1833 Letters

Philadelphia, PA -

Altho we do not feel anxious as to the result of the movements at Washington touching the Bank, still it is thought prudent to prepare for any adverse event

Washington, MD - 0 January 1833

During the few days of my stay here I have made it a point to ascertain from good authority what the probability is as to the bank of the U S

Troy, NY - 2 January 1833

I am almost quite recovered from my late disposition, & my strength is favorably returning.

Washington, MD - 3 January 1833

But our more imminent danger in my opinion is, that, seizing on the occasion, the anti-tariff party will prostrate the whole tariff system.

Washington, MD - 5 January 1833

I regard you, my dear Sir, not only as an acquaintance of many years standing, but also as one whose countenance and kindness were important to me in youth.

Washington, MD - 10 January 1833

Our cause is doing well. Let our people go on; be firm and prudent; give no pretex for force, and I feel confident of a peacable and glorious triumph for our cause and the state.

Troy, NY - 11 January 1833

My strength is gradually though slowly recruiting but my extreme yellow hue has nearly disappeared

Washington, MD - 15 January 1833

WE have little news, politically. In a day or two, the President is to send us a communication about nullification.

Troy, NY - 9 February 1833

the inflamation which then alarmed us has progressed more rapidly than should have been apprehended but I am constrained to say our fears of the issue of his disease have on the whole considerably increased.

Natchitoches, LA - 13 February 1833

Having been so far as Bexar, in the province of Texas, where I had an interview with the Comanche Indians, I am in possession of some information which will doubtless be interesting to you

Troy, NY - 16 February 1833

Our beloved William Henry has just fallen asleep to awake no more until the resurrection.

Philadelphia, PA - 28 February 1833

I have a great deal to say, or rather to ask, about the manner in which you have been able to draw out the lightning from all the clouds which were lowering over the country

Albany, NY - 28 February 1833

Your very kind letter to my dear wife &self has made a deep and I hope an abiding impression upon our hearts

Washington, MD - 2 March 1833

Looking forward, tho the present excitement will cease, and the composition of Congress be different and less favorable

Washington, MD - 9 March 1833

MY DEAR DAUGHTER, I have this moment received your letter of the 3d instant. It is so kind and good a letter that I will not omit for a moment to answer it

Washington, MD - 13 March 1833

My nephew, Marshall Jones, purposes to remove to New Orleans with a view to the practice of the law, and is, I believe, now in that place.

Philadelphia, PA - 25 March 1833

For such an exhibition, I substituted a large meeting of gentlemen at my own house, where his friends could have the pleasure of seeing him, without imposing upon him the necessity of making any exposition of his views on any subject.

Montpelier, VA - 2 April 1833

May there not be a more important alleviation in embryo an assimilation of the employment of labor in the South to its employment in the North?

Philadelphia, PA - 8 April 1833

I have no information of the intended removal of the deposits, though my opinion is that they will not dare to remove them.

Washington, MD - 8 April 1833

I have read Tom Moore's first volume of Byron's Life. Whatever human imagination shall hereafter picture of a human being, I shall believe it all within the bounds of credibility.

Philadelphia, PA - 10 April 1833

The whole question of peace or war lies in the matter of the deposits.

Ashland, KY - 10 April 1833

Your friendly solicitude to prevent any estrangement between Mr. W. and myself adds another to the many previous obligations under which you had placed me.

Boston, MA - 10 April 1833

A systematic and bold attack, now but just begun, will be carried on, I apprehend, against the just and constitutional powers of the government, and against whatsoever strengthens the Union of the States.

unknown - 10 April 1833

A journey to the West has long been in contemplation by me, but I have not yet been able to accomplish it.

Philadelphia, PA - 13 April 1833

You need not be informed of the hostility of the Administration to the Institution over which you preside, but the following items must prove interesting.

Philadelphia, PA - 16 April 1833

The fact is that the real sin of the Bank in the eyes of the Executive is, that it is refractory & unmanageable.

Washington, MD - 17 April 1833

I think the President will visit New England this season ; if he does, he will leave here about the first of May, and he is desirous that I should accompany him.

unknown - 19 April 1833

All things have not happened as I could wish ; but on the whole, I think the events of the winter have tended to strengthen the union of the States, and to uphold the government.

