 289. 



Armstrong, Secretary of War, 241, 245. 



Arnold, Benedict, comparative dignity 

 of character of, beside that of Charles 

 Lee, 97-98. 



Ashburton treaty, 399-400. 



Assumption of state debts by federal 

 government, 127-130; Madison op- 

 posed to, 208-209. 



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Badger, George E., 356. 



Bancroft, George, 23. 



Bank, National, established by Hamil- 



of Parliament, 36-37; Hutchinson's 

 criticisms of, in letters to Thomas 

 Whately, 37 ; carries resolutions 

 looking to a Continental Congress, 

 10 1 ; as a Federalist, 168-169. 



Aix-la-Chapelle, treaty of, 20. 



Alabama, admission of, to Union, 271. 



Albany Congress of 1754, 23, 200. 



Alien and sedition laws, the, 135-136, 

 174, 211-213. 



Ambrister, Robert, 256, 257, 261-262. 



"American Notes," Dickens's, 275. 



"American system," the, 323, 382-383. 



Andre, Major, Hamilton's acquaintance- 

 ship with, 112. 



411 



ton and Gouverneur Morris, 114, 

 J 33; opposed by Madison, 209; 

 Jackson's opposition to and attacks 

 on, 235, 236, 302-303 ; removal of 

 deposits from, 304, 336-337 ; com- 

 ments on destruction of, 311 ; ques- 

 tion of rechartering in 1811, 329; 

 Tyler's opposition to, 336-338; 

 President Tyler and, 352-353; per- 

 manent defeat of, 357. 



Bank, Fiscal, 353-356. 



Banking, wildcat, in early New Eng- 

 land, 13-22; enormous development 

 of, before panic of 1837, 34^ S ge 

 Bank, National. 



