To James Madison from Isaac Munroe, 13 August 1824
From Isaac Munroe
Patriot office,
Baltimore, August 13, 1824.
Sir,
Circumstances growing out of the present contest for the Presidency, has caused a republication by me of the celebrated embargo letter of Mr. Adams, to which he has added an Appendix. Presuming it would not be unacceptable to you I have taken the liberty to enclose you a copy.1 I am zealously engaged in promoting the election of Mr. Adams, believing in so doing I am rendering a service to our common country. Though no philosopher I am opposed to the “blood and carnage” candidate on the one side & the robbers of the People’s rights on the other. Wishing you great individual happiness & that your fame may be imperishable, I am very respectfully
Isaac Munroe2
RC (DLC). Docketed by JM.
1. John Quincy Adams, A Letter to Mr. Harrison Gray Otis, … on the Present State of Our National Affairs, with Remarks upon Mr. T. Pickering’s Letter, to the Governor of the Commonwealth. … With an Appendix, Written July, 1824 (Baltimore, 1824; 15026). For a discussion of the context in which this pamphlet was written, see Bemis, John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy, 144–49.
2. Isaac Munroe (ca. 1784–1859) had been co-owner of the Boston Patriot until 1814, when he moved to Baltimore and became publisher of the Baltimore Patriot & Mercantile Advertiser. He edited that paper until a few years before his death. Munroe was a firm supporter of JM’s administrations and served in the Maryland militia during the British attack on Baltimore in 1814 (New York Herald, 25 Dec. 1859; , 1:245, 332; J. Thomas Scharf, History of Baltimore City and County [2 vols.; 1881; reprint, Baltimore, 1971], 2:612).