6551To James Madison from John Wayles Eppes, 31 October 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
31 October 1812, Petersburg. Reports that “Many respectable citizens of this place are anxious for the appointment of Mr. Peter Purryear as the successor of our unfortunate friend George Jefferson.” Informs JM that Puryear comes from Mecklenburg County, Virginia, and has “acquired reputation and wealth unaided by Foreign connection or capital.” “For his character and standing as a merchant,”...
6552Thomas Jefferson to Jean Guillaume Hyde de Neuville, 31 October 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 19 th is just recieved, & I with pleasure inclose a letter of introduction for you to the President . I am an entire stranger to the present situation of the Military school at West point , to the number of candidates for places there, & the prospect of succesful application. while the principles of our government yield little indulgence to manifestations of partiality in...
6553Louis Philippe Gallot de Lormerie to Thomas Jefferson, 31 October 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Jay L’honneur de vous adresser un Pamphlet que j’ai publié en france au commençement de notre Révolution et qui a eté assés heureux pour procurer des dons Patriotiques considérables a notre Tresor public. Il falloit alors Se préparer a supporter la Guerre civile et les guerres Etrangeres, avec des finances Epuisées, des soldats sans discipline; Egarés par des factieux, la famine dans toutes...
6554Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 31 October 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
This will be handed you by Mons r de Neufville a person of distinction from France who came over to this country with his family some years ago, & is established as an Agricultural citizen near New Brunswick in Jersey . he brought recommendations from some friends of mine which established his merit, as well as his right to any service I could render him. since his settlement in Jersey I have...
6555To John Adams from Anonymous, 1 November 1812 (Adams Papers)
Having got a few seeds from Europe that appear deserving attention, and as some of ‘em may be adapted to a more northern climate than this, I have taken the liberty of sending some of them to Your care—if attending to them will not be convenient for yourself I have no doubt you will put them into the hands of some friend who takes an interest in improving the productions of the country— It is...
6556To James Madison from William Eustis, [ca. 1 November] 1812 (Madison Papers)
After war had been declared, it was deemed necessary, for the security of the maratime frontier, to order the recruits to the posts on the seaboard, which had a tendency to check the recruiting service, and has retarded our military operations on the no[r]thern frontier. The surrender of the army & post of Detroit opened the N. Western frontier to the incursions of the Savages and rendered it...
6557To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 1 November 1812 (Madison Papers)
I send the two paragraphs. I believe the whole to be sufficiently distinct, with the exception perhaps of the last sentence of the first paragraph. If the forfeitures are not remitted at all, there will be considerable injustice, great discontent, & 8 to 10 millions of dollars put in the pocket of the collectors. If they are altogether remitted, the importers will make unreasonable profits, &...
6558David Bailie Warden to Thomas Jefferson, 1 November 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I regret that I have not had the honor of receiving a line from you since my return to Paris , during which interval I have written to you at four different times— my first, of the 10th December, 1811, was accompanied with a MS. from Senator Tracy , who is anxious to know whether you received it— It was forwarded, with Mr. Barlows’ dispatches, under cover to the President of the United States...
6559To James Madison from an Unidentified Correspondent, 2 November 1812 (Madison Papers)
I do not mean to dictate but only as a friend to your Administration and as one of the family of the Union to communicate my sentiments in a few particulars as briefly as I can conveniently. I have suggested to you a mode of raising an hundred thousand troops or militia by classing the Citizens of the United States in such a manner as that the amount of the State tax each class annually pays...
6560Gibson & Jefferson to Thomas Jefferson, 2 November 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your note at bank for $3000. falling due the 17/20 Ins t we send you one here inclosed for your signature— Flour 10½$ Wheat 9/6—With great respect we are— RC ( ViU : TJP-ER ); in Patrick Gibson’s hand; at head of text: “Thomas Jefferson Esq re ”; endorsed by TJ as received 6 Nov. 1812 and so recorded in SJL . Enclosure not found. SJL records a missing letter from TJ to Gibson & Jefferson of 7...
