4291To James Madison from William Charles Coles Claiborne, 23 March 1807 (Madison Papers)
I inclose you a Memorial to Congress, as reported by a Committee of the House of Representatives of this Territory, but which has been rejected by the House; there being fourteen Members in favour of the rejection, and seven against it. This Memorial is founded in error, and it is greatly to be regreted, that any Citizens of this Territory, much less a Committee of the Legislature, could...
4292To James Madison from William Charles Coles Claiborne, 8 January 1809 (Madison Papers)
The enclosure (No. 1) is a copy of a letter to me from Judge Carr of Nachitoches, and furnishes the latest information concerning the fugitive Slaves: The enclosure (No. 2) is a Copy of my answer. I have the honor to be, Sir, with great respect, yo: hble Servt., DNA : RG 59-TP-Territorial Papers, Orleans.
4293To James Madison from William Charles Coles Claiborne, 19 January 1809 (Madison Papers)
I take the liberty to enclose for your perusal a Copy of the Answer of the Representatives of the Territory, to the address, I had the honor to deliver to the two Houses on the 14th. Instant. This answer, (one Member only having voted against it) may be considered as conveying the political sentiments of the great majority of the people of the Territory; Indeed Sir, the Louisianians are...
4294To James Madison from William Charles Coles Claiborne, 3 March 1807 (Madison Papers)
Lieut. Gains of fort Stoddard has arrested Burr and forwarded him under an escort, to the City of Washington, where the subtle Traitor, will I trust meet the punishment due his Crimes. I find that much censure is attached to the measures of General Wilkinson by some Members of Congress, and that the Machinations of Burr, are by them, considered as of little moment; I however, as an American...
4295To James Madison from William Charles Coles Claiborne, 25 November 1806 (Madison Papers)
General Wilkinson has this moment arrived in New Orleans. My Letters of the 18. and 19. inst. you will consider as confidential . I shall have a conferrence with the General on tomorrow, and will in a few days write you particularly I have no doubt that a conspiracy is formed highly injurious to the interest of the UStates and that characters of high standing are concerned , but I am not yet...
4296To James Madison from William Charles Coles Claiborne, 20 January 1809 (Madison Papers)
I am this moment informed by the Military Agent, that two thousand Regular Troops are ordered to this City; You will excuse me for suggesting it as an object of some importance, that the officer selected for this Command, should possess a disposition and, turn of Mind, calculated to conciliate the Citizens generally, and to preserve a good understanding with the Civil Authorities. Colonel...
4297To James Madison from William Charles Coles Claiborne, 5 December 1806 (Madison Papers)
At the moment of closing my dispatches, I received from an old and esteemed friend a letter of which the inclosed is a Copy. You will be pleased not to memtion the name of the writer, unless you should deem it essential to the public’ Interest. I am greatly embarrassed; but my best judgment will direct all my movements. What the issue may be God alone knows; all the assurance I can give you is...
4298To James Madison from William Charles Coles Claiborne, 27 March 1807 (Madison Papers)
General Wilkinson continues to be much abused in this City, and nothing will be left undone, by a Party here, to effect his ruin. This faction are equally inimical to me, but for purposes best known to themselves, they do not, for the present, manifest as openly their hostility. During the late interesting Crisis, I resorted to a measure of precaution which I have not heretofore communicated...
4299To James Madison from William Charles Coles Claiborne, 17 February 1808 (Madison Papers)
General Moreau & Governor Folch continue in this City, and have contracted a great intimacy; perhaps their objects may be perfectly innocent, but I am not without my suspicions . I know not when Moreau will depart; at one time, he proposed taking a passage in the first Vessel for Charleston; at another, he designed passing by Land, the nearest and best route to Georgia and from thence thro’...
4300To James Madison from William Charles Coles Claiborne, 27 March 1807 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to inclose you a copy of two Addresses signed by many respectable Citizens of this Territory, approving the late conduct of General Wilkinson and myself. I am dear Sir, With great esteem and respect, your hble Servt. DNA : RG 59-TP-Territorial Papers, Orleans.
