1To James Madison from John Graham (Abstract), 23 June 1805 (Madison Papers)
23 June 1805, New Orleans. “I have the Honor to inclose so many of the ‘Acts passed at the first Session of the Legislative Council of the Territory of Orleans,’ as are printed; and to say that the residue shall be forwarded, so soon as they come from the Press. “I have been induced to send on these Acts, in this form, as I understand it is the usage in the other Territories to do so; if...
2To James Madison from John Graham, 31 July 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From John Graham. 31 July 1806, Dumfries. “Before I had the Honor to receive your Letter of the 28th Inst. I had written to Governor Claiborne, that I understood permission would be given him to visit the Seat of Government this winter, and begged if he wished to avail himself of this permission, that he would advise me accordingly, and I would immediately, on the receipt of his Letter...
3To James Madison from John Graham, 19 August 1808 (Madison Papers)
I had the pleasure to receive this Morning your Letter of the 16th. covering the Bill drawn on you by Mr Rogers. As you have accepted this Bill, it will be paid at the Treasury without an order from you. I consider it therefore as unnecessary in this case to send your Letter to the Secy of the Treasury for your Signature. I shall however send you such Letters in future when I have occasion to...
4To James Madison from John Graham, 16 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
I had the Honor to receive your Note directing me to desire Mr. Short to name the fund on which he would draw. I have written to him accordingly and sent a Copy of your note that he may decide whether it was intended that he should direct his answer to the Secretary of the Treasury at NewYork, or send it to me. In either case some little delay must take place probably long enough to give you...
5To James Madison from John Graham, 31 October 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From John Graham. 31 October 1805, New Orleans. “I had the Honor to forward to you by the last mail a copy of the official Journal of the Governor of this Territory from the 22d Jany to the 1st of July last, as it stands on Record in this office. Both the Governor & myself wish to know whether you consider this the proper kind of Journal to be kept in the Secretarys Office, under the...
6To James Madison from John Graham, 12 May 1808 (Madison Papers)
I had the Honor of writing you a few lines by the Post Rider who left this on Tuesday last for Orange Court House, and to send you the Dispatches which had just then been received from Mr. Pinkney and Genl. Armstrong together with several Letters from other Persons of which I enclosed a List. Among the Letters which accompany this you will find two from Genl. Turreau. One of these you gave me...
7To James Madison from John Graham, 3 May 1805 (Madison Papers)
Finding that Mr Coburn of this State has been very strongly recommended to the President as one of the Judges for the Territory of Orleans, & that in the Recommendations given him, no notice has been taken of his Knowledge of the French Language, I venture, at his request, to state to you, that he reads that Language with great facility—at present he does not speak it; tho he tells me he...
8To James Madison from John Graham, 13 February 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From John Graham. 13 February 1806, New Orleans. “A Gentleman of this City lately handed me for perusal a manuscript copy in Spanish of a little work called the Geographical & Political Tables of Baron Humbold dated in Mexico in 1805. As I know not whether this work has ever been printed I take the Liberty of sending you a Copy of the Extracts I made under an impression that every thing...
9To James Madison from John Graham, 8 September 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From John Graham. 8 September 1805, New Orleans . “I have now the Honor to inclose a Copy of all the Acts passed at the first Session of the Legislative Council of this Territory & shall very soon forward on a copy of those passed at their last Session.” RC ( DNA : RG 59, TP , Orleans, vol. 7). 1 p. Enclosure not found, but see n. 1. Graham doubtless enclosed a copy of Acts Passed at the...
10To James Madison from John Graham, 9 September 1805 (Madison Papers)
I had the Honor to write you by the last Post to let you know that a White Man had been taken up here for endeavouring to bring about an Insurrection among the Negroes, and I have now the Honor to inclose a Copy of a Letter from the Mayor of this City, giving the best account that can be had of this Man, of his Plans, and of the Progress he had made towards their execution. The Circumstance of...
