30391From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 6 June 1809 (Adams Papers)
In page 28, Mr. Hamilton acknowledges that "the President had pledged himself in his speech, (he should have said in his message) to send a minister, if satisfactory assurances of a proper reception were given." Notwithstanding this, Mr. Hamilton, and all his confidential friends, exerted their utmost art and most strenuous endeavors to prevail on the President to violate this pledge. What can...
30392To James Madison from John Armstrong, 6 June 1809 (Madison Papers)
The journals of yesterday gave us your proclamation announcing an arrangement with the British Minister at Washington. Those of to-day give us M. Canning’s disavowal of that minister’s conduct, and would make us believe that M. Erskine had gone in the very face of his instructions. There is nothing astonishing in all this. It is a true specimen of modern diplomacy. New hopes from Austria—from...
30393To James Madison from Philip Reed, 6 June 1809 (Madison Papers)
Ph: Reed presents his compliments to Mr Madison, and in answer to Mr. Madisons note of yesterday, Ph: Reed begs leave to observe that he is now confined to his chamber in consequence of the effects of a fall from a horse two weeks ago, that he has not been able to get from his lodgings but one day since his arrival in the City—to this cause it is that Mr. Madison will have the goodness to...
30394Louis Philippe Gallot de Lormerie to Thomas Jefferson, 6 June [1809] (Jefferson Papers)
Dans la lettre que j’ai Eu L’honneur de vous Ecrire en d er Lieu J’ai obmis de Vous informer que j’avois reçu en 8 bre d er une Lettre du Departement de LEtat a Washington qui m’informe que toute personne non citoyen des E:u doit pour obtenir la permission de sEmbarquer pour L’Europe prouver que les ministres des nations belligerantes n’ont aucune Opposition a former au Passâge de cette...
30395To John Adams from Jonathan Williams, 5 June 1809 (Adams Papers)
WITH a view to collect and preserve the Military Science, which must still exist among the Veterans of our revolutionary contest, and those of our Fellow-Citizens, who may have gathered scientific fruits in the course of their travels, the Corps of Engineers have, under the auspices of the President of the United States , commenced an Institution for the purpose of establishing and...
30396From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 5 June 1809 (Adams Papers)
IN page 25, is a strain of flimsy rant, as silly as it is indecent. “The supplement to the declaration was a blameable excess.” It waved the point of honor, which after two rejections of our ministers, required that the next mission, should proceed from France. Where did he find this point of honor? If any such point had existed, it had its full force against the second mission: and its...
30397From Abigail Smith Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody, 5 June 1809 (Adams Papers)
I was unable to replie to my dear Sisters Letter of May 19th when I received it, being visited by St Anthony, who scourged me most cruelly. I am sure I wished well to the Spanish patriots in their late Struggle for Liberty, and I bore no ill will to those whose tutular saint thus unprovoked beset me. I wish he had been preaching to the fishes who according to tradition have been his hearers ,...
30398From Abigail Smith Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody, 5 June 1809 (Adams Papers)
I was unable to replie to my dear sisters Letter of May 19th. being visited by St Anthony who scourged me most cruelly. I am sure I wished well to the Spanish patriots in their late struggle for their Liberty. I bore no ill will to the portegeze whose tutelar Saint thus wantonly beset me, I wish he had been preaching to the fishes, who according to tradition, have been his Hearers, for so ill...
30399To James Madison from John Armstrong, 5 June 1809 (Madison Papers)
I write this letter under feelings the most unpleasant. You will have seen by my public correspondence, that on the 26th. Ult. I was induced to write a letter to M. Champagny, contradicting the reports which were circulating here of an alledged adjustment of our differences with G. B. and that I had been principally induced to take this step by the silence of M. Pinkney. The journals of to-day...
30400James Fishback to Thomas Jefferson, 5 June 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Your name has become s o familiar to the people of these United States , & been so long associated with whatever is of interest to society I have ventured to send you a Pamphlet of my production—. The question which it professes to investigate may appear at first sight may to be too stale, & hackneyed to merit serious regard. The plan of the enquiry as far as I know is new, & may suggest some...
