157921From James Madison to Anthony Charles Cazenove, 2 April 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
2 April 1812, Washington. Responding to Cazenove’s letter of 31 Mar. , is “inclined to take at the price $250. a pipe of the Madeira” and urges that it be forwarded “by a safe mode.” Asks to be informed “whether the wine is fit for immediate use, or can be made so by fining.” RC (owned by Mrs. Mary C. Fray, Culpeper, Va., 1998). 1 p.
157922To James Madison from George Read, 2 April 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
2 April 1812, Newcastle. Informs JM of the death of the district court judge, Gunning Bedford, on Monday last. Alludes to Bedford’s lengthy illness and its adverse effect on the performance of his duties. Advises that the post be filled speedily and states that he is ready to serve in any public capacity as he has turned over much of his business to his son, George Read, Jr. RC ( DNA : RG 59,...
157923Thomas Jefferson to John Benson, 2 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
The indiscretion of individuals in sending me packages of books & pamphlets by the mail, which ought not to be burthened with them, and which yet I cannot controul because not made known to me beforehand, has made it necessary for me to request of mr Granger to turn over such packages always to the Fredericksburg stage. the only difficulty in that case is the paiment of the portage from...
157924Thomas Jefferson to Gideon Granger, 2 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I rec d yesterday yours of Mar. 28. and I thank you for the information respecting the packages. they contain pamphlets stating the conduct of the Executive in the case of the Batture which I have had printed at my own expence for the information of Congress and the officers of the government. I directed the printer to send by the stage 144. copies to mr Magruder for the Representatives , and...
157925Thomas Jefferson to Samuel J. Harrison, 2 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Mar. 12. was not recieved till yesterday. it has given me the deepest concern. engagements to make paiments founded solely on your bond, which I deemed as good as a bank note, are now immediately falling due, and I have no resource, on so short warning, but that, to cover me from the mortification, and the consequences of failure. I cannot yet but persuade myself that, on...
157926Thomas Jefferson to Hugh Nelson, 2 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Mar. 22. has been duly recieved. by this time a printed copy of my MS. respecting the Batture has I hope been laid on your desk, by which you will percieve that the MS. itself has been recieved long enough to have been sent to N. York , printed, and returned to Washington . On the subject of the omission of the officers of the Virginia state line in the provisions & reservations...
157927From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 3 April 1812 (Madison Papers)
Having examined and considered the Bill entitled “An Act providing for the trial of Causes pending in the respective District Courts of the United States in case of the absence or disability of the Judges thereof,” which Bill was presented to me on the twenty fifth of March past, I now return the same to the House of Representatives, in which it originated, with the following objections:...
157928From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 3 April 1812 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your favor of the 26th. and have made to the members of the Cabinet the communication you suggest with respect to your printed memoir on the Batture. I learn from the Department of State that some books were recd. for you, and duly forwarded. What they were was not ascertained or remembered. If they do not on their arrival correspond with your expectation, let me know, & further...
157929To James Madison from Anthony Charles Cazenove, 3 April 1812 (Madison Papers)
The pipe of Wine ordered by your favour of 2d. instt. would have been sent up by this days packet had Mr. Booth who generally goes in her & is a trusty man been in her this day. Should you send some one to take charge of it, it might go at any time, which might be the best way, as I understand Mr. Booth has not been down for some days; otherwise it shall be sent the first time he is down. I...
157930To James Madison from William Eustis, 3 April 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
3 April 1812, War Department. Proposes William Hull of the Michigan Territory to be a brigadier general in the U.S. Army. RC ( InU : War of 1812 Collection); letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 107, LSP ). RC 1 p. Docketed by JM. Signature clipped from RC . JM nominated Hull to the Senate in a 3 Apr. 1812 message. The Senate referred the nomination to a select committee and confirmed Hull’s appointment...
