James Madison: A Life Reconsidered (82 page)

and ratification,
171

Revolution in,
64
–65

Whiskey Rebellion in,
250
–52

Pennsylvania Abolition Society,
212

Pennsylvania Packet,
80

Perry, Oliver Hazard,
300
,
393
,
394

Peters, Richard,
196
,
199
,
345
–46

Peterson, Merrill,
71

Philadelphia:

and bank speculation,
226

and capital city location,
415

City Troop of,
125

Congress’s flight from,
64
–65

Constitutional Convention in,
7
,
124

Continental Congress in,
45
,
47
,
48
,
60
,
75
,
101
,
121

Gray’s Tavern outside of,
140
–41

Independence Hall,
24

Indian Queen in,
140

Madison’s residence in,
1
–2,
220

newspapers in,
223
,
226
,
234
,
255

Second Continental Congress in,
47
,
48

yellow fever in,
243
–44,
245

Philadelphia Gazette,
357

Phillips, William,
69
,
90

Physick, Philip Syng,
328
–29,
331

Pichon, Louis,
301
,
302

Pickering, Timothy,
345

and Adams presidency,
256
,
287

censureship of,
368

and Continental army,
79

Federalist views of,
280
,
311
,
347
,
362
,
389

Pierce, William,
3
,
127
,
132

Pike, Zebulon,
388

Pinckney, Charles (cousin),
132
,
289
,
304
,
305
,
350
–51

Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth,
148
–49,
287
,
288
,
289
,
349
,
350

Pinckney, Thomas,
259
,
263
–64,
278
,
289

Pinckney Treaty,
259
–61,
263

Pinkney, William,
339
,
364
,
383

Pittsburgh Gazette,
261

Plato,
165

Pliny the Elder,
Natural History,
32

Plumer, William,
311
,
316
,
325
,
329
,
333
,
336
,
344
,
348

political parties:

and elections,
see
presidential elections

founding of,
8
,
236
–37

peaceful transfer of power between,
295

see also
Federalists; Republican Party

Polk, Charles Peale,
16
,
297

Polk, James K.,
146

Polly,
43

Porter, Charles,
65

Porter, Peter,
373
,
374
,
375

Potomac River:

commerce on,
113
,
117

location of capital city on,
202
,
218
–19,
220
,
296
,
409

and War of 1812,
392
,
399
,
405
–6,
410
,
411

president:

as commander in chief,
8
,
145

powers of,
190
–91,
242
,
258
,
298
,
299
,
366
,
367
,
392
,
397

presidential elections:

election of 1788,
182
–83,
185
,
186
–87

election of 1792,
233
–34,
236
–37

election of 1796,
262
–65,
278
,
284
,
286

election of 1800,
278
,
279
,
280
,
283
–84,
285
–87,
288
,
289
–92,
295
,
316
,
318

election of 1804,
316
–19

election of 1808,
317
,
335
,
344
–52,
369

election of 1812,
384
–85

election of 1816,
423
,
426

election of 1828,
445

press, freedom of,
155
,
198
,
252
,
283

Prevost, Sir George,
385
,
413

Priestley, Joseph,
45

Princeton:

Battle of,
65
,
91

Congress meeting in,
101

Princeton University:

Madison’s bequest to,
455

Madison’s studies at,
22
–33,
225

natural philosophy (science) in,
28
–29

Publius (Valerius Publicola),
156
–58,
163

Quakers:

antislavery views of,
212
–15,
432

and Dolley Payne Madison,
248
,
249
–50,
271

and elections,
264
–65

Quincy’s Dispensatory,
17
–18

Raisin River, Battle of,
381
–82,
393

Randall, Henry,
70

Randolph, Edmund,
62
,
92
,
101
,
105
,
225

as attorney general,
208

and constitutional amendments,
200

and Constitutional Convention,
118
,
128
,
129
,
132
,
134
,
135
,
141
,
149
,
151

and Continental Congress,
75

and financial matters,
75
,
81
,
114

as governor of Virginia,
158
,
166

and ratification,
158
,
166
,
169
,
171
–72,
182

as secretary of state,
247
,
255

and treaty with Britain,
255
–57

Vindication,
256
–57

and Virginia Convention,
56
–58,
60

Randolph, John (the Tory),
56
,
71

Randolph, John of Roanoke,
374
,
391

and Chase trial,
325
–27

and elections,
345
,
346
–47

enmity toward Madison,
324
–27,
331
,
333
–35,
347

and Madison’s presidency,
355
,
357
,
363
–64,
366
,
423

oratorical style of,
324
,
325
,
326
,
334
,
335

Stuart’s portrait of,
323

and trade restrictions,
331
,
334
,
335
,
366

and Yazoo landgrab,
324
–25,
347

Randolph, Peyton,
46

Randolph, Thomas Mann,
293

Randolph, Virginia Jefferson,
441

Read, George,
129

Reagan, Ronald,
146

religion:

