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INDEX 



Dress, Webster's style of, 270, 389 n. 



Dryden, Sir Erasmus, 7. 



Duane, W. J., 304, 396. 



Duel, Charles Lee's, in Vienna, 66-67 

 Lee declines to fight, with Steuben, 

 94 ; Lee wounded by Laurens in a, 

 95, 111-112; Hamilton's son killed 

 in a, 139 ; the Burr-Hamilton, 140- 

 141 ; Andrew Jackson's, with Avery, 

 238 ; Jackson challenges General 

 Scott to a, 253 ; between John Ran- 

 dolph and Henry Clay, 283 ; Jackson 

 dies as result of a wound received in 

 a, 308 ; Randolph challenges Web- 

 ster to a, 372. 



Duels, plan to kill Hamilton by a series 

 of, 117; discredited in Northern 

 states as a result of Hamilton's 

 death, 141; caused by the "Mrs. 

 Eaton" episode, 292. 



Eastman, Abigail, 367. 



Eaton, John H., 285, 290, 292. 



Eaton, Mrs. John H., episode of, 290- 



294. 



Eliot, Rev. Andrew, 30. 

 Eliot school, Boston, originally named 



the Hutchinson, 47. 

 Ellsworth, William, 190. 

 Embargo, Jefferson's, 214-215, 278,322; 



Webster's pamphlet criticising, 369- 



370 ; jingle about the, 369 n. 

 England, yeomanry and country squires 



of, compared with French classes, 



145-148 ; arrogance of, in War of 



1 812, 247-248. 

 Entail, system of, in Virginia, abolished, 



157-158. 



" Era of good feeling," the, 279. 

 Erie Canal, results of completion of, 344. 

 Everett, Edward, 399. 

 Ewing, Thomas, 353, 356. 

 Exeter Academy, Webster at, 367. 



Farmer Refuted, The," Hamilton's, 

 107-108. 



Farragut, David, sent to South Carolina 

 by Jackson, 298. 



"Federalist," the, 122-123, l8 8, 204. 



Federalist party, building up of, 114- 

 125, 1 68; victory of, over Anti- 

 federalists, 125 ; cause of downfall 

 of, 134; absorbed by Republican 

 party, 207, 215. 



Fiscal corporation bill, 353-355. 



Florida, base for British operations in 

 War of 1812, 245; Jackson drives 

 British from, 245-246; in 1816 be- 

 comes a nest of outlaws, 253-254 ; 

 invaded by Jackson in 1818, 255- 

 257 ; purchased by United States 

 from Spain, 258. 



Floyd, John, 303, 334. 



Foote, Samuel A., 386. 



Foote's resolutions, 297, 386-387. 



Force Bill, the, 335-336, 391. 



Fort Bowyer, British defeat at, 245. 



Forward, Walter, 356. 



France, peasantry of, compared with 

 yeomanry of England, 145-148; 

 Jefferson's sojourn in, 164-165 ; Jack- 

 son settles American difficulties with, 

 307-308. 



Frankland, Sir Harry, house of, 28. 



Franklin, Benjamin, a delegate to Albany 

 Congress, 23 ; comes into possession 

 of Whately's correspondence, 38- 

 39 ; abused by Wedderburn before 

 privy council, 44-45 ; dismissed from 

 postmaster-generalship, 45 ; descrip- 

 tion of Earl of Loudoun, 60 ; letter 

 from, to Charles Lee, 76 ; a proto- 

 type of the " franklins " of England, 

 146-147 ; Jefferson succeeds, in 

 France, 164. 



Franklins, the, in England, 146. 



Free trade speech, Webster's, 382-383. 



Fugitive slave law, Webster's attitude 

 on, 404-409. 



Fulton, Robert, 271. 



" Gag resolution," the, 342. 

 Gage, Thomas, serves under Brad dock 

 in America as lieutenant-colonel, 



