Party, deprecated by Washington, 108; identified with faction, 108-09; rights of, in opposition, 114; place of, in popular government, 119. Party organization, 107, 305, 307. Pasha of Tripoli, 143, 145. Paterson, William, in the Federal Convention, 31-32. Patronage. _See_ Appointments. Pennsylvania, and the Federal judiciary, 333-35. Perry, Oliver H., wins naval supremacy of Lake Erie, 217. Philadelphia, as the seat of government, 119-20; as a literary center, 123; and Western trade, 254, 256. Pickering, John, impeachment of, 138-39. Pickering, Timothy, Secretary of State, 103, 113; on the Louisiana Treaty, 156; plots a New England confederacy, 164; opposes the embargo, 193; secessionist in 1814, 225. Pike, Zebulon M., expeditions of, 153. Pinckney, Charles, and the election of 1800, 117. Pinckney, Charles C, Minister to France, 95; commissioner to France, 96; and the X Y Z affair, 98-99; appointed major-general, 102; candidate for the Vice-Presidency (1800), 116; candidate for the Presidency (1804), 167; candidate for the Presidency (1808), 194. Pinckney, Thomas, concludes Treaty of San Lorenzo, 87; candidate for the Vice-Presidency (1800), 92-93. Pinkney, William, Envoy to England, 181; negotiates treaty, 184; takes abrupt leave, 201; on the admission of Missouri, 276-77; influence at the federal bar, 333. Pittsburg, distributing center in the West, 254. Plattsburg, battle of, 221-22. _Port Folio_, Dennie's, 283. Postal service in 1800, 106. Posts, retention of Western, 17, 68, 79, 84. Potomac, navigation of, 16, 27-28; location of the capital on, 60-61. Preble, Edward, and the Tripolitan War, 145. Prescott, William H., 287. Presidency, created in the Federal Convention, 34-35. President, appointing and removing power of, 52. President, American frigate, 202. Presidential elections, _of 1788_, 48; _of 1792_, 66-67; _of 1796_, 92-94; _of 1800_, 115-17; _of 1801_, 118-19; _of 1804_, 167; _of 1808_, 193-94; _of 1812_, 216-17; _of 1816_, 243-44; _of 1820_, 280; _of 1824_, 312-13, 316; _of 1825_, 314. Prevost, Sir George, 221-22. Privateers, in the War of 1812, 218-19. Prophet, the, 205. Public domain, origin of, 8. Quids, followers of Randolph, 170. Rambouillet, decree of, 199-200. Randolph, Edmund, in the Federal Convention, 30-31; Attorney-General, 55; on the French treaties of 1778, 73. Randolph, John, position in the House, 134; in the Chase impeachment, 139-41; and the Yazoo controversy, 169-70; and the purchase of Florida, 171; and the indictment of Burr, 177; derides the Non-Importation Bill, 181; on the cause of the War of 1812, 213; on the Tariff of 1816, 237; on state rights, 243; on the Tariff of 1828, 330. Rapp, George, 302. Relief Act of 1821, 269. Republican court at Philadelphia, 119-20. Republican party, origin of, 64-67. _See also_ Presidential elections. Revivals in New England, 288.