1To James Madison from James Barbour, 11 April 1818 (Madison Papers)
Permit me to enclose you a paper containing my remarks on the navigation bill which you will previously have seen in the papers. Altho to you the view I have taken will present nothing new who has been so familiar with the Subject for forty years it may employ a leisure half hour in its perusal—deriving its interest principally from the consideration that they are made by one who claims to be...
2To James Madison from James Barbour, 10 February 1820 (Madison Papers)
The Missouri question in its consequences threatens the tranquility if not the dissolution of the Union. Altho in the Senate we have a large majority against restriction yet in the House of Representatives the majority is decidedly the other way. And upon the exclusion of Slavery from the territories there is a Majority in both Houses. It has been proposed by the most moderate to compromise...
3To James Madison from James Barbour, 13 December 1820 (Madison Papers)
Your favorable recommendation of Mr. Coxe has interested me much in his behalf And I have already pressed his claims on the President who entertains for him a high respect and possesses every disposition to do something for him the first favorable opportunity. You will see by the papers that on yesterday the resolution for the admission of Missouri passed the Senate 26 to 18. Mr. Macon (as my...
4To James Madison from James Barbour, 8 January 1821 (Madison Papers)
I understood when at your house that you were in want of a good riding horse. In consequence when I returned here, having found the one I had bought of Mr Johnson the writer of the within a very fine one I mentioned to him your wish. In answer he returned me the enclosed note. If you think proper to avail yourself of his offer and should choose either of the horses and signify which to me I...
5James Barbour to Dolley Madison, 13 October 1821 (Madison Papers)
James Barbour presents his respects to Mrs. Madison with a view to express his regret at the indisposition of Mr Madison and to enquire how he does. JB would have been to have visited Mr Madison but from an apprehension that company is but ill adapted to a sick man. Should Dr. Watkins be at Mr M’s if proper he would confer a favor by immediately visiting Mrs. Barbour who has been indisposed...
6To James Madison from James Barbour, 2 December 1823 (Madison Papers)
Understanding, that you had not seen Cunningham’s letter; and having procured a copy I presumed it would not be unacceptable to send you it. Its perusal is calculated to gratify curiosity: but otherwise, it is, without, much interest. And I think, certainly, that these letters contain nothing of sufficient importance to, even, palliate the perfidy which has attended their publication. When you...
7To James Madison from James Barbour, 7 December 1823 (Madison Papers)
After you left us on Court day, the parties, present, agreed to dissolve our ill fated Copartnery: and that each member should make arrangements for his particular Share, of the debt, which stands in the Bank, in the name of James Madison & Co. In passing thro’ Fredericksburg, I obtained the necessary data, by which to ascertain our respective proportions. Since my arrival here I have made the...
8To James Madison from James Barbour, 14 February 1824 (Madison Papers)
In reply to yours of the 11th. I beg leave to inform you that I presented again to Mr. Barbour your claim, who has promised to meet it in a few weeks. Should he do so I will advise you of it immediately. On the subject of our note to the Bank Mr. Allen informed me that as the Mr Taliaferros did not present a satisfactory note the old one was continued. He had written them on the subject. I...
9To James Madison from James Barbour, 2 May 1824 (Madison Papers)
When the notes of the joint subscribers were presented to the Bank, that of the Mr Taliaferro’s (tho’ endorsed by Catlett Conway Jr.) was rejected: and in consequence the note of the whole was continued on its former footing. Mr. Allen wrote me a day or two past that on a reconsideration of the question, at my request, they had agreed to accept the rejected note on condition that the other...
10To James Madison from James Barbour, 10 November 1824 (Madison Papers)
Conformably, to my suggestion on friday, I had another interview with the General on Saturday, and found him still indecisive, as to the time of his visiting Orange. I imagined the uncertainty of his movements was possibly ascribable to the Misses Wright—whose arrival at Monticello was hourly expected. He promised me he would write me in two days—and stated also he would write you in the same...