271Naturalization, [9 December] 1794 (Madison Papers)
On 8 December the House appointed JM chairman of a select committee to report a bill to amend the Naturalization Act of 1790. Mr. Madison gave notice that to-morrow, he should move for leave to bring in a bill, to amend an act for establishing a uniform system of naturalization in the United States. He did not wish to discourage foreigners who desired to incorporate themselves with the body...
272From James Madison to James Monroe, 4 December 1794 (Madison Papers)
I did not receive your favor of Sepr. 2d. the only one yet come to hand, till yesterday. The account of your arrival and reception had some time ago found its way to us thro’ the English Gazettes. The language of your address to the Convention was certainly very grating to the ears of many here; and would no doubt have employed the tongues and the pens too of some of them, if external as well...
273From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 30 November 1794 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Fleming has been here & set out on his return yesterday. I did not however know of his arrival till a very short time before his departure. Contrary to your expectation he returns by land, not with his goods. On this acct. added to the lateness of the Season, and my not being able to get all your books, I concluded it would be best to put off sending what I could get, till the Spring, when...
274To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 30 November 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Fleming has been here and set out on his return yesterday. I did not however know of his arrival till a very short time before his departure. Contrary to your expectation he returns by land, not with his goods. On this account added to the lateness of the Season, and my not being able to get all your books, I concluded it would be best to put off sending what I could get, till the Spring,...
275House Address to the President, [27 November] 1794 (Madison Papers)
After JM withdrew his amendment concerning foreign policy, FitzSimons proposed an amendment that denounced the “self-created societies.” This provoked an extended and heated debate in the Committee of the Whole, which approved Giles’s motion to strike out the words “self-created societies” ( Annals of Congress Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States … (42 vols.;...
276House Address to the President, [24 November] 1794 (Madison Papers)
The Committee of the Whole took up the House’s reply to the president that JM had reported. Dayton moved an amendment concerning Indian and military policy (see Address of the House of Representatives to the President, 21 Nov. 1794, n. 3 ). Mr. Madison observed, that it had been the wish of the committee who framed the address to avoid entering into the minutiæ of the speech, lest their answer...
277From James Madison to Alexander Balmain, 23 November 1794 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 23 November 1794. Acknowledged in Balmain to JM, 8 Dec. 1794 . Encloses a copy of Washington’s 19 Nov. annual address to Congress denouncing “certain self-created societies.”
278Admission of a Territorial Delegate, [18 November] 1794 (Madison Papers)
On 11 November Speaker Muhlenberg presented to the House a letter from James White, enclosing his credentials as a delegate from the Territory South of the River Ohio (which later became Tennessee), in accordance with the terms of the Northwest Ordinance and other relevant legislation. The House referred the letter to a select committee which reported a resolution that White be admitted to his...
279From James Madison to James Madison, Sr., 17 November 1794 (Madison Papers)
I now inclose the letter omitted in my last. We have not had the pleasure of a single line from Orange since yours recd. just before leaving Berkeley. I hope it will not be long before our expectation is gratified on this point; and that you will be able to tell us all that we wish in favor of the re-establishment of my mothers health and the continuation of your own. I shall be glad also to...
280From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 16 November 1794 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your two favors of Ocr. 30 & Novr. 6, the former not in time to be answered on Monday last. Mazzei’s claim on Dorhman is £2000 N. Y. Currency, with interest at 7 per Ct. from Novr. 1788. It is secured by a Deed of Trust empowering me to sell a tract of land granted to Mr. D. by an Act of Congress of Octr. 1. 1787. (see Journals of that date). Mr. Randolph thinks that a Court of...