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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
 
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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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
TO CHARLES J. INGERSOLL.
 
SOVEREIGNTY.
 
NOTES ON NULLIFICATION.
 
TO——

 
ALPHABETICAL LIST OF LETTERS AND PAPERS PRINTED IN THESE VOLUMES (EXCEPT VOLUMES III. AND IV.).
 
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TO NOAH WEBSTER.

MAD. MSS.
Montpellier (near Orange Court House Virga) Jany—, 1820.

Dear Sir,—In looking over my papers in order to
purge and finally arrange my files, my attention fell
on your letter of Aug. 20, 1804, in which I was requested
to give such information as I could as to the
origin of the change in the Federal Government
which took place in 1788. My answer does not
appear, the copy of it having been lost, if one was
retained as is probable. Will you be so obliging
as to enable me to replace it, and to pardon the
trouble I am imposing on you; accepting at the same
time assurances of my esteem, and of my friendly
respects.

Where can your pamphlet entitled "Sketches of
Amn. policy" be now obtained; also that of Mr.
Peletiah Webster referred to in your letter.[9]

 
[9]

See ante, Vol. VII., p. 162. Peletiah Webster's pamphlet was:
A Dissertation on the Political Union and Constitution of the Thirteen
United States of North America: which is necessary to their Preservation
and Happiness, humbly offered to the Public, by a Citizen of Philadelphia.
Philadelphia: 1783. It was reprinted in 1908, as Pub. Doc. 461,
60th Cong., 1st Sess. (Senate.)

Apparently, Madison was unsuccessful in obtaining the pamphlet
from Noah Webster for he wrote to Tench Coxe November 10, 1820:

In looking over my pamphlets & other printed papers, I perceive
a chasm in the Debates of Congress between March 4, 1790 (being
the close of No. III of Vol IV, by T. Lloyd) & the removal of Congress
from Philadelphia to Washington. May I ask the favor of you, if it
can be done without difficulty, to procure for me the means of filling
the chasm. I should be glad also to procure a pamphlet, "Sketches of
American policy by Noah Webster," published in Philadelphia in
1784 or '5; and another, "Pelitiah Webster's dissertation on the
political Union & Constitution of the thirteen U. States," published
in 1783 or '4. Both of them have disappeared from my collection of
such things.—Mad. MSS.

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