33151To James Madison from James Jay, 17 August 1808 (Madison Papers)
Suspense, My Dear Sir, is generally unpleasant, sometimes very injurious. Allow me to remind you that when I found by your Letter that I was too late in my application for the vessel belonging to my Son in law and myself, to carry the 3d. government Dispatch to Europe, I immediately requested She might be employed to carry the 4th. Dispatch. Having since heard nothing from you to the contrary,...
33152To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 17 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I return Lowry’s papers. I do not exactly recollect what had passed on the subject, & only remember that there was a statement of facts obtained from the district attorney in which the species & degree of resistance to the deputy marshal were represented as greater than is done by themselves & Mr Smith. In every other respect the representation of Mr Smith is I think correct. The conduct of...
33153To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 17 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 16 with the papers sent with it, were recd. last evening. Mr. Short did not seize exactly my ideas as to the concealment of his mission. If this could be made effectual, and freed from the appearance of being studied, by a direct voyage to St. P., I think it would be best. But if he is to pass thro’ France, a frank but general disclosure of his destination wd. be preferable to an...
33154From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 17 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The government of the US. will not make itself an accomplice in the crimes of invading a foreign nation which never did it a wrong, in the abduction of their people and selling them in slavery. PPAmP .
33155To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 16 August 1808 (Madison Papers)
Yours of the 14th. is recieved and I now return the papers which accompanied it. I must cry peccavi I have sinned as to the answer to Sullivan’s letter. I found it in the letter itself. I now enclose you two letters from Mr. Short. I fancy he is right in supposing that by the time he could arrive at the Baltic, it’s navigation would be uncertain, if not impracticable; but certainly it would be...
33156From Thomas Jefferson to William C. C. Claiborne, 16 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
General Dearborne being on a visit to the province of Maine, your letter to him (the date not recollected) was sent to me from his office, and, after perusal, was forwarded to him. as the case of the five Alibamas, under prosecution for the murder of a whiteman, may not admit delay, if a conviction takes place, I have thought it necessary to recommend to you in that case to select the leader,...
33157To Thomas Jefferson from Charles W. Goldsborough, 16 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
By letter just received mr Smith has required me to send to you from time to time “a summary of the progress of the gun boats at their different places of construction”. I therefore herewith transmit to you the enclosed paper A, which is an exhibit of the present state of the gun boats, built & building under the act of last session, as far as it can be ascertained by the reports received. I...
33158To Thomas Jefferson from Charles W. Goldsborough, 16 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The enclosed paper B contains information which I presume it will be agreeable to you to receive—Under this impression I have taken the liberty of transmitting it to you, altho’ mr. Smith’s instructions to me do not comprehend information upon these points.— Unauthenticated reports, of daring attempts to evade the embargo Laws, daily reach us; but the very few seizures that have been made...
33159To Thomas Jefferson from Gideon Granger, 16 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have completed the Summer Contracts with more than common success, and fixed the mails for great increase of motion on the main route after 1st. of Octr:— The line from here to fort Stoddart is very regular & as far as Athen’s the mail is rapidly carried—from Fort Stoddart to New Orleans it continues to be irregular. There is certainly a robber between here & N. Carolina & another between...
33160To Thomas Jefferson from Me., Citizens of Hallowell, 16 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The Inhabitants of the town of Hallowell, in legal town meeting assembled, respectfully represent, that being vested by the constitution with a right to address their rulers, and exhibit to them their sentiments on subjects of a public nature; they deem it a duty at this momentous crisis to express their wishes to the chief Magistrate of the Union. They have perceived with unfeigned...
33161To Thomas Jefferson from John Kelly, 16 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
We have opened a Subscription in this place to Support a Presbyterian Clergyman for his Service in Preaching and propagating the Gospel among us; we are not at this time fixed upon any particular man for this purpose. we wish a young man that is fully calculated to teach the different Languages, whose business it will also be to commence a School for the utility of this neighbourhood—and as...
33162To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Lloyd, 16 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The civil causes between the population & Holland Companies, and the Actual Settlers in the Triangle at the North West Corner of this state, has kept the Commonwealth greatly aggitated for a number of years past; and occupied the Courts of justice to my personal knowledge ever since 1799. I have taken down much Contradictory argument of Learned Counsel on both sides also many various and...
33163To Thomas Jefferson from John Lowry, 16 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The Petition of John Lowry, Andrew Lowry & Morrow Lowry Respectfully represents, that Your petitioners were convicted in the Circuit Court of the 3rd Circuit of the U.S. for the Penna. district held in April last; Of opposing the deputy marshal when executing writs of possession issued from that Court, and on the 25th of said April severally sentenced to 3 months imprisonment; to pay to the...
