Scott, Gen. Winfield, brilliant campaign of, 554;
  referred to, 578.

Seamen, letter of Daniel Webster on impressment of, 658.

Search. See Right of Search.

Secession, defined, 276;
  right of States to, denied, 278, 282;
  practical consequences of, 279;
  no such thing as peaceable, 621;
  of Virginia, improbability of, 646;
  men of the Southern States addressed in respect to, 647.

Secretary of the Treasury, his custody of the public moneys, 368.

Senate of the United States, a body of, equals, 229;
  resolution concerning executive veto, 368;
  its right of self-defence, 372.

Shakspeare, use of words, xiii.

Shaw, Chief Justice, 532.

Sheridan, remark of, xxv.

Sherman, Roger, appointed to draft the Declaration, 164.

Shipping Interest, how affected by tariff of 1824, 108.

Shipping of England, provisions in respect to, 109.

Ships of War, their right to approach vessels at sea, 664.

Silk, manufacture of, in England, 87.

Silsbee, Hon. N., 349.

“Sink or swim, survive or perish,” etc., 168.

Slave, and Slavery, words not found in the Constitution, 606.

Slave-holding States, advantages of, in respect to representation, 233;
  rights of, in regard to new territories, 572.

Slave Labor, its relation to free, 573;
  compared with laboring men of the North, 620.

Slavery, prohibited by Ordinance of 1787, 231;
  petitions to first Congress to abolish, 232;
  memorial from Pennsylvania to abolish, 232;
  Gov.  Randolph, sentiments on, 232;
  Mr. Webster’s sentiments on, 232;
  Congress has no power over, in the States, 233;
  plans for exclusion of, in Northwestern Territory, 234;
  resolution of Rufus King in regard to, 235;
  views of Mr. Webster on, 429;
  beyond the power of Congress, 429;
  recognized by the Constitution, 429, 570;
  inexpediency of annexing slave States, 429;
  in District of Columbia, remarks on, 445;
  Mr. Webster’s opinion in regard to power of Congress over, 462;
  speech on exclusion of from the territories, 569;
  peculiarity of American, 570;
  entailed upon the colonies by England, 571;
  Congress has no control over, 571, 636;
  excluded from Northwestern Territory, 571;
  exists by local laws, 573;
  Mr. Webster’s opinion of extension of slavery and slave representation,
    574;
  the Compromise Line in respect to extension of, 588;
  resolutions of Henry Clay in respect to, 600;
  prospect of California and New Mexico being free States, 602;
  its existence among the Greeks and Romans, 603;
  sentiments of the North and South on, at framing of the Constitution,
    605;
  Ordinance of 1787 in respect to, 606;
  Mr. Madison’s opinion on, 606;