101To Thomas Jefferson from Jacob Wagner, 5 September 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
J. Wagner presents his best respects to the President of the U. States. The pardon of Joseph Barnaby, convicted before Judge Peters of smuggling, being founded on the recommendation of the Judge as well as other respectable persons, it will be issued after receiving the signature of the Secretary of State. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
102To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 12 September 1806 (Madison Papers)
I have forwarded to Mr. Sanford the patent he requested. I have forwarded the letter addressed to Mr. Payne under the impression that it would be opened by his family: should not this be the case, I shall be happy to send it to Tripoli. From a conversation I had with the Comptroller; I thought it necessary and not amiss to write the letter, of which I enclose a copy, to the Collector of...
103Jacob Wagner to Peter Muhlenberg, 13 September 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ Jacob Wagner to Peter Muhlenberg. 13 September 1806, Department of State. “Mr. Harris the Consul at St. Petersburg has informed the Secretary of State, that the Cotton Manufactory at Alexanderofske, an institution established and supported by the Empress Doweger of Russia, intended expediting to [sic] Ships to Philadelphia, under the inducement of the priviledge, granted by the Emperor, of...
104Jacob Wagner to John Stephen, 14 September 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ Jacob Wagner to John Stephen. 14 September 1806, Department of State. “Some time past, Genl. Turreau the French Minister wrote a letter to the Secretary of State, complaining that by the tardiness in taking effectual steps against the persons concerned in the outrage against a French Privateer, mentioned in the Secretary’s letter of the 19 July, one of the Vessels, charged with having...
105Jacob Wagner to Nathan Sanford, 15 September 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ Jacob Wagner to Nathan Sanford. 15 September 1806, Department of State. “Owing to the separation of the Executive, your letter of the 9th. ult, as far as respects the compensation to the assistant Counsel in the cases of Smith & Ogden, has not hitherto been answered. I am now authorized to inform you that if Mr. Edwards will be so good as to make out his account for five hundred dollars and...
106To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 19 September 1806 (Madison Papers)
In the Globe of the 23 July you will see that Mr. Erskine has been appointed to succeed Mr. Merry. As this notice is extracted from the London Gazette, no more doubt remains of Lord Selkirk having declined it. Respecting Jones’ case at New York the draft I have made proceeds upon a doctrine laid down in Jenkins in many places and repeated by Woodeson, that the Renvoy of offenders, except when...
107To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 26 September 1806 (Madison Papers)
The three Captains, whose protests against L’Eole are herewith, came from Annapolis a few days ago to lay their complaint before you. They told me, that her commander set off for Baltimore shortly after their arrival at the former place without giving them an opportunity of demanding compensation, and that none was offered. I advised them to return to their vessels and proceed to the several...
108To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 29 September 1806 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Thom proposes leaving your quarter’s salary in the Bank, if you approve it. Finding that the letter, which accompanied Genl. Armstrong’s, is more than a form, I have enclosed it today, though in course it should have gone last week. The correspondences of the Commissioners at Paris, appealed to by Mr. R. can have no bearing upon the General, since they were functi officii before his...
109To Thomas Jefferson from Jacob Wagner, 6 October 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Should this letter not be returned, J. Wagner will conclude that it has been approved and that the President has had the goodness to cause a wafer to be put in it and sent it to the Post office. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
110To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 13 October 1806 (Madison Papers)
The present vacancy in the Custom-house here, it is supposed by some friends may produce another by promotion, for which I might without impropriety apply: and their partiality has even recommended me not to consider the Collectorship as an altogether impossible object. Less insensible than they have been to the weight of several objections, and among them to my own unworthiness, I take leave...
111To Thomas Jefferson from Jacob Wagner, 30 October 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Respecting Insurrections See Act 2 May 1792— Repealed See do. 28 Feby. 1795— S.1. Militia may be used to repel invasions to suppress an insurrection against a state, on the application of the Legislature, or, if it cannot be convened, of the Executive of the State S.2. They may be employed to suppress insurrections against the U.S. (the Act of 2 May above mentioned made a certificate of a...
112To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 19 July 1807 (Madison Papers)
Observing that the newspapers are circulating a imperfect account of the law-case of Baring vs. Christie, I take the liberty of referring you to it entire in 5th. East’s rep. 398, and at the same time to enclose a note I made some time ago, with a view to the extent of the operation of the exception to the passport, under present circumstances. The tenuity of this exception is such, as, in my...
113To Thomas Jefferson from Jacob Wagner, 4 January 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
A counter post—to Kingston if it can be made sufficiently safe, seems to be a natural provision for the case. But ought not the State of N.Y. to turn its attention to such a call from its exposed Citizens, & to co-operate at least in arming them? Few States are probably more able to do it. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
114To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 28 January 1808 (Madison Papers)
The President’s message in answer to the call of the House respecting Genl Wilkinson has condescended to notice me. It is expressed in such a manner as not to leave it altogether certain, whether it does not hold me accountable for a bundle of Mr. Clark’s papers, before the public. On the one hand I place a value upon a good name, and on the other am elevated above much anxiety, by the...