1351From John Adams to Peter Force, 1825 to 1829 (Adams Papers)
What is the News ? Please send me some Copies of the Message if ready— Yrs &c— DLC : Peter Force Collection.
1352From John Adams to Peter Force, 1825 to 1829 (Adams Papers)
Mr Elliot has sent to ask permission to have a copy of the Message, so as to put it in his evenings paper. The President directs me to say that he has no objection to gratifying Mr Elliott— Yrs in great haste— DLC : Peter Force Collection.
1353From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Samuel L. Southard, 1826 to 1829 (Adams Papers)
From a conversation that I had with my brother last evening I find that the Letter I mentioned to you in confidence yesterday had been much misunderstood. I think it my duty to mention this fact that no injustice should be done to any party and that you may not think me rash and precipitate in my judgements— Present me to Mrs. Southard and return me the note franked which accompanies this /...
1354John Marshall to James Madison, December 1829 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Wattles is an artist from Baltimore who is desirous of taking your portrait. Although I am sensible of the numerous applications of the same character to which you are exposed, I can not refuse to introduce this additional applicant for the same favour. Mr. Wattles has placed me on canvass, and the likeness is thought remarkably good With great and respectful esteem I am your Obedt RC ( ViU ).
1355James Madison to Bernard Peyton, December 1829 (Madison Papers)
This will be followed by my Waggon with two Hhds of Tobo. We have hastened them to market which is understood to be scantily supplied with the best quality! This character I believe is justly due to them, and if the attention of the Manufacturers be attracted can not well fail of the highest price. The Tobo grew on the best fresh Mountain soil, got to be fully ripe before it was cut, was kept...
1356James Madison to Bernard Peyton, December 1829 (Madison Papers)
I am about sending down a few Hhds of Tobo. which will probably arrive a day or two after this. If I shd. not be disappd. in 2 hired Waggons, there will be 8 Hhds. I leave them as heretofore to be sold at your discretion. I have four or five more, which are I believe of inferior quality; and I am not decided whether the present price may not recommend the retaining them, for the chance of the...
1357James Madison: Notes for Richmond Constitutional Convention of 1829, December 1829 (Madison Papers)
The plan proposed by the gentleman from Northampton, freed as it has been from one of its Elements, [taxation], appears to be entitled to a favorable consideration: It is not liable to objections which are so decisive with those, who oppose the rival plan. The original and real ground of opposition between the two parties, is that one basis of representation for both Houses of the Legislature,...
1358James Madison: Notes on suffrage, December 1829 (Madison Papers)
*["Written during the session of the Virginia Convention of 1829-’30. -- Ed.", in Writings of James Madison (Congressional edition), vol. 4, page 28] III.* The right of suffrage being of vital importance, and approving an extension of it to housekeepers and heads of families, I will suggest a few considerations which govern my judgment on the subject. Were the Constitution on hand to be...
1359James Madison to Mr. Fellows, 31 December 1829 (Madison Papers)
J. Madison presents his thanks to Mr. Fellows for the Copy of the "Posthumous Works of Junius &c", lately forwarded to him. He regrets that he has not yet been able to give it the perusal it invites; and being aware that it may be some time before he can have that pleasure, he no longer delays his acknowledgments for the polite favour, with an offer of his friendly respects & good wishes RC...
1360Robley Dunglison to James Madison, 30 December 1829 (Madison Papers)
I have received the inclosed letter from a respectable firm in Boston, and feel disposed to employ them in purchasing the Books which we require at the University. In accordance with a regulation at the last meeting of the Board of Visitors we shall have to order Books to the amount of 500 at home & abroad: and the percentage charged by Messrs. Gray & Bowen is so moderate as I think to deserve...
1361Thomas S. Vaiden to James Madison, 28 December 1829 (Madison Papers)
I have deemed it necessary to address you. In the spring of 1828 a letter was written to you as Rector of the Un. of Va. wherein a request was made that great circumspection &c. might be exercised in the election of professor who was to supply Mr. Long’s place at the commencement of the subsequent session. This letter was Anonymous, For certain reasons of course. It was written by myself who...
1362Charles J. Ingersoll to James Madison, 26 December 1829 (Madison Papers)
No one hereabouts seems able to explain satisfactorily a matter of early practice under the present federal government—for which I hope you will allow me to apply to you. In Genl Hamilton’s letter of the 4 August 1793, a circular, to the Collectors, 1. Vol. of Waite’s State Papers page 45, 6, in Mr. Jefferson’s letter of 30 June 1793, same Vol. p. 112,13, Mr. Jefferson’s letter dated 5 Sep...
1363Willis Alston to James Madison, 25 December 1829 (Madison Papers)
It may not be otherwise than gratifying to you to hear from one who you have long known and whose political course seldom if ever differed from yours Your late vote in convention where you stood alone I should feel proud of, having viewed your proceedings throughout I think you have very few if any old friends here who does not feel perfectly satisfied The vote you give alone I most certainly...
1364William R. Griffith to James Madison, 25 December 1829 (Madison Papers)
I herewith hand you a list of lands in which I presume yourself & relations have an Interest—the tract of 500 acres & 200 acres, and an additional tract of 200 acres which I got from the office in Richmond, all lie on Cloves Creek and in reach of your agent Mr Lee—the settlers resideing on those lands pretend to hold them by virtue of tax sales, which are doubtless illegal—I have looked in the...
1365James Madison to Chapman Johnson, 23 December 1829 (Madison Papers)
I inclose a copy of the paper which the Secy. to the Board of Visitors has furnished according to an instruction for the purpose. And I ask the favor of you, in case Mr. Cabell shd. have left Richmond to forward the one for him, with the proper direction FC (DLC) .
