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The writings of James Madison,

comprising his public papers and his private correspondence, including numerous letters and documents now for the first time printed.
Madison, James (1751-1836)
 
THE WRITINGS OF JAMES MADISON VOLUME IX. 1819–1836
 
[limitation-notice]
 
[title page]
 
CONTENTS OF VOLUME IX.
 
NOTE.
 
CHRONOLOGY OF JAMES MADISON. 1819–1836.

 
TO ROBERT WALSH.
 
TO THOMAS HERTELL.
 
TO CLARKSON CROLIUS.
 
TO NOAH WEBSTER.
 
TO JAMES MONROE.
 
TO JAMES MONROE.
 
TO C. D. WILLIAMS.
 
TO JAMES MONROE.
 
TO J. Q. ADAMS.
 
TO JACOB DE LA MOTTA.
 
TO JAMES MONROE.
 
TO MARQUIS DE LA FAYETTE.
 
TO FRANCIS CORBIN.
 
TO JAMES MONROE.
 
TO RICHARD RUSH.
 
TO SPENCER ROANE.
 
TO PETER S. DU PONCEAU.
 
TO SPENCER ROANE.
 
TO JOSEPH GALES.
 
TO JOHN G. JACKSON.
 
JONATHAN BULL & MARY BULL (1821).
 
TO HEZEKIAH NILES.
 
TO JAMES MONROE.
 
TO JAMES MONROE.
 
TO EDWARD LIVINGSTON.
 
TO W. T. BARRY.
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TO THOMAS RITCHIE.
 
Confidential
 
TO JAMES MONROE.
 
TO THOMAS JEFFERSON.
 
TO EDWARD EVERETT.
 
TO EDWARD EVERETT.
 
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS CONCERNING SLAVERY. [1823].
 
TO WILLIAM EUSTIS.
 
TO THOMAS JEFFERSON.
 
TO JAMES MONROE.
 
TO GEORGE HAY
 
TO THOMAS JEFFERSON
 
TO JAMES MONROE.
 
TO RICHARD RUSH
 
TO WILLIAM TAYLOR.
 
TO EDWARD EVERETT.
 
TO JAMES BARBOUR.
 
TO THOMAS JEFFERSON.
 
TO ROBERT S. GARNETT.
 
TO THOMAS COOPER.
 
TO JOHN CARTWRIGHT.
 
TO HENRY CLAY.
 
TO EDWARD LIVINGSTON.
 
TO HENRY LEE.
 
TO HENRY WHEATON.
 
TO JAMES MONROE.
 
TO PETER S. DUPONCEAU.
 
TO THOMAS JEFFERSON.
 
TO A. B. WOODWARD
 
TO MRS. MADISON.
 
TO FREDERICK BEASLEY.
 
TO THOMAS JEFFERSON.
 
TO HENRY LEE.
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TO THOMAS JEFFERSON.
 
Sketch.
 
TO NICHOLAS BIDDLE.
 
TO BENJAMIN WATERHOUSE.
 
TO FRANCES WRIGHT.
 
TO FREDERICK BEASLEY.
 
TO THOMAS RITCHIE.
 
TO THOMAS JEFFERSON.
 
REMARKS ON AN EXTRACT FROM HAMILTON'S REPORT PUBLISHED IN THE RICHMOND ENQUIRER.
 
TO MORRIS ANTHONY.
 
TO THOMAS JEFFERSON.
 
TO NOAH WEBSTER.
 
TO N. P. TRIST.
 
TO GEORGE MASON.
 
TO HENRY COLMAN.
 
TO MARTIN VAN BUREN.
 
TO SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH.
 
TO MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE.
 
TO THOMAS COOPER.
 
TO SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH.
 
TO JONATHAN ELLIOT.
 
TO HENRY WHEATON.
 
TO J. K. PAULDING.
 
TO MARTIN VAN BUREN.
 
TO JOSEPH C. CABELL.
 
TO NICHOLAS BIDDLE.
 
TO THOMAS J. WHARTON.
 
TO JONATHAN ELLIOT.
 
TO GEORGE MASON.
 
TO JARED SPARKS.
 
TO THOMAS S. GRIMKE
 
TO N. P. TRIST
 
TO MARQUIS DE LA FAYETTE.
 
TO WILLIAM WIRT.
 
TO MARTIN VAN BUREN.
 
TO THOMAS LEHRE.
 
TO JOSEPH C. CABELL.
 
TO JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.
 
TO JOSEPH C. CABELL.
 
TO THOMAS S. HINDE.
 
TO JOSEPH C. CABELL.
 
OUTLINE.
 
SPEECH IN THE VIRGINIA CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
 
TO GEORGE McDUFFIE.
 
TO JAMES HILLHOUSE.
 
