1101James 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...
1102James 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...
1103Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 8 October 1830 (Madison Papers)
Your favour of Sep 12 was duly received by the mail. That part of it which relates to Doctr. Blatterman’s difficulties will be best attended to, when I visit the University about the middle of next week, which will result from the circumstance of my being summoned as a witness at that time in the suit of Galt v. Carter in the Superior Court of Albemarle. I will call upon the Doctr: & Col....
1104James 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...
1105A. Crozet to James Madison, 7 October 1830 (Madison Papers)
I have seen it mentioned in the prospectus of the University of Virginia that hereafter, a tutor will be attached to the department of Modern Languages; I received since a letter from my brother stating that no appointment had yet been made by the Faculty. I therefore, take the liberty of offering myself as a candidate for the situation. Having been educated in one of the first schools in...
1106James 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...
1107William Wirt to James Madison, 5 October 1830 (Madison Papers)
I thank for your letter of the 2nd. inst. and concur with you entirely as to the best mode of solving the political problem with regard to the Indians within the bounds of the States– and as I am extremely unwilling that you should think me either so Quixotically weak or so diabolically wicked as to have excited this contest (of which some of the news-papers have accused me) I wish to inform...
1108Thomas Bee to James Madison, 4 October 1830 (Madison Papers)
I took the liberty, some months ago, of writing to you upon the subject of the Virginia University, and I was much flattered by your early answer to that letter. You will gratify me, extremely by extending your civility to the few lines with which I now trouble you, provided your recollection should enable you to confirm the anecdote submitted to you. The late debate upon Foote’s Resolutions,...
1109E. Callender to James Madison, 3 October 1830 (Madison Papers)
I have Left Boston a few Days Since with a view of opening an academy, here but finding Little encouragment Shall proceed in a Day or too— Back to Boston I have been much disapointed in not obtaneing my wishes perhaps it is all for the best, your Family has been much abused my Vindication, has given much displeasure, but I heed it not— My persecution has been of a Fowl Black deep nature, which...
1110James 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...
1111Charles J. Ingersoll and Others to James Madison, 1 October 1830 (Madison Papers)
The Penn Society, request the honor of Mr. Madison’s company at their Anniversary Dinner, to take place the 25 instant, at 5 o’clock in the afternoon at the Mansionhouse Hotel, Philadelphia. The favor of an answer is requested and a communication of your toast if you do not attend. RC (printed invitation) (DLC) . Docketed by JM.
1112[Edward Everett] to James Madison, 28 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to send You A copy of my Article in the No. of the N. A. Review Which will appear on the 1st of Octr. done up in a pamphlet form. In reading it You will please to Consider it as written for A Miscellaneous periodical journal. Had I been Writing an essay for separate publication More Unity of plan w’d have been Studied. But Even for the review it is too long &ca –Cursive. This...
1113Joseph Blunt to James Madison, 27 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
I received your favor of the 19th inst enclosing the payment for the Annual Register in due course of mail. It was not my intention in sending you the Volumes to request your subscription to the work; but as you seemed unwilling to retain them on any other footing, permit me to express to you my thanks for that indirect approbation of the work. With the sincerest wishes for your health &...
1114James 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...
1115James 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...
1116James Madison to Samuel L. Southard, 25 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
Your Address before the Newar[k] Mechanical Association was recd. in due time. But the infirm state of my health wth. a series of pressing engagements prevented an earlier acknowledgt of it. I now offer my thanks for the pleasure afforded me by this new application of your ability & disposition to be useful to your fellow Citizens, in these useful presents; Be pleased to accept at the same...
1117James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 23 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
Yours of the 21st. was recd. yesterday. On the question of recalling the communication made for the Natl. Intelligencer I submit the following statement. In a letter, lately noticed from Mr. Jefferson dated Novr. 17. 1799, he " encloses me a copy of the draught of the Kentucky Resolves ", (a press copy of his own manuscript). Not a word of explanation is mentioned. It was probably sent, &...
