merits of the different propositions, 687;
it is said Spain had no right to cede Louisiana to France, 687;
extraordinary aspect of the Senate, 688;
on what right could we hold the country against France? 689;
we have nothing to fear from the colony of any European nation on this continent, 689;
conduct of this House on former occasions, 690;
our object to obtain prompt redress of injuries immediately affecting our Western brethren, 690;
we are not for rushing into war, but for repelling insult, 691;
members have pledged themselves to employ force on failure of negotiations, 691;
resolutions passed, 692;
proceedings in secret session relative to free navigation of Mississippi, 710.

Mississippi Territory.—See Territories.

Mitchell, Samuel L., Representative from New York, 569, 693;
on protection against the Barbary powers, 571;
in favor of resolution relative to state balances, 594;
on French spoliations, 640, 645, 726, 732.

Monroe, James, speech in Virginia Convention relative to surrender of the navigation of the Mississippi, 705.

Monuments to Generals and to the captors of Andre, 712.

Moore, Thomas, Representative from South Carolina, 11, 569, 693;
on relief to sufferers by fire at Savannah, 42, 43;
on a direct tax on slaves, 53.

Morgan, Daniel, Representative from Virginia, 120, 179, 326.

Morris, Gouverneur, Senator from New York, 481, 545, 664;
on the resolutions relative to the right of the United States to the free navigation of the Mississippi, 680.

Morris, Lewis R., Representative from Vermont, 155, 179, 429, 498, 570, 696.

Morris, Thomas, Representative from New York, 569, 694;
on repeal of Judiciary Establishment, 549, 560;
on the apportionment bill, 575;
on the collection of internal revenue, 588;
relative to state balances, 595;
on memorial of United States Judges, 666;
for the reading of the letter of McHenry, 697;
on granting land-warrants to La Fayette, 743.

Mott, James, Representative from New Jersey, 569, 693.

Muhlenberg, Frederick A., Representative from Pennsylvania, 14, 429, 497.
See Index, vol. 1.

Murray, William Vans, Representative from Maryland, 14;
on a national university, 38;
on relief to sufferers by fire at Savannah, 42;
on kidnapping negroes, 46, 47;
on a direct tax on slaves, 53;
on the purchase of a site for a navy yard, 67.
See Index, vol. 1.


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National University.—Report on, considered, 34;
the time has not arrived to incorporate a university, 35;
if the House once enters on this subject, the responsibility will fall on it to keep it up, 35;
the commissioners only ask to be incorporated, so as to receive legacies, 35;
the President has already made a donation, 35;
is it a proper step, 35;
we are only asked to permit its encouragement, 35;
better to ask this of Maryland, 36;
improper time to decide upon a national university, 36;
effects of the resolution, if adopted, 37;
will we grant power and security to individuals to receive donations for this object, 37;
negatived in committee, 38;
further debate, 38;
subject postponed, 39;
vote on postponement of consideration of, 39;
memorial of Samuel Blodget relative to, 712.

Naturalization Laws.—Resolution to prolong term of residence before aliens shall be admitted as citizens, considered, 253;
five years too short, 253;
at least ten should be required, 253;
high time to recover from the mistake of admitting foreigners to citizenship, 253;
amendment offered that no alien, not at present a resident, shall be capable of holding any office under U. S., or voting, 254;
civil rights might be extended in full to foreigners, but not political rights, 254;
unnecessary they should take a part in government, 254;
only persons born in a country should do it, 254;
the form of the amendment examined, 254;
resolution proposed as a substitute, excluding all aliens not citizens from holding any U. S. office, 254;
House not authorized to enact this principle into a law, 255;
it ought to be considered as a proposition to amend the constitution, 255;
if the House had power to extend the term of residence, they could make it for life, 255;
question made on amendment of previous resolution, 255;
President and Senate always appoint such men as they think proper, 255;
people can elect a foreign-born citizen to any State office, 255;
no doubt of the constitutionality of restricting aliens, 255;
what advantage to be derived from giving aliens office? 255;
propriety of action on the subject, 256;
amendment withdrawn and original resolution adopted, 256;
resolution relative to removal of resident aliens whose Government is at war with this country, considered, 256;
what shall be considered "at war?" 256;
foreigners have been invited here, this resolution will unnecessarily distress their minds, 256;
intriguing aliens should be removed, 256;
a positive declaration of war should be required before aliens are sent from the country and our citizens abroad similarly exposed, 257;
only dangerous persons should be sent away, 257;
the resolution proposes to give the President power to remove aliens when the country from which they come threatens invasion, 257;
evil threatened at the present time, 257;
commissions issued here by foreign ministers, 258;
note, 258;
this an essential feature of defence, about which Congress has been engaged during the session, 258;
great number of French aliens in the country endeavoring to create divisions, 258;
the same degree of hospitality is not due to French aliens and to alien friends, 258;
moved to extend to all alien residents, 258;
look at the results of French emissaries in Venice, Switzerland, and Rome, 259;
similar emissaries in this country, 259;
views of the committee who reported the resolution, 259;
further debate, 260;
last motion withdrawn, 260;
proposition to add the words, "between which and the United States shall exist a state of war," 260;
debate thereon, 260;
postponement carried, 261;
consideration resumed, and subject referred, 272;
amended resolution, 272.

