1921Elisha Smith to James Madison, 24 August 1831 (Madison Papers)
I have read with much pleasure and instruction your late letter to Mr Ingersol on the U. S. Bank. It has been the pleasure of the citizens of this County to honur me with a seat in the Legislature. The expediency of re-charting that institution I know will command the attention of the next Legislature. My prepossessions are in favor of the Bank. As to its Constitutionality it is not now to be...
1922The Residents of Kanawha County to James Madison, 27 August 1831 (Madison Papers)
THE undersigned have the honor to transmit herewith a copy of the proceedings of a numerous meeting of the citizens of Kanawha County, held at the Court house on Saturday the 27th inst, pursuant to public notice, to which they beg leave to call your immediate and earnest attention. The undersigned represent the feelings of their fellow citizens of Kanawha, when they express the deep interest...
1923Joseph 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...
1924Robert Walsh to James Madison, 4 September 1831 (Madison Papers)
Be pleased to accept my best acknowledgments for the memoranda concerning the excellent Bishop Madison. I found them on my table, on my return from a journey, a few days ago. A sketch has been sent to Boston for the Encyclopædia Americana, but I fear it will be too late. I shall use the materials for another form of publication, & will then return them to you. I unite with the whole mass of...
1925Robley Dunglison to James Madison, 8 September 1831 (Madison Papers)
A Letter has been received recently from Mr Long, in which, I regret to say, it is stated, that after three years of Turbulence, the affairs of the London University seem to be drawing to a Crisis, and that a fortnight will determine whether he still may continue attached to it. In the "Observer" which I send you, you will discover manifest evidence that the affairs of the university are not...
1926Silas M. Stilwell to James Madison, 14 September 1831 (Madison Papers)
I trust the subject to which I call your attention will be a sufficient apology for the intrusion on your notice; and excuse me in the mind of one to whom the Citizens of the Union and of the world, are so largely indebted for a correct knowledge of the rights of men and the laws by which communities should be governed, I submit for your consideration and opinion the report of a committee of...
1927Thomas W. Griffith to James Madison, 16 September 1831 (Madison Papers)
As the subject of the remarks contained in the inclosed may not be unacceptible to you, I respectfully submit them; and hope they may give occasion to a further exposition of your views on the powers granted the Federal Government, in relation to Commerce and Manufactures. I claim no other right to give the public my opinion, than that which may be derived from years, and it cannot, I trust,...
1928William Maury to James Madison, 17 September 1831 (Madison Papers)
I send in the Ship which bears your < >, a hamper filled with soil, in which are planted as many Strawberry runners as I could insert, & I have directed Capt. Garrick to give them in charge, either of Mr S Mon<clure> of Petersburg or Richard Anderson of Richmond, either of whom I direct to forward to you—they are intended for Mrs Madison’s garden, & are of the kind termed "Vi<cese>s...
1929Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 17 September 1831 (Madison Papers)
The enclosed is a communication to the Enquirer, not yet published , which I have got printed at the Globe office, and sent to the E. in its present shape, to avoid the typographical errors which, had it been sent in M. S., would have been sure to occur, & to mar the sense. If the Lynchb Jeffersonian speak the truth, Mr Walsh pronounces Mr. Calhoun’s piece to be unanswerable , and another...
1930Tench Ringgold to James Madison, 23 September 1831 (Madison Papers)
In conformity to my promise, I applied to Mr L Lee for the information you want relative to his Fathers papers. I now enclose you his answer to my letter, in which you will find he states, that, in all probability, the information you want may be obtained without difficulty at the university. I have not heard, as yet, from the friend in Philadelphia who has promised to give me information as...
1931James Bradford to James Madison, 26 September 1831 (Madison Papers)
I take great liberty in addressing myself to you—but you will permit me to presume upon the acquaintance that I had the honor & pleasure to make during the convention at Richmond in 1829—as also upon the relations on which my father stood with you in long gone days. Already in the course of my short life & career have I suffered under the imputations & reflecions that my father had been...
1932Maury Latham & Co. to James Madison, 30 September 1831 (Madison Papers)
Since our last monthly report, no material change can be stated to have taken place in the Cotten Market; the import, as usual at this season of the year, has been moderate, and since the imposition of the 2/8 d. duty, sufficient has been placed in bond to supply the export demand which has increased— With regard to manufactured goods, we have no comment to make; but the demand for Twist for...
1933Peter Stuart Ney to James Madison, 1 October 1831 (Madison Papers)
The honour of an introduction to the revered Mr. Madison has not been my happy lot. The subject of this intrusion shall be briefly expressed. ’Le Sage entend à demi mot.’ And it shall be " à demi mot . You, respected Sir, already Stand at the head, the very head of American Patriots. You have it in your power to transcend them all! The step is a bold One—but it requires only one hour of your...
1934Robert M. Patterson to James Madison, 3 October 1831 (Madison Papers)
A large number, (between 70 & 80,) of the Students of the University have lately formed a Corps "for the acquirement of practical knowledge and skill in military tactics," and the Faculty have appointed the Proctor, Mr. Jno. A. Carr, their Military Instructor, the Students having previously appointed him their Senior Commanding Officer. The Faculty have also authorised me to take the necessary...
