2041To James Madison from Joseph C. Cabell, 12 January 1828 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of 28th ult has been duly received. I thank you for the facts in relation to the Constitutionality of the Tariff, the more especially as I have reasons to believe that Governor Giles, encouraged by the pamphlet containing the late proceedings at Boston, will again bring that subject before us. I have communicated to him your message relative to the Journals said to be in the...
2042To James Madison from Nicholas P. Trist, 11 January 1828 (Madison Papers)
My conscience has been reproaching me for some time past with my remissness towards you; and yet something has occurred every day to protract it until this late date. My expectation, when I last wrote, of hearing again from Mr Coolidge within a post or two, was not realised; and I left home on some business at Powhatan court house without doing so. On my return, I was still disappointed; & the...
2043From James Madison to John Hartwell Cocke, 10 January 1828 (Madison Papers)
The last mail brought me your letter of the 4th. inclosing one from Docr. Jones, with your answer. From the footing on which the question of his appointment now rests, and the uncertainty of an earlier provision for the vacant Chair, it may be best to acquiesce in his terms. And if this be your opinion and that of Mr. Cabell & Mr. Johnson, he can be informed by a final letter from you, that a...
2044From James Madison to Henry D. Gilpin, 10 January 1828 (Madison Papers)
I have received yours of the 4th. inst: and am glad to learn that my communications of Ocr. last were acceptable. In reference to the intimation in your last paragraph, I may only say, that feeling what is due to its motives, and judging of the work about to be re-edited, by the portions known to me, I can offer no objection to the meditated use of my name, but the deficiency of its title to...
2045From James Madison to William Price, 10 January 1828 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. Sir, your letter without date, requesting a recommendation to the Government of Texos [ sic ], of Mr. Rufus Stone your neighbour. Tho’ I do not distrust in the least what you say in his behalf, and have a due respect for the friendly recollections to which you refer, I must be permitted to decline the step which is wished, as an inconvenient precedent—if not rendered improper...
2046From James Madison to Gabriel Moore, 10 January 1828 (Madison Papers)
J.M. presents his respects to Mr. Moore & incloses an answer to Mr. W. Price which he requested might be conveyed thro’ his Representative in Congs. Draft ( DLC ). Subjoined to JM to William Price, 10 Jan. 1828 .
2047To James Madison from Gulian C. Verplanck, 10 January 1828 (Madison Papers)
G. C. Verplanck presents his compliments to Mr Madison and requests his acceptance of a little volume recently published at New York. Though written under an assumed name of a single author it is in fact the summer amusement of three gentlemen whose ordinary studies and occupations are of a graver cast, to which the Publisher has thought fit to add some embellishments of the arts. Whatever may...
2048From James Madison to James Breckinridge, 8 January 1828 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. yours of Decr. 23. The difficulty I fear will be as great as the importance of providing as [ sic ] successor to Mr. Long. You know his anxiety to secure the appointment given him in the London university; to which is to be added the necessity he states of his returning to England on other accounts, at the expiration of his stipulated term; so that there is no chance of his...
2049From James Madison to the Visitors of the University of Virginia, 7 January 1828 (Madison Papers)
I have just recd. from Mr. Brougham a letter on the subject of Professor Long, a copy of which is inclosed, with a copy of the answer, which I thought it best to forward without the delay of a previous communication with my Colleagues. If there be any thing in the answer, not according with your views of a proper one, be so good as to intimate it. If I have not expressed the sense of the...
2050From James Madison to Henry Clay, 6 January 1828 (Madison Papers)
I have duly recd. the copy of your Address politely forwarded to me. Altho’ I have taken no part in the depending contests and have been led to place myself publickly on that ground, I could not peruse the Appeal you have made without being sensible of the weight of testimony it exhibits, and of the eloquence by which it is distinguished. Having occasion to write to Mr. Brougham on a subject...
