1Review of James Hillhouse, Propositions, 12 April 1808 (Adams Papers)
Review Propositions for amending the Constitution of the United States, Submitted by Mr Hillhouse to the Senate, on the twelfth day of April 1808, with his explanatory Remarks. In Pages five and Six, Mr Hillhouse defines his Terms, Monarchy, Aristocracy, Democracy, Federalists and Republicans. To his Idea of Aristocracy alone, Shall We make any objection, at present: but before We State our...
2From John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 12 April 1808 (Adams Papers)
In your favour of March 25th. you express a hope that nothing like a distribution of Money, among the Principal Leaders of our Parties, has occurred or will occur, among Us. I agree with you in this hope and I will add that I Still entertain this belief. At least there is no one, on whom I can fasten even a Suspicion. But that foreign Money has been received by Sebastian, has been adjudged:...
3To James Madison from George Erving, 12 April 1808 (Madison Papers)
I wrote to you last unofficially on the 1st instant. Tho the watchful jealousies of the patriots here is still on the alert; yet upon the whole their confidence has increased: this confidence however arises rather from the increased respect which they that the energy & unanimity manifested by the nation has produced on their guests, than from any additional reliance on the frie ndly intentions...
4To James Madison from John Armstrong, Jr., 12 April 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have detained M. Lewis till to-day on the supposition that my letter of the 2d. instant would be answered. This was however a mere accomodation to forms, as the absence of the Emperor and of the Minister of foreign relations, rendered this supposition highly improbable. There being then no public reason for M. Lewis’s longer stay in Paris, and the permission to the Osage to prosecute her...
5To James Madison from Thomas Sumter, Jr., 12 April 1808 (Madison Papers)
The interruption which has taken place in the correspondence between this country & Europe compels me to ask of you a favor, which I cannot do without some hesitation, because it will perhaps be adding to the trouble you already experience from the frequency of similar applications. The anxiety of Mrs. Sumter to convey, with certainty, some letters to her family in France before the...
6To James Madison from James Sullivan, 12 April 1808 (Madison Papers)
Colonel Harris of Portsmouth in New Hampshire, is passing through this town to Washington. He wishes to procure your attention; and beleives that a letter from me will do some thing towards it. His business he will explain; it grows out of the Embargo. You may rely upon any thing he says on any subject. Could there be any favour in business, of this kind, from personal, political, or party...
7From James Madison to Josiah, III Quincy, 12 April 1808 (Madison Papers)
As the documents in this office did not enable me fully to answer the Queries contained in the letters written by you, as Chairman of the Committee "to whom were referred the Messages of the President of the United States of the 9 & 15th. Feby., relative to the rupture and to the amicable settlement with the Dey of Algiers," I have delayed my Reply to them, under the daily hope of receiving...
8To James Madison from Tobias Lear, 12 April 1808 (Madison Papers)
A Copy of my respect to you, of the 31st Ultimo, with my other letters mentioned therein, accompany this. Since my last every thing has been tranquil here with respect to us. Upon applying for my passport for one of the Cruizers, new assurances were given me that every Cruizer would receive positive Orders not to molest the Vessels of the U. States. Altho’ I might have some doubts of this,...
9From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 12 April 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you 100. D. of which be pleased to pay 50. D. to J. Perry and keep 50. for the debts you have still to pay. I ought to have remitted J. Perry 50. D. more and mr Chisolm 60. D. but these deficiencies I will make up on my arrival at home and then bring you 200. D. which will pay off the whole list of debts furnished me heretofore. let Davy set off with my horse on Saturday the 23d....
10To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 12 April 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I received last night the enclosed letter from John Smith of Ohio respecting Biggs’s loan to him. I am sorry for Biggs because I believe him otherwise honest & harmless & because he had been a good officer. But I am under the same impression with yourself—that he ought to be removed. I have had no intercourse with him except in his official capacity, but have always understood that his...