Federal Government, 538;
  protects existing government of a State, 542;
  and the Union, speech on, March 7, 1850, 600;
  formation of the, 628;
  provision of, concerning fugitives, 629;
  officers of the law bound to support the, 630;
  how it affected the institution of slavery, lx.

Constructive presence defined, 210.

Contracts, cases cited concerning obligation of, 19;
  defined, include grants, 19;
  provision concerning obligation of, 19;
  law of the Constitution in regard to, 180;
  obligation of, defined, 180, 181;
  obligation of, rests on universal law, 181;
  the law not a part of, argued, 182-184;
  the constitutional provision in regard to, 185;
  prohibition on state law concerning, 187.

Convention of 1787, remarks on, 287.

Copper, duties received from, 108.

Corporate Franchises, power of Legislature over, limited, 6.

Corporations, acts of Legislature, on Dartmouth College (1769), 2, 3;
  royal prerogative to create, 5;
  power of King over, limited by Legislature, 5;
  power of Legislature to create, 5;
  opinion of Lord Mansfield on rights of, 5;
  divers sorts of, 6;
  eleemosynary, nature of, defined, 6, 9;
  power of, over property possessed by them, 6;
  charter rights of visitors of, 7;
  power of visitation over transferable, 7;
  argument of Stillingfleet, 8;
  rights of trustees object of legal protection, 11;
  franchises granted to, 11;
  concerning pecuniary benefit from, 11;
  concerning private property, 12;
  concerning grants of land to, 13;
  right of trustees to elect officers, 16;
  legislature, cannot repeal statutes creating private, 20;
  extract from Justice Buller on government of, 21;
  how charters of, may be altered or varied, 21;
  possible dangers of independent government, 22.

Cotton, attempt to naturalize growth of, in France, 99;
  how affected by tariff of 1824, 102;
  proposed reduction of duty on, 243;
  culture of, protected, 304;
  how its cultivation affects slavery and the South, 608.

Cotton Manufactures, importance of, 101;
  of England and United States, 103.

Crawford, Mr., opposing candidate to Mr. Adams, 581.

Credit System, and the Labor of the United States, remarks on, 449.

Credit System, benefit of, in United States, 364;
  evils arising from abuse of, 364.

Criminal Law, its object, 198.

Cumberland Road Bill, approved, 415.

Currency, effect of paper issues to depreciate, 81;
  paper, of England, effect on prices, 81;
  the laboring man’s interest in, 360;
  experiment of exclusive specie, 362;
  President’s interference with, 433;
  soundness of, 440;
  derangement of, effect of, 442;
  its restoration an object of revolution of 1840, 490.