575;
  addresses the citizens of Marshfield, 575;
  opinion of Gen. Taylor for President, 576;
  opinion of Gen. Cass for President, 584;
  course concerning Texas, 612-614;
  Secretary of State, 613;
  in Senate, 613;
  ideas of peaceable secession, 621;
  letter to Eds. of National Intelligencer, enclosing letter of late Dr.
    Channing, 624;
  letter of W.E.  Channing to, in respect to slavery, 624;
  reception at Buffalo, May 22, 1851, 626;
  course concerning slavery, 630;
  extract from speech on annexing Texas, 631;
  course during the crises of 1850, 637;
  account of laying the corner-stone of the Capitol, 652;
  letter to Lord Ashburton on impressment of seamen, 655;
  letter to Gen. Cass in respect to his construction of the treaty of
    Washington, 666, 667, 673;
  letter to Mr. Ticknor in respect to the Huelsemann letter, 678;
  letter to J.G.  Huelsemann in respect to Mr. Mann’s mission, 679;
  as a master of English style, xi;
  influence over and respect for the landed democracy, xiv;
  management of the Goodridge robbery case, xv;
  story told of him by Mr. Peter Harvey, xv;
  early style of rhetoric, xviii;
  letter to his friend Bingham, xix;
  acquaintance with Jeremiah Mason, xix;
  incident connected with the Dartmouth College argument, xxi;
  effect of his Plymouth oration of 1820, xxii;
  note to Mr. Geo. Ticknor on his Bunker Hill oration, 1825, xxiii;
  esteem for Henry J. Raymond, xxiv;
  the image of the British drum-beat, xxix;
  power of compact statement, xxxi;
  protest against Mr. Benton’s Expunging Resolution, xxxi;
  arguments against nullification and secession unanswerable, xxxiii;
  moderation of expression, xxxv;
  abstinence from personalities, xxxvi;
  libelled by his political enemies, xxxvi;
  use of the word “respectable,” xl;
  and Calhoun in debate, xliii;
  as a writer of State papers, xliv;
  as a stump orator, xlv;
  a friend of the laboring man, xlvi;
  compared with certain poets, xlviii;
  death-bed declaration of, li;
  fame of his speeches, li;
  compared with other orators, lvi;
  idealization of the Constitution, lix;
  anecdote of his differing from Lord Camden, lxii.

Webster, Fletcher, letter to Gen. Cass, 667.

Weir, Robert N., his painting of the Embarkation of the Pilgrims, 52.

Wesley, John, anecdote of, 511.

West India colonies, 34.

Wheelock, Rev. E., founder of Dartmouth College, 1.

Whig, origin of the term, 476.

Whigs, of New York, 443;
  Convention of, in Boston, 486;
  of Mass. declare separation from the President, 487;
  the revolution of 1840, success of the, 488;
  Gen. Taylor nominated by, 575.

White, Capt.  Joseph, account of the murder of, 189;
  argument of Webster on, 194.