11From James Madison to the Chairman of the Republican Meeting of Elbert County, Georgia, 15 March 1809 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of the 10 of Feby. addressed to the President of the U. S. inclosing the proceedings of the Meeting of Citizens of Elbert County, having arrived after the expiration of the term of my predecessor, it devolves on me to acknowledge the receipt of it. And I can not do this without expressing the satisfaction afforded by resolutions breathing sentiments of so much patriotism, at a...
12From James Madison to the Chairman of the Republican Society of Hancock County, Massachusetts, 15 March 1809 (Madison Papers)
I have recd the resolutions of the 23d. of Feby. conveyed thro’ you, by the meeting of inhabitants from the Towns of Eden, Trenton, & Mount Desert, in the County of Hancock in the State of Massachts. The determination expressed by the Meeting to maintain the authority of the laws and the national rights, becomes Citizens who know their duty & love their Country. In referring the embarrassments...
13From James Madison to Napoleon, [15 March] 1809 (Madison Papers)
To our Great and Good Friend His Imperial and Royal Majesty the Emperor of the French, King of Italy and Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine. I have received your Imperial and Royal Majesty’s Letter of the 7th February 1806 announcing the marriage of your much loved son the Prince Eugêne Napolêon with the Princess Augustê Amêlie of Bavaria which was celebrated at Munich on the 14th of...
14From James Madison to the Chairman and Secretary of the Republican Meeting of Washington County, Maryland, 17 March 1809 (Madison Papers)
I have duly received your Letter of the 6th Inst: conveying the resolutions of a portion of my fellow Citizens of Washington County in the State of Maryland. Whilst I return my thanks for their kind expressions of confidence and regard; I feel much satisfaction in observing the patriotic spirit breathed by their resolutions unanimously adopted. The situation of our Country justly awakens the...
15From James Madison to Napoleon, [17 March] 1809 (Madison Papers)
To our Great and Good Friend His Imperial and Royal Majesty the Emperor of the French, King of Italy and Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine. I have just received your Imperial Majesty’s letter of the 29th of March 1807, communicating the intelligence that the Princess Eugêne Napoleon Vice Queen of Italy, was happily delivered on the 14th of that Month of a Princess who had received...
16From James Madison to William Pinkney, 17 March 1809 (Madison Papers)
You will learn by the communications from the Dept. of State, that the discussions of Congs. on our foreign relations had an issue less operative than was at one time looked for. The aversion to war, the inconveniences produced by or charged on the embargo, the hope of favorable changes in Europe, the dread of civil convulsions in the East, and the policy of permitting the discontented to be...
17From James Madison to the Chairman and Secretary of the Republican Committee of Salem County, New Jersey, 18 March 1809 (Madison Papers)
The proceedings of “the Repubn. Delegates of the several Townships of the County of Salem[”] in N. Jersey, on the 3d. inst: transmitted by you, have been duly recd. It is highly agreeable to find in these proceedings our national embarrassments traced to their true source, in the injustice & aggressions of foreign powers; and equally so to see the measures for counteracting them so entirely...
18From James Madison to the Chairman of the Republican Committee of Essex County, New Jersey, 18 March 1809 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. the address conveyed thro’ you, from “The Republican Citizens of the County of Essex in the State of New Jersey” with equal sensibility to the friendly motives which suggested it, and to the patriotic sentiments which it expresses. Persuaded that the true interests of our Country, not less than the precepts of Religion & humanity, make it the duty of those entrusted with public...
19From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 19 March 1809 (Madison Papers)
Altho’ I feel reluctance in trespassing for a moment on the repose to which you have just retired, I can not well avoid inclosing a letter from Mr. La Trobe which he wishes may be seen by you before it be decided on, because he thinks you have already acquiesc’d in the reasonableness of its object: and which I wish you to see, because I am so raw on the whole subject, as to need any...
