1101James Madison to Henry R. Schoolcraft, 23 October 1830 (Madison Papers)
J. Madison with his respects to Mr. Schoolcraft, thanks him for the copy of his valuable discourse before "the Historical Socty of Michigan". To the seasonable exhortation which it gives to others, it adds an example which may be advantageously followed. RC ( DLC : Papers of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, box 4); draft (DLC) .
1102James Madison to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 20 October 1830 (Madison Papers)
This [will] be handed to you by [James] To[dd from] Philada. who intends to enter himself a Student of the University. Being young & a perfect stranger, he will need all the kindness, in getting him properly settled which I well know yr. readiness to bestow in such cases. It is particularly desirable that he shd have in his dormitory an advantageous associate. He proposes to attend the Schools...
1103Walter T. Brooke to James Madison, 20 October 1830 (Madison Papers)
You will please excuse the liberty taken in addressing you. I have done it through the suggestion of Doct. Rose of Alabama, who I had the pleasure of meeting yesterday; The object of this is to ascertain if possible the time that Walter Brooke was commissioned as a Commodore in the Virginia state Navy during the Revolutionary War, The statute of the legislature of Virginia commissioned all...
1104I. Irvine Hitchcock & Co. to James Madison, 20 October 1830 (Madison Papers)
Permit us to call your attention to the little bill below, and to ask its discharge as soon as Convenient. We should be happy Sir to receive your order to send you the Amer. Farmer either in sheet, or bound according to your directions. We are, Sir, Your Obdt Servts [bill] For subscription to American Farmer , One year, from March 1828 to March 1829 ......... $4.00 Baltimore, Oct. 20. 1830. RC...
1105James Madison to Robert M. Patterson, 18 October 1830 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 15th. It would certainly be very agreeable for the reasons you suggest to grant the indulgences wished by Mr Garland. But if the objection as a precedent be got over, there is a more serious difficulty in the defect of a dispensing power. The Rector as such has no power whatever in the recess of the Board of Visitors. All the delegated Power, is in the Executive...
1106Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 17 October 1830 (Madison Papers)
In the hurry of folding last Sunday, the enclosed was omitted; and as it may be necessary to assure you, in case of one of those collecting visits, which, from the loose manner in which newspaper accounts are generally & in a great measure unavoidably kept, I know by experience one is liable to a repetition of,— I now enclose it. I have been running over the essay on distress, and found in it...
1107Robert M. Patterson to James Madison, 15 October 1830 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Hugh A. Garland, who was for some years Professor of Ancient Languages at Hampden-Sydney College, has lately resigned his chair, and come on here to enrol himself as a student of this University. His peculiar situation induces him, however, to ask an exemption from the law regarding Uniform, and from the examinations. These are privileges which cannot be granted without the approbation of...
1108Thomas S. Grimké to James Madison, 14 October 1830 (Madison Papers)
I hope that the object of this letter will be a sufficient Apology for the trouble I am about to give you. My Eldest Son, who was at Yale College, became unhappily involved in the disturbance at Yale College, the latter end of July, which eventuated in the separation of forty three of the Sophomore class from that Institution, only three however by actual dismissions, the rest having withdrawn...
1109James Madison to Charles J. Ingersoll and Others, 13 October 1830 (Madison Papers)
J. Madison has recd. the polite invitation of the "Penn Society" to their anniversary dinner on the 25th. inst: Being under the necessity of denying himself, the pleasure of accepting it, he complies with the requested alternative by offering as a toast--"The immortal memory of Penn who subdued the ferocity of Savages by his virtues & enlightened the Civilized world by his Institutions" FC (DLC) .
1110James Madison to William Wirt, 12 October 1830 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. yours of the 5th. The explanation of your motives in not declining the cause of the Cherokees was not needed. Of their purity it was impossible for me to entertain a doubt. From the aspect of the publick proceedings towards the Indians within the bounds of the States, there is much danger that the character of our Country will suffer, and I do not know that any formal discussion...
1111Thomas S. Grimké to James Madison, 11 October 1830 (Madison Papers)
Thos. S. Grimké presents his best respects to Mr Madison, and hopes that he has received ere this the two Copies of the Oration, before the Phi. Beta Kappa Society at Yale, one for himself, and the other for the Library of the University. The enclosed is sent for the Library of the University under the impression, that no copy has been hitherto sent, or that if sent, it had miscarried: such...
1112James Madison to Thomas S. Grimké, 10 October 1830 (Madison Papers)
The copy of your Oration delivered at N. H. inclosed to me for the University of Virga. has been recd. & will be duly attended to. A later mail has brought me a Copy for which I owe my personal acknowledgments. The perusal of the Oration has left a just impression of the merit imparted to it by the copiousness of its learning & the richness of its Eloquence. Be pleased to accept Sir the...
