21James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 5 May 1831 (Madison Papers)
I recd. yesterday your favour of the 2d. with its accompaniments. I thank you for the little treatise on mental* Physiology, which I reserve for perusal at the earliest leisure. From the reputed talents & tenets of the Author, something may be anticipated well written & out of the trodden circle. I thank you also for the rectified copy of "Distress for rent," and return the one formerly sent...
22James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 23 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
Yours of the 21st. was recd. yesterday. On the question of recalling the communication made for the Natl. Intelligencer I submit the following statement. In a letter, lately noticed from Mr. Jefferson dated Novr. 17. 1799, he " encloses me a copy of the draught of the Kentucky Resolves ", (a press copy of his own manuscript). Not a word of explanation is mentioned. It was probably sent, &...
23James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 17 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
Yours of Sunday last has been duly recd. I thank you for your obliging attention to the packet for Nicholls. He has acknowledged the receipt of its contents, and you need not put pen to paper further on the subject. You observe that you had in a communication to the Nat:. Intelligencer pointed out the error as to Mr. Jefferson’s connection with the Kentucky Resolns. of –99. If not too late to...
24James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 2 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
On the receipt of yours of July 29, I forwarded the Book intended for Mr. Davis, and take for granted it got safe to hand. He met with the ready concurrences of the Board in making him the successor to Mr. Lomax for one year, with a prospect of the permanency, to which I doubt not the probation will recommend him. I need not say that whatever be the future change of Theatre meditated by...
25James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 16 June 1830 (Madison Papers)
I return with thanks the papers in manuscript, and the printed ones also, wch. belong to your files. My health has been a good deal interrupted for some days, and makes me the more readily avail myself of your kind dispensation from the use of the pen. With Cordial salutations Have you ever met with the "Address of the H. of Delates" which passed the Resolutions of -98– explaining the occasion...
26James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 3 June 1830 (Madison Papers)
Your favour of May 29 was duly recd. The construction put, in the Presidents message, on the Veto in 1817 agst. the power of Congress as to internal improvements, could not fail to surprize me. To my consciousness that the Veto was meant to deny, as well the appropriating, as the executing & jurisdictional branches of the power, was added, the fact that as far as has ever fallen under my...
27James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 16 February 1830 (Madison Papers)
I return the paper enclosed in yours of the 6th I have found in it the proofs of ability for such discussions which I should have anticipated. As I understand your discriminating view, (and it seems to be clearly expressed) of the Virginia documents in -98-99, it rescues them from the hands which have misconstrued & misapplied them. The meaning collected from the general scope, & from a...
28James Madison to [Nicholas P. Trist], 15 February 1830 (Madison Papers)
I have recd your favours of and have looked over the remarks enclosed in them, meant as an introduction to an explanatory comment on the proceedings of Virginia in -98-99. occasioned by the Alien & Sedition laws. It was certainly not the object of the member, who prepared the Documents in question, to assert, nor does the fair import of them, as he believes, assert a right in the parties to...
29James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 31 October 1829 (Madison Papers)
Yours of Octr. 7. was duly recd. and with every disposition to befriend the object of it. Being precluded by a rule forced on me, from doing it in the usual mode, it was my purpose to avail myself, of Mr. V. Buren’s expected visit here, by incidentally turning his attention to your aptitudes for official services. It now appears that he has declined the trip altogether, which leaves me unable...
30James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 4 July 1829 (Madison Papers)
I recd. by yesterday’s mail yours of the 2d. with the communication for Mr. T. J. Randolph wch. will be forwarded by the earliest mail, viz on Monday. I do not find among my Pamphlets that of Docr. Cooper on Government. I am under the impression that it is still in the hands of Mr. Lomax. In that case he will readily let you have it. Should it have been returned, let me know, and I will look...