deism,
28
,
30
,
42

and epilepsy,
6
,
30
–32,
36
,
40
,
72

freedom of,
6
,
40
,
59
–60,
63
–64,
72
,
108
–10,
123
–24,
155
,
167
–68,
195
,
198
,
253

and heresy,
42

“Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments,”
108
–9

and miracles,
28
,
30
,
32
,
36
,
42

objection to supernatural parts of the Bible,
28
,
36
,
42

separation of state and,
41
,
42
,
64
,
109
–10

Rensselaer, Stephen Van,
382

Report of 1800,
282
–84

Republican Citizens of Baltimore,
429

Republican Party:

and Adams presidency,
273
,
274
–76,
277
,
279
,
303

and elections,
236
,
262
–65,
284
,
286
,
287
,
289
,
290
–92,
295
,
317
–18,
319
,
346
–47,
348

formation of,
236
–37

and immigrants,
274

and Jay Treaty,
255
,
257
,
258
,
260
,
261
,
262

and Jefferson presidency,
303

and Madison presidency,
368
,
379

and trade embargo,
351

and War of 1812,
374
,
395

and Washington presidency,
242
,
243
,
247
,
251
,
252

Reynolds, James,
237
,
272

Rhode Island:

and Constitutional Convention,
126
,
139

currency of,
124

and impost amendment,
95

and ratification,
159
,
166

and statehood,
194
,
201

Richmond
Enquirer,
347

Richmond Recorder,
308

Rittenhouse, David,
27
–28

Rivington, James,
48
–49

Roane, Spencer,
177
,
434

Robertson, Donald,
21
–22,
280

Robinson, Moses,
224

Rochambeau, comte de,
82

Rodgers, John,
370

Rodney, Caesar,
360
,
365

Rodney, Thomas,
89
,
90

Rogers, David,
66

Roman Republic, founders of,
157

Rose, Frances Madison (sister),
439

Ross, Joe,
35
–36

Ross, Robert,
403
,
413

Royal Gazette,
77

Rule of 1756,
330

Rush, Benjamin,
88
,
213
,
222

Rush, Richard,
392
,
406
,
407
,
409
,
424
,
430

Russell, Jonathan,
395

Rutledge, John,
120

Saint Domingue,
301
,
304
,
307

Salem Gazette,
389

Saratoga, Battle of,
66
,
68
,
79
,
80
,
82
,
224

Savannah, British capture of,
68

Sawney (slave),
23
,
225

Schuyler, Elizabeth,
237

Schuyler, Philip,
223

Scott, John Morin,
80

Scott, Thomas,
201

Scott, Winfield,
382
,
394
,
398

Second Bank of the United States,
423

Sedgwick, Theodore,
198
,
209
,
214
,
216
,
246
,
279
,
290

Sedition Act,
see
Alien and Sedition Acts

Sérurier, Louis,
387

Sharp, Solomon,
396

Shays’s Rebellion,
119
,
130
,
135
,
159
,
216

Sherman, Roger,
130
,
133
,
136
,
146
,
147
,
194
,
196
–97

Shippen, Peggy,
80

Shippen, Thomas Lee,
219

Short, William,
105
,
114

Shulman, Holly C.,
10

Sioussat, Jean-Pierre,
408

Skeen, C. Edward,
400

slavery,
212
–15

abolitionists,
212
,
248
,
432

and colonization plans,
214
,
433
,
441

and Constitutional Convention,
137
,
148
–49

dower slaves,
452

euphemisms for,
149

“federal consensus” on,
212
–14

Illinois “black code,”
441

income from slave labor,
115
,
431

insurrection feared,
50
,
213
,
302

and Madison family,
13
–14,
15
,
19
,
36
,
94

and Missouri Compromise,
431
–33

as moral issue,
94

and racial mixing,
225

and Revolution,
50
–51,
52

three-fifths rule,
94
–95,
148

in Virginia,
13
–14,
37
,
40
,
61
,
72
,
148
,
212
,
431
,
449