4401To James Madison from James Monroe, 19 September 1815 (Madison Papers)
I returnd here on friday last, the 15., much improvd in my health, & propose setting out on monday or tuesday for your house, from whence I shall proceed by Loudoun, for Washington, at such time, as it shall appear to you adviseable for me to be there. My whole family accompany me, tho’ I fear, as mr Clay & his, form a part of it, that we shall subject mrs. Madison to some inconvinence. We...
4402To James Madison from George Graham, 20 September 1815 (Madison Papers)
I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 17th. instant. You will have observed that the list of applicants forwarded to you, embraced only such as had expressly applied to fill vacancies. If the selections are to be made from the disbanded Officers generally, it might materially effect the list proposed. I do not know that any partial appointments to fill the vacancies in the...
4403To James Madison from George Graham, 20 September 1815 (Madison Papers)
I enclose a communication from General Macomb respecting the allowance of double rations to the Officer commanding in the harbor of New York. I send you also, an extract from the law, and the several orders that have been issued from this Department on the subject of an allowance of double rations to the Commanding officers of Posts, and submit to your decision the propriety of renewing, at...
4404To James Madison from Josiah Meigs, 20 September 1815 (Madison Papers)
By the Act of May 20, 1812, the Surveyor General, under the direction of the President of the United States, is authorised & required to designate &c the Western & Northern Boundaries of the State of Ohio. As this act contemplates the decision of the ultimate boundaries, on two sides, of an independent State, it is desirable that it should be done in such a solemn and scientific manner as to...
4405To James Madison from Richard Rush, 21 September 1815 (Madison Papers)
I have complied with the requests contained in your letter of the 17th. instant. To Mr Dick I wrote yesterday. As regards the French letter from Rhode Island, the former one, to which it refers, does not appear to be in either of the departments mentioned. I have, however, enclosed the one you transmitted, to Mr Dallas, with some further though slight explanation of the transaction derived...
4406To James Madison from Robert Brent, 24 September 1815 (Madison Papers)
The enclosed paper, which I have the honor to hand you, was yesty placed in my hands. It contains resolutions enterred into by the officers of a Regiment of Volunteers or Militia of the State of pensa reflecting on me, which, in conformity to their tenor, have no doubt been, or will be officially communicated to you. I take the liberty respectfully to request Sir, that you will suffer no...
4407To James Madison from Richard Rush, 24 September 1815 (Madison Papers)
Since the receipt of your letter of the 19th instant I have dropped a line to Mr Yates, and been with Mr Graham upon the subject of it. The case is, I hope, placed in a way to be satisfactorily adjusted. I enclose another letter from Mr. Dick. The accompanying documents to which he alludes, I have not thought it necessary to trouble you with. It does appear to me, that his sensibility has been...
4408To James Madison from Alexander J. Dallas, [25 September 1815] (Madison Papers)
Since my report was forwarded to you, I have had the pleasure of discharging the temporary loan of 500,000 Dollars, long due to the State Bank at Boston. The reduced amount of the outstanding Treasury Notes, has produced the effect intended. The Notes are rapidly mounting to par; and you will have the pleasure of seeing the public engagements paid in gold & silver, or Bank notes convertible...
4409To James Madison from Peter Stephen Chazotte, 26 September 1815 (Madison Papers)
Author of A New System of Banking To establish either, A Merchants Bank of General Deposits, or A Grand National Bank , subjects, intimately connected with wellfare of this nation, the honour and prosperity of which are placed under the paternal care of your excellency, I have thought it my duty to present your excellency with a copy of the same, and to accompany it with a request, that you...
4410To James Madison from George Graham, 26 September 1815 (Madison Papers)
My brother arrived here last evening, and I have the honor now to forward a treaty signed at Spring Wells, on the eighth of this month, by the Commissioners, and the Chiefs of all the tribes of Indians with which they were authorised to treat, and which you will find entirely satisfactory. I have the honor to be, with great respect, Your most obed. servt. RC ( DLC ); letterbook copy ( DNA : RG...
