James Bradley
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Displaying 121 - 140 of 173I have waited a few days to answer your letter in the hope that I might be able to say something more than general declarations of friendship and a strong desire to serve you amount to but I have waited in vain, I do not know at this moment of any precise manner in which I we could serve you if you were on the spot.
I have just received your letter of the 12th. Inst and owe you an apology for not having answered your last before this time. I have very unwell for some time past was for a fortnight unable to attend to business. This I know you will consider a sufficient apology especially as I had nothing of importance to write except what you will find in the public papers.
I am informed that you declined signing the resolutions which were sent to Washington upon the subject of the Missouri question, upon the ground that you never authorised your name to be used as one of the Committee on that occasion.
I regret that I have not been able to go to Albany, and now it is so late that I have given up all intentions of going. Your proceedings in Convention, are fully reported, and are very interesting. But the appointing power! What is to be done with that?
In my conversations with the S of the N. he has been open & explicit in his opinion, that the V. P. can not decline the nomination without some disadvantage—in these sentiments I am convinced the S of the N. is very sincere. I have not however inferred that he would refuse to be the Candidate shd the V. P. decline.
You will perceive by our papers of to-day what the County Convention did last week. A high compliment was passed upon you and a strong expression of disapprobation of Clinton's administration, given.
You will ^have^ doubtless remember that when at your room ^Louis's^ during the sitting of the supreme court you mentioned to me that Chief Justice Spencer had declared to Genl.
Your obliging letter of the 2d instant, came to hand on the 7th.: I read it with great satisfaction; truely, it is a time for the old Patriots, to come forward in defence of the good old cause of republicanism.
The V. P. left town today at 12oClk on his return home. He stopped at the Senate on his way and I had a short Conference with him in one of the Comee. Rooms. I had not seen him for some days, during which from considerations of delicacy I omitted to visit him.
I have but just now received your favr of 28th Ultm. I am at Skinner Number 4, with a good fire & one friend only, shall be much gratified to see you with Mr. P. R Livingston or if he is not in Town with any other one or two of your respectable friends at any time between two & four OClock this afternoon.
I presume your time must be very much engrossed or you would not forget your promises. I have been looking very impatiently for some ^time^ for a certain book, but have not received it nor have I been able to get sight of one, altho I believe some have reached this quarter.
You will receive herewith a letter from a committee of the Legislature soliciting your acceptance of the nomination as a candidate for the office of Governor.
Your letter of the 13th Inst recd is extremely gratifying to me as the renewed evidence of your regard for me and because it affords me an other opportunity to communicate with you in that candid honorable and friendly manner which has distinguished our intercourse almost from our earliest knowledge of each other
Leonidas on the subject of the note from Chief Justice Spencer.
The Republican members of the Legislature have had a meeting here & with great unanimity nominated the Vice President as our candidate for Gov, of which notice has been sent to him.
You had my permission to use my name as a committee to call a meeting of our Citizens to express their opinion on the Missouri question & the propriety of your doing so has not been questioned ^by me^.
I owe you an apology for not having more frequently written you, but my time has really been so much taken up with official business that I can hardly find a moments leisure. I am looking with anxious eyes to the course of things in our State. I have been I must confess somewhat disappointed as to the course taken by many of the federalists in the Legislature.
I have received your letter, accompanyed by a copy of a letter sent to the Vice President. I have had a full conversation with him on the subject. First however he has not received any communication from the Committee appointed to inform him of his nomination. Nor has he received the original a copy of which you sent me.
I am still under the necessity of saying that the Vice President has not yet left here, but intends certainly to go to morrow morning. He took leave of the Senate some days since.
You will accept my acknowledgments for your very to me flattering letter of the 13th instant. I hope you have so recovered your health as to be able to resume your seat at Albany, where your presence seems much wanted.