1118William Allen to James Madison, 23 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
By Aleck who left here yesterday I have sent One half Ton Plaister 2te. best Tea 3 Cakes White Wase & 1 3/8 yds. Superfine Black Cloth & Trimmings And by John who left here this morning I have sent One half ton Plaister 1 Bottle Maccouba Snuff & 1 po. domestic at 10 cents ⅌ yard All of which will I am in hopes reach you in safety. The price of Flour being rather down I have thought it best to...
1119James Madison to Thomas W. Griffith, 22 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
I have recd Sir, your letter of the 16th with the printed observations enclosed. I feel the respect due to the friendly sentiments it expresses; but I must decline the task you mark out for me. If I had not already had occasion to make public, my general views of the power of Congs. on the subject of encouraging Manufactures, and the principles, which ought to regulate the exercise of it, I...
1120James Madison to Bernard Peyton, 21 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
The inclosed Check for* [$]2000. will enable you by drawg the amt. from [ ] to close my acct. with the B. there. If so and it be allowed for the premature payment I acquiesce in the sacrifice. I cannot take my leave of this business, witht. returng you many & very sincere thanks, for your kind aids in managing it: with wch. be pleased to accept my best respects & wishes *of W. M. in favr. of...
1121James Madison to Margaret Bayard Smith, 21 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
I have received, my dear Madam, your very friendly, and I must add, very flattering letter; in which you wish, from my own hand, some reminiscence marking the early relations between Mr. Jefferson and myself, and involving some anecdote concerning him that may have a place in a manuscript volume you are preparing as a legacy for your son. I was a stranger to Mr. Jefferson till the year 1776,...
1122Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 21 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Gales having told me on Saturday that the communication in question would appear in the ensuing paper, I was apprehensive, on the receipt of your last favor, that it would be too late to avail myself of the suggestion contained in it. The paper yesterday morning, however, proved not to contain it; and I went down to the printing office as soon as I could. Mr G. (nor S.) was not in; & after...
1123James Madison to Joseph Blunt, 19 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of & with it a copy of the 3d. Vol of the Anual Register. As I was not a subscriber, it was my intention, as I intimated, to return the 2. precedings Vols. with wch I had been favored, as they might be useful to you in making up sets. Inattention in part, wth. a disappointed hope of findg. a private conveyance, must explain if it shd. not apologize for, the omission. I...
1124James Madison to Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 19 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
I inclose a letter from Col. Colonna, with a copy of my answer. I am afraid he will be startled at the Title of Tutor if he attatches to it as I suspect he will, an inferiority to that he has underscored . Wishing you well thro the conflicting sensibilities & anticipation you may have to deal with I renew to you my cordial salutations. Draft and draft of enclosure (DLC) .
1125James Madison to Colonna d’Ornano, 19 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
Previous to the receipt of your letter of the 15. instant I had communicated to my colleagues of the Exve Committee Mr Randolph & Genl. Cocke the view of the division of duties between the Professor & the Tutor of modern languages in our University. From a comparison of these views with their own, and the required concert with the Professor, will result the explanation which is the object of...
1126James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 17 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
Yours of Sunday last has been duly recd. I thank you for your obliging attention to the packet for Nicholls. He has acknowledged the receipt of its contents, and you need not put pen to paper further on the subject. You observe that you had in a communication to the Nat:. Intelligencer pointed out the error as to Mr. Jefferson’s connection with the Kentucky Resolns. of –99. If not too late to...
1127James Madison to Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 16 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
Yours of the 13th. was recd yesterday afternoon. You rightly inferred my concurrence in the temporary apt. of a Tutor and I doubt not you have done right in the choice made. Mr. Hervé, whose pre[f?]erence is well attested could not otherwise, it seems be secured than by postponing a permanent appt. for the present [?]. Docr. Blatterman, preferring an oral to a written communication with me,...
1128Thomas Jefferson Randolph to James Madison, 13 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
Mr Johnsons letter to you of Aug 25th (enclosing a copy of Mr Leighs to him) was recieved when Genl Cocke was with me. we had the evening before determined to recommend to you the temporary appointment of Col Colonna D’Ormano as assistant to the professor of modern languages. The reciept of Mr Johnsons letter without comment from you induced us to believe the course recommended of a temporary...