4411To James Madison from M. Marion and Jean-François Desgranges, 26 September 1815 (Madison Papers)
Les Etats unis n’ont pas encore D’observatoire, et leurs Marins n’ont pour guide que le Nautical almanach: cependant, votre Republique est assez imposante pour avoir dans Son Sein tous les Etablissemens Nationaux des Européens. Les professeurs de Mathématiques Soussignes qui, depuis vingt ans, font des observations astronomiques, et les Calculs de la Connoissance des temps , dont la direction...
4412To James Madison from John Quincy Adams, 27 September 1815 (Madison Papers)
The bearer of this Letter, has been made the medium of a communication to the Government of the United States, which may be useful to the important purpose of preserving and rendering permanent the Peace, between them and Great Britain. The British navy is at this moment undergoing the process of reduction to a Peace Establishment. At the same time the army is rather increasing than...
4413To James Madison from Benjamin W. Crowninshield, 27 September 1815 (Madison Papers)
Your esteemed favour has been rec’d, dated 18 Inst. I wrote you, Capt Stewart had declined the honor of a seat at the Navy Board, & requested that you would instruct me farther on that subject. 1st. As to the “precautionary force that ought to be continued in the medin.?” you observe it would be best to leave it with the Coms. there, they were instructed as to that point; but when we hear from...
4414To James Madison from George Joy, 27 September 1815 (Madison Papers)
There is one subject on which I ought to address a separate line to you; and I am glad of the opportunity presented by Mr: Langston, which I consider the best I have had for a long time. The question who is to be President, at the next election, is not unfrequent; and as the Idea is gone forth that it must not be a Virginian, and it has even been understood that Mr: Monroe will not stand for...
4415To James Madison from an Unidentified Correspondent, 27 September 1815 (Madison Papers)
I presume to take the liberty of writing you a letter on a subject, which has and does at the present bear great weight on my mind, That is the treatment of the Soldiers of the 8th. Regt U S Infy., Since Major Daniel Appling has taken the command, delivered from Col. P Jack—Sometime about the first of last august, Major Appling to my certain knowledge has whiped soldiers since he has had the...
4416To James Madison from Benjamin W. Crowninshield, 28 September 1815 (Madison Papers)
The within letter, is from Capt Charles Stewart of the navy, & contains his answer, to your offer to him, of a seat at the navy Board; he declines accepting it. To whom will you be pleased to offer it now? Decatur may be home soon from the medn.; I doubt some, if it would suit his activity; there is Capts Evans & Sinclair, the first is at NY, the latter gentleman has been ordered to the...
4417To James Madison from Henry Dearborn, 29 September 1815 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Henry Dearborn. 29 September 1815, Farrese Inn, Green Spring. “Mrs. Dearborn & myself are on our way to Monticello, we intended paying our respects to yourself and Mrs Madison previous to our visit at Monticello, but being anxious to reach the end of our journey while the good weather continues & before the roads became worse, we have concluded to pass on, and to take the liberty of...
4418To James Madison from Richard Rush, 30 September 1815 (Madison Papers)
As a little exercise of the pen, I have just been throwing out a small pamphlet, of a copy of which I beg your acceptance. While at the bar, I had often occasion to perceive and lament the existence of a spirit too dependent and colonial. This little tract aims, as far as it goes, at showing that it is not justifiable. I was happy to hear from Mr Monroe a day or two ago, that his health is...
4419To James Madison from William McKenzie, [ca. October 1815] (Madison Papers)
The Petition of William McKenzie of Georgetown in the State aforesaid Respectfully sheweth That your Petitioner was convicted in July last by the Verdict of a Jury under the 69th. sect. of the Collection act, for “buying or concealing certain goods &c. knowing them to be liable to Seizure” & and under the said Judgment has been confined in the Common Gaol of Charleston upwards of Three months....
4420To James Madison from George Graham, 2 October 1815 (Madison Papers)
Letters of appointment have been issued to fill the vacancies in the Rifle Regiment agreeably to the list which was forwarded. Additional Letters having been received in favor of Capt. Ramsey, and beleiving that Capt. Magee would better bear transferring to the Infantry, have induced me to decide in favor of the former, to fill the vacancy in the Rifle Regiment. The Adt. Genl. having stated...
