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Showing posts with label Cuba. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cuba. Show all posts
Thursday, November 14, 2024

Edward Bates to the Whig Committee of New York, February 24, 1859

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St. Louis, Feb. 24, 1859. To Messrs. J. PHILIPS PHOENIX, WILLIS BLACKSTONE, H. M. BININGER, DAVID J. LILET AND H. R. SMITH, Committee, New...
Tuesday, November 5, 2024

General William T. Sherman to Senator John Sherman, February 1, 1887

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[New York, New York, February 1, 1887.] . . . . I came near closing without answering the part of your letter most important. I certainly ...
Friday, October 4, 2024

Congressman Horace Mann to Samuel Downer, December 22, 1850

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WASHINGTON, Dec. 22, 1850. MY DEAR DOWNER,  I see by the date of my letter that it is Forefathers' Day; and I cannot but ask myself w...
Saturday, September 7, 2024

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel John Beatty: July 27, 1861

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The Colonel left for Ohio to-day, to be gone two weeks. I came from the quarters of Brigadier-General Schleich a few minutes ago. He is a ...
Sunday, August 18, 2024

Senator Charles Sumner to George Sumner, September 30, 1851

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The field of our national politics is still shrouded in mist. Nobody can clearly discern the future. On the Whig side, Fillmore seems to me ...
Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Isaac Edward Holmes* to Senator Robert M. T. Hunter, June 8, 1855

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CHARLESTON, [S. C.], 8th June, 1855. MY DEAR HUNTER: Some weeks since I rec[eive]d y[ou]r letter and thank you for y[ou]r efforts in behal...
Thursday, February 22, 2024

John J. Crittenden to Count Eugène de Sartiges, October 22, 1851

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE, WASHINGTON, October 22, 1851. The undersigned, acting Secretary of State of the United States, has the honor to remin...
Saturday, January 20, 2024

Herschel V. Johnson* to Senator Robert M. T. Hunter, November 8, 1852

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(Private.) ELIZABETH CITY Co., NEAR HAMPTON, [VA.], November 5th, 1852. MY DEAR HUNTER: I wrote you in June a short note from Baltimore im...
Monday, October 23, 2023

Congressman Horace Mann to Samuel Downer, June 28, 1850

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WASHINGTON, June 28, 1850. S. DOWNER, Esq. DEAR SIR,—The fate of the Compromise Bill is still doubtful in the Senate, though public opinio...
Sunday, July 23, 2023

Charles Sumner to George Sumner, June 25, 1850

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The recent outrageous expedition against Cuba 1 has dishonored us before the world. My own impression is that it [Clay's Compromise] wi...
Friday, May 12, 2023

Diary of Gideon Welles: Tuesday, December 26, 1865

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Captain Walker, of the De Soto, called last evening. He has been actively engaged at Cape Haytien, and should not have left with his vessel ...
Tuesday, April 4, 2023

Diary of Gideon Welles: December 6, 1865

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Seward, apprehending a storm, wants a steamer to take him to Cuba. Wishes to be absent a fortnight or three weeks. Thinks he had better be a...
Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Diary of Gideon Welles: June 14 & 15, 1865

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Not well, but pressed in disposing of current business. Acting Rear-Admiral Godon reported in person. Had returned with Susquehanna to Hampt...
Tuesday, March 22, 2022

The Ostend Manifesto,* October 18, 1854

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AIX-LA-CHAPELLE, October 18th, 1854. TO THE HON. WM. L. MARCY,           Secretary of State. SIR: The undersigned, in compliance with the w...
Wednesday, March 16, 2022

Speech of Senator John Bell of Tennessee, May 24 & 25, 1854

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Mr. President, I did not expect to provoke a personal assault on my course in relation to the measure before the Senate by anything which I ...