James Madison Papers

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).

1John 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; Shoemaker description begins Richard H. Shoemaker, comp., A Checklist of American Imprints for 1820–1829 (11 vols.; New York, 1964–72). description ends 27222).

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