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The Writings of James Madison: 1819-1836.
The Writings of James Madison 1819-1836 Author:James Madison Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The delay in answering your letter made me fear you might doubt my readiness to comply with its requests. I now fear you will think I have done more than these j... more »ustified. I have been the less reserved because you are so ready to conform to my inclination formerly expressed, not to be drawn from my sequestered position into public view. Since I thanked you for the copy of your late volume1 I have had the pleasure of going thro' it; and I should have been much disappointed, if it had been recd. by the public with less favor than is everywhere manifested. According to all accounts from the Continent of Europe, the American character has suffered much there by libels conveyed by British Prints, or circulated by itinerant Calumniators. It is to be hoped the truths in your book may find their way thither. Good translations of the Preface alone could not but open many eyes which have been blinded by prejudices against this Country. TO THOMAS HERTELL. Mad. Mss. Dec' 20, 1819. Dear Sir,—I have been some time a debtor for your favor of Novr nth accompanied by a Copy of your Expose.2 It reached me at a time when myattention had some particular calls on it; and I was so unlucky as to lose by an accident, the answer which I had prepared for a late mail. 1 Appeal from the Judgment of Great Britain respecting the United States. (1819.) 2 Hertel sent Madison his pamphlet entitled " An Expose of thand causes of intemperate drinking and the means by which it may be obviated."—Mad. MSS. I now repeat the thanks it contained for your communication. I have read with pleasure the interesting lights in which you have placed a subject, which had passed thro' so many able hands. The task of abolishing altogether the use of intoxicating, and even exhilarating drinks, is an arduous one. ...« less