Pennsylvania, instructions to her deputies to the Constitutional Convention, [90];
words with which she ratified the Federal Constitution, [105].

People in the aggregate, The, no instance of the action of the people as one body, [119];
use of the word by Virginia, [125];
its early use, [125];
do. in the Declaration of Independence, [126];
views of Story, [126];
speak as the people of the States, [152].

People of the State, the only sovereign political community before the adoption of the Federal Constitution, [154].

People of the United States, understood to mean the people of the respective States, [174];
views of Virginia, of Massachusetts, and others, [174].

People of the South, their hope and wish that the disagreeable necessity of separation would be peaceably met, [438];
every step of the Confederate Government directed to that end, [439].

Perpetuity of the Union, danger to, foreshadowed, [185].

Pickens, Governor, his dispatch relative to Colonel Lamon, [272].

Pickens, Fort, its condition at the outbreak of the war, [203].

Pickering, Timothy, letter in 1803-'4 on a separation of the Union, [71];
his prediction, [79].