20From James Madison to James Maury, ca. 19 March 1809 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. Ca. 19 March 1809. Acknowledged in Maury to JM, 3 May 1809 . Mentions a small sum owed to Maury for a shipment of cheese.
21James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 19 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Altho’ I feel reluctance in trespassing for a moment on the repose to which you have just retired, I can not well avoid enclosing a letter from M r La Trobe which he wishes may be seen by you before it be decided on, because he thinks you have already acquiesc’d in the reasonableness of of its object: and which I wish you to see, because I am so raw on the whole subject, as to need any...
22From James Madison to the Chairman of the Republican Committee of Talbot County, Maryland, 21 March 1809 (Madison Papers)
I have recd your letter of the 14. inst. conveying an address, from the “Democratic Republican Citizens of Talbot County Maryland,” and through you return them my thanks for the favorable sentiments which they have expressed of the principles & purposes by which my public life has been & will be governed. The solicitude which they manifest for the preservation of peace, well becomes virtuous...
23From James Madison to the Secretary of the Republican Meeting of Kent County, Maryland, 21 March 1809 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 16th. inst: inclosing the proceedings of “The Democratic Citizens of Kent County[”] on the 4th. instant. I am greatly obliged by the kind expressions towards me which have a place in those proceedings; and the more so as the value of them is enhanced by the patriotic spirit which characterizes the Meeting. In preferring peace, tho’ prepared for a suspension of...
24From James Madison to the Chairman of the Republican Meeting of Litchfield, Connecticut, 22 March 1809 (Madison Papers)
The Resolutions transmitted through you, as unanimously adopted by a meeting of “The Republicans of the Town of Litchfield” have been duly received. The conduct, as unexampled as unprovoked, by which the Belligerent Powers, have trampled on the rights of neutral nations, and in some instances added peculiar insults to the injuries done to the US. naturally excite the feelings which these...
25From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 27 March 1809 (Madison Papers)
Altho’ the letter from Mr. Brown was probably intended for you, I could not hesitate in carrying it into effect; and finding that the Bill on the Navy Dept. will be paid, I inclose, in order to avoid the delay of a week, the sum drawn for in Bank notes. I send them to you rather than directly to Mrs. T. first because I do not know what the direct address ought to be, & 2dly. because it is...
26James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 27 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Altho’ the letter from M r Brown was probably intended for you, I could not hesitate in carrying it into effect; and finding that the Bill on the Navy Dep t will be paid, I inclose, in order to avoid the delay of a week, the sum drawn for in Bank notes. I send them to you rather than directly to M rs T. first because I do not know what the direct address ought to be, & 2 dly because it is...
27From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 28 March 1809 (Madison Papers)
I have yours of the 24. The enquiry as to Franzoni will be made as soon as an oppy. offers. F. Page had been appd. before your letter was recd. & his Commission forwarded. We have letters from Erving to Jany. 28. He was at Cadiz, intending it appears to adhere to the Junta Suprema, till the drama should close, and then leave Spain, by way of Gibralter, Tangier, or England, if no other course...
28James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 28 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have yours of the 24 . The enquiry as to Franzoni will be made as soon as an opp y offers. F. Page had been app d before your letter was rec d , & his Comission forwarded. We have letters from Erving to Jan y
29From James Madison to Benjamin Rush, 30 March 1809 (Madison Papers)
I have been prevented from acknowledging, as soon as I could have wished, your kind favor of the 13th. inst. Under the circumstances my fellow Citizens have thought proper to place me, it is particularly grateful to me, to enjoy the good wishes of the most enlightened and virtuous among them: and above all of those whose long and personal acquaintance gives peculiar value to their favorable...
