regulated by Morris, 172.

Coles, Edward, letter of Gallatin to, 284.

Confederation, Articles of, political conditions under, 33, 34.

Congress, adopts amendments to Constitution suggested by New York and
Virginia, 40;
passes excise law, 49;
modifies it, 52;
gives state courts jurisdiction in excise cases, 67;
receives tricolor from France, 130;
complained of by Jefferson as weak, 138;
suspends commercial intercourse with France, 151;
passes acts authorizing naval defense, 153;
presence of Washington, Pinckney, and Hamilton at, in 1798, 155;
speech of Adams to, 155;
responsibility for war thrown upon, by Madison, 205;
authorizes loan in 1812, 209, 212;
damages Treasury by procrastination, 212;
supports Gallatin's policy of extinguishing debt, 215;
repeals internal revenue act, 221;
passes embargo, 225;
extends terms of credit on revenue bonds, 226;
refuses to recharter the bank, 231, 254;
declares war, imposes increased duties, 234;
reimposes internal taxes, 236;
adopts non-importation against England and France, 292;
orders out naval force, 294;
repeals embargo, 294.

Constable, John, at free trade convention in 1831, 241.

Constellation, defeats La Vengeance, 160.

Constitution of Pennsylvania, convention called to revise, 40, 41;
its membership and ability, 42, 43.

Constitution of the United States, adopted, 35;
struggle over ratification in Pennsylvania, 35;
movement in favor of new convention to amend, 36-40;
amended, 40;
power of Representatives to appropriate, 109;
debate in Congress on relation of treaty power to House of
Representatives, 110-115;
argument of Washington on treaty power, 114, 115;
debate in House on relation of Executive to Congress, 142-147;
power of Senate to require treasury reports, 161;
in relation to state bills of credit, 257;
question of power of United States to acquire territory, 285;
in relation to National University, 291;
to annexation of Texas, 351.

Cook, Edward, presides over meeting of whiskey insurgents at Parkinson's
Ferry, 79;
indorses resolution to submit to terms of United States commissioners,
83.

Cooper, Dr. Samuel, interested in Gallatin through Madame Pictet, 17.

Couronne, ----, takes shares in Gallatin's land scheme, 361.

Crawford, William H., follows Gallatin's treasury policy, 215;
at Gallatin's suggestion, urges Emperor
again to mediate, 315;
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