special, of March 9, 1812, communicating John Henry’s papers, 181; special, of April 1, 1812, recommending an embargo for sixty days, 198; of April 24, 1812, asking for two assistant Secretaries of War, 206; of June 1, 1812, recommending a declaration of war with England, 221–226; annual, of Nov. 4, 1812, 430–433; special, of Feb. 24, 1813, on British licenses of trade with New England, vii. 31, 32; annual of May 25, 1813, 53, 54; annual of Dec. 7, 1813, 365; ix. 5; special of Dec. 9, 1813, asking for an embargo, vii. 367, 368, 372; special of March 31, 1814, recommending abandonment of commercial restrictions, 373, 374; annual of Sept. 20, 1814, viii. 239; veto, of Jan. 30, 1815, on the bill to incorporate the United States Bank, 260; special, of Feb. 20, 1815, transmitting treaty of peace, ix. 82; annual, of Dec. 5, 1815, 105; annual, of Dec. 3, 1816, 143, 144; special, of March 3, 1817, vetoing bill for internal improvements, 151. “Messenger,” stallion, i. 51. Mexico, Jefferson’s language to, iv. 340, 341. Michigan Territory, iii. 176; population in 1810, v. 289. (See Detroit.) Michillimackinaw, Island of, vi. 294; captured by British expedition, 314, 320; Croghan’s expedition against, viii. 32; demanded by British at Ghent, ix. 34. Milan Decree (see Decrees). Militia, condition of, in 1808, iv. 210, 213; appropriation for, 224; constitutional power of Congress over, vi. 159, 160, 400; Cheves’s opinion on the war power, 160; act authorizing call for one hundred thousand, 204, 390; refuses to cross the frontier, 351, 352, 360; of Kentucky, 391, 393 (see Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Washington City); praised by political parties, viii. 217; system a failure in 1814, 217–219; tainted with fraud, 219; intended for overthrowing the national government, 220; of Massachusetts and Connecticut withdrawn from national service in September, 1814, 220, 221; of Vermont refused for defence of Plattsburg, 222; views of the Massachusetts Senate regarding, 226; Monroe’s complaints of, 264; Monroe’s scheme for drafting from, 265, 266; Giles’s bill for raising eighty thousand by draft, 269–280; Troup’s opinion of, 274; Madison’s recommendation for, ix. 105. Mill, James, his reply to Spence and Cobbett, iv. 329. Milledge, John, Governor of Georgia, and the Yazoo sale, i. 305.