1Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 17 August 1829 (Madison Papers)
I have just received the enclosed letter from Mr. Morris, & as it relates altogether to the subject of your enquiry, I have thought it proper to enclose it to you. I am sorry that it should be so unsatisfactory. It is probable that I shall hear again from Mr. M. on this subject; in which event, I will write you immediately. Should you still desire to engage my services on this or any other...
2Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 13 March 1829 (Madison Papers)
I send you by the mail which will bring you this, a copy of the pamphlet containing your letters, with the additional documents respecting Mr. Jefferson’s opinions, suggested to me by Mr. Rives. 2000 copies had been printed before these were handed to the printer. He then printed 500 Copies with the extra appendix. And the latter will go with all future copies. I received a letter from Mr....
3Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 20 March 1833 (Madison Papers)
Having discovered from the direction of the debate that it would be unnecessary and probably imprudent to use your letter to Judge Roane, in the discussion in the House of Delegates upon the subject of federal relations, and being hardly pressed by the opposition to my measures respecting the connection of the waters, I decided to suspend my communications with you till the end of the session,...
4Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 17 July 1829 (Madison Papers)
I regret, in common with all the Board, that your present delicate state of health should deprive us of the gratification of your company at the University. Col: Monroe, on his return home, will hand you the letters you were good enough to lend me, of which I have taken copies & filed with my papers. I have determined to publish in some of our newspapers, Chaptal’s two chapters on the Tariff,...
5Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 20 July 1829 (Madison Papers)
Since writing you my late letter from this place by Col: Monroe, I have received from the post office at this place, a letter from Mr. Richard Morris of Hanover, under date of 12th inst. of which the following is an extract: "Your letter of 2[3d]. of last month, in consequence of being mislaid in Mr. Johnson’s office, did not reach me until yesterday friday last. It will not now be in my power...
6Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 22 December 1832 (Madison Papers)
For some time past I have abstained from writing to you purely because I believed you might not wish to leave letters unanswered, and the state of your health rendered such drudgery painful if not injurious to you. I venture now to write a few hasty lines upon the subject of the debate in the House of Delegates on the 20th inst. upon a motion to print your letter to the Editor of the N. Am....
7Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 1 September 1828 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of 18 Ult., reached me by the last mail. On the subject of the Tilghman white wheat, I deem it proper to write you by the return of the mail, in order that you may not be put to inconvenience on my account. Having an Agent in Baltimore for the sale of my crops below, I have thought it would be best to get him to send me a parcel of the Tilghman wheat. I presume it can be had in...
8Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 12 January 1832 (Madison Papers)
Your favour of 2d. ult: was received in due time by the mail at this place. The copy of your letter to Mr. Townsend of South Carolina was communicated to Mr. Pleasants, agreeably to your permission: & it would have been returned to you in conformity to your request, before now, had it not been for my indisposition, leaving me barely time to attend to my indispensable duties at this place. I...
9Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 14 May 1829 (Madison Papers)
I have put off copying my letters which you were so good as to send me under cover of yours of the 4th March, and I have done so with the less hesitancy, because I had much writing to do in a debilitated state of health, and I supposed that their immediate return was of no importance to you. I write now, just on the eve of my departure for Corottoman, to say, that as it will be a convenience...
10Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 26 November 1828 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of 22d. came to hand by the last mail, and in full time for the purpose contemplated. The correction and addition directed in regard to your letters of the 18th Sepr. and the 30th Oct: have been made. Should any thing further occur to you, be pleased to direct to me at Richmond. Some time next week I shall set out for that place, having been detained longer at home this fall than...
11Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 20 October 1828 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of 5. inst reached me by the last mail from the North: and I confess, filled me with regret. From your silence I had drawn the inference that you had determined to leave me to pursue my own inclination in regard to your letter of the 18th Sep. and I had made up my mind to encounter the abuse of the presses hostile to your doctrines, for giving publicity to your opinions without...
12Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 29 January 1829 (Madison Papers)
I have deferred answering your favor of the 5th inst. much longer than I intended because my time of late has been much engrossed by the concluding duties of my public service. I return you heartfelt thanks for your opinion relative to the basis of Representation, which will have the greatest weight with me in shaping my course on the very important subject to which it relates. The Bill is now...
13To James Madison from Joseph C. Cabell, 25 October 1827 (Madison Papers)
On my arrival here I discover by a letter from Mr. Johnson to Genl. Cocke, that Doctor Patterson of Philadelphia is not a candidate for the vacant chair of Natural Philosophy in our University. I now concur in the appointment of Doctor Thomas Jones of Philadelphia, to fill that chair. I am, dear Sir, very respectfully & truly yrs. RC ( DLC ). Docketed by JM .