TO M. L. HURLBERT.
 
TO MARTIN VAN BUREN.
 
TO MARTIN VAN BUREN.
 
TO EDWARD EVERETT.
 
TO MARGARET B. SMITH.
 
TO THOMAS W. GILMER.
 
TO JARED SPARKS.
 
TO HENRY CLAY.
 
TO ANDREW STEVENSON.
 
TO JAMES K. TEFFT.
 
TO REYNOLDS CHAPMAN.
 
TO CHARLES J. INGERSOLL.
 
TO THEODORE SEDGWICK, JR.
 
TO C. E. HAYNES.
 
TO JAMES ROBERTSON.
 
TO JARED SPARKS.
 
TO J. K. PAULDING.
 
TO JAMES MONROE.
 
TO JARED SPARKS.
 
TO TENCH RINGGOLD.
 
TO MATTHEW CAREY.
 
TO JARED SPARKS.
 
TO R. R. GURLEY.
 
TO N. P. TRIST.
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TO HENRY CLAY.
 
Confidential
 
TO N. P. TRIST.
 
TO N. P. TRIST.
 
TO C. E. HAYNES.
 
TO REV.—ADAMS
 
TO ANDREW STEVENSON
 
TO N. P. TRIST.
 
TO JOSEPH C. CABELL.
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TO ALEXANDER RIVES.
 
(Confidential.)
 
TO THOMAS R. DEW.
 
TO JOHN TYLER.
 
TO WILLIAM CABELL RIVER.
 
TO HENRY CLAY.
 
TO BENJAMIN F. PAPOON.
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TO——.
 
[Majority Governments.]
 
TO THOMAS S. GRIMKE.
 
TO HENRY LEE.
 
TO WILLIAM COGSWELL.
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TO JOHN M. PATTON.
 
(Confidential.)
 
TO EDWARD COLES.
 
TO WILLIAM H. WINDER.
 
TO MANN BUTLER.
 
TO DANIEL DRAKE.
 
MADISON'S WILL.
 
TO W. A. DUER.
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TO CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS.
 
(Private)
 
TO CHARLES J. INGERSOLL.
 
SOVEREIGNTY.
 
NOTES ON NULLIFICATION.
 
TO——

 
ALPHABETICAL LIST OF LETTERS AND PAPERS PRINTED IN THESE VOLUMES (EXCEPT VOLUMES III. AND IV.).
 
INDEX.
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TO JAMES K. TEFFT.

MAD. MSS.
Decr. 3, 1830.

I have recd. Sir, your letter of Novr. 17 accompanied
by one from the Revd. Mr. Sprague and in
compliance with your request,[127] I enclose autographs
of certain individuals such as you refer to. I would

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willingly have given with their names, more of their
writings, but could not do it without mutilating the
sense, or embracing matter of a private nature.
There is a difficulty, particularly where the letter
does not close on the first or third page. Several
other autographs wd. have been added those of
Mr. Pat. Henry, George Mason & Geo. Wythe,
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but I found that their letters on my files, had been
taxed to the full in that way.[128]

I avail myself Sir of your proferred kindness, by
asking you to procure for me, if it can be conveniently
done, such of the numbers of the "Georgian,"
preceding No. 124, Apl. 21, 1828, & succeeding
No. 129, Apl. 26, 1828, as contain notes of Majr.
Pierce in that Convention; forwarding with them
the charge of the Editors, which will be remitted

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to them. It will be matter of curiosity at least to
compare the notes taken on the same subjects
by different members of the Body.

If Mr. Sprague be still with you, be pleased to
make known to him that his letter was recd. &
duly appreciated, and to accept for yourself my
respects & salutations.

Autographs sent of J. Adams J. Q. Adams James
Monroe Ed. Pendleton R. H. Lee Alexr Hamilton

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E. Gerry Alb. Gallatin H. Dearborn Henry Lee
Revy officer) Jacob Brown (Majr. General) A.
J. Dallas Wm. Eustis William Pinkney (of Maryd)
Rob. R. Livingston DeWitt Clinton.

 
[127]

Tefft wrote from Savannah, introduced by William B. Sprague
of the same place.

[128]

In the draft of the letter was the following sentence against which
Madison wrote, "extract":

"[In the year 1828 I recd. from J. V. Bevan sundry numbers of the
'Savannah Georgian," containing continuations of the notes of Majr.
Pierce in the Federal Convention of 1827. They were probably sent
on account of a marginal suggestion of inconsistency between language
held by me in the Convention with regard to an Executive Veto,
and a use made of the power by myself, when in the Executive administration.
The inconsistency is done away by the distinction, not
averted to, between an absolute veto, to which the language was
applied, and the qualified veto which was exercised.]"

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