Neutrality of United States, defined, 152.

New England, discourse on First Settlement of, 25;
  first settlement of, 28;
  English Act of Navigation, 1660, restricting trade of, 37;
  progress of the first century of, 38;
  opening of second century of, 40;
  population of, in 1820, 40;
  her part in wars between England and France, 42;
  war of the Revolution begun in, 42;
  internal improvement in, 43;
  the subdivision of lands in, necessary, 43, 44;
  right of primogeniture abolished in, 44;
  free schools of, 47;
  prosperity of, in 1824, 78;
  forced into manufactures, 110;
  causes which led to settlement of, 141-144;
  its free schools, 174;
  attack of Hayne on, 236, 249;
  policy of, concerning Western population, 238;
  interest of, in public improvements, 239;
  when, how, and why her measures favor the West, 240;
  favors reduction of price of public lands, 241;
  supported administration of Washington, 250;
  her course concerning the embargo, 261;
  New England Society of New York, object of its formation, 500;
  settlement of, 501.

New Hampshire, acts of Legislature, relating to Dartmouth College, 1, 14,
    15, 16, 18;
  legislative and judicial power, separate, 15;
  extract from speech, at festival of natives of, 598.

New Jersey, law of, concerning steam navigation, 112;
  resolutions concerning commerce, 115.

New Mexico, proposed annexation of, 562;
  population of, 563;
  country described by Major Gaines, 565;
  nature of country inhabitants, 566;
  prognostications of Mr. Webster in regard to admission of, 568;
  article of cession to United States, 587;
  existence of peonism in, 615;
  slavery excluded from, by law of nature, 615.

Newton, Isaac, 158.

New York, grant of steam navigation to John Fitch, 112;
  grant of steam navigation to Livingston and Fulton, 112;
  laws of, concerning steam navigation, 112, 113;
  act of, concerning insolvent debtors, 179;
  insolvent law of, 183;
  public dinner given to Webster in, 307;
  growth of, contemporary with the Constitution, 309;
  her loyalty to the Union, 318;
  toast of Webster to City of, 319;
  Reception of Webster at, in 1837, 422;
  law of 1845 in respect to elections, 542;
  her vote for annexing Texas, 631.

Niles, J.M., his vote for admission of Texas, 611.

North, duty of, in respect to fugitive slaves, 617;
  complaints of, against the South, 620.

North and South, grievances of, 617, 620.

Northern Democracy, policy of, 611.

Northwestern Territory, concerning slavery in, 234;
  slavery excluded from, 571.

Nullification, right of, denied, 257;
  right of, never advanced in New England, 263;
  practical operations of, in South Carolina, 266;
  practical operation of, 279, 282, 298;
  threatened in South Carolina, 355;
  dangerous tendency of, 355.