1To James Madison from William Eustis, 27 December 1818 (Madison Papers)
William Gray (1750–1825), a prosperous merchant of Salem, and later Boston, and a state politician, vigorously supported JM’s administration and the War of 1812. He was elected lieutenant governor of Massachusetts as a Republican in 1810 and 1811. In 1816 he was unanimously elected president of the Boston branch of the Second Bank of the United States, and he served in that...
2To James Madison from William Eustis, 6 June 1823 (Madison Papers)
the “long continued opposition to the federal government” during the War of 1812, when “an unhallowed spirit of party was permitted to prevail over the vital interests of the country.”