4301To James Madison from William Charles Coles Claiborne, 18 April 1808 (Madison Papers)
Edward Livingston, left this City a few days since for the City of Washington, with a view (as is reported) of having a personal conference with the President of the U. States, on several subjects private & political. Among the former, the case of the Batture will be introduced; among the latter, the acts of General Wilkinson during the winter of 1806, & of Governor Claiborne generally are to...
4302To James Madison from William Charles Coles Claiborne, 6 March 1807 (Madison Papers)
I fear I was greatly deceived in the character which was given me of a Mr. Hopkins, a young man who was the bearer of my dispatches of the 5. & 6. of December last. I have heard, from good authority that he lost by gaming some money at Natchez and behaved otherwise imprudently. His indiscretions were renewed at Nashville; and I fear it is true that he is undeserving of confidence: While...
4303To James Madison from William Charles Coles Claiborne, 1 January 1809 (Madison Papers)
On the 29th. Ultimo, I transmitted under cover to the Secretary at War, a letter which Mr. Mather, the Mayor of New-Orleans, had addressed to me touching a Conspiracy, which he supposes to exist. Whether there is or is not cause for that apprehension which the Mayor expresses, I cannot yet undertake to say; I have however esteemed it a duty to take some measures of precaution, & with this...
4304To James Madison from William Charles Coles Claiborne, 21 April 1807 (Madison Papers)
Governor Folch of Pensacola has recommenced his unfriendly proceedings towards the US. He has refused a passage to the American troops by the way of Mobile to Fort Stoddart, and threatens to oppose them with force of arms. The commerce also of the U. S. on the Mobile continues subject to detention and embarrassment; duties are exacted, even on the Military Stores of the US, as will appear by...
4305To James Madison from William Charles Coles Claiborne, 26 February 1807 (Madison Papers)
I have this day received your private letter of the 17th. Ultimo, acknowledging the receipt of my communications of the 9th. of December. The course Mr. Burr has taken in his flight is not ascertained; I learn however by a Gentleman from the Mississippi Territory that the general opinion there, was, that Burr was concealed at Natchez, where his adherents are said to be numerous. My opinion is...
4306To James Madison from William Charles Coles Claiborne, 9 December 1806 (Madison Papers)
The Members of the New Orleans Chambre of Commerce, attended on this morning at 10’O’clock at the Government House, and after being apprized by the General and myself, of the just causes for the apprehension of danger, and the demand there was for Sailors to man the little Fleet on this Station, they unanimously agreed to a resolution, of which the inclosed is a Copy. This Chamber embraces...
4307To James Madison from William Charles Coles Claiborne, 2 January 1809 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to transmit you a "Memoire" on the subject of the Batture; together with several interesting Documents. The Author Judge Moreau is supposed to be well informed on the Civil Law, & I am persuaded, you will find his Memoire worthy of your perusal. You have enclosed, a Copy of a correspondence (Marked A) between the Mayor of New Orleans, the Wardens of the Port and myself, on the...
4308To James Madison from William Charles Coles Claiborne, 9 December 1806 (Madison Papers)
In the course of yesterday, and this morning, I have been assured by many Citizens that the ancient Louisianians will very generally resist with firmness the expected attack; I am well assured, that in this City, there are Agents of Col: Burr; but it will be difficult to expose their Agency, and to bring them to punishment; to effect however this great object of public Justice, no exertions of...
4309To James Madison from William Charles Coles Claiborne, 6 February 1807 (Madison Papers)
I learn that Colo. Burr’s associates are daily arriving in the Mississippi Territory, and that among them are Blannerhasset & Tyler; I learn also, that Aaron Burr has had the address to make many good Citizens believe that he is an innocent & persecuted man, & that the real traitor is General James Wilkinson, whom he (Burr) denounces as "an Enemy to the U. States, & a Spanish Pensioner". I...
4310To James Madison from William Charles Coles Claiborne, 15 January 1809 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to enclose you, a Copy of a letter addressed to me by His Excellency Nemesio Salcedo, Governor General of the Province of Texas communicating his determination to deliver the fugitive Slaves, to the Order of their Masters. The contents of this letter (which were made known to the Parish Judge of Nachitoches by a Spanish officer to whose care it was committed) have diffused...
