change in views upon Sub-Treasury bill, 454;
  advocates the State-rights party, 455, 464, 467;
  his object to unite the entire South, 457;
  attack on Mr. Webster, 458;
  Mr. Webster’s reply to, 458;
  opposes Mr. Dallas’s bill for a bank, 460;
  bill of, for internal improvements, 466;
  extract from, on the power of Congress, 467;
  took lead in annexing Texas, 609;
  remarks upon admission of Texas, 611;
  dying testimony to Mr. Webster’s conscientiousness, xliii.

California, proposed annexation of, 563;
  article of cession to United States, 587;
  discovery of gold in, 601;
  Mexican provincial government overthrown by, 601;
  establishment of local government in, 602;
  slavery excluded from, by law of nature, 615.

Canada, cession to England, effect on the colonies, 42.

Canals, act of 1824 concerning, 245.

Canning, Mr., opinion concerning Spain and her colonies, 154;
  approval of the Monroe declaration, 155.

Capitol, speech at laying of corner-stone of the addition to the, 639;
  copy of paper under corner-stone of, 644;
  foundation laid by Washington, 644;
  plan for extension of the, 644.

Carroll, Charles, signer of the Declaration, 176.

Cass, Lewis, Mexican speech of, 554;
  as a Whig candidate, 575;
  as a candidate for President, 584;
  personal character of, 584;
  in favor of the Compromise Line, 588;
  requests his recall from France, 667;
  his construction of the treaty of Washington referred to, 669, 671;
  answer of Mr. Webster to, concerning the African squadron, 672.

Catharine the Second of Russia, policy in respect to Greece, 70.

Cession, articles of, concerning New Mexico and California, 587.

Channing, W.E., letter of, on slavery, 624.

Charities, charters granted to founders of, 7;
  colleges included under, 7, 510;
  founder of incorporated, considered visitor, 7;
  government may incorporate, 7;
  legal signification of, 7;
  opinion of Lord Holt respecting the power of visitors over, 7;
  right of visitation in, incorporated, 7;
  case of town of Bury St. Edmunds, 527;
  schools founded by, must include religious instruction, 528.

Charity, legal definition of, 510.

Charles the Second, 39.

Charters, of Dartmouth College (1769), 1;
  legislative power over, defined, 5;
  power claimed by British Parliament over, 5;
  Lord Mansfield on rights of, 5;
  legislative power over, limited, 6;
  granted to founders of charities, 7;
  opinion of Lord Commissioner Eyre on charities established by, 9;
  how they affect property of corporations, 12;
  of the nature of contracts, 20, 21;
  how may be altered or varied, 21;
  may be accepted at will, 21;
  no difference between grants of corporate franchise and tangible
    property, 21;
  of Dartmouth College (1769) is a contract, 22;
  obtained by founders of English liberty, 63;
  New England colonists required them, 148.