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)
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14From James Madison to Alexander J. Dallas, 10 May 1815 (Madison Papers)
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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)
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17From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 6 June 1813 (Madison Papers)
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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,”
21James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 15 February 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
authorizing payments for various types of property lost in the War of 1812 was approved on 3 Mar. 1817 (
22From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 19 April 1811 (Madison Papers)
, 16 Apr. 1811; “Recollections of the Civil History of the War of 1812,”
23James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 6 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
The Naval War of 1812: A Documentary History
24From James Madison to William Jones, 6 September 1813 (Madison Papers)
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25From James Madison to James Monroe, [ca. 11 August 1814] (Madison Papers)
59, War of 1812 Papers, Correspondence regarding Passports). In 59, War of 1812 Papers, Correspondence regarding Passports). In a 28 July 1814 letter to Monroe, Attorney General Richard Rush had given his opinion that under “An Act to prohibit the use of licenses or passes granted by the authority of...
26From James Madison to James Monroe, [14 July 1814] (Madison Papers)
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27From James Madison to James Monroe, 26 July 1816 (Madison Papers)
evidently returned the 14 and 15 May 1816 dispatches of John Quincy Adams, which described conversations with Lord Castlereagh about the return of slaves carried off by British officers during the War of 1812 (
28From James Madison to James Monroe, 1 May 1814 (Madison Papers)
59, War of 1812 Papers, Misc. Letters Received concerning the Release of Prisoners; Clift,
29From James Madison to the North Carolina Legislature, 11 December 1813 (Madison Papers)
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30From James Madison to the Senate, 18 November 1814 (Madison Papers)
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31Annual Message to Congress, 20 September 1814 (Madison Papers)
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32Memorandum on Cabinet Meeting, 7 June 1814 (Madison Papers)
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33Memorandum for Alexander J. Dallas, [ca. November 1814] (Madison Papers)
For the Prince Regent’s 9 Jan. 1813 statement blaming the United States for causing the War of 1812, see U.S. Army in the War of 1812,
34Letter of Introduction for Henry Lee, [April] 1813 (Madison Papers)
59, War of 1812 Papers, Correspondence regarding Passports), conveying JM’s request that Taylor obtain permission from Admiral Sir John Borlase Warren for Lee, “in whose welfare the President takes much interest,” to travel to the West Indies; Lee to...
35Memorandum of Conversations with John Armstrong, 24 August 1814 (Madison Papers)
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36Memorial of the Shawnee Indians of Lewistown, Ohio, [January 1816] (Madison Papers)
Capt. / Col. John Lewis was a prominent Shawnee leader, residing in Logan County, Ohio, who initially remained neutral in the War of 1812. In 1814, however, he led a party of Shawnee to participate in Brig. Gen. Duncan McArthur’s raid into Upper Canada,
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37Executive Pardon, 20 July 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
, 2:367). The order of 5 Sept. 1812 notwithstanding, death penalty cases continued to come to JM’s attention throughout the War of 1812.
38Notes on the British Force at Tangier Island, ca. 12 June 1814 (Madison Papers)
...five of the wounded were black marines from a corps of at least two hundred escaped slaves trained under Adm. Sir George Cockburn in May 1814 on Tangier Island (Cassell, “Slaves of the Chesapeake Bay Area and the War of 1812,”
39Annual Message to Congress, 7 December 1813 (Madison Papers)
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40Memorandum on Robert Smith, [ca. 11] April 1811 (Madison Papers)
In his diary Joseph Gales, Jr., recorded that Smith declined the mission to Russia, “as it was rumored and believed, by the advice of General Armstrong” (“Recollections of the Civil History of the War of 1812,”
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