4311To James Madison from William Charles Coles Claiborne, 29 January 1807 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to inclose you the answers which have been returned by the two houses of the assembly to my address of the 13th. Instant; you will perceive by these documents, that the Legislature partake in a great measure, of that agitation which at present pervades the public’ mind; & that altho’ the measures lately pursued here with a view to the public safety, are not openly censured,...
4312To James Madison from the Claims Commissioners under the Jay Treaty, 23 February 1804 (Madison Papers)
We have the Honor to inform you that this Board having finally acted upon every Complain⟨t⟩ preferred to it under the Seventh Article of the Treaty by duly executing and delivering Awards against the respective Governments in favour of such Complainants as appeared to them to be entitled to Compensation, and by rejecting and dismissing such Complaints as appeared to them not to be so entitled,...
4313To Thomas Jefferson from Arthur St. Clair, 13 February 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
It is most probable that the violent exertions made last Winter , when my term of Office expired to prevent a renewal of it did not escape your notice, but it may not have come to your knowledge that, to accomplish that Object, the basest means—the vilest falsehoods, and the foulest Calumnies were resorted to; nor that, at the very moment, the authors of them were guilty of the blackest...
4314To Thomas Jefferson from Bowling Clark, 13 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of 26 Sept. & yours from Washinton came safe to hand, the Letter inclosed to Gipsen & Co. expect has answered my perpus in Richmond,—have delayed answering those two Letters in order to give you more sattisfactary acct. of your affairs hear—have layed of Mr Eppsis Land & Mr Randolphs the plats of which I inclose, am doutful you will not like the form of Mr Epps Land. I could not Lay it...
4315To Thomas Jefferson from Bowling Clark, 4 August 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Your feavers by Havealis of July 24 I recived last evening. & agreeable to your request have set to your list. what I supposeed to be the value of each different track Per acre. at the time I left the Forest. I cant be so certain of the value of those three tracks of Calloways & the two Robartsons as I neaver traced those lines all round. the Lands in that Neighbourhood have raseed in thare...
4316To Thomas Jefferson from Daniel Clark, 18 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr Clark has the Honor of sending to the President of the U.S. a few Maps and Plans of remarkable Places in the Orleans Territory and adjoining Countries should any of them be thought sufficiently interesting by the War Department to be copied Mr Clark will spare them at any time for that purpose. Mr Clark likewise sends an Indian Axe found on his Plantation in the County of Acadia which he...
4317To James Madison from Daniel Clark, 20 October 1803 (Madison Papers)
I have this Evening had the Honor of receiving your Letter of the 16th. ulto. I have hitherto been fearful that the details and information in my power to convey from this Country would rather prove tiresome than acceptable and on that account have only risked troubling you with what I thought indispensable, I am happy to learn that these Communications will not be taken amiss and it will...
4318To James Madison from Daniel Clark, 28 November 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
28 November 1803, New Orleans. “Herewith I forward Copies of my Letters of the 17th. 21. 22. 23. 24. & 25th. Inst. to Governor Claiborne with Copies of his of the 14th. 17. 18th. & 22nd. to me forming the whole of the Correspondence that has taken place between us since my last to you, and you will perceive by them the pleasing prospect that now presents itself; but it will be well to bear in...
4319To James Madison from Daniel Clark, 10 November 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
10 November 1803, New Orleans. “Inclosed you have Copies of three Letters of the 7th. 9th. & 10th. Inst. which I have written to Governor Claiborne and supposing he would give you advice respecting them by Land I have for the sake of having another opportunity forwarded these by the Ship Patty via New York. The Marquis de Casa Calvo set out yesterday Evening on a shooting Party to the Parish...
4320To James Madison from Daniel Clark, 8 March 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
8 March 1803, New Orleans. “I arrived here from Europe on the night of the 25th. ulto. and was sensibly hurt tho’ by no means surprised at the Steps taken by the Intendant in my absence, and which cause an incalculable injury to the Trade of the Western Country. In the last Letter I had the Honor of writing to you from hence I pointed out what he had then done in violation of the Treaty, his...