James Madison The Nationalist 1780-1787

JAMES MADISON- The Nationalist by IRVING JUANT. Contents include: CHRONOLOGY ........... 10 L YOUNGEST DELEGATE ........... n IL AT THE VIRGINIA TABLE .......... 22 III. THE SOUTHERN CAMPAIGN ......... 34 IV. SPYGLASS ON ARNOLD 47 V. BATTLE OF THE DIPLOMATS ......... 58 VI. INSTRUCTIONS TO JAY ........... 70 VIL PUBLIC LANDS HERITAGE OR SPOILS 89 VIII. FIGHTING FOR IMPLIID POWERS ........ 104 IX. EXPANDING THE GOVERNMENT ........ 121 X. CLIPPING DIPLOMATIC WINGS . . 133 XL NATIONAL DOMAIN ............ 146 XII. YORKTOWN . . . . .... 158 XIII. WAR CRIMES AND CRIMINALS ...,... 173 XIV DEFENDING FRANKLIN ........... 192 XV. IMPOST OR BANKRUPTCY .......... 209 XVI. ADDRESS TO THE NATION ,. 237 XVII. WAR OVER PBACE ............. 254 XVIIL ROMANCE ............... 283 CliAPTBR i AC XIX PREPARING K R PEACE ........ 288 XX CONTINENTALIST IN RICHMOND ........ 306 XXL MOHAWK, INTERLUDE ...... 324 XXIL FREEDOM OF RELIGION ...... 343 XXIIL ROCKY RIVHKS, ROCICY JUSTICE .,.. XXIV-ANNAPOLIS CONVENHON ........ XXV, HICH ROAD TO PHIIA EUPHIA ..,... 388 XXVI. PEOLOGUE TO THE CoNSTtrotioN ,, 409 NOTES ...,........... 421 ,.......,,,,. 469 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Ceracchi Bust of Madison ...,...,.. Frontispiece OPPOSITE PA E Pennsylvania State House Independence Hal . . . . . 48 Ciphering by James Madison, Sr. .......... 49 Edmund Randolph, President Samuel Huntington and Benjamin Harrison ,,....,. 60 John Adams, Samuel Adams, Theodorick Bland and Arthur Lee ............ 6 Chevalier de k Luzerne, Francois de Marbois, Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer and John Witherspoon - ...... 126 Montpelier in the Eighteenth Century ........ 127 George Washington M .............. 142 Benjamin Franklin ............ 143 Alexander Hamilton and Robert Morris ....... 206 Marquis de la Fayette ....... . 207 Colonel William Floyd and His Wife, Hannah Jones Floyd . 222 Burial Cipher, Telling of Madisons Romance with Catherine Floyd ............... 223 Madisons Disclosure of His Broken Engagement . . . . 386 The Mohawk Country, a 1780 Map - . . 2 Part of List of the Two Trankfuli of Books Bought by Jefferson . 3 02 Conriauation of the List of Books Bought by Jefferson . . 303 Madisons Speech on Federal Regulation of Commerce, 17 366 Madisons Speech Against Paper Money, 1786 . . .... 367 Madison Study of Confederacies .......... 382 Hie Potomac at Harpers Ferry . , . 383. JAMES MADISON The Nationalist CHRONOLOGY 1653. Great-great-grandfather John Maddison patents tidewater land on Mattaponi River. 1723. Grandfather Ambrose Madison buys nucleus of Montpelier estate, near Orange. March 16, 1751. James Madison born to James and Nelly Conway Madison, at his maternal grandmothers home, later Port Conway, on the Rappahannock. About 1760. Central structure of Montpelier mansion built. 1763-1767. Madison studies at Donald Robertson school, in King and Queen County. 1767-1768. Studies at home under the Reverend Thomas Martin. 1769-1772. Attends college at Princeton, graduating in 1771, remaining for post...