1301From James Madison to G. F. H. Crockett, 6 November 1823 (Madison Papers)
I recd. your letter of Sepr. 24. some days ago. The printed address it refers to has but just come to hand. The subject which has employed your thoughts is one on which enlightened opinions are as yet much at variance. Nothing will probably reconcile them; but actual & fair experiments: and no where can such be made with less prejudice or less inconvenience than in the U.S. where the...
1302To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 6 November 1823 (Madison Papers)
The belief is so universal that the ensuing legislature will dispose in some way of the University debt, & liberate our funds, as that we ought to save what time we can by provisional preparations. We have all, I believe, agreed that an Agent to Gr. Britain will be necessary to procure Professors; & I have heretofore mentioned to you that mr. Cabell was disposed to undertake the business. But...
1303To James Madison from Thomas Ewell, 7 November 1823 (Madison Papers)
I take the liberty of enclosing to President Madison a Copy of an oration the sentiments of which I hope will please him. RC ( DLC ). Docketed by JM . Thomas Ewell, An Oration, Delivered on the Fourth of July Last, at the Court House of Prince William County, Virginia (Washington, 1823).
1304From James Madison to Charles J. Ingersoll, 8 November 1823 (Madison Papers)
I thank you as a friend for the printed copy of your Discourse kindly sent me; and I thank you still more as a Citizen for such an offering to the free Institutions of our Country. In testing the Tree of liberty by its fruits, you have shewn how precious it ought to be held by those who enjoy the blessing. I wish the Discourse could be translated & circulated wherever the blessing is not...
1305To James Madison from Thomas J. Johnston, 10 November 1823 (Madison Papers)
An Obscure individual & in the interiour of our widely extended empire, presumes upon your indulgence & upon your goodness, in soliciting your advice & the aid of your opinion in the direction of his legal studies & political inquiries. The request is made with deference & not without a good deal of reluctance; but as the course of legal study which has been recommended to him by some of his...
1306From James Madison to George Graham, 11 November 1823 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your favor of the 4th. on the subject of the balance in your hands after paying the interest of the first instalment of my debt to the bank. It will be most convenient at present to give an order for it, viz. $214.47. to Cuddin Davis who will probably be in Washington very shortly. Excuse the trouble which my overremittance has occasioned you, and accept with my thanks my respects...
1307From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 11 November 1823 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. yours of the 6th. My preference of F. Gilmer for the law professorship, to any other name brought into view, has not changed; & I know of no one better suited for the mission now declined by Mr. Cabell. It will be well I think to hold out, in the first instance at least, not more than $1500 for the Salary, as the reduction of the number of professors from 10 to 7. may not be...
1308From James Madison to Richard Rush, 13 November 1823 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your favor of Sepr 10. with a Copy of the printed documents on the subject of the slave trade. The mask of humane professions covering an indifference in some & a repugnance in others to its effectual abolition, is as obvious as it is disgusting. G. B. alone, whatever may be her motives, seems to have the object really at heart. It is curious at the same time to observe her...
1309To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 15 November 1823 (Madison Papers)
I return your letter to the President, and that of mr. Rush to you, with thanks for the communication. The matters which mr. Rush states as under consideration with the British government are very interesting. But that about the navigation of the St. Laurence and the Missisipi, I would rather they would let alone. The navigation of the former, since the N.Y. canal, is of too little interest to...
1310To James Madison from William Taylor, 15 November 1823 (Madison Papers)
Since my communication, dated in Mexico, some important political changes have taken place in that country, with the nature of which I presume you are already well acquainted. I will, however, briefly run over a few of them. After the fall of Iturbidie, the old Congress again assembled, & among other acts decreed, that the plan of Iguala and Treaty of Cordova, by which Mexico was to have been...