1From James Madison to Pierpont Edwards, 27 February 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Pierpont Edwards. 27 February 1806, Department of State. “The President being desirous of availing the public of your services as Judge of the District Court of Connecticut, I have the honor to forward you the Commission.” Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 59, DL , vol. 15). 2 pp. JM presumably enclosed a copy of Edwards’s 24 Feb. 1806 commission (1 p.; offered for sale in Robert F. Batchelder’s...
2From James Madison to Pierpont Edwards, 4 August 1806 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your two favors of the 30 & 31. ulto. and am much obliged by the kind & confidential communications made in them. We were not inattentive to the suggestions that an improper acquittal of Smith & Ogden was to be apprehended from the course which was meditated. But it was impossible to apply a remedy, without establishing a precedent objectionable in itself, and which might be...