11To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Pinckney, 2 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honour to write to you from Co Lum Bia lately & to send you the communication I made to that Legislature & I now send you the proceedings of our representatives founded thereon—At a time like this when attempts are made by resolutions like those from Massachusetts, & speeches such as Mr [Wirts] & Pickerings to prove that Great Britain has not wronged us but that every thing is owing...
12To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Pinckney, 8 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote to you the 4 instant from this & enclosed the copy of the within But as it went by a circuitous route & may have miscarried I send you a duplicate thereof.—I mentioned we had given Mr. Madison an unanimous Vote here & are pleased with stand the Government are about to take as to the Belligerents I will thank you if any vessel or dispatches go to Mr Pinkney or the Consul to Send the...
13To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Pinckney, 30 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the pleasure of recieving your favour with the inclosure—as by the rotatory nature of our constitution I am ineligible again to the Executive here for four years & my time is just expiring I thought I owed it to your administration & to my constituents to make the inclosed communication in order that our citizens may understand the grounds on which You have made a stand against invasions...
14From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Pinckney, 8 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege the reciept of your two letters of Sep. 10. & of blank date, probably about the middle of Oct. and to thank you for the communications therein made. they were handed to the two persons therein named. I sieze the first moment it is in my power to answer your question as to our foreign relations, which I do by inclosing you a copy of my message this moment delivered to the...
15To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Pinckney, 23 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
(Confidential except to Mr Madison or Mr Gallatin) In my last I mentioned to you the certainty of Mr Madison’s being returned by this State—Since that on hearing of the New England Elections, of the asserted republican divisions in New York & Pennsylvania, & Some untoward Elections in districts in North Carolina the federalists here (who are always very numerous in this city) erected...
16To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Pinckney, 10 September 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have had the honor of recieving your favour of & am pleased to find my conduct has met your approbation—It is to be feared too many attempts are still making to break the Embargo & that all the vigilance of the officers & means employed will be necessary to prevent it.—Since I had the honour to write you last some important events have taken place in Europe, particularly as it respects the...
17From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Pinckney, 28 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his friendly salutations to Governor Pinckney & incloses him the opinion of the Attorney general referred to in his letter of the 18th. and which was not printed at that date. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
18From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Pinckney, 18 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of May 28. has been duly recieved, and in it the proceedings of the court on the Mandamus to the Collector of Charleston. I saw them with great concern because of the quarter from whence they came and where they could not be ascribed to any political waywardness. The legislature having found, after repeated trials, that no general rules could be formed which fraud & avarice would...
19To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Pinckney, 28 May 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honour to recieve your favour of the 6 May & shall govern myself by the instructions therein contained.—I have also the honour to inclose to you the proceedings of the federal Circuit Court on the same & shall wait your further instructions—the Consumption of this City & neighbourhood is about 3000 Barrells a month which comes from Philadelphia Richmond & Baltimore & I shall give...
20From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Pinckney, 30 March 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 8th. was recieved on the 25th. and I proceed to state to you my views of the present state and prospect of foreign affairs under the confidence that you will use them for your own government and opinions only, and by no means let them get out as from me. with France we are in no immediate danger of war. her future views it is impossible to estimate. the immediate danger we...