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Displaying 141 - 160 of 1132I have had the pleasure to receive your friendly letter at this place, and thank you very kindly for the invitation it contains. It is not quite certain that I will be able to stay long enough in Kentucky to pay Mrs. Clay and yourself a visit, but if it should be ^so,^ you may rest assured, that I shall not deny myself that gratification.
A number of yr democratic friends are desirous of spending a social hour with you before you leave us & by their Request we beg leave to ask the favour of yr Company at a Private dinner at Pages tomorrow at 5 P M. should yr arrangements Permit—or at such other time as would Comport with them.
Your friends while they Regret that they will not have an opportunity of meeting you around the Social Board, appreciate your Views in Relation to any movement beyond ordinary social Intercourse.
I have recd. your letter, & we are all very thankful for your & Mrs. Poinsetts polite invitation. Considering the distances between the several points to be reached, & the difficulty of going o[ver]land in your country it is at best very doubtful whether the Major & Angelica with their child will be able to reach you.
We propose to leave here on the 14th. & to go directly to Charleston expecting to arrive there about the 22d. Mr Paulding of the party. In reference to the suggestion in your letter I say sincerely that my desire is to pass among as quietly as any other private gentleman would do—willing to see any body that wants to see me, but without parade or ostentation.
I am really very busy, & must be permitted to kill two birds with one stone. Nothing would give me more pleasure than to gratify the "young Mens Institute" but I cannot consistently do so.
I have received with much satisfaction, your letter communicating to me, by the direction of a Democratic Convention, held in the Ninth Ward of the city of New York, a copy of its proceedings, in which the conduct of Mr. Tyler in placing his veto on the Fiscal Bank Bill, is highly approved, and the repeal of the Independent Treasury system decidedly condemned.
I have been prevented by press of company & farming duties from sooner acknowledging the receipt of your letter, which I read with the greatest interest, & now write with my Servant waiting to reach the mail before it passes. Your letter, & two very interesting ones yesterday recd.
I owe you many thanks for your obliging communications, as well as apologies for not having sooner acknowledged them.
Mr Henry will not go to Newyork & it would be extremely inconvenient for me to go. The Chancellor will hear us at any time after his return in Vacation & I hope you will not fail to write me by return mail that you consent to this arrangement.
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Excellency's letter of the 4th of September transmitting sundry documents to establish the charge of forgery against Jacob Smith, alias <illegible> Redington, now in the goal of Montreal, and requesting that he may be given up to the state of New York in order that he may be brought to trial.
I have the honor to transmit to your Excellency sundry documents to establish the crime of forgery against Jacob Smith, alias Jacob S. Redington, committed by him in this state, by altering a set of bills of exchange. Drawn by the Bank of Montreal on a house in London, as will more particularly appear from the said documents.
I have delayed writing to you for some time in expectation of receiving a line from you, my ride from Newyork was to me very agreeable, altho alone all the way.
I have been for several days reproaching myself for not having sooner returned your letter & thanked you for the contents of your own. But you can have no idea of the extent & variety of my engagements. I hope the news from Indiana & Kentucky has not frightened you. Two states ^agt.
Extract from a speech delivered by Martin Van Buren, in the Senate of the United States, on the 28th December 1823, on the introduction of a proposition to amend the Constitution of the United States in relation to the choice of President and Vice President. Reported for the National Intelligencer.
I owe you an apology for not having sooner acknowledged the receipt of your obliging letter of 26th of May. My opinions on the subject of the power of Congress over Slave Property in the Southern States, are so well understood by my friends, that I am surprised that an attempt to impose upon the public respecting them should be hazarded.
I wrote you some time ago since which I have not heard from you, I leave this place in two Weeks for Newyork in order for my Examinations at which place my engagements are positive, predicated on our arrangements. Those engagements I mentioned particularly in my last.
I have this day Recd. a Line from Mr. Jacob Van Ness, in which he expresses your solicitude and anxiety on account of your Brothers name not being included in the list of Counsellors admitted in our last August Term. I embrace the earliest oppertunity to remove your apprehensions on this head. Corns.
I have this moment received yours of the 20th Inst. with mixed emotions of Pleasure and Pain, the former produced by the birth & safe delivery of your daughter, the later by the Illness of your very estimable lady. I do most sincerely hope that she may soon ^recover^ that health and Comfort which she is so richly entitled to.
I have received yours the 23d. Istant of the date of 18th.