6561James Ronaldson to Thomas Jefferson, 2 November 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
To remedy as far as possible the ill consequences arrising out of the late arrival of the seeds I have sent you a few by one of the last weeks mail, the quantity of each is very small, as my stock was about exhausted; they may be sufficient to shew which of ’em are adapted to the country and furnish the seed,—I am sorry at not having it in my power to give you some of the European Ash, Scots...
6562Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 3 November 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
The strange jumble of names, places, & titles on the inclosed letter seemed to authorise me to open it, as it does also to forward it to you. yet it properly belongs to neither of us but to the Secretary of the Treasury to whom it makes splendid promises. Our election of electors took place yesterday. a general assurance that there would be no opposition ticket prevented half the voters from...
6563To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 4 November 1812 (Adams Papers)
Herewith you will receive a copy of my medical Inquiries and Observations upon the diseases of the mind. PS My bookseller has disappointed me in not sending me a Copy of my book which I intended for you. It shall follow this letter in a day or two.—I shall wait with solitude to receive your Opinion of them. They are in general accommodated the to the “Common Science” of Gentlemen of all...
6564Annual Message to Congress, 4 November 1812 (Madison Papers)
Fellow Citizens of the Senate and of the House of Representatives On our present meeting, it is my first duty to invite your attention, to the providential favors which our Country has experienced, in the unusual degree of health dispensed to its inhabitants, and in the rich abundance with which the Earth has rewarded the labours bestowed on it. In the successful cultivation of other branches...
6565From James Madison to John G. Jackson, 4 November 1812 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your favor of the 21st. I cannot too much applaud Your zeal & that of your associates, in efforts to retrieve what has been lost by the want of that or something else in others. The present sacrifices you are yourself making call for peculiar acknowledgments. I am constrained at the same time to remark that according to the view taken here, of the prospects before Genl. Harrison,...
6566To James Madison from an Unidentified Correspondent, 4 November 1812 (Madison Papers)
In order to prosecute a war effectually in a republic it seems necessary the people should be willing to support it or otherwise when that is not the case, of consequence, or of course I would have said, Compulsion is inevitable. As there is a Scism among the people I shall propose an efficient mode easily effected on the indubitable principles of Justice partaking of both. To observe our...
6567To James Madison from Henry Smith and Others, 4 November 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
4 November 1812, Providence. “The District Judge of this district having deceased, we beg leave to recommend Asher Robbins Esqr. as a suitable successor. … “His pre-eminent qualifications for a seat in the Supreme Court having, as is presumed, been completely unfolded to your view on a late occasion, it is only necessary for us to offer our names in his favor for the present vacancy,...
6568Thomas Jefferson to Madame Bureaux de Pusy, 4 November 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to M de Bureaux de Pusy and his thanks for the volume from M. de Faujas which she was so kind as to forward him, & which has come safely to hand. no apology was necessary for it’s delay the delay for which she has apologised been pleased to apologise has been attended with no inconvenience, a work of M. Faujas commanding at all times a welcome acceptance....
6569To John Adams from William Keteltas, 5 November 1812 (Adams Papers)
though I never had the honor of a personal Acquaintance, I take the Liberty believing You a real American and firmly attatched to its freedom and independance, to send You the enclosed production the Merit of Which, if any, is the sincerity with which it is written, regardless of all parties or Sectaries. Your liberal and Enlightened Mind will bestow that Charity upon its frailty its poverty...
6570To John Adams from John Quincy Adams, 5 November 1812 (Adams Papers)
Having not received directly from you, or from any of my friends at Quincy, a line later than the 10th: of April, it was with no small pleasure, that a few days since, I met in an English Newspaper, an extract of a letter from you to Mr E. Watson, dated the 6th: of July—It relates to the War, and expenses your opinion that this was both just and necessary—Although I am unable to maintain by...
