align="right">CLXXVI.
Court-martial of Lieutenant-colonel Frémont |
715 |
CLXXVII. |
Frémont's Fourth Expedition, and Great Disaster in the Snows at the Head of the Rio Grande del Norte—Subsequent Discovery of the Pass he sought |
719 |
CLXXVIII. |
Presidential Election |
722 |
CLXXIX. |
Last Message of Mr. Polk |
724 |
CLXXX. |
Financial Working of the Government under the Hard Money System |
726 |
CLXXXI. |
Coast Survey—Belongs to the Navy—Converted into a Separate Department—Expense and Interminability—Should be done by the Navy, as in Great Britain—Mr. Benton's Speech—Extract |
726 |
CLXXXII. |
Proposed Extension of the Constitution of the United States to the Territories, with a View to make it carry Slavery into California, Utah and New Mexico |
729 |
CLXXXIII. |
Progress of the Slavery Agitation—Meeting of Members from the Slave States—Inflammatory Address to the Southern States |
733 |
CLXXXIV. |
Inauguration of President Taylor—His Cabinet |
737 |
CLXXXV. |
Death of Ex-President Polk |
737 |
CLXXXVI. |
Thirty-first Congress—First Session—List of Members—Organization of the House |
738 |
CLXXXVII. |
First and only Annual Message of President Taylor |
740 |
CLXXXVIII. |
Mr. Clay's Plan of Compromise |
742 |
CLXXXIX. |
Extension of the Missouri Compromise Line to the Pacific Ocean—Mr. Davis, of Mississippi, and Mr. Clay—The Wilmot Proviso |
743 |
CXC. |
Mr. Calhoun's Last Speech—Dissolution of the Union proclaimed unless the Constitution was amended, and a Dual Executive appointed—one President from the Slave States and one from the Free States |
744 |
CXCI. |
Death of Mr. Calhoun—His Eulogium by Senator Butler |
747 |
CXCII. |
Mr. Clay's Plan of Slavery Compromise—Mr. Benton's Speech Against it—Extracts |
749 |
CXCIII. |
Death of President Taylor |
765 |
CXCIV. |
Inauguration and Cabinet of Mr. Fillmore |
767 |
CXCV. |
Rejection of Mr. Clay's Plan of Compromise |
768 |
CXCVI. |
The Admission of the State of California—Protest of Southern Senators—Remarks upon it by Mr. Benton |
769 |
CXCVII. |
Fugitive Slaves; Ordinance of 1787—The Constitution—Act of 1793—Act of 1850 |
773 |
CXCVIII. |
Disunion Movements—Southern Press at Washington—Southern Convention at Nashville—Southern Congress called for by South Carolina and Mississippi |
780 |
CXCIX. |
The Supreme Court—Its Judges, Clerk, Attorney-Generals, Reporters and Marshals during the Period treated of in this Volume |
787 |
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