30401Jonathan Shoemaker to Thomas Jefferson, 5 June 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I sometime back wrote thee I Should be at Shadwell in all May but Owing to a Variety of Untoward Sircumstances have been Prevented from coming on, I a few days ago have Sold my Mills neer this place & Shall give Possession on or about the 20 th Instant & Shortly after that time I Shall come on to Shadwell RC ( MHi ); at foot of text: “Thomas Jefferson Esq”; endorsed by TJ as received 11 June...
30402From James Madison to Congress, 4 June 1809 (Madison Papers)
In compliance with the request of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, I transmit to Congress a copy of certain of its proceedings, communicated for the purpose, by the Governor of that State. RC , two copies ( DNA : RG 233, Legislative Proceedings, and DNA : RG 46, Legislative Proceedings); enclosure ( DNA : RG 46, Legislative Proceedings). House copy headed: “To the House of Representatives of...
30403To James Madison from Thomas Urquhart, 4 June 1809 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
4 June 1809, New Orleans. Encloses a duplicate of an earlier letter to President Jefferson relating to a vacancy on the Orleans Territory Legislative Council owing to the death of Jean Baptiste Macarty. He fears the letter miscarried, since no replacement has been appointed. RC ( DNA : RG 59, Territorial Papers, Orleans). 1 p. Enclosure not found. Printed in Carter, Territorial Papers, Orleans...
30404To James Madison from Stephen Cathalan, 3 June 1809 (Madison Papers)
It was with great Joy, that I learned by Newspapers that you have been elected President of the United States of America, & now filling that honorable & Illustrious Post. The great Majority (which may be accounted as unanimity) of the votes in your favor shows & proves to both Hemispheres the Union & the Wisdom of the people of the United States, in having placed at the head of the Executive,...
30405To James Madison from Tench Coxe, [3] June 1809 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor respectfully to submit to your consideration the inclosed Memoir. A few hundred copies have been prepared in order to subject it to the examination of my fellow citizens and to the judgment of gentlemen in public life. Enquiries into the means of attaining public good, and escaping public evil, can never do harm and may be useful if made with sobriety, honesty & industry. If...
30406Augustus B. Woodward to Thomas Jefferson, 3 June 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of may 27. awakens, sir, anew, my sense of your undeviating kindness and condescension.— The system, of which the work I have transmitted is a partial developement, was formed in 1795, in rockbridge ; and just before I had the happiness of a first interview at monticello . The result of the presidential elections of 1796, and 1800, prevented me from presenting it to the public. In...
30407To James Madison from William Eustis, 2 June 1809 (Madison Papers)
In obedience to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 27th. of May requesting the President of the United States to cause the Secretary of War to lay before the house an estimate of the sums necessary to compleat the fortifications commenced or contemplated, and also the amount of any deficiency of former appropriations for this object, I have the honor to state That of the...
30408To James Madison from Henry Dearborn, 1 June 1809 (Madison Papers)
The result of our Elections has given our political opponants the intire direction of our State Government for the present year, what use they will make of the power they possess is uncertain, moderation or prudence, belongs not to their political character, they may however; for once, consider it expedient to attempt some restraint on their feelings & dispositions, I fear they will, but if...
30409To James Madison from Josiah Jackson, 1 June 1809 (Madison Papers)
Thinking by this time the many addresses from different quarters of the Union, congratulating you on filling the Presidential Chair being somewhat subsided: I (tho’ a stranger) have presumed on your precious moments to convey to you a few lines in the way of private letter, some account of a distant Branch of your Family. Which I thought might not be altogether ungratifying to you to hear...
30410To James Madison from John Tyler, 1 June 1809 (Madison Papers)
Having received a communication from our Consul in Cuba enclosing a proclamation of the Intendant or Governor of that Island, by which it appears that all the French people who had adopted that Country were expelled therefrom; and having also received a letter from William Vaughn Esquire, a Magistrate of the Borough of Norfolk, informing me of many of those unfortunate people having arrived at...
