841To James Madison from Orchard Cook, 17 June 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
17 June 1812, Wiscasset. Benjamin Homans, “lately the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, has been removed from that Office by the intemperate persecutions of the Party who are opposed to good Government.” Mentions having previously spoken to JM and to President Jefferson about Homans’s merits and declares that his integrity and “warm Patriotism” as well as “his sufferings from the...
842To James Madison from Orchard Cook, 11 August 1812 (Madison Papers)
The Merchants of this Place—who were Republicans lately forwarded to your Excely an address—requesting a cessation of Arms &c. This was done in haste, immediately on the reception, at this Port, of the revocation of the Orders in Council. I wish to assure Your Excellency, that it would be the last of our Wishes that any of the Rights or Honour of the U. S should be sacrificed to G. B. for the...
843To James Madison from Orchard Cook, 3 March 1814 (Madison Papers)
A number of the Officers of the Genl. Governt. have requested me to write to your Exy. informing of the sudden Death of Silas Lee Esqr. U.S. Attorney for this District, and to express their solicitude an able successor may be appointed, one who shall possess Knowledge & Talents & weight of Character suffc’t. to contend & support the rights of Govt. against the eminent Men who practise in the...
844To James Madison from Daniel Cooledge, 20 February 1815 (Madison Papers)
With much joy and thankfulness to the President of the universe, I congratulate thee on the happy issue and dispersion of the cloud that has so long darkened our borders. Long mayest thou live, and thy reign be prosperous, and that judgement, discermment [ sic ] and integrity, which has so wonderfully, in this late instance, preserved us as a nation, be thy companions to thy grave. With...
845To James Madison from Ebenezer Cooley, 5 January 1811 (Madison Papers)
I have been informed that you are the Agent of Major General la Fayette in the U. States & that you have appointed Mr. Duplanty to conduct the location of the land that was assigned to him for his services in the U. States during the revolutionary war. My object therefore in writing to you is to let you know that I have been for a considerable time in actual possession of a tract of land which...
846To James Madison from James Cooper, Jr., 23 August 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
23 August 1811, Philadelphia. Offers himself as a candidate for the position of consul at Santiago de Cuba, recently vacated by the death of Maurice Rogers. “Having a perfect knowledge of the place from a long Residence, & being particularly intimate with its local Mercantile Usages, many Merchants of this Port, have intimated a wish that I had the Appointment, & would transact their business.”...
847To James Madison from Thomas Cooper, 8 August 1815 (Madison Papers)
Your nephew will soon set out from this place, and probably not return. His studies have been greatly interrupted by a very long illness, but since he has been able to read, he has red with good effect. He has however more talent than Industry; but there is no reason to complain on the whole. His health is better: but I am not sorry to hear he is destined for new orleans; for I am persuaded he...
848To James Madison from Thomas Cooper, 3 September 1813 (Madison Papers)
The trustees of the College here, can afford to purchase but the one half of my time. It is an object of consequence with me to employ the rest beneficially for my family. Can you give me the collection of a district for the assessed taxes of which Cumberland County is a part? This did not occur to me when I wrote to you last, but as I promised nothing more than a mere testimonial, I find...
849To James Madison from Thomas Cooper, 22 May 1813 (Madison Papers)
I received yesterday, the specimen of composition of the Congreve Rocket. I have not yet accurately analysed it, because it appeared to me from its obvious properties, that I could make a composition sufficiently similar. I have not returned it to you, because I take for granted you have reserved some of it: if not, as I have used very little of the lump you sent me, it can be returned. The...
850To James Madison from Thomas Cooper, 16 November 1814 (Madison Papers)
Your nephew is much better, but far from well: an obstinate feverish tendency still oppresses him: he is better here however than in Philadelphia, because with equally good advice, and more at ease. You were so good as to procure for me some books in France which I fancy are still at L’Orient. My Emporium is suspended, owing to the difficulties of the times, but I keep in view its...
