solutions, 51;
strong speech against Enlistment Bill, 52;
speech on repeal of embargo, replies to Calhoun, 54;
remarks on double duties, 55;
character of these speeches, 56;
superiority to other speakers in Congress, 57;
views as to Hartford Convention, 58;
votes against war taxes, 59;
partisanship, calls on Mr. Madison, 60;
conversational manner in debate, 61;
takes a leading part in debate on establishment of bank, 1814-15, 62;
power of his argument against irredeemable paper, 63;
opinion of fourteenth Congress, 64;
speech against Bank Bill in session of 1815-16, 66;
votes against Bank Bill, introduces specie resolutions, carries them, 66;
challenged by Randolph, 67;
votes for internal improvements, retires from public life, 68;
removal to Boston, success in Supreme Court of United States, 69;
grief at the death of his daughter Grace, 70;
position on leaving Congress, 71;
reception in Boston, 72;
importance of period upon which he then entered, 73;
consulted by John Wheelock on troubles with trustees, 76;
refuses to appear before legislative committee for Wheelock, and goes
over to side of trustees, his excuse, 77;
advises efforts to soothe Democrats and circulation of rumors of
founding a new college, 78;
joins Mason and Smith in re-argument at Exeter, 79;
anger at Bartlett's attack, fine argument at Exeter, 80;
relies for success on general principles, and has but little faith in
doctrine of impairing obligation of contracts, 81, 82;
gives but little space to this doctrine in his argument at Washington,
83;
raises money in Boston to defray expenses of college case, 84;
adds but little to argument of Mason and Smith, 85;
"something left out" in report of his argument, 86;
dexterous argument, appeal to political sympathies of Marshall, 87;
depicts Democratic attack on the college, 88;
description of concluding passage of his argument, 89-91;
moves for judgment _nunc pro tunc_, 96;
true character of success in this case, 97, 98;
argument in Gibbons vs. Ogden, 99;
in Ogden vs. Saunders and other cases, 100;
in Girard will case, 101, 102;
nature of his religious feeling, 103;
argument in Rhode Island case, 104;
attracts audiences even to legal arguments, anecdote of Mr. Bosworth,
105;
skill in seizing vital points, 106;
capacity for using others, early acknowledgment, later ingratitude, 107;
refusal
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