ogium on, 509.

Coast Survey of United States, 648.

College Livings, rights and character of, 16;
attack of James the Second on Magdalen College, 17.

Colleges, are eleemosynary corporations, 6, 8, 22;
charters granted to, 7;
foundation of, considered by Lord Mansfield, 9;
charters should be kept inviolate, 23;
party or political influence dangerous to, 23.

Colonies, establishment of Greek, 31;
of New England, 34, 35;
of Roman, 33;
of West India, 34, 35;
Spanish in South America, 134, 144;
New England and Virginia, 144;
English and Spanish compared, 145;
original ground of dispute between England and the, 164;
American, declared free and independent, 641.

Colonists, English, in America, secret of their success, 147;
brought their charters, 148;
in Virginia, failed for want of charter, 148;
allegiance to the king, 165.

Columbus, Christopher, portrayed, 124, 144.

Columbus, O., convention at, in regard to the observance of the Sabbath,
518.

Commerce, condition of, in 1824, 83;
its national character, 92, 498;
how affected by laws of Confederation, 114;
power of Congress to regulate, 114, 120;
resolutions of New Jersey in regard to, 115;
Mr. Witherspoon's motion in Congress concerning, 115;
of Virginia in regard to, 115;
necessity of vesting Congress with power to control, 115;
law of Congress paramount, 120;
guarded by the general government, 497.

Compact and government as distinguished from each other, 284.

Compromise Act, principle of, 489.

Compromise Line, in respect to slavery, 588.

Concurrent Legislation, defined and argued, 116;
effect on monopolies, 119.

Confederation, its effect on commerce, 114;
of 1781 a league, 276;
state of the country under the, 281.

Confessions, how to be regarded, 220.

Congress of Delegates, at Philadelphia, 1774, 162;
resolutions on the Declaration, 165;
sat with closed doors, 166.

Congress of Greece, of 1821, 72.

Congress of United States, power to regulate commerce, 114, 120;
should have power to regulate commerce, 115;
and the States, argument on concurrent power of, 115;
exclusive right over monopolies, 116;
possesses exclusive admiralty jurisdiction, 118;
law of, paramount, 120;
laws of, in opposition to State law, 122;
power concerning rights of authors and inventors, 122;
its coinage powers, 185;
to establish uniform bankrupt laws, 186;
power over sla