1From James Madison to Congress, 22 February 1813 (Madison Papers)
I lay before Congress a letter with accompanying documents from Captain Bainbridge, now commanding the United States Frigate “The Constitution,” reporting his capture and destruction of the British Frigate “The Java.” The circumstances and the issue of this combat, afford another example of the professional skill and heroic spirit, which prevail in our naval service. The signal display of...
2To James Madison from James Bankhead, 22 February 1813 (Madison Papers)
You did me the honor, last year, to nominate me to the Senate for the Command of the 20th. Regt.; which gave me infinite pleasure, altho’ not attended with success, as it was a manifestation of that confidence which you reposed in my ability and integrity: & this confidence I trust, has not been forfeited by any thing on my part. I was not known to more than two gentlemen of the Senate, and...
3To James Madison from James Pleasants Jr. and Others, 22 February 1813 (Madison Papers)
In signing the other day a recommendation in favor of Capt. Bankhead, we did not intend by such recommendation to affect at all the claim of any other officer to promotion. Our impression was that there would be no competition between this Gentleman and any other particular officer, and that the recommendation was only wanted to obviate some objections to the confirmation of Capt. B’s...
4To James Madison from John Armstrong, 22 February 1813 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
22 February 1813, War Department. “I have the honor respectfully to propose for your approbation the following alterations in the list of nominations submitted to the Honorable the Senate of the United States on the 18th. Instant—viz William Colgreve Major, should be William Cotgreave Major—Elias Hasset Colonel, should be Elias Fasset Colonel—and Nathan Phelps Major, should be Nathan Phelps...
5To James Madison from James Turner, 22 February 1813 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
22 February 1813, Senate Chamber. “I am requested by Oliver Fitts Esquire of North Carolina, late a Judge of the Mississippi Territory, to inform you that he would willingly accept the appointment of Judge of that Terry. at this time, understanding there is a vacancy. “It may not be amiss to inform you of the causes which induced Mr Fitts to resign that appointmt,. and now be willing to accept...
6Thomas H. Palmer to Thomas Jefferson, 22 February 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Emboldened by your well known zeal for the diffusion of knowledge, especially when it relates to the institutions of our country, I have taken the liberty, though personally a stranger to you, of intruding upon your retirement, to ask some information for a work on which I am at present engaged, to be entitled, a Tabular View of the Constitutions of the U.S. & of the several States . In this...