31From James Madison to the Secretary of the Republican Meeting of Kent County, Maryland, 21 March 1809 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 16th. inst: inclosing the proceedings of “The Democratic Citizens of Kent County[”] on the 4th. instant. I am greatly obliged by the kind expressions towards me which have a place in those proceedings; and the more so as the value of them is enhanced by the patriotic spirit which characterizes the Meeting. In preferring peace, tho’ prepared for a suspension of...
32From James Madison to the Chairman of the Republican Meeting of Litchfield, Connecticut, 22 March 1809 (Madison Papers)
The Resolutions transmitted through you, as unanimously adopted by a meeting of “The Republicans of the Town of Litchfield” have been duly received. The conduct, as unexampled as unprovoked, by which the Belligerent Powers, have trampled on the rights of neutral nations, and in some instances added peculiar insults to the injuries done to the US. naturally excite the feelings which these...
33From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 27 March 1809 (Madison Papers)
Altho’ the letter from Mr. Brown was probably intended for you, I could not hesitate in carrying it into effect; and finding that the Bill on the Navy Dept. will be paid, I inclose, in order to avoid the delay of a week, the sum drawn for in Bank notes. I send them to you rather than directly to Mrs. T. first because I do not know what the direct address ought to be, & 2dly. because it is...
34From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 28 March 1809 (Madison Papers)
I have yours of the 24. The enquiry as to Franzoni will be made as soon as an oppy. offers. F. Page had been appd. before your letter was recd. & his Commission forwarded. We have letters from Erving to Jany. 28. He was at Cadiz, intending it appears to adhere to the Junta Suprema, till the drama should close, and then leave Spain, by way of Gibralter, Tangier, or England, if no other course...
35From James Madison to Benjamin Rush, 30 March 1809 (Madison Papers)
I have been prevented from acknowledging, as soon as I could have wished, your kind favor of the 13th. inst. Under the circumstances my fellow Citizens have thought proper to place me, it is particularly grateful to me, to enjoy the good wishes of the most enlightened and virtuous among them: and above all of those whose long and personal acquaintance gives peculiar value to their favorable...
36Landscape Account for the Executive Mansion, 31 March 1809 (Madison Papers)
List of Trees & Shrubs for the Presidents Garden. Where to be procured Large trees for Single trees & in lines Tulip tree. Saml. Davidson. Willow leaved Oak Elm. Beech. Ash. S. Davidson Horse Chesnut. Holt Walnut (English) Hepburn Sugar Maple Billey Sycamore (English[)] Larch. Weeping Willow
37From James Madison to Isaac Ball, 4 April 1809 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 4 April 1809. Acknowledged in Ball to JM, 11 Apr. 1809 . Authorizes Ball to list JM as a patron of a proposed new edition of his work, An Analytical View of the Animal Economy .
38From James Madison to Anthony Fothergill, 5 April 1809 (Madison Papers)
I have recd your favor of the 28th. Ult: accompanied by two little tracts; one of them the fruit of your own benevolent and ingenious researches, on a subject as interesting as it has been obscure. Accept my thanks for both. I offer the same return for the friendly interest you take in my discharge of the trust for which I have just become responsible. I am duly sensible of the magnitude of...
39Presidential Proclamation, 5 April 1809 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
5 April 1809, Washington. Offers lands ceded to the U.S. by the Cherokee and Chickasaw tribes, lying within the Mississippi Territory, for public sale. The sale will begin on 7 Aug. at Nashville, Tennessee, and continue for three weeks. Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 49, Proclamations of Public Sales). 2 pp. Printed in Carter, Territorial Papers, Mississippi , 5:724–25.
40From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 9 April 1809 (Madison Papers)
I return the letter of Mazzei, without however having ascertained the fact as to the remittance by the Sculptor. Latrobe I presume, will give the information in his answer to the letter which I have forwarded to him. He is now in Philada. A Secretary of Legation with a sort of Extra establishment has just arrived from England, with despatches for Erskine. I have a private letter only from...
41From James Madison to Simon Snyder, 13 April 1809 (Madison Papers)
I have received your letter of the 6th. instant, accompanied by certain Acts of the Legislature of Pensylvania; which will be laid before Congress, according to the desire expressed. Considering our respective relations to the subject of these communications, it would be unnecessary, if not improper to enter into any examination of some of the questions connected with it. It is sufficient, in...
42From James Madison to Caesar A. Rodney, 14 April 1809 (Madison Papers)
Your favor on the subject of White was duly recd. The Secy. of S. will have informed you of the intimation to Mr. Dallas that a Nol. pros: was thought not an eligible course. I have recd. a letter from Govr. Snider on the case of Olmstead, & inclose a copy of my answer. The proceedings of this Country as known in England in Jany. had with other events, made no slight impressions there. Erskine...
43Presidential Proclamation, [19 April] 1809 (Madison Papers)
By the President of the United States of America. A Proclamation. Whereas it is provided by the 11th. Section of the Act of Congress entitled “An Act to interdict the Commercial Intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France, and their dependencies; and for other purposes”—that “in case either France or Great Britain shall so revoke or Modify her Edicts as that they shall...
44From James Madison to John G. Jackson, 21 April 1809 (Madison Papers)
The inclosed paper contains the result of what has passed between Mr. Smith & Mr. Erskine. You will see that it puts an end to the two immediate difficulties with G. B. and has the air of a policy in her, to come to a thorough adjustment. It remains to be seen whether the pride or the prudence of France is to prescribe the course which she will take in consequence of this new state of things....
