1601James Madison to Joseph C. Cabell, 13 February 1829 (Madison Papers)
Since mine of Jany. 29, I have recd. one of the papers of Hampden. But it is No. 2. the Enquirer containing the first No. and a No. from the fellow pen having not come into the neighborhood. Be so good, when at leisure as to procure and enclose it to me. I observe that some stress is laid on the reference to our Coloneal relations to G.B. as having originated with me. The fact is, that I found...
1602James Madison to Robley Dunglison, 13 February 1829 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. yours of the 9th. inst. and even not under the distressing circumstances it presents at the Universy see any course better adapted to them than that which the faculty have decided on. Might it not be well for the Proctor to have several hundred Bushels of good Lime so distributed as to produce its corrective effect where there may be the most need of it. With great & friendly...
1603James Madison to James Barbour, 7 February 1829 (Madison Papers)
With your favr. of Novr. 13. acknd. yesterday, I recd that of the same date, in which you communicated the steps you had taken & had in view, in relation to a Successor to Professor Long. The Visitors I am sure will all be thankful for your attentions to that important object. Altho’ it appears that Dr. Harrison discharges well his temporary trusts yet besides the uncertainty of his permanent...
1604James Madison to John Percival, 7 February 1829 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of Jany. 31. and feel a proper respect for the solicitude which prompted it. But at the great age of my memory, and in reference to a remote period, crowded with a multiplicity of duties pressing on the attention, I think it most proper, on these considerations, as well as others involved in your enquiries, to refer for the information which is the object of them, to...
1605James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 7 February 1829 (Madison Papers)
Do me the favor to hand the inclosed letters to Mr. Brent, with a request that he will be so good as to let the letters go from the Department with the first dispatches for England We have had no information from Edgehill since Mrs. Randolph & Mrs. Trist left us. We hope the accounts you have are all of them favorable. I take for granted you have not omitted a provision for the copies of Mr....
1606James Madison to James Barbour, 6 February 1829 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your favour of Novr 13. covering the Seals, for your attention to which I return you many thanks. They fully answer my wishes. I am glad to find that the Duke of Wellington, understood to be the mainspring of the Cabinet policy, and more than his predecessor a manager of the public will, holds a language so friendly towards this Country. The longer a practice corresponding with it...
1607James Madison to James Maury, 6 February 1829 (Madison Papers)
On the rect. of your letter inclosing a letter to Mr. Walker, I put the latter into the hands of one of my neighbors who married his daughter. It appears that the old Gentleman died a few days after your letter reached him; but that he recollected the debt, referred to, and expressed a confidence that he had never recd. a payment of it. His long inattention to the subject, is explained by a...
1608James Madison to Daniel Raymond, 4 February 1829 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 26th. Ult. & return my acknowledgments for the pamphlet I owe to your politeness. It would seem difficult for any to deny, that some of your observations on the subject discussed disprove the universality of the policy which exempts industry & commerce from legislative interpositions. Your rule for expounding the Constitution of the U. S. inverts as you may be...
1609James Madison to Frederick List, 3 February 1829 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. Sir your letter of Jany. 21. with the printed accompaniments; of which none can say less, than they contain able and interesting views of the doctrine they espouse. The more thorough the examination of t[he] question which relates to the encouragement of domestic manufactures, the more the true policy (until all nations make themselves commercially one nation[)] will be found to...
1610Samuel S. Lewis to James Madison, 3 February 1829 (Madison Papers)
We have the honor to inform you that by an unanimous vote of the "Washington College Parthenon Society", You have been elected an honourary member of said Society. The object of the Parthenon is the promotion of useful knowledge; and knowing that You have ever zealously promoted whatever tends to that object, we have presumed to trespass upon your attention. Should it meet with your...
1611William C. Rives to James Madison, 3 February 1829 (Madison Papers)
The heavy pressure of some public duties here recently, & the occupation of my mind, at the same time, with some painful circumstances of a private nature, have prevented me from heretofore making my acknowledgments to you for the two interesting letters, with which you favoured me in the course of the last month. I had, previously to the receipt of your last communication, investigated the...