1935John Townsend to James Madison, 3 October 1831 (Madison Papers)
Personally unacquainted as I am with you, I fear that the liberty I take in addressing to you this communication may be deemed a troublesome, perhaps an impertinent intrusion upon your privacy & Leisure. I can well conjecture the frequent demands which are made upon your time, for counsel & information, having relation to the political history & opinions of the country, in the government of...
1936Reynolds Chapman to James Madison, 5 October 1831 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Davis has just requested me to send you the enclosed $100, and to ask you to acknowledge the receipt of it tomorrow, by Post. very affy RC (PPPrHi) .
1937William McGowin to James Madison, 7 October 1831 (Madison Papers)
Accept from an obscure citizen, this small tribute of respect to that sterling worth, which has marked your public and private life—Though that vile Spirit of avarice and dominion predominates in the moment, which lagged the movements of that glorious revolution, in which you were an able and fortunate advocate Still the political horison throughout Christendom is charged with "tidings of...
1938Robley Dunglison to James Madison, 11 October 1831 (Madison Papers)
A person of the name of Brooks—an artist, who is exercising his Profession at Charlottesville and has permission to teach the Students the art of painting in the University, is very desirous of being permitted to take a copy of the portrait of Mr Jefferson by Stuart which, he has heard, you possess. He has requested of me to learn from you whether it would be agreeable to you for him to take...
1939Joseph 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...
1940Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 12 October 1831 (Madison Papers)
I have used no ceremony in retaining the enclosed $15. until I could conveniently return it. Do not, I pray, give yourself the trouble to write; as I hope again to see you in the course of the month, on my return from Albemarle. Looking for a paper, the other day, I came across the one I now send for your perusal. The circumstance that caused me to write it, you will recollect. On reflexion, I...
1941George Tucker to James Madison, 21 October 1831 (Madison Papers)
I am sorry to say that I have not been able to find, among the papers of R. H. Lee, deposited in the University, that part of his correspondence with Mr. Pendleton to which you refer. As the papers are not arranged according to any known rule, and are not always endorsed, it became necessary to examine the whole mass, which I believe I did with sufficient accuracy yesterday & today to warrant...
1942Reynolds Chapman to James Madison, 22 October 1831 (Madison Papers)
I have at last, got the decree, in the case of your mother’s estate, compleated, which I propose to enter on monday. I send it to you for your inspection, before hand, lest it might not agree with your views. I will thank you to note any alterations which you consider proper, and I will modify the decree accordingly. You will observe, that the commissioners are directed to state an account...
1943Stephen Bates to James Madison, 31 October 1831 (Madison Papers)
I take the liberty to send you herewith a pamphlet containing the three letters of the Hon Richard Rush, one from the late President John Quincy Adams and one from the Honorable William Wirt of Virginia on being nominated [ ] Candidate for President of the United States on the subject of Free Masonry. Perhaps I may be deem’d presumptious in addressing you on this subject: and nothing but a...
1944Alexander Scott to James Madison, 10 November 1831 (Madison Papers)
I obtained at Richmond a few months ago, by the decision of the Governor and council a warrant for 4000 acres of Land, on account of the military services of Mrs Scott’s father, as a captain in the war of the revolution, Chief Justice Marshall (of whose testimony I availed myself) being his first Lieutenant—I have understood that a portion of the military documents in relation to the Virginia...
1945Jared Sparks to James Madison, 14 November 1831 (Madison Papers)
My mind has got into a new perplexity about Pinckney’s Draft of a Constitution. By a rigid comparison of that instrument with the Draft of the Committee reported August 6th, they are proved to be essentially, and almost identically, the same thing. It is impossible to resist the conviction, that they proceeded from one and the same source. This being established, the only question is, whether...
1946William F. Taliaferro to James Madison, 14 November 1831 (Madison Papers)
It appears that my wife is only third in descent from Mr. Henry Willis who was one of the original share-holders in the Loyal Company. My object is to obtain evidence that H. Willis was father to the late Mrs Mary Daingerfield of Coventry in the county of Spottsylvania. I am informed that he married a collateral relation of yours (perhaps an Aunt) Elizabeth Madison; and that Mrs Daingerfield...
1947Charles J. Ingersoll to James Madison, 16 November 1831 (Madison Papers)
If the topics treated in the Address herewith are dealt with so as to meet your approbation it will be to my mind one of the surest proofs of their force. That you wi[ll] not condemn the calm and forbearing temper of the argument I feel confident I by no means despair yet of the pleasure so long promised myself of visiting you at Montpellier, but thus far one prevention or other has always...
1948Ralph Randolph Gurley to James Madison, 21 November 1831 (Madison Papers)
You have, doubtless, observed, that public attention in Virginia, and other sections of our Southern Country is strongly excited on the subject of the coloured population & that many leading men are directing their thoughts to the plan of colonizing the free people of colour on the Coast of Africa. As you have already, been pleased to express, by a liberal donation to its funds, your...
1949Joseph 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...
1950Tench Ringgold to James Madison, 29 November 1831 (Madison Papers)
Immediately after the receipt of your kind letter I wrote to Mr Ludwell Lee on the subject thereof, and now have the pleasure to inclose his answer; from which I fear there is no prospect of obtaining the information desired by you. I also transmit a letter from Mr Lees son. If he makes any farther communication I will forward it to you. I am informed by Mr. Chief Justice Gibson, & Richard...