1To James Madison from Aurora, 20 December 1808 (Madison Papers)
Extract of the aurora December 20, 1808, from the N:york commercial We request the attention of Governement on this Subject and We pray that they will interpose Some Bold and Effectual means for the prevention, Detention, and punishment, of the abominable infraction of our Laws, wich are Continually practised, by these Smugglers in Disguise. It is a fact of the Greatest notoriety that not a...