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From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, [27 January 1806]

To Thomas Jefferson

Monday [27 January 1806]

J. M. with respectful complts. to the Presidt. suggests an attention to the last paragraph in the Rept. to him concerning interpolations,1 lest it should not square with what was represented in the first Message agst. Spanish outrages on the high seas.2 The report was to go to the Presidt. on saturday or yesterday. A Baltimore paper has published Yrujo’s letter to the Dept: of State commenting on the Message, with a circular to the Diplomatic corps here;3 and further appeals to the public may be expected. The section in Cobbet on the Amern. dispute is worth perusal.4 The P. will please to return the letter from Gen: Gates.5

RC (DLC: Jefferson Papers). Undated; conjectural date assigned based on Jefferson’s docket “recd. Jan. 27. Interpolations” and internal evidence.

1. See JM to Jefferson, 25 Jan. 1806.

2. For the section dealing with Spain in Jefferson’s fifth annual message, see Ford, Writings of Thomas Jefferson description begins Paul Leicester Ford, ed., The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (10 vols.; New York, 1892–99). description ends , 8:390–91.

3. For Yrujo’s objection to Jefferson’s comments about Spain, see PJM-SS description begins Robert J. Brugger et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series (11 vols. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 1986–). description ends 10:621–25.

4. For William Cobbett’s comments concerning Britain’s dispute with America, see Cobbett’s Weekly Political Register, 8:660–68, 729–30, 754–56.

5. See Horatio Gates to JM, 15 Jan. 1806.

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    “From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, [27 January 1806],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-11-02-0124. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 11, 1 January 1806–31 May 1806, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Anne Mandeville Colony, and Katherine E. Harbury. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2017, p. 241.]

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