31From James Madison to Congress, 18 February 1815 (Madison Papers)
I lay before Congress, copies of the Treaty of Peace and Amity, between the United States and His Britannic Majesty, which was signed by the commissioners of both parties, at Ghent, on the 24th of December 1814, and the ratifications of which have been duly exchanged. While performing this act, I congratulate you, and our constituents, upon an event which is highly honorable to the nation, and...
32From James Madison to Congress, 26 September 1814 (Madison Papers)
I transmit to Congress for their information copies of a letter from Admiral Cockrane, commanding His Britannic Majesty’s Naval forces on the American station to the Secretary of State with his answer and of a reply from Admiral Cockrane. RC and enclosures, two copies ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages, 13A–E1; and DNA : RG 46, Legislative Proceedings, President’s Messages, 13A–E2). Each RC...
33From James Madison to Congress, 13 October 1814 (Madison Papers)
I now transmit to Congress copies of the Instructions to the Plenipotentiaries of the United States charged with negociating a peace with Great Britain as referred to in my message of the 10th instant. RC and enclosures, two copies ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages, 13A–E1; and DNA : RG 46, Legislative Proceedings, President’s Messages, 13A–E2). Each RC in Edward Coles’s hand, signed by JM...
34From James Madison to Congress, 1 December 1814 (Madison Papers)
I transmit for the information of Congress the communications last received from the Ministers Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States at Ghent, explaining the course and actual state of their negociations with the Plenipotentiarys of Great Britain. RC and enclosures, two copies ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages, 13A–E1; and DNA : RG 46, Legislative Proceedings, President’s...
35From James Madison to Congress, 2 January 1815 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Congress. 2 January 1815. “I lay before Congress a Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, containing a statement of proceedings under the ‘Act to regulate the laying out and making a road from Cumberland in the State of Maryland to the State of Ohio.’” RC and enclosures, two copies ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages, 13A–E1; and DNA : RG 46, Legislative Proceedings, President’s...
36From James Madison to Congress, 10 October 1814 (Madison Papers)
I lay before Congress communications just received from the Plenipotentiaries of the United States charged with negotiating peace with Great Britain; shewing the conditions on which alone that Government is willing to put an end to the war. The Instructions to those Plenipotentiaries disclosing the grounds on which they were authorized to negotiate and conclude a Treaty of peace will be the...
37From James Madison to Congress, 10 January 1815 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Congress. 10 January 1815. “I transmit to Congress an account of the Contingent Expenses of the Government for the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.” RC and enclosure, two copies ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages, 13A–E1; and DNA : RG 46, Legislative Proceedings, President’s Messages, 13A–E2). Each RC 1 p.; in Edward Coles’s hand, signed by JM . The enclosed account (1 p.),...
38From James Madison to Benjamin W. Crowninshield, 23 December 1814 (Madison Papers)
My letter of 15th will have informed you that I had taken the liberty of naming you to the Senate for the vacancy in the Secretaryship of the Navy. I have now the pleasure to inclose a Commission by which you will see that the Senate have sanctioned the appointment. I repeat my hope that it will not be inconsistent with your views to undertake that very important service, and that its urgency...
39From James Madison to Benjamin W. Crowninshield, 15 December 1814 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Jones having retired from the Secretaryship of the Navy, my thoughts have been turned to you as a desireable Successor; and I have this day sent in your name to the Senate for the appointment. I hope you will excuse my doing it without your consent which would have been asked, if the business of that Dept. had less urged an avoidance of delay. The same consideration will apologize for my...
40From James Madison to Benjamin W. Crowninshield, 3 January 1815 (Madison Papers)
I have just recd. yours of the 28 Dcr. communicating the agreeable result of your reconsideration of your first determination on the subject of the Secretaryship of the Navy. It only remains to say that no obstacle has been created by another nomination to the Senate, and to repeat my hopes that you will be with us as soon as possible. Accept my friendly respects RC ( MSaP ). See Crowninshield...
