From James Madison to James Monroe and William Pinkney, 3 December 1806
To James Monroe and William Pinkney
Department of State December 3d. 1806
Gentlemen
The President having this day coplied1 with the recommendation in your letter of Septr. 12.2 by a special message to Congress on the subject of the non-importation act of the last Session, I lose not a moment in forwarding to Mr. Merry’s care the inclosed copy.3 Hoping that it will either find him still at Alexandria, or overtake him before the vessel gets out of reach, I remain with great respect and consideration Your most Obt Servt.
James Madison
RC and enclosure (DLC: Rives Collection, Madison Papers); letterbook copy (DNA: RG 59, IM, vol. 6); Tr (DNA: RG 46, Executive Proceedings, Foreign Relations, 10B-B1); Tr (DNA: RG 233, President’s Messages, 10A-D1). RC in Forrest’s hand, signed by JM; docketed by Monroe as “3. Decer 1806 Mr Madison suspension of the non importation law.” For enclosure, see n. 3.
1. The letterbook copy and both Trs have “complied.”
3. The enclosure, in Pleasonton’s hand, is a copy of Thomas Jefferson’s 3 December 1806 letter to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives (printed under “Special Message on Great Britain” in Ford, Writings of Thomas Jefferson, 8:496–97).