1113Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 10 October 1830 (Madison Papers)
Mr Davis asked me some time since to procure & send him by the earliest conveyance the accompanying volume, my copy of which I had recommended to his perusal some years ago. ’Tis Bentham’s annihilation , I must call it, of Blackstone, not only as a politician, but as a lawyer ; which, it now appears from Neale’s late work, enlisted or rather impressed (for it must have been against their will)...
1114James Madison to Henry Clay, 9 October 1830 (Madison Papers)
I have just been favored with yours of the 22d. Ult: enclosing a copy of your Address delivered at Cincinnati. Without concurring in every thing that is said, I feel what is due to the ability and eloquence which distinguish the whole. The rescue of the Resolutions of Kentucky in -98 & 99. from the misconstruction of them, was very a propos; that authority being particularly relied on, as an...
1115James 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...
1116Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 8 October 1830 (Madison Papers)
Your favour of Sep 12 was duly received by the mail. That part of it which relates to Doctr. Blatterman’s difficulties will be best attended to, when I visit the University about the middle of next week, which will result from the circumstance of my being summoned as a witness at that time in the suit of Galt v. Carter in the Superior Court of Albemarle. I will call upon the Doctr: & Col....
1117James 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...
1118A. Crozet to James Madison, 7 October 1830 (Madison Papers)
I have seen it mentioned in the prospectus of the University of Virginia that hereafter, a tutor will be attached to the department of Modern Languages; I received since a letter from my brother stating that no appointment had yet been made by the Faculty. I therefore, take the liberty of offering myself as a candidate for the situation. Having been educated in one of the first schools in...
1119James Madison to Jared Sparks, 5 October 1830 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of July 16. was duly recd. The acknowledgment of it has awaited your return from your tour to Quebec, which I presume has by this time taken place. Inclosed is the exact copy you wish of the draft of an address prepared for President Washington at his request, in the year 1792, when he meditated a retirement at the expiration of his first term. You will observe that (with a few...
1120William Wirt to James Madison, 5 October 1830 (Madison Papers)
I thank for your letter of the 2nd. inst. and concur with you entirely as to the best mode of solving the political problem with regard to the Indians within the bounds of the States– and as I am extremely unwilling that you should think me either so Quixotically weak or so diabolically wicked as to have excited this contest (of which some of the news-papers have accused me) I wish to inform...
1121Thomas Bee to James Madison, 4 October 1830 (Madison Papers)
I took the liberty, some months ago, of writing to you upon the subject of the Virginia University, and I was much flattered by your early answer to that letter. You will gratify me, extremely by extending your civility to the few lines with which I now trouble you, provided your recollection should enable you to confirm the anecdote submitted to you. The late debate upon Foote’s Resolutions,...
1122E. Callender to James Madison, 3 October 1830 (Madison Papers)
I have Left Boston a few Days Since with a view of opening an academy, here but finding Little encouragment Shall proceed in a Day or too— Back to Boston I have been much disapointed in not obtaneing my wishes perhaps it is all for the best, your Family has been much abused my Vindication, has given much displeasure, but I heed it not— My persecution has been of a Fowl Black deep nature, which...
1123James Madison to William Wirt, 2 October 1830 (Madison Papers)
I have received the copy of your "address" to the two societies of Rutgers College, and that of your "opinion" on the case of the Cherokees, for both of which I return my thanks. The address chose, certainly, a good subject, and made good use of it. And the views you have presented of the question between Georgia and the Cherokees, are a sufficient pledge if there were no others, to those sons...
1124Charles J. Ingersoll and Others to James Madison, 1 October 1830 (Madison Papers)
The Penn Society, request the honor of Mr. Madison’s company at their Anniversary Dinner, to take place the 25 instant, at 5 o’clock in the afternoon at the Mansionhouse Hotel, Philadelphia. The favor of an answer is requested and a communication of your toast if you do not attend. RC (printed invitation) (DLC) . Docketed by JM.
1125[Edward Everett] to James Madison, 28 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to send You A copy of my Article in the No. of the N. A. Review Which will appear on the 1st of Octr. done up in a pamphlet form. In reading it You will please to Consider it as written for A Miscellaneous periodical journal. Had I been Writing an essay for separate publication More Unity of plan w’d have been Studied. But Even for the review it is too long &ca –Cursive. This...
