3971From James Madison to Robert R. Livingston and James Monroe, 18 April 1803 (Madison Papers)
The reasonable and friendly views with which you have been instructed by the President to enter into negociations with the French Government justify him in expecting from them an issue favorable to the tranquillity and to the useful relations between the two Countries. It is not forgotten however that these views, instead of being reciprocal, may find, on the part of France, a temper adverse...
3972Virginia Delegates in Congress to William Livingston, 21 December 1780 (Madison Papers)
RC (New York Public Library). The text of this letter is in Madison’s hand. The letter and its address sheet have become separated—the former is in the Emmet Collection and the latter among the papers of William Livingston. We received this morning a letter subscribed by Peter Thornton informing us that he is the son of a gentleman in Virginia, that he lately made his escape from N. York and...
3973From James Madison to Thomas Lloyd, 1 January 1813 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
1 January 1813. “J. Madison will see Mr. Lloyd as he requests tomorrow morning at 10. OC.” RC ( PPACHi : Thomas Lloyd Papers). 1 p. Dated “Jany. 1.”; year assigned on the basis of evidence presented in n. 1. Thomas Lloyd (1756–1827), a Federalist sympathizer and skilled stenographer, had edited the Pennsylvania ratification debates on the Constitution published in 1788 and had reported the...
3974From James Madison to J. F. Daniel Lobstein, 28 October 1822 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 19th. inclosing a specification of the contents of a work you are about to publish. The topics you have selected will afford ample scope for information and observations on the State of this Country. An eye which is aquainted with Europe will be best able to mark such features of America, as will present a comparative view doing justice to one without injustice...
3975From James Madison to George Logan, 19 January 1810 (Madison Papers)
I have received your favour of the 10th. Your anxiety that our country may be kept out of the vortex of war, is honourable to your judgment as a patriot, and to your feeling as a man. The same anxiety is, I sincerely believe, felt by the great body of the nation, & by its public councils; most assuredly by the Executive Branch of them. But the question may be decided for us, by actual...
3976From James Madison to William Logan, 12 August 1819 (Madison Papers)
I have received under your cover of the 28. Ult: the copy of Mr. Condy’s oration delivered before the ’76 Association on the last anniversary of American Independence; and I beg that the Association may be assured of the pleasure with which I accept this further specimen of the talents selected, for commemorating that event, & cherishg the spirit which produced it. I tender you Sir, my...
3977From James Madison to John Tayloe Lomax, 23 March 1827 (Madison Papers)
I inclose a communication from President Cooper of the S. Carolina College. I have apprized him of the enactment in our University Code, as applicable to the occurence he describes, and to which the Faculty wd. doubtless conform, with a just sense of the Obligation every where to discountenance so pernicious an example. With great esteem Draft ( DLC ). Addressed by JM to Lomax, “Chairm⟨an⟩ of...
3978James Madison to John Tayloe Lomax, 30 January 1830 (Madison Papers)
I recd last evening your letter of the 25th. and sincerely regret both on acct. of the University & the public the final determination which will separate you from the former. The regret will I am sure be equally felt by my Colleagues. I hope it can be alleviated by the advantages ensuing to yourself. On the subject of your continuance in the professorship, untill the end of the Session, with...
3979James Madison to John Tayloe Lomax, 10 November 1828 (Madison Papers)
I have just recd. yours dated 8th. post mark 6th Being absent at the last meeting of the Visitors, I am ignorant of the particular view they had on the order to which you refer Your Statement seems to shew that a deviation from the letter of it, whilst an accomodation to yourself & others, would not be objectionable in any quarter. I forward your letter however to Genl. Cocke my Extive....
3980From James Madison to John Tayloe Lomax, 10 March 1827 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. yours of the 5th. instant. Considering the Law publications you point out as very proper for the Library of the University & that they can be procured out of a part of the appropriation, not needed for the periodicals, I join Genl. Cocke in his opinion on the subject; with a reliance however on the retrospective sanction of the Visitors if deemed necessary, as much as on the claim...