1Daniel Raymond to James Madison, 26 January 1829 (Madison Papers)
You will receive with this letter a pamphlet entitled "the American System" of which I am the Author. I have lately read with great pleasure your letters on the Constitutional power of Congress to protect American manufactures. I think those letters are calculated to do much good in the present excited state of public opinion on that subject in parts of our Country. I have taken the liberty,...
2James Madison to Daniel Raymond, 4 February 1829 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 26th. Ult. & return my acknowledgments for the pamphlet I owe to your politeness. It would seem difficult for any to deny, that some of your observations on the subject discussed disprove the universality of the policy which exempts industry & commerce from legislative interpositions. Your rule for expounding the Constitution of the U. S. inverts as you may be...