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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——.
 
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 MARTIN VAN BUREN.

MAD. MSS.
Montpellier, Mar. 13, 1827.

Dear Sir, I have recd. your favor of the 3d
inst., covering the Report to the Senate on the
"Georgia Business."[93] The Report is drawn with
the ability which might be expected from the Committee
making it. The views which it presents on
the subject cannot certainly be complained of by
Georgia. The occurrence has been a most painful
one, whether regarded in its tendency abroad, or at
home. And God grant that it may have a termination
at once healing & preventive.

If it be understood that our political System contains
no provision for deciding questions between
the Union & its members, but that of negotiation,
this failing, but that of war, as between separate &
Independent Powers, no time ought to be lost in
supplying, by some mode or other, the awful omission.
What has been called a Government is on that
supposition a mere league only; a league with too
many Parties, to be uniformly observed, or effectively
maintained.

You did well I think in postponing the attempt
to amend the phraseology of the Constitution on a

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point essentially affecting its operative character.
The state of the political atmosphere did not promise
that discussion and decision on the pure merits of
such an amendment, which ought to be desired.

Be pleased to accept with my cordial salutation
the renewed expression of my great esteem.

 
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The report was submitted by Thomas H. Benton, March 1.

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