7381James Madison to George Tucker, 30 April 1830 (Madison Papers)
I have recd yours of Mar. 29, in which you intimate your purpose of undertaking a biography of Mr. Jefferson. It will be a good subject in good hands. And I wish you may succeed in procuring the means of doing full justice to both. I know not that I shall be able to make any important contributions. I was a stranger to Mr Jefferson, till he took his seat in 1776 in the first Legislature under...
7382James Madison to Thomas S. Grimke, 1 May 1830 (Madison Papers)
J.M. with his respects to Mr. G offers his acknowledgments, for the Copy of his address before the Richland School recommending the Bible as a Class book in all Seminaries of Education. The copy for the University of Virginia subsequently recd. has been duly forwarded. Draft (DLC) .
7383James Madison to Martin L. Hurlbut, 1 May 1830 (Madison Papers)
I recd. Sir, tho’ not exactly in the due time, your letter of April 25. with a copy of your pamphlet, on the subject of which you request my opinions. With a request opening so wide a field I could not undertake a full compliance, without forgetting the age at which it finds me, and that I have other engagements precluding such a task. I must hope therefore you will accept in place of it, a...
7384James Madison to Martin L. Hurlbut, 1 May 1830 (Madison Papers)
I received Sir, tho’ not exactly in the due time, your letter of April 25th. with a copy of your pamphlet, on the subject of which you request my opinions With a request opening so wide a field, I could not undertake a full compliance, without forgetting the age at which it finds me, and that I have other engagements precluding such a task. I must hope therefore, you will accept in place of...
7385James Madison to Edward Livingston, 8 May 1830 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of April 29 with the copy of your speech was duly recd.; but not without a little delay occasioned by a misdirection of it to Charlottesville instead of Orange Court House. You have succeeded better in your interpretation of the Virginia proceedings in 98-99 than those who have seen in them, a co-incidence with the Nullifying doctrine so called. This doctrine as new to me as it was...
7386James Madison to George McDuffie, 8 May 1830 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. a copy of the late Report, on the Bank of the U.S. and finding by the name on the envelope, that I am indebted for the communication to your politeness, I tender you my thanks for it. The document contains very interesting & instructive views of the subject; particularly of the objectionable features in the substitute proposed for the existing Bank. I am glad to find that the...
7387James Madison to Marsh, Capen, and Lyon, 11 May 1830 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 4th. inst in which you suggest a compilation for the press, of my writings on political subjects With respect to such of them as have been already in print, I have no reason to suppose that a republication of them would be of the avail estimated by your partiality. And as to any manuscripts among my papers, the contents of which may be worthy of preservation,...
7388James Madison to William Allen, 14 May 1830 (Madison Papers)
I shall have occasion to draw on you for $150 payable on the 20th. inst: and I must request you to place prior to the 25th. inst. $120. in the B. Bank of the U.S. at Richmond, subject to the draft of Edward Coles. You will of course sell my flour to those amounts, if not already sold. Friendly respects Draft (DLC) .
7389James Madison to Josiah Stoddard Johnston, 14 May 1830 (Madison Papers)
J. Madison with his respects to Mr. Johnston, returns many thanks for the copy of his late very able speech in the Senate of the U. States. It would seem not easy to resist the force of its reasoning against the doctrine, which claims for the States, individually, a constitutional veto, having the effect of nullifying a law, unless overruled by three-forths of the States. RC ( ViU ); draft (DLC) .
7390James Madison to Bernard Peyton, 14 May 1830 (Madison Papers)
You will receive, from my waggons, now preparing to set out 4 more Hhds of Tobo. I inclose a note annexing to the number of each Hhd [?] particular character. We calculate that there will be at least a dozen more, which will be forwarded as fast as possible. But as these with some exceptions, will be of inferior quality, I leave it to your better judgt. to decide, whether the prospects in the...
7391James Madison to James Hillhouse, 17 May 1830 (Madison Papers)
I have received your letter of the 10th. instant with the pamphlet containing the proposed amendments of the Constitution of the United States, on which you request my opinion and remarks. Whatever pleasure might be felt in a fuller compliance with your request, I must avail myself of the pleas of the age I have reached, and of the controul of other engagements, for not venturing on more than...
7392James Madison to James Monroe, 18 May 1830 (Madison Papers)
I have just recd. yours of the 13th. We had been led to hope that your health was better established than you represent it. As it is progressive and your Constitution, tho’ like mine the worse for wear, has remains of good stamina, I will not despair of the pleasure of seeing you in July, and making a visit together to the University. Should prudence forbid such a journey, I think you ought...
7393James Madison to Thomas Ritchie, 24 May 1830 (Madison Papers)
J. Madison with his respects to Mr. R. remarks that a Marginal note in the Enquire[r] of the 18th. infers from the pages of Helvidius, that J.M. solemnly protested agst. the Proclamation of Neutrality," as it has been called. The Protest was not agst. the Proclamation, but agst. the Executive Prerogative, attempted to be engrafted on it in the publication of Pacificus to which that of...
7394James Madison to Peleg Sprague, 27 May 1830 (Madison Papers)
J. M. presents to his respects to Mr. Sprague, with many thanks for the Copy of his Speech on the 16th. of April; which may justly be classed with the most interesting materials for the Legislative History of the Period. FC (DLC) .
7395James Madison to Daniel Webster, 27 May 1830 (Madison Papers)
I recd. by the mail of yesterday, your favor of the 24th. accompanied by a copy of your late Speech, for which I return my thanks. I had before recd. more than one Copy from other sources; and had read the Speech with a full sense of its powerful bearing on the subjects discussed, and particularly its overwhelming effect on the nullifying doctrine of S. Carolina. Altho I have not concealed my...