33164From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 16 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 14th. is recieved and I now return the papers which accompanied it. I must cry peccavi as to the answer to Sullivan’s letter. I found it in the letter itself. I now inclose you two letters from mr Short. I fancy he is right in supposing that by the time he could arrive at the Baltic, it’s navigation would be uncertain, if not impracticable; but certainly it would be closed before...
33165To Thomas Jefferson from William Montgomery, 16 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit a fellow Citizen to offer you his opinion on the present affairs of this Country. A Friend has just shewn me a letter dated Quebeck the 23d July. The writer says few days since one hundred and twenty Sail of Vessels left here for England, as many more were loading, their Cargoes cost fifty percent more than usual. Some Vessels were also loading for the West Indies with Flour, Pork, Beef...
33166From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 15 August 1808 (Adams Papers)
You have puzzled and confounded me, by your Letter of the 3 of Aug.—After allarming me with Some Suggestions or Suspicions of Infidelity in the Post office you Say “I Suppose the Crime is perpetrated in Massachusetts. Look at the inclosed Sealing. it is from you?” I thought this gave me a Right and made it my duty to open it, and Lo! a lovely Letter from your amiable Daughter to your worthy...
33167From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 15 August 1808 (Adams Papers)
The inclosed Letter came under cover, to me in a letter from your father dated the 3d. of August. After hinting that there had been some unfair play in the Post Office he says “I suppose the Crime is perpetrated in Massachusetts—Look at the inclosed sealing. It is from you?” I looked at the sealing and concluded there was something within to unriddle the mystery. I accordingly clipped the...
33168To James Madison from John Graham, 15 August 1808 (Madison Papers)
I had the Honor to receive your Letter of the 12th. Inst last night. The note for Mr Erskine together with a Copy of Genl Baileys Letter to you have been prepared and will go by the Mail this Evening as also Mr. Pinkneys Letter to the Secretary of the Navy. As you Authorise me to act on Mr. Foronda’s note of the 1st. Inst I think I will make a translation of it and send it to Mr. Gallatin, if...
33169To James Madison from Daniel Fitzhugh, 15 August 1808 (Madison Papers)
The frequent robberies of the mail from this to the Eastward, together with the extream badness of its regulations, must be my apology for troubling you with this letter, advising you of my having recieved a Bill of Exchange, drawn on you by Meriwether Lewis Esqr. No. 2. dated July 22, 1803, in favour of Joseph Char or order for Five hundred dollars, and endorsed to Fitzhugh & Rose, and from...
33170To Thomas Jefferson from Ira Allen, 15 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have had a Recent Intervew with Mr. Rodney on the Subject of his opinion Respecting my Claims on the British government which he informs is in my favour But that he Cannot Give me a Copy without your Permition— This Cause has grown out of the Events of National Revolutions which Removes it from a Private Capture to that of a National Cause and makes it Peculearly hard on the sufferers which...
33171From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 15 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Having an urgent call for a sum of money which goes 120. D. beyond what I had reserved for the current purposes of the month, a merchant here (mr Kelly) offers me that sum for a like one in Baltimore. under this pressure and the call not allowing time to wait your answer, I have ventured to value on you for 120. D. in the hope you can let me have the use of that sum for about a fortnight when...
33172To Thomas Jefferson from Jacob Butler, 15 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I am yo friend— Wishing you to Convey this letter to france to the Emper Napolion Bunaparte as my Brother to Inform him that I am anguis to see him Respecting the Pressent Situation of things in that Country as well as that of this there is a grat or however sences to be a disbondent among the [Peable] in this Country of America About I know No know not what or see not what Never the Less I...
33173To Thomas Jefferson from John Dawson, 15 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty to present to you General Horey of South Carolina—a soldier of our revolution, who still retains its principles, and is anxious to be acquainted with you— With much Esteem Your friend & Sert MHi : Coolidge Collection.
33174From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 15 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you letters from McLure & Keteltas, asking military appointment, also one recieved from your office from Govr. Hull. official information of continued acts of forcible & insurrectionary opposition to the embargo law on the Canada line, & a letter to that effect from Govr. Tomkins, have obliged me to authorise him to call out detachments of his militia. as he will go to the spot...
33175To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Dearborn, 15 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been honored with your letter of the 2d. inst. with the papers accompanying it.—The impudence of Genl. Skinner as Treasurer of the State has ruined him & injured the republican Interest in this quarter, altho he will ultimately be able to refund the money and altho his predecessors in office have taken simmilar liberties with the money of the State, and were allowed time to refund it...
33176From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Fulton, 15 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Immediately on the reciept of your letter of the 5th. I wrote to the Secretary of the Navy recommending a compliance with your request of the workmen. although no public servant could justify the risking the safety of an important seaport solely on untried means of defence, yet I have great confidence in those proposed by you as additional to the ordinary means. their small cost too, in...
