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INDEX 



Literature, the blooming time of Ameri- 

 can, 309. 



Little Belt, affair of the, 215. 



Livingston, Edward, 249, 293. 



Log cabin campaign, the, 349-350. 



Longfellow, H. W., 309. 



Louisburg, fortress of, 20-21; Earl of 

 Loudoun's expedition against, 60. 



Louisiana purchase, 177, 321. 



Loyalists, American, hard position of, 

 in history, 5-6. 



Lyon, Matthew, 242. 



M 



McCarthy, Daniel, on Charles Lee as 

 author of " Letters of Junius," 96. 



McCay, Spruce, 230. 



Macdougall, Alexander, 103. 



McLane, Louis, 293-294, 304. 



McLean, John, 356. 



McMurdo, Tyler's schoolmaster, 328. 



Madison, James, 157, 168, 176; Ham- 

 ilton first comes in contact with, 114; 

 share of, in framing the Constitution, 

 122 ; joint author with Hamilton of 

 the " Federalist," 122-123, 188, 204 ; 

 ancestry of, and birth, 188; intimacy 

 with Jefferson, 189 ; at Princeton 

 College, 189 ; entrance to public life, 

 190; delegate to Continental Con- 

 gress, 191 ; member of Virginia leg- 

 islature, 194; delegate to Annapolis 

 and Philadelphia conventions, 198 ; 

 the " Virginia plan " devised by, 

 199-201 ; services in securing ratifi- 

 cation of Constitution by Virginia, 

 204-206 ; elected to first national 

 House of Representatives, 206 ; 

 leader of the opposition, 207-210; 

 marriage, 210; draws up Virginia res- 

 olutions of 1798, 210 ; becomes Jef- 

 ferson's Secretary of State, 213-214; 

 elected President, 215 ; reflected 

 President, 216 ; old age, 217 ; cause 

 for dislike of Jackson, 240. 



Maine, admission of, to Union, 271. 



Mangum, Person, 341. 



Marcy, W. L., declares that " to the vic- 

 tors belong the spoils," 288. 



Marshall, Chief Justice, 185, 186, 190, 

 206 ; ruling of, on power of Federal 

 government to acquire territory, 1 78; 

 the Dartmouth College case before, 

 3 76-3 79- 



Marshfield, Webster's home at, 397-398. 



" Martin Chuzzlewit " quoted, 275, 347. 



Maryland convention of 1776, 76-77. 



Mason, Colonel George, 157, 161, 198, 

 206. 



Mason, Jeremiah, 369, 375. 



Mather, Rev. Samuel, 30. 



Maysville turnpike bill, 334. 



Mifflin, Thomas, 70. 



Milton, Hutchinson's residence in, 22- 



23- 



Mimms, Fort, massacre of, 243. 

 Mississippi, admission of, to Union, 271. 

 Mississippi River, free navigation of, 



177, 191-192, 199. 

 Missouri, admission of, to Union, 271, 



330-33 2 372. 



Missouri Compromise bill, 330-332. 

 Mobile occupied by General Jackson, 



245- 



Mohawks, Charles Lee and the, 59-60. 



Monmouth Court House, battle of, 89- 

 91. 



Monongahela, battle of the, 58. 



Monroe, James, 206, 322 ; elected Presi- 

 dent, 278. 



Monticello, Jefferson's home at, 163, 

 179-180. 



Montpelier, Madison's home at, 210, 

 217. 



Morris, Gouverneur, aids in establish- 

 ment of Bank of North America, 

 1 14 ; subscribes to the " three-fifths 

 rule," 203 ; singular views of, as to 

 so-called back-country people, 221- 

 222. 



Morris, Robert, lends Charles Lee 

 ^3000, 70 ; aids in establishment of 

 Bank of North America, 114. 



Morton, Major Jacob, testimony of, con- 

 cerning Washington and Lee at 

 Monmouth, 90 n. 



Moultrie, Colonel William, 77. 



Mugwumps, J. Q. Adams protagonist 

 of, 322. 



