James Madison Papers

James Madison to Lewis Cass, 3 April 1836

Montpellier Apl. 3d. 1836.

J. Madison with his respects to Govr. Cass, offers him many thanks for the copy of his late discourse before the American Historical Society at Washington. He has read it with great pleasure, the greater, from its favorable bearing on the literary reputation of our Country—"If History be Philosophy teaching by example," it will itself be instructed by the Philosophy of such discourses.

FC (DLC).

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