31To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 5 September 1809 (Madison Papers)
Noah Mason appears to be the best qualified and recomd. If the President approves, he will be pleased to signify the same by endorsement on this paper. No commission issues in those cases; a letter from the Secy. of the Treasury announcing the appointment being sufficient. Respectfully submitted RC ( DNA : RG 26, Light House Services Correspondence). Endorsed by JM: “I approve Noah Mason for...
We Subscribers, refugees and Sufferers of the late political occurrences which have taken place in the Island of Cuba, being in the necessity to go to France, humbly beg that a vessel should be cleared from this port, as a flag a [ sic ] truce for Nantz or Bordeaux, in order that we may be transported there with our family and baggage only. Our number cannot be properly ascertained at present,...
33To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 5 September 1809 (Madison Papers)
Believing that at this time it would be agreeable to you to recieve those expressions of approbation of your conduct & pledges of support which the inclosed resolutions contain; as soon as we recieved your proclamation myself & a few of your friends held a private meeting to determine on convening a general Meeting of the inhabitants of this City & its Neighbourhood; on the ground that as she...
34To James Madison from David Ramsay, 5 September 1809 (Madison Papers)
With great pleasure I obey the orders of my fellow citizens of Charleston in forwarding to you the inclosed copy of the resolutions this day adopted by them. These resolutions were prepared by a large committee indiscriminately appointed and afterwards unanimously adopted by a very numerous assemblage of citizens of different political principles. The disavowal of the late negotiation by the...
35To James Madison from Isaac A. Coles, 4 September 1809 (Madison Papers)
In consequence of the wish which you were good enough to express when I had last the pleasure to see you, I have been busying myself in the arrangement of my little Concerns, & will be ready by the last of the month, if you should still desire it, to occupy that Station in your family which I fear I am little worthy to fill, & into which I shall carry little else than an ardent desire to...
36To James Madison from John Graham, 4 September 1809 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to inclose a Letter from Mr Daschkoff and an Exequatur made out in compliance with it. It is said that Mr Jackson has arrived at Annapolis. Mr Erskine got here this Morning, and Mr Smith this moment alighted from the Stage. With perfect Respect & Esteem I have the Honor to be, Sir, Your Most Obt Sert RC ( DLC ). André de Daschkoff to Robert Smith, 29 Aug. 1809 ( DNA : RG 59,...
37To James Madison from the Republican Meeting of Columbia, South Carolina, 4 September 1809 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
4 September 1809. Report of the committee appointed to draft resolutions “expressive, of the sense of this meeting” and the resulting resolutions. They take note of the recent proclamation based on negotiations with Erskine and the repudiation of that agreement by the British cabinet. Their resolutions denounce Canning and state that with a government ruled “by a Minister so notorious for his...
38To James Madison from John Graham, 1 September 1809 (Madison Papers)
I have been honored with your Letter of the 29th of last Month. I regret very much that I have it not in my power to throw some light on the characters of the Gentlemen who are placed in nomination before you for the Legislative Council of the Mississippi Territory. Mr Shields is the only one of them of whom I have any recollection and with him my acquaintance was very slight. He is a young...
39To James Madison from Isaiah Eiland, 31 August 1809 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
31 August 1809. Salutes “honourd Madisson” and delivers a discourse on topics ranging from the “seeds of damnation” to “Bull bellowing Methodists.” Praises Washington and Joseph Warren and finishes by “wishing universal Success to republican equality [and] the rights of man.” Identifies himself as “a Minister of the Gospel ten years” who lives “within one mile of milledgeville” in Georgia. RC...
40To James Madison from William Branch Giles, 31 August 1809 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
31 August 1809, Wigwam, Amelia County, Virginia. The Virginia senator recommends John Love [member of the House of Representatives] and Alexander Scott of Georgetown as persons qualified for the District of Columbia judgeship that is now vacant. Encloses Scott’s letter to him, so that JM may be better informed. RC and enclosure ( DNA : RG 59, Letters of Application, 1809–17). 2 pp. Postmarked:...
