132611From James Madison to James K. Paulding, 10 March 1827 (Madison Papers)
I have received your favor of Feby. 28. and read the pamphlet under the same cover. It is a powerful & a piercing lesson on the subject which it exposes. I was not before aware of the abuses committed by the Law makers and Law breakers of your State. The picture you give of both, tho’ intended for N. York alone, is a likeness in some degree of what has occurred elsewhere; and I wish it could...
132612From James Madison to Bernard Peyton, 10 March 1827 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. yours of the 4th. inclosing a note for my filling up & signing. On the strength of your kind promise, & your confidence in the favorable disposition of the Bank I have availed myself of your hint, and enlarged the sum in it to $2200, which will meet (and a trifle over probably) two engagts., one an accepted draft for $1320 negociable at the Farmer’s B in Fredg: but due to the U.S....
132613To James Madison from Joseph C. Cabell, 12 March 1827 (Madison Papers)
The Assembly rose on the 9th inst. after a session of 96 days. I hasten at the first leisure moment to account to you for my apparent inattention of late. It has proceeded entirely from my absence from this place on a journey to Philadelphia with a deranged brother, which occupied my time from the 11th Feb. till the 2d. inst. His removal to the Hospital in that city seemed to be a measure of...
132614To James Madison from Henry Lee, 12 March 1827 (Madison Papers)
For your letter of the 16th. Feby I now beg leave to express my thanks, and shall take occasion shortly to add some observations, with a view of getting further information on parts of it. I have recd. such high recommendations of the bearer Mr. Clarke, an English Gentleman who is travelling for health & information; and have concieved such sincere esteem for him from an intimate acquaintance...
132615From James Madison to Edward Coles, 13 March 1827 (Madison Papers)
Since my last P. has written as he promised to his Mother, and stated the posture of the dft to pay Nicholls—and that in the hands of Astor in N.Y. I expect to obtain a Credit with the B. in Richmd that will meet directly these demands, so that he need not be detained a moment on their acct. from returning with you. Let us know when we may expect to see you, and previously , with certainty...
132616From James Madison to Alexander Scott, 13 March 1827 (Madison Papers)
I have reccd. your letter of the 8th. in answer to which I can only say that I retain all the sympathy for your situation, and good wishes for a relief from it, which I heretofore expressed. But perceiving no proper, and therefore no useful, ground for the interposition you request, I must refer to what was said on that subject in my letter of March 1825. The letters of Judge Washington, Mr...
132617From James Madison to Martin Van Buren, 13 March 1827 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your favor of the 3d. covering the Report to the Senate on the “Georgia Business.” The Report is drawn with the ability which might be expected from the Committee making it. The views which it presents on the subject, can not certainly be complained of by Georgia. The occurrence has been a most painful one, whether regarded in its tendency abroad or at home. And God grant that it...
132618From James Madison to Thomas H. Key, 15 March 1827 (Madison Papers)
I recd by the mail of yesterday your letter of the 10th. in which you tender the resignation of your professorship in the University of Virginia. In accepting it, I am justified by the terms in which the Visitors committed the subjt. to yr. own reflection. Resolution to say that a contrary result would have been particularly gratifying to the Visitors, and allow me to add, to no one of them...
132619To James Madison from Henry Wheaton, 17 March 1827 (Madison Papers)
I am extremely obliged by your kind letter, & the Pamphlet enclosed, which I have read with very great interest. You will see by the Newspapers that I have been named to Denmark. Should I conclude to accept , it will not in the least interfere with my plan of giving a more extended view of Mr Pinkney’s Life, in connection with the transactions of his Times. It may, indeed, delay the execution...
132620From James Madison to Joseph C. Cabell, 18 March 1827 (Madison Papers)
I recd. by the mail from Richmond your favor of the 12th. I was not un-apprized of the melancholy cause of your absence; but your silence would have been sufficiently explained by the better use of your time there, than in giving an answer to a letter so little requiring it as mine. I am truly sorry for the failure of the Legislature to do what was so much due to the character of the State,...