24951To John Adams from Elkanah Watson, 19 July 1812 (Adams Papers)
In answer to your respected favr of the 15th Inst—permit ted me to Say—You are greatly mistaken—Altho’ the Spirit of party has cruelly exposed you, to the rancorous Venom of party Malignity—Your friends are consoled, with the full belief, that these angry wa t ers beat against you, as against a rock in the Midst of the Ocean—& that each Succeeding wave falls broken at your feet—they also Know...
24952To James Madison from the Citizens of Greenville District, South Carolina, 19 July 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
19 July 1812. Submit “the following address and Resolutions,” which were drafted by a committee of thirteen and “Unanimously adopted.” “Secluded as our happy Country has been from the horrors and privations of War, Indicative of that firm & Decorous Stand, as a nuteral [ sic ] which she long since adopted, as the best policy for a Republic to persue, under which policy, the American States...
24953To James Madison from Frederick Stump, 19 July 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
19 July 1812, Davidson County, Tennessee. “I tender you by the unanimous voice of the Company of Cavalry sixty four in Number our Services to be included in the fifty Thousand Volunteers or at your Exlency will and disposial.” Was appointed a cavalry captain by Tennessee governor John Sevier in 1808. Informs JM that his company is “in good order and well Equiped.” Adds in a postscript that he...
24954William P. Newby to Thomas Jefferson, 19 June [July] 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I am extremely Sorry, that I have to inform you that by endeavouring to brake one of my young cows to the pail we have lost her. w the day being very warm and haveing to run her down, and then handling her rather ruffur than we Aught to done, as the weather was So warm, this never Ocurrd to my mind untill two late, She faught vigorously to the last moment the meat I will divide amongst the...
24955From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 18 July 1812 (Adams Papers)
Your Letter of the 8th, my dear Friend is pleasing and it is painfull to me, in a high degree. You are not less allarmed, than I am grieved, at the opposition to the general Government in our State. But I am more allarmed and grieved at the Apologies furnished for it by that general Government in their Stupid Embargo and their wicked refusal to build a few Frigates. You will daily read more...
24956To John Adams from Samuel B. Malcom, 18 July 1812 (Adams Papers)
On my return this morning from Nyork, your two favors of May 21st. & June 17th. were received, and read, with all the sincere respect, & affectionate acknowledgment, it is in my power to express, or entertain. Although disappointed of office, I feel the consolation, that I am not thereby disgraced, for I am proud, & satisfied, to hold a place in your regards—The expectations on the score of...
24957To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 18 July 1812 (Adams Papers)
During the revolutionary War I kept notes and preserved pamphlets with a view to write memoirs of it. From the immense difference in my facts and opinions from those that were current and popular, I was sure if I had published them they would not have been believed, and would moreover have exposed me & my posterity to persecution. I therefore burnt all my notes (the characters of the gentlemen...
24958To John Adams from Richard Rush, 18 July 1812 (Adams Papers)
I beg you will do me the honor to accept a Copy of a discourse I delivered on the 4th of July at this place. The present crisis of our country, sir, is most momentous; but it seems greatly to be feared that the powerful and intelligent state of Massachusetts will not yield her zealous cooperation to the nation in its present struggle. With constant wishes for your health and happiness allow...
24959To James Madison from James Barbour, 18 July 1812 (Madison Papers)
I have just learned through Colo. Coles that he has received Orders to cause the recruits of the regular Army in this State, as well those now in the Forts of Norfolk, as those hereafter to be enlisted, to repair forthwith, to Carlisle, as a place of general rendezvous. This arrangement I presume has been made after due deliberation and the wisdom thereof, it does not become me to question....
24960To James Madison from Thomas Claxton, 18 July 1812 (Madison Papers)
At the South End of the South Wing of the Capitol there is a gang way or platform which serves for the entrance of the Galleries of the Ho of Reps—this passage, Sir was at first built of perishable Materials and is now almost impassable and in times of a Crowd, very dangerous, its elevation being about twelve feet from the ground. Having learnt that you are about to cause the expenditure of...