2051From James Madison to Henry Peter Brougham, 5 January 1828 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of Ocr. 20. on the subject of Professor Long having met with delays, I had not the honor of receiving it, till a few days ago. The great respect due to the wishes on the part of the London university, and the disposition felt here to accomodate the views of Mr. Long, create much reluctance at holding him to engagements at variance with both. On the other hand the great importance...
2052From James Madison to Jared Sparks, 5 January 1828 (Madison Papers)
I received two days ago your favour of Decr. 29. That of Augst. 25. came also safe to hand. I did not then acknowledge it, because I expected soon to have an occasion for doing it on the receit. of the letters since put into the hands of Col. Storrow. Having heard nothing from him on the subject I conclude that he retains them for a better conveyance than he had found; though I am not without...
2053From James Madison to George Long, 4 January 1828 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of Monday last came to hand yesterday, and the same mail brought me the letter from Mr Brougham, bearing date Ocr. 20th. He refers to the choice made of you for the Greek professorship in the London University; and to the 1st. of October as the time when its duties would require you to be there; and communicates the anxiety felt for a release from your engagements here upon the...
2054From James Madison to Thomas Mann Randolph, 4 January 1828 (Madison Papers)
J Madison presents his respects to Col: Randolph, & incloses a misdirected letter of Mr. Faulcon. The copy of proceedings referred to in the letter was not come with it. Draft ( DLC ). John Faulcon was president of the Agricultural Society of Surry County, Virginia (see PJM-RS David B. Mattern et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Retirement Series (4 vols. to date; Charlottesville, Va.,...
2055To James Madison from John Hartwell Cocke, 4 January 1828 (Madison Papers)
I returned yesterday from Charlottesville, & hasten to acknowledge the receipt of your package, containing several letters from Candidates for Mr. Longs Chair, together with your own, written under the impression that there would be a meeting of the Board of Visitors the 10th. of last Month. As there is now no immediate prospect of a meeting of the Board, I shall take the papers above...
2056To James Madison from Henry D. Gilpin, 4 January 1828 (Madison Papers)
I have to return you my thanks for the flattering letter I received from you, relative to my sketch of Mr. Jefferson’s life, and particularly for the pamphlet sent with it, which has been of the greatest service in giving a clear view of publick events at a period, about which I have always found it particularly difficult to obtain one. In revising my biography for republication, I have taken...
2057Independence and Constitution of Virginia, [1827?] (Madison Papers)
[1827?] Although the date when JM prepared this manuscript must remain uncertain, it could well have been written in the autumn of 1827, during his exchange of letters with George Mason’s grandson about the Virginia Declaration of Rights and first Form of Government, and at a time when a revision of the state constitution was much in the public mind. The manuscript has considerable unity of...
2058From James Madison to Robert C. Jones, James M. Jeffries, and James P. Henderson, [Post-17 December 1827] (Madison Papers)
Your letter of the 17. has been duly recd. My respect for every Institution having in view the culture of the Mind, & for the kind motives of the Society you represent, does not permit to decline the honorary membership conferred on me, however sensible I may be that it cannot be due to any anticipated advantage from it. The Society, I doubt not will, best devise an appropriate motto. In...
2059To James Madison from William Price, [ca. 31 December 1827] (Madison Papers)
From our former acquaintance, and Being a former Member of the Virginia Legislature With you some years past, at the request of Mr Rufus Stone, my Neighbour, who is desireous of Emigrateing to the province of Textus I recommend Him to you as a Gentleman of strict integraty Who seek through me a recommendation from you and Mr Monroe to the Government of That province this province being...
2060From James Madison to George Mason, 29 December 1827 (Madison Papers)
I am much obliged by your polite attention in sending me the Copies of the Remonstrance in behalf of Religious Liberty, which with your letter of the 10th. came duly to hand. I had supposed they were to be procured at the office which printed them, and referred Mrs. Cutts to that source. Her failure there occasioned the trouble you so kindly assumed. I wished a few copies on account of...
