BINGHAMTON, October 28, 1855. MY DEAR GOVERNOR—I am such a political heretic in the estimation of many of your friends, that if I were to ...

Our regiment has received two months pay to-day, and to-night all are boisterously happy. We had been notified to have our muster-rolls read...

BROWNSVILLE, [PA.], August 25th, 1855. DEAR HUNTER: I received your letter of the 20th instant this morning and have just shipped the box ...

Major-General Benjamin F. Butler is exercising a great and dangerous influence at the Treasury Department. He has been employed in some case...

Bright and beautiful, and pleasantly frosty. Gen. Sherman is advancing as usual in such dubiety as to distract Gen. Hardee, who knows not wh...

For the first time in my life I assisted at the simplest and grandest spectacle—the inauguration of a President. Lincoln's message good,...

I am glad of your new appeal. Like everything from you, it is careful, logical, clear, and with a practical bearing on the times. I am incli...

UNITED STATES SENATE CHAMBER,           Feb. 23, 1868. Dear Brother: I received your letters and telegrams, and did not answer because even...

GENTLEMEN say they deprecate discussion on the subject of slavery. My judgment approves it. We have gone too far to recede without an adjust...

You will see by the papers the doings at Washington. The contest on the Speakership is showing its good influence already. 1 The slave-powe...

You will read the proceedings at Washington. The bluster of the South is, I think, subsiding, though as usual the North is frightened, and p...

I have just read your admirable letter on Clay's resolutions [of compromise]. 1 You have done a good work. . . . There is a great advan...

You have doubtless read Webster's speech. To me it seems a heartless apostasy; its whole tone is low and bad, while its main points are ...

MANSFIELD, OHIO, Nov. 1, 1867. Dear Brother: I see no real occasion for trouble with Johnson. The great error of his life was in not acquie...