551James Madison to John H. Lee, 1 January 1831 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of Novr. 12. was duly recd. and has laid Mrs. Willis and myself under still further obligations for your continued attentions to the troublesome business you have kindly undertaken on our behalf. The inclosed letter expresses Mrs Willis’, concurrence in the expediency of compromizing the dispute with Mrs. Tapscott & Mrs Bell on the condition stated in your letters, and I very...
552James Madison to Frank Carr, December 1830 (Madison Papers)
Your draft of the Rept. of the Visitors for the Genl. Assembly, was duly recd. & I thank you for it. You will see by the return of it, that I made a few alterations, perhaps not all of them for the better. I was afraid that the draft, expressed too strongly the certainty that Mr. Lomax would be continued on the Bench, under the New Constn. That he will be there can be little doubt; but the...
553James Madison to Edward Everett, December 1830 (Madison Papers)
It occurs that the notions prevailing here agst. any subordination in the highest Judicial Authy of the State to that of the U. S. & the spirit of Criticism of which there have been examples, may render the word concurrent , preferable to that of co-ordinate as applied in one of the paragraphs of my letter of —Be so good therefore as to erase the latter & insert the former. The change seems to...
554James Madison: Autobiography, December 1830 (Madison Papers)
J. M. was born on the 5th of Mar. (O. 5) 1751. His parents J. M. & N. (Conway) Madison, resided in the County of Orange in Virga. At the time of his birth they were on a visit to her mother, who resided on the Rappahannoc, at Port Conway in the County of King George. At the age of about 12 years, he was placed by his father under the tuition of Donald Robertson, from Scotland, a man of...
555James Madison: Notes from State Papers, December 1830 (Madison Papers)
Vol. 4. p. 324--"to encourage Agriculture"--How 332--Agricult. manufs. Come. & navy may be protected agst casual combts within [draft?] 449. not too much regulat—meet [un?]equaly [ ] in foreign intercourse 453—"foster fisheries for navy", & food, & protect manufacrs. adaptd. to our [ ] these rules of action [five? fine?] principle of Constn. 5. p. 31 "Take a broader field of Legisln., whether...
556James Madison: Notes on the federal system and the nature of government, December 1830 (Madison Papers)
Compact express or tacit, [begin? bein?] & essence of free Govt. social compact, theoretical, but possible to be realized in [unaccepted?] tendency __________ Majy. to decide, whether a necessary result or an [ ] one _________ Majy. to chuse a Govt. binding on all. __________ Govt. not a party to the compact, but the creature [ ] the compact being among the Governed (sound [construction?...
557James Madison: Autobiographical notes, December 1830 (Madison Papers)
J. M. born 5. March (O. S.) 1751 at seat of maternal grandmother opposite Port Royal—recd. his elementary education at the home of his parents in Orange C.) At the age of 12—placed under the tuition of Donald Robertson a distinguished teacher in King & Queen where he went thro the studies preparatory to a college course. Continued those studies—under Revd Thos. Martin a private tutor in his...
558James Madison: Advice to my Country, December 1830 (Madison Papers)
As this advice, if it ever see the light will not do it till I am no more it may be considered as issuing from the tomb where truth alone can be respected, and the happiness of man alone consulted. It will be entitled therefore to whatever weight can be derived from good intentions, and from the experience of one, who has served his Country in various stations through a period of forty years,...
559James Madison: Notes re publication of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787, December 1830 (Madison Papers)
superfluous, that this brotherhood and particularly the members of it in our view, have a keen conception of their own interest which governs their negociations. Of the other writings of Mr. M. it may not be amiss to use the inducement they offer of inviting liberality in present dealing by anticipated preference in the future. The test of their value may be referred to in what is now offered...
560James Madison to Isaac Winston, 28 December 1830 (Madison Papers)
I recd yesterday yours of the 25th. I wish I could give you a useful answer But my memory affords me no means for it I can say nothing either as to the time of Col. Thorntons entering the military Service or his continuance in it nor can I refer you to any source of information to wch application could be made with a prospect of success. My acquaintance with Col. T. tho’ of the most cordial...
561James Madison to Reynolds Chapman, 22 December 1830 (Madison Papers)
Yours enclosing the paper of Mr Patton was duly recd. Fearing that the delay in hearing from me may be misunderstood, I think it not amiss to mention that I have been prevented from giving it the proper attention by several jobs of the pen, & especially by a painful Rhumatic attack not yet abated. It will give me pleasure to comply with the request you communicated as soon as I can: though it...
562James Madison to Richard M. Johnson, 22 December 1830 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. a letter from Mr. Wm. Emmons accompanied by a copy of the "Fredoniad," elegantly bound; observing at the same time that the Edition had left hanging over him a debt of $2000, and that if disposed to assist the effort $10, the price of the work might be forwarded to you. I am truly sorry that such an undertaking should have left him in such a situation, and consulting only my...
