Georgia, efforts to prohibit importation of slaves, [4];
instructions to her deputies to the Constitutional Convention, [91];
her ratification of the Federal Constitution, [106];
withdraws from the Union, [220].
Gerry, Elbridge, objects to the provision for nine States to ratify, as a virtual dissolution of the Union, [100];
his use of the word "compact," [137].
Gorgas, General, appointed chief of ordnance, [310];
states the growth of his department, [481];
statement relative to the charge against Secretary of War Floyd, [482].
Government, The United States, exalted above the States which created it, [127];
no such unit as United States ever mentioned, [127];
instances, [127];
words of Tench Coxe, [128];
forgotten misconceptions revived by Daniel Webster, [128];
his assertions in debate, [128];
specimen of views of sectionists, [129];
assertion of Edward Everett, [129];
do. of J. L. Motley, [129];
most remarkable of these assertions, [130];
Constitution mentions the States as States seventy times, [130];
what authority ordained and established the Constitution, [131];
statements of Everett and Motley, [131];
question of Story and its answer, [132];
views of Madison on the nature of the ratification, [133];
legislation can not alter a fact, [134];
its treatment of citizens of Kentucky, [398];
not supreme, but subject to the Constitution and laws, [151];
accepted of sites for forts on the conditions prescribed by the State, [211];
confounded with the oath to support the Constitution, [151].
Government, Confederate, seat of, removed to Richmond, [340];
reasons for the removal, [340].
Governments only agents of the sovereign, [142];
responsible to it, and subject to its control, [154].
Grant, General, attempts to capture the garrison at Belmont, [403];
his defeat, [404];
became willing to exchange prisoners, [405].
Grants to the Federal Government, not surrenders, says Hamilton, but delegations of power, [163].
Great Britain, charge preferred against the Government of, in the Declaration of Independence, [82].
Green, James S., offers a resolution in the United States Senate relative to preserving peace between the States, [61].