41To James Madison from Samuel Dexter, 30 August 1809 (Madison Papers)
I resisted my inclination to present you my respectful congratulation on your accession to the Chief Magistracy of the Nation from an apprehension that as I had the misfortune to differ from the last Administration as to the best means of protecting some of the important rights & interests of our Country, it might wear the appearance of hollow civility to eminent station rather than of...
42To James Madison from Joshua Gilpin, 28 August 1809 (Madison Papers)
At the request of the President & Directors of the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal Company I take the liberty most respectfully to transmit you a Copy of the papers they have at sundry times published for public information particularly in support of the applications made by them to Congress —as these applications may again probably be renewed, they feel sensible that the object of them will not...
43To James Madison from the Republican Meeting of Washington County, Kentucky, [28 August] 1809 (Madison Papers)
At a meeting of a large number of the inhabitants of Washington County; in the Court-house, in Springfield, Kentucky on Monday the 28th. of August 1809 (previous notice thereof being given by advertisement) to consult, and declare their opinions on the late measures of the Cabinet, of Great Britain, in refusing to confirm the conditions enterd into by their Minister, with the executive of the...
44To James Madison from Richard Forrest, 27 August 1809 (Madison Papers)
In the letter which I had the honor to write you about a week since, I stated that Mr. McKeehan had gone to Phila., but meant to return to Geo Town in a few days, which he accordingly did on saturday last; when I stated to him the substance of what I had recd. from you on the subject of his application. He was to have proceeded on next Morn’g for Orange, which he seemed to think a necessary...
45To James Madison from Meriwether Lewis, 27 August 1809 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
27 August 1809, St. Louis. Discusses legal questions involved in trials of three Indians accused of murder. They were all found guilty, but the territorial court has held the trials invalid “because the Offence was committed without the jurisdiction of this court.” Relates the judge’s opinion that one of the crimes was committed by a Sac beyond the Indian boundary and hence “the court had not...
46To James Madison from John Graham, 25 August 1809 (Madison Papers)
Mr Jones of the Treasury informed me yesterday that Mr Gallatin wished me to send to you or to himself, copies of the Letters written to Mr Pinkney in the beginning of Decr 1808, enclosing Mr Campbell Report on our foreign Relations, and also a copy of Mr Pinkneys Letter giving an account of his Interview with Canning between the 10th & 23d Jany 1809. In compliance with this wish, I have now...
47To James Madison from John Graham, 23 August 1809 (Madison Papers)
The inclosed Papers from Governor Claiborne were sent to the Secretary of State who returned them yesterday, with a request that the Letter of the 29th July and its inclosures might be sent to you. I have thought that it would not be amiss to send that of the 30th also. With Sentiments of the most Respectful Attachment I have the Honor to be, Sir, Your Humble Servant RC ( DLC ). Claiborne’s 29...
48To James Madison from Richard Cutts, 23 August 1809 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 23 August 1809. Acknowledged in JM to Cutts, 7 Sept. 1809 . Mentions the favorable disposition of some New England Federalists.
49To James Madison from John Armstrong, 20 August 1809 (Madison Papers)
This will be handed to you by Jos. Tate who, after an absence of fifteen years, returns to the U. S. heartily sick of all he has seen abroad. His story may not be unknown to you, and is less recommendatory than his character. In the five years I have been in Paris, tho’ oppressed by poverty and injustice, his conduct has at all times been regular and respectable. He was the Acquaintance of M....
50To James Madison from Charles W. Goldsborough, 19 August 1809 (Madison Papers)
In the absence of the Secry. of the navy, I have the honor, in pursuance of his written instructions to me, to lay before you a statement of the navy appropriations. By reference to that statement you will perceive, sir, that the appropriations for “Repairs of Vessels” & for “Contingent expences” are nearly exhausted. Under the last law of congress, making provision for these objects, great...
