107101From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 15 April 1804 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of the 9th. with its inclosures has been duly recd. and will be duly attended to. The inclosed communications from Mr. Merry are as satisfactory as they are important. On the return of them, it will be proper I presume to acknowledge the impression made by the promptitude of the interposition, and the evidence it affords of a disposition to cherish the amicable relations &c. of the...
107102From James Madison to George Joy, 15 August 1817 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your several favors, the last bearing date the day of , on the subject of your translation from Rotterdam to Amsterdam; and have expressed to the President the sentiments which my knowlege of your exertions in the cause of your Country, and my friendly dispositions I have entertained towards you, suggested. He has been for a considerable period on a tour along our E. & N....
107103James Madison to Edward Everett, 7 October 1830 (Madison Papers)
I return my thanks for your favour of the 28. ult. with a copy of the Chapter from the N. A. Review for this month. I have read the review of the Debates with great pleasure. It must diffuse light on the subject of them every where; and would make an overwhelming impression where it is most needed, if the delirious excitement were not it would seem, an overmatch for reason & truth. The only...
107104James Madison to [ ] Bradley, 24 June 1828 (Madison Papers)
I inclose a draft on Col Peyton in Richd: to discharge the note referred to in your letter of . This having been mislaid, & owing to a [ tion] or 9 [casualty], the precise date and amt. of the note not being ascertainable, I have named in the draft the sum of $600. with a blank which you will be good eno’ to fill with whatever will make it correspond, with the debt. Should this course not...
107105From James Madison to John Graham, 30 August 1816 (Madison Papers)
The Spanish Documents inclosed; with the letter from McCall, were sent to me by Mr. Dallas: They are curious and interesting. Mr. Dallas is apprized that they would be communicated to the Dept. of State. As he is or soon will be in Washington, you will be able to know from him whether he chuses that they shd. remain there. If his choice be to repossess them you will return them, taking copies...
107106From James Madison to Richard Riker and Others, 1 July 1826 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of June—— inviting me, in behalf of the Corporation of the City of N. York to the celebration of the approaching anniversary of American Independence, having passed on to a post office South of me, has but this moment come to hand on its return. Had the present State of my health therefore which obliged me to decline a previous invitation to a like celebration less distant, not...
107107From James Madison to James K. Paulding, 23 July 1818 (Madison Papers)
I return your copy of Gideons Edition of the Federalist, with the memorandum requested in your note of the 16. I shall take pleasure in adding any other circumstances which you may wish to know, & I may be able to communicate. Mrs. M. & myself feel very sensibly the kind expressions in which you refer to the late visit with which you favored us, & will always be happy in repetitions of the...
107108From James Madison to Alexander J. Dallas, 4 May 1815 (Madison Papers)
The Waggons with Mr. Jefferson’s Library are on their way to Washington, and will expect to be paid on their arrival. Not having the law on the subject of that purchase, I know not whether it includes an appropriation for the expence of transportation, or leaves this to be paid out of any other & what fund. I must ask you to decide this point, & have the Waggoners paid without delay. They are...
107109From James Madison to Louis Lambert & Company (Abstract), 9 May 1805 (Madison Papers)
9 May 1805, Department of State . “I have received your letter of yesterday [not found] and have to inform you, in answer, that Mr: Wm: Lyman the successor of Mr. Erving in the Agency at London, will of course superintend your appeal, on application; but as he is neither to expend monies nor make pecuniary engagements on accot: of the public, it is necessary that you should make provision for...
107110To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 11 September 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recd the letters sent me by the last mail under two covers, and return those belonging to your own files. I inclose herewith also the communications last recd from the office of State . I can not without losing the present opportunity make comments on any of them. A few only invite them. Yours with respectful attacht. Docr. Wallace in whose behalf the letters from Mr. Brent & Mr Thomson...
107111Militia, [16 December] 1790 (Madison Papers)
A bill to establish a more uniform militia system throughout the nation was under consideration. After some debate the Committee of the Whole amended and approved the first section. The second section listed those to be exempted from militia service ( Pa. Packet , 17 and 18 Dec. 1790). Mr. Madison moved, to strike out that part which related to the members of Congress, with their officers and...
107112To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 9 January 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
The question on the Report printed, was decided by 60 for & 40 agst. it, the day before yesterday, after a debate five days. Yesterday & today have been spent on Mr. Giles’ propositions, which with some softenings will probably pass, by nearly the same vote. The Senate is in rather a better state than was expected. The debate turned almost wholly on the right of the Legislature to protest. The...
107113From James Madison to Henry Wheaton, 20 January 1827 (Madison Papers)
Yours of the 12th. came duly to hand; and I comply with its request as to the letter of Mr. Salomon, by the inclosed answer, which if he be not at Washington you will be kind eno’ to seal & forward. I am sor[r]y it is so destitute of the information he seeks. Had I ever known more than was probably the case, the lapse of 45 or 46 years would account for the present incompetency of my memory. I...
107114James Madison to Bernard Peyton, 16 April 1836 (Madison Papers)
The Bull-calf so unpromising at first has turned out a fine one, so that I can spare one of the grown bulls, at a price which I leave to any one of your judicious friends—observing only that he was 6 or 8 months old when he came to my hands, and besides pasturage with occasional grain in the summer he has been now kept thro’ three winters, well housed & lodged, and with as much good hay and...
107115James Madison to Henry Clay, 13 March 1832 (Madison Papers)
J. Madison with his best respects to Mr Clay thanks him for the Copy of his speech "In Defence of the American System &c" It is a very able, a very eloquent, and a very interesting one. If it does not establish all its positions, in all their extent, it demolishes not a few of those relied on by the opponents. J. M. feels a pleasure in offering this tribute to its merits. But he must be...
