1From James Madison to Mathew Carey, 19 September 1812 (Madison Papers)
The sermon inclosed with your last of the 3d. instant is now returned. It is a strong proof of the baneful spirit for which your proposed plan is meant as an antidote. I wish not to diminish your laudable solicitude on the occasion, nor to question the powerful tendency of the resource which it has suggested to you. But I can not suppress my hope that the wicked project of destroying the Union...
2To James Madison from George Joy, 19 September 1812 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Maury has transmitted to Monroe M.S. copy of a peice that I had the good fortune to get into the Times of the 24th. Ult. I am not advised of his having had an opportunity of sending the enclosed rejoinder to a note of the Editor thereon which however he has refused to insert from, among other things, “the absolute want of room for new correspondents when the Journal cannot afford space...