Chapter I: Front Matter

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Giants of America

The Founding Fathers

JAMES MADISON

by

SYDNEY HOWARD GAY

ARLINGTON HOUSE _New Rochelle, N.Y._

CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE

I. THE VIRGINIA MADISONS 1

II. THE YOUNG STATESMAN 15

III. IN CONGRESS 28

IV. IN THE STATE ASSEMBLY 45

V. IN THE VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE 61

VI. PUBLIC DISTURBANCES AND ANXIETIES 73

VII. THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION 84

VIII. "THE COMPROMISES" 94

IX. ADOPTION OF THE CONSTITUTION 110

X. THE FIRST CONGRESS 122

XI. NATIONAL FINANCES--SLAVERY 144

XII. FEDERALISTS AND REPUBLICANS 164

XIII. FRENCH POLITICS 185

XIV. HIS LATEST YEARS IN CONGRESS 207

XV. AT HOME--"RESOLUTIONS OF '98 AND '99" 225

XVI. SECRETARY OF STATE 242

XVII. THE EMBARGO 254

XVIII. MADISON AS PRESIDENT 272

XIX. WAR WITH ENGLAND 290

XX. CONCLUSION 309

INDEX 325

ILLUSTRATIONS

JAMES MADISON _Frontispiece_

From the painting by Sully in the Corcoran Gallery of
Art, Washington, D. C.

Autograph from a MS. in the New York Public Library,
Lenox Building.

The vignette of "Montpelier," Madison's home at
Montpelier, Va., is from a photograph. Page

CHARLES COTESWORTH PINCKNEY _facing_ 98

From the original painting by Gilbert Stuart in the possession
of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, D. D., LL. D.,
Charleston, S. C.

Autograph from a MS. in the New York Public Library,
Lenox Building.

FISHER AMES _facing_ 162

From the miniature painted by John Trumbull in 1792,
now in the Art Gallery of Yale University.

Autograph from the Chamberlain Collection, Boston
Public Library.

DOLLY P. MADISON _facing_ 222

From a miniature in the possession of Dr. H. M. Cutts,
Brookline, Mass.

Autograph from a letter kindly loaned by Dr. Cutts.

BATTLE OF LAKE ERIE _facing_ 310

From the painting by W. H. Powell in the Capitol at
Washington.

JAMES MADISON