1819 Letters

Boston, MA -

I hope you will find that I have not abandoned the old ground, notwithstanding the high authority of a newspaper. I already repent of having this thing printed, but must make the best of it now.

Litchfield, CT - 0 January 1819

Mr Beecher has been watching the attention of his people in the western part of this town, especially for some time at Bradlysville.

Litchfield, CT - 3 January 1819

I notice your remarks respecting my Claim upon S. Brown, and am glad you have concluded to write to him on the subject, altho' I think his Inattention to my proposal to settle his Debt by a Note, will induce him still to neglect so reasonable a propo

Litchfield, CT - 3 January 1819

As for Genl Jackson, I am rejoiced to find that even in Virginia a Man can be found who dare state facts, even if they should bear upon the President.

War Department, MD - 5 January 1819

In order to meet Indian hostilities the boat will be prepared with strong bulwarks and will want a few light pieces on her deck.

Quincy, MA - 9 January 1819

My family are reading it to me every evening, and though we have not finished it, we have proceeded far enough to excite an earnest desire to know your opinion of it.

Boston, MA - 10 January 1819

No public or general opinion seems to be formed of the opinion of any particular judge.

Washington, VA - 14 January 1819

I have a letter from John of the 8th, and write to him by this mail concerning what is passing here...

Washington, VA - 16 January 1819

The Jackson debate will be hot and angry ; the current agt. him, I think grows stronger.

unknown - 17 January 1819

I see that the Executive gets a side way blow occasionally, as the appropriation Bill for the War Department passed under Discussion. The President seems to have crossed his tracks in making the northern military road.

Washington, VA - 20 January 1819

The House are engaged in a great debate respecting Jackson's Campaign ; it will continue several days longer ; the issue is not well understood...

Litchfield, CT - 21 January 1819

I notice the report of the military & the counter report of the three Dissenters. I take it for granted the Administration & Gen. Jackson are to be supported

Litchfield, CT - 23 January 1819

I presume your Cousins James & Laura have by this time learned the sudden death of their only Son. They greatly need divine Support on this most trying Occasion, or they will sink, or repine under this severe dispensation.

Washington, VA - 23 January 1819

The Bk. Report discloses the dishonorable and injurious proceedings of the Confederacy of Speculators in Balte. and Philadelphia and has had the effect to shake the public confidence in the Bk. and will also impair our credit abroad

Bedford, NY - 25 January 1819

As you are in the seventy-fifth year of your age, and I in the seventy- fourth of mine, our leases have expired. We are holding over, and others will soon occupy our places.

Litchfield, CT - 27 January 1819

I perceive that the Debate waxes warm in your House respecting the conduct of the Executive in the Seminole war, & Genl Jackson.

Philadelphia, PA - 31 January 1819

I have received by this day's mail your letter of the 29th announcing your having nominated me one of the Directors of the Bank of the U.S.

Litchfield, CT - 31 January 1819

I very much fear the Debate on the Seminole War, & Genl Jackson's sanquinary Conduct, will be so much prolonged, that the bankrupt Law will be again hung up.

Washington, MD - 2 February 1819

I have the pleasure to tell you that the college cause has been decided in our favor.

Washington, MD - 2 February 1819

All is safe. Judgment was rendered this morning, reversing the judgment in New Hampshire.

Washington, MD - 2 February 1819

All is safe and certain. The Chief Justice delivered an opinion this morning, in our favor, on all the points.

Washington, MD - 2 February 1819

Our triumph in the college cause has been complete.

Georgetown, VA - 6 February 1819

They fought with muskets at 10 paces, each musket charged with two or three balls. Mason was mortally wounded and died in a short time

Crawfords, VA - 7 February 1819

You will understand how very few men have any correct notions on the subject of money, as a currency, and will therefore easily comprehend the confusion of ideas the utter ignorance of a correct theory, as well as the rash & intemperate measures...

unknown - 9 February 1819

This McCarthy complied with, arrived on Friday, recd, the challenge, accepted it, and proposed that he and Mason shd. each sit on the same barrel of gun powder with each a torch, and that either might touch the powder.

unknown - 10 February 1819

The time may come when this may be proper, and Mr. Clinton made to feel there are limits to forbearance.

Washington, VA - 11 February 1819

It has long been my opinion that it wd. be good policy in every direction, that the District of Maine shd. be separated from Mass., politically as it is naturally, and admitted as a new State into the Union.

Senate Chamber, VA - 11 February 1819

If Mr. C. throws away his claim to my forbearance, I shall not offend in not permitting him to attempt my degradation, without suffering something in his turn.

Georgetown, VA - 12 February 1819

I regard this duel as ferocious, barbarous and savage, repugnant to any code of honor, where the thirst for blood or the malignant purpose of destroying the life of another are the motives, instead of the desire to protect individual honor

Washington, VA - 20 February 1819

Spain cedes the Floridas in sovereignty, and in consideration thereof the U. S. release Spain from all claims by American citizens on account of illegal captures, condemnations &c and engage to satisfy these claims to an amount not exceeding five mil

Washington, MD - 23 February 1819

In the action The Trustees v. Woodward, judgment is entered, nunc pro tune, as of last term. This relieves us from any difficulty that might arise from Mr. Woodward's death.

Washington, MD - 25 February 1819

I hope to be at home by the 15th March. I should be glad to see you at that time ; some things which must be done, may better be done then than afterwards.

