Show FIVE MINUTE CHATS ABOUT OUR presidents by JAMES AMES j MORGAN JAMES MADISON 0 1781 1751 march 16 james jamea madl son on born at port conway va 1772 graduated at princeton 1776 an in virginia legislature 1785 8 ain in continental congress 1787 in constitutional convert conven tion ion 1789 97 in congress 1794 marr married ed dorothy todd payne 1801 9 secretary tary of state 0 6 S JAMES MADISON mule n great A AS annine for lie defoie r ore entering the presidency and added nothing to it while in the white house it be that he was a good deal of it wit iliin ah but bill not much of a president like all the more famous virginians 11 madison adison was not of the highest bighem but the son soil of a plain well todo farmer far inter in an outlying tonn comi ty nis his enily early lire fire was ns cassil nt at mont peller pellar the farni which ills hi grandfather had wrested fruin from tile lie indians Ind luis front thoin it lie he drew ills his only private income and at last lie he vas hurled burled lit in its soil llo wn ns lit on hl lits father jintil it he e ans ns fifty when hen the lie latter died anti the place become ills un own with etli lou Il henns lives allo IKI always to nd fill imas liim hini iiii il ni gs matir 1 Mi fa tvr tir billy fu file ivet eix inches find oil one quarter i imons Iles lie ns its with illi jant it tin or if pr identa i dents lit 1 james madison naturally thin and arall ills his zeal for eludy nearly wrecked ills health while a student nt at princeton college where here for months fit t a time lie slept only three hours out of the lie 24 unfitted for duty when the carne lie went to the virginia legait ture instead yet this seemingly broken down young wan was destined to be the longest lived of all tile the presidents with the single exception of john adams when a candidate for election reelection re to the he legislature madison revolted tet against the old virginia custom of ettling ettli gg up ill the drinks ills 1119 morality wits mistaken staken ini for or stinginess and n if I 1 tile the thirsty voters docked to tile capa a elected t the defeated candidate hall had to N alt if t a dozen yeara for ills his first chance to distinguish himself still no tinie time was lost for while III he wa was waiting lie diligently prepared prep tired to meet opportunity when it should corno collie and made a close study of nil fill governments ancient and modern mor foni if madison had not been crossed tind anil blessed in love posterity might not catch blin on ills human burnall side nt at nil and in only yawn over tit 14 prosy serf serious ous s studious lous cool t tempered cin little grent great tuan lie ho ans already a bachelor of thirty 1 two find a member of the continent Con continental tinen t I 1 congress con cress when n sixteen year old girl to in ills philadelphia lionso was lie file first to touch a 11 soft spot in ill his heart A young cler vin agn will hung filing find sig hed over lier hot cut lilia illin out dut find and lie he alls pain painfully rimy awakened front from lil lda first drunin I 1 of love by n letter of sill madison wits was nut forty oll ell into ills his summer uni nier alien aln n lie lemine involved lit in still hoarding linuse house romance tit nt IT I 1 fal lelith fa only instead of a 11 indy 1114 hoarder lip c fell 1 all in ID love this flip flint imp niall a land ladys dully dolly todil alin tin was vas only twenty six hild lot lost lier iler hilj hn ijulia annd vas living walli lilt tier mothr who received into tier ll oll 11 rev few gentlemen boarders hoan lors ill 9 tl aluni lIl was senator antron barr of new N york VOM madison hiris himself elf wits ns staying at another hotrie where chere lie and two other future presidents jefferson and monroe were cic lying three in a room there tile hie battle of the lie pretty boling traveled to hing and he ha asked null BUIT they the were we tit princeton together togi tin r to take nhi lilan to sie see her tile flail led til III in III tile the flash of jill an eye e unit anil dully 1111 ind tier her 1 liny y avore M borlie ni to montpelier cibere 0 sh ahr 3 proved tier lier find and kindliness 4 by 1 di velling in ili peace pace under flit lie roof alth tier liti mother in law