11To James Madison from James Monroe and William Pinkney, 25 July 1806 (Madison Papers)
You will have been surprised at not hearing from us sooner on the business confided to us under the commission with which we are honored by the President. The delay proceeded from a desire to give you some satisfactory information of our progress in it, which it was not in our power to do. It happen’d unfortunately just about the time of mr. Pinkney’s arrival on the 24th. ulto., that mr Fox...
12To James Madison from Louis-Marie Turreau, 25 July 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Louis-Marie Turreau. 25 July 1806, Baltimore. Is informed that some citizens of the United States maintain a forbidden intercourse with the revolutionaries of St. Domingue; that the law prohibiting this shameful commerce is eluded daily; and that the perpetrators thus manage to compromise the good faith of the federal government. Believing that a just and liberal government cannot be...