21991John Devereux DeLacy to Thomas Jefferson, 19 December 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I take leave to enclose the report on the southern waters for your perusal and to subscribe myself most Respectfully RC ( DLC ); dateline at foot of text; addressed: “Thomas Jefferson Esq r Monticello V a ”; franked; postmarked New York , 19 Dec.; endorsed by TJ as received 31 Dec. 1813 and so recorded in SJL . Enclosure: Robert Fulton (working “from the surveys of John D. DeLacy ”), Report of...
21992Sir Egerton Leigh to Thomas Jefferson, 19 December 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
The enclosed letter I received a few days back from D r Ramsay of Charleston S o Carolina . I am very sorry that I am prevented having the honor of personally delivering it to you by a severe Rheumatism or unfixed Gout which confines me to the house but hope in the Spring to be able to do myself the honor of paying my respects to you at Monticello I have the honor to be Sir RC ( MoSHi : TJC-BC
21993To James Madison from John Geddes, with Enclosure from South Carolina Legislature, 18 December 1813 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From John Geddes. 18 December 1813, Columbia. “I have the honor of transmitting to you herewith, an Address and Resolutions, adopted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the state of South Carolina, during its present Session, expressive of their unabated confidence in you, and their approbation, of the energetic measures resorted to, for the vigorous prosecution of the War against...
21994Paul Allen to Thomas Jefferson, 18 December 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I trust that Your Excellency will do Me the justice to beleive that Your request with regard to the volumes of Lewis & Clarke would have been complied with long since & the books transmitted if the work had not been unexpectedly detained in the hands of the Printer They have now arrived at the conclusion of the work excepting the diary of the weather &c which comes in at the appendix. They The...
21995To James Madison from Isaac Clason, 17 December 1813 (Madison Papers)
Having been an eye witness in some respects of the most nefarious trade & trafic, that has been carried on between some of the inhabitants of the United States, & those of the enemy at Halifax, and their shipping lyeing in the waters of the eastern States, I have thought proper to communicate the same to the executive. The enemy are regularly fed by Swedes or by pretended Swedes, with forged...
21996To James Madison from Alden B. Spooner, 17 December 1813 (Madison Papers)
When the War, in which, this Nation is now engaged, was declared by the Constituted Authorities, it met with my cordial approbation, as one of the Nation. At this day, no one can be more anxious for a vigorous prosecution, & a successful termination of it on our part, than myself. On this account alone, have I thought fit, to trouble you on the present occasion. I am well aware of you[r]...
21997Horatio G. Spafford to Thomas Jefferson, 17 December 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I was duly favored with thy obliging favor of last autumn , & immediately sent the Gazetteer as directed. Did it arrive safe? & how dost thou like it? But, this is only a minor cause of my writing at this time, though I confess myself anxious to learn thy opinion of my Work. I am tired of this unceasing jargon of politics, with which I am surrounded, this warring of principle against no...
21998Elizabeth Trist to Thomas Jefferson, 17 December 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your kind favor by last weeks mail, accompanied by one from my daughter now Madame S t Julian de Tourneillon occasiond my heart to glow with feelings that it has been long a stranger to, a reiteration of your continued friendship and good wishes, and assurences of her happiness in consiquence of the change in her condition were calculated to animate my mind to an enthusiastic degree of...
21999To James Madison from William Jones, 16 December 1813 (Madison Papers)
In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 13th. instant, I have the honor to state, That the amount of duties accruing on goods, wares and merchandise imported into the United States from the 1st. day of July 1812 to the 31st. day of December of the same year, for which period the accounts of the Collectors of the Customs are settled, was Ds. 9,869,199.31. And the amount of...
22000To James Madison from Joseph Sansom, 16 December 1813 (Madison Papers)
The privilige of literary habits, and peaceful pursuits, is respectfully, and submissively, requested for the following communication, by Joseph Sansom (Authr. of Letters fm. Europe). Spending an evening, a few days since, with Judge Smith (Frederick Smith, sometime Chief Justice of New Jersey, now an old man of eighty two) the improbability of a speedy termination of the present difficulties...