7396James Madison to Joseph C. Cabell, 31 May 1830 (Madison Papers)
I recd. yesterday yours of the 26th. Having never concealed my opinion of the nullifying doctrine of S. Carolina, I did not regard the allusion to it in the Whig, especially as the manner of the allusion shewed that I did not obtrude it. I shd. have regretted a publication of my letters, because, they did not combine with the opinion, the views of the subject, which supported it. I have...
7397James Madison to Henry Colman, 1 June 1830 (Madison Papers)
J. M. with his respects to Mr. C. thanks him for the Copy of his "Hints addressed to the farmers of Essex." The Hints deserve attention every where; some of them particularly in this State, which though more & more exchanging its planting for a farming character, is not proportionally advanced in the rules of practice belonging to the latter Draft (DLC) .
7398James Madison to Robley Dunglison, 3 June 1830 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of May 24. was duly recd. & the one inclosed in it conveyed to Mrs. Willis, as you desired, I have not seen her since. I understand her son has been some days at home; with what promises or prospects, of alleviating the misery he has inflicted on her, I know not. Your letter gave us the first knowledge of the alarming attack on Mrs. Dunglison’s health. We rejoice that it is so...
7399James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 3 June 1830 (Madison Papers)
Your favour of May 29 was duly recd. The construction put, in the Presidents message, on the Veto in 1817 agst. the power of Congress as to internal improvements, could not fail to surprize me. To my consciousness that the Veto was meant to deny, as well the appropriating, as the executing & jurisdictional branches of the power, was added, the fact that as far as has ever fallen under my...
7400James Madison to Martin Van Buren, 3 June 1830 (Madison Papers)
J. Madison has duly recd the Copy of the President’s Message forwarded by Mr. Van Buren. In returning his thanks for this polite attention, he regrets the necessity of observing that the Message has not rightly conceived the intention of J. M. in his Veto in 1817. on the Bill relating to Internal Improvements. It was an object of the Veto to deny to Congress, as well the appropriating power,...
7401James Madison to William Henry Harrison, 5 June 1830 (Madison Papers)
I recd. in due time the copy of your "Remarks on Charges made agst. you during your Diplomatic residence in Columbia"; but have been prevented by ill health and other causes, from an earlier acknowledgment of your politeness. I now tender you my thanks for the communication. The Remarks are not only acceptable to your friends as they relate to yourself, but valuable in illustrating the State...
7402James Madison to Bernard Peyton, 5 June 1830 (Madison Papers)
With this will be delivered four Hhds of Tobo. No. 13. equal to the best. 14. short pyebald. 15. & 16. good lugs. There will be at least 12 Hhds. to follow six of them equal to the best, the remaining six inferior. It is not improbable that the quantity yet in bulk will yield several addl. Hhds. The crop wd. have been a fine as well as large one if justice had been done it. I fear it will be...
7403James Madison to George Tucker, 12 June 1830 (Madison Papers)
This will introduce Mr. Laurence late Charge d’Affaires at London, & Mr. Kemble also of N. York. They intend to halt at the University, in a tour they are making thro’ the Virga. and I ask for them the favor of yr. civilities, well assured of that they will be well bestowed With cordial salutations FC (DLC) .
7404James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 16 June 1830 (Madison Papers)
I return with thanks the papers in manuscript, and the printed ones also, wch. belong to your files. My health has been a good deal interrupted for some days, and makes me the more readily avail myself of your kind dispensation from the use of the pen. With Cordial salutations Have you ever met with the "Address of the H. of Delates" which passed the Resolutions of -98– explaining the occasion...
7405James Madison to Howard Malcom, 18 June 1830 (Madison Papers)
The 2 Copies of the "Reports on Prison discipline" referred to in your letter of the 3d. inst: were recd. some days ago. The letter itself was brought by the last mail with the post mark of Charleston S.C. to which it had been missent. The duplicate for a friend I have sent to Mr. Howard as one to both of us. I have not yet been able to give an entire reading to the little volume, but have...
7406James Madison to Robley Dunglison, 23 June 1830 (Madison Papers)
I inclose a copy of a late publication of Mr. Hassler, presented by him as you will observe to the Library of the University. He indulges a hope, that it may be found worthy of adoption into the use of the Institution. Draft (DLC) .
7407James Madison to Ferdinand R. Hassler, 24 June 1830 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. with yr. letter of the 14. 2 Copies of yr. Logarithmic & Trigonometric Tables, and have forwarded to the University the one presented to its Library. For the other I return my personal thanks with an offer of my best wishes that yr. labours in the cause of Science may be duly rewarded With cordl. salutations RC (NN) ; FC (DLC) .
7408James Madison to James Monroe, 30 June 1830 (Madison Papers)
I have not heard a word from you or of you thro’ any Channel, since my letter of the . I augur favorably from this silence, as to your health, and hope to see you here by the 7 or 8th. of the approaching month. I am anxious for your attendance at the Meeting of the Visitors,(on the 10 th. of July), who will have sundry interesting matters before them, particularly the appointment of a...
7409James Madison to Asher Robbins, 3 July 1830 (Madison Papers)
J. Madison with his respects to Mr. Robbins, returns his thanks for the speech of M. R. in the Senate of the U. S. on the 20th. of May. The Constitutional system of the U. S. being truly a Non-descript, can not be explained by the classifying & technical terms applied to other Governments; and the speech has judiciously adopted the mode of precise delineation of its features, according to the...
7410James Madison to Martin Van Buren, 5 July 1830 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of June 9th. came duly to hand. On the subject of the discrepancy between the construction put by the message of the President on the Veto of 1817. and the intention of its author, the President will of course consult his own view of the case. For myself, I am aware that the document must speak for itself, and that that intention can not be substituted for the established rules of...