1612James Madison to Joseph C. Cabell, 2 February 1829 (Madison Papers)
I recd. last evening yours of the 29th. Ult: It confirms I observe my fears that nothing could now be done for the University, tho the more in need of aid in consequence of the fever which is banishing a number of the Students & may have the effect of impairing its income. The spirit in which my letters to you are criticized is as singular as it is illiberal. The least degree of candor wd....
1613Robley Dunglison to James Madison, 1 February 1829 (Madison Papers)
It* will keep the University of Virginia perpetually before the public, and it will diminish the expenses of the institution by printing in its pages matter that is now issued in an independent form. *Refers to The Virginia Literary Museum and Journal of Belles-Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc. Extract printed in Philip A. Bruce, History of the University of Virginia (N. Y., 1920), vol. 2, page 346.
1614James Madison to Joseph Coolidge, Jr., 31 January 1829 (Madison Papers)
I have duly received the copy of the Annual Report on the Harvard University: and I make my acknoledgements for the politeness to which I am indebted, with the more pleasure, as it offers an occasion for repeating to Mrs. Coolidge & yourself the regards & good wishes in which Mrs. Madison cordially joines me. FC (DLC) .
1615Arthur S. Brockenbrough to James Madison, 31 January 1829 (Madison Papers)
After the resignation of Major Spottswood I appointed Mr John N Rose Hotel Keeper. But as Mr Rose was not entirely prepared to take charge of the Hotel immediately, I have made an arrangement with him, that Major Spottswood should continue as Hotel Keeper untill the end of this Session. He is then to be appointed and to take charge of one of the Hotels with the approbation of the Board of...
1616John Percival to James Madison, 31 January 1829 (Madison Papers)
I very respectfully beg leave to submit to you an inquiry on a subject of great interest to myself, as an officer of the United States Navy. Did you, Sir, when President of the United States, ever change the order in which the names of individuals for promotion in the Navy had been presented to, and confirmed by, the Senate? Did you ever change the order of precedent or rank after its...
1617James Madison to Walter Jones, 30 January 1829 (Madison Papers)
I have duly recd. your favor of the 26th. and by the same mail, the prepared Answer to Mr. Edmondson’s Bills forwarded thro’ Mr Cutts. I am much obliged Sir by the considerate & acceptable view which the answer takes of the circumstances which connected me with the subject in controversy. I should have been content, if desired by Mr. Cutts with one less minute, leaving further explanations, if...
1618James Madison to Samuel Martin, 30 January 1829 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. Sir your letter of jany. 7. in which you suggest the idea of opening the Mail free of cost, for all letters, newspapers, & pamphlets of limited size; Whatever consideration may be due to plans facilitating private intercourse, to public information; The abuses not easily guarded agt. to which the universality of such a privilege wd. be liable to the cheapness & extensiveness of...
1619Joseph C. Cabell to James Madison, 29 January 1829 (Madison Papers)
I have deferred answering your favor of the 5th inst. much longer than I intended because my time of late has been much engrossed by the concluding duties of my public service. I return you heartfelt thanks for your opinion relative to the basis of Representation, which will have the greatest weight with me in shaping my course on the very important subject to which it relates. The Bill is now...
1620Lafayette to James Madison, 28 January 1829 (Madison Papers)
The last I Heard from You Was By a few introductory lines which Were presented By Mr. Borrowski at la Grange. I now am in town with my family, excepting my Beloved Grand daughter lafayette [ ] who passes the winter with Her Husband at Grenoble. the Session of the Chambers Opened Yesterday. the Speech from the throne was pretty Good, as Kings and Royal Speeches Go, Saving a transitory mention...
