19601To John Adams from James Lloyd, 8 March 1815 (Adams Papers)
In a former note returning the letter with which you had obligingly favored me, I had the honor to offer you my congratulations on the termination of the war, without waiting to know what were the grounds of the Treaty which concluded it; because from the tenor of the previous correspondence, and my personal knowledge of nearly all the Commissioners, I felt a reliance, that the arrangement...
19602To John Adams from Horatio Gates Spafford, 8 March 1815 (Adams Papers)
I enclose this a Right to use this improvement described in this little pamphlet I lately sent thee. Should it not be thy wish to use it, please hand the Certificate to some friend who will do so, & advise Mr Mr of the result. I am anxious to have the principles fully tested, & the best possible method is by actual demonstration. So far, this has succeeded to complete satisfaction. I was in...
19603From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 8 March 1815 (Adams Papers)
yesterdays Mail brought us the Nomination s to foreign Courts, yours of course, was to England. altho no event could have been so agreable to me, as your return to America. I feel a relief that that you have left the cold region of the North; and come so much nearer to me, where I can hope, with the return of peace, a freer intercourse with you, the only solace left me, to compensate for your...
19604To James Madison from Charles W. Goldsborough, 8 March 1815 (Madison Papers)
Valueing as I do the opinions of good men, I am induced from an anxiety to remove certain unfavorable impressions which I am told you have received respecting me to address to you this communication. A political & personal friend of yours has informed me, that you had been led to believe that the pieces circulated to my prejudice by Docr Ewell about two years since were not altogether without...
19605To James Madison from Hendrick W. Gordon, 8 March 1815 (Madison Papers)
The peace lately concluded between the United States & Great Britain so honorable to our Country, and the satisfaction one of its Citizens would derive from owning in any Country that he was an American, together with a strong wish to visit Europe, has induced me to ask of the President in the most respectfull manner, for the Office of Consul to some commercial port in Europe, such an one as...
19606To James Madison from David Jones, 8 March 1815 (Madison Papers)
God has continued my life to see Peace once on Earth. I know not what to call it. I cannot call it either good ⟨or⟩ bad. I cannot call it honorable; nor Dishonorable; but it is Such as could be obtained at that Time; and it is dishonable to our Enemies, for never have they been more compleatly drubbed both by Sea & Land. If their Pride can brooke it, they will be Quiet. At all events, we will...
19607To James Madison from Abraham B. Lindsley, 8 March 1815 (Madison Papers)
Since writing the enclosed I have learnt the Hon. Mr. Monroe is no longer Secry at War, therefore I have not forwarded to him the letter which I had addressed to him as mentioned in mine to your Excellency. If I cannot be retained on the peace establishment, I should like equally well a Marine Lieutenancy—if your Excellency would order my letters in the War Department to be handed to the...
19608George Hay to Thomas Jefferson, 8 March 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I ought to ask your pardon and I do ask it, for not having returned long ago, the book which you were so good as to lend me. M. Rayneval has been of Service to me, on more occasions than one: he has more liberality than Some of his predecessors: but the Science of public law appears to me to be far, very far from that point, to which Some very obvious principles are capable of conducting it....
19609To John Adams from François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 7 March 1815 (Adams Papers)
The daÿ before I was so unexpectedly favoured with your affectionate Letters of the 22 & 23 of Febr. mr D. Parish with his usual politeness took a package of Letters for our Dutch friends under his charge for the Dutch Minister, who was so obliging—to offer me their conveÿence to Holland. Nevertheless it was a duty to comply with your friend’s demands, more so, as it appeared to me, that it...
19610From James Madison to Benjamin Austin and Others, 7 March 1815 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. fw. Citizs. the address transmitted by you on the 23d. of Feby.; with the attention due to the occasion which gave rise to it, & to the view which it takes of past scenes & events. Whatever difference of opinion may have existed, among good Citizens, all will rejoice in the happy result of the Contest in which we have been engaged. If this has been attended with difficulties &...