1From James Madison to Arthur St. Clair, 6 November 1801 (Madison Papers)
A letter has been received at this Office from the Governor of the Indiana Territory, stating that the following documents are necessary to guide him in the decisions he is authorized to make upon the claims for lands lying in that Territory; but which are now in the Office of the Secretary of the North Western Territory. “A Book in which all the land claims of the former territory were...
2From James Madison to Arthur St. Clair, 22 November 1802 (Madison Papers)
The President observing in an address lately delivered by you to the convention held at Chilicothe, an intemperance and indecorum of language towards the Legislature of the United States, and a disorganizing spirit and tendency of very evil example, and grossly violating the rules of conduct enjoined by your public station, determines that your commission of Governor of the North Western...
3From James Madison to Arthur St. Clair, 8 May 1802 (Madison Papers)
Among the papers delivered to this Department along with your defence against the charges of Col. Worthington &ca. we do not find the documents produced in support of them. As your defence was sent to the President after a hasty perusal, without particularly looking into the papers inclosed with it; and which I presumed I had seen before, the documents in question may have been returned & been...
4From James Madison to Arthur St. Clair, 23 June 1802 (Madison Papers)
The several charges against you as Governor of the North Western Territory with the vindication offered in your several communications ending 17th. June 1802. have been duly considered by the President. Altho’ he is disposed to view with much indulgence the transactions of an officer, who has stood in so many honorable and interest[ing] relations to his country, he has judged it indispensible...
5To James Madison from Arthur St. Clair, 23 June 1802 (Madison Papers)
I have been honored with your Letter of this day. It cannot be, Sir, that it should not pain me, that any part of my conduct in the Government of the western territory should have drawn forth the animadversions of the Presidt. In the affair of the Fees I believed myself acting agreeably to Law, and in that of my Son, I was very sensible at th⟨e tim⟩e, that the extraordinary tenure was...
6To James Madison from Arthur St. Clair, 9 March 1801 (Madison Papers)
In December last I gave information that a very violent violation of the Territory had been committed by the British near to Detroit, and a man carried away by force and murdered; but I had not then received the account of the particular circumstances, and, therefore, referred you to the Hon. Mr. Tracy, who happened to be at Detroit at that time. The clerk of the peace has since transmitted...
7To James Madison from Arthur St. Clair, 21 December 1802 (Madison Papers)
Your Letter of the 22 November, notifying to me that the President had determined that, upon the receipt of that Letter, my Commission of Governor of the north western Territory should cease, was delivered to me by Mr. Secretary Byrd, on the fourteenth day of this Month. I request of you, Sir, to present my humble thanks to the President for that favour, as he has thereby discharged me from an...
8To James Madison from Arthur St. Clair, 17 June 1802 (Madison Papers)
In a conversation with the Secretary of the Navy, a day or two ago, on the subject of the fees which it has been said have been demanded and received by me, for which there was not warrant by Law—I asserted to him, as I had done in my general Vindication, that no fees had ever been received by me that were not expressly granted by Law, and the Laws authorising the fees for Tavern Licenses and...