James Madison Papers

To James Madison from the Republican Meeting of Stonington, Connecticut, 11 April 1809 (Abstract)

§ From the Republican Meeting of
Stonington, Connecticut

11 April 1809. Assures JM “of their attachment to the constitution and union … and their firm determination to maintain at all hazards the same and the laws made in pursuance thereof.” Their faith abides in a government that “will prefer an honorable war to an ignominious peace.” Signed by George Hubbard and Peleg Denison.

Printed copy (National Intelligencer, 10 May 1809).

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    To James Madison from the Republican Meeting of Stonington, Connecticut, 11 April 1809 (Abstract)
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    “To James Madison from the Republican Meeting of Stonington, Connecticut, 11 April 1809 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-01-02-0126. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 1, 1 March–30 September 1809, ed. Robert A. Rutland, Thomas A. Mason, Robert J. Brugger, Susannah H. Jones, Jeanne K. Sisson, and Fredrika J. Teute. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1984, p. 109.]