1832 Letters

Boston, MA -

I arrived here Friday noon, and was exceedingly sorry to find you had left, and more especially for the cause thereof.

Washington, MD - 3 January 1832

You will be glad to hear that I am safe back from Annapolis ; arrived at sunset this evening, having come across the country and not round by way of Baltimore.

Philadelphia, PA - 4 January 1832

You will hear, I am afraid with regret, tho not with surprize, that we have determined on applying to the present Congress for a renewal of the Charter of the Bank

unknown - 8 January 1832

I cannot but think you have done exactly right.

Washington, MD - 8 January 1832

Your last severe affliction a good deal resembles my last; except that Providence, in taking one brother, has left you another, and has left beloved sisters also.

Washington, MD - 8 January 1832

I am politically opposed to Mr. Clay, but I am persuaded he would never have done anything that could justify the imputation ; and if such a report is current, I should be sorry that even my silence should keep it alive.

Philadelphia, PA - 16 January 1832

The Bank having after great consideration presented a memorial for the renewal of the charter

Philadelphia, PA - 25 January 1832

In regard to the bonus for a renewal of the Charter my views are these

Washington, MD - 2 February 1832

I saw the President for the first time yesterday introduced by Mr Livingston who kindly volunteered his carriage and personal attendance for the purpose.

Philadelphia, PA - 6 February 1832

It seems to me, his position is precisely this - He wishes to be the Pennsylvania candidate for the Vice Presidency

Philadelphia, PA - 6 February 1832

Let them go forward, and mediate between the President and the Bank, make him name his modifications

Washington, MD - 9 February 1832

When I saw Mr Livingston, as I did this morning soon after the receipt of your letter, I told him that I wished to speak freely with him respecting an important measure

Philadelphia, PA - 10 February 1832

I cannot doubt, whatever may be the result, that we have done well in applying at the present session.

Philadelphia, PA - 11 February 1832

Here am I, who have taken a fancy to this Bank & having built it up with infinite care am striving to keep it I from being destroyed to the infinite wrong

Philadelphia, PA - 13 February 1832

The President himself has no hostile feeling towards the Bank, he is dis posed to agree to its renewal with certain modifications

Washington, MD - 13 February 1832

I am much gratified to learn, that you are so well pleased with the institution and your situation. The change of your room mate must add to the agreeableness of your situation.

Washington, MD - 21 February 1832

Thus stands the cabinet The Secretary of State with us with all his heart & all his head, anxious to be the author of the President s conversion

Washington, MD - 23 February 1832

It is my fortune to have other subjects of confidential liaison with Mr . L. which operate favorably as inducement to similar understanding respecting the bank.

Philadelphia, PA - 26 February 1832

I yesterday wrote a hasty letter explaining my views in regard to the modifications suggested of the Charter of the Bank.

Washington, MD - 26 February 1832

I will without delay attend to the Bank dividend; and, when obtained, will dispose of your share, as you desire. You have taken the true view of our agriculture.

Washington, MD - 1 March 1832

In handling your letter to Mr Livingston yesterday I made good use of the crisis which the annoying resolution occasions.

Washington, MD - 5 March 1832

I give you great joy at the birth of a daughter ! There is no event on which I could more sincerely congratulate you. A daughter is one of Heaven's best and sweetest gifts to man.

Washington, MD - 6 March 1832

I think I have gathered a motive for Mr. Mc Duffie's almost unaccountable capitulation: if so there was more method than madness in it.

Barboursville, VA - 7 March 1832

You have obliged me much by furnishing me with your speech on the Tariff.

Washington, MD - 10 March 1832

With your great aversion to early rising, you deserve much praise for not having in any instance "missed prayers"; and, I do hope, that your anticipation, that habit will make it agreeable to you, will prove correct.

Washington, MD - 10 March 1832

Although not a passionate lover of children that I know nothing about, yet I really long to see this little specimen of humanity.

Montpelier, VA - 22 March 1832

I know only that the Tariff, in its present amount and form, is a source of deep and extensive discontent ; and I fear that, without alleviations, separating the more moderate from the more violent opponents, very serious effects are threatened.

