5221To James Madison from an Unidentified Correspondent, 10 December 1811 (Madison Papers)
As a Citizen of the United states, I feel it my duty to give you the following information. I trust that the nature of the communication I am about to make, will equally remove the idea of delation or mischief towards the individual; but if such were the impressions it is to produce, as my only object is to serve the Country and yourself, my personal respect for you shall outweigh this...
5222To James Madison from an Unidentified Correspondent, [ca. 6 July] 1812 (Madison Papers)
I advise thee to be cautious and prudent. Massachusetts will not go to war. The union I fear will be shaken if war continues. Enclosed is a paper from which you may judge of the feelings of the People. RC ( NN ). Undated; date assigned here on the basis of a Salem, Massachusetts, 6 July postmark. Docketed by JM, “June 1812.” Enclosure not found.
5223To James Madison from an Unidentified Correspondent, July 1812 (Madison Papers)
An old friend presumes to address you on a subject extremely interresting to the society of which he is immediately a member and not uninterresting to the goverment of his country . He should not have disturbed you at this time, this crisis in our political affairs, when every energy of your mind is known to be directed to the best interests of our country, amidst a number of almost...
5224To James Madison from an Unidentified Correspondent, 26 September 1813 (Madison Papers)
An officer in the British service, I have been dispatched to this place, by the order of my Goverment, for the purpose of arming, and rousing the Creek Nation of Indians, by every possible means , to make War on the people of the U.S. The policy adopted by my country, is such, as my breast cannot approve, and indeed, the cause , as well as the mode of prosecuting the war, on their part, I...
5225To James Madison from an Unidentified Correspondent, 6 February 1813 (Madison Papers)
On reading in one of our Public prints a definition of Treason given as by one of the Circuit Judges of the United States I was led to reflect whether or not it be timely and Advisable to amend or modify the Constitution of the United States so as to make it Treasonable to attempt to dissolve the Union or to aid or encourage it by writing publishing or pronouncing anything that might be...
5226To James Madison from an Unidentified Correspondent, 24 April 1809 (Madison Papers)
Rais’d by the honorable Suffrages of the American people, to the most dignified state amongst mankind, conjecture, is now lost in certainty and it may fairly be pronounced, that you were born for the benefit of the human family. It would be superfluous to attempt to show by any species of argument, that to those who have assisted in raising you to an emenence, to which they believ’d you were...
5227To James Madison from an Unidentified Correspondent, 14 October 1812 (Madison Papers)
Although I have not the honor to be personally acquainted with you, yet I shall take the liberty to write you a few lines. I am acquainted with the different political parties in this City, and throughout the State; and am in the freequent habit of discussing different Political subjects, with Federalists, Clintonians &c; and in general, with such as have not made up their minds, at all...
5228To James Madison from an Unidentified Correspondent, 23 February 1812 (Madison Papers)
The illicit commerce between Great Britain & the United States, through the Channels of Halifax, and amelia Island, being, as is supposed, unquestionable, would it not be adviseable to prohibit any Intercourse whatever with those places, and generally, with every place in the possession, &c. of G. B. on the Continent of North America, or within one hundred leagues thereof, or such other...
5229To James Madison from an Unidentified Correspondent, [ca. 4 October 1814] (Madison Papers)
As General Armstrong was one of your principal Secretaries, Bon Amie and Bottle Companion, enjoying your confidence in a super-eminent degree, it would be cruel, as well as ungenerous in me to doubt for a single moment his honor or veracity. In his letter to the public, he states, “that you informed him that you was also an object of the suspicions and menaces of the militia of the District.”...
5230To James Madison from an Unidentified Correspondent, 25 April 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
25 April 1811. “The Subject of this letter has given me much pain. It induces me to trespass on You for the 3d & last time.… No Benefit can result to me by this act; On the contrary I might draw upon myself, an host of Enemies, with the Secretary of War at their head.… The present letter is on the existing state of our Military Establishment & the arms & implements of War.… In adverting to our...