5221To James Madison from Philip Sisson, 3 January 1813 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
3 January 1813, Tiverton. Has read in the newspapers that JM is “to cause to Be Bult an addition to our Navy four Ships fit for Battle Ships and Six forty gun frigits.” Offers to “have one of them Bult within the State of Rhode-island or the town of troy State of masachusetts.” RC ( DNA : RG 45, Misc. Letters Received). 1 p. Sisson had read the act to increase the navy, which was approved on 2...
5222To James Madison from John Binns and Others, 2 January 1813 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
2 January 1813. “At a very numerous and respectable meeting of citizens of the United States, natives of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, held in the city of Philadelphia January 2, 1813, to consider the proclamation of the Prince Regent of the 26th October, 1812 (a copy of which is enclosed), it was resolved to communicate to you, sir, the sentiments of the meeting on this...
5223To James Madison from J. A. P. Poutingon, 2 January 1813 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
2 January 1813 , “ Criminal residence ,” Washington . Reports having been sent by JM five times to the office of the secretary of war: “and when I go for Justice in that office, I am ordered out by a Clerk.” Repeats his appeals to “Generous James Madison,” seeking a five-minute audience with JM to prove himself. “When I loosed all what I had, I lost the Key, who open the mouth of the...
5224To James Madison from Levin Winder, 2 January 1813 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
2 January 1813, Annapolis. Transmits to JM “a Copy of a law passed by the General Assembly of Maryland” and requests that he “lay it before the Congress of the United States at their present Session.” RC and enclosure ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages, 12A-D1); letterbook copy ( MdAA : Executive Letter Book, fol. 225). RC 1 p.; in a clerk’s hand, signed by Winder. For enclosure, see n. 2....
5225To James Madison from Richard Rush, 1 January 1813 (Madison Papers)
Mr Ingersoll has sent me on the enclosed letter from Philadelphia, which, for the sake of the sentence it contains about impressment, I venture to enclose for your eye. Mr Ingersoll is not, as Mr King supposes, engaged in any publication upon this subject. He is investigating it, with others, preparatory to his congressional career, which I please myself with the hope will be prominent and...
5226To James Madison from William Wingate, 1 January 1813 (Madison Papers)
I feel it my duty at So alarming a Crisis of our National Goverment as this moment exhibits, for to address you on So important occasion, not doubting you all will give it its due weight. Firstly, Shall observe that a regular Army has become the only Safety and bullwork of our Country, and that the drafted Malitia and Volunteer Corps are more fatal and dangerous than our open Enemies, this has...
5227To James Madison from Robert Patterson, 1 January 1813 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
1 January 1813 , “ Mint of the U. States .” Forwards an annual report on the operation of the Mint. Enumerates gold, silver, and copper coins struck, amounting to $1,115,219.50 in value. “The supply of gold & silver bullion still continues to be abundant; the deposits for coinage, at this time in our vaults, amounting to upwards of half a million of dollars.” RC and enclosures, two copies (...
5228To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 31 December 1812 (Madison Papers)
I respectfully trust you will excuse this second letter, when you know the circumstances, under which it is written. Since I had the honor to address you on the 17th. Instant, I have received very urgent tho’ polite applications from Jacob Eustis, Esquire, of Boston, Messrs. Gansevort & Lagrange of Albany & Aaron R. Levering, Esquire, of Baltimore all late agents for this office to Settle or...
5229To James Madison from Joseph Wheaton, 31 December 1812 (Madison Papers)
As I Stated in my last I Sent of[f] two hundred horses to the Mohecan Settlement where I had made arrangemts for forage—on the 27—they returned yesterday and this day—though Eighteen Miles from this—and packed and brought me 600 Bushels of corn—in the mean time all my hands left that could handle a tool was imployed in Shoeing horses, and repairing wagons—Making axletrees—&ca—this afternoon...
5230To James Madison from Paul Hamilton, 30 December 1812 (Madison Papers)
Having devoted unremittedly more than thirty years of my life to public service, in various situations, in all of which, I feel a consciousness of having done my duty according to my best judgment and understanding; and being now about to withdraw from the Office of the Secretary of the Navy with which you honored me, permit me to ask you whether, in your opinion, there has been any thing in...
