ADf - Autograph Draft
An unsigned manuscript draft in the author's handwriting.
I beg you to be assured that my delay in complying with your request is in no degre[e] attributable to a wan[t] of respect for yourself o[r] indifference to the interests of the institution in behal[f] of which you have add[ed] me. Your letter was mislaid immediately aft[er] it was recd. & not recoverd until now. Having be[en] thus deprived of your address
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Recipient: Unknown
I have received with much feelings of profound gratitiude, the resolutions of the Senate enclosed in your note of yesterday. Be pleased to present to the Senate and to accept for yourself, the assurances of my high consideration and esteem.
Sender: Benjamin Franklin Butler
Recipient: Charles Edward Dudley
Proposed Answer.
"I am not sufficiently informed of the (State of the Presidents mind) ^the State of the facts^ to enable me to reply make an answer satisfactory to myself to the question proposed in yours of the 11th. instant. It appears to me however that It can ^is competent for me to^ obviate the difficulties in your course arising from what has passed between us. In this belief and to this... Continue Reading
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Supreme Court
James Jackson ex
dem. Abrm. I Salisbury
v.
Nicholas Fish &
Matthew Mc Nair
Brief for Trial Onondago circuit
Deduction of Sale
Ist. Pattent to Caleb Cornwall for Lot No. 6 in Hanibal Onondago County
2d April
IId. Conveyance from Caleb
1783
Cornwall To Edward Taylor
Witness Barker
<Zeder> <illegible>
<Smith>
IIId Assignment from Edward... Continue Reading
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Slave Trade
Page 6. Objection to the Treaty stated viz
I. That the establishment of a mixed tribunals in the Territories of the Respective parties is essential to the <execution> of its provisions—that the U. States could not concur in this 1st. because they have no colonies either on the coast of Africa or in the W. Indies & 2dly. because it is doubtful whether the power of the Govmt.... Continue Reading
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I cannot come to Washington whilst the appointment of Judge is pending, as such a step would render my situation in regard to that matter (already sufficently) unpleasant ^<it> <would> <be> too much so^. If the matter of which you would speak to me relates to yourself & I can be of service in it I will meet you at any intermediate place at any time after the 15th. July. I... Continue Reading
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Whereas the period fixed for the election of a chief magistrate of the United States has so nearly approached that the members of the Legislatures of several ^of our Sister^ States have already thought it advisable to express their feelings upon the occasion, and have, thereby, rendered it proper that those who have been elected in a similar capacity to represent the State of Newyork, should have... Continue Reading
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I have not yet red. an answer to the letter you speak of. In the proper time I will communicate with you on that subject. I am much relieved by Mr Ver Planks letter ^has relieved me greatly.^ If the extract had appeared in almost any other ^a^ paper the ^of doubtful^ friendship of the editor of which was in any degree doubtfull I should without hesitation ^could not but^ have regarded it as a... Continue Reading
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Recipient: James Alexander Hamilton
Our delegates have gone to their convention to day & will probably decide on their nomination of ^for^ Senator. Owing On account of the jealousy & irritation which has grown out of an opposition of much virulence & some force started agt. Mr Dudley personally, I have ^not^ deemed it imprudent to move in furtherance of the very liberal and judicious suggestions you made to me at the... Continue Reading
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Recipient: Stephen Van Rensselaer III
I recd. yours of this morning & in reply have only to say, that if the Gentlemen who our friends support for the Council could be induced to ob make any stipulation either who they should would appoint or who they would or would not remove as an Inducement for their support, I would not only oppose them to the extend of my means but would publicly upraid them for their profligacy. I thought I... Continue Reading
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Our Legislature meets tomorrow & most of the members have already arrived are already here. On the subject of the Presidential election an uncommon degree of solicitude and warmth exhists, the complaints agt. the selection of a President from Virginia which were on a former occasion heard principally from the active men in politics now proceed from the mass of the people. It is contemplated... Continue Reading
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Your letter of yesterdays date is before me.
The proposed Loan of $350,000 by the State to the General Government can only be made by first borrowing the amount on the credit of the State. But as the State Tax for 1815 will be realized in the early part of the next year, I think this sum can be borrowed for the object contemplated without any prejudice or embarrassment to the State.
Whilst... Continue Reading
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Whereas in all ages and in every clime even among the most uncivilized of mankind the love of Country and the love of Glory, the Spirit of patriotism and of heroism have never failed to excite admiration, to call forth applause and to be crowned by those gratefull rewards which are ever dear to the Grand the virtuous t& the wise.
And whereas the duty of cherishing Sentiments so intimately... Continue Reading
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a Card
Amicus Juris Consutus, "having observed that ^he is charged^ the Chancellor in the Gazette of Thursday last has thought proper to charge him with "an attempt to sew discord between the ^him^ Chancellor & the chief Justice" and "to tear asunder the Bands of friendship" which have so long subsisted ^to^ <chose> the respectability of the source for which this imputation proceeds... Continue Reading
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Recipient: James Kent
Amicus Juris Consultus No. II
To Amicus Curiae
The Pledge with which I concluded my first number is before the public & I proceed to its redemption. The reputation of the objection of the Chancellor & The vindication of the constituted authorities of the State from the ^you^ causes being my only object, that course In the discharge of this duty I disclaim all personal feelings. The... Continue Reading
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Recipient: James Kent
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