6511To James Madison from George Graham, 20 December 1816 (Madison Papers)
The Acting Secretary of War has the honor to submit to the President, the report made by the Commissioner of Claims, relative to his proceedings under the act, “authorizing the payment for property lost, captured, or destroyed by the Enemy, while in the military service of the United States, and for other purposes.” RC and enclosure ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages, 14A–D1); letterbook copy...
6512From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 21 December 1816 (Madison Papers)
In compliance with the Resolution of the House of Representatives of the 6th. instant, I transmit to them, the proceedings of the Commissioner appointed under the “Act to authorise the payment for property lost, captured, or destroyed by the Enemy while in the military service of the United States and for other purposes” as reported by the Commissioner to the Department of War. RC and enclosure...
6513To James Madison from John J. Crittenden, 21 December 1816 (Madison Papers)
The only apology I can have for troubling you with this letter, is that the subject of it is a matter of public concern. The death of the late Judge Innes has occasioned a vacancy in the Federal Court for the District of Kentucky. Mr: John T Mason has been recommended to your Excellency, as I am told, as a proper person to supply that vacancy. Mr: Mason, I am informed, is personally known to...
6514To James Madison from Samuel Latham Mitchill, 23 December 1816 (Madison Papers)
The bearer of this note is Dr. Alexander McLeod, a clergyman of much learning, piety and respectability, in the city of newyork. He feels it his duty, on visiting Washington, to pay his respects to the chief magistrate of a free people. I yield to his request, without hesitation; assuring you at the same time of his sound republican sentiments; of which he has given proof in several valuable...
6515To James Madison from the Pennsylvania Legislature, [23 December 1816] (Madison Papers)
The period of your retirement from the toils and anxieties of public life, having nearly arrived, permit the General Assembly of Pennsylvania to indulge their feelings in respectfully expressing their approbation of your official conduct, and the grateful sense they entertain of the ability, zeal and fidelity which marked the discharge of arduous and multiplied duties, imposed on you by an...
6516To James Madison from Leonard Peirce, 24 December 1816 (Madison Papers)
Having obtained the consent of my parents to enter as a cadet in the Military Academy of the United States I would solicit from you an appointment to the Academy at West Point should there not be a full complement of cadets there; and if there should, to any other Academy which Congress has or may or established at their present session I am eighteen years of age, and have received a thorough...
6517To James Madison from Thomas Cooper, 24 December 1816 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Thomas Cooper. 24 December 1816. “Mr. Cooper presents his respects to the President of the United States & will have the honor to dine with him on Thursday next.” RC ( ViU ). 1 p. Federalist Thomas Cooper represented Delaware in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Congresses.
6518From James Madison to Congress, 26 December 1816 (Madison Papers)
To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States. It is found that the existing laws have not the efficacy necessary to prevent violations of the obligations of the United States, as a nation at peace towards belligerent parties, and other unlawful acts on the high Seas, by armed vessels equipped within the waters of the United States. With a view to maintain more effectually...
6519From James Madison to William Bentley, 28 December 1816 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Crowninshield having made me acquainted with the passage in your letter to him, which speaks with so much personal kindness towards me, and so favorably of my discharge of the public trust which is about to close, I can not forego an expression of the value I put on such sentiments from such a source. The approbation of the wise and the worthy is the recompence which ought to be next to...
6520To James Madison from Nehemiah H. Mason, 29 December 1816 (Madison Papers)
The purport of this, will I hope excuse the liberty I have taken; It is in behalf of a poor orphan who is now confined in the penitentiary at Philadelphia for the crime of letter robbery. William Yeatman, the name of him alluded to; was born in this county, of reputable parents, but had the misfortune to be deprived of them when he was an infant. He was then taken by his paternal uncle James...