1129James Madison to Joseph C. Cabell, 12 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
Your favour of Aug. 3 was duly recd. with the two letters you inclosed. I received at the same time a letter from Mr. Th. J. Randolph inclosing one to him from Mr Crozet recommending his brother for the Tutorship. Mr. Johnson has been in correspondence with Richmond on the Candidates in that place; and has come to a conclusion so strong in favor of Hervé, that he is willing, if no better...
1130Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 12 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
I wrote a line the day after the receipt of your letter, to inform you of its safe arrival. It did not rain that afternoon, as I then anticipated, & I went to Georgetown. Mr Nicholls, however, was out; nor could the gentleman in his store tell me where he could be found. The next day it rained heavily; & the day after, I was laid up. The indisposition although severe was very transient, & I...
1131James Madison to Edward Everett, 10 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
Since my letter in which I expressed a belief that there was no ground for supposing that the Kentucky Resolutions of -99 in which the term "nullification appears, were drawn by Mr. Jefferson, I infer from a manuscript paper of his, just noticed, containing the term, that altho’ he had, probably no agency in the draft, nor even any knowledge of it at the time, yet that the term was borrowed...
1132James Madison: Memorandum on Nullification, 10 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
Another consequence suggests itself as following the nullifying rule–I will illustrate it practically– Suppose S. Carolina to be supported by the requisite number of States in her appeal against the tariff, it is null– but Pennsylvania, with equal right as one of the seventeen, vitally interested in the continuance of the law, and supported by a greater number of sister States, appeals pari...
1133G. C___k to James Madison, 10 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
The respect which my late letter received from you in Your free and polite reply, deserves my cordial acknowledgments. Though the purpose of that letter did not meet with the success I had hoped for, yet the respectful manner in which my solicitations were declined, make an impression on me with regard to yourself, which I shall ever cherish. Tho. the character of my letter may have been...
1134Edward Everett to James Madison, 7 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
I beg leave to acknowledge, with Sincere thankfulness, the receipt of your favors of the 20th and 31st, with the pamphlets accompanying the former, & the Exposition of the views entertained by you, on the subject of Nullification, enclosed in the latter. The pamphlet containing the address of the general assembly to the People of Virginia I had not before seen. I am sincerely concerned to...
1135James Madison to Thomas W. Gilmer, 6 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
I received by the last mail yours of Augt. 31. I concur with you entirely in the expediency of promoting, as much as possible, a sympathy between the interests of the incipient and the finishing establishments provided for public education; and in the particular expedient you suggest, of providing for a compleat education at the public expence, of youths of distinguished capacities whose...
1136Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 6 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
Your packet has come safe to hand, & the enclosure for Mr Nicholls shall be delivered by me this afternoon, unless it rains, as now seems probable. Meanwhile, I enclose you a paper containing many details concerning the wonderful event which the inconceivable folly of half a dozen men has brought about. Although it were to be wished that they would have suffered the French People to continue...
1137James Madison to W. S. Nicholls, 2 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
I inclose $310 in order to extinguish the debt on my note in yr. hands. according to my data, a few dollars will be left, after satisfying the note. In that case please hand them to Mr. N P. Trist in the Dept. of State. Should I mistake the balance due on the note, and the remittance be deficient, it shall be made up on an intimation to that effect. Please to inclose my note by the mail as a...
1138James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 2 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
On the receipt of yours of July 29, I forwarded the Book intended for Mr. Davis, and take for granted it got safe to hand. He met with the ready concurrences of the Board in making him the successor to Mr. Lomax for one year, with a prospect of the permanency, to which I doubt not the probation will recommend him. I need not say that whatever be the future change of Theatre meditated by...
1139James Madison to William B. Sprague, 1 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
I recd. in due time yours of Mar. but suspended an answer till I could avail myself of a genealogical sketch made out some years ago by a relative of the family, which might furnish the information you wish. This paper I have not yet obtained. As soon as I can do so, I will make the intended use of it. In the mean time I beg you to accept this apology for the delay; with my thanks for your...
