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History of the Life and Times of James Madison
History of the Life and Times of James Madison Author:William Cabell Rives 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: CHAPTER XXIII. Mr. Madison makes another Effort for Compliance with Trenty of Peace respecting British Debts His Proposition, relative to Erection of Distri... more »ct of Kentucky into an Independent State, adopted His Labors in prosecuting Revision of the Laws Unhappy Financial Measures of the Legislature It adjourns Occupations and Studies of Mr. Madison during Recess Taste for Natural History promoted in Virginia by Officers of the French Army, while its Head-Quarters were at Williamsburg, after Surrender of Yorktown Researches of Mr. Madison in that Department of Science Correspondence with Mr. Jefferson, in which he examines and animadverts on Theories of Buffon General Philosophical Speculations Habit of Cautious and Comprehensive Induction exemplified in Answer to Letter of Mr. Jefferson, on Relative Condition of Laboring Poor in Europe and America. The British Government, as we have seen, made the failure of some of the States to comply with the treaty of peace, in regard to the recovery of debts due from the citizens of one country to those of the other, its excuse for delaying the surrender of the military posts held by it within the limits of the United States. Mr. Madison, anxious to remove every reproach of a breach of public faith from the character of Virginia, determined to make another experiment to prevail on the legislature to repeal the laws, passed during the war, by which an interdict had been laid on the payment of these debts. He moved the appointment of a special committeeon the subject, of which he was made chairman, and presented from that committee a proposition, corresponding in substance with the one offered by him at a former session, and aiming, by a fair and liberal arrangement, to conciliate the obligations and interests of the deb...« less