45From James Madison to William Pinkney, 21 April 1809 (Madison Papers)
I have duly recd. your favors of Jany. 16. & 23d. with the inclosures. The letters from the Dept. of State will furnish you with the result of the discussions to which the dispatches for Mr. Erskine brought by Mr. Oakley, have led. It is to be hoped that the conciliatory policy of which this successful advance on the part of G. B. is a specimen, will equally appear in the choice and the...
46From James Madison to Caesar A. Rodney, 22 April 1809 (Madison Papers)
I return the letter from Mr. Duane to you. I find by one from Mr. Dallas to the Secretary of State, that the affair of Olmstead has passed off without the threatened collisions of force. It is bad eno’ as it is; but a blessing compared with such a result. I do not send you because superfluous, a copy of what has passed with respect to our B. affairs. It will either produce a settlement of our...
47From James Madison to Charles Thomson, 22 April 1809 (Madison Papers)
Having just recd. the 4th. & last Volume of your Translation of the Septuagint, I beg leave to make my acknowledgments complete for the valuable mark of your friendship afforded by such a present. I have not been able to look much into the text of the translation, much less to compare it with the original; but I know too well your erudition & accuracy, not to rely more on these, than I should...
48From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 24 April 1809 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your favor of the 19th. You will see in the newspapers the result of the Advances made by G. B. Attempts were made to give shapes to the arrangement implying inconsistency and blame on our part. They were however met in a proper manner & readily abandoned; leaving these charges in their full force, as they now bear on the other side. The B. Cabinet must have changed its course...
I have received your letter of the 11h of March, with the sentiments due for the respect and confidence which it expresses, on behalf of the pious Institution which you superintend. In a Country where all rights, religious as well as civil, are protected by the laws, and guaranteed by an enlightened public opinion, the best of securities exists for the tranquility and esteem of those, whose...
50From James Madison to the Chairman of the Republican Meeting of Garrard County, Kentucky, 29 April 1809 (Madison Papers)
I have received your communication of the resolutions of my fellow citizens of Gerrard county, assembled at Lancaster on the 4th of March; and feel myself much indebted for the favorable sentiments and friendly wishes which they express towards me. I ought to esteem the more these marks of kindness and confidence, as the resolutions manifest at the same time principles and dispositions so...
51From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 1 May 1809 (Madison Papers)
I am just favored with yours of the 27th. Young Gelston is here preparing to take his passage for France as bearer and expositor of dispatches, in the Syren sloop of war which is waiting for him at Baltimore. He leaves this tomorrow morning. Mr. Gallatin has had a conversation with Turreau at his residence near Baltimore. He professes to be confident that his Govt. will consider England as...
52From James Madison to Lafayette, 1 May 1809 (Madison Papers)
It is a real mortification to me that another favorable opportunity has occurred without my being able to add a word to what you know on the state of your land affairs in the hands of Mr. Duplantier. I have not recd. a line from him, since He stated the difficulty which had presented itself in the completion of a part of his locations, and the advice of Mr. Gallatin relating to it was...
53From James Madison to John Drayton, ca. 1 May 1809 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. Ca. 1 May 1809. Thanks Governor Drayton for sending a copy of his View of South Carolina and would like to see a similar work from each state. “Examples such as yours cannot be without effect in promoting the desireable result” (extract from Parke-Bernet Catalogue No. 2235 [1963], which offered letter for sale).
54From James Madison to Philip Freneau, ca. 1 May 1809 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. Ca. 1 May 1809. Acknowledged in Freneau to JM, 12 May 1809 . Subscribes for ten copies of Freneau’s Poems Written and Published during the American Revolutionary War and suggests “the insertion of a piece or two in prose.”
55From James Madison to Aaron H. Palmer, ca. 1 May 1809 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. Ca. 1 May 1809. Acknowledged in Palmer to JM, 9 May 1809 (DLC). Conveys thanks for the pamphlet enclosed in Palmer to JM, 20 Apr. 1809 .
56Executive Pardon, [6 May] 1809 (Madison Papers)
James Madison , President of the United States of America, To all who shall see these presents, Greeting : Whereas it has been represented to me that Genl Michael Bright , James Atkinson, William Cole, Charles Westfall, Samuel Wilkins, Abraham Ogden, Daniel Phyle, Charles Hong and John Knipe, all of the state of Pennsylvania, were, at a Circuit Court of the United States lately held for the...
57From James Madison to the Chairman of the Republican Meeting of Accomack County, Virginia, [ca. 10] May 1809 (Madison Papers)
I have duly received from you a copy of the proceedings of the Meeting of Citizens at Accomac Court House, on the first instant, on the subject of the late negociation with G. Britain, and of the Proclamation by which it was followed. Next to the consciousness of a faithful discharge of public duty, is the satisfaction afforded by a public approbation of it. I can not be insensible, therefore,...
58From James Madison to David Gelston, 15 May 1809 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 15 May 1809. Acknowledged in Gelston to JM, 9 June 1809 . In his letter to JM of 20 July 1809 , Gelston mentions that the letter was “requesting the wine might be cased.”
59From James Madison to Congress, [23 May] 1809 (Madison Papers)
Fellow Citizens of the Senate and of the House of Representatives. On this first occasion of meeting you, it affords me much satisfaction to be able to communicate the commencement of a favorable change, in our foreign relations; the critical state of which induced a Session of Congress at this early period. In consequence of the provisions of the act, interdicting commercial intercourse with...
60Authorization for Gideon Gooch, [23 May] 1809 (Madison Papers)
I hereby authorize Gideon Gooch or such person as he may substitute, to sell whatever Tobacco may have been inspected in my name, and be in the Warehouses at Richmond at any time previous to the tenth day of June next. Given under my hand this 23 day of May 1809. Ms (owned by Charles M. Storey, Boston, Mass., 1961). In JM’s hand. Accompanied by Gooch’s release of the tobacco to Robert H. Rose...