1From James Madison to the Chairman of the Republican Meeting of Washington County, Kentucky, 27 September 1809 (Madison Papers)
I have duly recd. the resolutions of the inhabts. of Washington County, in Kentucky, assembled on the 28th. of Augst. The determination evinced by these Resolns. to maintain the national rights & honor, agst. aggressions from whatever quarter, can not but be acceptable to those to whose responsibility those essential objects are in a material degree committed. Persuaded that the difference in...