11To James Madison from John Graham, 3 June 1808 (Madison Papers)
I had the Honor to receive your Letter of the 30th. Ulto this morning, together with two Packets exclusive of the one in which it came. I have not seen Mr. Forrest since his return from Baltimore. He is kept at Home, by the Death of his youngest Child. He sent me the inclosed Note, yesterday. I have received the Passport for the Hamlet, from Genl. Turreau & forwarded it on to Mr. Hill by the...
12To James Madison from John Graham, 27 May 1808 (Madison Papers)
I had the Honor to receive this Morning your Letter of the 21st. with its inclosures. I immediately went to the Treasury, to hand the Papers which related to Mr E. Livingston’s Business to Mr Gallatin, for he has not as yet set off for Phia.; but I did not find him at his Office. I therefore left the Papers. They will probably go on to NewYork by tomorrows Mail, for Mr Livingston has written...
13To James Madison from John Graham, 5 March 1807 (Madison Papers)
I arrived here a few days ago, after a very tedious passage from Natchez. If I am permitted to form an Opinion, from what I hear, the Situation of this Country is indeed an unpleasant one. All danger, however, I hope has passed away, but it has left the People here split up into various Parties, I had almost said Factions, for so warm have they been, that a difference of Opinion is not...
14To James Madison from John Graham, 11 August 1808 (Madison Papers)
I went into the Country last Friday Evening to bring Home Mrs. Graham on Sunday, but owing to continued wet weather I could not get back until Wednesday Morning. I understand from Mr. Brent that he forwarded to you the L etters and Papers received during my absince, and executed the directions given in your Letter ( without date) which came by the Mail of Sunday. The Mail of last Night brought...
15To James Madison from John Graham, 23 August 1808 (Madison Papers)
I recieved the Night before the last a Packet from you in which I found your Letter of the 19th. Inst. As the Gentlemen in Mr. Gallatin’s Office did not feel themselves competent to issue the orders necessary & proper in the Case of Genl. Turreau’s vessels, I yesterday transmitted to Mr Gallatin, an Extract from your Letter to me on that Subject; and today I have written a Note to Genl....
16To James Madison from John Graham, 2 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have been unexpectedly so taken off by repeated interruptions that I have only a Moment to acknowledge the reciept of your Letters of the 30th. Ulto and to give some explanations of the inclosed Papers. The Letter for your Signature is to meet the payment of a Bill for $12,000 drawn by Colo. Lear in favor of Degen & Purviance & Co presented at this Office on the 2d. of Augt as I find from an...
17To James Madison from John Graham, 2 September 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From John Graham. 2 September 1805, New Orleans . “A White Man by the Name of Le Grand, who is from St Domingo has lately been taken up in this City and is now confined in Jail here, for having endeavoured to bring about an Insurrection of the Negroes in this and the adjoining Territories. “The details of his Plan, and of the measures persue’d by the Mayor of the City to arrest him, & to...
18To James Madison from John Graham, 28 November 1806 (Madison Papers)
I hope you recieved the Letter I did myself the Honor to write you from Marietta on the 22d. Inst. as it contained a statement of some facts which I consider of At this Place they seem to know nothing of the Plans of Colo Burr and I am rather induced to think that he has not yet for him here. If he has they have made very little progress fo r all is quiet. The Reports indeed from Kentucky...
19To James Madison from John Graham, 5 August 1808 (Madison Papers)
I had the Honor to receive your Letter of the 2d. Inst last Night. The Copies which you directed to be sent to Mr. Erskine & Mr. Gallatin are made out and will be forwarded by the Mail today. You will I hope receive before this reaches you the Letters, from Genl. Turreau which were mentioned in my Letter of the 29th. Ulto. and ought to have gone with it. I rather apprehend that the British...
20To James Madison from John Graham, 31 May 1808 (Madison Papers)
I had the Honor to receive your Letter of the 27th. Inst and have in consequence given to the Treasury Dept & to Mr. Hill the information you directed me to give. Mr. Forrest has gone to Baltimore on the Business you pointed out. As I had written to Genl. Smith on that Subject I requested Mr. Forrest to call on him. I have understood from your Letter that you did not wish an application to be...