41From James Madison to George Washington Parke Custis, 3 June 1810 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your favor of the 31. May, accompanied by the specimens of wool, & followed by the opportunity of seeing your fine Rambuillet Merino Ram. I am much obliged by these marks of politeness, & particularly by the expressions of personal kindness which you have added to them. I have long thought that in the œconomy of our rural establishments, we ought by reducing the number of Black...
42From James Madison to Henry Dearborn, 20 September 1814 (Madison Papers)
Yours of the 6th. came duly to hand. A letter about the same time was recd. by the Dept. of War, from Govr. Strong on the same subject. I desired Mr. Monroe to inclose you a copy of his answer, which will shew you the ground taken with the Govr. What will be his final ground with respect to the Genl. Govt. remains to be seen. In the mean time, and under the peculiarity of the Crisis, we must...
43From James Madison to Peter Early, 18 December 1814 (Madison Papers)
I have duly recd. your letter of the 2d. instant: with the Resolutions of the Legislature of Georgia expressing unanimously the sentiments inspired by the extravagant terms of peace demanded by the Enemy, and the readiness of that State to make every sacrifice necessary to a vigorous prosecution of the war, till it can be brought to an honorable termination. Resolutions of such a character are...
44From James Madison to William Eustis, 28 September 1814 (Madison Papers)
We have just recd an Envoy from the new Sovereign of the U. Netherlands, & wish to cultivate useful relations between the 2 Countries, by a prompt return of the Civility. Will you permit me to name you to the Senate, for the purpose of counterplacing him? It will be very convenient to receive an early answer, & if my wishes should be gratified, that you be ready for an early departure for your...
45From James Madison to William Eustis, 21 December 1814 (letter not found) (Madison Papers)
¶ To William Eustis. Letter not found. 21 December 1814. Acknowledged in Eustis to JM , 29 Dec. 1814 , as informing Eustis of his appointment as U.S. minister to the Netherlands and enclosing his commission.
46From James Madison to William Eustis, 15 December 1814 (Madison Papers)
It has been in view for some time to counterplace Mr. Changuion by an Envoy Extraordinary & Minister Plenipotentiary to his Sovereign Prince; and I have had you in my thoughts for the service. I postponed however consulting you on the subject, on the calculation that it could be done at any time without inconvenient delay to the object. Circumstances now exist which render an immediate...
47Dolley Madison to Hannah Gallatin, [29 December 1814] (Madison Papers)
I greave my dear frend, because you did not come with Mrs. Bache! She arrived here at the same time with your letter, after a tolerable journey, & so little fatigued as to visit the Drawing Room in two hours. The sight of you would have been a cordial indeed—when I could have convinced you [(]as I hope now to do) that Mr Gallatin will be with you as early in Spring as the season will permit,...
48From James Madison to David Gelston, 1 March 1810 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. a letter from Francis Hall, charging the President of the U.S. with 2½ years Subscription for the Amn. Citizen, amounting to 25 dolrs. I know nothing more of the case than that since the 4th. of Mar. last, the paper has been sent to me, without being ordered; but as it was not forbidden, I think it right that the charge for one year should be paid by me. I send ten drs. for that...
49From James Madison to Elbridge Gerry, 17 September 1814 (Madison Papers)
The destruction of the Capitol by the Enemy having made it necessary that other accomodations should be provided for the meeting of Congress, chambers for the Senate and for the House of Representatives, with other requisite apartments, have been fitted up, under the direction of the Superintendent of the City, in the Public Building heretofore allotted for the Post and other Public offices....
50From James Madison to Elbridge Gerry, 5 July 1814 (Madison Papers)
I am in your debt for 3 letters of the 10. 11. & 25 June. General Boyd goes to N.Y. instead of N. Orleans. Weston was never even seen by me. The command of the Revenue Cutter is to be given to Trewitt who is strongly & extensively recommended. The last intelligence from Europe was as you will have inferred, no wise decisive with respect to our affairs with G.B: nor can it well be so, untill...
