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I never saw father so cheerful; he was in high spirits, and his witty conversation was much appreciated." * * "A Great Peace Maker: The Dairy of James Gallatin" . p. 36. Peace! That was the outstanding achievement of the American commissioners at Ghent.
Madison and seated her on his right, leaving the rest to straggle in as they pleased. Merry, fresh from the Court of St. James, was aghast and affronted; and when a few days later, at a dinner given by the Secretary of State, he saw Mrs. Merry left without an escort, while Mr. Madison took Mrs. Gallatin to the table, he believed that a deliberate insult was intended.
Works of Jefferson, Madison, Gallatin, Dallas, Clay. Reprints in M. Carey, Olive Branch; A. Johnston, American Orations, I, American History told by Contemporaries, III. James Madison, who became President March 4, 1809, felt that his administration was to be a continuation of that of Jefferson; and he took over three members of Jefferson's cabinet, including Gallatin.
You ain't a Mormon, are you?" he asked abruptly. Granger, taken aback by the question, smiled slowly and shook his head. "Well, then, I'd have you to know," Beorn continued, "that I was brought up in the Mormon faith. One o' the earliest memories I have is o' the massacre o' the Latter-Day Saints at Gallatin, when Governor Boggs issued his order that we should be exterminated an' driven out.
"People in Gallatin offered a thousand dollars for one man catched putting matches in a threshing machine. Other ranchers was willing to give a thousand if they found out what made their hay get a-fire! Hah! They don't know how we set a bomb so the sun'll start it! They don't think that the very fellers running the threshing machine is the ones that drops the matches in!
Once in office, he turned Monroe into a relentless enemy and fairly drove Gallatin out of office in disgust by appointing his old enemy, William Duane, editor of the Aurora, to the post of Adjutant-General. "And Armstrong!" said Dallas who subsequently as Secretary of War knew whereof he spoke "he was the devil from the beginning, is now, and ever will be!"
We made up our minds that we had discovered the finest trapping ground in America, and had a poor show to get away from it, but we went ahead and got our breakfast, just as though there were no Indians in sight of us, but we concluded we had better leave this part of the country, so we pulled out southwest across the valley, having no trouble until we struck the West Gallatin river.
Jefferson was inaugurated as president in 1801, and selected an able Cabinet, with his friend and disciple James Madison as Secretary of State, and Albert Gallatin, an experienced financier, a Swiss by birth, as Secretary of the Treasury.
Gallatin having frequently laid before him claims of Americans against the French Government, he had shown himself disposed to enter upon a general negotiation, in which they should be comprehended with claims of French citizens against the Federal Government at the same time with the arrangement relative to the execution of the eighth article of the treaty of Louisiana, The object of his excellency was to arrive at a speedy and friendly disposition of all difficulties that might subsist between the two powers, well assured that France and the United States would be found to have the same views of justice and conciliation.
I reported to Ferry, who handed me a despatch: "Give that to General Austin; he has gone back to Gallatin without the brigade to wait with the others" his smile broadened. "Captain," I swallowed a lump "what others?" "Well, all the others; Major Harper, Colonel Dismukes, Harry Helm, Squire Wall, Mrs.
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