Jun 21, 2018 - Sale 2483

Sale 2483 - Lot 187

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FORMER PRESIDENT TO FUTURE PRESIDENT MADISON, JAMES. Autograph Letter Signed, twice ("J. Madison" in the third person within the text, and a franking Signature in full), to Martin Van Buren, thanking him for sending a copy of the president's message [Andrew Jackson's State of the Union Address] and expressing regret concerning the controversy involving France. With address in the hand of Dolley Madison and docketing in the hand of Martin Van Buren. 1/2 page, 4to, with integral address leaf; moderate scattered dampstaining, inexpert repair with paper to short closed tears in address leaf, folds. Montpelier, 22 January 1836
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"J Madison with his best respects to Mr. Van Buren, thanks him for the copy of the President's late Special Message and the Document accompanying it. He wishes he could have found in the posture of the controversy with France less of a remaining cloud over the desired issue to it."
On December 7, 1835, President Andrew Jackson delivered to Congress a State of the Union Address ("Message of the President of the United States") which included the report that France continued to refrain from paying the reparations it had agreed were due to the U.S. (in the Franco-American Treaty of 1831) for its illegal seizure or destruction of American ships and cargo, mostly during the Quasi-War in the 1790s. Soon after Jackson's address, the French Chamber of Deputies began making payments, completing them by May of 1836.