24961To James Madison from Ebenezer Sage, 18 July 1812 (Madison Papers)
On my return to this place I found that the Citizens had assembled in a number of places, and appointed Committees to devise the most effectual means of defence, in the event of an attack from the enemy. This port lies near Gardiners Bay: the best harbor for a fleet in the United States and where the british usually wintered their fleets in the time of the revolution. On Application, some...
24962To James Madison from Hugh White, 18 July 1812 (Madison Papers)
It is hoped that your Excellency will not be offended with the freedom taken by a citizen in sending you a few of his meditations & mental discussions on subjects which in a greater or less extent have occupied the rational faculties of the human race since the origin of the world. Relaxations, intermissions and unbending of the human mind from intenseness of study may be profitable both to...
24963To James Madison from the Citizens of Darlington District, South Carolina, 18 July 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
18 July 1812. Approve the declaration of war against Great Britain and report the following resolutions, “which were unanimously adopted.” “To avenge insult, and repel injury, is characteristic of a great and magnanimous people: To Suffer them with impunity, bespeaks pusillanimity, and invites to repetition. Great Britain compelled to acknowledge us independent, has always manifested towards...
24964Richard Rush to Thomas Jefferson, 18 July 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
By the mail of this day, I take the liberty to send you a small pamphlet , which I have to beg you will do me the honor to accept. That you may continue to be blessed with health in your retirement, and that your illustrious life may long be spared, is the wish of one who has the honor to subscribe himself, RC ( MHi ); at foot of text: “Ths: Jefferson, Esquire”; endorsed by TJ as received 23...
24965From John Adams to Charles Jared Ingersoll, 17 July 1812 (Adams Papers)
I have received your favour of the 10th: of this month with your oration on our anniversary Festival: which, though I received and read it first in a Newspaper, gave me a higher pleasure, by a second perusal, on receiving it in a Pamphlet from its Author. it is if I may be permitted to express an opinion of it, in a strain of Philosophical Reflection, no less they than in a style of Elegance...
24966From Abigail Smith Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody, 17 July 1812 (Adams Papers)
I received your Letter written upon the Birth-day of my only daughter, and memorable to me for that occasion, as well as the Eleventh of the Same Month upon which was Born J Q Adams, and a Sister whom I lost, and whom no doubt you recollect from the circumstances attending it, for you were with me. so much for Egotism. now I will replie to your queries. in the first place, I have the pleasure...
24967To James Madison from Jeremiah Anderson, 17 July 1812 (Madison Papers)
I am the unhappy young man to say again that I have not received an answer yet to my last dates —which grieves, me to the quick by Keeping me in suspence. I pray your Excellency will be so good to Send me my documents by return of Post together with an answer or without an answer—as may please your Excellency best. ’Ere’ I close I beg to impress on your mind the observation which I have...
24968To James Madison from Paul Carrington Jr., 17 July 1812 (Madison Papers)
Conformably to an order of a general meeting of the people of Charlotte at their Court-house I transmit to you a Copy of their Proceedings. The Coincidence of your order, and the people’s sentiments, is satisfactory evidence of their truth, and justice; and I am the more gratifyed, as I am forceably reminded of our early acquaintance in 1786, and 1787, when we generally concurred in important...
24969To James Madison from George Joy, 17 July 1812 (Madison Papers)
Leaving Town for a few days I sent to Lord Sidmouth the letter of which I take the liberty to enclose copy herein. I returned on the 11th. Instant & found a card of Mr Russell subjoining a request in pencil that I would call on him on my return. My letters have been regularly sent me; but of this card I knew nothing though it had lain a week at my lodgings and on calling I found he had left...
24970To James Madison from Robert Martin, 17 July 1812 (Madison Papers)
In your fathers liftime Capt. Scott—your father and one or two Others, agreed to let my Grandfather Ro. Martin have a Certain quantity of land, adjoining Capt. Scott & others; which was in his possession a Considerable time; he lived & died upon it—but your father for some Cause detaind the land [(]the part he was to give) & profered to give to the representatives of Robert Martin so much...
