26631Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 5 August 1829 (Madison Papers)
May I take the liberty to ask that you will be so good as to read the enclosed pamphlet, and to inform me whether the argument in the speech respecting the rights of the parties to the Compact, be sound and in conformity to your own views of the subject, and if there be error, where & to what extent, it exists. The subject is very important, & the views here taken. of it, somewhat new, and...
26632Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 12 January 1832 (Madison Papers)
Your favour of 2d. ult: was received in due time by the mail at this place. The copy of your letter to Mr. Townsend of South Carolina was communicated to Mr. Pleasants, agreeably to your permission: & it would have been returned to you in conformity to your request, before now, had it not been for my indisposition, leaving me barely time to attend to my indispensable duties at this place. I...
26633Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 24 March 1829 (Madison Papers)
I received by yesterday’s mail your favor of 19 inst. and lose no time in acknowledging the relief it has afforded to my mind. To save you trouble I will recall the request that you will furnish me with copies of my letters requesting you to write me on the subject of the Tariff, and desiring permission to publish your letters. Before your letter of 19th inst. reached me, I had very much...
26634Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 14 May 1829 (Madison Papers)
I have put off copying my letters which you were so good as to send me under cover of yours of the 4th March, and I have done so with the less hesitancy, because I had much writing to do in a debilitated state of health, and I supposed that their immediate return was of no importance to you. I write now, just on the eve of my departure for Corottoman, to say, that as it will be a convenience...
26635Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 26 November 1828 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of 22d. came to hand by the last mail, and in full time for the purpose contemplated. The correction and addition directed in regard to your letters of the 18th Sepr. and the 30th Oct: have been made. Should any thing further occur to you, be pleased to direct to me at Richmond. Some time next week I shall set out for that place, having been detained longer at home this fall than...
26636Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 28 November 1831 (Madison Papers)
I beg leave to enclose for your perusal a letter which I lately received from the Editor of the Constitutional Whig, and also a letter recently addressed to him by a Mr. Townsend in South Carolina. This communication has reached me in the midst of my preparations for a long absence from home. I have sent a note to Mr. Pleasants declining to answer Mr. Townsend’s letter, but promising, on my...
26637Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 3 December 1829 (Madison Papers)
It would have afforded me much gratification to have an opportunity of occasionally conversing with you in a confidential manner during my short stay in this place. But the structure of this boarding House & the circumstances under which we are placed, seem to render it impracticable to touch on private topics. I have therefore determined to write you a few hasty lines. I should have written...
26638Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 20 October 1828 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of 5. inst reached me by the last mail from the North: and I confess, filled me with regret. From your silence I had drawn the inference that you had determined to leave me to pursue my own inclination in regard to your letter of the 18th Sep. and I had made up my mind to encounter the abuse of the presses hostile to your doctrines, for giving publicity to your opinions without...
26639Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 26 May 1830 (Madison Papers)
I returned to this place last evening from the northern neck, after an absence of three weeks. I received your favor of 10th Apl. with Mr. Grimke’s pamphlet just before I set out on my journey, and should have written you sooner, but for the mass of business which has engrossed my attention in the interval, & my frequent & rapid journies. On my arrival here I took up the Conl. Whig of the...
26640Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 24 February 1829 (Madison Papers)
I fear my long silence in regard to your last letters of the 2d. and 15th inst. may have induced you to think me ungrateful & inattentive. It has arisen, I assure you, from the pressure of my public duties, and from ill health. I was in the Senate yesterday to vote upon the Tariff Resolutions, after a confinement to my bed for some days, and I am again confined to my chamber. For two or three...