demning Hamilton's excise bill, 48;
takes part in public meeting in Washington County against the bill, 50;
secretary of convention of western counties at Pittsburgh, 52;
signs resolutions advocating resistance, 53;
draws petition to Congress, 53;
returns to Philadelphia to find cause damaged by action of counties,
54;
advises evasion of federal writs to arrest, 55;
in legislature proposes a township veto on taxation and popular
education, 55;
wishes to visit Geneva in 1793, 56, 57;
views on French Revolution, 56, 57;
elected senator in spite of insufficient residence, 58;
acquaintance with Dallas, 58;
on journey with him, meets Hannah Nicholson, 59;
marriage, 59;
his family connections by marriage, 59;
later business connections with brother-in-law, J. W. Nicholson, 60;
takes seat as United States senator, 60;
his election protested on ground of insufficient residence, 60, 61;
complains of membership of committee to consider case, 61;
his exact status, 62;
submits statement of facts to Senate, 62;
is declared disqualified by narrow majority, 62, 63;
his dignified conduct of case, 63;
pending the decision, introduces resolution calling upon Hamilton to
make a minutely itemized report, 64;
probably causes his own expulsion by thus irritating Federalists, 64,
65;
later obliged to answer a similar demand from Federalists, 65;
not cast down by exclusion, 65;
gains increased popularity in Pennsylvania, 65, 66.

_In Whiskey Insurrection._
Takes wife to Fayette County, 67;
at outbreak of violence advises distillers to submit to law, 69;
his estimate of numbers of insurgents in arms, 73;
remains at first aloof from excitement, 75;
determines to take control of movement, 75, 76;
alarmed at probable excesses of mob and danger of repression, 76;
delegate to convention at Parkinson's Ferry, 78;
confers with Marshall, 78;
chosen secretary, 79;
opposes resolution to resist by force, and moves reference of
resolutions to a committee, 80;
succeeds in modifying resolutions not to obey excise and trial laws,
80;
on committee on resolutions, 80;
on committee to confer with government commissioners, 81;
points out folly of resistance, 81;
counsels submission, 81;
his eloquent speech, 82, 83;
prevents anarchy, 82;
charged by J. C. Hamilton with cowardice, 84;
his real courage, 84;
hastens submission of Fayette Co