851To James Madison from Thomas Cooper, 4 October 1811 (Madison Papers)
About two years ago, I requested you to procure for me, by means of Gen. Armstrong, or Mr Warden, some books on Chemistry and Mineralogy, which the irregularity of intercourse between this Country and France, prevented me from obtaining. You were so kind as to write on the subject to Paris and directed the amount of what the books might cost, to be paid by one or other of those Gentlemen on...
852To James Madison from Thomas Cooper, 14 September 1810 (Madison Papers)
I feel myself much indebted to your kindness in sending for the books mentioned in my letter. I had omitted to mention a treatise on the manufacture of Glass by M. Bois D’Antic, but Mr Warden in making general Enquiries, will not fail to have this work also suggested to him. In England there is not one treatise on the Subject, and the doors of every manufactory are closed upon a stranger, so...
853To James Madison from Thomas Cooper, 24 December 1816 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Thomas Cooper. 24 December 1816. “Mr. Cooper presents his respects to the President of the United States & will have the honor to dine with him on Thursday next.” RC ( ViU ). 1 p. Federalist Thomas Cooper represented Delaware in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Congresses.
854To James Madison from Thomas Cooper, 18 February 1813 (Madison Papers)
I write to you briefly, because you have little time for long discussions. I understand some privateer has brought in, an english vessel laden with Congreve Rockets, shrapnall shells and other similar machines: would it not be adviseable to distribute a dozen for analysis and imitation, to a committee of two or three men of science in Boston New York and Philadelphia? An idea has occurred to...
855To James Madison from Thomas Cooper, Ca. 22 December 1814 (letter not found) (Madison Papers)
¶ From Thomas Cooper. Letter not found. Ca. 22 December 1814. Enclosed in Cooper to Alexander J. Dallas, ca. 22 Dec. 1814 (1 p.; DLC ; undated; addressed to Dallas as secretary of the Treasury at Washington and postmarked 22 Dec.; dated 1 Sept. 1813 in the Index to the James Madison Papers ), in which Cooper states, “I have written by same post to the President, or on consideration I inclose...
856To James Madison from Thomas Cooper, 19 August 1810 (Madison Papers)
The liberty I am now about to take, I take on reflection; persuaded that if I am mistaken in my notions of propriety, you will attribute the present request to a good motive. Since my arrival in this Country in 1793 the whole Science of Mineralogy in Europe has been new modelled. When my friend Mr Kirwan first published his elements of Mineralogy in 1784, it was the stock book : it is now...
857To James Madison from Thomas Cooper, 9 July 1810 (Madison Papers)
Col. Patten of the post office here, was so good as to hand me your obliging letter relating to my opinion on an Insurance Case. I hasten to acknowledge the receipt of your favour, and to express my high satisfaction at the approbation you have thought fit to bestow. It is approbation of the only kind worth having; laudari a laudato viro. I remain with sentiments of great respect Sir Your...
858To James Madison from Thomas Cooper, 17 January 1817 (Madison Papers)
Mr Dallas is dead. Gout, brought on by professional fatigue, attacking alternately his Kidneys, his Stomach and his head, proved at length incureable. He had been attacked with it at Trenton about ten days before his death. I say nothing about the loss his friends sustain by this event: the loss is more to the public. He is dead, and cannot now say to you, what he intended to say, and probably...
859To James Madison from William Cooper, 3 November 1814 (Madison Papers)
If I were not entirely convinced that the highest interests of my country were connected, in some measure, with the subject of this letter, and that a due consideration of it would secure those interests, I should never have taken the liberty of directly troubling your Excellency with any of my projects, far less of repeating the application. Our Enemy has a great superiority of force on Lake...
860To James Madison from Elizabeth Reed Cooprew, 22 April 1812 (Madison Papers)
I am very sory to trouble with any complaints at all. A thing I dont make a practice off to any person in this World. And only to the Gods whos being is not in flesh and blood. But by your takeing no notice in the Litteral Sence of the Word of My complaints perha⟨ps⟩ you think I am Derang’d. But It is very far from it altho I am fully convinc’d that their has been Attempts made on My Life,...
