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...