121To Thomas Jefferson from Caesar Augustus Rodney, 3 August 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I enclose you a Petition in a case in which I must solicit the incursion of your clemency. The act of congress, giving authority to the Secretary of the Treasury in certain cases to mitigate or remit fines & forfeitures does not extend I consider to this case. The act applies I conceive only, where there was no intention to elude the payment of duties, which would not with truth & justice be...
122To Thomas Jefferson from Caesar Augustus Rodney, 4 January 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
At the present period I feel it a bounden duty to communicate to you, every article of information, in my power. A single spark may throw a glare of light on the dark intrigues & nefarious plots now in operation. I hasten therefore to forward the enclosed, which I have just received from my father. Whatever a firm & sincere friend of the Union, in his situation, can effect in that quarter,...
123To Thomas Jefferson from Caesar Augustus Rodney, 9 January 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I this moment received the enclosed which I hasten to transmit by the return of the mail Yours Most Sincerely DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
124To Thomas Jefferson from Caesar Augustus Rodney, 1 October 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I enclosed you by the mail of yester day a formal opinion, on the questions contained in your favor of the 26. of Aug: agreeably to your desire. They were so important as to demand a laborious research into cases, & mature consideration, or I should have drawn up my opinion & had it copied & transmitted much sooner. The judiciary have been so much elevated above every other department of the...
125To Thomas Jefferson from Caesar Augustus Rodney, 26 March 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I found the roads so extremely bad that I had determined to take the stage from this place, but on enquiry I was informed, that the stage is three days going from this to Richmond. I then determined to hire an additional pair of horses which would have enabled me to proceed in two day to Richmond. Whilst I was wating to accomplish this object & to see Mr Henderson of the Marine to give me...
126To Thomas Jefferson from Caesar Augustus Rodney, 6 November 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
On my return to this place (where I took refuge from the yellow fever) from attending the Circuit & State Court below I had the pleasure of receiving your favor of the 23d. ulto. It is matter of deep & lasting regret that any division should have taken place in the Republican party, but more especially such an one as paves the way for the triumph of that pernicious system & its adherents which...
127To James Madison from Caesar Augustus Rodney, 16 January 1809 (Madison Papers)
The critical situation of our country necessarily engages the attention of every thinking man in the community. It must more particularly occupy the minds of those to whom the nation has confided any share in the direction & management of its political concerns. The Chief magistrate of the Union, must feel in a preeminent degree, for the public welfare, from the peculiar responsibility...
128To Thomas Jefferson from Caesar Augustus Rodney, 12 August 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I enclose you a draught of a cavern lately discovered in Virginia. It was sent to me by Dr. William Boys of Staunton with a request that I would present it to you. Dr. Boys graduated with me. He was formerly of Penna. where the family all remain except himself. They were all whigs, but Dr. Boys married a Miss St. Clair of Staunton Virginia, whose father was a tory & who has for some time...
129To John Adams from Thomas Rodney, 20 November 1791 (Adams Papers)
Be not offended that I write to you from the Cells of a Bastile—You are Acquainted with the Chief Justice of Pensylvania, and if my own sentiments does not inform you , He can, inform you Whether I am worthy Your attention or not— And however I may be viewed myself, I view you and him as having co-operated in the same principles through the Revolution and as Two shining stars in that political...