ible to the people, 391;
not the sole representative of the people, 391;
power of, over removal from office, 397, 399;
custom of, on last day of a session of Congress, 413;
duty of, 417;
how communicate his wishes to Congress, 417;
called the representative of the American people, 432.

Presidential Protest, speech on, 367;
general doctrines of, 392.

Presidential Veto of United States Bank Bill, speech on, 320.

Press, freedom of, essential to free government, 619;
violence of, in respect to slavery, 619.

Primogeniture, the right of, abolished in New England, 44.

Property, general division of, necessary to free government, 45.

Proscription, exercised by President Jackson, 348;
political, danger of, to the government, 349.

Protection, incidental, policy of England 84;
should be limited, entire prohibition destructive, 90;
Mr. Webster's views on, 428;
an object of the revolution of 1840, 489.

Public Credit, in 1842, 494.

Public Lands. _See_ Lands, Public.

Public Law, extract from Puffendorf on, 62;
forcible interference a violation of, 65.

Public Moneys, to whom belongs the custody of, 368;
place of deposit of, fixed by Congress, 370;
power of Congress over, 382;
extract from Protest in regard to, 382;
law of 1836 to regulate deposits of, 437.

Public Opinion, power of, 67, 483;
its influence over governments, 133.

Public Worship, in United States, 651.

Puffendorf, extract from, bearing on principles of Holy Alliance, 62.

Putnam, Judge, 532.

Q.

Quakers, their preachers, 524.

Quiney, Josiah, Jr., quoted, 129.

Quincy, Hor. Josiah, 159.

R.

Radicals, of South Carolina, 244.

Railroads, first in America, 126.

Raleigh, Sir W., referred to, 143.

Randolph, Jefferson, proposition of, to abolish slavery, 619.

Randolph, Gov., on domestic slavery, 232.

Raymond, Henry J., reporter of Mr. Webster's speeches, xxiv.

Reception of Mr. Webster at Boston, Sept. 30, 1842, 481;
at Buffalo, May 22, 1851, 626;
at New York, 307.

Reformation, provisions for religious instruction in schools at time of,
526.

Religion, the only conservative principle, 524;
state of society without, 525;
supposed case of a graduate of Girard College questioned in regard to,
525;
necessity of, to man, 650.

Removal from Office, speech of Webster on, 347;
power of President in regard to, 347, 397, 399;
decision of Congress in regard to,