2061To James Madison from Jared Sparks, 29 December 1827 (Madison Papers)
As Col. Peyton left Boston unexpectedly he did not receive the parcel of letters, as you proposed; but I forwarded them soon after by Col. Storrow, from whom I presume they came safely to your hands. I am now on my way to Washington preparatory to my departure for Europe, and if the letters have been sent to Mr Barbour I shall obtain them, but should this not have been done, you can keep them...
2062From James Madison to Joseph C. Cabell, 28 December 1827 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of the 15th. was duly recd. I had previously learnt with the feelings due to the memory of my old & highly esteemed friend, the event which it communicates. I thank you for the Catalogue of pamphlets which had been collected by him, and now return it. Tho’ containing some articles that are rare, and a number that are valuable, I have noticed none that I am desirous of procuring from...
2063From James Madison to Robert Walsh Jr., 28 December 1827 (Madison Papers)
Inclosed is the promised paper. A more attentive perusal makes me to think I may have underrated its Literary merit, and as the original draft may have been found among Mr. Wilson’s papers, it occurs as possible , that it may be included in his Edited works which I have not seen. In this case, the document looses the character of novelty ascribed to it. It is at your Service nevertheless....
2064To James Madison from Robert Walsh Jr., 26 December 1827 (Madison Papers)
I pray you to believe that I would not add in the slightest degree to the labors with which you are oppressed, & of which I read your account with sincere regret. My application was made solely in reference to what might be your inclination & convenience. I tender my hearty thanks for the kind attention which you have given to it. Any document of your choice will be highly acceptable to me....
2065From James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 24 December 1827 (Madison Papers)
Your letter containing the information from Mr. Cooledge on the subject of Mr. Walker, was duly recd.; and as the opening for the Chair of Nat: Phil: seemed to be not closed by the correspondence relating to Docr. Jones & Mr. Renwick, I forwarded the information to Mr. Johnson, from whom, at Richmond, it will emanate to other Visitors. It appears that a majority of the Visitors decline a...
2066To James Madison from James Breckinridge, 23 December 1827 (Madison Papers)
Immediately on the rect. of your fav. by Mr. Harrison I wrote to Mr. Johnson, assenting to the appointment of Mr. H. as the successor of Mr. Long & this moment have recd. Mr. Johnson’s answer saying that Mr. Cabell, Mr. Loyall, Genl. Cocke & himself were opposed to the appointment, so that Mr. H. is not appointed. It is of the first importance to the success of the institution, that we should...
2067From James Madison to Robert Walsh Jr., 22 December 1827 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your favor of the 10th. in which you invite from me contributions for the pages of the “American Q. Review.” I have seen ample proofs in the Nos. published that my anticipation of the success of such a work under your auspices, was not erroneous. And I should take a pleasure in offerings for its pages, were they but mites, if my age & other obstacles did not bar me from the...
2068From James Madison to Richard Rush, 21 December 1827 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. the copy of your late Treasury Rept. & return my thanks for the kindness to which I owe it. It is a valuable voucher for the prosperity of our commerce & revenue, and a pleasing specimen of the ability which presides over the Dept. A[l]tho’ I must be presumed to dissent from some of the positions advanced, & allowed to hesitate at some of the deductions from others, there is eno’...
2069From James Madison to William Allen, 18 December 1827 (Madison Papers)
I just learn that Mr. Eliason owing to some misapprehension has consigned 65 Blbs. of flour on my acct. to Mrs Scott. I enclose an order placing them at yr. disposal. You will be good eno. to make to Mr. Scott, the satisfaction due in the case, And to dispose of the flour together with the load from my waggon, on the best terms to be had. My overseer who sent the Wheat to Mr. Eliason, and on...
2070From James Madison to Henry Banks, 18 December 1827 (Madison Papers)
I recd tho’ at a late day your letter of Ocr. 27; on the subject of which I am not able to furnish any information. I was not acquainted with your brother, and being absent from the State of Virginia, during the period in question, was not in the way of being acquainted with his transactions. With friendly respects Draft ( DLC ).