1To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 4 November 1812 (Adams Papers)
Herewith you will receive a copy of my medical Inquiries and Observations upon the diseases of the mind. PS My bookseller has disappointed me in not sending me a Copy of my book which I intended for you. It shall follow this letter in a day or two.—I shall wait with solitude to receive your Opinion of them. They are in general accommodated the to the “Common Science” of Gentlemen of all...
2Annual Message to Congress, 4 November 1812 (Madison Papers)
Fellow Citizens of the Senate and of the House of Representatives On our present meeting, it is my first duty to invite your attention, to the providential favors which our Country has experienced, in the unusual degree of health dispensed to its inhabitants, and in the rich abundance with which the Earth has rewarded the labours bestowed on it. In the successful cultivation of other branches...
3From James Madison to John G. Jackson, 4 November 1812 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your favor of the 21st. I cannot too much applaud Your zeal & that of your associates, in efforts to retrieve what has been lost by the want of that or something else in others. The present sacrifices you are yourself making call for peculiar acknowledgments. I am constrained at the same time to remark that according to the view taken here, of the prospects before Genl. Harrison,...
4To James Madison from an Unidentified Correspondent, 4 November 1812 (Madison Papers)
In order to prosecute a war effectually in a republic it seems necessary the people should be willing to support it or otherwise when that is not the case, of consequence, or of course I would have said, Compulsion is inevitable. As there is a Scism among the people I shall propose an efficient mode easily effected on the indubitable principles of Justice partaking of both. To observe our...
5To James Madison from Henry Smith and Others, 4 November 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
4 November 1812, Providence. “The District Judge of this district having deceased, we beg leave to recommend Asher Robbins Esqr. as a suitable successor. … “His pre-eminent qualifications for a seat in the Supreme Court having, as is presumed, been completely unfolded to your view on a late occasion, it is only necessary for us to offer our names in his favor for the present vacancy,...
6Thomas Jefferson to Madame Bureaux de Pusy, 4 November 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to M de Bureaux de Pusy and his thanks for the volume from M. de Faujas which she was so kind as to forward him, & which has come safely to hand. no apology was necessary for it’s delay the delay for which she has apologised been pleased to apologise has been attended with no inconvenience, a work of M. Faujas commanding at all times a welcome acceptance....