Motion to require fourteen years' residence before admission to citizenship, 277;
tend to discourage emigration, 277;
carried, 277;
discussion on the retrospection of the bill, 277;
committee thought bill should pass in its present form, 278;
amendments proposed, 278;
also to except residents previous to 1795, 278;
reason in favor of the amendment, 278;
no exception should be made, 278;
the character of the persons who have come here is such as to require the amendment, 279;
it is a question of right or expediency;
considered as the latter, the danger is apparent of permitting foreigners to become citizens as heretofore, 279;
injustice to a great number of people to pass the bill without the amendment, 279;
amendment passed, 280; negatived in the House, 280;
bill ordered to a third reading, 280.

Alien Laws, petition for repeal of, 364;
motion to refer, 364;
part of the petition contains an atrocious libel against the courts and juries of the country, 365;
this should not be referred, 365;
this is the ground suggested by the greatest enemies of these laws, that the right of petitioning might next be restricted, 365;
to object is to say we have the power of defining the nature of petitions, 365;
further remarks on the character of the petition, 365;
further petitions for repeal, 373; report of committee on petitions for repeal, 373;
resolution that it is inexpedient to repeal alien law, considered, 373;
number of petitioners, 373;
objectionable clause of the alien law, 373;
grounds of objection by petitioners, 373;
objections examined, 374;
report of committee examined, 375, 376, 377, 378;
resolution carried, 378.

Naturalization Laws.—See Index, Vol. 1.

Naval Armament.—See Appropriations, naval.

Naval Captains, bill for pay of, 357.

Naval and Marine officers, bill for relief of widows and orphans of, 566.

Naval Establishment—Purchase of a site for a navy yard, considered, 66;
at some future day we shall become a naval power; it is now economy to prepare for it, 66;
expense of this business alarming, 66;
if the thing is proper, two or three years can make very little difference, 66;
a navy would never do any real good to this country, 66;
this country depends wholly on commerce for revenue, 67;
that commerce is now in jeopardy, and no substitute for revenue found, 67;
the money thrown away on Algiers to buy a peace would have been much better expended in building ships, 67;
want of a navy will have a similar effect on all our negotiations, 67;
our live-oak timber is too rich a mine to be neglected, 67;
they must provide for the protection of commerce, or give it up, 67;
is the measure proper, and is it not best to postpone it for the present? 68;
if a navy is necessary to protect commerce, it must be such a one as will vie with those of other nations, 69;
who can show that commerce and a navy have gone hand in hand? 69;
this country not equal to support a navy, 69;
how can such a navy, be manned? 69;
our peculiar situation affords means of protection, 69;
our only mode of warfare against Europe is by putting our seamen on board of privateers, 69;
note, 69.

Bill to establish Navy Department considered, 248;
unnecessary, 248;
one department sufficient for army and navy, 248;
objections have been to increase the navy because of enormous expense arising from want of knowledge—this department will obviate this, 248;
necessity for this establishment, 249;
notwithstanding all resistance the establishment of a naval force must soon be seriously considered, 249;
the necessity for the department examined, 249;
a want of knowledge of naval affairs in the War Department is the occasion of this bill—this can be obviated, 249;
economy requires the department, 250;
this bill is founded on the idea of establishing a large naval power, 250;
economy further considered, 250;
not for the interest of the country to establish a naval power, 251;
large debts exist with large navies, 251;
every measure to increase the navy will have a bad effect, 251;
further debate, 251;
bill ordered to third reading, 252;
passed, 252; note, 252.

Bill for augmentation of the Navy considered, 348;
question of the propriety of building ships of the line, 348;
reasons for building smaller ships of the line, 348;
is it proper at this time to lay the foundation of a navy that might be able to give  us weight with Europe? 348;
expense of proposed navy, 348;
reasons urged against a large navy, 349;
the extent and advantages of our commerce entitle it to competent protection, 350;
British navy contrasted with ours, 350;
expense of a navy, 350;
Jefferson's views, 351;
means by which to raise the money needed, 351;
usefulness of a naval establishment considered, 351;
navy of Holland, 353;
instruction to be drawn from this example, 354;
propriety of a naval force for warring with Europe, 355;
arguments on, examined, 355;
no good reason for its establishment exists, 356;
motion to strike out ships of the line lost, 356;
note, 356.

Bill for fixing pay of Captains of ships, &c., 356;
details, 357. See Appropriations, and Index, vol. 1.

Naval Peace Establishment, bill for, passed House, 537.

Navy, Admirals in, see Admirals in the Navy.

Negroes, kidnapping of, report on memorial of State of Delaware relative to kidnapping negroes and mulattoes considered, 45;
this practice done by masters of vessels, 45;
plan was to pass an act requiring masters of vessels to have a certificate of the number and situation of any on board, 45;
laws in the several States fully adequate, 46;
State laws being local do not reach the case, 46;
design is to prevent selling free negroes as slaves and taking slaves to make them free, 46;
many serious questions involved, 46;
committee better rise as the measure is improper, 46;
many instances of this practice had occurred, 46;
it is that kind of business which, by the constitution, was to be left to the different States, 47;
the House should not interfere with the States, 47;
motion for the committee to rise carried, 47;
motion to discharge committee carried, 47;
motion to recommit to report by bill or otherwise, 47;
propriety of sending it to committee doubtful, 47;
postponement carried, 48.