107116From James Madison to John Langdon, 1 May 1796 (Madison Papers)
The question, the result of which you wished me to drop you, though hovering towards a close for some time past, was not actually decided till yesterday. The day before, the Committee of the Whole divided on it, on the form of a simple resolution for carrying the Treaty into effect. The votes were equal—49 & 49. The Chairman, Mr. Muhlenberg, said he did not like the proposition, at least...
107117From James Madison to Thomas FitzSimons, 9 October 1802 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of the 18th. Ulto, arrived at this place on the 24th. Being at the time absent I had no opportunity of communicating on the subject of it with the President till my return which was on the 7th. instant. I am now enabled to inform you, that agreeably to the wishes conveyed in your letter, the Minister Plenipotentiary of the U. States at Madrid will be instructed to make to the...
107118Pardon for Ignatius Lattimore, 1 July 1815 (Madison Papers)
Whereas Ignatius Lattimore, late of the County of Washington in the District of Columbia, was, at a Circuit Court held for the said County in December last duly convicted of Larceny, and thereupon it was adjudged by the said Court that the said Ignatius Lattimore should be publicly whipped, pay a fine of One hundred dollars and the Costs of his prosecution: And whereas he has undergone the...
107119From James Madison to John Henry Sherburne and Nicholas B. Van Zandt, 6 August 1825 (Madison Papers)
J M. presents his respects to Mr Sherburne & Mr. Van Zant, and thanks them for the copy of the “Life of P. Jones” politely sent him. A hasty glance sufficiently shews, that the Vol: contains much well deserving preservation & publication: and he wishes that the result may in every respect prove satisfactory to the Author. Draft ( DLC ). John Henry Sherburne, Life and Character of the Chevalier...
107120From James Madison to Andrew Ellicott, 8 May 1801 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 8 May 1801. Acknowledged in Ellicott to JM, 20 May 1801 . Offered for sale in Sotheby Parke Bernet, Fine Americana: Manuscript and Printed (25 Nov. 1975), item 408, which notes that the one-page letter, in JM’s hand, “informs Ellicott attempts will be made, in about twelve or fourteen days, to settle accounts due him for ‘… running the Southern Border .’”
107121From James Madison to the Managers of the Fourth of July 1827 Celebration, 26 June 1827 [letter not found] (Madison Papers)
¶ To the Managers of the Fourth of July Celebration. Letter not found. 26 June 1827. Offered for sale in Stan. V. Henkels Catalogue No. 1301 (13 May 1937), item 147, where it is described as an autograph letter signed from Montpelier in which JM promises to deliver the oration at the Fourth of July celebration at the Orange Hotel.
107122From James Madison to James Simons, 7 December 1803 (Madison Papers)
The French Chargé des Affaires has lately transmitted to me an extract of a letter to him from the Intermediary Commissary of his Nation at Charleston of which I enclose a translation. As it relates to an infraction of our neutral duties, and some of the persons concerned are supposed to be now within the United States, I request you to make strict enquiry into the allegations the extract...
107123James Madison to William Allen, 10 April 1833 (Madison Papers)
I inclose a draft on the Bank for $100. to which please to add as much from the balance in your hands as will discharge what is due for discounts on the Turnpike arrangement. What can my shares in the Turnpike be now sold for? FC (DLC) .
107124From James Madison to John Graham, 3 February 1807 (Madison Papers)
I avail myself of an express going from the War Department, to acknowledge the receipt of your several letters, as marked below, and the last of which informs me that you were at Nashville, on the 14th. Ult, on your return to New Orleans. I have the pleasure at the same time to express to you the satisfaction which you have given to the President, in the execution of the important & intricate...
107125From James Madison to Charles Willing Hare, 7 June 1802 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of May 10th. 1802. and communicated its contents to the President, as the case of Mr. Bingham has been laid before Congress and has been postponed only not discussed, it is thought not proper that the Executive, should under such circumstances, interpose any decision or instructions in relation to it. In answer to your enquiry therefore whether if a comprimise should...
107126From James Madison to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, 9 April 1806 (Madison Papers)
The Secretary of State, to whom on the 28 ult was referred by the House of Representatives the petition of Jared Shattuck, has the honor to make the following report: That it appears, that the petitioners ship the Mercator and her cargo were detained in the year 1800 by Lieut. Maley, commanding the Schooner Experiment, a vessel of war of the United States, and ordered to Cape François for...
107127From James Madison to Cato West, 12 November 1804 (Madison Papers)
The Marquis de Casa Yrujo has stated to me that he has seen some letters from very respectable persons at New Orleans, which confirm the report of a criminal attempt made by Nathaniel Kemper and other American citizens, who had effectually entered with an armed force into the Territory possessed by his Catholic Majesty, arrested several Alcaldes, published a proclamation, the object of which...
107128From James Madison to James Sullivan (Abstract), 11 March 1805 (Madison Papers)
11 March 1805, Department of State . “The Secretary of the Treasury has handed me your letter of the 22d. ult. respecting the Ship Hibernia, in as much as the substance of it appertains to this Department. Should the indemnity due the owners of that Vessel & Cargo not be received under the Convention respecting Louisiana, it will be incumbent on those persons to carry into effect the decree of...
107129From James Madison to John Scott, 18 December 1827 (Madison Papers)
Please to deliver to the order of William Allen the flour deposited with you, on my account by Ebenezer Eliason, and oblige Draft ( DLC ).
107130James Madison to Martin Van Buren, 9 October 1830 (Madison Papers)
I recd. your letter of July 30 in due time, but have taken advantage of the permitted delay in answering it. Altho’ I have again turned in my thoughts the subjects of your preceding letter, on which "any further remarks from me would be acceptable", I do not find that I can add any thing material to what is said in my letter of July 5, or in former ones. Particular cases of local improvements...