11From James Madison to William Harris Crawford, [4 February 1817] (Madison Papers)
Banks throughout the nation had generally been reluctant to resume specie payments after the conclusion of the War of 1812. At a 6 Aug. 1816 convention of delegates representing banks in New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, it was resolved that it would not be safe for state banks to resume specie payments before the first Monday in...
12From James Madison to William Harris Crawford, 23 September 1816 (Madison Papers)
...auditors of the Treasury Department decided that Hull was not entitled to receive two salaries for holding appointments as territorial governor of Michigan and commander of the Northwest Army during the War of 1812, the assumption being that Hull’s acceptance of the latter office necessarily ended his tenure in the former. Hull contested this ruling on the grounds that it was understood...
13From James Madison to Richard Cutts, 23 May 1811 (Madison Papers)
Naval War of 1812
14From James Madison to Alexander J. Dallas, 10 May 1815 (Madison Papers)
U.S. Army in the War of 1812
15From James Madison to the Delegations of Several Indian Nations, [ca. 22 August] 1812 (Madison Papers)
), in which JM recalled his “Talk” to “deputations from a number of tribes to the seat of Govt.” at the commencement of the War of 1812.
16From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, [ca. 26 August] 1812 (Madison Papers)
Naval War of 1812
17From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 6 June 1813 (Madison Papers)
Naval War of 1812Naval War of 1812
18James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 12 March 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
edition of the above work stating that it had been “prepared and committed to the press” prior to the conclusion of the War of 1812; that it “would have been difficult, even if it were desirable, to withold” it from the public; and that a refutation of the accusations brought against the United States government was “necessary, in peace as much...
19James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 10 May 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Heidler and Heidler, War of 1812
20From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 19 October 1810 (Madison Papers)
...justice, deserters from the United States Army, and land-jobbers, would constitute a majority who would be unwilling that West Florida should come under the jurisdiction of the United States” (“Recollections of the Civil History of the War of 1812,”