1To James Madison from Erastus Roberts, 2 September 1813 (Madison Papers)
...triumph, than we saw a tribe of sticklers for whipping endeavouring to defeat the wise purposes of Congress and evade its laws. At first they invented an instrument of punishment or torture similar to a harrow, and the criminal, without any trial, not even a mock trial of predetermined Judges, was conveyed to a tree, and made to stand upon the sharp pegs with his bare feet any length...
2To James Madison from Solomon Bartlett, 5 November 1813 (Madison Papers)
...suckteful this yare the feddrls have lost theire power and is like to foll to note many are turning back again grat sukses to youre electshon O shall days or months or years ware out youre naim you vallant harrow shorely the lord is with you I have no dought in me but the lord will direct youre way he is able to make youre nixt lectshon sronger then the last Boyed and my self did all we for...