Early, Peter, member of Congress from Georgia, chairman of the committee on the slave-trade, i. 356; his bill for the sale of slaves captured on a slave-ship, 357, 362. Easton, Judge, writes concerning Wilkinson’s connection with Miranda, i. 241. Eaton, General William, Burr reveals his plot to, i. 239; attempts to put Jefferson on his guard, 242, 244, 279, 462. Education, public, favored by Jefferson, i. 346. Eldon, Lord, his anecdote of King George and F. J. Jackson, ii. 65, 96; defends the Orders in Council, 320. Election, Presidential, of 1804, in Massachusetts, i. 8; Jefferson’s satisfaction in, 8; of April, 1805, in Massachusetts, 9; autumn, of 1805 in Pennsylvania, 9; of April, 1806, in Massachusetts, 207; of April, 1807, in Massachusetts, ii. 146; of April, 1808, in Massachusetts, 237-242; of May, 1808, in New York, 283; Presidential, of 1808, 285-287; of October, 1808, in Pennsylvania, 286; congressional, of 1808, 287. Embargo, suggested by Armstrong, approved by Madison, i. 75; favored by Senator Jackson in 1805, 149; by John Randolph, 149; Jefferson’s first draft of Embargo Message, ii. 168; Madison’s draft, 169, 170; bill reported and passed in Senate, 172, 173; moved by Randolph in House, 173; becomes law, Dec. 22, 1807, 175, 176; object of 175, 176, 186, 332; Senator Adams’s resolution on, 187; Jefferson’s determination to enforce, 249-271, 273; difficulties of Governor Sullivan regarding, 253-256; difficulties of Governor Tompkins in New York, 259; dissatisfaction of Robert Smith with, 261; demand of “powers equally dangerous and odious” by Gallatin, 262; interference of Justice Johnson in South Carolina, 263, 264; arguments on constitutionality of, 266, 267; decision of Judge John Davis, 268-270; opinion of Joseph Story on, 270; its economical cost, 274, 275; its moral cost, 276; its political cost, 277-284, 288; its failure to coerce, 288, 344; Jefferson’s opinion of its relative prejudice to England and France, 309; Jefferson’s opinion of its cost, 309, 462; approved by Napoleon, 313; Armstrong’s opinion of, 314; its pressure on England, 324, 327-329; Canning’s note on, 334-336; W. C. Nicholas’s letter on, 345; the alternative to war, 354, 355; repeal of, 438. (See Acts of Congress.) “Embargo, The,” a satire, by William Cullen Bryant, ii. 279. Enforcement Act. (See Embargo and Acts of Congress.)