Weights and Measures, metric system of, XIV. 148. Uniformity in, early desired by United States Government, XIV. 149-151. Necessity of uniformity in, XIV. 151-155. See _Metric System_. Wesley, John, on slavery, II. 63; III. 290; XII. 149. West Indies, emancipation of slaves in, by England, I. 127; V. 28-30,--same a blessing, not a failure, VI. 343. Brougham on apprenticeship in, XI. 317; XIII. 286. West Point, cost of academy at, I. 87. West Virginia, admission of, as a State, IX. 122; XI. 365. Abolition of slavery in, IX. 122. Whately, Richard, on weakness of slave States, IV. 210. On concessions to intimidation, VII. 332. On rights of slave-masters, XI. 209. Wheaton, Henry, obituary notice of, II. 215. English authorities on works of, II. 216, 222. On consuls, VIII. 326. On reprisals, XVI. 304. On ratification of treaties, XVIII. 281. On belligerent intervention, XIX. 74. Whewell, William, on the object of war, I. 15. Whig Conventions, speeches at, I. 303; II. 207. Resolutions of, in 1846, I. 335. On slavery and the Mexican War, I. 336. Whig Party, antislavery duties of the, I. 303. Defined, I. 305. Should oppose slavery, I. 313. And the Mexican War, I. 339. Not party of humanity, II. 228. Renounced by Mr. Sumner, II. 228. Influenced by Slave Power, II. 293; VI. 328. Rejects Wilmot Proviso in 1848, II. 293, 310. Late origin of, II. 306. Not opposed to extension of slavery, II. 307. Same proved by its history, II. 308-311. Compromise its essential element, IV. 266. Dead in 1855, V. 73. Favored one term for the President, XIX. 171 _et seq._ Whipple, William, letter of, to Washington, on recovery of his fugitive slave, III. 348. White, no more states with that word in their Constitutions, XIII. 346; XIV. 128; same should be struck out of naturalization laws, XV. 238; XVIII. 145, 152, 160,--and of all other legislation, XX. 310. White, Andrew D., Mr. Sumner’s letter to, concerning Frederick Douglass and President Grant, XX. 205-208. Wide-Awakes, the, VII. 72. Speeches to, after election of 1860, VII. 76, 82, 86. Letter to, after same, VII. 80. Wilkes, Charles, Capt., seizure of Rebel commissioners by, VIII. 33, 71-73; X. 15. See _Trent Case_. Willey, Waitman T., Senator from West Virginia, threatens reënslavement of negroes, X. 217 _et seq._ William I., King of Prussia, XVIII. 229 _et seq._ Williams, George H., Senator from Oregon, reply to his objections to allowing Chinese to be naturalized, XVIII. 154-159. Williamson, Passmore, letter to, V. 52. Case of, V. 71. Wilmot Proviso, rejected by Whig and Democratic parties in 1848, II. 293, 310. Origin of, II. 309. Clayton and Choate on, II. 311. Advocated by Free-Soil Party, III. 26. Character of, X. 334.