4913. MADISON (James), Jefferson and administration of.—
The unwarrantable
ideas often expressed in the newspapers, and
by persons who ought to know better, that I
intermeddle in the Executive councils, and the
indecent expressions, sometimes, of a hope that
Mr. Madison will pursue the principles of my
administration, expressions so disrespectful to
his known abilities and dispositions, have rendered
it improper in me to hazard suggestions
to him, on occasions even where ideas might
occur to me, that might accidentally escape him.—
To James Monroe. Washington ed. vi, 123.
(M.
1813)
