votes steadily with his party,
    50;
  dropped from Committee on Foreign Relations, tries to obtain debate on
    his resolutions, 51;
  strong speech against Enlistment Bill, 52;
  speech on repeal of embargo, replies to Calhoun, 54;
  remarks on double duties, 55;
  character of these speeches, 56;
  superiority to other speakers in Congress, 57;
  views as to Hartford Convention, 58;
  votes against war taxes, 59;
  partisanship, calls on Mr. Madison, 60;
  conversational manner in debate, 61;
  takes a leading part in debate on establishment of bank, 1814-15, 62;
  power of his argument against irredeemable paper, 63;
  opinion of fourteenth Congress, 64;
  speech against Bank Bill in session of 1815-16, 66;
  votes against Bank Bill, introduces specie resolutions, carries them, 66;
  challenged by Randolph, 67;
  votes for internal improvements, retires from public life, 68;
  removal to Boston, success in Supreme Court of United States, 69;
  grief at the death of his daughter Grace, 70;
  position on leaving Congress, 71;
  reception in Boston, 72;
  importance of period upon which he then entered, 73;
  consulted by John Wheelock on troubles with trustees, 76;
  refuses to appear before legislative committee for Wheelock, and goes
    over to side of trustees, his excuse, 77;
  advises efforts to soothe Democrats and circulation of rumors of
    founding a new college, 78;
  joins Mason and Smith in re-argument at Exeter, 79;
  anger at Bartlett’s attack, fine argument at Exeter, 80;
  relies for success on general principles, and has but little faith in
    doctrine of impairing obligation of contracts, 81, 82;
  gives but little space to this doctrine in his argument at Washington,
    83;
  raises money in Boston to defray expenses of college case, 84;
  adds but little to argument of Mason and Smith, 85;
  “something left out” in report of his argument, 86;
  dexterous argument, appeal to political sympathies of Marshall, 87;
  depicts Democratic attack on the college, 88;
  description of concluding passage of his argument, 89-91;
  moves for judgment nunc pro tunc, 96;
  true character of success in this case, 97, 98;
  argument in Gibbons vs.  Ogden, 99;
  in Ogden vs.  Saunders and other cases, 100;
  in Girard will case, 101, 102;
  nature of his religious feeling, 103;
  argument in Rhode Island case, 104;
  attracts audiences even to legal arguments, anecdote of Mr. Bosworth,
    105;
  skill in seizing vital points, 106;
  capacity for using others, early acknowledgment, later ingratitude, 107;
  refusal to acknowledge Judge Story’s assistance, 108;
  comparative standing as a lawyer, 109;
  leader of conservative party in Massachusetts Convention, 111;
  speech on abolition of religious test, 112;