Neufville, John de, claim of widow of, 69;
particulars of, 70.

New, Anthony, Representative from Virginia, 14, 120, 179, 326, 429, 497, 569, 693;
advocates weekly license to distillers, 194. See Index, vol. 1.

New Hampshire, vote for President, 62, 487.

New Jersey, vote for President, 62, 487.

Newspapers, resolution of House relative to, 430;
resolution of Senate for, 400.

Newton, Thomas, jr., Representative from Virginia, 569, 693.

New York, vote for President, 62, 487.

Nicholas, John, Representative from Virginia, 120, 180, 429, 497;
on the address to the President, 18, 28;
on a National University, 35, 36;
on kidnapping negroes, 47;
on liability of United States to a State for war expenses, 51;
on a direct tax on land and slaves, 52, 53, 54;
on the purchase of a site for a navy yard, 66;
on increase of duties on sugar, 72, 73;
on increase of duties on salt, 74;
on naval appropriation, 76, 77;
on suability of the States, 86;
on the accommodation of the President, 88, 90;
on the military establishment, 96, 99;
on naval appropriations, 99, 100, 102;
on military and naval appropriations, 106;
on liberation of La Fayette, 108;
on answer of House to President Adams' first message, 125;
on resolutions relative to defensive measures, 145;
on a naval armament, 153, 154;
on tax on lawyers, 155, 156;
on exempting bank notes from stamp duty, 157;
on composition with banks in lieu of a tax, 162;
on additional duty on salt, 164;
on the Quakers' memorial, 186;
advocates weekly licenses to distillers, 194;
on naval expenditure, 197;
on foreign intercourse, 199, 203;
on report relative to Matthew Lyon, 207, 208;
on the case of Griswold and Lyon, 210, 211;
on diplomatic intercourse, 216;
on the limits of Georgia, 219, 223;
on relations with France, 227;
on the bill to raise a provisional army, 243;
on the sedition bill, 307, 316;
on intercourse with France and St. Domingo, 334, 335, 340;
on increase of the navy, 354;
on the capture of French vessels, 362;
on the expulsion of Matthew Lyon, 366;
on repeal of sedition law, 378;
on breach of privilege, 418;
on the case of Jonathan Robbins, 451, 453, 457;
on the medal to Captain Truxton, 471;
on the bill to prohibit carrying on the slave trade, 475;
on reporting the debates, 502;
on mausoleum to Washington, 503;
on reporting the debates, 506, 510;
on jurisdiction over the District of Columbia, 518, 520;
on the right of the United States to the free navigation of the Mississippi, 688.
See Index, vol. 1.

Nicholas, Wilson Cary, Senator from Virginia, 405, 481, 540, 664.

Nicholson, Jacob a manumitted slave, petition of, 57.

Nicholson, Joseph H., Representative from Maryland, 429, 497, 569, 693;
on the case of Jonathan Robbins, 454;
relative to officers and crew of frigate Constellation, 470;
on reporting the debates, 507;
on protection against the Barbary powers, 571;
on public printing, 573;
on the Mediterranean trade, 584;
on unauthorized purchase of navy yards, 657;
on amendment to the bankrupt act, 724.

Nicholson, Jupiter, a manumitted slave, petition of, 57.

North Carolina, vote for President, 62, 487.

Nott, Abraham, Representative from South Carolina, 429, 501;
on mausoleum to Washington, 503.


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Oaths.—See Index, vol. 1.

Ogden, Aaron, Senator from New Jersey, 489, 541, 661.

Ohio School Fund, resolutions relative to, 742.

Ohio State Government.—Report of Select Committee on admission of North-western Territory as a State, 648;
after one State is laid off, Congress is under an obligation to form the remainder into a State, 648;
number of the population, 648;
manner of dividing the territory, 648;
further debate thereon, 649;
report agreed to and bill ordered, 650;
do. before the House, 651;
amendment moved to embrace Eastern division, 651;
rights of all the inhabitants equal—if one part formed into a State, all must be under the compact, 651;
arguments from expediency, 651;
objections urged, 651;
amendment lost, 651;
various amendments proposed, 652;
bill ordered to be engrossed, 653;
do. passed, 654.

Olcott, Simeon, Senator from New Hampshire, 541, 661;
on the repeal of the Judiciary Establishment, 559.

Orr, Alexander D., Representative from Kentucky, 49.

Otis, Harrison Gray, Representative from Massachusetts, 120, 179, 326, 429, 498;
on answer of House to President Adams' first message, 134, 141;
on expatriation, 152;
on exempting bank notes from stamp duty, 159, 160;
on address to President, 182;
on the case of Griswold and Lyon, 212;
on the limits of Georgia, 220, 222;
on relations with France, 231;
on the bill to raise a provisional army, 243;
on establishing the Navy Department, 249;