Litchfield, CT - 25 February 1819

It will be gratifying to us to know how You progress as you leave the Seat of Govt., & when you reach N.Y. we shall depend on all requisite Information as to your future prospects

Bedford, NY - 27 February 1819

The lawfulness of the invasion and conquest of Canaan, being made by express Divine command, is indubitable. It does not decide the question, whether any wars, unless so commanded, are permitted by the moral law

War Department, MD - 5 March 1819

I have laid your statement before the President in order to take his direction in relation to it

War Department, MD - 6 March 1819

You are already informed of the motives of the President and of the arrangements which have been made to occupy in force the contemplated posts on the Missouri.

War Department, MD - 11 March 1819

The President concurs with me in opinion that any relaxation of the order of the 21st February 1818, as it relates to the correspondence between yourself and Genl. Jackson, would be improper.

unknown - 12 March 1819

We consider our journey in a great measure past, as the greater part of the bad roads and miserable inns are behind us.

Boston, MA - 14 April 1819

The University folks should understand, very distinctly, that we are resolved to bring this controversy to an immediate end, and that they are to have no delay

Boston, MA - 14 April 1819

I write this to add that I think it would be very fortunate if President Allen, Dr. Perkins, and their friends, should be at Portsmouth.

Bordentown, NJ - 19 April 1819

This proposition seems to me to be so clear that nobody but Luther Martin, who delights in amplitude, or P. Barbour, whose logical head disdains to take any thing for granted, would give a moment to prove it.

Monticello, VA - 12 May 1819

Thomas Jefferson letter to Samuel A. Wells, Esq.... One of the enquiries in your letter, however, may be answered without an appeal to the memory

Boston, MA - 12 May 1819

I send you by Judge Peabody your argument and Mason's, bungingly put together by me. Right or wrong, I have done the deed.

Boston, MA - 30 May 1819

James T. Austin, Esq., in behalf of the University, presented the new facts to Judge Story on Thursday.

Boston, MA - 28 June 1819

I received yours of the 13th, and have felt in too much spleen to answer it. Whoso meddleth with type-setters gets into trouble.

Jamaica, NY - 17 July 1819

Our commerce is at a stand ; no one feels confidence that a voyage of any sort, or to any country, will be more likely to give profit than loss.

War Department, MD - 10 August 1819

You will perceive on reading the report, that in many particulars the orders and regulations of the Department have not been complied with.

Boston, MA - 10 August 1819

We have at length returned from an unexpectedly long journey. Our trip extended to Philadelphia, and on our return, we went up the North River as far as Albany

Jamaica, NY - 26 August 1819

I took occasion last winter to confer with you respecting a claim of my friends A. Gracie & Sons, upon the French Govt. ; and the instruction respecting the same afterwards given to Mr. Gallatin led to the hope...that their losses would also be made

Montpelier, VA - 3 September 1819

James Madison letter to Edward Coles...We congratulate you much on the various successes of your western career, and the first thing that strikes us is the rapidity of your promotions.

Montpelier, DC - 5 September 1819

Dolly Madison letter to Edward Coles...I am afraid, dear cousin, that while you and I deliberate who to choose for a wife, we shall lose some -of the finest girls now grown.

War Department, MD - 14 September 1819

It was impossible to make a station for the collectorship at Charleston, which would not have given offence to the rival candidates and their friends.

Boston, MA - 26 September 1819

It will give me the most sincere gratification to give you letters to my friends in Philadelphia, Charleston, Washington, and Savannah

Boston, MA - 0 October 1819

Mrs. Webster desires me to say to Mrs. Mason that she must come ; and that, you know, is the end of a lady's argument.

Boston, MA - 5 October 1819

I have paid Mr. Lang's draft, eighty dollars, and have also given him one hundred dollars for you

unknown - 27 October 1819

I must remonstrate agt. the publication of facts that in conversation I may have mentioned ; and think it altogether improper that the transaction respecting Mr. Clinton's electioneering measures at Boston shd. be coupled with the late misrepresentat

Litchfield, CT - 6 November 1819

I think we must soon open our battery upon Saml. Brown Jnr. whose case I have stated to you - He makes no late Engagements to pay

Litchfield, CT - 22 November 1819

I have lately rec.d another Letter from Major Saml. Brown of Brownsville, respecting his Debt, & have concluded to send you his letter & copies of mine

Jamaica, NY - 22 November 1819

Conformably to your request in behalf of the committee appointed by the late meeting in the city, on the business of the Missouri Bill, I have the honor to send you the substance of two speeches, that I delivered in the Senate...

Jamaica, NY - 30 November 1819

I did not, until my return last evening, receive your letter of the 23d., requesting a copy of my speech in the Senate on the Missouri Bill. I have much reason to believe that the Society over which you preside... have overrated my poor efforts

Bedford, NY - 21 December 1819

The remarks and statements contained in it place the pernicious influence of slavery on the welfare of our country in conspicuous and impressive points of view.

War Department, MD - 22 December 1819

This Department has no certain information in relation to the number of Spanish Troops in Florida; but it is believed that it does not exceed 800.

War Department, MD - 24 December 1819

Before my return to the City the President had directed preparatory arrangements for the military occupation of the Floridas if such should be the pleasure of Congress

War Department, MD - 31 December 1819

In the event of Congress authorizing the occupation of Florida every necessary preparation originating at the subordinate offices of this Department will be made in time, and ample funds will be transmitted