31561To Thomas Jefferson from Vincent King, 16 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
After a series of chemical experiments upon the nature and Modus operandi of forming steel I have at length completely succeeded in preparing it—There have been many attempts at forming this indispensible Article in the U. States and as far as I have had it in my power to examine all of them have proved Abortive. The compounds they have formed differ essentially from the qualities which...
31562To Thomas Jefferson from Richard Bland Lee, 16 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
My Brother Genl. Henry Lee being in a most critical state of health, has been advised by his Physicians to try a Sea-voyage—as the only Chance left of restoring it—He wishes also to obtain the deposition of Col Brown of one of the Caiers;—which I believe is an Island so small as to attract to it few vessels—except such as go once a year Specially for its Cotton. Col. Brown’s testimony is...
31563To Thomas Jefferson from Indian Nations, 16 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
We salute you we thank the great Spirit above for preserving us on our way here to your Seat of Government. now father we hope that you will open your ears & listen to your Children we hope that these words may Sink down deep into your hart Your Children the Ottowas Chippiwas, Potowatamies Shawanoes & Wyandots are now come to represent their sentiments to you from their Brethren & Nations from...
31564From Thomas Jefferson to United States Senate, 16 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
The secretary of the navy’s list of nominations of officers for the marine corps & of Surgeons mates for the navy was sent to the Senate this day. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson. I nominate Henry Caldwell of Massachusetts to be a captain in the Marine Corps in the place of Robert Rankin resigned. Robt. D. Wainwright of S. Carolina William Anderson of New Jersey
31565To Thomas Jefferson from Citizens of West Tennessee, 16 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Patriotic Meeting On monday the 16th Inst. pursuant to public notice, a number of respectable Citizens of West Tennessee assembled at the Court House in the Town of Nashville, to consider the propriety of addressing the general government at the present eventful period. General James Robertson was called to the Chair, and Alexander Porter Jr. appointed Secretary. On the meeting being...
31566To James Madison from William Charles Coles Claiborne, 15 January 1809 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to enclose you, a Copy of a letter addressed to me by His Excellency Nemesio Salcedo, Governor General of the Province of Texas communicating his determination to deliver the fugitive Slaves, to the Order of their Masters. The contents of this letter (which were made known to the Parish Judge of Nachitoches by a Spanish officer to whose care it was committed) have diffused...
31567To Thomas Jefferson from Anonymous, 15 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
The Embargo is violated in the following manner, Ships clear from the Southward for a northern port & go off to the West Indies, The collector at Old York (near Portsmouth) for a certain sum per Barrel & per Hohd. sends on a certificate in due form of the landing of the Goods—about twenty vessels have gone from Old York & its viscinity manag’d in another manner; Bonds to a small amt have been...
31568To Thomas Jefferson from William Armistead Burwell, 15 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
W A Burwell received your friendly note of yesterday, & feels grateful for your kind wishes. to day he is engaged with F. Gilmer—but hereafter will continue, to partake of your family dinners—from which he has derived so much pleasure—be assured my dear Sir, your goodness is gratefully rememberd MHi : Coolidge Collection.
31569To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Leiper, 15 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
My friend Mr. Carswell informs he has delivered you Doctor Towers Illustration of Prophecy—When I sent you the Book I took it for granted you had never seen the Book and by reading it you would see in a Concise point of view what God in his Providence intends to do with the Ten Kings and the Ten Kingdoms of Europe— The Title page I suppose you have already read (altho‘ I am very sensible you...
31570To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Beekman Livingston, 15 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Presumeing on the short Acquaintance I once had the Honour of while You were in Congress A.D. 1775, I now address You, I was then a Captain in the Army, and had been sent to Philadelphia with Dispatches by General Montgomery my Brother in Law, anounceing the capture of Montreal. I mention the Circumstace, because I think you will remember it: tho’ probably you have forgotten me, I venture Sir...
31571From Thomas Jefferson to John Mason, 15 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Genl. Mason and being about to retire to a country life, where his garden will be a principal amusement, he is making up his emplettes of seeds. he has to beg of Genl. Mason some seeds of the egg plant; to which he must add a little of the Ruta baga, or Swedish turnep, he knows that this last is to be had at the shops, but he has remarked that which...
31572From Thomas Jefferson to James Mease, 15 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
The constant pressure of such business as will admit no delay, has prevented my sooner acknoleging the reciept of your letter of the 2d. and even now will confine me to the single question, for the answer to which you wait, before you take any step towards bringing forward the institution you propose for the advancement of the arts. that question is whether Congress would grant a charter of...
31573From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Willson Peale, 15 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I take up my pen to inform you that the box with the vase & bridle bit arrived safely last night, & to save the trouble of the search you propose to make in your’s of the 10th. you therein say that ‘when my Polygraph is done you shall leave it to my choice to take either one or the other.’ this, my dear Sir, will be putting my delicacy to severe trial. I find the one I am now writing with, in...
31574From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Randolph, 15 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your letter of the 10th. mentioning the invention of a bridle having the advantage of not going into the horse’s mouth. You know of course you can have a patent for the use of it on the terms mentioned in the patent law. in the event of the Secretary at War’s approving it, & wishing to make use of it, it would become a question whether he could give a price for permission...
31575To John Adams from William Cunningham, 14 January 1809 (Adams Papers)
I received, on the last day of December, the 2d. and 3d. volumes of the Defence, for which I renew my thanks. You have truly characterized this work in the comparison you have made of it, in your Letter of the 3d. inst. to a Boudoir. Many of the evils which you have described as incident to an unbalanced government, we have found by experience to have been insufficiently guarded against by our...