30411Thomas Jefferson to Philip Tabb, 1 June 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Apr. 7. has been duly recieved, with the copy of that of January. on reading the first paragraph of it respecting the nuts, I was confident I had recieved it, as I had forwarded the nuts on to a friend in Philadelphia . on searching my letter bundles, I accordingly found that of January recieved on the 27 th of that month . yet when Cap t Decatur sent me the Mould board, the part...
30412To James Madison from George Joy, 31 May 1809 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
31 May 1809, London. Has read the parliamentary debates on the Erskine agreement, which “are best reported in the Chronicle.” No doubt JM is better informed “than we can be here.” Encloses a copy of the instructions accompanying the 26 Apr. revision of the orders in council, as well as his letter to Canning in which Joy expresses his disappointment at the foreign secretary’s adamant stand...
30413Lacépède to Thomas Jefferson, 31 May 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
je saisis avec bien de l’empressement, une nouvelle occasion de vous remercier de la lettre honorable que vous avez bien voulu m’adresser le 14. juillet dernier. l’un des secrétaires perpétuels de la première classe de l’institut , a du vous exprimer, Monsieur, combien tous mes confrères ont été flattés de recevoir de leur illustre associé, une marque de souvenir, et une collection précieuse...
30414Bishop James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 31 May 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
M r W m Rives , the Son of M r Rives of Nelson County , will present this to you. He has lately been obliged to quit leave College , on Acc t
30415From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 30 May 1809 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of the 22d. did not come to hand till the day before yesterday. It will give me pleasure to take the place of Mr. Barnes in the note to the Bank; the more so as it will, it seems, be a relief to the Old Gentleman’s pecuniary anxieties. I will have an early communication with him on the subject. I wish the original arrangement had taken the shape now proposed, and hope that you will...
30416From James Madison to the Tennessee General Assembly, 30 May 1809 (Madison Papers)
I have received, fellow Citizens, your Address bearing date the 22d. of April. The circumstances of the period which led to this expression of your sentiments, were well calculated to produce anxiety in the minds of Citizens cherishing an ardent love of peace, tho’ ready to maintain the rights of their Country, even at the expence of that blessing, of any culpable share in bringing on so...
30417George Jefferson to Thomas Jefferson, 30 May 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I send you by M r Randolph’s boat two boxes which we have lately received.— There is some nail rod & bar iron which I had reserved, but Ben cannot carry it.—If you find you will require it before M r R’s boats will be down again, be pleased to inform me, that I may forward it by others. RC ( MHi ); endorsed by TJ as received 4 June 1809 and so recorded in SJL .
30418James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 30 May 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 22 d did not come to hand till the day before yesterday. It will give me pleasure to take the place of M r Barnes in the note to the Bank ; the more so as it will, it seems, to be a relief to the Old Gentleman’s pecuniary anxieties. I will have an early communication with him on the subject. I wish the original arrangement had taken the shape now proposed, and hope that you...
30419Antoine François Tardieu to Thomas Jefferson, 30 May 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Je vous remercie beaucoup de la carte du Haut Mississipi que vous m’avez fait remettre par Monsieur Coles , ainsi que de celle de la Louisiane du capitaine Louis dont vous voulez bien me promettre un exemplaire. Je ferai ces changemens Sur ma carte avant que d’en faire imprimer de nouveau et cela y ajoutera un interet de plus encore. Je joints à cette lettre une Carte Marine de la...
30420To John Adams from François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 29 May 1809 (Adams Papers)
As you felt So Sensiblÿ for mÿ Sorrows, it is highly becoming, that you Should be among the first, to whom I Should communicate mÿ happier prospects. Mÿ Eldest Son John at Philadelphia did ask me, two days past, for my consent in his marriage with a Miss Julia Taylor, of a respectable familÿ and connections, with a moderate fortune, adequate to his wishes. His former prudent conduct made me...