563James Madison to Martin Van Buren, 22 December 1830 (Madison Papers)
Your late favor inclosing the Message of the President was duly recd. And I should have been more prompt in my thanks for your politeness: but for a painful Rheumatic Attack which drew my attention from every thing not immediately & urgently pressing on it. To this apology, permit me to add a avowed renewal of my present respectful & cordial salutations Draft (DLC) .
564James Madison to Thomas Maxwell, 21 December 1830 (Madison Papers)
Your letter inclosing one from Mr. Sloan accompanied by his little pamphlet on Priestcraft, was duly recd. As he wishes you to be the medium of an answer I must ask the favor of you to convey my congratulations on the health and other consolations he enjoys at so advanced a stage of life, and my thanks also for all the kind feelings he expresses towards me. Notwithstanding the lapse of time, I...
565James Madison to James Taylor, 21 December 1830 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of the 15th. recd. by the last mail having made Mrs. Madison a partner in it, she has taken upon herself the answer which I inclose: Her credit is too good to require an endorsement of her assurances of the gratification afforded by the fulfilment of the long promised visit to us, or of the sincerity with which all the good wishes conveyed in your letter, are returned. I cannot...
566James Madison to James Monroe, 15 December 1830 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. yours of the 7th. You will not doubt that our sympathies have been fully with you during the afflictions which have befallen you. I think you have done well in chusing your present situation, & for the reasons you express. I hope you will experience from it all the improvement which your health needs, and every advantage promised by it. My fear is that the Winter may be too rude...
567James Madison to Lafayette, 12 December 1830 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of July 10. by Ruggi was lately forwarded to me. He is now at Charlottesville, hoping that he will not suffer from a credulity, jusqu’a bonhommie, and calling on me "eveiller l’apathie nationale" I have reminded him of the error, apparently without remedy, of his precipitancy in the outset, and of his perseverance for so many years, without seeking the information on which it ought...
568James Madison on authorship of 1795 pamphlet "Political Considerations", 11 December 1830 (Madison Papers)
MR. MADISON’S PAMPHLET. In the Register of the 11th ult. page 193, we copied a paragraph from the Boston Patriot, saying, that a pamphlet now existed, stated by Mr. Jefferson to have been written by James Madison (though published anonymously), in which it is mentioned that " the leading object of the federal convention of 1787, for framing a constitution, to have been, to protect our own...
569James Madison to Martin Van Buren, 11 December 1830 (Madison Papers)
I take a liberty, for which I must again apologize; in requesting that the enclosed letters may be forwarded with the first dispatches from the Office of State for Paris & Liverpool, renewing to you, at the same time, assurances of my high esteem & cordial respects. FC (DLC) .
570James Madison to James Maury, 10 December 1830 (Madison Papers)
If I had less confidence in your goodness, I should want resolution to approach you with an apology for my long silence, since your last favor was added to the balance against me. Throughout the period my health, with short intervals, has been much affected, and the intervals happened to be occupied with drudgeries of the pen, which I could not well shun. [Your intelligent and interesting son...
571James Madison to Philip Pendleton Kennedy, 8 December 1830 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of Novr 22 came in due time. The pamphlet to which it refers was not received till the 5th instant. The more the doctrine under the name of "Nullification" is examined, the more it is found irreconciliable with the moral obligation involved in political compacts, the test to which the pamphlet justly and impressively brings the doctrine, as applied to the Constitutional compact of...
572James Madison to Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 7 December 1830 (Madison Papers)
I enclose two letters from Giacomo Ruggi, & a letter from Genl Lafayette on the subject of them. I enclose also an undated answer to Ruggi who appears to have been equally precipitate in his outset, and neglectful in suffering such a lapse of time, without seeking the information on which his perseverance should have depended. If you think a different answer could be safely given, be so good...
573James Madison to Giacomo Raggi, 6 December 1830 (Madison Papers)
Your 2 letters one from N. Y. inclosing a letter from Genl. Lafayette, the other from Charlottesville have been duly recd The miscalculation on which you happened to proceed, and the long period which elapsed without seeking the information by which your perseverance was to be decided are much to be regretted; and the more so, as a remedy for the case does not offer itself. However the...
574James Madison to Edward Everett, 5 December 1830 (Madison Papers)
The copy of your Lecture on the Working Men’s party was duly recd; and presuming you to be now at Washington, I address thither my thanks for the pleasure afforded by the judicious interesting and well-timed observations, which you availed yourself of the occasion to inculcate. With cordial esteem RC ( MHi : Everett Collection); draft (DLC) .