51From James Madison to William Branch Giles, 3 April 1795 (Madison Papers)
I have not forgotten my promise to drop you a few lines on the arrival of the Treaty in case it shd. happen during my stay here; but have hitherto omitted to write because, the arrival of the Treaty has not added a particle to the public knowledge of its contents. You will have known that the Senate are to meet for the purpose of receiving the communication on the 8th. of June. I am chiefly...
52From James Madison to Charles Jared Ingersoll, 28 July 1814 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your favor of the 18th. instant, & delivered into the hands of Mr. Rush the interesting extract inclosed in it. The armed neutrality in 1780, forms an Epoch in the history of maritime law which makes it more than a point of mere curiosity, to trance it to its real source. You know perhaps that there is an American pretension to a share at least in bringing about that measure. The...
53From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 23 October 1814 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. yours of Ocr . with that inclosed from Warden. His tale is plausibly told but entitled to little confidence. Be assured he is not the man he passed for with all of us originally. His apparent modesty & suavity cover ambition vanity avidity (from poverty at least) & intrigue. These traits began to betray themselves before he last left the U.S. On his arrival in Paris with his...
54From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 10 October 1814 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of the 24th. ult: came duly to hand. I learn that the Library Come. will report favorably on your proposition to supply the loss of books by Congs. It will prove a gain to them, if they have the wisdom to replace it by such a Collection as yours. Mr. Smith will doubtless write you on the subject. I have not yet read your last communication to Mr. Monroe on the subject of finance. It...
55From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 23 October 1814 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. yours of the 15: and attended to your remarks on “ways & means.” I find that the variance in our ideas relates 1. to the probable quantity of circulating medium: 2. to the effect of an annual augmentation of it. I cannot persuade myself that in the present stagnation of private dealings, & the proposed limitation of taxes, the two great absorbents of money, the circulating sum...
56Thomas L. McKenney to William Jones, 25 November 1814 (Madison Papers)
I have been introduced through the entreaties and tears of the aged and the young, to an acquaintance with a rule of your office, which I beg leave to say, is as honorable to yourself, as it is promotive of the cause of morality, Religion, and the Service of the Country. I refer to the rule lately applied in the case of young Ritche, on account of his having been accessory to a fatal duel...
57Arthur Sinclair to William Jones, 21 October 1814 (Madison Papers)
I have the satisfaction of stating to you that I have succeeded in geting the Detroit and Queen Charlott⟨e⟩ within the Bar, and they are now safely moored, which circumstance has relieved me of much anxiety. I had to pass them over in 3½ feet less than they drew, with sweept’ holds. The Charlott⟨e⟩ past over, on Friday last, without difficulty. Saturday and Sunday it blew a gale on shore,...
58From James Madison to William Jones, 27 August 1814 (Madison Papers)
On our arrival at Montgomery Ct. H. we found, according to report, that the army had left it about noon, in full march towards Baltimore, whither the Enemy were supposed to be bending their course. We came to this place last evening with a view of joining the Secy. of State with the army, or of going with him to Washington as he might think best. I have just recd. a note from him, saying that...
59From James Madison to Tobias Lear, 9 July 1814 (Madison Papers)
A vacancy existing in the Office of Accountant to the Dept. of War, I have thought it proper to give you an opportunity of saying whether it would be agreeable to you to fill it. Will you be so good as to let me hear from you on the subject with as little delay as possible? Accept my friendly respects RC (owned by Stephen Decatur, Garden City, N.Y., 1961). Cover sheet bears Lear’s note: “Ansd....
60John Tayloe to Dolley Madison, 19 June 1813 (Madison Papers)
The enclosed came to my hands, too late—to send over yesterday. The President being so unwell —I take the liberty to enclose it you—to hand him—so soon as he is restored to health—which I pray God may […] speedily be the case—its so warm, ⟨I am⟩ hardly able to write—the Girls all beg their respects—very respectfully & Sincerely I am your Obedt. Servt. Printed facsimile of RC (Scott J. Winslow...