861To James Madison from Joseph Coppinger, 16 December 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
16 December 1810, No. 6 Cheapside Street, New York. Solicits JM’s assistance in establishing a brewing company in Washington as “a National object” in order to improve the quality of malt liquors and to “counteract the baneful influence of ardent spirits on the health and Morals of our fellow Citizens.” “The Capital that might be made sufficient to give a begining to such an establishment need...
862To James Madison from Joseph Coppinger, 20 December 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
20 December 1810, No. 6 Cheapside Street, New York. Anticipates arguments that might have been made in opposition to his letter of 15 [16] Dec. advocating the establishment of a national brewery in Washington. Believes Washington is the best place for this establishment; the production of “good Malt liquor of every Kind there … would necessarily induce a spirit of emulation as well as...
863To James Madison from Francis Corbin, 17 January 1815 (Madison Papers)
If the War continues, my family connections will go a great way, I believe, to recruit both our Army and Navy. My Nephew Major Gawin, L. Corbin seems to have gathered fresh military ardour from his wounds, and, like Hannibal, has sworn his Son to take up, and never to lay down his Arms against the Enemies of his Country. He is very desirous to get a birth for this Son in the Military Academy...
864To James Madison from Francis Corbin, 5 December 1816 (Madison Papers)
Mr. M’Kenna has just informed me that the Captain of the Brig Fame, so soon as the duties were secured, sent the Butt of Port Wine, according to his Bill of Lading, down to Norfolk. From Norfolk, via Richmond, it will find an easy conveyance to this place. Here a Quarter Cask of it shall be drawn off for you, under my own Eyes, and forwarded to Mr. Stone at Frederick’sburg. On the 29th. at...
865To James Madison from Francis Corbin, 6 April 1812 (Madison Papers)
Although in my retired situation it is impossible to form any correct opinion of your policy in regard to the two great Belligerents, yet, I think, I can discover enough to believe that, notwithstanding the loud and daily assertions of your political opponents to the contrary, you are still anxious to preserve the Peace of our Country, not with France only, but with G. Britain also. If we have...
866To James Madison from Francis Corbin, 5 July 1815 (Madison Papers)
Mrs. Corbin of King’s Creek, for whose Son Peter Beverley Randolph I took the liberty to solicit a midshipman’s Warrant some time ago, is here, and importunes me to remind you of that request. She has two Sons in Commodore Decatur’s Squadron, and is anxious that a third should partake, with his Brothers, of the glory to be acquired in the Expedition against Algiers. If a Warrant should be...
867To James Madison from Francis Corbin, 17 May 1816 (Madison Papers)
I see, by the National Intelligencer, for I have received, as yet, no official information of it, that you have been pleased to gratify my whim. This act of kindness is not lost upon me. In whatever light I place it, either as the result of personal Esteem, or of a politic regard to the Country Interest, or of both combined, I view it with Eyes of equal sensibility & pleasure. The...
868To James Madison from Francis Corbin, 5 May 1816 (Madison Papers)
Some days ago I requested my friends Genl. Mason, Mr. R.B. Lee, and Col: Tayloe to wait upon you with my respects, and to acquaint you that I would act as a Commissioner of the Subscriptions to the Bk. of the U.S. in Richmond, on the first of July next, if you thought proper to appoint me. To those gentlemen I suggested some Reasons for thinking that you could not make an appointment that...
869To James Madison from Francis Corbin, 3 April 1816 (Madison Papers)
Orders, it is said, have been issued to the Collectors of the Federal Taxes and Excise to receive none but Virginia Notes, although more than one half of the people, in this central part of the State, sold their Crops, previous to such orders, for the Bank Notes of the Chartered Banks of the District of Columbia, from a belief that, as those Banks were established by Congress, and are under...
870To James Madison from Francis Corbin, 13 September 1812 (Madison Papers)
I did myself the Honor to write to you some time ago, and inclosed my letter to Mr. Monroe, for reasons, which, at that conjuncture, will be obvious to you. As I have never been favored with any Answer, I am inclined to suppose, either that the letter was never received, or, if received, that the weight of business then upon your Shoulders prevented you from replying to it. I embrace this...