24751To John Adams from François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 11 August 1812 (Adams Papers)
I have now before me your favour of July the 15th, with which, as usual, I was highlÿ gratified. I could have wished, to have delay’d its answer longer, till the assaults of that relentless Demon of head-ache had been abated, who possesses me again Since three weeks, but I know not, to what charm he will listen—So that I must Submit with resignation, till he is tired of the contest. Indeed...
24752From John Adams to Elkanah Watson, 11 August 1812 (Adams Papers)
Our country is in a high fever. So in all Europe—so are the four quarters of the globe. Who first contracted, or first generated the disease? Montreal was no sooner surrendered in 1759 than the conqueror of Canada was discarded from the English Cabinet—a simple maniac ascended the throne, and a machivilian maniac who had been his preceptor became his prime minister. The design was conceived of...
24753To John Adams from Joseph Bemis, 11 August 1812 (Adams Papers)
Gentlemen of the town of Canton conven’d last evening in order to make an arrangement for the selection of Gentlemen to join the County convention propos’d to be holden at Dedham, the 17th. inst. 9 OClock AM and at Marshe’s Tavern—Having made the aforesd. selection, it was then suggested after honourable mention of your name and appeared to be the unanimous wish of the assemblage that you be...
24754To John Adams from Ebenezer Seaver, 11 August 1812 (Adams Papers)
Since Mr Dearborn and myself vesited you on Saturday last, we have called on General Heath and requested his Attendance with you, at the proposed Convention at Dedham. But from his Rehumatic complaints he declines honouring them with his companey, but this we hope will not prevent your Attendence. if it should, your Opinion on the present state of Affairs, in the form of Resolutions, would be...
24755From James Madison to Joel Barlow, 11 August 1812 (Madison Papers)
As I write on short notice and in cypher, I must be very brief. The conduct of the F. Govt. explained in yours of May. 12. on the subject of the decre⟨e⟩ of April ⟨18⟩11 will be an everlasting reproach to it . It is the more shameful as, departing from the declar⟨a⟩tion to general armstrong of which the enforcement of the non importation was the effect the revoking decre⟨e⟩ assumes this as the...
24756To James Madison from Orchard Cook, 11 August 1812 (Madison Papers)
The Merchants of this Place—who were Republicans lately forwarded to your Excely an address—requesting a cessation of Arms &c. This was done in haste, immediately on the reception, at this Port, of the revocation of the Orders in Council. I wish to assure Your Excellency, that it would be the last of our Wishes that any of the Rights or Honour of the U. S should be sacrificed to G. B. for the...
24757To James Madison from William Willis, 11 August 1812 (Madison Papers)
I have had considerable oppertunities since the declaration of the present war, of finding the sentiments of the people respecting that measure; both on the Atlantic, and in the interior. And if some fortunate event dous [ sic ] not present itself soon to reconcile the Citizens of these States to the war, the ensuing elections will be much affected, And I fear that if many disastrous...
24758From John Adams to Elkanah Watson, 10 August 1812 (Adams Papers)
Your favour of July 19th is yet unacknowledged. The first page of it, or rather the first part of the first page compells me to Say that the real cause of the rancorous virulence with which I have been treated by all Parties French and English, Democratical and Aristocratical, and I might Add Presbyterian and Antipresbyterian, has been that I never was and never would be a passive Tool of any...
24759From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 10 August 1812 (Adams Papers)
Just as I was closing my last Letter to you, I received your letter of 12. April, and had barely time to make a minute of it, at the bottom of the one I was sealing up for you—Since then I have not had the pleasure of hearing from you I then flattered myself that the Revocation of the British Orders in Council, of which I had just been informed, would be known in the United States, in Season...
24760To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 10 August 1812 (Madison Papers)
The death of my much valued friend & relation George Jefferson will doubtless produce many competitors for the office of Consul at Lisbon. Among these a neighbor of mine, mr David Higginbotham wishes to be considered. He is a merchant of Milton, of very fair character, steady application to business, sound in his circumstances, and perfectly correct in all his conduct. He is a native of this...
24761To James Madison from William Woods, [ca. 10 August] 1812 (Madison Papers)
Since the commencement of the last Session of Congress I have with unremitted attention noticed the procedings of the same so fare as in my power lay, and it has been with pleasure I have markd there procedings from step to step, I do confess that it is my opinion that the members of Congress have felt the weight of there high responcibility while Transacting buisness for the Goverment which...
24762To James Madison from the Inhabitants of Templeton, Massachusetts, 10 August 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
10 August 1812. “The Memorial and Remonstrance of the Town of Templeton in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts … Humbly shews— “That we have seen, with the most painful anxiety and regret, the Declaration of War by Congress against Great Britain. We profess the most firm and unshaken attachment to our Common Country, and to that Constitution and Republican form of...