4421To James Madison from the Chevalier Pierrugues, 2 October 1815 (Madison Papers)
Chargè par mon gouvernement de preparer la rectification et l’embelissement de la 2e. ville de france, je crus devoir Saisir cette occasion pour poser les bases d’un traité complet Sur l’art de Bâtir les villes. C’est de ce ier essai, Monsieur le president que j’ose vous offrir un exemplaire; veuillès bien ne pas dedaigner cet hommage dictè par ma haute admiration pour le peuple des etats...
4422To James Madison from Josiah Meigs, 3 October 1815 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to transmit, herewith, for your approbation, a lease of a Salt Spring upon section 34 of township 11 in range 3, of the district of Steubenville: This lease was made by the Register of that district in August 1814 under directions from this office, but he omitted to send the lease till now. I have &C Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 49, Division C, Misc. Letters Sent). Enclosure not...
4423To James Madison from Marinus Willett, 4 October 1815 (Madison Papers)
Mr Archibald Wade Hamilton visits Washington with a view of applying for some appointment under our Goverment. Mr Hamilton was born in this city his family are very respectable, His Father who in the ⟨re⟩volutionary war was a Captain in the British army sold his Comission about the close of that war and Married in this city where he has resided ever since, But his connections being principally...
4424To James Madison from George Joy, 6 October 1815 (Madison Papers)
The Manifold Writer, which I seldom use, except with the aid of another Machine called a Copyist, is useful on particular occasion; and I wonder that it is not more used. An objection to it is however seen in the enclosed; the first half dozen lines of which being obscure, I shall transcribe at the foot of this letter. There is nothing here, worth communicating, that you will not see in the...
4425To James Madison from John Swartwout, 6 October 1815 (Madison Papers)
Robert R Hunter Esqr. of this City will hand you this letter. Mr. Hunter is anxious to receive the appointment of a consul at some Port in France. As an uniform friend to his Country firmly attached to its republican institutions & administration, his character in private life all render him highly worthy the confidence of the Government. Should he succeed in his application it will reflect...
4426To James Madison from James Monroe, 8 October 1815 (Madison Papers)
I arriv’d here last night, having left my family in Loudoun, to attend some preparation for their reception, & my report of the health of the city. I find that cases of indisposition have occurr’d, proceeding from the late heat, but untill the last & present week, the city was never more healthy. I hope that the present approaching change in the weather will dissipate every unfavorable...
4427To James Madison from William Eustis, 9 October 1815 (Madison Papers)
By the Ship “Exchange” I send you the last Brussells papers. The inauguration of the King at Brussells was marked with splendor but appeared to want the cordiality which a welcome chief might expect to receive. The Belgians, who appear to have no national character, complain 1st that with a superior population they have only an equal vote with the Hollanders & 2ndly that they are married to...
4428To James Madison from Joseph Hutton, 9 October 1815 (Madison Papers)
Emboldened by the conviction that your Excellency’s inclination is to encourage literature generally, but more particular, any attempt to perpetuate the renown of those gallant men who lately fell in the service of their country, as well as those who have survived to experience the gratitude of the republic, I venture to solicit the patronage of your Excellency for a poem on the subject of the...
4429To James Madison from James Monroe, 10 October 1815 (Madison Papers)
I intended to have written you by the two last mails but was interrupted at the moment I had allotted for the purpose. In truth I had little to communicate, which it was worth troubling you with, while ingaged in packing up & preparing for your departure for this place. Mr Cutts intimated to me that you would probably leave home the beginning of this week, which, coinciding with your intention...
4430To James Madison from Eleazer W. Ripley, 11 October 1815 (Madison Papers)
In a recent communication to the Adjt. & Inspector General, I solicited the favor of an order to repair to the City of Washington for the purpose of settling my accounts. In his answer he observes he had referred the subject to your Excellency, as in the absence of Mr. Crawford he did not feel authorized to make a decision. Under these circumstances I am induced to address myself personally to...
