From James Madison to John Quincy Adams, 27 March 1826
To John Quincy Adams
Montpellier Mar. 27. 1826
J. Madison has received, under the President’s name, a copy of the Message and documents transmitted to the House of Representatives, relating to the proposed Congress at Panama:1 and he ought not to make his acknowledgments for the politeness to which he is indebted, without expressing, at the same time, his sense of the ability and eloquence, as well as of the intrinsic interest by which the communication is characterized.
James Madison
RC (MHi: Adams Papers).
1. John Quincy Adams, Message from the President of the United States upon the Subject of an Appropriation to Carry into Effect a Mission to Panama, Mar. 17, 1826: Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means (Washington, D.C., 1826; 27222).