1126Joseph Blunt to James Madison, 27 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
I received your favor of the 19th inst enclosing the payment for the Annual Register in due course of mail. It was not my intention in sending you the Volumes to request your subscription to the work; but as you seemed unwilling to retain them on any other footing, permit me to express to you my thanks for that indirect approbation of the work. With the sincerest wishes for your health &...
1127James Madison to Henry Colman, 26 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of July 24. was duly recd. accompanied by the little Treatise of Dr. Holyoke, and your biographical Sermon. They are separately entitled to my thanks and jointly the more so. Such a treatise at the age of the Author is remarkable and altho’ it may contain little new, on a subject little admitting it: it contains truths well deserving repetition, and made particularly impressive by...
1128James Madison to Joseph Blunt, 25 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
Apprehending that I may have inadvertently addressed a letter on the 19th. which was intended for you, to Joseph Hunt , it is proper that I should authorize you to receive the letter, in case the mistake shd. have been committed. The letter inclosed, $15. in payment for the three Edited Vols of the annual Register. I may repeat now without apology a wish for a line from you on the occasion...
1129James Madison to Samuel L. Southard, 25 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
Your Address before the Newar[k] Mechanical Association was recd. in due time. But the infirm state of my health wth. a series of pressing engagements prevented an earlier acknowledgt of it. I now offer my thanks for the pleasure afforded me by this new application of your ability & disposition to be useful to your fellow Citizens, in these useful presents; Be pleased to accept at the same...
1130James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 23 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
Yours of the 21st. was recd. yesterday. On the question of recalling the communication made for the Natl. Intelligencer I submit the following statement. In a letter, lately noticed from Mr. Jefferson dated Novr. 17. 1799, he " encloses me a copy of the draught of the Kentucky Resolves ", (a press copy of his own manuscript). Not a word of explanation is mentioned. It was probably sent, &...
1131William Allen to James Madison, 23 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
By Aleck who left here yesterday I have sent One half Ton Plaister 2te. best Tea 3 Cakes White Wase & 1 3/8 yds. Superfine Black Cloth & Trimmings And by John who left here this morning I have sent One half ton Plaister 1 Bottle Maccouba Snuff & 1 po. domestic at 10 cents ⅌ yard All of which will I am in hopes reach you in safety. The price of Flour being rather down I have thought it best to...
1132James Madison to Thomas W. Griffith, 22 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
I have recd Sir, your letter of the 16th with the printed observations enclosed. I feel the respect due to the friendly sentiments it expresses; but I must decline the task you mark out for me. If I had not already had occasion to make public, my general views of the power of Congs. on the subject of encouraging Manufactures, and the principles, which ought to regulate the exercise of it, I...
1133James Madison to Bernard Peyton, 21 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
The inclosed Check for* [$]2000. will enable you by drawg the amt. from [ ] to close my acct. with the B. there. If so and it be allowed for the premature payment I acquiesce in the sacrifice. I cannot take my leave of this business, witht. returng you many & very sincere thanks, for your kind aids in managing it: with wch. be pleased to accept my best respects & wishes *of W. M. in favr. of...
1134James Madison to Margaret Bayard Smith, 21 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
I have received, my dear Madam, your very friendly, and I must add, very flattering letter; in which you wish, from my own hand, some reminiscence marking the early relations between Mr. Jefferson and myself, and involving some anecdote concerning him that may have a place in a manuscript volume you are preparing as a legacy for your son. I was a stranger to Mr. Jefferson till the year 1776,...
1135Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 21 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Gales having told me on Saturday that the communication in question would appear in the ensuing paper, I was apprehensive, on the receipt of your last favor, that it would be too late to avail myself of the suggestion contained in it. The paper yesterday morning, however, proved not to contain it; and I went down to the printing office as soon as I could. Mr G. (nor S.) was not in; & after...
1136James Madison to Joseph Blunt, 19 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of & with it a copy of the 3d. Vol of the Anual Register. As I was not a subscriber, it was my intention, as I intimated, to return the 2. precedings Vols. with wch I had been favored, as they might be useful to you in making up sets. Inattention in part, wth. a disappointed hope of findg. a private conveyance, must explain if it shd. not apologize for, the omission. I...
1137James Madison to Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 19 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
I inclose a letter from Col. Colonna, with a copy of my answer. I am afraid he will be startled at the Title of Tutor if he attatches to it as I suspect he will, an inferiority to that he has underscored . Wishing you well thro the conflicting sensibilities & anticipation you may have to deal with I renew to you my cordial salutations. Draft and draft of enclosure (DLC) .
1138James Madison to Colonna d’Ornano, 19 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
Previous to the receipt of your letter of the 15. instant I had communicated to my colleagues of the Exve Committee Mr Randolph & Genl. Cocke the view of the division of duties between the Professor & the Tutor of modern languages in our University. From a comparison of these views with their own, and the required concert with the Professor, will result the explanation which is the object of...