1366Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 23 December 1829 (Madison Papers)
I arrived here on the 13th, and have been prevented from prosecuting my intended journey to the Northern Neck, by an inflammation in the face from which I have suffered some pain & a good deal of confinement. I am nearly recovered from it, & propose to proceed to Lancaster immediately after christmas. In this posture of my affairs, I am overtaken here by the news of the appointment of Mr....
1367John B. Martin to James Madison, 22 December 1829 (Madison Papers)
I have prepared for publication a Lithographic Portrait of Mr. Randolph from Mr. Harding’s Picture, which I take the liberty of sending for your inspection. Your approbation and patronage of the undertaking would be highly flattering and be received With great respect by Your obt. Servant RC (DLC) . Docketed by JM.
1368Andrew Stevenson to James Madison, 15 December 1829 (Madison Papers)
This letter will be handed you by my friend Colo. Dwight, of Massts, whom I beg leave to introduce to you & Mrs. Madison! Colo D. visits Richmond for a few days, to see how we folks of the old dominion manage things at home! I beg leave to recommend him to yr especial & kind consideration, & make him acquainted with our friends in the Convention! Most truly & respectfully Yr friend & He. St....
1369Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 15 December 1829 (Madison Papers)
Mr Pierpont of Boston, whose name as a Minister of the Unitarian church is no doubt familiar to you, having come as far south as this place, finds himself too near the attraction now presented by Richmond, to resist it; and as you constitute one of its most important elements, I presume so far upon the kindness I have myself experienced, as to give him this introduction. With the profoundest...
1370James Madison to David Meade Randolph, 12 December 1829 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 7th. A former one from me will have explained the restraint, imposed on me by a rule of consistancy from interfering in behalf of Candidates for official favour. I can only therefore repeat to you the good opinion I always entertained of your personal worth, & that it will afford me pleasure at any time to know that your situation in life has been improved by...
1371James Kirke Paulding to James Madison, 11 December 1829 (Madison Papers)
I have just finished reading over for the Second time, the words of wisdom, experience, and moderation, to which if circumstances would have permitted, I would have been a listener at Richmond. As it is, I cannot refrain from expressing my thanks and my respectfull admiration; my thanks for the lessons of wisdom & virtue I have often gathered both from Your precepts and example; & my...
1372Peter Hotz, Jr. to James Madison, 8 December 1829 (Madison Papers)
Aware of the deep solicitude—felt by your Son J. P. Todd (to whom I am under many obligations) that your Excellency should receive early intimation, of every thing that concerns our belov’d country, for which you have done so much I have taken the Liberty, by the very first mail to forward you on—the Presidents Message—God grant your Excellency may be spar’d many years to dictate for the...
1373Robert Miller to James Madison, 8 December 1829 (Madison Papers)
I take the Libberty of this Confidential Communication on a Subject Pregnant with Good or Evil to the Human family, and of vital importance to this Union. Lucretius calls it (truly) the origin of things; it being that Science by which the Ancients invented, and yet concealed the Machinery, this Airy Camœra Contains the patterns of all things, its value but one Talent, here numbers, Letters and...
1374David M. Randolph to James Madison, 7 December 1829 (Madison Papers)
Reduced in my worldly possessions, to that of integrity of character only, (as I humbly hope in your estimation) and favored as I am by the kind disposition of his Excellency General Jackson, to reinstate me in the confidence of our Country, I shall take it as an act of singular kindness, if you would promote my purpose, or, otherwise , as shall be your pleasure; in so far as to commit to...
1375H. R. Jennings to James Madison, 6 December 1829 (Madison Papers)
Will Sire be so good as to return some Answer to the Letter that I handed You some time since from my father Ro C Jennings as I shall go to Norfolk tomorrow, & it will be a great gratification to hime to receive some Answer from You by me as Sincerely wishing that I may receive it this Evening if it will not trouble You too Much to give the Letter to Mr. Duval, that I may get it tonight as the...
1376James Madison to Robert Jennings, 6 December 1829 (Madison Papers)
I am sorry that I have not been able to attend sooner to your letter of the 19th. Ult. and should be more so, if I could make any particular reply, the delay of which might be a disadvantage to you. As your transactions in the several capacities you served the public in during the late war, did not fall within my immediate knowledge, but that of the Departments with which your services were...
1377Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 3 December 1829 (Madison Papers)
It would have afforded me much gratification to have an opportunity of occasionally conversing with you in a confidential manner during my short stay in this place. But the structure of this boarding House & the circumstances under which we are placed, seem to render it impracticable to touch on private topics. I have therefore determined to write you a few hasty lines. I should have written...
1378Speech in Virginia Convention, 2 December 1829 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Madison now rose and addressed the Committee in a speech of which the following is the outline & substance. Altho the actual posture of the subject before the Committee might admite a full survey of it, it is not my purpose in rising to enter into the wide field of discussion, which has called forth a display of intellectual resources and varied powers of eloquence that any country might...
1379Robert Lee to James Madison, 1 December 1829 (Madison Papers)
I should be pleased to have your opinion, whether an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, limiting the office of President to a single term, would not be an elligable amendment. The consideration of this subject, is not inappropriate, connected with that which now calls you to the Capital of your native state. An anxious solicitude for the wellfare of our beloved country induces...
1380James Brown to James Madison, 30 November 1829 (Madison Papers)
In conformity with your request I drew from the House of the Barings of London One hundred pounds belonging to your University which I deposited with Messrs. Hollinguer & Co Bankers of the Government of the United States. The whole of this money was paid to Doct Miguel of Paris for articles purchased by him for the Institution except one hundred and twenty some odd francs which I placed, on my...