ln tillay till ty alvi cairs A FUGITIVE PRESIDENT 0 0 1809 james madison inaugurated president aged fifty seven june 19 war declared 1814 aug 2427 in flight from the british D dac c 28 treaty of peace 1817 madison retired from presidency 1826 rector in university of virginia 1829 in constitutional convention ven tion 1836 june 28 died aged eighty five Q for the sall 4 of ills 1119 B bm liin ng D edh it y madlne Madl ns fill alon would imad ili ho it desett deset df tit t without in all 1 ls oi linse dreary prine the ry blog fiur would oi van flor ill list for foi hunink nove dotes her alir 1 1 1 ing jIl rits r livva UK life austerity ni slit nf a I 1 ti itei Rn binn Inn simplicity anti won v ii 1 IK v i if 11 popularity that hi it blis been bc n PIH ili A d if tit lit till nil dinong the inI of nf tin the nl I 1 tv t L house aion o only all an t mrs mis cleveland unless must lie excepted nim it n I 1 Is 9 tile the only president dont who ho found the lie presidency tin nn i to lo fit his ci one olio of the lie really gervat r t ilaw givert of tile the nation lon tn lie was 11 execute e force bite with lh a clib inot tills this gentle sj eit tempi led loving lon ir fr I 1 hill pelf adrift on tit alic turbid spa af I 1 f t the lie grent wars nr perhaps it MIS ins no longer possible ie to koet I 1 pep us lit fit of ill the nr UK han n nt fit int in t till hie united state st lies wits ns tile only kiil neutral lift left in tile HIP civilized world bild after LO 20 spins of 1 licking and cult cuff ing li from froin both sides in tile the E rui conflict 1 milled by b england ind all and lied to fly by lupoleon Nu polton the country aris ans ore fore nil all over oc r N lion lien the aarli awls of con gress under tile the youthful henry clay seized the tiller of till the ship of state front from matisons Madi Bindi sons irresolute hand and a nd recklessly pointed the vessel straight into the alie teeth of the storm the sea bonnil kust east was more for pence peace nin nna at flint time the lie military section wits the new west where the lie and anti and ohlman Oh loan were lustily shouting on oil to callanin Cal lacin I 1 overborne rive by their rash coxin counsels sels madison consented ns as lie he said to throw forward tle the lap flag of the country sure are onward I 1 that lint the people would press onward find and defend it without competent military lenders leaders without financial credit without fill wor war equipment the keople could not press onward ns its tiny any history of the dismal war var of 1812 will tell you even tile was left undefended and madison Bra illson in a little round lint with it bis big cockade ran about in anz I 1 nin relied upon washington with the invaders entering nt at one side of the defenseless town like lie president led fled lit fit the tit other aa A lie turned aie saw the finnies numea shooting shoot lan up behind bilm lie he lied led anti anil further furt lier while the british commander was bloN blowing vIng out candies on ills his inner dinner table it that tit lie he inight feast in tile the light of oc the burning white house its fugitive master was hiding in a forest after an absence of three days a lion vy h ell arted shattered houseless president returned to vl fw w the lie charred walls wall of ills his official resilience residence and of tile the capitol cu pitol at every turn he was vii greeted erected by ugly inette ings of the general pt disposition to nicho him tile for nil all the national bhart in a war flint tind lieen been tl inist upon him flint but with victory tit nt now new find the return ot of peace the lin voice of the tit faultfinder uns inns broino l in ili tile lillin of prosperity and in tile closing days of ills ids administration madion madi on was cheered by awny r nh flint ills coll countrymen it er were A erp etrul fill of the 40 tivit tint lie he annl n I 1 I 1 rom fowl years imd 1111 served bliem the in pure debott n ille john adems lin lie empt get fruin ill ills retirement to sit it in tile con constitutional gitil convention of lila ills title slate alere tit tp kcf agod stale small cl clobell oell ills hla fictive life ill lie lind opened it walli ill n sentiment of immunity for tile slaves i bv james morion |