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To James Madison from Arch Henderson, 12 February 1816

From Arch Henderson

Washington Feby 12th 1816

Sir,

Under the hope that a letter, from an officer of the Corps in which Mr. Broome lately held a Commission, may not injure the memorial he is about to present1 I consider myself doing but common justice to an honorable and very promising young Man when I offer my feeble aid in extricating him from a most unpleasant situation.

My acquaintance with Mr. Broome commenced before he entered the Service. It continued while we were brother officers and I never heard his character, as an officer and a Gentleman, in the slightest degree questioned.

Should it be your pleasure to restore to Mr. Broome his Commission I feel the fullest confidence that he will be a valuable officer to the Corps and that his conduct will be such as to prove him worthy of so distinguished a favour. I have the honour to be with the most perfect Respt. your obed Servt.

Arch Henderson 2

RC (DNA: RG 45, Misc. Letters Received).

1. See Charles R. Broom to JM, ca. 13 Feb. 1816.

2. Arch Henderson was a captain in the Marine Corps, serving in Portsmouth, New Hampshire (ASP description begins American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States … (38 vols.; Washington, 1832–61). description ends , Miscellaneous, 2:350).

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    To James Madison from Arch Henderson, 12 February 1816
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    “To James Madison from Arch Henderson, 12 February 1816,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-10-02-0231. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 10, 13 October 1815–30 April 1816, ed. Angela Kreider, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Katharine E. Harbury, and Anne Mandeville Colony. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, p. 218.]