1621Daniel Raymond to James Madison, 26 January 1829 (Madison Papers)
You will receive with this letter a pamphlet entitled "the American System" of which I am the Author. I have lately read with great pleasure your letters on the Constitutional power of Congress to protect American manufactures. I think those letters are calculated to do much good in the present excited state of public opinion on that subject in parts of our Country. I have taken the liberty,...
1622James Madison to William C. Rives, 23 January 1829 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. under your cover, the newspaper containing the explanatory remarks on the two letters relating to the power of Congress to encourage domestic manufactures. The writer of the letters is laid under great obligation by the opportune & apposite interposition in their behalf. The strange misconstructions which continue to be put on the occasion & object of them, would produce surprize...
1623Frederick List to James Madison, 21 January 1829 (Madison Papers)
I long ago felt the desire to submit to your examination, some of my essays on american political economy and thus to seize an opportunity of introducing myself to a celebrated public character who, since I commenced to read history has been the subject of my highest veneration. But the fear of intruding in your retirement hitherto prevented me from doing so. My present forwardness I beg,...
1624James Madison to John Sessford, 20 January 1829 (Madison Papers)
J. M. returns his thanks to Mr. Sessford for the copy of his Statistical view of the City of Washington. He wishes Mr. S. may long be a witness of its progressive improvement, and add to that enjoyment a large share of individual prosperity. Draft (DLC) .
1625James Madison to Thomas S. Grimke, 17 January 1829 (Madison Papers)
J. Madison acknowledges with many thanks the rect. of the Copy with which he has been favord by Mr Grimke of the Resolution submitted by him to the Senate of S. C. on the 12th. of Decr. They have been read with the attention due to the able views taken of a highly interesting question; and with a particular wish that they may promote a recurrence to the historical lights so useful in...
1626James Madison to Richard Rush, 17 January 1829 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your very kind letter of the 12th. The commendations you bestow on those relating to the Tariff belong rather to what so pregnant & important a subject ought to have made them, than to what they are. They were written to a friend who wished to avail himself of the presumed result of my better opportunities of elucidating the question; and whom I considered as needing such an...
1627James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 17 January 1829 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. with yours of the 12th. the 1st. vol: of Lyman’s Diplomacy. The mail charged with the 2d. is not yet arrived, owing to a failure between Washington & Fredg. Tomorrow’s will probably bring it. I have not examined into the discrepancy of dates you refer to in the origin of the tonnage regulation. Perhaps it may be explained by the circumstance of the same Session of Congress being...
1628James Madison to Gulian C. Verplanck, 17 January 1829 (Madison Papers)
I return herewith the Second Statement by the Council of the London University. If the Superstructure of Science correspond with the foundation marked out for it the Institution will not only be an honor to the country giving it birth, but will extend its instructive influence every where. I must apologize, Sir, for not sooner offering my thanks for a sight of the pamphlet, which I was...
1629John Sessford to James Madison, 13 January 1829 (Madison Papers)
Understanding that you take an interest in the growth of this City, I have taken the liberty of enclosing my last publication of the improvements &c. and on the back of which I have copied in detail those of the 1st Ward, that you may see the manners in which I keep my list. With the best wishes for your health & happiness I am with much respect Your friend RC (DLC) . Docketed by JM.
1630Samuel Martin to James Madison, 12 January 1829 (Madison Papers)
Your letters on the Constitutionality of a protecting duty on imports is received here pity they had not been wrote years sooner I shall have them printed in pamphlet I have one matter to ask you to think of and if my opinion and yours agrees do me the favour to answer it I have for some years past believed that the best means to diffuse information amongst the people would be that the whole...
1631Nicholas P. Trist to James Madison, 12 January 1829 (Madison Papers)
Thompson received four copies of Lyman’s work, on Saturday. Two were immediately taken—the one by Mr Everett, the other by the Russian minister. These circumstances, together with the annunciation of "considerable additions" to the part formerly published, & the continuation of the history through periods concerning which you may feel the interest of curiosity, determined me on subjecting you...
