8611To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 10 November 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
There appears only, in a journalized acct. of the transactions by Rbt Lear a passage under date of June 3—intimating that he sd. be disposed to give time rather than suffer the business to be broken off—& our countrymen left in slavery—with a succeeding intimation that he had consented to the condition, of allowing time for the delivery of the family of the Ex Bashaw. This consent however not...
8612To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 7 January 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The Secretary of State in compliance with the Note of the President, relating to the public property at New Orleans as reported by Governor Claiborne to the Secretary of the Treasury; begs leave to state that no part of that property appears to fall in any respect under the perview of the Department of State, unless it be the Government House, and the lot on which it stands. This it is...
8613To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 25 February 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I think the grounds of a message comunicating Pinkney’s & Armstrong’s letters, should be those of aiding Congs. in appreciating our foreign relations, and in judging of the influence these ought to have on their measures of precaution. The Private letter of P. would perhaps have some good effects; but besides the objection to taking such a liberty with it, the communication might be ascribed...
8614To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 29 February 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreeably to the resolution of the Senate of the 30th November last, the Secretary of State has the honor to submit to the President for the information of the Senate, the statements herewith inclosed from No. 1 to 13 inclusive. No. 1. A statement of impressments from American vessels into the British service, since the last report made from this Department on the 5th. March, 1806, founded...
8615To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 15 March 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
It appears that Skipwith did not communicate the Milan Decree; nor is it otherwise authenticated to us than in the Madrid Gazette & the reference in the Spanish decree. It cannot be said, that all ports are forbidden to neutrals except their own. The British decrees permit a trade with Enemy colonies, not forbidden by the Mother Countries. The ports of neutrals are also open to each other, as...
8616To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 24 March 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
incapable of giving a valid consent to their alienation in others belong to persons who may refer altogether to alienate, or demand a compensation far beyond the liberal justice allowable in such cases. From these causes the defence of our sea board, so necessary to be pressed during the present season, will in various ports be defeated, unless a remedy can be applied. With a view to this I...
8617To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 1 April 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
A Report to the President. The Secretary of State has the honor to Report to the President in conformity to the Resolution of the House of Representatives of the 30th. of March, that the only information which has been received respecting the letter from which the extract inserted in Genl. Armstrong’s letter to the Secretary of State, of January 22d. 1808, was taken in the extract itself to...
8618Proclamation on the Embargo, 19 April 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
By the President of the United States, A Proclamation whereas information has been recieved that sundry persons are combined or combining & confederating together on lake Champlain & the country thereto adjacent for the purposes of forming insurrections against the authority of the laws of the US. for opposing the same & obstructing their execution, and that such combinations are too powerful...
8619Proclamation on the Embargo, 19 April 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
By the President of the United States. A Proclamation. Whereas information has been received that sundry persons are combined or combining and confederating together on lake Champlain and the Country thereto adjacent for the purposes of forming insurrections against the authority of the laws of the United States, for opposing the same and obstructing their execution, and that such combinations...
8620To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 11 May 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Shortly after you set out from Washington, I was called on by Mr. E. Livingston, and requested to be the channel of a representation to the Executive on the subject of the Batture. Without adverting to the nature of the question involved, which connects it rather with the Dept. of Treasury than of State. I did not refuse the request; and recd. from him afterwards the letter and documents...
8621To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 15 May 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I got home on friday night, by taking my carriage to pieces & making three trips with it over Porter’s mill pond in something like a boat, and swimming my horses. I found the roads over the flat lands much better than I had hoped. Having been once dry and smoothed, the rains did not penetrate and left them very passable even where slightly covered with water. I was glad to learn that you had...
8622To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 16 May 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Finding on my return from a little ride, that the post was here without my having recd a key to the mail, I thought it best to have a link of the chain taken off, rather than take the alternative. Hence the mail goes open; but I am enabled to send the letters addressed to me for your perusal. There are letters from Erving but old & not worth forwarding, In fact I take all of them to be...
8623To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 31 May 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just recd. by the Bearer the inclosed letter. As I understand that the writer Mr. V. and Mr. Dunbar, are both of them acquainted with the established course in such cases, I fulfill their expectations as well as keep within the rule of propriety, in merely saying that I believe both to be men of respectable characters; and consequently not excluded from the ordinary indulgence grantable...
8624To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 2 June 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of yesterday was duly delivered by the Rider. I have informed him, that I do not wish him to make any additional trips on my account. It is my purpose to set out for Washington a day or two after you do. I shall be able to fix the day by the time you call on us. which I hope you will find it not inconvenient to do on your way. If you should return in the course you came, it will be an...
8625To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 29 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The Bearer Mr. Dade has just handed me the inclosed which he wishes to support with your; the object it explains. In addition to the testimonies of Mr Taylor &c &c I have a letter from my brother which speaks the same language, as justified by his personal knowledge. I was but slightly acquainted myself, with Mr Dade, but his character as I have always viewed it thro’ his standing in the...
