Livingston, Chancellor, his services, 311.

Livingston, Robert R., 126.

Local institutions for local purposes, and general institutions for general
  purposes, 498.

Local legislation, benefits of, 498, 499.

Log Cabin Candidate, remarks on, 476.

Log Cabin, origin of the term, 476.

Louisiana, acquisition of, 175;
  how obtained, 429;
  slave-holding States framed from, 608;
  admission of, into the Union, 630;
  Mr. Jefferson’s opinion of admitting to the Union, 630.

Luther, Reformation of, 143.

M.

Macaulay, extract from, on English lawyers and English statesmen, xli.

McCleary, fell at Charlestown, 130.

McDowell, Governor of Virginia, 619.

MacDuffie, speech on Internal Improvements referred to, 244.

Machinery, law prohibiting exportation of, from England, 91.

Machines, not labor-saving, but labor-doing, 451.

McLane, Louis, instructions to, concerning colonial trade, 581.

McLeod, Alexander, case of, 482.

Madison, James, knowledge of the Constitution, 247, 256, 313;
  on the Judiciary, 294;
  extracts from, on duties on imports, 303;
  his public services, 310, 312;
  opinion on nullification, 313;
  Secretary of State and President, 313;
  approved United States Bank, 331;
  opinion in regard to removal from office, 347;
  on impeachment, 431;
  Secretary of State, 559;
  article of, admitting Louisiana into Union, 559;
  opinion of, on slavery, 606.

Majority Government, 295.

Mann, A.D., instructions to, 683.

Mansfield, Lord, opinion of, on chartered rights, 5;
  foundation of colleges considered by, 9.

Manufactures, acts of 1816 and 1824 respecting, 99.

Marathon, battle of, how affected Greece, 28.

Marshfield, speech at, Sept. 1, 1848, 575.

Martial Law, defined, 549.

Martin, Mr., opinions on the Judiciary, 294;
  objections to the Constitution, 303.

Maryland, settlement of, 125.

Mason, J.W., on slave labor, 573;
  bill concerning fugitive slaves, 617.

Mason, Jeremiah, death of, 589;
  obituary remarks of Mr. Webster, 589;
  resolutions on death of, 589;
  his ancestry, 590;
  appointed Attorney-General, 592;
  Senator of United States, 593;
  his style as an orator, xix;
  his respect for Daniel Webster, xx.

Massachusetts, participation in English Revolution, 39;
  commercial progress of, 40;
  voted against tariff of 1824, 110;
  Constitution of, when framed and revised, 170, 171;
  eulogium on (Webster), 254;
  opposes the embargo law, 260;
  duty to the Constitution, 358;
  her general prosperity, 451;
  her action on abdication of James II., 537.