575James Madison to Israel Keech Teftt, 3 December 1830 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. Sir, your letter of Novr. 17. accompanied by one from the Revd. Mr. Sprague, and in compliance with your request, I inclose autographs of certain individuals such as you refer to. I would willingly have given with their names more of their writing, but could not do it without mutilating the sense, or embracing matter of a private nature. There is particularly a difficulty where...
576James Madison to Andrew Stevenson, 27 November 1830 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. my dear Sir your letter of the 20th. with a just sensibility to the kind feelings it expresses, and I hope you will not doubt with an unfeigned reciprocity of them. The more of frankness you put into observations on the subjects wch entered in our late conversations, the more acceptable as well as valuable they will be; that being a quality without which no interchange of thoughts...
577James Madison to Frederick A. Packard, 26 November 1830 (Madison Papers)
I have just recd. your letter of the 20th. with the two pamphlets sent by the same mail. I should feel a pleasure in satisfying the enquiry you make with respect to "the circumstances attending the final vote on the Declaration of Independence, and in what sense, if in any, it was unanimously adopted." But not being a member of the Congress of that date, I can have no personal knowledge of...
578James Madison to Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 22 November 1830 (Madison Papers)
I inclose for yourself & Genl. Cocke, a letter from Docr Johnson, requesting the sanction of the Executive Committee to a course of Instruction to private pupils on the principles of Dentistry If the measure do not fall within the spirit of the Enactment (page 16) imposing a restraint on Professors, or be sanctioned by precedent no objection would seem to be called for; the object itself being...
579James Madison to Thomas Johnson, 21 November 1830 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 17th. relating of a Course of Instructions on the principles of Dentristry"; and will communicate it to the other members of the Ex. Committee: from whom you will learn the views taken of the subject. With cordial esteem Draft (DLC) .
580James Madison to John A. G. Davis, 18 November 1830 (Madison Papers)
I recd. yesterday your letter inclosing the Bills of Exchange for Messrs. Nicklin & Johnson, and gave them immediately the proper destination in the compleated form. The approach of the day when the annual Report of the Visitors for the Genl. Assembly is to be made, will apologize for my reminding you of the request that you would soon follow the example of your Predecessor in the...
581James Madison to William Lee, 17 November 1830 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. my dear Sir your letter of the 9th. inst: and Mrs. Madison unites with me in offering congratulations on the event which it communicates, and which opens for you the welcome prospect of so much domestic happiness. The friendly feelings we have thro’ a long period entertained for you, will assure you of the sincerity with which we make the offer, and add to it, with our cordial...
582James Madison to Edward Coles, 8 November 1830 (Madison Papers)
I recd., my dear Sir, by the last mail yours of the 4th. inst very unexpectedly from the place of its date. It gave us however the first agreeable evidence that your brother Tucker must have been relieved from his critical illness. The latest previous accounts had produced much anxiety; and it was under a great pressure of it, that Mrs. & Mr. Stevenson left us for Richmond. Mrs. S. herself was...
583James Madison to I. Irvine Hitchcock, 4 November 1830 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of the 20th. Ult. was not recd. till yesterday. It probably took some erroneous course before it arrived at the Post Office near me. (Orange Ct House) I enclose $4 in discharge of the acct. forwarded. The blame of delay is chargeable in part at least on Mr. Skinner; as will appear from my letter to him of Apl. 14. 1829, in which I requested him to mention the balance due from me....
584James Madison to A. Crozet, 25 October 1830 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 7th. inst postmarked Octr 16 Columbia and in answering it, have to inform you that provision has already been made for the situation in the University of Virga. for which you offer yourself a Candidate. With respect Draft (DLC) .
585James Madison to Walter T. Brooke, 23 October 1830 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 20th & wish I could give you the requested information. But if I ever had any knowledge of the time when Commodore Brooke was commissioned in the Virga. State Navy, I have now no recollection of the circumstance: nor do I possess the means of otherwise ascertaining it. I am sorry that I can not even refer you to any living source, from which the desired...
586James Madison to Thomas S. Grimké, 23 October 1830 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 14th. inst: and with a view to the information it requests concerning our University, inclose a printed Copy of its Statutes, with one of the By laws of the Faculty, and a manuscript statement of the expences of a Student. There are a few Resolutions of the Visitors not yet in print, but not material to your object. With respect to the course of Study, it is to...
587James Madison to Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 23 October 1830 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. yours of the 18th. post marked 20th. inclosing the Bill of Nickline & Johnson. I am afraid the authority over us, will think the acct. very heavy one. The papers shewing the precise situation of the sterling fund, being I believe in the hands of the last Chairman of the Faculty or the Secretary of the Board of Visitors, I must ask the favor of you, to have a draft in the adapted...
588James Madison to Henry R. Schoolcraft, 23 October 1830 (Madison Papers)
J. Madison with his respects to Mr. Schoolcraft, thanks him for the copy of his valuable discourse before "the Historical Socty of Michigan". To the seasonable exhortation which it gives to others, it adds an example which may be advantageously followed. RC ( DLC : Papers of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, box 4); draft (DLC) .
