1To James Madison from Bernard Smith, 29 June 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have just learnt that in a deposition made before Dr: Thornton, by a person of the name of Gardner, I have been denounced as the author of certain communications which some time since appeared in the Democratic press of Philadelphia, on the subject of the approaching Presidential Election. Altho’ I am informed that this deposition (the knowledge of which was carefully concealed from me) has...