9601To James Madison from Evan Lewis, 8 January 1810 (Madison Papers)
I have taken the liberty, of sending thee a copy of the annexed pamphlet as a tribute of respect for our chief-Magistrate in whose talents and integrity, I have placed unlimited confidence, and whose official conduct, in that highly important office has hitherto met my entire approbation, and in this expression of approbation in the measures pursued, or the steps taken by the present...
9602To James Madison from Robert R. Livingston, 8 January 1810 (Madison Papers)
When I look at the date of your letter, I am actualy asshamed [ sic ] of the time I have kept the pamphlet you were so obliging as to lend me. But the fact is, that it has gone the round of the neighbourhood, every body in this vicinity being infected with the merino influenza, & eagerly seeking whatever may afford them information, or furnish food to their disease. Having the same feelings...
9603To James Madison from John G. Jackson, 9 January 1810 (Madison Papers)
I have never acquired the legal character of Guardian to my Child—Guardians ad litem can only be appointed by the Courts issuing process against infants; & as there has been no appointment there would be an impropriety in my acknowledging service of the Spa., which I should not hesitate to do if the act would be legal. Your Mo Obt Servt There can be no objection to acknowledging the service by...
9604To James Madison from John Armstrong, 10 January 1810 (Madison Papers)
In the haste in which I now write, I can do no more than acknowlege the receit of your letter by M. fenwick, and renew my request, that a ship of some kind be sent for me so as to reach France, & the port of Havre if possible, from the 1st. to the 15 of April next. As London is the theatre of the preliminary Negociation on foot between France & England, Mr. Pinkney will keep you advised of...
9605To James Madison from George Logan, 10 January 1810 (Madison Papers)
As a citizen of the United States, I have for several years viewed with considerable anxiety the future destinies of my country. Every reflecting and candid mind must be sensible of the weakness of a Government deriving its power from popular opinion, rather than from physical force. Such being the situation of the United States: would it not be sound policy in our Government not merely to act...
9606To James Madison from John Keemle, 11 January 1810 (Madison Papers)
The surviving Revolutionary Characters, residing in the City & County of Philada., feeling an anxious solicitude for the welfare of their Country, convened agreeably to public notice, for the purpose of assuring you of their approbation of the measures pursued for repelling the hostile attacks of foreign powers, upon the Neutral & National rights of the United States. In ’76 they risked their...
9607To James Madison from Carlo Giuseppe Guglielmo Botta, 12 January 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
12 January 1810, Paris. Sends a set of his Storia della guerra dell’Independenza degli Stati Uniti d’America , an account of the great scenes of the Revolution, inspired by the virtuous American people. RC ( DLC ). 1 p. In French, signed “Charles Botta.” Botta’s work, first published in four volumes in Paris in 1809, was forwarded in David Bailie Warden to JM, 26 Jan. 1810 . Botta also sent a...
9608To James Madison from “Mucius” [John Randolph], No. 1, 12 January 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
12 January 1810. No. 1. States that he is not a political admirer of JM’s but admits that he has found more to approve in JM’s administration than he had anticipated. Urges JM to look beyond the partisan divisions in the nation and requests him to consider future policy in the light of the true significance of Gallatin’s treasury report to Congress on 17 Dec. 1809. The finances are exhausted...
9609To James Madison from Alfred Madison, 13 January 1810 (Madison Papers)
My duties as a student, combined with a slight indisposition for some time past, have until this time prevented my acknowledgeing the receipt of those pamphlets, which you were good enough to send me. I have read them with peculiar interest; not merely because their contents deeply concerned the welfare of my Country, for at the same time they recalled to my mind some of the fundamental laws...
9610To James Madison from Jonathan Williams, 13 January 1810 (Madison Papers)
Mr. D. Masson professor at the Military Accademy has presented to our Society a manuscript copy of his lectures on fortification. This work when compleated will be a transmission of all that is known in the french language into our own, in that condensed and simple shape which is best calculated for the Rudiments of instruction. I think it my duty towards you, as patron of the society, to...