1From James Madison to Mathew Carey, 19 September 1812 (Madison Papers)
The sermon inclosed with your last of the 3d. instant is now returned. It is a strong proof of the baneful spirit for which your proposed plan is meant as an antidote. I wish not to diminish your laudable solicitude on the occasion, nor to question the powerful tendency of the resource which it has suggested to you. But I can not suppress my hope that the wicked project of destroying the Union...
2From James Madison to Mathew Carey, 28 January 1815 (Madison Papers)
I have recd your letter of the with a copy of the 2d. Edition of the Olive Branch, for which & for that of the 1st. previously sent to me I return you my thanks. I have not been able as yet to do more, than glance at the plan of the work, and run over a few of its pages. The course adopted, of assembling authentic & striking facts, and addressing them impartially & independently, but with...