Mason, George, views on the coercion of a State, 177.
Mason and Slidell, Messrs., sent as Commissioners to Europe, 469;
seized on their passage by Captain Wilkes, United States Navy, 469;
their treatment and restoration, 470.
_Massachusetts_, threats of a dissolution of the Union in 1844-'45, 76;
instructions to her delegates to the Constitutional Convention, 92;
tenacious of her State independence, 107;
action on the ratification of the Federal Constitution, 107;
her terms of ratification, 139;
her use of the word "compact," as applied to the Constitution, 139;
use of the word "sovereign," as applied to the State, 143;
on the reserved powers of the States, 146;
resolutions of her Legislature express perhaps too decided a doctrine
of nullification, 190;
terms of cession of land for forts and navy-yard to the United States,
209.
McClellan, Major-General George B., commands force in Western Virginia,
338;
commands enemy's forces at Rich Mountain and Laurel Hill, 338.
McDowell, General, moves to attack General Beauregard, 344.
_Medicines_, declared by the enemy contraband of war, 310;
substitutes sought from the forest, 310.
Memminger, C. G., Secretary of the Treasury under the Provisional
Constitution, 242.
_Michigan_, action of her Senators relative to the Peace Congress, 248,
249;
the "bloodletting" letter, 249.
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