24763To James Madison from John Mason, 10 August 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
10 August 1812, Indian Office. Recommends assistant agent Robert P. Bayly for the office of Indian agent at the trading house on Chickasaw Bluffs, left vacant by the death of John B. Treat. Recommends William M. Stewart as assistant agent at Fort Madison, to fill the vacancy left by the resignation of Asa Payne. RC ( DLC ); letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 75, Letters Sent by the Superintendent of...
24764Thomas Jefferson to Jacob Alrichs, 10 August 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
When you were so kind as to exhibit to me at Washington your Spinning machine with 6. spindles (for I believe it was yourself who attended there) I understood you meant to employ your mind in the construction of a carding machine on the same scale, to go by hand, and if it succeeded, that I should be furnished with one one on request. I understand you have fully succeeded in it, and I now ask...
24765Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 10 August 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
The death of my much valued friend & relation George Jefferson will doubtless produce many competitors for the office of Consul at Lisbon . among these a neighbor of mine, mr David Higginbotham wishes to be considered. he is a merchant of Milton , of very fair character, steady application to business, sound in his circumstances, and perfectly correct in all his conduct. he is a native of this...
24766Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 10 August 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
The letter within which this is inclosed contains the truth: there is not a word in it that is not so. but duty while the sollicitations of a friend have obliged me to present his case, duty to yourself & the public oblige me to say it does not contain the whole truth. one single circumstance is to be added. this candidate for the office of Consul at Lisbon , who often has to transact...
24767Benjamin Morgan to Thomas Jefferson, 10 August 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 20 th April reached me on the 24 th May , and Lieut. Robert Peyton arriving in town a few days afterwards, I deemed it unnecessary to hand over the papers in the case of the Peytons Estate to M r Robertson
24768From Abigail Smith Adams to Mercy Otis Warren, 9 August 1812 (Adams Papers)
After I returnd from your hospitable Mansion where the scenes of former days were pleasin g ly renewd I had the Subjects of contraversy between two ancient Friends and upon a review—I must Candedly Say that I judged both in the wrong, and am certain if personal intercourse from unavoidable circumstances had not been obstructed, neither party would so have judged, or so have written— I was can...
24769From James Madison to Henry Dearborn, 9 August 1812 (Madison Papers)
The last of your favors which I have to acknowlege is that of the 3d. Ult: from Boston. I am glad to see that you are again at Albany; where your presence will aid much in doing all that can be done for the reputation of the campaign. The lapse of time & the unproductiveness of the laws, contemplating a regular force, and volunteers for an entire year, under federal commissions, compel us to...
24770To James Madison from John Montgomery, 9 August 1812 (Madison Papers)
I presume you have seen the Statement with the Documents subjoined, Made under a resolve of the City Council of Baltimore, published in the American of yesterday, this gives the origin progress & extent of the late disturbances in this Place. With regard to the Alarm for the safety of the Post Office here, the Very general Military Assemblage of all ranks for its protection, & the general...
24771To James Madison from Matthew Walton, 9 August 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
9 August 1812, Prince Edward. “Some time ago a Vacancy was occationed in upper Louis[i]ana by the Death of Judge Shraider, Shortly after Several Recommendations was sent on Recommending Mr. Richard Cocke of Washington County Kentucky, & as yet have Received no answer.” Supposes that the appointment has been overlooked in “the great press of war Business.” Assures JM that Cocke’s appointment...
24772Thomas Jefferson to Theodorus Bailey, 9 August 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of July 21. with the map of the environs of New York , for which as well as for the kind offer to send me Law’s map of the Northern and Western frontier when done, be pleased to accept my grateful thanks. these proofs of friendly recollection give me great pleasures pleasure , as marks of an esteem which has grown out of our connection as fellow-laborers in the...
24773Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 9 August 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 3 d came to hand after the return of our post. the afflicting news of the death of my relation & our mutual friend had reached us thro’ the public papers two or three days before, and I have since recieved a particular account of it from his fellow passenger mr Fontaine Maury . of a worthier man death can never deprive us. altho’ his intention intended return was unexplained,...
24774Thomas Jefferson to Jeremiah Goodman, 9 August 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Jame Hubbard delivered your letter of the 30 th some days ago and proposes to set out on his return tomorrow. I am happy to hear your crops are likely. the wheat when threshed must remain in it’s chaff in the barn until we can dispose of it. with this view I should be glad if you before I go up you would get from the different millers the terms on which they will grind it for me, for I have no...
24775Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin James Harris, 9 August 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 3 d is duly recieved, & I freely offer you what occurs to me respecting the inventions therein mentioned. that of the fireproof cieling is entirely new, as far as I know, and will in many situations, I think be useful. I take for granted that the triangles H. K. F. in the drawing (which I return you) are either of the solid of the joist A. or are strips of hard wood firmly...
