To James Madison from Jeremiah Anderson, 10 July 1812

From Jeremiah Anderson

Baltimore July 10th. 1812

May it please your Excellency

Since my last address1 I have been induced to make an observation to your Excellency that an most rigid precaution is necessary to be taken with the Blacks amongst us I beg you will recollect they have an Emperor amongst them—this I pray your Excellency will particularly notice.

A further explanation I can give if necessary.

I beg your Excellency will recollect that I look up to you as a father and the representative of his children. As such, I presume to call myself Your Excellencys very humble Servant.

Jeremiah Anderson

RC (DNA: RG 45, Misc. Letters Received).

1. See Anderson to JM, 9 July 1812, PJM-PS description begins Robert A. Rutland et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Presidential Series (5 vols. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 1984–). description ends , 4:582.

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Title: To James Madison from Jeremiah Anderson, 10 July 1812
Author: Anderson, Jeremiah
Recipient: Madison, James
Date: 10 July 1812

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Cite as: “To James Madison from Jeremiah Anderson, 10 July 1812,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-05-02-0001. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 5, 10 July 1812–7 February 1813, ed. J. C. A. Stagg, Martha J. King, Ellen J. Barber, Anne Mandeville Colony, Angela Kreider, and Jewel L. Spangler. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004, p. 1.]

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