157931James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 3 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I have rec d your favor of the 26 th and have made to the members of the Cabinet the communication you suggest with respect to your printed memoir on the Batture . I learn from the Department of State that some books were rec d for you, and duly forwarded. What they were was not ascertained or remembered. If they do not on their arrival correspond with your expectation, let me know, & further...
157932Samuel A. Otis to Thomas Jefferson, 3 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreeably to your request I have this day received & distributed the proceeding on the intrusion of Edward Lewingston & c and have the honor to be RC ( DLC ); at foot of text: “Thomas Jefferson Esq r ”; endorsed by TJ as received 8 Apr. 1812 and so recorded in SJL . edward lewingston : Edward Livingston .
157933To James Madison from Henry Dearborn, 4 April 1812 (Madison Papers)
Having written a letter to the Secretary of War, in which I have expressed a readiness to enter on the duties of my military appointment, I take the liberty, from the conversations that have passed on the subject, of reminding you, that I shall take it for granted, that the office of collector at Boston, will be kept open until war be actually commenced, or abandoned for the present and that...
157934To James Madison from Thomas Newton, 4 April 1812 (Madison Papers)
I do myself the honor of enclosing an extract—which, speaks for itself. It shews that the opinion which I expressed to you a few days ago on the subject of erecting fortifications on Craney Island, is supported by a great Military Character. Genl. Lee’s expressions are strong, and, from the knowledge I have of the spot alluded to, no less correct. You will pardon me for attracting your...
157935William Harris Crawford to James Monroe, 5 April 1812 (Madison Papers)
I have just recd. a letter from Genl Floyd (which I enclose for your perusal) giving an account of the transactions which have lately taken place at Amelia Island under the Auspices of Genl Mathews. From this account, the affair is worse than I had expected. The veracity and intelligence, & I may add, the patriotism of the writer, exclude the idea of misrepresentation, or mistake in the...
157936To James Madison from Francis Corbin, 6 April 1812 (Madison Papers)
Although in my retired situation it is impossible to form any correct opinion of your policy in regard to the two great Belligerents, yet, I think, I can discover enough to believe that, notwithstanding the loud and daily assertions of your political opponents to the contrary, you are still anxious to preserve the Peace of our Country, not with France only, but with G. Britain also. If we have...
157937To James Madison from Henry Dearborn, 6 April 1812 (Madison Papers)
As the principal object of the command, which may be confided to my direction, will probably be the conquest of Lower Canada, it may not be improper for me to Suggest the outlines of what occurs to my mind, in relation to principal points of attack, the probable means of defense, and the necessary force for rendering Success as certain, as the usual exigencies of War will admit; taking into...
157938To James Madison from Elias Earle, 6 April 1812 (Madison Papers)
Agreable to Your request this morning I called on Genl. Dearborn to make a further Statement of my business. He gave me for answer that he thought it unnessasary to say more as the Case was before You & at Your discression—that the prices of the Iron & Iron tools could readily be got from the accountants office when Such articles had been settled for. That with respect to the Quantity of Land...
157939From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 6 April 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
6 April 1812. Transmits a report of the superintendent of the city in compliance with the House resolution of 24 Mar. and also “a letter from B. H. Latrobe connected with that subject.” RC ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages, 12A-D1). 1 p. In the hand of Edward Coles, signed by JM. For enclosures, see Thomas Munroe to JM, 30 Mar. 1812 , and n. 1, and Benjamin Henry Latrobe to JM, 28 Mar. 1812 .
157940To James Madison from William Eustis, 6 April 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
6 April 1812, War Department. Lists proposed “alterations and appointments in the Army of the United States” for JM’s approval. RC ( DNA : RG 46, Executive Proceedings, 12B-A1); letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 107, LSP ). RC 7 pp. Forwarded by JM to the Senate in a message of 8 Apr. 1812 ( Senate Exec. Proceedings Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America (3...
