1To James Madison from James Wilkinson, 22 February 1787 (Madison Papers)
Motives of regard, to the general Interests of the United States, prompt this Address; your Virtues as a Man, and your Integrity & descernment as a Politician, subject you to the intrusion: A Republican in every impulse of the Senses, I deal not in apologies. The inclosed papers came to my Hands a few days Since; under the delusion of names, the applicants have mistaken the Authority of the...