5231To James Madison from Joseph Wheaton, 29 December 1812 (Madison Papers)
We arrived at this post 27. at noon after a march of 36 days—the most difficult of any I ever experienced in any period of Service I have Seen—the Season of the year most of all unfavorable, and it was So rainy and damp that the Sun has not appeared to us five days of the time—that we have been plunging through mud mire and frost cotinually [ sic ]. The whole country through which we have...
5232To James Madison from Adam Seybert, 29 December 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
29 December 1812, Washington. “It is reported, that Doctor Thomas Ewell, a surgeon in the Navy of the United States, has tendered his resignation, and that a successor, to the vacancy of Hospital Surgeon at the marine barracks of this City, is to be appointed. Allow me to lay before you the pretensions of Doctor Edward Cutbush, a native of Philadelphia and now a surgeon in the Navy of the U....
5233To James Madison from Jonathan Dayton, [ca. 28 December] 1812 (Madison Papers)
Letters of congratulation are not the object of the writer, altho’ no one more sincerely rejoices at the defeat of your enemies. No one more deeply laments that the military arrangements, movements & disasters of the late summer campaigns, improperly imputed to the Head of the Governmt. had, for a moment shaken the confidence, or alienated the affections of some portions of the community. The...
5234To James Madison from the Inhabitants of Harrison County, Indiana Territory, 28 December 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
28 December 1812. “Your Memorialists have settled on the extreme Frontiers of this Territory bounded as follows on the N & N E by Driftwood, on the S Mishkakitac and S E by the Pigeon Roost Settlement where we have been and are still constantly assailed by the Horrid and relentless fury of the Inhuman and remorseless Savages. Three of our most Respectable Citizens have already fell a Sacrifice...
5235To James Madison from Thomas Leiper, 27 December 1812 (Madison Papers)
I know what is well meant will be well received by you. From that circumstance I will proceed and I trust I shall put nothing on record but what shall have a tendence to the public good. I am pleased to a very high degree that the Secretary of State has sent for the bearer Captain Callender Irvine this no doubt is with a view of obtaining information and in my opinion their are few men more...
5236To James Madison from David Meade Randolph, 26 December 1812 (Madison Papers)
The subject of my communication to you last winter, appearing of still greater importance, I am induced to a repetition of the liberty under which I then wrote to you. The accompanying packet to my Son, contains the duplicate of a letter I wrote to the Honl. Mr. Quincey by a private hand last fall on the same subject, as also a transcript of a correspondence I was permitted to make between the...
5237To James Madison from Thomas L. Dillehay, 26 December 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
26 December 1812 , “ Near Hagerstown Md. Washington County .” Requests that JM take no “umbridge at the following lines, as they come from one you never saw, and perhaps, never heard of.” “On the 14th. inst. it pleased God to make me Father of two Sons! which was yesterday noon Christened and call [ sic ] James Madison and Thomas Jefferson.” Adds in a postscript, “The Hon. S. Ringgold knows me...
5238To James Madison from Henry King, 26 December 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
26 December 1812, Buffalo, New York. “It is with extreme regret that I am Thus compeled To address you for my Liberty. It is not Sir that I dispise the Servis nor is it the Least Spark of fear in me for I have shared in all the Toils and dangers of this Frontier. But Sir it is on account of a Letter that I have recently received informing me of the distresed Situation of my pore wife and five...
5239To James Madison from John Vawter, 26 December 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
26 December 1812 , “ Town of Madison Jefferson County I Ty .” Upon “Reflecting on the important principals of our Goverment a Republic in which every man are eaqually entitled to the benifit of the Law Speech & press,” claims it to be a right that “every part of the union or Republic” be maintained “undesterbed” and that every citizen be “made Secure in his person property & family,” and on...
5240To James Madison from Edward Cutbush, 25 December 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
25 December 1812, Philadelphia. Has been a U.S. Navy surgeon since May 1799, serving in the West Indies, in the Mediterranean, and at a hospital in Syracuse. Upon returning to the U.S. from Sicily, found that Dr. [Thomas] Ewell had been appointed a navy surgeon and stationed at Washington without having been on a single cruise at sea. “Conceiving that an ⟨o⟩lder surgeon, whose life had been...
