21Mathew Carey to James Madison, 28 April 1828 (Madison Papers)
I am given to understand that there will shortly be a vacancy in the Chair of professor of the Classics, & beg leave to present to your view, & to recommend to your support, Mr M. L. Tracie, a gentleman whom I have every reason to believe perfectly qualified to fill the station with credit to himself & advantage to the institution. He had a regular collegiate education in Dublin, & has the...
22Mathew Carey to James Madison, 16 February 1829 (Madison Papers)
Although I know you are borne down with an extensive correspondence, I take the liberty to trespass on you with the annexed letter, not doubting that you must be favourable to the object in view, & also that you must be able to [provide] me with some materials to enable me to carry it into effect. I send by this mail some of my most recent lucubrations, of which I request your acceptance, and...
23Mathew Carey to James Madison, 9 March 1829 (Madison Papers)
I take the liberty to submit the annexed circular to your consideration, with a hope that you may find leisure to furnish me with some materials for the plan it unfolds. There is a wonderful change in the spirit of the nation since the revolution. We have become a sordid people. Money & office are our Gods. It is desirable to erect a mound against the further progress of this miserable...
24Mathew Carey to James Madison, 1 November 1829 (Madison Papers)
By this mail, I send you a number of copies of two essays on the protecting System, which I request you will be so good to hand to the Messenger of the Convention to be delivered to the members. I remain, Sir, very respectfully, Your obt hble Servt RC (DLC) . Docketed by JM, with this note: "The delivery disclosed the papers being tracked and likely to be viewed as of a party character."
25Mathew Carey to James Madison, 27 November 1829 (Madison Papers)
By this Mail, I take the liberty of sending you some essays on the Protecting System, of which I request your acceptance. Their object, & that of some other of my pamphlets is to allay the fermentation that exists in South Carolina & Georgia, wh. is so assiduously excited and kept alive by misguided or wicked men Very respectfully, your obt. hble. Servt RC (DLC) . Docketed by JM.
26Mathew Carey to James Madison, 18 May 1830 (Madison Papers)
I have for many years deeply regretted, that numerous pamphlets, published in Great Britain, admirably calculated to promote the happiness and prosperity of society, are never republished here; and as only a few copies of pamphlets are imported, they are almost altogether unknown to our citizens--I have likewise regretted that many pamphlets and essays of a similar character, written and...
27Mathew Carey to James Madison, 6 August 1830 (Madison Papers)
By this Mail, I send you three numbers of a series of papers, intended to dispel the delusions under which many of the Citizens of the Southern States, particularly in South Carolina & Georgia, labour, respecting the Tariff. I am flattered by my friends into the belief that I have taken impregnable ground. With them I send some other articles of my writing, the whole of which I request you...
28Mathew Carey to James Madison, 21 July 1831 (Madison Papers)
I take the liberty to send you by this Mail, three numbers of a series of Essays, in which I have undertaken to expose the fallacy & deception of the nullifiers of South Carolina, who, most assuredly, are determined to Separate from the union, "peaceably if they can—forcibly if they must." I am persuaded that the danger is greatly underrated, & therefore greatly increased by our Citizens...