4921To James Madison from Elbridge Gerry, 12 December 1811 (Madison Papers)
The late President Adams communicated to me yesterday, in a friendly interveiw at my house, the enclosed extract of a letter; & expressed great apprehension, that if all the propositions, for enforcing the non intercourse act, should be adopted, they will overthrow the republican governments of the New England States & make them compleatly federal. The searching houses, as proposed before the...
4922To James Madison from William Hull, 12 December 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
12 December 1811, Newton. States that Reuben Attwater’s term as secretary of the Michigan Territory will expire on 1 Mar. 1812. Has approved of Attwater’s conduct in office and would find his reappointment “highly satisfactory.” Presumes that there will be no objection to the reappointment but mentions it because Attwater is now the acting governor. “I do not expect to return to the Territory,...
4923To James Madison from Anthony Charles Cazenove, 13 December 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
13 December 1811, Alexandria. States that he delivered JM’s wine “this day” to Thomas McGraw. Encloses an account of the charges on it as well as the cost of the “quarter cask of Lisbon,” for a total of $118.88, which JM can remit at his convenience. Advises that “an opportunity from hence for Madeira will offer in a few days” and offers to transmit any order JM wishes. Asks him to mention,...
4924To James Madison from John Pope, 13 December 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
13 December 1811, Washington. Recommends John Edwards King of Cumberland County, Kentucky, for the judicial vacancy in upper Louisiana. He is a lawyer of “experience, respectability & influe⟨nce⟩ & qualified for the office.” RC ( DNA : RG 59, LAR , 1809–17, misfiled under “Edwards”). 1 p. Docketed by Monroe. Damaged at margin.
4925To James Madison from William Tatham, 14 December 1811 (Madison Papers)
The inclosed offer to the people of Norfolk, in whom I have not yet found those boasted patriotic virtues which I have too often felt their deficiency in, will shew you how my time has been occupied since I had last the pleasure of seeing you in Washington. Twelve months ago I left Harbour Island with a view to be with you before the meeting of Congress (I mean the last of October 1810), but...
4926To James Madison from Anthony Charles Cazenove, 14 December 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
14 December 1811, Alexandria. “I have the honor to inform you that, to my great astonishment your messenger Ths. McGraw called on me this afternoon to inform me that owing to being disappointed by the Skipper of the packet, who promised him to go up yesterday afternoon, & again today,… he was still here. As it realy appears that the blame lays entirely with the packet man, who it seems has no...
4927To James Madison from the Union Volunteers of Westmoreland and Fayette Counties, Pennsylvania, ca. 14 December 1811 … (Madison Papers)
Ca. 14 December 1811. The officers of the light infantry company called the Union Volunteers, attached to the Seventy-second Regiment, Second Brigade, of the Thirteenth Division of the Pennsylvania militia, are anxious to serve their country “in the field of Mars.” At a full meeting of the company in Uniontown, Fayette County, they resolved to offer their services to the president in order to...
4928To James Madison from David Meade Randolph, 16 December 1811 (Madison Papers)
Notwithstanding my communications may be deemed unworthy your notice, yet since my conscience assures me that I am stimulated by patriotic motives, you will have the goodness to pardon the present repetition. Among the variety of practical improvements to which my enquiries have extended, there has nothing fallen within my reach so vastly important in a National point of view a[s] a subject...
4929From James Madison to Anthony Charles Cazenove, 16 December 1811 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 16 December 1811. Acknowledged in Cazenove to JM, 17 Dec. 1811 . Encloses a check for $385.55 to pay both the account of Murdoch, Yuille, Wardrop, & Company and that of Cazenove. Forwards a letter for Cathcart at Madeira.
4930To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 17 December 1811 (Madison Papers)
I enclose a statement of the regular force in Canada (Quebec excepted) transmitted to me yesterday by Mr Astor, which I believe may be relied upon. From another quarter the garrison at Quebec has been stated at about 3000 effective men; but this last statement is conjecture. The militia most likely to be embodied & disposed to resist is that of the settlements along the river St Lawrence from...