1632James Madison to William Cabell Rives, 10 January 1829 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of the 31st. Ult. was duly recd. You have not mistaken my idea of the Constl. power of Congs. to regulate trade: and it gives me pleasure that you take the same view of it. "The power to regulate trade" is a compound technical phrase, to be expounded by the sense in which it has been usually taken, as shewn by the purposes to wch. it has been usually applied. To interpret it with a...
1633Richard Rush to James Madison, 10 January 1829 (Madison Papers)
I cannot longer abstain from expressing the deep interest with which I read your two letters on the power of Congress to lay duties on foreign manufactures, with a view to the encouragement of our own. To you, dear sir, I cannot say all that I think of them. They are like the voice of reason, suddenly interposed to still jarring elements. They have made a powerful impression upon the public....
1634Alexander Garrett to James Madison, 10 January 1829 (Madison Papers)
Annexed I send for your approval, my check on the P. & Directors of the Literary Fund, for Five thousand dollars of the Annuity of 1829—Having to go to Richmond in a few days, Mr. Brockenbrough advises me to take the check with me, that I may negociate it with the Bank while there, as the money will be very soon wanted by the Professors. Most. Respectfully Your Obt. St. RC (DLC) .
1635James Madison to Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 9 January 1829 (Madison Papers)
Will Mr. R. oblige J.M. by turning to the correspondence of Mr. Jefferson with Mr. Pendleton & als Col. John Taylor & telling me whether any thing & what appears to have passed between them, having relation to the publication of Mr. Pendleton in Octr. 1801. subscribed "The danger not over" FC (DLC) .
1636James Madison to Joseph C. Cabell, 5 January 1829 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. yours of Decr. 28 in which you wish me to say something on the agitated subject of the basis of representation in the contemplated Convention for revising the State Constitution. In a case depending so much on local views and feelings, and perhaps on the opinions of leading individuals; and in which a mixture of compromises with abstract principles may be resorted to, your...
1637James Madison to Adam J. Levy, 5 January 1829 (Madison Papers)
I recd. some days ago yours of Decr. 22. Altho’ I calculated on being left entirely to my own time, as explained in my last, for the remittance you request, I did not mean to delay it unnecessarily; and had allotted for the purpose a payment I had good reason to expect some weeks ago. Having not yet recd. it, I must take time for another arrangement, which I hope will not be very distant. As...
1638James Madison to Richard D. Cutts, 4 January 1829 (Madison Papers)
Your letter, my dear Richard, gave me much pleasure, as it shews that you love your studies, which you would not do if you did not profit by them. Go on, my good boy, as you have begun; and you will find that you have chosen the best road to a happy life, because a useful one; the more happy because it will add to the happiness of your parents, and of all who love you and are anxious to see...
1639Thomas S. Grimke to James Madison, 3 January 1829 (Madison Papers)
Thos. S. Grimke requests Mr Madison’s acceptance of the within Resolutions, in testimony of gratitude and admiration for his public services, in the patriot labor of building up the only Fabric of Republican Government, of which a Nation, free, enlightened, peaceful, Christian, could be proud P. S. The Letters to Jos. C. Cabell have been recently published in this City, and are an important...
1640C. Schultz to James Madison, 1 January 1829 (Madison Papers)
As candor in Religion , is now vanished from the face of the earth: and hypocrisy under the mask of courtesy and forbearance reigns triumphant in its place; and you have arrived at that moral point again, where candor must resume all her charms: inasmuch as you are now, on the threshold of that bourne; from whence no one returns: to solve any of our well founded doubts, relative to our...
1641Gulian C. Verplanck to James Madison, 1 January 1829 (Madison Papers)
Gulian C. Verplanck presents his respects to Mr Madison and, with his best wishes for many happy returns of the New Year to Mr & Mrs Madison requests their acceptance of a NewYork Annual for 1829. It is hoped that Mr Madison will pardon the liberty which has been taken with his name in the preface and will believe that when Francis Herbert expresses his high respect for Mr Madison’s character...