24776Thomas Jefferson to Fontaine Maury, 9 August 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just recieved your favors of the 18 th & 29 th of July , and in duty return you my thanks for the painful intelligence it they conveyed. this afflicting event had reached us thro’ the public papers, but the manner and circumstances of the death of my relation and friend were unknown. nor were they calculated to lessen the unhappiness of their issue. his inestimable worth will render...
24777James Monroe to Thomas Jefferson, 9 August 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
It was our intention to have passed a day with you & your family while I was in the county, but many interesting concerns and duties which require my constant attention will unavoidably prevent it. The arrangments which I have to make with my brothers family who arriv’d yesterday, will also take some portion of the short term allotted to my private affairs while here. As soon as our grandchild...
24778Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 9 August 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I shall always be happy when your own or mrs Monroe’s convenience will permit us to see you here; but know too well that the short visits you pay to your possessions, & the many things to be attended to there, do not admit your being embarrassed with visits & ceremonies. consider us therefore as fully aware of this, that our intercourse must be subordinate to these circumstances, & that the...
24779Thomas Jefferson to Robert Patterson, 9 August 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I send you another paper from our indefatigable calculator William Lambert . I do not know whether he is a member of our society, but I think his assiduities and qualifications render him entirely worthy of the choice of the society. our literary fare must be of homespun materials, I presume, during the continuance of the war, except so far as we may be refreshed by the precarious reciept of...
24780Thomas Jefferson to Reuben Perry, 9 August 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I shall set out for Poplar Forest within about 10. days or a fortnight from this time, and have to request that you will be ready to come there on notice of my arrival and lay all the grounds for the plaistering while I am there. in this I hope you will not fail me. I shall have then to propose to you a large job to be executed here; to wit a barn, which with it’s sheds will be 66 by 42. feet,...
24781From John Adams to Samuel Dexter, 8 August 1812 (Adams Papers)
I rejoice, with joy unspeakable, in the news I hear of the open Part you have taken with no less Wisdom and Fortitude than Justice and Generosity, in the present great Crisis of your Country’s Fortune. To endeavour, with or without Success, to assuage the passions and allay the fever of your fellow Citizens; when upon the point of precipitating themselves down a precipice: was worthy of...
24782To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 8 August 1812 (Adams Papers)
The paternal farm which I visited on the 11th: of last month, lies two miles further from Philadelphia than the honorable Cottage where you once did me and my brother the honor to take a family dinner with my dear and Venerable mother. She purchased and retired to it After She gave up business in Philadelphia. I had seen my native place but once since I was Six years old, and that but for a...
24783From James Madison to Richard Cutts, 8 August 1812 (Madison Papers)
I have had the pleasure of receiving yours of the 25th. Ult: The rancorous opposition in some of the E. States to the war, is peculiarly unfortunate, as it has the double effect of crippling its operations, and encouraging the Enemy to withold any pacific advances otherwise likely to be made. It appears that the B. Cabinet has been forced into a reconsideration of their refusal to repeal the...
24784From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 8 August 1812 (Madison Papers)
The communications from the B. Govt. lately recd. thro’ Baker are of a curious character. They promise that the O. in C. would cease on the 1st. Aug: with a right reserved to renew them in May next, in case the conduct of France and of the U. S. should require it; and particularly in case the Non-Imp: Act should not be repealed within 14 days after a notification of the actual repeal should be...
24785To James Madison from Charles Hall, 8 August 1812 (Madison Papers)
I have conversed with several passengers who arrived here last week in the Ship William direct from London, and who are not employed by the English Government, consequently do not endeavour to make their miserable condition appear to be desirable. These passengers represent the disaffection of the Natives of England to their Government as extreme, and the wretchedness and misery of the great...
24786To James Madison from the Chester Republican Cavalry, 8 August 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
8 August 1812 , “ Chester Ct. House, So Ca .” Have observed that the supplement to the Volunteer Act empowers the president to appoint and commission officers in the volunteer corps, “apparently contravening a certain clause of the first Act,” which allowed militia companies already organized to retain their commanding officers in the volunteer service. “We were and still hold ourselves ready...
24787To James Madison from John Morris, 8 August 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
8 August 1812, Erie, Pennsylvania. His volunteer company having been ordered by the governor into service in defense of the frontier bordering on Lake Erie, as was their sole object when they tendered their service to the president, “this company now consider the motive of the President as well as their own at an end in the accomplishment of its object; and through me beg leave to signify...
24788Thomas Jefferson to John B. Colvin, 8 August 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Colvin & his thanks for the papers he was so kind as to send him containing the answer to the protest of the Minority. he had already read two numbers of it with great satisfaction, and not without surmise of the hand from which it came. it’s union of fact and logic will let our enemies see that we have pens as well as swords to respond to their...