4431To James Madison from James B. Church, 12 October 1815 (Madison Papers)
I had the Honour of addressing your Excellency under Date the 26th December 1813 & 2d January 1815 & remain to this Time without being favoured with any Communication from you relative to the Subject I addressed your Excellency on. And presuming my Letters to you must have miscarried I now beg Leave to hand you Copys herewith, annexed. I make no Doubt but I shall soon have the Honour of a...
4432To James Madison from James Edington, 12 October 1815 (Madison Papers)
As a citizen of this state it has become my duty to inform your excellency that one of the late commisioners fror [ sic ] runing the line of the Indian Bownery relative to Gen. Jacksons Treety is no more to it [(]Governer John Savier) he died at forte Decater a few days ago previsous to his Death I was calld on at this place to forward an express of packets to him but before the arivel of the...
4433To James Madison from Henry Dearborn, 17 October 1815 (Madison Papers)
From my own knowledge of Majr. Harris’s charactor and services, and from information received from many officers of distinction, I have no doubt of the correctness of the accompanying narative, and I think his claim to rank, as stated by Genl. Ripley, no more than he is clearly entitled to. His highly respectable standing in society, added to his faithfull and distinguished services, form such...
4434To James Madison from James Monroe, 17 October 1815 (Madison Papers)
I have this moment recd. a letter from mr Hay, & several others from other persons, chiefly on private concerns, from Mr Graham, by the messenger of the dep’t. I found on my arrival, Mrs Hay much indisposed of a sore throat & fever, of which she was beginning to recover, & from which she has since so far recover’d, as to authorize a hope of our being able to set out for washington the day...
4435To James Madison from James Cramsie Carroll, 18 October 1815 (Madison Papers)
I am inducd. to lay before you the following detail with an ardent hope you will be inclind. to attend to it, first assuring you that I have no motive in so doing—but feeling strongly that it would tend to the welfare of the United States—by giving an encreasd. stimulus to Agriculture and Industry which I have frequently heard you express—and which I sincerely believe to be of first rate...
4436To James Madison from Charles Kinsey, 19 October 1815 (Madison Papers)
To you as the head and organ of our most happy Government, we the manufacturers of Cotton in the town of Paterson New Jersey most respectfully address ourselves and invite to a perusal of the enclos’d Petition which we are about to present to the honorable the Congress at their next Session. The enormous and unbounded importations of foreign cotton fabrics threaten destruction to our infant...
4437To James Madison from William Lattimore, 20 October 1815 (Madison Papers)
In obedience to the wishes of a number of my constituents, I beg leave to transmit you the inclosed. Mr. Rankin is a young gentleman of talents, and is generally well esteemed. In addition to the subscribers to the inclosed paper, some of the first characters in the territory are, as I am informed & believe, desirous that the application in favor of Mr. R. may succeed. I am, Sir, most...
4438To James Madison from Abraham Montague, 21 October 1815 (Madison Papers)
I am about to address a person I have no acquaintance with But your Goodness Embolens me also to address on a Subjec⟨t⟩ I never did one in all my life your Eccellency may think it frenzy or deseption or Impudence But Oh alass would God I was in a situation Independant enough to make a Jest of what I am About to write. I have nothing to Recommend me to your Eccellencys favour But a Poor...
4439To James Madison from George Washington Sevier, 23 October 1815 (Madison Papers)
I have been informed that Col Hawkins, the present Agent for the Creek Indians, lies very low (probably dead) also that Should he recover he intends resigning his office as Agent. I have therefore thought it adviseable to apply immediately to you for the appointment; presuming that, having devoted the prime of my life to the Service of my Country, and having been raised on the frontiers near...
4440To James Madison from Carter Tarrant, 25 October 1815 (Madison Papers)
I beg your Excellenceys Pardon for troubleing you with the following communication. Immediately on the receipt of the commission your Honor was pleased to confer on me I repaired to New-orleans & joind the Army as Chaplain & have continued to Preach to the Troops ever sence resolveing to do so, until the Power which Sent me there lets me know that there is no further occasion for my services:...
