1To James Madison from Edmond Kelly, 1 July 1817 (Madison Papers)
I am aware that to write on public business to a Gentn who retired from it, if on any common or ordinary occurrence would be improper. I wd. not—& am sorry the nature of the Comn. renders appology unnecessary because as you have held the first rank & enjoyed the confidence and Esteem of all good Citizens honor gratitude & Duty impose on you the sacred obligation of a public Guardian of their...
2To James Madison from Edmond Kelly, [ca. 30] October 1817 (Madison Papers)
It is almost unnecessary for me to mention that the diligence with which I am watched by the friends of England Caused that Inspection of all I write by which Traitors found themselves discovered. I find it has only encreased their Caution but not stopped their progress their hopes from recent promises of an Invasion seem to have encreased their Confidence. General perhaps Lord A Jackson has...
3To James Madison from Edmond Kelly, 25 December 1817 (Madison Papers)
Confident that you feel in retirement the same anxiety as when in office to preserve that Independence which your administration secured under perilous Circumstances I have addressed you without Ceremony but I hope with that respect which is the meed of true & exalted patriotism & virtue from an Idea that it was my duty to make the Communication and that whatever the public safety rendered...
4To James Madison from Edmond Kelly, 4 March 1818 (Madison Papers)
Permitt me to assure you that no desire to obtrude a thought sentimt or opinion of mine unnecessarily Induced me to write these letters—on the Contrary a sincere desire to defeat a Conspiracy of foreign and Domestic enemies against your National Independence with which I considered my own personal safety Connected was my Motive and when you reflect what would become of those truly patriotic &...
5To James Madison from Edmond Kelly, [ca. 12 November] 1818 (Madison Papers)
I hope you are perswaded that my letters to you were dictated by a profound respect for your character patriotism & virtues and that any further appology for this or my former letters is unnecessary. I perceive the Courier Chides Genl Jackson severely for a doughty […] rather (if understood) for a doughtfull conduct—but supposing the capture of the spanish forts intended to Irritate & provoke...
6To James Madison from Edmond Kelly, [ca. 31] October 1819 (Madison Papers)
I hope it is unnecessary to appologise for writing to you on a subject so Connected with your happyness as the Independence of your Country the overthrow⟨i⟩ng whereof appears to me to be the object of a Conspiracy Composed of orangemen ⟨s⟩o Denominated after William the 3d prince of Orange and Nassaw and afterwds king of England which conspirators Cooperating with the british Govt & Organised...
7To James Madison from Edmond Kelly, [ca. 29] January 1820 (Madison Papers)
Ten days after the date of my last letter I read a Memorial of the Citizens of Pensilvenia to Congress stating the necessity for domestic manufactures it was well written but except a short extract of a former report of the new Committee of Commerce & manufactures the later part was defective. It ought to have shewed the amount of Imported british merchandise & manufactures & if it could not...
8To James Madison from Edmond Kelly, [post–20] February 1821 (Madison Papers)
On the debate of the Misouri question in the last session Mr Barbour in Senate asserted that the restriction would drive that country into insurrection & that an Ignited spark might sever it from the Union. A poor white population is always opposed to Negroes—the slaveholders in Misouri do not exceed 3 out of 12 of the white people & the Idea of an attempt at Insurrection by one fourth slave...
9To James Madison from Edmond Kelly, April 1820 (Madison Papers)
I this day read the presidents last message wherein (agreeable to a wish of the rusian Emperor) he recommends it to congress to deferr any resolution to occupy E Florida untill as I suppose it shall be convenient to Ferdinand to signify how he has or will dispose of it—very probably to England for an armament and money to subdue the south An. colonies or some of them. I consided [ sic ] the...
10To James Madison from Edmond Kelly, 26 September 1820 (Madison Papers)
I hope you are perswaded that no wish to catch at popularity Induced me to write my former letters—that is the road usually traveled by obscure demagogues whose object it is to exalt themselves, and I wd. deserve contempt had I been actuated by any such motive—every days experience verifies the truth of Lord Mansfields observation that the applause of the mob is not always the meed of merit,...