51To James Madison from Henry Lee, 19 August 1809 (Madison Papers)
Very contrary to my general practice is the entrusion of my solicitation for the promotion to office of my own relatives, not because there is any thing wrong in it, but because our fondness for those tied to us by consanguinity or marriage, too often blinds our perception of their fitness. In the present instance I beleive I am safe, as my brother Edmund who Aspires to the vacancy on the...
52To James Madison from William Pinkney, 19 August 1809 (Madison Papers)
I have had the Honour to receive your kind Letter of the 21st. of April; and now send the last Edition of War in Disguise as you request. As we are turning our Attention to Wool, I have added a Tract lately published here on the Merino & Anglo-Merino Sheep, which may be of use. I trust that we shall continue to cultivate such Manufactures as suit our Circumstances. Cottons now, and Woollens...
53To James Madison from William Tatham, 18 August 1809 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
18 August 1809, Washington. Relates his financial losses suffered during and after the Revolution. Proposes a survey which would be sponsored by the federal government to create military maps of U.S. territories. RC ( DLC ). 8 pp. Docketed by JM.
54To James Madison from John G. Jackson, 17 August 1809 (Madison Papers)
I hope you have returned safe back to Montpelier whither the last papers stated you had again set out. As I conjectured and as I wished, I perceive you have by your recent proclamation renewed the non-intercourse with G Britain. Some of the papers particularly the “Enquirer” with more promptitude than discretion, or judgment; pronounced it beyond your powers. It was hoped & expected that Mr....
55To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 17 August 1809 (Madison Papers)
I recieved your’s of yesterday by mr. Coles. My journey to Bedford has been delayed by sickness among my laboring people. No new case having arisen for some time, I am in hopes it is at an end. Still no particular object fixing my departure to any precise time, it lies over for convenience, and should I fix a time before we have the pleasure of seeing yourself & mrs. Madison here I shall...
56To James Madison from William Bentley, 16 August 1809 (Madison Papers)
My worthy friend, General Dearborne informed me, that the President of the United States would kindly accept any expression of my sincere confidence in him. The highest esteem & his distinguished reputation & virtues, as well as respect for his high station must oblige me to put all the value of myself, in my own discretion. Permit me, Sir, to say, that during the Administration of President...
57To James Madison from Charles W. Goldsborough, 14 August 1809 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
14 August 1809, Navy Department. The chief clerk transmits copies of a letter from Capt. David Porter and Goldsborough’s reply. Goldsborough has submitted Porter’s letter to the secretaries of state and of the treasury, who have approved his reply. Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 45, Letters to the President). 2 pp. Enclosures not found.
58To James Madison from David Meade Randolph, 13 August 1809 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
13 August 1809, London. Defends Richard Hackley, whose duties as a consul at Cadiz have been performed with integrity and dispatch. Hackley’s “malevolent” critics have been unfair. RC ( DNA : RG 59, Letters of Application, 1809–17). 3 pp.
59To James Madison from Alexander McRae, 11 August 1809 (Madison Papers)
On the 22nd. Ult. I enclosed to Mr. Jefferson a letter from Mr. Wirt, communicating in substance the information contained in Mr. Wirt’s letter to you, (which I had the honor of forwarding about the same period) concerning the object which carries Majr. Clarke & myself to Europe. I have received from Mr. Jefferson a very friendly answer, containing letters of introduction which place Majr....
60To James Madison from James Taylor, 11 August 1809 (Madison Papers)
Some time last fall Lt. Hezekiah Johnson of the United States Army was here and expected to procure a furlough soon after, to go to Maryland, the place of his birth. I took the Liberty to give Mr Johnson a line to you, this I the more chearfully did, as I conceived him to be a Warm friend both of your self & my own. I conceive him to be a sound republican an excellent Officer and very much the...