1140James Madison to Jonathan Elliot, 1 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
I recd in due time your letter of Aug. 19. On what relates to my manuscript papers, I could only repeat what I have heretofore observed. With respect to an Edition of the Federalist, with remarks saving it from an identity with that covered by a copyright, alth I am sensible that the work under that title would admit of pertinent comments having that effect, yet I can not conceal from myself,...
1141James Madison to Edward Everett, 31 August 1830 (Madison Papers)
In the letter inclosed by the last mail, I omitted to insert in the margin, the extract from the "Federalist" referred to in the text. Be so good as to supply the omission by subjoining in the margin the following transcribed passages from No. 39.* *No. 39. "It is true, that in controversies relating to the boundary between the two jurisdictions, the tribunal which is ultimately to decide, is...
1142Thomas W. Gilmer to James Madison, 31 August 1830 (Madison Papers)
I take the liberty of addressing you on a subject of some interest to the public, & I feel assured, that the solicitude which you have always manifested for the public good, will induce you to excuse me, if you do not approve my suggestions. It has occurred to me, that a favorable period is at hand, for the friends of the University, & of our system of public education, to adopt to the extent,...
1143James Madison to Edward Everett, 28 August 1830 (Madison Papers)
I inclose the letter promised. You will perceive that some of the topics deserved more development, than the state of my health, and the limited time would permit. The right of the States collectively to hold the States individually to a bargain, a breach of which by a single one would throw the whole into confusion, and essentially affect the interests of some of them, merits an illustration,...
1144James Madison to [Edward Everett], 28 August 1830 (Madison Papers)
I have duly received your letter in which you refer to the "nullifying doctrine" advocated, as a Constitutional right, by some of our distinguished fellow citizens; and to the proceedings of the Virginia Legislature in -98 & 99, as appealed to in behalf of that doctrine; and you express a wish for my ideas on those subjects. I am aware of the delicacy of the task in some respects, and the...
1145James Madison to Thomas G. Addison, 27 August 1830 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of the 20th. having passed on to Charlottesville instead of stopping here at Orange Ct House, has been but just recd. I doubt not the truth of every thing stated in the communication which pleads for the object you have at heart. But having been constrained to adopt a rule not permitting me to interpose in the manner you request, and having declined to do so in instances of...
1146James Madison to Bernard Peyton, 23 August 1830 (Madison Papers)
I inclose $500, which with the balance in your hand, will make up $1000, for the Bank. Should I be under a mistake as to the amount of that balance, be so good as to supply the defic[icy] & the advance shall be immediately replaced. I am anxious that the approaching dates when the Bank will accept a payment without loss to the debtor, may be availed of. I have retained a memorandm. of the Nos....
1147James Madison to Edward Everett, 20 August 1830 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. yours of the 11th. inst: & wish I could give the information it asks with the desired particularity and certainty. I believe, though I may possibly be wrong, that no answers to the Virginia Resolutions of -98, were given by States, other than those enumerated in the pamphlet you have. I have not the means of ascertaining the fact. If any instructions were given by the Legislature...
1148James Madison to James Monroe, 20 August 1830 (Madison Papers)
Yours of the 15th. was brought to me from the post=office, Mr. Watson having passed on without calling as you expected him to do. We lost therefore the information he was to give as to your health & that of your family Your silence favors the hope that it has improved. Let us have a proof however under your own hand. My health was again interrupted whilst I was at University, and I am yet not...
1149Thomas G. Addison to James Madison, 20 August 1830 (Madison Papers)
I beg leave respectfully to request Your attention to the Enclosed Communication, & Sincerely hope You will excuse the liberty I take in trespassing upon your Kindness— I remain with sentiments of Great regard Your Most Obt. St, Should you accede to my request you will be pleased to Enclose me the letter to this City I should be pleased to hear from you [enclosures follow] The above are...
1150Margaret H. Smith to James Madison, 20 August 1830 (Madison Papers)
Shall I dear Sir, appologise for intruding uninvited on your notice? I know I need not. The long experience I have had of your kindness and indulgence inspire an affectionate confidence which might have been overpowered by sentiments of high respect & veneration, had I known you only as one of our greatest Statesmen & most devoted patriots. The recollections , of the personal acquaintance &...