33177From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 15 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 6th. & 9th. are just now recieved, as well as a letter from Govr. Tompkins on the subject of aiding the revenue officers on the Canada line with militia. I refer you on this subject to my answer to him, & pray you to encourage strongly his going to the spot himself & acting according to the urgencies which will present themselves there. should you have satisfactory evidence of...
33178To Thomas Jefferson from John Graham, 15 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the Honor to receive last Night your note of the 12th Inst. directing that a Commission should be made out for Genl. John Steele as Collector for Philadelphia. This has been done, and Mr Pleasonton has taken the Commission to the Treasury, that it may be forwarded to Lancaster by the Mail which leaves this in the afternoon. With Sentiments of the Highest Respect I have the Honor to be...
33179To Thomas Jefferson from Louis-Philippe Gallot de Lormerie, 15 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Permettés moi de vous rapeller que C’est a une Lettre d Introduction du Respectable Marquis De la fayette en 1787 que je dois L honneur de vous connoitre. J’ai Celui de Correspondre avec vous continuement depuis ce tems. Votre Lettre du. . . de la susdite année et plusieurs autres sont des preuves de L’attachement que j’ai toujours porté a Votre Pays. cet attachement a Eu pour moi des...
33180From Thomas Jefferson to François-André Michaux, 15 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
On the reciept of your letter of Aug. 1. I inclosed it to the Secretary of State with a request that he would direct the papers you desired to be made out and forwarded to you. lest however this should be omitted at the office, it will not be amiss that you should drop a line to mr Madison if the papers do not come to you. according to our regulations the captain is at liberty to take...
33181From Thomas Jefferson to John Smith, 15 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I this moment recieve your favor of the 12th with Capt Saunders’s letter on the acquisition of a site for a battery at Norfolk. I think that, instead of acceding to the proposition to take the whole three acres at 1500.D. it will be better to accept the other alternative of mr Thompson to have the ground valued by proper persons. in this case too it should be attempted to restrain the purchase...
33182From Thomas Jefferson to Daniel D. Tompkins, 15 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have this day recieved your Excellency’s favor of the 9th. instant, and I now return you the papers it inclosed. the case of opposition to the embargo laws on the Canada line, I take to be that of distinct combinations of a number of individuals to oppose by force & arms the execution of those laws, for which purpose they go armed, fire upon the public guards, in one instance at least have...
33183To James Madison from John Willard, 14 August 1808 (Madison Papers)
In my letter of the 9th. of May last I expressed a hope that violence would not be used in opposition to the Embargo laws. I grounded that opinion on the belief that the Collector was authorized to take possession of the rafts before they approached the lines. Had that opinion been correct the Collector might have seized the rafts & thereby prevented all the Subsequent mischief but Gentlemen...
33184From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 14 August 1808 (Madison Papers)
Yours of the 12th. with the papers it refers to came duly to hand. Among the letters now forwarded is one from Turreau inclosing a copy of one to him from Mr. Gallatin. He appears to have drawn conclusions from his conference with Mr. G. not warranted by it. Mine with him merely referred him to Mr. G. I think it will be not amiss, as he has acted & incurred expence in the case, to sanction...
33185To Thomas Jefferson from Richard Quince Hoskins, 14 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The Petition of Richard Quince Hoskins of Boston, in the County of Suffolk, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Humbly sheweth: That your petitioner was tried at the Circuit Court of this District in June term 1805, on a charge of embezzling, and secreting a letter from the Post Office in said Boston, and found guilty of the same, but owing to an action in arrest of judgment filed by the...
33186To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 14 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 12th. with the papers it refers to came duly to hand. Among the letters now forwarded is one from Turreau inclosing a copy of one to him from Mr. Gallatin. He appears to have drawn conclusions from his conference with Mr. G. not warranted by it. Mine with him merely referred him to Mr. G. I think it will be not amiss, as he has acted & incurred expence in the case, to sanction...
33187To James Madison from Juan Antonio de Mora, 13 August 1808 (Madison Papers)
Acabo de llegar de Hallifax, donde fui d etenido, y deseando pasar a la America Española, me enquentro e n la dificultad de estan cerrados los medios. En Concequencia espero se sirva V. S. decirme el partido qe. devere adoptar, pues deseo (medte. lica. y patente Bl. de mi Gobno.) comprar aqui un Buque y Salir con el en lastre. Espero V. S. se sirva prevenirme lo mas acceptable. Dios guarde a...