31576To John Jay from Peter Augustus Jay, 14 January 1809 (Jay Papers)
I have this instant rec d . a letter from Judge Van Ness of which the following is a Copy— Your Affect. Son I have taken the liberty to obtain from ^through^ you some important Information from your Father relative to the Construction of the ninth Article of the Treaty negociated by him with the British Government— There is a Difference of Opinion respecting it in a Case depending altogether...
31577To James Madison from Edmund Pendleton, 14 January 1809 (Madison Papers)
I had the honor of addressing a letter to the President not long since recommending to his consideration the appointing of my son Mr. Edmund Pendleton jr. to the first vacant Office attached to the Federal Government in this State, not in the Judiciary department. I can with truth say to you Sir, as I did to Mr. Jefferson, that his qualifications, both mental and moral, fit him for the correct...
31578To James Madison from Daniel D’Oyley, 14 January 1809 (Madison Papers)
I congratulate You on Your Election to the Presidency of the United States, & on the success of Republicanism -- it is a cause for Which I Shouldered My Musket at 14, and Served regularly through the Army that established our Independence unto the termination of the War. My Services for to confirm What We thus gained, were again in Activity in 1799 & 1800, and I have felt the approbation of My...
31579To James Madison from George Churchman, 14 January 1809 (Madison Papers)
I suppose it will be quite unexpected that a distant stranger should take the liberty to address thee; yet perhaps a man of thy character for Urbanity in the station thou hast been called on to occupy, will not object to the perusal of a few lines from one who has now arrived to the 79th. year of his age, but, who has believed it his place to avoid meddling with political affairs, and the...
31580To Thomas Jefferson from Andrew Benade, 14 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Excellency’s letter of the 7th Instt, conveying to me for the account of Mr. Craven Peyton of Albemarle in Virginia a draught of the bank of the United States at Washington on that of Philadelphia for two hundred and seventy five dollars, has been duly received, and I beg leave to tender You my most respectful acknowledgments for the trouble You have given Yourself in making this...
31581From Thomas Jefferson to William Eustis, 14 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the pleasure to acknolege the reciept of your letter of Dec. 24. and of the resolutions of the republican citizens of Boston, of the 19th. of that month. these are worthy of the antient character of the sons of Massachusets, & of the spirit of concord with her sister states which and which alone, carried us succesfully through the revolutionary war & finally placed us under that...
31582From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Chalkley James, 14 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved your favor of the 6th. inst. informing me that the American Philosophical society had been pleased, at their late election, unanimously to re-elect me President of the society. in desiring, in my letter to the Vice-presidents, that I might be permitted to withdraw from that honour, I asked from a conscientious persuasion that I was keeping from that important station members...
31583To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Pinckney, 14 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Since my arrival in this City—lately I have been so confined by the indisposition & serious illness of one of my family that I have been able to attend to little else otherwise I should have written You more fully than I leave you a Number of occurrences here which You no doubt of have heard through other Channels—as the post goes out in an hour or two I send this line & shall write by the...
31584To Thomas Jefferson from Pseudonym: "Prophecy", 14 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
O Thomas thy Deceit & Wickedness is great upon the Earth, and when thou retirest from Office, thou will be asshamed to look an honest Man in the Face, and I am sure, no honest Man can look upon thee with Complacency. Thy Society in this world, will be composed of the most wicked, & worthless part of Creation, and in the other World, of Devels, & infernal Spirits— DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
31585To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Smith, 14 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to enclose herewith for your nomination to the Senate a list of officers for the Marine Corps and of Surgeons mates for the Navy. The marine Officers are indispensable for that Corps under its present regulations, & the surgeons mates are wanted immediately for actual service, that Corps being reduced by deaths & resignations. I send also a few blank warrants to fill up...
31586To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 13 January 1809 (Adams Papers)
In a situation such as you have seen a Sea Captain in a Gale of Wind, I sit down to acknowledge the receipt of your two last instructing letters. Present events will justify your opinion of the present measures of our rulers. Your Account of the pernicious influence of a belief in the time in Which the prophesies are to be fulfilled is to much opposed to the System of the divine government...
31587To James Madison from Elisha Tracy, 13 January 1809 (Madison Papers)
Permit me to introduce to You the bearer Capt. Chew. He has served in the Navy of the United States & I believe with reputation & wishes to enter the service again. He is Son to the Capt. Chew (I believe a family Connection of Yours) who Commanded an Armed Vessel of the U. States during our Revolutionary War, & lost his life, standing between his Countrys rights & our Enemies Bayonets. I am...
31588From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 13 January 1809 (Madison Papers)
(1) placed us under that national Govt. which constitutes the safety of every part, by uniting for its protection the strength of the whole (2) with indifference (3) & to enervate a resistance to their oppressions (4) propagated (5) into any course that would eventually make them subservient to foreign views equally adverse to the political strength and commercial importance of their own...
31589To Thomas Jefferson from John Clopton, 13 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
John Clopton presents his compliments to the President of the United States, and begs leave to inform him that he has with pleasure forwarded to Mr. Semple the copy of his answers to the Chesterfield associations of Baptists together with his letter to Mr. Semple, directed for the proper post office, and caused the same to be put into the post-office here, so as to be transmitted to the office...
31590To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 13 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg you to excuse the liberty & the inconvenience of this application, & to believe that Nothing would induce to the step but the imperious dictates of duty to a family whose interests for more than twenty years I have greatly neglected. Thus circumstanced I reflect with seriousness & not without sensitivity that the time approaches when your retirement from public life will prevent my...