iii. 74.

Opdyke, George, acts as agent of U.S. Government, 1861, iii. 7;
elected mayor of N.Y., 1861, 29;
career and character, 30;
at Rep. state con., 1863, 74;
loses place on state com., 74;
favours new candidate in place of Lincoln, 104, and note.

Orr, Alexander E., member of Tilden's canal commission, 1875, iii. 323.

Ostrander, Catherine, wife of Weed, i. 318;
true love match, 319;
waited for him three years, 319.

Ottendorfer, Oswald, editor N.Y. _Staats-zeitung_, iii. 268;
efforts at reform, 268;
at Dem. state con., 1871, 272;
influence, 272.

Palmer, Abiah W., nominated for state comp., 1870, iii. 238;
defeated, 244.

Parker, Amasa J., nominated for gov., 1856, ii. 232-3;
career and ability of, 233-4;
defeated, 241;
nominated for gov., 1858, 249;
defeated, 255;
at Dem. state peace con., 354;
president of, 354.

President of Dem. state con., 1863, iii. 79;
aspirant for gov., 1864, 118;
presented for gov., 1874, 313;
president of Kelly's state con., 1880, 451;
named as del.-at-large to Nat. con., 452;
delegation refused admission, 457;
part in spectacular reconciliation, 458.

Parkhurst, John, nominated for prison insp., 1870, iii. 238;
defeated, 244.

Parmenter, Roswell A., nominated for atty.-gen., 1881, iii. 484;
defeated, 486.

Parrish, Daniel, state senator, i. 178.

Patrick, J.N.H., dispatches to Pelton from Oregon, 1876, iii. 351.

Patrick, Marsena R., nominated for state treas., 1865, iii. 129;
defeated, 135.

Patterson, George W., to Weed about Fillmore, ii. 79;
in constitutional con., 1846, 103;
on elective judiciary, 109;
nominated for lt.-gov., 1848, 140;
character of, 140;
defeated for state comp., 165;
Greeley on, 165-6;
ambitious to be gov., 1852, 173.

Payn, Louis P., renominated for U.S. marshal, 1881, iii. 469;
nomination withdrawn, 475;
warns Conkling and Platt of defeat, 481;
chided by Sharpe, 481;
prophecy fulfilled, 481, note.

Peace congress, 1861, ii. 350;
suggested by Virginia, 350;
adopted by Legislature of New York, 350;
dels. to, 350;
convened at Washington, 358;
its work and results, 358-60.

Peaceable secession, Greeley advocates, ii. 335-6;
also Abolitionists, 336;
preferable to civil war, 347, 355.

Peck, Jedediah, opposed Alien-Sedition laws, i. 89;
arrested, 89;
creates great excitement, 89.

Peckham, Rufus H., a supporter of Tilden, iii.