589James Madison to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 20 October 1830 (Madison Papers)
This [will] be handed to you by [James] To[dd from] Philada. who intends to enter himself a Student of the University. Being young & a perfect stranger, he will need all the kindness, in getting him properly settled which I well know yr. readiness to bestow in such cases. It is particularly desirable that he shd have in his dormitory an advantageous associate. He proposes to attend the Schools...
590James Madison to Robert M. Patterson, 18 October 1830 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 15th. It would certainly be very agreeable for the reasons you suggest to grant the indulgences wished by Mr Garland. But if the objection as a precedent be got over, there is a more serious difficulty in the defect of a dispensing power. The Rector as such has no power whatever in the recess of the Board of Visitors. All the delegated Power, is in the Executive...
591James Madison to Charles J. Ingersoll and Others, 13 October 1830 (Madison Papers)
J. Madison has recd. the polite invitation of the "Penn Society" to their anniversary dinner on the 25th. inst: Being under the necessity of denying himself, the pleasure of accepting it, he complies with the requested alternative by offering as a toast--"The immortal memory of Penn who subdued the ferocity of Savages by his virtues & enlightened the Civilized world by his Institutions" FC (DLC) .
592James Madison to William Wirt, 12 October 1830 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. yours of the 5th. The explanation of your motives in not declining the cause of the Cherokees was not needed. Of their purity it was impossible for me to entertain a doubt. From the aspect of the publick proceedings towards the Indians within the bounds of the States, there is much danger that the character of our Country will suffer, and I do not know that any formal discussion...
593James Madison to Thomas S. Grimké, 10 October 1830 (Madison Papers)
The copy of your Oration delivered at N. H. inclosed to me for the University of Virga. has been recd. & will be duly attended to. A later mail has brought me a Copy for which I owe my personal acknowledgments. The perusal of the Oration has left a just impression of the merit imparted to it by the copiousness of its learning & the richness of its Eloquence. Be pleased to accept Sir the...
594James Madison to Henry Clay, 9 October 1830 (Madison Papers)
I have just been favored with yours of the 22d. Ult: enclosing a copy of your Address delivered at Cincinnati. Without concurring in every thing that is said, I feel what is due to the ability and eloquence which distinguish the whole. The rescue of the Resolutions of Kentucky in -98 & 99. from the misconstruction of them, was very a propos; that authority being particularly relied on, as an...
595James Madison to Martin Van Buren, 9 October 1830 (Madison Papers)
I recd. your letter of July 30 in due time, but have taken advantage of the permitted delay in answering it. Altho’ I have again turned in my thoughts the subjects of your preceding letter, on which "any further remarks from me would be acceptable", I do not find that I can add any thing material to what is said in my letter of July 5, or in former ones. Particular cases of local improvements...
596James Madison to Edward Everett, 7 October 1830 (Madison Papers)
I return my thanks for your favour of the 28. ult. with a copy of the Chapter from the N. A. Review for this month. I have read the review of the Debates with great pleasure. It must diffuse light on the subject of them every where; and would make an overwhelming impression where it is most needed, if the delirious excitement were not it would seem, an overmatch for reason & truth. The only...
597James Madison to Jared Sparks, 5 October 1830 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of July 16. was duly recd. The acknowledgment of it has awaited your return from your tour to Quebec, which I presume has by this time taken place. Inclosed is the exact copy you wish of the draft of an address prepared for President Washington at his request, in the year 1792, when he meditated a retirement at the expiration of his first term. You will observe that (with a few...
598James Madison to William Wirt, 2 October 1830 (Madison Papers)
I have received the copy of your "address" to the two societies of Rutgers College, and that of your "opinion" on the case of the Cherokees, for both of which I return my thanks. The address chose, certainly, a good subject, and made good use of it. And the views you have presented of the question between Georgia and the Cherokees, are a sufficient pledge if there were no others, to those sons...
599James Madison to Henry Colman, 26 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of July 24. was duly recd. accompanied by the little Treatise of Dr. Holyoke, and your biographical Sermon. They are separately entitled to my thanks and jointly the more so. Such a treatise at the age of the Author is remarkable and altho’ it may contain little new, on a subject little admitting it: it contains truths well deserving repetition, and made particularly impressive by...
600James Madison to Joseph Blunt, 25 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
Apprehending that I may have inadvertently addressed a letter on the 19th. which was intended for you, to Joseph Hunt , it is proper that I should authorize you to receive the letter, in case the mistake shd. have been committed. The letter inclosed, $15. in payment for the three Edited Vols of the annual Register. I may repeat now without apology a wish for a line from you on the occasion...