1139James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 17 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
Yours of Sunday last has been duly recd. I thank you for your obliging attention to the packet for Nicholls. He has acknowledged the receipt of its contents, and you need not put pen to paper further on the subject. You observe that you had in a communication to the Nat:. Intelligencer pointed out the error as to Mr. Jefferson’s connection with the Kentucky Resolns. of –99. If not too late to...
1140James Madison to Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 16 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
Yours of the 13th. was recd yesterday afternoon. You rightly inferred my concurrence in the temporary apt. of a Tutor and I doubt not you have done right in the choice made. Mr. Hervé, whose pre[f?]erence is well attested could not otherwise, it seems be secured than by postponing a permanent appt. for the present [?]. Docr. Blatterman, preferring an oral to a written communication with me,...
1141Thomas Jefferson Randolph to James Madison, 13 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
Mr Johnsons letter to you of Aug 25th (enclosing a copy of Mr Leighs to him) was recieved when Genl Cocke was with me. we had the evening before determined to recommend to you the temporary appointment of Col Colonna D’Ormano as assistant to the professor of modern languages. The reciept of Mr Johnsons letter without comment from you induced us to believe the course recommended of a temporary...
1142James Madison to Joseph C. Cabell, 12 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
Your favour of Aug. 3 was duly recd. with the two letters you inclosed. I received at the same time a letter from Mr. Th. J. Randolph inclosing one to him from Mr Crozet recommending his brother for the Tutorship. Mr. Johnson has been in correspondence with Richmond on the Candidates in that place; and has come to a conclusion so strong in favor of Hervé, that he is willing, if no better...
1143Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 12 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
I wrote a line the day after the receipt of your letter, to inform you of its safe arrival. It did not rain that afternoon, as I then anticipated, & I went to Georgetown. Mr Nicholls, however, was out; nor could the gentleman in his store tell me where he could be found. The next day it rained heavily; & the day after, I was laid up. The indisposition although severe was very transient, & I...
1144James Madison to Edward Everett, 10 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
Since my letter in which I expressed a belief that there was no ground for supposing that the Kentucky Resolutions of -99 in which the term "nullification appears, were drawn by Mr. Jefferson, I infer from a manuscript paper of his, just noticed, containing the term, that altho’ he had, probably no agency in the draft, nor even any knowledge of it at the time, yet that the term was borrowed...
1145James Madison: Memorandum on Nullification, 10 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
Another consequence suggests itself as following the nullifying rule–I will illustrate it practically– Suppose S. Carolina to be supported by the requisite number of States in her appeal against the tariff, it is null– but Pennsylvania, with equal right as one of the seventeen, vitally interested in the continuance of the law, and supported by a greater number of sister States, appeals pari...
1146G. C___k to James Madison, 10 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
The respect which my late letter received from you in Your free and polite reply, deserves my cordial acknowledgments. Though the purpose of that letter did not meet with the success I had hoped for, yet the respectful manner in which my solicitations were declined, make an impression on me with regard to yourself, which I shall ever cherish. Tho. the character of my letter may have been...
1147Edward Everett to James Madison, 7 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
I beg leave to acknowledge, with Sincere thankfulness, the receipt of your favors of the 20th and 31st, with the pamphlets accompanying the former, & the Exposition of the views entertained by you, on the subject of Nullification, enclosed in the latter. The pamphlet containing the address of the general assembly to the People of Virginia I had not before seen. I am sincerely concerned to...
1148James Madison to Thomas W. Gilmer, 6 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
I received by the last mail yours of Augt. 31. I concur with you entirely in the expediency of promoting, as much as possible, a sympathy between the interests of the incipient and the finishing establishments provided for public education; and in the particular expedient you suggest, of providing for a compleat education at the public expence, of youths of distinguished capacities whose...
1149Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 6 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
Your packet has come safe to hand, & the enclosure for Mr Nicholls shall be delivered by me this afternoon, unless it rains, as now seems probable. Meanwhile, I enclose you a paper containing many details concerning the wonderful event which the inconceivable folly of half a dozen men has brought about. Although it were to be wished that they would have suffered the French People to continue...
1150James Madison to W. S. Nicholls, 2 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
I inclose $310 in order to extinguish the debt on my note in yr. hands. according to my data, a few dollars will be left, after satisfying the note. In that case please hand them to Mr. N P. Trist in the Dept. of State. Should I mistake the balance due on the note, and the remittance be deficient, it shall be made up on an intimation to that effect. Please to inclose my note by the mail as a...