6571From James Madison to Congress, 5 November 1812 (Madison Papers)
The Bill entitled, “An Act supplementary to the Acts heretofore passed on the subject of an uniform rule of naturalization” which passed the two Houses at the last Session of Congress, having appeared to me liable to abuse by Aliens having no real purpose of effectuating a naturalization, and therefore not been signed; and having been presented at an hour too near the close of the Session to...
6572To James Madison from John Armstrong, 5 November 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
5 November 1812 , “ Head Qurs. New York .” “Mr. Benjamin Romaine of this City proposes to visit Washington and seeks the honor of an introduction to you. He is a gentleman of intellegence and integrity.” RC ( DLC ). 1 p.; docketed by JM. Romaine traveled to Washington to lobby for a scheme that John Armstrong had proposed to the War Department, namely that Congress amend the volunteer laws to...
6573To James Madison from Nehemiah Rice Knight, 5 November 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
5 November 1812, Providence. Transmits a copy of the constitution of the Whig Society of Rhode Island, the author of which was David Howell, “whose exertions in the cause & principles delineated therein induced the Branch meeting of the Town of Providence to elect him their President.” Howell and his “coadjutors” have not achieved so complete a success as they and their supporters anticipated,...
6574To James Madison from Constant Taber and Others, 5 November 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
5 November 1812, Newport. Recommend Asher Robbins to fill the place of the late David Leonard Barnes in the office of district judge. Refer JM to the previous recommendations of Robbins to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Judge Cushing on the U.S. Supreme Court. Declare Robbins to be a Republican “in this State, of the first grade, both as to principle, and as to talents.” Describe...
6575Thomas Jefferson to William B. Arbuckle, 5 November 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Oct. 24. was recieved last night, and I have inclosed it to the Secretary at war . not having the advantage of an acquaintance with you, or any information other than the letter itself contains, I could do no more than leave that to bear testimony itself to the Secretary of the zeal it manifests to render service to the public, and of the security that gives that opportunities...
6576Nicolas G. Dufief to Thomas Jefferson, 5 November 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ai eu l’honneur de vous envoyer par le courier de ce matin , la carte du Théâtre de la Guerre & le traité des Fluxions—A l’égard des autres objets Il m’a été impossible de les procurer Je n’ai point manqué de voir M r Patterson à ce sujet Agreez, Je vous prie, les assurances du profond respect, avec lequel Je suis inviolablement Bought of N. G. Dufief Simson’s fluxions 6.18 1 Map of the Seat...
6577Thomas Jefferson to William Eustis, 5 November 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks permission of the Secretary at war to discharge what he believes to be a duty in making known the proffers of the writer of the inclosed, for which purpose he incloses his letter. of the writer he never before heard, nor knows any thing more than from the letter. he only recollects that there was a family of that name over the mountains when he used formerly to visit that...
6578Thomas Jefferson to David Higginbotham, 5 November 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night mr Short’s final answer, which I think should be communicated to you before my departure to Bedford . in the first place he will accept my single bonds for any portion of the price I assume, as absolute paiment, & thereof discharge you. but as to the residue he makes the difficulty which both you & myself apprehended as to our friend . he supposes his affairs to be such...
6579To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 6 November 1812 (Madison Papers)
I inclose you a letter from Colo. Gibson Secretary under Governor Harrison. I suppose he has addressed it to me on the footing of a very old acquaintance. He is a very honest man, very old in public service & much esteemed by all who know him. All this I believe however is known to yourself, & possibly he may be personally known to you. The seeing whether our untried Generals will stand proof...
6580To James Madison from Levi Wheaton, 6 November 1812 (Madison Papers)
The office of District Judge for the District of Rhode Island having been lately vacated by the death of David L. Barnes Esqr., you have ere this perhaps been solicited in behalf of a Successor. Who or what the number of Candidates for the vacant office may be I cannot pretend to say. I have perceived however that Mr David Howell has long been waiting with impatience for the Mantle of the...