24789Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Lehré, 8 August 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I duly recieved your favor of the 14 th Ult. covering a paper containing proceedings of the patriots of S. Carolina . it adds another to the many proofs of their steady devotion to their own country. I can assure you the hearts of their fellow citizens in this state beat in perfect unison with them and with their government. of this their concurrence in the election of mr Madison & mr Gerry at...
24790Thomas Jefferson to Louis Philippe Gallot de Lormerie, 8 August 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of July 21. was duly recieved. at the time of it’s reciept the Secretary of state was daily expected at his seat in my neighborhood . he lately arrived there and I yesterday made your request the subject of a conversation with him, in which way it was much easier than by letter, to go into full explanations with him. he says there will be no difficulty in permitting you to take...
24791Thomas Jefferson to Robert Wright, 8 August 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieve and return the congratulations of your letter of July 6. with pleasure, and join the great mass of my fellow citizens in saying ‘well done, good & faithful servants , recieve the benedictions which your constituents are ready to give you.’ the British government seem to be doing late what, done earlier, might have prevented war; to wit, repealing the orders in Council. but it should...
24792To James Madison from Andrew Hull Jr., 7 August 1812 (Madison Papers)
At this interesting crisis of our beloved country I take the liberty, to address a few lines to the perusal of your Exelency as it hath ben reported by those who are unfriendly to the measures adopted by the goverment that the War is unpopalar even among the republicans in the New-england States, having Traveled lately in the States of Massechusets New Hamshire and Vermont, am confident of its...
24793To James Madison from Andrew Hull Jr., 7 August 1812 (Madison Papers)
Since writing the Inclosed I here learn that the governor and council have refused to comply with the Requisition of the Secretary at war in calling out the drafted Militia and to summon the Members of the house of Representetives to mete at this place two weeks from next Tuesday. With sentiments of high consid[e]ration Your Obt Servt RC ( DLC ). Hull to JM, 7 Aug. 1812 (first letter) . On 10...
24794To James Madison from William Pinkney, 7 August 1812 (Madison Papers)
I do not perceive that the General Government could well interfere upon the subject of the Letter, which you did me the Honour to enclose to me even if it were desirable that it should; but I am quite sure that it will be wholly unnecessary. There is no Disposition to Riot here except with a mere Handful of low people, who can and will be restrained by the Authority of the Majistracy of the...
24795Recommendation of John Neilson, 7 August 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof M r John Neilson , a house Joiner by trade worked for me at Monticello some years. I can assure those who may have occasion to employ him that he is perfectly acquainted with the orders of Art Architecture , and the most approved stile of finishing both inside and outside work. is equal in the execution of it to any workman in America , draws well and is a complete master of...
24796Nicholas B. Pryor to Thomas Jefferson, 7 August 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Before you receive this you will receive a letter from Col o Anderson , Expresing my inclination to have an appointment in the United States army . if you can reconcile it to your self, to recommend me to the war department, you will do me a favour which I shall Ever be indebted to you for. the reason why I ask this important favour of you, is, because I know you can have any man appointed...
24797Alexis Marie Rochon to Thomas Jefferson, 7 August 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
J avois eu L’honneur de vous adresser un Exemplaire de mes voyages par le moyen de M. Short qui n’a cessé dans toutes les circonstances de me donner des marques d’une veritable affection. celle que vous m’avez temoigné Monsieur, m’est toujours Presente et je n’aurois pas manqué de vous En temoigner plutot ma Reconnaissance Sans votre nomination à L’Eminente place de Président des Etats unis :...
24798From John Adams to Samuel B. Malcom, 6 August 1812 (Adams Papers)
Your favour of July 18 was duely received. Your Resolution to Subjugate yourself to the controul of no Party, is noble; but have you considered all the Consequences of it? in the whole History of human Life. This Maxim, has rarely failed to annihilate the Influence of the Man who adopts it and very often exposed him to the Tragical Vengence of all Parties, There are two Tyrants in huhan Life,...
24799From Abigail Smith Adams to Caroline Amelia Smith De Windt, 6 August 1812 (Adams Papers)
I received your letter this day, written from Springfield; this has been a relief to us to hear that you were well, and that your dear mother bore her journey so well. After you left me I felt no restraint upon me, and could give way to all I felt and all I had suppressed; my harp was upon the willow, and my spirits at a very low ebb; I have in some measure recovered them, and follow you daily...
24800To James Madison from William Duane, 6 August 1812 (Madison Papers)
I have been just informed by Mr Carswell that he means to signify by the morning’s Mail, that he cannot accept the office of Commissary General. There is no man more honest than Mr Carsewell, and it is the sense which he entertains of the importance of the station which induces him to decline its acceptance. The same idea of its importance induces me to take the liberty of addressing you. A...