157941To James Madison from Joseph Haslet, [ca. 6 April 1812] (Madison Papers)
Intelligence has no doubt reached You Sir, of the demise of Gunning Bedford Judge of the United States Court for the District of Delaware, If not my official duty, it comports with my ardent desire for the welfare of the State of Delaware and of the United States, to offer most Respectfully to Your consideration John Fisher Esqr. present Secretary of State, as a Gentleman who in every respect...
157942From John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 7 April 1812 (Adams Papers)
though I owe you many Apologies for neglecting to write for so long a time, it would give you no pleasure to read them. The Misfortunes afflictions and griefs in our Family in 1811 were sufficiently pungent, and to repeat them would be to renew them. I feel too much for you, your Consort and your Sister, as well as for Mr Smith to wish to renew the Sorrows which you must have felt at the first...
157943From John Adams to William Cranch, 7 April 1812 (Adams Papers)
Your letter of the 15th of March I communicated to your brother and Sister Greenleaf & requested them to search among your Fathers papers they have done so & I presume have sent you Copies of what they have found I have never given the smallest attention to the Title & I had rather at this day undertake to go through Sir Isaac Newtons Principia than investigate the Title to any tract of land....
157944To John Adams from Richard Cranch Norton, 7 April 1812 (Adams Papers)
I have received your very obliging favor of the 20th. ult. The excellent advice it contains in regard to my professional studies will not soon be forgotten. Of the peculiar advantages which I possess for obtaining legal knowledge I am fully sensible, nor do I suffer them to pass unimproved. I have made a point of attending the Supreme Court as often as possible during its sessions. More...
157945Theodorus Bailey to Thomas Jefferson, 7 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
By the mail of this morning I had the honor of receiving your note under date of the 29. of March , covering a letter addressed to a M r Oliver Barrett , inventor of a spinning machine: when your former letter for the same person came to this office, one of my clerks observed, that he had lately distributed a letter addressed to M r Barrett at Schaghticoke
157946To James Madison from Richard Cutts, 8 April 1812 (Madison Papers)
The Papers this morng from Boston have thrown a gloom over our countenances, as they respect the elections & the proceedings in washington. With regard to the elections not withstanding the increase of votes on the Federal side, we are pretty confident of the election of Mr. Gerry, the district of Maine will do much better than last year, particularly this County, we shall give an increase on...
157947To James Madison from Richard Rush, 8 April 1812 (Madison Papers)
In an accidental conversation I had with Mr Gallatin in the course of the last week upon the subject of men in Pennsylvania fitted for the higher posts of the army, the name of General Thomas Craig, of Northampton county, was mentioned. Without any personal acquaintance, I could only speak of him through his long reputation as a soldier and patriot. His advanced age was adverted to, as well as...
157948To James Madison from Jeremiah Morrow, 8 April 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
8 April [1812]. “Received the enclosed with a request that they be laid before the president.” RC and enclosures ( DNA : RG 107, LRRS , M-171:6). RC 1 p.; docketed as received in the War Department on 9 Apr. 1812. Addressee not indicated. For the enclosures, see n. 1. Morrow forwarded three petitions, two of which were addressed to JM. One was from four Wyandot Indians at Lower Sandusky,...
157949To James Madison from William Eustis, 9 April 1812 (Madison Papers)
I beg leave to represent, that the additional duties which have devolved on this Department by the late acts of congress, render it indispensably necessary, that the business of the Indian department, together with that of issuing military land warrants, should be transfered from this to some other Department or Officer of Government. I would also invite your attention to an alteration or...
157950To James Madison from Edward Clark, ca. 9 April 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
Ca. 9 April 1812. States that there are ports in the U.S. “without adequate means of defence against attack by ships” and that “in some of these ports, land forts are not sufficient safe guards, because the channels are too far distant from the shores to admit the hope of arresting the enemy’s fleet when sailing under the auspices of fair winds and favorable tides.” Military men and statesmen...