James Madison Papers

To James Madison from James Leander Cathcart, 26 August 1802 (Abstract)

§ From James Leander Cathcart

26 August 1802, Leghorn. Submits for the president’s decision a plan to coerce Yusuf Pasha of Tripoli to agree to a permanent treaty with the U.S. and “perpetual protection” for his brother Hamet by threatening him with the “use of such means as God had already placed in our hands … join’d to our influence at the sublime Port.” Encloses William Eaton’s letter to him of 12 July “with my addition to it which I have made circular” as well as another from Algiers given to him by Appleton. Has received no other news from Barbary worth mentioning.

RC (DNA: RG 59, CD, Tripoli, vol. 2); FC (NN: Cathcart Papers); FC (CSmH). RC 2 pp.; docketed by Wagner as received with Cathcart’s 25 Aug. dispatch; printed in Knox, Naval Documents, Barbary Wars description begins Dudley W. Knox, ed., Naval Documents Related to the United States Wars with the Barbary Powers (6 vols.; Washington, 1939–44). description ends , 2:254. First FC in Cathcart’s hand. Second FC in a clerk’s hand, signed by Cathcart. Enclosures not found.

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    To James Madison from James Leander Cathcart, 26 August 1802 (Abstract)
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    Cathcart, James Leander
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    Madison, James
    Date
    26 August 1802

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    “To James Madison from James Leander Cathcart, 26 August 1802 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-03-02-0660. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 3, 1 March–6 October 1802, ed. David B. Mattern, J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, and Susan Holbrook Perdue. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995, p. 521.]

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