22001To James Madison from William Madison, 16 December 1813 (Madison Papers)
Words cannot convey to you the sence I entertain of the many favors you have and continue to confer upon me. The Sum necessary for my accommodation must not be measured by any engagements, but by your convenience alone, the time is near at hand when those engagements will be due and the present price of flour seems to forbid a Sale. I expect to have fully 500 Bbls at market in the cours⟨e⟩ of...
22002From Julia Stockton Rush to Abigail Smith Adams, 15 December 1813 (Adams Papers)
It seems that I may again indulge my own feelings by intruding another letter upon you, without supposing that I have any thing to say that can interest You, except as coming from one to whom You have kindly offered a transfer of frendship long since cherished for a more worthy object now no more. Oh my dear Madam the months that have pass’d since the loss of that revered object have not...
22003To James Madison from Thomas Aderton, [ca. 15 December] 1813 (Madison Papers)
The Petition of Thomas Aderton Commander of the private armed Brig call’d the Saratoga. Your Petitioner for himself and on behalf of the Owners, officers & Crew of the said private armed American Brig Saratoga, respectfully represents, that he arrived at the Port of Wilmington North Carolina on the 26th. day of November 1813. with a quantity of goods &c taken on the high seas from several...
22004To James Madison from Mathew Carey, 15 December 1813 (Madison Papers)
That I once more trespass on you, after the failure of all my former applications, will not, I hope, be ascribed to an incorrect or improper motive. It arises from an earnest solicitude for the preservation of the existing order of things—from an apprehension of imminent danger impending—& from a thorough conviction of the efficacy of the means I have pointed out. Never was there a stronger...
22005To James Madison from Falvey Frazer, 15 December 1813 (Madison Papers)
My Unhappy situation compells me to take the liberty of addressing your excellancey on a subject that I acknowledge myself to be liable to punnishment for the offense committed is that of taking the liberty of going to see my wife in Baltimore without the approbation of My officers the fact is I had made application for leave of absence for a few days prior to My departure from the Fort and...
22006To James Madison from Alexander Smyth, 15 December 1813 (Madison Papers)
Beleiving that time has thrown so much light on my conduct as an officer of the army during the last year, that righteous men will acknowledge that I did my duty with zeal, and in the best manner possible under such circumstances; I proceed to do an act of justice to you, and to myself. I declare that it was no part of my intention when I issued a proclamation inviting volunteers to join me,...
22007Thomas Jefferson to Julian Ursin Niemcewicz, 15 December 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Sep. 4. 10. was 10. months on it’s passage to me, having been recieved on the 7 th of July 11. I addressed my answer to you without delay, acknoleging my obligations to the Royal society of the friends of science in Warsaw for their nomination of me as one of their members, expressing my sense of the honor of being associated with their body, and tendering any services which at...
22008Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 29 November-14 December 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
In answering the several very kind letters I have recieved from you, I owe to yourself, and to the most able and estimable author of the Commentaries on Montesquieu to begin by assuring you that I am not the author of that work, and of my own consciousness that it is far beyond my qualifications. in truth I consider it as the most profound and logical work which has been presented to the...
22009From John Adams to William Stephens Smith, 14 December 1813 (Adams Papers)
It gave me great pleasure to be informed of your punctual arrival at the head quarters of good Principles and of good dispositions as I hope; of too little experience as I fear; and of too much eloquence as I certainly know. I need not quote to you “Dum Roma deliberat periat Seguntum.” My memory furnishes enough of examples of more modern date and nearer home. Canada was lost 35 or 36 years...
22010To James Madison from Pierre S. Compere, [ca. 14 December 1813] (Madison Papers)
The petition of the Congregation of the Roman Catholic Church of St. Francis, in Natchitoches County State of Louisiana, respectfully sheweth That your petitioners are the legal owners of a tract of land in, & contiguous to the village of Natchitoches; a part of which land your petitioners did intend to dispose of for the use of a Court House. That part of the aforesaid land which has all...
