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of Virginia in 1779, 163; death of 

 wife, 163; elected to Congress, 163; 

 minister to France, 164-165; be- 

 comes Washington's Secretary of 

 State, 125, 167; Vice-president, 174; 

 presidential campaign of, 174-176; 

 buys the Mississippi territory of Na- 

 poleon, 177; reelection to presi- 

 dency, 1 80; death, 180; Madison's 

 intimacy with, 189; responsibility of, 

 for theory of nullification, 212; treat- 

 ment of civil service by, 287-288; 

 mantle of, fell on Van Buren, 311- 

 312; Webster's eulogy on, 380. 



Jeffersonians, comparison of, with Eng- 

 lish Liberals, 170-173. 



Johnson, George, letter from, to Charles 

 Lee, 88. 



Johnson, Richard, 342. 



Johnson, Sir William, 59. 



Judges, election of, instead of appoint- 

 ment, a crying abomination, 272. 



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Kant, Immanuel, on Wedderburn's 

 abuse of Franklin, 45. 



Kendall, Amos, 286, 295, 304. 



Kentucky resolutions of 1798, 174, 211- 

 213. 



King Philip's War, 9. 



King, Rufus, 203, 278. 322. 



King's College, Dr. Myles Cooper presi- 

 dent of, 69, 108; Hamilton a stu- 

 dent at, 106. 



" Kitchen cabinet," Jackson's, 286 ; 

 break in the, 295. 



Knox, General Henry, ill, 137. 



Knox, Dr. Hugh, 104, 105. 



Kosciuszko, in America, 56. 



Lafayette, Marquis de, 56, 88, 89; love 

 of, for Hamilton, 1 1 1 ; innocent 

 cause of disagreement between 

 Washington and Hamilton, 112. 



Land Bank of 1740, 16-17. 



Langworthy, Edward, 66, 77. 



Lansing, John, 119. 

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Laurens, Colonel, Charles Lee's duel 

 with, 95, i II-H2. 



Lee, Charles, wrongly stated to be 

 father of Robert E. Lee, 56-57; an- 

 cestry of, 57; birth of, 57; com- 

 missioned lieutenant in the British 

 army, 58; in America with Brad- 

 dock's army, 58 ; adopted by Mo- 

 hawk tribe, 59; in Earl of Loudoun's 

 expedition against Louisburg, 60 ; 

 wounded in battle of Ticonderuga, 

 61 ; narrow escape from assassination 

 on Long Island, 62 ; return to Eng- 

 land in 1761, 63; with Burgoyne in 

 Portugal, 63; in Poland, 66; arrives 

 in America in 1773, 67; appointed 

 second major-general in Continental 

 army, 70; letter to Lord Barrington, 

 71-72; service in Continental army, 

 74-81; at battle of Charleston, 77- 

 78; captured by British, 82; con- 

 duct during captivity, 83-86 ; ex- 

 changed for General Richard Pres- 

 cott, 86; treason at Monmouth, 89- 

 91; in disgrace, 92; death, 95; pre- 

 tensions to authorship of "Letters of 

 Junius," 95-97 ; Benedict Arnold a 

 dignified character in comparison 

 with, 97-98. 



Lee, Mrs. Elizabeth B., 259; letter from, 

 to Colonel Gantt, quoted, 292 n., 

 298 n. 



Lee, Henry, 206, 303. 



Lee, Richard Henry, 155, 205. 



Lee, Robert E., Charles Lee wrongly 

 stated to be the father of, 56-57. 



Legare, Hugh S., 356. 



Leigh, Benjamin Watkins, 338. 



Leopard, affair of the, 214. 



Lepel, Colonel, makes his infant daugh- 

 ter a cornet in British regiment, 57. 



" Letters and Times of the Tylers," 327. 



" Letters of Junius," Charles Lee pre- 

 tends to authorship of, 95-97. 



" Letters on a Regicide Peace," Burke's, 

 1 66. 



Lewis, William B., 279, 286, 292. 



Liberalists, English, chief character- 

 istics of, 171-172. 



Lippe-Schaumburg, Count von, 63. 



