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Volume 1: 4 March-31 July 1801 |
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Edited by David B. Mattern, J.C.A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, and Susan Holbrook Perdue 562 pages, 6 x 9 1/4 |
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Edited by David B. Mattern, J.C.A. Stagg, Ellen J. Barber, and Anne Mandeville Colony 562 pages, 6 x 9 1/4 |
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In the five-month period covered by this volume of the Secretary of State Series, Madison and Jefferson work jointly to acquire final possession of, and establish a preliminary government for, the territory acquired in the Louisiana Purchase of May 1803 while simultaneously dealing with merchants' complaints arising from the associated claims convention. The loss and destruction of the frigate Philadelphia at Tripoli and the enslavement of the crew, an incident which Madison considered of far less import than did U.S. consuls in Europe and Africa and later historians, shocked Americans. From France, Robert R. Livingston reported the discovery of a royalist assassination plot against Napoleon and the retaliatory kidnapping and execution of the duc d'Enghien, scion of the Condés. At Madrid, Charles Pinckney continued his attempts to persuade the Spanish court to accept both responsibility for French depredations against U.S. commerce in Spanish ports and the American interpretation of the boundary between Louisiana and Florida. Because of the range of State Department responsibilities, Madison's
correspondence displays a broad overview of not only the diplomatic but
also the social and commercial life of the early republic. The volume
documents Jefferson's experiment in republican etiquette leading to the
infamous controversy involving Jefferson, Madison, and British minister
Anthony Merry at Washington and James Monroe at London. Also covered are
the slow deterioration of the close relationship between Madison and Spanish
minister Carlos Yrujo, who were linked by the friendship between their
wives, and the case of a married worker at the Philadelphia Mint who absconded
with another woman, leaving behind him a series of complaints against
his supervisor. Consular dispatches chronicle the quarantine of U.S. vessels
throughout Europe from fear of yellow fever imported from the Americas;
the customs, terrain, and agriculture of Algiers as described by Consul
General Tobias Lear; and the sad tale of the U.S. consul at Rotterdam
whose mind was so deranged as to require him to be "subjected to
the Straight Waistcoat." Access to people, places, and events discussed
is facilitated by detailed annotation and a comprehensive index. 720 pages, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 |
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Edited by David B. Mattern, J. C. A. Stagg, Ellen J. Barber, Anne Mandeville Colony, Angela Kreider, and Jeanne Kerr Cross The seventh volume of the Secretary of State Series covers Madison's tenure in that office from 2 April to 31 August 1804, a period in which the bulk of his correspondence dealt with U.S. relations with Great Britain, France, and Spain and the constant struggle to maintain U.S. neutrality in a world at war. Nearly every foreign policy issue with which Madison wrestles in this volume is rooted in European conflict. The large and ever-growing American mercantile fleet, whose ships could be found in all parts of the globe, was required to sail through a minefield of French, British, and Spanish maritime regulations designed to destroy each other's economies. Thus Madison fields complaints about British blockades and impressment in correspondence with James Monroe, George W. Erving, and a host of consuls; the armed trade with Saint-Domingue and French privateering in correspondence with Robert R. Livingston and the French chargé d'affaires Louis-André Pichon; and the failure of the Spanish to ratify the claims convention of 1802, which provided for compensation for U.S. claims against Spain, in correspondence with Charles Pinckney and Spanish minister Carlos Fernando Martinez de Yrujo. The volume also includes correspondence with William C. C. Claiborne, the governor of Orleans territory, which covers in great detail events in Louisiana as the newly purchased territory begins to be integrated into the United States. Readers interested in the U.S. naval war with Tripoli and Barbary affairs in general will find a wealth of material in the consular correspondence from the Mediterranean basin during this time, including the fallout over the burning of the Philadelphia and Edward Preble's attack on Tripoli. Among a variety of domestic affairs that Madison handled and that are fully represented in this volume, the ratification of the Twelfth Amendment was most important. In addition to his official correspondence, there are a number of Madison's personal letters in this volume. As in all volumes in this series, thorough annotation and a detailed index provide access to people, places, and events. 768 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 |
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Edited by Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Anne Mandeville Colony, Jeanne Kerr Cross, Mary Parke Johnson, Angela Kreider, and Wendy Ellen Perry The five months covered by this volume encompass the end of Jefferson’s
first administration and point toward his second. At home, the government
was still digesting the Louisiana Purchase, establishing territorial governments
for the Orleans and Louisiana Territories, and trying to ascertain the
boundaries of the acquisition. Abroad, the shifting alliances resulting
from the ongoing war in Europe affected American relations with European
nations and obstructed Madison’s and Jefferson’s goals in
international affairs. In North Africa the crewmen of the U.S. frigate Philadelphia continued to languish in Tripolitan prisons. Morocco and Algiers, though restive at being prevented by U.S. blockades from trading with Tripoli, exercised caution in view of the increased American naval force in the region. A forceful Edward Preble was replaced as naval commander in the Mediterranean by Samuel Barron, whose long-term illness, reported in consular dispatches, hampered his effectiveness in the war against Tripoli. Madison’s correspondence also shows the growing impact of the European war on American commerce and shipping as ship captains, merchants, and family members wrote to complain of vessels seized under the increasing restrictions placed by Britain and France on neutral trade, and of sailors impressed by both major belligerents. British and French privateers also played havoc with American shipping and seamen, and their victims wrote Madison to complain. Requests for appointments, problems with Monroe’s financial affairs, wine purchases, and family land issues also occupied Madison’s time over this winter. Included in the supplement are documents that have been acquired since
the publication of the last series supplement in volume 17 of the Papers
of James Madison, Congressional Series, in 1991. Access to people,
places, and events discussed in this volume is facilitated by detailed
annotation and a comprehensive index. |
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The Papers of James Madison |
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