“There were Gyants in the earth in those dayes ......... mightie men,

which were of olde, men of renowne."

Mustrated with fourteen Portraits engrabed on Steel

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

NEW YORK:
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY,

ENTERED according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856, by

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York.

CONTENTS OF VOL. II.

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JOHN MARSHALL:

SAMUEL DEXTER :

Sketch of his Life,

Sketch of his Life,

Speech on the Federal Constitution, . 10 Argument in the Trial of Thomas 0. Selfridge, 239

Another Speech on the same Subject, . 16

Speech in the Case of Jonathan Robbins, . JOHN QUINCY ADAMS:

Sketch of his Life, . . . . 247

RUFUS KING:

Oration at Plymouth : 1802, . . 251

Sketch of his Life, . . . . 38

Character of Lafayette; an extract, . . 257

Speech on the Navigation Act,
Remarks on the Missouri Bill, . . . 44 HENRY CLAY:

Sketch of his Life, .
JAMES A. BAYARD:

. . . 259

Speech on the New Army Bill, . .

Sketch of his Life,

264

. . . . 52

Speech on the Seminole War,. . . 273

Speech on the Judiciary, .

Speech on Internal Improvement,.

Speech on the Repeal of the Embargo, . 80

. 286

Speech on the Tariff: 1824, . . 296

The Army and Navy; an extract, . . 91

Address to Lafayette, . . . 317

WILLIAM PINKNEY:

Reply to John Randolph, ..

Sketch of his Life,

Speech in the Case of the Nereide,.

| TRISTAM BURGES:

. 98

Speech on the Missouri Question, .

Sketch of his Life,

Speech on the Judiciary : 1825, . . 322

ALBERT GALLATIN :

Remarks on the Removal of Washington's

Sketch of his Life,

. . . 130 Remains, . . . . . 332

Speech on the British Treaty, . . 133

| WILLIAM HUNTER:

JAMES HILLHOUSE:

Sketch of his Life,

.. . . 335

Sketch of his Life,

si . . 144

Speech on Seizing East Florida, . . 837

Speech in the Case of John Smith,

147

TECUMSEH :

JOHN RANDOLPH:

Sketch of his Life, . . . . 354

Sketch of his Life,

. . . 155 Speech at Vincennes : 1810, . : 355

Speech on Mr. Gregg's Resolution,

159 Speech to General Proctor, .

. 856

Speech on the Tariff, . . . . 169

Increase of the Army, .

181

DANIEL WEBSTER:

Extract from the Speech Retrenchment, . 188 Sketch of his Life, . . . . 357

Address at the Laying of the Corner Stone of

WILLIAM B. GILES:

Bunker Hill Monument, . . 362

Sketch of his Life,

. . . . 189 Speech on Mr. Foot's Resolution, . . 370

Speech on the British Treaty, .

190 Argument in the Trial of John F. Knapp, 399

Speech on the Judiciary, .

• 205

JOSEPH STORY:

EDWARD LIVINGSTON:

Sketch of his Life,

. . 422

Sketch of his Life, . . . . 218 Discourse before the Phi Beta Kappa Society

Speech on the Alien Bill, . . . 220 of Harvard University : 1826, . . 424

Argument against Capital Punishment, .225 The American Indians; an extract, . . 438
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WILLIAM WIRT:

Speech on the Missouri Question, . . 508

Sketch of his Life, .

Eulogy on Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, 443 WILLIAM GASTON:

Speech in the Trial of Aaron Burr, . . 461 Sketch of his Life, . . . . 533

Extract from the Argument in the Cherokee Speech on the Loan Bill, S . 535

Case, . . . . . 469 Religious Toleration; an extract, . . 553

JOHN CALDWELL CALHOUN:

Sketch of his Life,

ROBERT Y. HAYNE:

. . . . 471

Sketch of his Life,

Speech on the Increase of the Army, 475

.

Speech on Internal Improvement,

557

Speech on Mr. Foot's Resolution, .

. . 479

Speech on the Revenue Collection (Force)

SEARGENT S. PRENTISS:

Bill, . . . . . 483

Sketch of his Life, .

JOHN SERGEANT:

Address before the New England Society of

Sketch of his Life,

. 506 New Orleans : 1845, : . : 588

• 555