Adams, John Quincy, and the practice of law, 20; on the new Constitution, 41; special envoy to England, 87; secures amendment of Jay Treaty, 88; defends the embargo, 189; resigns from Senate, 193; commissioner at Ghent, 227-29; on Jackson's invasion of Florida, 262; his reply to Spain, 262-63; on recognition of South American Republics, 290-91; challenges British claims on Pacific, 292; on future of Cuba, 292-93; protests Russian claims on the Pacific Coast, 293; advises against joint declaration with England, 295; candidate for the Presidency (1824), 308; favors internal improvements, 310; favors Tariff of 1824, 312; his electoral vote (1824), 312; wins Clay's following, 313-14; elected President by the House, 314; appoints Clay Secretary of State, 315; his first message, 318-19; and the civil service, 318-19; on the Panama Congress, 320, 321; and the Creek Indians, 324-26; and the Cherokee Indians, 326-27. Adet, French Minister to United States, interferes in the election of 1800, 92-93; on Jefferson as an American, 290. Agriculture, American, 126-27. Alabama, admitted as a State, 251. Alien and Sedition Acts, 109; petitions for the repeal of, 112; expiration of, 135. Allston, Washington, 286. Ambrister, Robert C., 261-62. Amelia Island, _entrepot_ for neutral trade, 199; occupied by the United States, 204; evacuated, 219. American character, disclosed by the war, 232-33. American Insurance Company _v._ Canter, 341-42. American literature, want of, 283; from 1815 to 1830, 284. Ames, Fisher, on the heads of departments, 89-90; on the Republican opposition, 108; on democracy, 161-62. Annapolis Trade Convention, 28. _Anthology and Boston Review_, 283. Anti-Federalists, and the Constitution, 39. Appointments, by Washington, 54-55; by John Adams, 122; by Jefferson, 130-31; by John Q. Adams, 318-19. Arbuthnot, Alexander, 261-62. Army, at the establishment of Government, 55; provisional, in 1798, 101-03; at the beginning of the War of 1812, 212; after the War of 1812, 241. Articles of Confederation, proposed amendments to, 6; inadequacy of, 16-17, 21-24, 25-27. Assumption of state debts, 58-61. Ballou, Hosea, 288. Baltimore, and Western trade, 254, 256. Bancroft, George, 287. Bank of the United States, opposed by Jefferson, 62; advocated by Hamilton, 63; charter of, 63; speculation in the stock of, 63-64; Congress refuses to recharter, 239; charter of the second, 239-40; management of, 267; investigation of, 267; popular hostility to, 267-68; taxation of the branches of, 268. Baptists, in New England, 247; in the West, 301-02. Barbour, James, 271. Baumeler, Joseph, 246, 302. Bayard, James A., and the election of 1801, 118-19; commissioner at Ghent, 227. Benton, Thomas H., on the election of 1825, 315-16. Berlin Decree, of Napoleon, 187; its revocation, 200. Bible Society of the United States, 301.