1642From John C. Calhoun to John Quincy Adams, 1825 to 1828 (Adams Papers)
9th Decr. Mr Calhoun accepts with pleasure the invitation of Mr. & Mrs Adams for thursday next 29th Decr. Mr & Mrs Calhoun regret that a previous engagement of Mr Calhoun for friday prevents them from accepting the invitation of Mr & Mrs Adams for that day. MHi : Adams Papers.
1643James Madison: Notes on foreign commerce and constitutionality of the tariff (Madison Papers)
(Those who deny that the power of Congs to regulate foreign commerce includes a protective power, yet contend that the power grantable to the States to impose duties on, it was intended to provide for a protection or substitute, and who rely for a proof on the testimonies of L. Martin, must yield to the inference that the protection is a branch of the comercial [expansion sign] power, distinct...
1644James Madison’s List of Autographs, beginning 1828 (Madison Papers)
List of autographs [by James Madison:] Autographs sent [by Dolley Payne Madison:] G. Washington John Adams Thomas Jefferson James Monroe John Quincy Adams A. Hamilton Robert R. Livingston Albert Gallatin Edw. Livingston Richard Peters John Page Edmd. Pendleton Wm. Pinkney Timothy Pickering Lafayette Le Baron de Humboldt Du pont de Nemours Peter S. Du Ponceau. 18—
1645William Cabell Rives to James Madison, 31 December 1828 (Madison Papers)
Major Hamilton arrived here yesterday, & I had the pleasure, to-day, of placing in his hands the letter for him, which you committed to my care. Since the receipt of your obliging letter of 20th instant, for which I take this occasion to make you my acknowledgments, I have read, with equal pleasure & instruction, your two letters, recently published in the National Intelligencer, on the powers...
1646James Madison to [Thomas Cooper], 31 December 1828 (Madison Papers)
This statement shews that the loan of 60000 with 3 years of the pub: any. wd. compleat ye. estabt. {ye. library excepd.} viz the lawn of 10 pavns. & 55 dorms. & the E. & W. back streets, wth. 5 hotels, a Proctor’s house & 50 dorms. by the last day of 1822, but that this wd. require ye any. of Jany. 1. 1823 & consequently yt. we cd. not commence instalts. until Jany. 1824. The securing then...
1647James Madison: Answer to Bill of Complaint of Charles Edmonston, 31 December 1828 (Madison Papers)
The Answer of James Madison of Orange County Virginia, to the Bill of Complaint of Charles Edmonston against him & others, in the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, for the County of Washington, on the Chancery Side. This Respondent, now and at all times, reserving to himself all & all manner of right, advantage, & benefit of plea, demurrer or exception to the errors, inaccuracies &...
1648Authorization to Rector [James Madison] to appoint Professor of Ancient Languages for University of Virginia, 31 … (Madison Papers)
Resolved that the Rector be authorized to appoint to the Chair of Antient Languages, for the term of one year from the date of Such appointment, with a salary not exceeding $1000, & with the usual fees paid to that chair, either of the following persons, they being preferred by the Board in the order herein named; that is to say: Dr Gessner Harrison, M. L. Tracie, R. Reynolds; and if neither...
1649James Madison to William Allen, 31 December 1828 (Madison Papers)
On the rect. of your last letter I directed my overseer to communicate with the Miller on the subject of the musty flour. I have not learnt his intention in the case Be so good as to let me know how the balance in our account now stands. <Yr> Respy. Draft (DLC) .
1650James Madison: Memorandum on the Tariff, 31 December 1828 (Madison Papers)
To the effect of <the> changes intellectual, moral and social, the institutions laws of the Country must be adapted, and it will require for the task all the wisdom of the wisest patriots. *How far this view of the subject will be affected by the Republican laws of descent & distribution in equalizing the property of the citizens and in reducing mutual supplies cannot be inferred from any any...