Columbia, SC - 27 April 1833

I am in principle opposed to all Banks, and of course to that over which you preside.

Philadelphia, PA - 6 May 1833

From that moment they despared of turning the Bank to their political purposes, and have been intent on breaking it down to substitute some machinery more flexible.

Troy, NY - 10 May 1833

I rejoice that the time approaches when we may hope through the indulgence of a kind Providence to visit you

Troy, NY - 20 May 1833

Your favor of the 15th Inst. containing two drafts amounting to $2588 56/100 came by Saturday's mail

Troy, NY - 24 May 1833

This morning's mail also brought a few lines from Mr. Delafield informing that he had promptly acceded to the proposal to unite in a party of the family.

Montpelier, VA - 0 June 1833

It is obvious that the Constitution meant to allow the President an adequate time to consider the bills, etc., presented to him, and to make his objections to them ; and on the other hand, that Congress should have time to consider and overrule the o

Columbus, OH - 10 June 1833

Daniel Webster letter to Henry Clay... I have at length reached this point, after having been greatly delayed by the state of the roads, produced by excessive rains.

Chillicothe, OH - 22 June 1833

Daniel Webster letter to Henry Clay...Now that the scourge has departed, as I hope, from your immediate neighborhood... yet I can well conceive that you must have lost valued friends

Steubenville, OH - 1 July 1833

I will be home before July 15, so as to hear your oration. At present there is no doubt of it, provided I find your mother at New York.

Philadelphia, PA - 11 July 1833

What should be deeply impressed on the minds of the Southern gentleman is, I think, this that the administration people mean to unite in an outcry against any Bank

Columbia, SC - 12 July 1833

I observe the Jackson administration, to conciliate Pennsylvania, have appointed W. J. Duane to the treasury

Philadelphia, PA - 30 July 1833

The gamblers are doing every thing in their power to bend Mr. Duane to their purposes. But he knows them and will not yield an inch.

Philadelphia, PA - 30 July 1833

A friend of mine and Mr Duane's asked me two days ago if there was any body in New York to whom I could recommend Mr. Duane, so that he might not be deceived and see things with his own eyes.

Philadelphia, PA - 31 July 1833

He had been a little time in Office when he was required to concurr in the schemes of Jackson and the Kitchen Cabinet against the Bank by withdrawing the deposits.

Montpelier, VA - 1 August 1833

Dolly Madison letter to neice Mary...There is one secret, however, she did not tell you, and that is the power we all have in forming our own destinies.

Philadelphia, PA - 16 August 1833

This I know is their design.

Troy, NY - 27 August 1833

Our peaches are nearly ripe, & the grapes also - The yield is abundant, and we hope you may be with us in season to partake of these products of our own garden.

Montpelier, VA - 9 September 1833

Dolly Madison letter to neice Dolly...I was as glad to get a letter from you yesterday as I was to receive a present of a pair of the celebrated English Holkim calves, sent me by Mr. Patterson...

Philadelphia, PA - 1 October 1833

After a great deal of reflection, we are all satisfied that the best thing to be done is to do as little as possible.

Boston, MA - 22 October 1833

My youngest son, the delight of our eyes and our lives, is suddenly arrested by disease, in the bloom and vigor of youth, and is, as his physicians fear, on his dying bed.

Randolph, PA - 26 October 1833

I enclose fifteen dollars, and wish you to let me know that you receive it.

Boston, MA - 29 October 1833

I write this letter, as a private one, & for the purpose of inquiring whether the course for the adoption of the Bank is yet settled.

New York, NY - 0 November 1833

I expect to pay for him as long as he may live enough to make him comfortable & will most cheerfully do all in my power to relieve Sister Laura, for her I now enclose my Check for One hundred Dollars

Troy, NY - 7 December 1833

confer with Mr. Chichisten who has been at New York - to be enabled to know in what manner he would prefer the arrangement should be made which should relieve you from the onerous & very improper tax on funds here.

Washington, MD - 12 December 1833

I find that we are a good deal stronger in the House of Representatives both in numbers, and in sperit and Union, than what we were at the last session.

Washington, MD - 21 December 1833

it would be well to have a general meeting of the people to memorialize Congress in favor of a restoration of the deposites

Washington, MD - 21 December 1833

Since I have arrived here, I have had an application to be concerned, professionally, against the Bank, which I have declined, of course,