Washington, MD - 24 April 1832

I have received yours respecting the lining of the chaise. I do not like a dark lining ; such linings look hot in summer, and in winter I go in a sleigh. I reject blue

Washington, MD - 28 April 1832

I am pleased to see you so earnestly engaged in planting, and so desirous of improving our agriculture. It is the first of pursuits

Philadelphia, PA - 0 May 1832

The press is the channel of communication between the Bank & the Country, and I have no more difficulty about remunerating privately for the work done on account of the Bank

Washington, MD - 30 May 1832

On my arrival I began with a full and frank conversation with Mr. McLane on the subject of the Bank and at his suggestion saw Mr. Livingston

Washington, MD - 5 June 1832

It has been a week of hard work anxiety & alternating hopes & fears, but I think that we may now rely with confidence in a favorable result.

Richmond, VA - 6 June 1832

I thank you very sincerely for the copy with which you have favored me of your speeches on the bill for renewing the charter of the Bank of the United States.

Washington, MD - 28 June 1832

The tariff bill was engrossed yesterday, in the House of Representatives, and will probably pass to-day. It contains many good and some bad things

Washington, MD - 3 July 1832

The Senate immediately agreed to the amendment so that the Bill has finally passed.

Washington, MD - 5 July 1832

I feel it to be a duty to express to those particularly interested in the Bank, my sense of the great benefit which has been derived from his presence and attention here.

Philadelphia, PA - 13 July 1832

The Bank is fairly before the country and large majorities of both houses of Congress have decided in its favor.

Philadelphia, PA - 1 August 1832

You ask what is the effect of the Veto. My impression is that it is working as well as the friends of the Bank and of the country could desire.

Marshfield, MA - 2 August 1832

I did not write you, as I promised, on Friday, because, so soon as it ceased raining in the morning, there were certain flocks seen on the meadows, whose visits it was necessary to regard

Montpelier, VA - 5 August 1832

Dolly Madison letter to brother...The heart of your miserable sister mourns with you and for your dear children.

Montpelier, VA - 12 August 1832

Dolly Madison letter to sister Anna...Mrs. Mason has just written to me to say you are a little better...

Green Harbor, MA - 17 August 1832

Mrs. Paige seems quite well ; and as for the amiable and interesting Miss Paige, she is as gay as a lark and as fat as a plover.

Green Harbor, MA - 19 August 1832

We can find room for the two sprites somewhere, and if they can undergo Marshfield for a week, we shall be glad to see them.

Marshfield, MA - 23 August 1832

We have had a laugh at dinner, though we had to force it a little. We have found out that although we fobbed you off with some thin claret on Sunday, we were really rich, in various good wines, with which your kindness had supplied us.

Philadelphia, PA - 3 September 1832

I have received, with feelings of the deepest sorrow, the intelligence of the decease of our lamented Mrs. Hart, conveyed by your letter.

Green Harbor, MA - 14 September 1832

We saw several small pods of coots go by ; one of them came so near that I brought down one of the number composing it, with bird shot. But it fell in the sea, and we had no boat, and so we lost it.

Philadelphia, PA - 26 September 1832

It is desirable that these should be circulated so as to counter act the injurious impressions which the message was destined to make against the Institution.

Boston, MA - 29 October 1832

Mr. Calhoun, as you are doubtless aware, has published a labored defence of nullification, in the form of a letter, to Governor Hamilton. It is far the ablest and most plausible, and therefore the most dangerous vindication of that particular form of

Philadelphia, PA - 5 November 1832

The intelligence of your death was accompanied, perhaps preceded, by its contradiction.

Fort Hill, SC - 8 November 1832

I foresee a good deal of agitation ahead in relation to the rail road, I which must distract and divide the State, unless there should be much prudence, and good management on the part of the Legislature.

Philadelphia, PA - 21 November 1832

The Bank does not mean to commence any systematic reduction of its loans with a view to winding up its affairs.

Washington, MD - 7 December 1832

Therefore it is to prevent blood from being shed and positive treason committed, that I wish to draw the attention of the people of South Carolina to their danger, that no blame can attach to me by being silent.

Paterson, MD - 8 December 1832

If the Secretary of the Treasury comes out against the Bank, & which I am now disposed to doubt, since I find who are interested in depressing Stock, I think You ought at once, to call a Meeting of the Whole Board

Paris, FRA - 8 December 1832

The reelection of the President will set you at liberty to make a choice between the secretaryship and the French legation

Savannah, GA - 14 December 1832

Winfield Scott letter to William C. Preston