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562 CXXVI. First Session of the Twenty-eighth Congress—List of Members—Organization of the House of Representatives 563 CXXVII. Mr. Tyler's Second Annual Message 565 CXXVIII. Explosion of the Great Gun on Board the Princeton man-of-war—the Killed and Wounded 567 CXXIX. Reconstruction of Mr. Tyler's Cabinet 569 CXXX. Death of Senator Porter, of Louisiana—Eulogium of Mr. Benton 569 CXXXI. Naval Academy, and Naval Policy of the United States 571 CXXXII. The Home Squadron—Its Inutility and Expense 575 CXXXIII. Professor Morse—His Electro-Magnetic Telegraph 578 CXXXIV. Frémont's Second Expedition 579 CXXXV. Texas Annexation—Secret Origin—Bold Intrigue for the Presidency 581 CXXXVI. Democratic Convention for the Nomination of Presidential Candidates 591 CXXXVII. Presidential—Democratic National Convention—Mr. Calhoun's Refusal to Submit his Name to it—His Reasons 596 CXXXVIII. Annexation of Texas—Secret Negotiation—Presidential Intrigue—Schemes of Speculation and Disunion 599 CXXXIX. Texas Annexation Treaty—First Speech of Mr. Benton against it—Extracts 600 CXL. Texas or Disunion—Southern Convention—Mr. Benton's Speech—Extracts 613 CXLI. Texas or Disunion—Violent Demonstrations in the South—Southern Convention proposed 616 CXLII. Rejection of the Annexation Treaty—Proposal of Mr. Benton's Plan 619 CXLIII. Oregon Territory—Conventions of 1818 and 1828—Joint Occupation—Attempted Notice to Terminate it 624 CXLIV. Presidential Election 625 CXLV. Amendment of the Constitution—Election of President and Vice-President—Mr. Benton's Plan 626 CXLVI. The President and the Senate—Want of Concord—Numerous Rejections of Nominations 629 CXLVII. Mr. Tyler's Last Message to Congress 631 CXLVIII. Legislative Admission of Texas into the Union as a State 632 CXLIX. The War with Mexico—Its Cause—Charged on the Conduct of Mr. Calhoun—Mr. Benton's Speech 639 CL. Mr. Polk's Inaugural Address—Cabinet 649 CLI. Mr. Blair and the Globe superseded as the Administration Organ—Mr. T. Ritchie and