24971To James Madison from Caleb Nichols, [ca. 17 July] 1812 (Madison Papers)
The earnest Petition of Caleb Nichols of Plattsburgh in the State of N. Y. humbly Showeth, that Whereas the U. S. have Declared war against G. B. And Whereas Canada and Novascotia, Nay Hallifax alone, are worth continuing the war for. And Whereas it is reported, which report your Petitioner believes to be true, that the British orders in Council have been recinded. And Whereas the British...
24972To James Madison from William Pinkney, 17 July 1812 (Madison Papers)
From the enclosed Extract from the “American” it would seem that our Consul at Lisbon has retired from his Station; and it is possible that he may not wish to return to it. If that should be so, will you permit me to mention my eldest Son (William) for your Consideration as his Successor in Case one shd. be appointed. He can have the best Recommendation from Merchants and others of all...
24973To James Madison from William Wirt, 17 July 1812 (Madison Papers)
On passing through the county of Powhatan two days ago, I had the mortification to learn from a friend of mine that he had, with a kind yet illjudged officiousness, written to you in my behalf, recommending me for a military appointment. I was aware that you had lately received a similar intimation, through Mr. Brent, from another quarter; and ’though I had explained, immediately, to Mr. Brent...
24974To James Madison from William Farquhar, 17 July 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
17 July 1812, Natchez. Asks that JM permit him “to remain peacably untill He can dispose of his property lawfully aquired here; Pay his debts which are but few; and retire, to oppose in another land Napoleon the Tyrant the plague of Europe.” RC ( DNA : RG 59, War of 1812 Papers, Letters Received regarding Enemy Aliens). 1 p.; docketed by JM. William Farquhar of Natchez was described on the...
24975To James Madison from Richard Rush, 17 July 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
17 July 1812. Requests that JM “accept a copy of the discourse the delivery of which, on the 4th of July, he was so obliging as to witness.” RC ( PHi ). 1 p. Enclosure not found, but see n. 1. On 8 July 1812 the National Intelligencer reported that JM, along with his family and the heads of departments, had been escorted to the Capitol on 4 July to hear Rush’s address. Afterward, JM’s party...
24976William Duane to Thomas Jefferson, 17 July 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I should have answered your obliging letter of the 20 th April , had my mind not been kept in agitation by the pressure which I began to feel heavily in consequence of my opposition to the U. S. Bank , and which although I have in effect surmounted, has left me like a man after a severe disease, with an unusual degree of debility. I had read your admirable work on the batture before I was...
24977To James Madison from the Inhabitants of New Braintree, Massachusetts, 16 July 1812 (Madison Papers)
We your memorialists, beg leave to improve a constitutional privilege, in expressing our views and feelings, with respect to the late Declaration of War , by our government, against Great-Britain. While we would treat the opinion and measures of our Rulers with deference, we feel it to be a right and a duty which we owe to ourselves and to our Country, to express our sentiments at this time...
24978To James Madison from George S. Kavenagh, 16 July 1812 (Madison Papers)
The High Station you fill in the Hearts of your Counterymen Has Induced Me to adress My self to you in Preference to Making Interest through others and as My Statement is Certain Facts I Expect that Justice which Has Ever Marked with Honour your Precedency will be Extended in My Present application. Your Excellency may well Recollect the Decided Step Taken by you to Save from Ruin West Florida...
24979Thomas Jefferson to George Hay, 16 July 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
This Postscript to my letter of the 13 th is occasioned by my discovering, on turning to Pleasant’s Collection of acts , vol. 2. for another purpose, that an act of assembly of Dec. 13. 1796 . made void all entries unless surveyed before Nov. 1. 1798. see page (29) chap. 41. there are subsequent acts in favor of locations under land-warrants, but I do not find in that collection, any...
24980William Lambert to Thomas Jefferson, 16 July 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
The Secretary of State having early in the present month, reported to Congress on the subject of a first meridian for the United States , in which he has recommended the establishment of an Observatory as of essential utility to ascertain the position of the Capitol in this City with due precision, permit me to send some rules by which the parallaxes in longitude and latitude may be found with...