From James Madison to John Tayloe Lomax, 23 March 1827
To John Tayloe Lomax
Mar. 23. [18]27
Dr. Sir
I inclose a communication from President Cooper of the S. Carolina College. I have apprized him of the enactment in our University Code, as applicable to the occurence he describes, and to which the Faculty wd. doubtless conform, with a just sense of the Obligation every where to discountenance so pernicious an example. With great esteem
J. M
Draft (DLC). Addressed by JM to Lomax, “Chairm⟨an⟩ of the Faculty.” Written on the verso of JM’s draft to Thomas
23 Mar. 1827.