14To James Madison from Joseph C. Cabell, 6 April 1825 (Madison Papers)
In my way from Charlottesville to this place on yesterday, I called at Monticello and passed an hour in conversation with Mr. Jefferson on the subject of the University. I was sorry to learn from him that Mr. Barbour had finally declined to accept the Law Chair. General Tucker had already apprized me of his inability to accede to our proposals. We are therefore once more left without any...
15Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 23 December 1829 (Madison Papers)
I arrived here on the 13th, and have been prevented from prosecuting my intended journey to the Northern Neck, by an inflammation in the face from which I have suffered some pain & a good deal of confinement. I am nearly recovered from it, & propose to proceed to Lancaster immediately after christmas. In this posture of my affairs, I am overtaken here by the news of the appointment of Mr....
16Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 12 October 1831 (Madison Papers)
Your favour of 5. inst arrived by yesterday’s mail, and I lose no time in apprizing you that my domestic engagements are such as that I shall scarcely be able to visit the University previous to my return to the lower country. I am surrounded by a number of workmen who are occupied in making additions to my house, and my constant presence and attention are indispensable. The pleasure of...
17Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 30 August 1829 (Madison Papers)
Anti Tariff Resolutions adopted by the Legislature of Virginia. At the Session of 1825.6. "1. Be it therefore resolved, That the imposition of taxes and duties by the Congress of the U. States, for the purpose of protecting and encouraging domestic manufactures, is an unconstitutional exercise of power, and is highly oppressive & partial in its operation." At the session of 1826.7. "2....
18Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 25 July 1835 (Madison Papers)
Your favour of the 2d. inst. was handed to me at the post office in Richmond, shortly after my return on the 16th from a short and hasty journey to the North. It did not find me at the University as you expected. I was unable to attend the last meeting of the Visitors, in consequence of my absence on the journey to which I have referred, which I deemed of higher obligation in the circumstances...
19Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 27 September 1828 (Madison Papers)
I shall see you so shortly that I would not now write, were it not for your express desire that I should do so. Your letter on the Tariff came to hand by the last mail, and has been read with the deepest interest. It is a paper < > so important, & so especially calculated to correct the unhappy state of the public mind to the South, that you must consent to its publication. I felt strongly...
20Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 3 December 1828 (Madison Papers)
I received by the last mail your favor of 26 ult: and have this moment finished all the corrections desired by you in regard to your letters of the 18th Sepr. & 30 Oct. These letters now stand exactly as you desired in your three last favors of 10th, 22d. & 26th Nov. and the erasures, & additions, are so introduced, that they will produce no difficulty with the printer. Should any others occur...
21Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 16 November 1828 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of the 30th ult has reached me in safety by a late mail; and I seize the earliest opportunity to convey to you the assurance of my heartfelt gratitude for the increased obligations conferred upon me. Your last letter, on the policy of the Tariff, is a happy sequel to your First, on the Right of Congress to adopt the measure; and both together, make up a body of doctrine, which will...
22To James Madison from Joseph C. Cabell, 22 August 1817 (Madison Papers)
As soon after the afflicting scene produced by the death of my mother as I could find time to write I have copied the enclosed papers for the loan of which I return you my sincere thanks. It is to be regretted that such tables are not kept at all the colleges along the atlantic Coast, as well. They would soon throw abundant light on the nature of our climate. I have sent subscription papers...
23Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 8 October 1830 (Madison Papers)
Your favour of Sep 12 was duly received by the mail. That part of it which relates to Doctr. Blatterman’s difficulties will be best attended to, when I visit the University about the middle of next week, which will result from the circumstance of my being summoned as a witness at that time in the suit of Galt v. Carter in the Superior Court of Albemarle. I will call upon the Doctr: & Col....
24Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 20 November 1828 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of the 10th inst. has just reached me by the mail; and least you may be in doubt as to its safe arrival, I have thought it proper to acknowledge its receipt, and to assure you that the instruction relative to the 7th. paragraph of your letter of 30 Oct: on the policy of the Tariff, has been complied with. I copied it at the foot of your last letter which I shall preserve, and then...
25Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 10 October 1828 (Madison Papers)
I am detained here as a witness in the suit of Mrs. Carter & Mr. Galt, but hope to be released by tomorrow. Shortly after I received your Letter of Sepr. 18, relative to the Tariff, I replied to you, and whilst I acknowledged the great satisfaction afforded by that letter, I begged your permission to send it to the press. Since the date of my reply, I have under proper precautions, shewn the...
26Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 7 October 1835 (Madison Papers)
Upon my arrival at home I discover that I cannot find the Letters referred to in the enclosed letter from Mr. Smith, and as his object is to republish them, I hope you will be good enough to lend him the use of any copies you may be able to spare him for the purpose, or to point his attention to the places where he may obtain them. The new office in which I am now engaged gives me unremitted...
27Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 20 July 1831 (Madison Papers)
Your favour of 11th has been received at this place, & we equally lamented your absence and the cause which produced it. Having returned in bad health to the upper country, I did not get here till some days after the Visitors assembled & was detained two days on the way. Happily I have recovered and have been able to make the usual Report as chairman of the Committee of Inspection. Genl....
28To James Madison from Joseph C. Cabell, 16 April 1823 (Madison Papers)
In travelling down the country Mr. Loyall & myself had much conversation together on the plan & interior distribution of the Library House. I take the liberty to express to you the solicitude we feel on the structure of the two large oval rooms, and on the arrangment of a suitable apartment or apartments for the Philosophical apparatus. I infer from what Mr. Jefferson said to us, that the oval...
29Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 28 April 1828 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of 27th ult, went first to Williamsburg, & has been forwarded to me at this place. I have deferred my answer, under the hope that every succeeding week would terminate my stay in this City, and from a belief that I could make a more satisfactory reply, after seeing the papers in the possession of Mr. Johnson. But my business may drag on still for some weeks, and I now write in order...
30Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 7 July 1830 (Madison Papers)
I have been retarded in my return home by unexampled occupation & several bilious attacks. I have received at this place your favor of 31st. May, & read it with the highest gratification. I am on my way home with Mrs. Cabell, and shall scarcely get to Charlottesville till tuesday evening. I regret exceedingly the necessity of being absent. I enclose you confidentially Genl. Cocke’s letter of...
31Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 27 February 1829 (Madison Papers)
I am now able to furnish the information you lately desired relative to the authority on which the Editor of the Enquirer stated in that paper some time ago that you and Mr. Jefferson were privy to the publication to the piece written by Mr. Pendleton signed or headed "The Danger not over". At my request Genl. Dade last evening made the enquiry of Mr. Ritchie: who said he would willingly give...
32Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 1 March 1828 (Madison Papers)
I applied to the Executive thro’ one of its members for a copy of the 1st. vol: of the Public Journals—for your use. No law having passed authorizing the disposition to be made of them, and none being expedient till the whole of the work shall be completed, the Executive had no power to present a Copy to any one. I desired that one might be sent you on loan, till the Legislature shall pass a...
33To James Madison from Joseph C. Cabell, 15 December 1827 (Madison Papers)
On my return home I found Mr. Tucker growing worse, and you have since heard of his death. Shortly after this afflicting scene had occurred I was compelled to hurry down to Corrottoman to procure some additional evidence in support of our claim for slaves carried off during the late war. It is only within the last few days I have had time to attend to my promise to you. Before I left home, I...
34Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 7 February 1830 (Madison Papers)
Your Circular of the 30th ult. came to hand by the last mail, and I hasten to send in my answer by its return. Mr. Lomax’s proposal to combine the discharge of the duties of the Judicial office just accepted by him, with the continuation of his Law Lectures at the University, till the end of the present course, is in my opinion, a happy expedient to relieve the board of Visitors from a...
35To James Madison from Joseph C. Cabell, 25 October 1827 (Madison Papers)
On conference with Genl. Cocke we are of opinion that the resignation of Mr. Long at the end of the present session should be acceded to, with an assurance that whilst we are not willing to insist on the complete fulfillment of his contract with our University at the cost of the proffered promotion in London, yet we are very unwilling to be deprived of the benefit of his talents & services for...
36To James Madison from Joseph C. Cabell, 23 November 1826 (Madison Papers)
I regret that the communication of Mr. Trist of 7th. inst relative to your report to the Legislature, after being retarded on its way, should have reached me in the midst of the troubles of my brother’s sale, the cares of which have totally absorbed my attention for about ten days past. I write now chiefly to assure you that nothing could afford me more pleasure than to offer to you any aid in...
37Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 29 August 1831 (Madison Papers)
I send you by the mail which will convey you this letter, a copy of a pamphlet which I have circulated in this county on the occasion of the recent election, and when you open it, you will be surprized to find that it is the vindication of my course in the Legislature on the subject of the Anti-tariff Resolutions, which I wrote & declined to publish two years ago, and that I have taken the...
38Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 16 March 1828 (Madison Papers)
I suppose you have been notified of your appointment as Visitor of the University for the current term. But it is possible that you may not be apprized that the first monday in April, was fixed upon, for the first meeting of the Board, merely because the Law makes it the duty of the Executive to appoint a time for the first meeting, previous to the slated meetings. At first, I suggested to the...
39Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 16 March 1829 (Madison Papers)
I went out of the house yesterday for the first time, since my arrival at this time: but my health is still in a feeble state, and it will probably be some weeks before I shall be able to resume my usual private pursuits. I do not take the Enquirer, and therefore am often ignorant of what is said in that paper. I filed away the numbers of Mr. Giles’s commentaries upon your letters, as far as...
40Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 3 March 1831 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of the 9th ult. was received in Richmond where I went about the middle of the month and remained till the 28th on business in the Court of Chancery. On the 1st. inst. I waited on Mr. John Page the Rector of Wm. and Mary and shewed him your letter and the two papers enclosed in it. The enclosed reply has been handed me by Mr. Page in reply to your communication, and you will perceive...
41Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 14 November 1833 (Madison Papers)
It is very late, but I hope you will permit me even now to acknowledge the receipt of your two letters of May 16th & July 14th, which altho’ not sooner answered, were the subjects of my earnest attention at the time they were received. It is unnecessary now to state what you already know of our proceedings at the board of Visitors in regard to the Medical chair. I hope Doct: Magill will...
42Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 5 August 1829 (Madison Papers)
May I take the liberty to ask that you will be so good as to read the enclosed pamphlet, and to inform me whether the argument in the speech respecting the rights of the parties to the Compact, be sound and in conformity to your own views of the subject, and if there be error, where & to what extent, it exists. The subject is very important, & the views here taken. of it, somewhat new, and...
43Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 24 March 1829 (Madison Papers)
I received by yesterday’s mail your favor of 19 inst. and lose no time in acknowledging the relief it has afforded to my mind. To save you trouble I will recall the request that you will furnish me with copies of my letters requesting you to write me on the subject of the Tariff, and desiring permission to publish your letters. Before your letter of 19th inst. reached me, I had very much...
44Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 28 November 1831 (Madison Papers)
I beg leave to enclose for your perusal a letter which I lately received from the Editor of the Constitutional Whig, and also a letter recently addressed to him by a Mr. Townsend in South Carolina. This communication has reached me in the midst of my preparations for a long absence from home. I have sent a note to Mr. Pleasants declining to answer Mr. Townsend’s letter, but promising, on my...
45Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 3 December 1829 (Madison Papers)
It would have afforded me much gratification to have an opportunity of occasionally conversing with you in a confidential manner during my short stay in this place. But the structure of this boarding House & the circumstances under which we are placed, seem to render it impracticable to touch on private topics. I have therefore determined to write you a few hasty lines. I should have written...
46Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 26 May 1830 (Madison Papers)
I returned to this place last evening from the northern neck, after an absence of three weeks. I received your favor of 10th Apl. with Mr. Grimke’s pamphlet just before I set out on my journey, and should have written you sooner, but for the mass of business which has engrossed my attention in the interval, & my frequent & rapid journies. On my arrival here I took up the Conl. Whig of the...
47Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 24 February 1829 (Madison Papers)
I fear my long silence in regard to your last letters of the 2d. and 15th inst. may have induced you to think me ungrateful & inattentive. It has arisen, I assure you, from the pressure of my public duties, and from ill health. I was in the Senate yesterday to vote upon the Tariff Resolutions, after a confinement to my bed for some days, and I am again confined to my chamber. For two or three...
48To James Madison from Joseph C. Cabell, 12 March 1827 (Madison Papers)
The Assembly rose on the 9th inst. after a session of 96 days. I hasten at the first leisure moment to account to you for my apparent inattention of late. It has proceeded entirely from my absence from this place on a journey to Philadelphia with a deranged brother, which occupied my time from the 11th Feb. till the 2d. inst. His removal to the Hospital in that city seemed to be a measure of...
49Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 28 December 1828 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of 5. inst was in the post office at this place, when I arrived on the 18th. I lost no time in conferring with some of my friends as to the proper time & place of publishing your Letters on the Tariff: and it was agreed that as to time, the earliest was the best, and as to place, that the seat of the national government, and the National Intelligencer, would be the most proper....
50Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 6 May 1831 (Madison Papers)
Your favour of 25th utl. covering an extract from Doctr. Dunglison’s letter to you of the 18th, & mentioning the receipt of a similar letter from Doctr. Patterson, came to hand a few days ago by the mail. I had just received similar letters from those gentlemen—from the former dated the 24th, & from the latter dated the 22d. These communications fill me with anxiety. I was quite unprepared for...