22011To James Madison from James Houstoun, 14 December 1813 (Madison Papers)
I have taken the liberty of addressing few lines to the president of the U.S. to lay before him the situation of my Brother Mossman Houstoun late Lt. Col. of the 8th Regt. of U.S. Infantry. whose unfortunate situation is one calculated to excite the simpathy of every humane man, and who has been dismissed the Service by the War department in a manner so abrupt & unceremonious as to cause the...
22012To James Madison from Robert B. Semple and Others, 14 December 1813 (Madison Papers)
Pursuant to an appointment of the Dover Baptist Association, permit us to express our great satisfaction in you, as the Chief Magistrate of our Country; to congratulate you on the prosperity of your administration of our national concerns, in so perilous a time; and to lay before you the resolve of our Association, with regard to what we believe our duty to God, in a season so critical and...
22013Thomas Jefferson to Isaac Cox Barnet, 14 December 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
My interior situation among the mountains and very far from any seaport, renders it extremely difficult for me to learn when vessels are going from any port of the United States to France , which might offer a tolerably safe conveyance for letters. this makes me a very tardy correspondent with that side of the water, and must be my apology for having so long delayed acknoleging the reciept of...
22014Thomas Jefferson to Valentín de Foronda, 14 December 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I have had the pleasure of recieving several letters from you, covering printed propositions and pamphlets on the state of your affairs, and all breathing the genuine sentiments of order, liberty & philanthropy with which I know you to be sincerely inspired. we learn little to be depended on here as to your civil proceedings, or of the division of sentiments among you: but in this absence of...
22015Thomas Jefferson to François André Michaux, 14 December 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
My interior situation among the mountains, and great distance from any seaport town, is extremely unfriendly to punctual correspondence with the other side of the Atlantic . vessels bound to that quarter are generally gone before I learn their destination by the public papers. I have recieved from you, at different times, three several livraisons of your excellent work on the forest trees of...
22016Thomas Jefferson to Alexis Marie Rochon, 14 December 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I have had the pleasure, my dear Sir, of recieving your letter of Aug. 7. 1812. and with it a copy of your voyages for the observations of the longitudes at sea, which I have read with great satisfaction, and pray you to accept my thanks for them. I recieved at the same time your pamphlet on the Micrometer of rock-chrystal, the advantages of which you had shewn to me in 1785 at D r Franklin ’s...
22017Thomas Jefferson to André Thoüin, 14 December 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
The perils of the ocean, my good and antient friend, are such that I almost despair of getting a letter to you. yet I cannot permit myself longer to withold the acknolegement of the reciept of your letters of Mar. 2. and Dec. 7. 11. and Mar. 15. 13. the boxes of seeds which you were so kind as to forward to me in 1810. 1811. came safely to hand, and were committed to our best seedsmen, in...
22018From John Adams to John Adams Smith, 13 December 1813 (Adams Papers)
You grieve me when you tell me that “your city is thronged with officers of the army.” Infandum, renovare jubes, dolorem. In the most critical moments of our affairs in 1776, I twice travelled through New Jersey; and with indignation and contempt which I feel still to my fingers ends, saw the taverns crowded with officers, who ought to have been in face of the enemy in New York, and at frogs...
22019Samuel M. Burnside to Thomas Jefferson, 13 December 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 24th of October 1812, the Legislature of Massachusetts formed a number of Gentleman Gentlemen into a body Corporate and Politic, by the name of “ The American Antiquarian Society .”— The nature, views and objects of this Institution are stated and explained in a pamphlet, recently published by their order, a copy of which is transmitted to You, and will accompany this letter.—The...
22020Bela Fosgate to Thomas Jefferson, 13 December 1813, with Note from David Holt to Thomas Jefferson, [ca. 13 December … (Jefferson Papers)
Altho I am an enemy to those wars which destroy the human race and desolate the earth yet I am friendly to the principle implanted with in us of self-preservation from which arises that of self defence. I am a f r iend to Civil liberty and have long been pained in witnessing the violations of the rights and liberties of my fellow citizens. The estimation in which I hold thy charactir yeields...