6581From James Madison to Congress, 6 November 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
6 November 1812. Transmits “copies of the correspondencies [ sic ] between the Department of War and the Governors of Massachusetts and Connecticut, refered to in my Message of the fourth instant.” RC and enclosures, two copies ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages, 12A-D1; DNA : RG 46, President’s Messages, 12A-E2). First RC 1 p.; in the hand of Edward Coles, signed by JM. For enclosures (34...
6582To James Madison from William Eustis, 6 November 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
6 November 1812. Lists proposed promotions and appointments in the U.S. Army for JM’s approval. Letterbook copy and partial letterbook copy of enclosure ( DNA : RG 107, LSP ); printed copy and printed copy of enclosures ( Senate Exec. Proceedings Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America (3 vols.; Washington, 1828). , 2:296–302). Letterbook copy 1 p. On...
6583Thomas Jefferson to Cunningham Harris, 6 November 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Sep. 30. came to hand but two day s ago. we cultivate wheat here extensively & solely, and every body is getting the Leith machine for threshing it. I mean the original double or treble geered machine, divested of all those things which have been called improvements, in which the wheat is presented to beaters revolving like the vanes of a wheat fan. I have three of them myself,...
6584Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 6 November 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you a letter from Col o Gibson Secretary under Governor Harrison . I suppose he has addressed it to me on the footing of a very old acquaintance. he is a very honest man, very old in public service & much esteemed by all who know him. all this I believe however is known to yourself, & possibly he may be personally known to you. The seeing whether our untried Generals will stand proof...
6585Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 6 November 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Oct. 29. finds me still here. tho’ the effects of my fall have not been quite removed, I shall set out for Bedford in 2. or 3. days. the doubt as to the security proposed for that portion of the debt for which mr Higginbotham & another were to give joint bonds, was not unexpected because it was reasonable. I had suggested it to him as possible & even probable, & he was therefore...
6586From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 7 November 1812 (Adams Papers)
I am in great perplexity, Every day something Occurs to puzzle my feeble intellect. To whom can I apply for instruction so properly as to you, who are so great a Master: A Nation of Bees in the wilderness in a state of nature, has sagacity enough, to wander about till, they find a hollow tree in which they can be screen’d and sheltered both from the scorching beams of the sun in a summer which...
6587John Dortic to Thomas Jefferson, 7 November 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Travelling for Sometime, I Expected I Should pass through your place , now, being compelled to go back to New York , I must explain you the reason Why you did not receive the Fontainebleau’s Chasselas I had announced to you. I received two bundles of that vine by the brig Catharine Ray Whose Sailing was retarded till the 2 d of may and besides She had 86 days passage. So that, when those vines...
6588Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Pleasants, 7 November 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I see advertised in your paper of the 7 th Hutton’s Mathematics 2. v. 8 vo 8. Dol. which I will pray you to send me, adding thereto a copy of Mason’s book on the Horse, advertised in the same paper. mr Gibson will be so kind as to pay for them on shewing him this letter. the books to be securely wrapped in paper, addressed to me to the care of David Higgenbotham in Milton , & forwarded by the...
6589To James Madison from Elbridge Gerry, 8 November 1812 (Madison Papers)
I have read, my dear Sir, with inexpressible pleasure, your message to Congress; embracing, in my veiw of it, every important point, & every requisite observation thereon, compatible with elegant precision. Had Congress adjourned to an earlier period, this important document would have probably had a salutary influence on the elections. I observe with pleasure, that there is soon, to be a...
6590Thomas Jefferson to Eleuthère I. du Pont de Nemours, 8 November 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
It is high time I should make my acknolegements to you for the piece of cloth of your manufacture which you were so kind as to forward to me. but this article as well as the keg of powder forwarded with it have experienced singular delay. tho’ sent from Wilmington early in July, they were near 2. months I believe reaching Richmond ; from which place they were forwarded to me on the 18 th of...
