1From James Madison to Tench Coxe, 18 September 1789 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of the 9th. was not received till it was too late to be answered by the last mail. I now beg you to accept my acknowledgments for it. The Newspaper paragraph to which it alludes discoloured much the remarks which it puts in my mouth. It not only omits the occasion which produced them, but interpolates personal reflections which I never meant, wch. could not properly be expressed,...
2Salaries of Judges, [18 September] 1789 (Madison Papers)
Goodhue moved to strike $4,500, the proposed salary of the chief justice of the Supreme Court, and insert $3,000 ( Gazette of the U.S. , 23 Sept. 1789). Mr. Madison Said, he did not wish to trouble the committee with a recapitulation of observations respecting the first abilities; but he would observe, that it ought to be considered, that these judges must make a new acquisition of legal...