21To James Madison from John Graham, 6 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
You will have seen in the National Intelligencer and also in the Monitor some observations on Mr. Cannings Speech. With Mr. Smith I had some conversation before I received the two Private Letters you did me the Honor to write me; since the receipt of them I have seen both him & Mr. Calvin & put them in possession of your Ideas and of the facts you state. These will enable them to give useful...
22To James Madison from John Graham, 15 August 1808 (Madison Papers)
I had the Honor to receive your Letter of the 12th. Inst last night. The note for Mr Erskine together with a Copy of Genl Baileys Letter to you have been prepared and will go by the Mail this Evening as also Mr. Pinkneys Letter to the Secretary of the Navy. As you Authorise me to act on Mr. Foronda’s note of the 1st. Inst I think I will make a translation of it and send it to Mr. Gallatin, if...
23To James Madison from John Graham, 4 January 1802 (Madison Papers)
The Letter which I had the Honor of addressing to you from Nantes, will have informed you of my going to Paris, & of the reasons which induce’d me to do so. As this Journey was undertaken with the advice of Mr Levingston, I hope, you will not think, I have done wrong in deviating from my most direct route to Madrid. Disappointed in the Hope of finding Mr Pinckney in Paris, I waited there,...
24To James Madison from John Graham, 30 August 1807 (Madison Papers)
Today Judge Marshall delivered a very laboured and elaborate opinion on the points brought into discussion by the Motion made by Mr Burr about ten days ago. This opinion will put an end to the Trials for Treason here, for it goes completely to support the Motion I can not enter into any detail of his arguments for I did not hear him distinctly, and if I had, I could not have followed his...
25To James Madison from John Graham, 13 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have had the Honor to receive your Letters of the 6th. & 9th. Inst. together with the Papers to which they relate. These shall be disposed of as y ou direct without loss of time, tho I shall be the less anxious to send them off as I presume you will wish to avail yourself of the conveyance provided for them, to reply to the Letters from our Agents in Madrid, Paris and St. Petersburg which...
26To James Madison from John Graham, 20 May 1808 (Madison Papers)
I had the Honor to receive your Letter of the 15th. this Morning and am very sorry to hear that your Journey was retarded by causes so unpleasant I was fearful however, that it would be the case, for we had very bad weather here while you were on the Road, not only wet but very Cold. The Passport for the Leonidas has come in good time for she has her Cargo on board at last, and will drop down...
27To James Madison from John Graham, 6 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have the Honor to inclose for your Signature three Letters to the Secretary of the Treasury, with Explanatory Notes in pencil. I mentioned in my Letter of Friday that Mr. Davidson had said he should cause Mr. Lear’s Bill for $12,000 to be protested if it was not paid. The Protest was made today; tho Davidson has promised me that he would hold up the Bill until thursday when I gave him to...
28From John Graham to James Madison, 11 May 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I arrived here yesterday after a passage of eighteen days from New Orleans. I came in the same vessel with Genl Wilkinson who has brought round with him, some eight or nine of Burrs men under an expectation that they will be important Witnesses. Some of them will probably tell all they know, but I fear this will not be the case with those who know most. The General has chartered a Pilot Boat...
29To James Madison from John Graham, 23 March 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
23 March 1804, Lisbon. “In obedience to the wishes of Mr Pinckney I remained in Madrid a few weeks after I had the Honor to receive your Letter of the 17th Octr. which did not reach me until the Beginning of last month, and I now avail myself of the departure of the first vessel for the United States since my arrival here, to return you my thanks for the obliging manner in which you were...
30To James Madison from John Graham, 29 July 1808 (Madison Papers)
Among the Letters now sent, you will find two + from Genl. Turreau. The one directed to the Secretary of the Treasury was sent to the office before you left this Place. The other was received last night. From these Letters and the Papers with them it would seem that Genl. Turreau had obtained permission from Mr Gallatin to purchase one Vessel to go to Europe and that he has purchased two to go...