5241To James Madison from James Monroe, 24 December 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
24 December 1812, War Department. Proposes for JM’s approval various “Promotions in the Army of the United States.” Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 107, LSP ). 1 p. Monroe’s suggestions for promotions in the Fifth and Seventh Infantry Regiments were recommended to the Senate by JM on 31 Dec. ( Senate Exec. Proceedings Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of...
5242To James Madison from Daniel D. Tompkins, 24 December 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
24 December 1812, Albany. Brings to JM’s attention Capt. John E. Wool of the Thirteenth Infantry Regiment, who was “Commandant on Queenstown heights for a part of the 13th of October & lead the party which attacked and carried the British works on the high ground in which he received a wound.” Is informed by Van Rensselaer and others of Wool’s good conduct and gallantry during that engagement;...
5243To James Madison from Robert Wickliffe, 24 December 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
24 December 1812, Lexington, Kentucky. Recommends James Blair for “judge of The Superior Court In the Missouri Teritory.” RC ( DNA : RG 59, LAR , 1809–17, filed under “Blair, James”). 1 p. Addressee not indicated but assumed to be JM on the basis of the fact that Wickliffe’s letter is filed with a similar letter he wrote to Monroe on the same day. James Blair was a lawyer in Lexington who had...
5244To James Madison from Joseph Wheaton, 23 December 1812 (Madison Papers)
Since I wrote: has fallen into my hands the Pittsburg paper, the commonwelth, in which I with great pain read the disasterous affair at Black rock or opposite Queenstown—but indeed Sir My daily discoveries of desertion and insubordination evinces to Moral certainty that nothing effectual can be done by Such troops—and that no alternative is left but to resort to an efficient regular Army—a...
5245To James Madison from M. Pontoire, 22 December 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
22 December 1812, Nantes. Offers his services as a military or naval engineer. RC ( DLC ). 1 p.; in French.
5246To James Madison from Daniel D. Tompkins, 22 December 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
22 December 1812, Albany. “The peculiarity of the case of Mr David S. Wendell of Troy, for whom I am desirous of obtaining a Commission of Lieutenant in the Army, is my apology for troubling you with this recommendation.” “He was orderly Sergeant of the ‘Invincibles,’ an Independent uniform Company of Militia in the Village of Troy,” which Tompkins sent “to the Northern Frontier” in September....
5247To James Madison from Paul Hamilton, 21 December 1812 (Madison Papers)
On the subject of the Resolution of the honorable the House of Representatives, of the 16th: instant, I have the honor to state: That in pursuance of the Resolution of congress of the 3rd March 1805, a gold medal, emblematical of the attacks on the town batteries & naval force of Tripoli, by the squadron under commre. Preble’s command, was presented to commre. Preble—in the manner stated in...
5248To James Madison from Elbridge Gerry, 19 December 1812 (Madison Papers)
I had the honor on the 12th, to address a line to you, requesting information whether there probably will be a Session of Congress or of the Senate on the 4th of march next, & if so, of what duration? The principal object of this enquiry was to ascertain, in case of the success of the republican ticket for President & Vice President, & of no Session of Congress, or of the Senate on the day...
5249To James Madison from James Monroe, 19 December 1812 (Madison Papers)
The Secretary of State to whom was referred the Resolution of the House of Representatives of the 9th. Instant, requesting information touching the conduct of British Officers towards persons taken in american armed Ships, has the honor to lay before the President the accompanying papers marked A. B. C. from which it appears that certain persons, some of whom are said to be native, and others...
5250To James Madison from Thomas B. Eyre, 19 December 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
19 December 1812, Philadelphia. Requests “with much diffidence” that JM consider him “When deciding on the Builders of National Vessels.” “For Character, for Capability, for Execution, for dispatch I would refer you, if necessary to the Collector of the port of delaware, Allen Mclane Esqr. Thomas Newbold Member of Congress, or Merchants of Philadelphia.” RC ( DNA : RG 45, Misc. Letters...