Free Schools, of New England, 47.

Free Soil men, character of, 631.

Free Soil Party, platform of, 580; nominate Martin Van Buren, 581.

Free Trade, speech of Mr. Webster on, 109, note.

Freights, rates of, 83, 108; of iron from Sweden, 106.

French Indemnity Loan, of 1818, 81.

Frothingham, Richard, extract from, on laying corner-stone of Bunker Hill
Monument, 123;
account of completion of Bunker Hill Monument, 135.

Fugitive Slave Law, of 1793, and 1850, 634;
opposition to, 635.

Fugitive Slaves, complaint of the South and duty of the North concerning,
617;
provision of the Constitution in respect to, 629.

Fulton, Robert, his exclusive right to navigation, 112.