30Landscape Account for the Executive Mansion, 31 March 1809 (Madison Papers)
List of Trees & Shrubs for the Presidents Garden. Where to be procured Large trees for Single trees & in lines Tulip tree. Saml. Davidson. Willow leaved Oak Elm. Beech. Ash. S. Davidson Horse Chesnut. Holt Walnut (English) Hepburn Sugar Maple Billey Sycamore (English[)] Larch. Weeping Willow
31From James Madison to Isaac Ball, 4 April 1809 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 4 April 1809. Acknowledged in Ball to JM, 11 Apr. 1809 . Authorizes Ball to list JM as a patron of a proposed new edition of his work, An Analytical View of the Animal Economy .
32From James Madison to Anthony Fothergill, 5 April 1809 (Madison Papers)
I have recd your favor of the 28th. Ult: accompanied by two little tracts; one of them the fruit of your own benevolent and ingenious researches, on a subject as interesting as it has been obscure. Accept my thanks for both. I offer the same return for the friendly interest you take in my discharge of the trust for which I have just become responsible. I am duly sensible of the magnitude of...
33Presidential Proclamation, 5 April 1809 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
5 April 1809, Washington. Offers lands ceded to the U.S. by the Cherokee and Chickasaw tribes, lying within the Mississippi Territory, for public sale. The sale will begin on 7 Aug. at Nashville, Tennessee, and continue for three weeks. Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 49, Proclamations of Public Sales). 2 pp. Printed in Carter, Territorial Papers, Mississippi , 5:724–25.
34From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 9 April 1809 (Madison Papers)
I return the letter of Mazzei, without however having ascertained the fact as to the remittance by the Sculptor. Latrobe I presume, will give the information in his answer to the letter which I have forwarded to him. He is now in Philada. A Secretary of Legation with a sort of Extra establishment has just arrived from England, with despatches for Erskine. I have a private letter only from...
35James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 9 April 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I return the letter of Mazzei , without however having ascertained the fact as to the remittance by the Sculptor. Latrobe I presume, will give the information in his answer to the letter which I have forwarded to him. He is now in Philad a . A Secretary of Legation with a sort of Extra establishment has just arrived from England , with despatches for Erskine . I have a private letter only from...
36From James Madison to Simon Snyder, 13 April 1809 (Madison Papers)
I have received your letter of the 6th. instant, accompanied by certain Acts of the Legislature of Pensylvania; which will be laid before Congress, according to the desire expressed. Considering our respective relations to the subject of these communications, it would be unnecessary, if not improper to enter into any examination of some of the questions connected with it. It is sufficient, in...
37From James Madison to Caesar A. Rodney, 14 April 1809 (Madison Papers)
Your favor on the subject of White was duly recd. The Secy. of S. will have informed you of the intimation to Mr. Dallas that a Nol. pros: was thought not an eligible course. I have recd. a letter from Govr. Snider on the case of Olmstead, & inclose a copy of my answer. The proceedings of this Country as known in England in Jany. had with other events, made no slight impressions there. Erskine...
38Presidential Proclamation, [19 April] 1809 (Madison Papers)
By the President of the United States of America. A Proclamation. Whereas it is provided by the 11th. Section of the Act of Congress entitled “An Act to interdict the Commercial Intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France, and their dependencies; and for other purposes”—that “in case either France or Great Britain shall so revoke or Modify her Edicts as that they shall...
39From James Madison to John G. Jackson, 21 April 1809 (Madison Papers)
The inclosed paper contains the result of what has passed between Mr. Smith & Mr. Erskine. You will see that it puts an end to the two immediate difficulties with G. B. and has the air of a policy in her, to come to a thorough adjustment. It remains to be seen whether the pride or the prudence of France is to prescribe the course which she will take in consequence of this new state of things....
40From James Madison to William Pinkney, 21 April 1809 (Madison Papers)
I have duly recd. your favors of Jany. 16. & 23d. with the inclosures. The letters from the Dept. of State will furnish you with the result of the discussions to which the dispatches for Mr. Erskine brought by Mr. Oakley, have led. It is to be hoped that the conciliatory policy of which this successful advance on the part of G. B. is a specimen, will equally appear in the choice and the...