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From James Madison to Benjamin Rush, [3 May 1790]

To Benjamin Rush

[3 May 1790]

… Your hint as to addresses from the H. of Rep. to the National Assembly was perfectly new.1 I am far from thinking that such a measure might not be formed as [to] do credit to this Country and good to both….

Printed extract (Parke-Bernet Catalogue No. 468, “The Alexander Biddle Papers” [1943], pt. 1, item 151).

1. See PJM description begins Robert J. Brugger et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series (1 vol. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 1986—). description ends , 13:175–76.

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    From James Madison to Benjamin Rush, [3 May 1790]
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    “From James Madison to Benjamin Rush, [3 May 1790],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-17-02-0368. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, vol. 17, 31 March 1797–3 March 1801 and supplement 22 January 1778–9 August 1795, ed. David B. Mattern, J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne K. Cross, and Susan Holbrook Perdue. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1991, pp. 546–547.]

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