To James Madison from John B. Legare and Others, 24 July 1818

From John B. Legare and Others

Charleston 24th July 1818.

Dear Sir,

Be pleased to accept, of the ’76 association, a copy of an Oration delivered by one of its members on the 4t[h] Inst:,1 as a mark of their high regard for your character. The production, herewith transmitted you, will meet, it is believed, your cordial approbation. With unfeigned Respect we are Your Obet. Servants

Jno: B. Legare

A. H. Ohara

Jno: Sommes

Edwd. Simmons

Richd. Osborne
Standing Committee of the ’76 Ass:2

RC (DLC). Addressed by Legare to JM “late President of the U.S. of Ama. Washington.” Cover docketed by JM.

1. Henry Laurens Pinckney, An Oration, Delivered in St. Michael’s Church, Before an Assemblage of the Inhabitants of Charleston, South-Carolina; on the Fourth of July, 1818.… (Charleston, S.C., 1818; Shaw and Shoemaker description begins R. R. Shaw and R. H. Shoemaker, comps., American Bibliography: A Preliminary Checklist for 1801–1819 (22 vols.; New York, 1958–66). description ends 45340). JM’s copy is in the Madison Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress.

2. The ’76 Association was founded in 1809 by a group of young Jeffersonian Republicans to sponsor orations to be given on the Fourth of July and the fourth of March (David Waldstreicher, In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes: The Making of American Nationalism, 1776–1820 [Chapel Hill, N.C., 1997], 225).

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Title: To James Madison from John B. Legare and Others, 24 July 1818
Author: Legare, John B.
Recipient: Madison, James
Date: 24 July 1818

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Cite as: “To James Madison from John B. Legare and Others, 24 July 1818,” Founders Online, National Archives, last modified June 29, 2017, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/04-01-02-0279. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Retirement Series, vol. 1, 4 March 1817 – 31 January 1820, ed. David B. Mattern, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, and Anne Mandeville Colony. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009, p. 316.]