a good actor, 42;
allied with trustees of college, 76;
advises delay in removal of Wheelock, 78;
appears for college, 79;
brief in college case, 80;
attaches but little importance to doctrine of impairing contracts, 81;
unable to go to Washington, 84;
Webster's remarks on death of, 127;
supported by Webster for attorney-generalship, 148;
and for senatorship, 150.

Mason, John Y., advocates slavery in California, 320;
Webster's compliment to on 7th of March, 326.

Massachusetts, settlement of, 1, 2;
constitutional convention of in 1820, 110;
Webster's defence of, 185;
conduct in regard to northeastern boundary, 248, 254;
Whig convention of, declares against Tyler, 258.

McDuffie, George, Webster's reply to, on Cumberland Road Bill, 137, 173.

McLane, Louis, instructions of Van Buren to, as minister to England, 210.

McLeod, Alexander, boasts of killing Durfree, 247;
arrested in New York, 247;
habeas corpus refused, 249;
proves an alibi and is acquitted, 252.

Melbourne, Lord, ministry of, beaten, 252.

Mexico, war with, declared, 270, 290.

Mills, E.H., failing health, leaves Senate, 144.

Monroe, James, visit to the North urged by Webster, 129.

New Hampshire, settlement of, 2;
soil, etc., 3;
people of, 4;
bar of, 35, 36;
Webster refuses to have his name brought forward by, in 1844, 262.

New Mexico, petitions against slavery, 298;
quarrel with Texas, 299;
slavery possible in, 319.

New Orleans, destruction of Spanish consulate at, 336.

New York, attitude of, in McLeod affair, 248, 249.

Niagara, Webster's visit to, and account of, 152.

Niblo's Garden, Mr. Webster's speech at, 238.

Nicaragua, British protectorate of 336.

Niles, Nathaniel, Judge, pupil of Bellamy and opponent of John Wheelock,
75.

Noyes, Parker, early assistance to Webster, 107.

Nullification, Webster's discussion, and history of, 174 ff.

Ogden vs. Saunders, case of, 100.

Oregon, boundary of, Webster's effort to settle, 260-264;
Webster's opinion in regard to boundary of, 265;
claims of British and of Democracy, 285;
territorial organization of, 294.

Otis, Harrison Gray, a leader at Boston bar, 30.

Palmerston, Lord, hostile to the United States, 248;
assails Ashburton treaty and Lord Ashburton, 259.

Panama Congress, debate on mission to, 140, 279.

Parker, Isaac, Chief Justice, in Massachusetts convention, 111.

Parsons, Theophilus, Chief