6591To John Adams from Samuel Dexter, 9 November 1812 (Adams Papers)
In obedience to the intimation you were so kind as to make I now suggest that it would be gratifying to the claimants of Georgia land that you should say by letter as much as you think proper on the following points. 1st. That it is your opinion & that of the best informed men here that there title is good & valid. 2d. That they have also a strong equity, on these grounds, that the purchasers...
6592To James Madison from the Inhabitants of Bristol County, Massachusetts, 9 November 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
9 November 1812, Easton. “At a cricis like the present, while our Country calls for the zeal of her Patriots; we feel it our duty to rally around its standard and prepare ourselves for action, to defend the rights and liberties achieved us by our forefathers. “We, inhabitants of the United States, citizens and residents within the County of Bristol and commonwealth of Massachusetts the land...
6593Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 9 November 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
A mr James Dinsmore of my neighborhood, a very honest & worthy man himself, is anxious that I should write to you on behalf of a brother of his who lives in the Missipi territory , and who wishes for the place of Reciever of the public monies in that territory now vacant. of the brother I know nothing personally. the one here gives me the strongest assurances of his worth, & if he is like...
6594To James Madison from Wade Hampton, 10 November 1812 (Madison Papers)
I received from Major Genl. Pinckney, soon after my return to Carolina last summer, a letter, authorizing my attention to my private concerns, until the state of the service should require a call to the discharge of my military duties; which, on account of the slow progress made in the recruiting service, I was given to understand, was not very soon to be expected. About the middle of...
6595To James Madison from Thomas Lehré, 10 November 1812 (Madison Papers)
I have just this Moment received from a friend, a Copy of your Message to both Houses of Congress. It has produced a wonderf⟨ul⟩ effect here. It has raised the spirits of ⟨your⟩ friends, and depressed that of your enemies. The manly attitude you have taken in your Message, has given, most completely, the lie, to the base, and unprincipled insinations [ sic ] which a certain set of men &...
6596To James Madison from Christopher Ripley, 10 November 1812 (Madison Papers)
The condescending attention with which you have heared what I have said respecting the affairs of our Country at London, has inspired me with the liveliest sentiments of gratitude, and, I know that I ask much, when I ask for more of your valuable time: but, believing as I do, that it is your wish to do perfect justice to all the public servants, and, knowing that this cannot be done without a...
6597To James Madison from James T. Austin, 10 November 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
10 November 1812, Boston. Encloses an offer of his services “as Judge Advocate in the trial of General Hull.” “I am induced to do this not with a view to any pecuniary recompence which may be attached to a discharge of such duty, but by a professional ambition which I hope is not exceptionable.” RC ( DLC ). 1 p.; docketed by JM. Enclosure not found.
6598To James Madison from David Meade Randolph, 10 November 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
10 November 1812, London. “The public papers announce that the ‘Americans are building Schooners of one hundred and twenty feet in length for privateers’ against England; a circumstance that excites much apprehension here, in the minds of Naval men—and, particularly those from whose information I was able to make you certain communications last winter, on the subject of an ‘Improved system of...
6599Madame de Staël Holstein to Thomas Jefferson, 10 November 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
je suis enfin échappée my dear Sir au joug qui pese sur la moitié de l’Europe et je puis répondre librement à la lettre que vous m’avez fait l’honneur de m’écrire par M r le ray de chaument — les évènements actuels aussi m’incitent à vous dire ma pensée et j’espère que vous accueillerez avec bienveillance ce que ma sincérité m’inspire—je ne prétends point connaitre les circonstances qui ont...
6600To James Madison from Dutee J. Pearce, 11 November 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
11 November 1812, Newport. Although unknown to JM personally, requests the president’s attention to the subject matter of this letter. Suggests that David Barnes’s office as district judge should be filled by “one who is a Republican in principle & in action, & friendly to the present Administration; & one who will not Lean in his Decision one way nor the other, whether the United States, or...