Virginia in 1800, i. 32; farming in, 33, 131 _et seq._; horse-racing, 51; Washington’s views on the value of land in, 135; Church and State in, 136; adoption of the Constitution by, 139; Resolutions, 140 _et seq._; law to prevent extradition, ii. 334, 345, 398; Madison’s position in, ii. 217; iii. 120; iv. 226; hostility of, to cities and fortifications, iii. 352; opposed to Pennsylvania on the slave-trade bill, 356–369; effect of embargo on, iv. 265, 281; creates manufactures in New England, v. 19, 20; apathy of, toward the war, vi. 413, 414; exports of, affected by the blockade, vii. 264, 265; operations of war on the shores of, 265–277; militia, mortality of, viii. 219; her relative rank and obligations, 233; money furnished by, 234; men furnished by, 235; soldiers and sailors of, 236, 237; arrears of internal taxes in, 256; creates a State army, 283; effect of peace on, ix. 60, 61; congressional election in 1815, 93; increase of population, 1800–1816, 155; increase of wealth, 161–167; legislative reports on roads and banks, 165, 166; judicial decision of, in case of Martin against Hunter’s lessee, 190–192; resolutions of 1798 obsolete in 1817, 194. Virginians, i. 133 _et seq._; middle and lower classes of, 137; agriculture their resource, 138. “Vixen,” sloop-of-war, captured, vi. 386; vii. 312, 313. Volney describes the American habits of diet, i. 44. Voltaire, i. 161. Wabash, valley of, vi. 67, 68, 75, 77; Harrison’s land purchase in, 83; war imminent in, 85. Wadsworth, Decius, colonel commissary general of ordnance, detailed to erect fortifications at Bladensburg, viii. 132, 141; refuses to obey Monroe’s orders, 158, 159. Wadsworth, William, brigadier-general of New York militia, vi. 351; surrenders at Queenston, 352. Wagner, Jacob, chief clerk of the State Department, i. 236; ii. 267; editor of the “Federal Republican,” vi. 406, 407. Walbach, John B., adjutant-general to Wilkinson at Chrystler’s Farm, vii. 189. Wales, Prince of (see George, Prince of Wales). Wales, R. W., captain of British sloop-of-war “Epervier,” his report of action with the “Peacock,” viii. 182, 183. Walpole, Lord, British ambassador at St. Petersburg, his remarks on Roumanzoff, vii. 354. War, Jefferson’s recommendation of a fund for, iii. 3; cost of, 1812–1815, ix. 90, 91.