1To James Madison from Samuel Harrison, 23 November 1812 (Madison Papers)
On the 30th. of last Month I addressed your Excellency, again, on the Subject of War. And I must exclaim, “My Bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart, my heart maketh a noise in me. I cannot hold my Peace , because thou hast heard O my Soul, the sound of the Trumpet, the Alarm of War.” When I view the desolation and destruction of War, when I behold the Multitudes of Blessings...
2To James Madison from Aaron Haight Palmer and Henry B. Hagerman, 23 November 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
23 November 1812, New York. Signed a paper addressed to JM, “purporting to be a Representation of the superior Officers of the Regiment of New York Volunteers,” and now deem it their duty to explain that they were induced to sign it by their faith in “Colonel De la Croix declaration of the facts as therein set forth,” which, they regret to state, “have subsequently proved to be groundless...