3971From James Madison to Robert R. Livingston, 10 August 1795 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of July 6, having been addressed to Williamsburg, instead of Orange Court House , did not come to hand till two days ago. Your gloomy picture of the Treaty does not exceed my ideas of it. After yielding terms which would have been scorned by this Country in the moment of its greatest embarrassments, & of G. Britains full enjoyment of peace & confidence, it adds to the ruinous...
3972To James Madison from George Joy, 10 August 1795 (Madison Papers)
I rec’d your favor of the 3rd. April with the Books you were so good to send me. I find in Mr: Tench Coxe’s Collection a deal of information not without some Error; and I hope for good Consequences from the manner in which the Western Insurrection was quelled. The possible Energy of our Government was not practically known before, and I hold it the more favorable specimen of this, that the...
3973To James Madison from Joseph Jones, 19 [August] 1795 (Madison Papers)
I have been delayed in seting out for Loudoun longer than I expected. I move on Tomorow but not the rout I intended as the person I wished to see has left home and not yet returned—the cause of his departure is matter of conjecture. Mr Patton lately from Philaa. and Picket of Richmond say it is generally beleived that the Pres: approves of what has been done by the Senate respecting the Treaty...
3974To James Madison from Pierce Butler, 21 August 1795 (Madison Papers)
I have been favourd with two letters from You, the Dates I can not immediately refer to, not having the letters at hand. I shoud have written to You before this day had I been able to take a pen in my hand. I have been constantly indisposed since June. I wish now to write You a long letter, coud I be ascertained of it’s reaching Your hand unopend. Curiosity is so prevalent that I must desist...
3975From James Madison to an Unidentified Correspondent, 23 August 1795 (Madison Papers)
This draft letter is bound together with another manuscript that the editors have identified as the first draft of the petition to the General Assembly of Virginia bearing the date 12 October 1795 (see Draft of the Petition to the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia, ca. September 1795 , Editorial Note). On the verso of the draft petition JM wrote: “To On Jay’s Treaty / Augst. 23....
3976To James Madison from John Minor, Jr., and Others, [post 25 August] 1795 (Madison Papers)
WHEN the treaty of amity, commerce and navigation , negociated by lord Grenville , minister of Great-Britain , and John Jay, Esquire , minister plenipotentiary from the United States of America , was first made known to us, we were astonished to find that an instrument, so repugnant to the interests, so derogatory from the honour of the United States, and which so flagrantly violates our...
3977To James Madison from Henry Tazewell, 30 August 1795 (Madison Papers)
On my return from Phila: I meditated a trip to the Mountains, and in that event my design was to have paid my respects to you, in Orange—but our autumnal plague (the bilious fever) seized me, and has put an end to all my projects. When I get released from my Complaint, I shall not have more strength, and time, than will be necessary for my domestic arrangements preparatory to the meeting of...
3978Draft of the Petition to the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia, [ca. September] 1795 (Madison Papers)
The following is the first of two drafts of a document that was later to appear in several newspapers as part of a petition to the General Assembly of Virginia protesting against the ratification of Jay’s treaty. That JM had ever composed such a petition, either wholly or in part, was probably unknown to most of his contemporaries, and JM himself, later in life, seems to have arranged his...
3979To James Madison from James Monroe, 8 September 1795 (Madison Papers)
Yours of the 2d. of May is the last with which I have been favd., tho most probably this is owing to the seizure of our vessels by the British & the free use I hear they make of my correspondence. Since my last to you Mr. Masons copy of the treaty with such proceedings of the senate upon it as were published up to the 3. of July have arrived here: and since which we have seen the discussions...
3980To James Madison from John Beckley, 10 September 1795 (Madison Papers)
I have purposely delayed answering your favor of the 10th: Ulto. until now, because of some political events here of a nature the most extraordinary, and in which you, as well as others, stand particularly involved and named; they stand connected with the causes of Mr: Randolphs resignation, and will be fully explained to you by Mr: Nicholas. To that Gentleman I must also refer you for all...