33188To James Madison from John Gavino, 13 August 1808 (Madison Papers)
The want of safe Conveyance has kept the Inclosed back, also several others which go by this Conveyance, to all which I have the honour of referring you, & to the Chronciles herewith for what relates to the affairs of Spain, as nothing else Occurrs. Mr: Young our Consul General for Madrid was here a few days ago, told me had some Dispatches from Mr: Erving, with which he went for England in...
33189To James Madison from John Armstrong, Jr., 13 August 1808 (Madison Papers)
I have this moment recei ved a note from Paris of which, what f ollows, is a litteral translation: "The news from Spain, are very afflicting. Mo ncy has been defeated before Valentia and compelled to retreat. He re ached Madrid on the 21 of July with the loss of 13,000 Men. Dupont (w ho marched against Cadiz) after much hard fighting, has been fo rced to capitulate: in a word, the king has...
33190To Thomas Jefferson from John Langdon, 13 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the pleasure by the last mail of receiveing your several favor’s of the 2d Inst. with your answer to the Address of the Legislature of this State. I feel myself highly honor’d and greatly gratified by your private letter, in which you are pleased to recollect, our former friendship; you know me well, I have therefore no need to make use of arguments to convince you of my most sincere...
33191To Thomas Jefferson from John Whiteman, 13 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
At a meeting of Captn William Moor’s Company of light Infantry belonging to the first Regt. & first Brigade of the Militia of Delaware it was agreed their Services be offered to the President of the United States as Volunteers conformably to the Law of Congress— Whereupon it was Unanimously— Resolved That the Oficers in behalf of the Company be requested to tender their Services to the...
33192To Thomas Jefferson from Caesar Augustus Rodney, 13 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Genl. Allen is desirous of having a copy of the opinion I have, after mature consideration, formed in his favor. With your approbation, it shall be delivered. I entertained for a long time serious doubts on the subject in consequence of the loss being sustained by the failure of his own bail, but taking all the circumstances of the case into consideration I think he has suffered such plain &...
33193To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Smith, 13 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 9h. I have had the honor of receiving. To Mr Gallatin I forwarded the enclosure immediately with the requisite instructions for Com: Rodgers and an explanatory letter for Mr Gallatin. The same arrangement had indeed been some time since made by me. No gun Boats could be put upon the proposed service but such as could be spared from New York and I have submitted to M Gallatin...
33194To James Madison from Tobias Lear, 12 August 1808 (Madison Papers)
With a duplicate of my respects to you of the 16th. of July, I have the honor to forward Copies of all my letters mentioned therein, which I had sent to General Armstrong to be sent by any conveyance which might offer from France to the U. States; and also duplicates of my accounts with the U. States, and o f the agreement and representation of the Consuls residing in Algiers, togethe r w ith...
33195To James Madison from William Cocke, 12 August 1808 (Madison Papers)
I am now Returned from takeing a view of the western parts of Tennessee and the Country lately holden by the Cherokee Indians in which their Claims has been extinguished. The immence improvements that are daily makeing in that quater the increase of welth and population are far beyond any thing I could have immajined (and to Crown their felicity there appears to be the Greatest Confidence in...
33196To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 12 August 1808 (Madison Papers)
Your’s of the 10th. came to hand yesterday & I return you Foronda’s, Tufts, Soderstrom’s & Turreau’s letters. I think it is become necessary to let Turreau understand explicitly that the vessels we permit foreign ministers to send away are merely transports, for the conveyance of such of their subjects as were here at the time of the embargo, that the numbers must be proportioned to the...
33197From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 12 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of July 27. has been recieved. I now inclose you the letters of Hawkins, Harrison, Wells, Hull & Claiborne recieved from the war office, and, as I conjecture, not yet seen by you. Indian appearances, both in the North West & South are well. beyond the Missisipi they are not so favorable. I fear Governor Lewis has been too prompt in committing us with the Osages so far as to oblige us to...
33198From Thomas Jefferson to John Graham, 12 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of mr Graham, on reciept of this to fill up a Commission for John Steele (Genl.) of Pensylva. as Collector for Philadelphia in the place of Genl. Shee decd, and to inclose it to him near or at Lancaster. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
33199To Thomas Jefferson from Jonathan Hall, 12 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have respected your laws and your goverment for the younited Stats of merrica and I wish to have you continue your laws and goverment and keep the embargo on til you see fit to take it off, though it is very trying to the people in this contry about thare debts and it is my wish that you would make some laws to pay our debts with out paing the money and if the is a law to pay with produce &...
33200From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 12 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 10th. came to hand yesterday & I return you Foronda’s, Tufts, Soderstrom’s & Turreau’s letters. I think it is become necessary to let Turreau understand explicitly that the vessels we permit foreign ministers to send away are merely transports for the conveyance of such of their subjects as were here at the time of the embargo, that the numbers must be proportioned to the vessels...