31To James Madison from John Graham, 14 August 1807 (Madison Papers)
It was not until the day before yesterday that I had the pleasure to receive your Letter of the 8th Inst. After I did receive it, I lost no time in directing that your News Papers, (the Enquirer and the Argus) should be sent to Orange Court House. I declined availing myself of your very obliging offer of the perusal of them, least I might some times be the cause of detaining them. Your account...
32To James Madison from John Graham, 12 November 1806 (Madison Papers)
I had the Honor to receive your Letter of the 3d. Inst. this morning, and have to request that the name of the Person mentioned therein may be forwarded to me at Washington Ky. for I apprehend that I do not read it accurately. I have taken every proper occasion to make enquiries as to the state of the Public Mind on this side the mountains, and it gives me pleasure to say that the accounts I...
33To James Madison from John Graham, 29 August 1808 (Madison Papers)
I had the Honor to receive last night your Letter of the 26th. Inst and this Morning I have done what it directed me to do. I took the Liberty in my last, to give an Opinion that it would be right and proper to put the People in possession of the facts connected with our Foreign Relations, for the most dishonorable and unfair means are used to deceive them, on this point; and on the eve of a...
34To James Madison from John Graham, 3 May 1805 (Madison Papers)
As I have been detained in Kentucky longer than I had expected, it becomes proper me, to state to you, that so soon as the time allowed me by the President for the arrangement of my private affairs had expired, I engaged my passage to Orleans in a Boat then loading at Limestone for the Contractor, which I was told would move on more rapidly than any other from that place. By way of shortening...
35To James Madison from John Graham, 2 January 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From John Graham. 2 January 1806, New Orleans. “I have just a moment before the departure of the Mail to acknowledge the receipt of your Letters of the 18th & 25th of November addressed to Governor Claiborne. As they are of importance I shall forward them to him by an Express unless I hear in the course of tomorrow that he is on his return. “He may possibly determine to prevent the marquis’s...
36To James Madison from John Graham, 8 May 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From John Graham. 8 May 1806, New Orleans. “I have the Honor to inclose you a copy of the Register kept in this office, of the military appointments made by the Governor of the Territory. “It may be proper for me to observe, that no Return has been made to me of the Military appointments among the People of Colour—these appointments were made before the Territorial Government got into...
37To James Madison from John Graham, 10 May 1803 (Madison Papers)
A Stranger to the President & almost unknown to yourself, I fear, that I might possibly expose myself to the charges of Indelicacy & Presumption were I to state to you, the reasons why I wish to retire from my present situation; and yet to ask permission to do so, without assigning them, seems to discover a want of Manliness, & an insensibility to the Honor which has been done me. In this...
38To James Madison from John Graham, 24 March 1807 (Madison Papers)
I have the Honor to inclose a Memo. of my Expences, at the different Places where I stopped, (on my Journey to this Place) to execute the Orders you gave me, when I left the City of Washington. You will be pleased to observe that I do not introduce into this Memo. my travelling expences. these I understand from your Instructions are to fall on myself. They have perhaps bee n somewhat increased...
39To James Madison from John Graham, 16 September 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From John Graham. 16 September 1805, New Orleans . “I had the Honor to forward to you by the last Post a Copy of a Letter from the Mayor of this City from which you would learn all that has transpired as to the Insurrection contemplated by Le Grand, or as he calls himself Grand Jean. Present appearances justify a belief that this Man had formed no party among the Negroes. “You will probably...
40To James Madison from John Graham, 19 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
I had the honor to recieve your Letter of the 16th. last night. The Dispatches had been delivered to Mr. Gibbon the preceeding day, with instructions to deposit all of them, save those for England, with Mr. Short immediately on his arrival in Philadelphia. The Cypher will go on tomorrow as also the Instructions for the Departure of the Vessel, unless contrary directions should be received...
