1From James Madison to William Harris Crawford, 23 September 1816 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. yours of the 20th inst. The claim of W. Knaggs involves an important question; what is the effect produced on the salaries of persons made prisoners by an Enemy, by and during their captivity? Civil officers are of two classes. 1st. Those holding during good behaviour 2dly. Those holding during pleasure. Whilst the offices of the 1st class continue and the officers are not removed...
2From James Madison to William Harris Crawford, 18 July 1815 (Madison Papers)
You will receive herewith the Commission which conveys your appointment as Secretary for the Department of war. It will afford me great pleasure if it should be consistent with your present views to accept it. The delay in communicating with you on the subject has proceeded from the calculation that you would have left Europe before a dispatch could reach it. I leave this one in the hands of...
3From James Madison to William Harris Crawford, 6 July 1816 (Madison Papers)
The limited prosecution of the plan of Lt. Gadsden, which you suggest may be proper. A general system of works on which the permanent security of N.O. is to depend, and which will probably call for a million of dollars, ought not to be hastily adopted at a moment as little threatening as the present. The observations of the young Engineer indicate good sense; but it may well be supposed that...
§ Samuel Harrison Smith to William Harris Crawford. 26 October 1816, Treasury Department, Revenue Office. “A Keeper being requisite for a new Light House erected on Point Gammon, the name of Samuel A. Peak, with the accompanying recommendations, are respectfully submitted for the consideration of the President. “It is also requisite that the salary of the Keeper be fixed, which it is proposed...
5Thomas Jefferson to William H. Crawford, 14 February 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to thank you for your letter of June 16. it presents those special views of the state of things in Europe , for which we look in vain into newspapers. they tell us only of the downfall of Bonaparte , but nothing of the temper, the views, and secret workings of the high agents in these transactions. altho’ we neither expected, nor wished any act of friendship from Bonaparte , and always...
6From James Madison to William Harris Crawford, 29 June 1816 (Madison Papers)
I return the draught of instructions to the Commissioners for treating with the Chicasaw Indians. Not being aided by a map, I am not sure that I understand distinctly all your demarkations. I take for granted they are correct, unless it be otherwise in the reference to the portion of the Chicasaw lands lying within the State of Tennessee. You will be able to decide on re-examining that part of...
7Thomas Jefferson to William H. Crawford, 6 March 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
This will be handed you by my friend D r Barton , one of the Vice-presidents of the American Philosophical society , a professor in the University of Philadelphia and distinguished by his writings in the Physical sciences. he proposes for the benefit of his health to take a voyage across the Atlantic and to try the air of Europe for a while—if not personally known to you, I am sure he is...
8From James Madison to William Harris Crawford, 4 September 1816 (Madison Papers)
Previous to the rect. of yours of the 30th. aug. I had in acknowleging that written from Georgia, said what occurred on the subject of Dr. Bibb. I can add nothing now but a suggestion for consideration how far the Creek Agency could with propriety be offered to him. I am aware at the same time of the great probability that it would not be accepted, and of the possibility that the offer even...
9From James Madison to William Harris Crawford, 21 June 1816 (Madison Papers)
I return the letter of Genl: Gaines with the papers connected with it. It is to be hoped & much to be wished that a resort to the extreme measures contemplated may not be necessary: and it may be better that they shd. result from military discretion guided by imperious emergencies, than be prescribed by the Executive, without the sanction of the authority more competent to such decisions. In...
10James Brown to William Harris Crawford, 23 April 1816 (Madison Papers)
Captain Hamilton has requested me to state what I know respecting the characters of Doctors William Flood & William E Cochran of New Orleans, supposing that you might not be acquainted with them. The first of these Gentlemen has resided in Louisiana ever since I was a citizen of that country, and has held the first rank as a man distinguished by his professional talents, his integrity and...