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Showing posts with label Declaration of Independence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Declaration of Independence. Show all posts
Saturday, March 9, 2024

Daniel Webster to Josiah Randall & Others, November 14, 1850

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Boston, November 14, 1850. GENTLEMEN,—I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 11th of this month, inviting me, i...
Saturday, January 27, 2024

Andrew Jackson’s Proclamation Regarding the Nullifying Laws of South Carolina, December 10, 1832

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PROCLAMATION, BY ANDREW JACKSON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1832. Whereas a convention, assembled in the St...
Wednesday, October 4, 2023

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: December 15, 1864

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Cloudy and cool. A dispatch from the West states that the enemy have made a heavy raid from Bean's Station, Ky., cutting the railroad ...
Tuesday, July 25, 2023

Congressman Horace Mann to E. W. Clapp, February 6, 1850

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WASHINGTON, Feb. 6, 1850. E. W. CLAP, Esq. MY DEAR SIR, . . . You must be entirely mistaken in your speculations. The Free-soil party, wit...
Sunday, April 23, 2023

A. M. M., a Scotch Covenanter, to John Brown, November 23, 1859

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New Alexandria, Penn., November 23. Dear Sir: Permit a stranger to address you. I am the pastor of a congregation of people known as Scotc...
Thursday, April 7, 2022

William T. Sherman to George Mason Graham, July 4, 1860

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July 4, 1860. DEAR GENERAL: My supply of official paper is running low, and I take this sheet to tell you in a private way that our celebr...
Friday, March 11, 2022

Speech of Congressman Edward Wade in the House of Representatives, August 2, 1856

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I propose to say a few things on the old theme of which, we have all heard so much—the subject of slavery and the threatened dissolution of ...