41To James Madison from John Graham, 24 May 1808 (Madison Papers)
I had the Honor to recieve last Evening your Letters of the 16th. and 20th. Inst. and have today forwarded your Letters under cover of the first, to Genl Turreau and Mr Dallas. I called at the Treasury to-day to see Mr Gallatin. He was not there and I was told by Mr Jones that he would probably set off for Philadelphia this afternoon. Mr Jones promised me however, that Mr Lewis’s Letter should...
42To James Madison from John Graham, 11 May 1807 (Madison Papers)
I arrived here yesterday after a passage of eighteen days from New Orleans. I came in the same Vessel with Genl Wilkinson who has brought round with him, some eight or nine of Burrs Men under an expectation that they will be important Witnesses. Some of them will probably tell all they know, but I fear this will not be the case with those who know most. The General has chartered a Pilot Boat...
43To James Madison from John Graham, 9 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
I had the Honor to receive your Letter of the 6th. Inst. and the Papers which it covered. The Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury enabled me to take up Mr Lears Bill which had been protested but not returned to the owners. I have forwarded the Certificate to Mr. Magdalena and made to Mr Dallas the request you pointed out. I apprehend there will be no great difficulty in getting a Person to...
44To James Madison from John Graham, 23 October 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From John Graham. 23 October 1805, New Orleans. “I have the Honor to forward to you by this mail a copy of the Official Journal of the Governor of this Territory, from the 22d. of January (the time when mr Brown left this Office) to the 1st. July [not found]. “Circumstances over which I had no controul, prevented me from transmitting this Copy sooner; but in future I will take care to comply...
45To James Madison from John Graham, 1 August 1808 (Madison Papers)
You will see it stated in the Mercantile Advertiser of New York that the Ship Thalia has brought Dispatches from Mr. Pinkny I therefore think it necessary to advise you that these Dispatches have not as yet reached the Department. It is probably they may come on to Night and if so I shall forward them by the Post Rider tomorrow. From a Norfolk Paper which I have just seen it appears that a...
46To James Madison from John Graham, 20 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
No Letters having been received from the President or yourself last Night, I have this day forwarded the necessary Instructions for the departure of the Dispatch vessel. I have been so much taken up with this Business that I have not had time to read the Dispatches received last Night from Mr. Erving therefore it is that some of his Packets go to you by this Mail unopened. With Sentiments of...
47To James Madison from John Graham, 13 February 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From John Graham. 13 February 1806, New Orleans. “I have the Honor to inclose you a Copy of the General Orders issued by the Governor of this Territory in his Character as Commander in Chief of the Militia; and also a List of the Civil appointments made by him. “The List of the military appointments can not, the Governor tells me, be made out until the return of the Adjutant Genera⟨l,⟩ who...
48To James Madison from John Graham, 30 December 1801 (Madison Papers)
I have just arrived at this place from Paris, & hasten to avail myself of an opportunity (which this Moment offers itself) of sending on four Packets which were instrusted [ sic ] to me by Mr Levingston, for you. I also send one for the President from some Gentleman in Paris. These Packets will go to New York in the Ship Orlando, now waiting below for her Papers which will be sent on to Night....
49To James Madison from John Graham, 16 May 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have the Honor to forward you by this Mail the Letters mentioned in the inclosed List. You will observe from a Note of Mr. Gallatins, that he declined giving any answer to the application made by Mr Rademaker and I am advised by Mr Smith to send Mr Rs. Letter to you. As yet I do not learn that a vessel has been chartered to take out Mr Hill, so that the probability is, no time will be lost...
50To James Madison from John Graham, 30 November 1805 (Madison Papers)
After a very tedious passage I arrived here, via Mobile, on the 23d. Inst and the next morning delivered to Governor Folch the Letter with which I had been charged by Governor Claiborne & of which I beleive a Copy has been sent to you. I am sorry to say that neither this Letter, nor any representations I have been able to make to Governor Folch have induced him to suspend the execution of the...