8626To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 31 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just recd. yours of the 29. and inclose the papers noted “to be returned.” I think the best, and probably not the most expensive conveyance of Mr. J: will be in a small public vessel, whether she go directly to his destination, or deliver him in France, and, unless, previous to his departure, collateral reasons should urge an early communication to France or England, it appears to be...
8627To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 3 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The letter from me respecting the Leonidas was with the papers returned. I considered it as a mistake: But the letter was of so little acct. that I have not preserved it. Can you tell me any thing of the Randolph who has written one of the inclosed letters? We have had fine rains since my arrival, and as this neighborhood had not previously suffered from drouth, our fields are very promising....
8628To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 7 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I return the letters of Randolph, and Riddle. The complaint in that of the latter has been the subject of al from others as he intimates. I was not aware that any of them except McKinley were as respectable as he describes them. But answers to such letters are always to be avoided, farther than they may be given by the result itself. McKinley was answered verbally thro’ his friend Mr. Jackson,...
8629To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 10 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I received last evening yours of the 9th. with the papers to which it refers and now return as desired Sullivan’s and Ishomel’s letters with your proposed answer to the former. The questions arising on them are not without difficulty, and this is not a little increased by the spirit which seems to haunt the Governor. His letter furnishes agst. his own statements the inference which is...
8630To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 14 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 12th. with the papers it refers to came duly to hand. Among the letters now forwarded is one from Turreau inclosing a copy of one to him from Mr. Gallatin. He appears to have drawn conclusions from his conference with Mr. G. not warranted by it. Mine with him merely referred him to Mr. G. I think it will be not amiss, as he has acted & incurred expence in the case, to sanction...
8631To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 17 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 16 with the papers sent with it, were recd. last evening. Mr. Short did not seize exactly my ideas as to the concealment of his mission. If this could be made effectual, and freed from the appearance of being studied, by a direct voyage to St. P., I think it would be best. But if he is to pass thro’ France, a frank but general disclosure of his destination wd. be preferable to an...
8632To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 20 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of yesterday reached me this morning, and I acknowledge it now, for the Mail of tomorrow. I return your draft of an answer to the Memorials from Philada. with a few small alterations pencilled. One of them is intended to avoid the implication that no rapine had reached us on the Continent, where certainly we have suffered much, altho’ not in a way to justify belligerent charges agst. our...
8633To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 21 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Unwilling to detain the Rider, I send the letters recd. by him witht. remark. It is possible we may be able to set out for Monticello on Wednesday next. This will however depend on circumstances. Yrs &c &c DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
8634To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 4 September 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The packet brought me by the mail of friday from Milton, was strangely delayed somewhere; more than by the mistake which carried it to Monticello. It contained the inclosed letter from Pinkney, which has a much better flavour that his preceding one of the 22d. June. Should any future packets or letters from the Office of State, get to Monticello in the first instance, I beg you to open them....
8635To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 7 September 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favors of the 5th. & 6th. were duly recd. last evening. I return Mr. S.s letter; with the Addresses from Boston &c. and the proposed answer. The few changes which I have suggested, if proper will speak for themselves. It is a nice task to speak of war, so as to impress our own people with a dislike to it, and not impress foreign Govts. with the idea that they may take advantage of the...
8636To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 14 September 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of yesterday was duly recd. by the rider. I return Shorts & A’s letters. Your observations on the latter place the subject of it in its true point of view. Perhaps the mail of today may bring me a letter of the same date, that may have lost the last mail by passing thro’ the office of State. If the letter to you be the sole communication it is another example from that quarter, of...
8637To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 18 September 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Inclosed herewith are Letters from Armstrong & Ervine recd. by the Mail of Wednesday, and which could not of course be sooner forwarded. I add also sundry others of minor importance. Armstrong’s letters leave me wholly at a loss as to the time & place of the St. Michael’s return. From the permission of her return to France from Falmouth I fear that is to be her course; and what almost confirms...
8638To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 20 September 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
If you gave attention to Turreaus letter of Aug. 31 you will have seen in its stile & some of its remarks an arrogance which ought not to pass wholly unnoticed. That I may commit no error in the answer, I inclose the draft of one under an unsealed cover to Mr. Graham. You will either forward it directly to him, with your own corrections, or return it to me to be corrected according to your...
8639To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 21 September 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I return the letter of Mr. G. with that of Soderstrom & the opinions of the Lawyers. From a hasty perusal of them, I think the construction of Mr. Gallatin is clearly established. The exception in the Proviso to the Embargo law, ought to be taken strictly according to a general rule, unless the obvious policy of the law admit a latitude. Here the policy, notwithstanding the views taken of it...
8640To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 25 September 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours by Mr. Chisolm was duly handed to me. I shall look for you & Mr. Barlow on Wednesday, & for the pleasure of your company at dinner. Among the papers herewith enclosed are a letter from Mr. Hackley of late date, and a Spanish documt. confirming the victory over Dupont. The letter from Graham mentions the disaster at the Capitol, of which it is probable you will have had a more particular...