4441To James Madison from John Holmes, 26 October 1815 (Madison Papers)
Hon. A. K. Parris the bearer of this is member of Congress from the District of Maine & visits Washington previous to the Session on business. Allow me Sir, to recommend this gentleman to your notice & attention. His character as a man of honour, integrity & intelligence is too high to need my testimony in its favour. He is one of the three republican members, who are to represent, at least...
4442To James Madison from William Bentley, 30 October 1815 (Madison Papers)
The uniform friendship, I have openly expressed, in the most troublesome times, & which has never been doubtful in the world, & has been justified by an extraordinary succession of most glorious events, has been formed on the personal esteem, which assured me that the best virtues would guide the best talents, in the best services to my country. We are not always sure to be useful, & we may be...
4443To James Madison from Joseph McMinn, 30 October 1815 (Madison Papers)
Owing to the melancholy death of Genl. John Sevier, who was acting as one of the Commissioners for running the boundary line of the Country ceded by the creek Indians to the United States, there will have to be an appointment of a Successor. I consider it a part of my public duty, to advise and confer with the General Government in this appointment, as the State over which I have the honour to...
4444To James Madison from David Porter, 31 October 1815 (Madison Papers)
Prompted by a desire of serving my country, and of using every effort for her honor and glory; unaided by the council or by the countenance of those high in authority, I come forward, a solitary individual, to suggest to you a plan of equal importance to any that has been undertaken by any nation, at any period, for enlarging the bounds of science, adding to the knowledge of men, and to the...
4445To James Madison from Samuel Thurber, November 1815 (Madison Papers)
As Cotton Manufacturers are about to pettion Congress to secure to them greater prospects of gain than they can otherwise antisipate, I beg leave to suggest my ideas on the subject; Altho I am in that line of business and with a large Family in a small way entirely dependant on that, and on what can be procured from a few poor Acres; What I conceive to be the good of our Country compells me to...
4446To James Madison from William Gray and Others, November 1815 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From William Gray and Others. November 1815, Boston. “The undersigned, merchants and others connected in commercial business, beg leave to recommend William Porter of this town as a suitable person to fill a consular office in Europe. “Mr. Porter has been to Europe as the agent of persons who were interested in vessels captured by the Danes & French, and has so conducted his business as to...
4447To James Madison from Josiah Meigs, 1 November 1815 (Madison Papers)
I have read, and with this return the Papers I had the honour to receive yesterday, “for perusal, and to be returned.” I have reason to believe that the Illinois and Wabash companies will resume their efforts to obtain from the United States a confirmation of their Claims. The following Extract from the Correspondence of Albert Gallatin, Esquire with Judge Thruston, while it is very honourable...
4448To James Madison from John Sinclair, 1 November 1815 (Madison Papers)
Having had the honor of corresponding with your illustrious predecessors, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, when they presided over the councils of America, I am happy in this opportunity of commencing a literary correspondence with the present respectable President of the United States; and of communicating to him the plan of a work, which perhaps may be of some use to the inhabitants...
4449To James Madison from F. Reichard, 2 November 1815 (Madison Papers)
Un des mes Amis de Paris m’a envoyé la lettre ci-incluse pour Vous la transmettre. Oserois-je Vous prier, dans le cas où Vous auriez une réponse à y faire, de Vouloir bien me l’adresser ici d’où je compte partir pour la france Sous peu. Daignez agréer, je Vous Supplie, l’expression du plus profond respect avec lequel j’ai l’honneur d’être, Monsieur le Président, Votre très humble et tre⟨s⟩...
4450To James Madison from Claude Alexandre Ruelle, 5 November 1815 (Madison Papers)
Puis que la Bibliothèque du Congrès, ou M. Jefferson avait déposé le Manuscrit d’une Constitution de ma composition, a été détruite, j’ai l’honneur de vous en envoïer six Exemplaires imprimés, en vous priant de vouloir bien en faire, mettre trois au même dépot, et d’agréer l’hommage des trois autres. J’ai lû, Monsieur, dans un Message que vous adressâtes au Congrès, le 4 9bre. 1812, que les...