1Robert Howard to Alexander J. Dallas, 7 May 1816 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of a Commission from the President of the United States, forwarded from your department, appointing James Horlbeck, James Carson and myself, Commissioners for receiving subscriptions to the National Bank in the City of Charleston. Mr. Horlbeck and myself accept of the appointment, but the precarious state of Mr. Carson’s health requires his absence...
2Thomas Jefferson to Alexander J. Dallas, 26 February 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
According to request in your’s of the 12 th I will give the best statement I can of Isaac Briggs ’s case with the joint aid of memory and the papers to which I have recourse. After the acquisition of Louisiana it became extremely interesting to the government of the US. that the communication between Washington & New Orleans should be made as short and rapid as possible. it seemed to me very...
3Thomas Jefferson to Alexander J. Dallas, 26 February 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
My other two letters being on distinct subjects, and to go perhaps into other hands, I write this separately. will you pardon a criticism on your tariff which the public papers have given us compleat, but as yet without the report explaining it’s principles? having written to Europe for some wines, I was led by curiosity to look at that part of the tariff to see what duties I should have to...
4Thomas Jefferson to Alexander J. Dallas, 20 October 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
On the establishment of the offices of Assessor & Collector of the land tax, the first being all-important to us, I recommended , on a consultation with others a mr Peter Minor for it: but the office of Collector being given to an inhabitant of this county the principle of geographical distribution prevailed for the other in favor of a mr Armistead . the present Collector
5Thomas Jefferson to Alexander J. Dallas, 26 February 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
When the law past laying a direct tax, & established the offices of Assessor & Collector, as it appeared that the first of these officers would be of extreme importance to the landholders, whose property would be taxed very much at his will, I consulted such principal men of our district as I was able to see, and there was but one opinion on the subject. all agreed they would rather trust to...
6Thomas Jefferson to Alexander J. Dallas, 7 December 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I tender my sincere congratulations on the occasion of your counsel and services being engaged for the public, and trust they will feel their benefit. the post department to which you are called is the most arduous now in our government, and is that on which every other depends for it’s motion. were our commerce open, no degree of contribution would be felt; but shut up as it is, the call on...
7Thomas Jefferson to Alexander J. Dallas, 18 April 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
De Your favor of Feb. 21. was recieved in due time. I thought it a duty to spare you the trouble of reading an useless answer, and have therefore delayed acknoleging it until now. not having revised the library for many years, I expected that books would be missing without being able to conjecture how many, and that in that case a deduction should be made for the deficient volumes. I have gone...
8From James Madison to Alexander J. Dallas, 21 July 1816 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. yours of the 16th. inclosing the propositions of Mr. Hassler, the Report of the Collector of Philada. and the letter from Mr Irving. The importance of the object, and the peculiar fitness of Mr. Hassler for it, prescribe an acquiescence in his terms. Will it not be better to throw his paper into the form of instructions and explanations accompanying his appointment, than to let it...
9From James Madison to Alexander J. Dallas, 22 September 1815 (Madison Papers)
Yours of the 18th. has just reached me, enclosing two letters from Mr. Adams which are returned. Our engagements in Europe must be fulfilled both with a view to justice and to the public credit. In doing this there are so many reasons for preferring the purchase of bills to the sale of Stock abroad, where there is an approach to equality of loss, that I concur in your opinion in favor of the...
10From James Madison to Alexander J. Dallas, 16 June 1816 (Madison Papers)
I return your communications of the 12th. inst. with my approbation of what you propose in relation to the Cumberland Road. Perplexing as this business is, it will become more so I fear, if Mr. Shriver should withdraw from it. He has, notwithstanding the impatience of some, more of the public confidence than will probably be enjoyed by a successor. And if a distrust of the Agent be added to...