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Showing posts with label Election of 1852. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Election of 1852. Show all posts
Monday, May 4, 2026

Willis Hall to Henry Clay, June 1848

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NEW YORK, June, 1848. MY DEAR MR. CLAY, — I write to you in the fullness of my heart, not to condole with you, for though I feel all the p...
Monday, April 6, 2026

Speech of Congressman Albert G. Brown on the subject of the Public Printing, and Against the Action of the Joint Committee in Taking It from the Contractor and Dividing It Between the "Union" and the "Republic" Newspapers, Delivered in the United States House of Representatives, April 13 and 14, 1852

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MR. BROWN said: I do not intend to detain the House by anything like an elaborate speech upon the subject of the public printing. In the few...
Thursday, March 26, 2026

Congressman Horace Mann to Reverend Cyrus Pierce, March 27, 1852

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WASHINGTON, March 27, 1852. C. PIERCE, Esq. DEAR SIR,— . . . I found I was doing no good here, and that it seemed impossible for me to e...

Congressman Horace Mann to Dr. Edward Jarvis, April 24, 1852

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WASHINGTON, April 24, 1852. DR. JARVIS. DEAR SIR,— I have just received your favor of the 19th instant, and the accompanying volumes; fo...

Congressman Horace Mann to George Combe, May 8, 1852

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WASHINGTON, May 8, 1852. MY DEAR MR. COMBE,— We are on the verge of a Presidential election. Our political caldron is beginning to seethe ve...
Wednesday, February 18, 2026

Senator Charles Sumner to John Bigelow, June 9, 1852

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I longed to see you. When you called I was at Eames's, discoursing on Baltimore and its scenes. This nomination 1 makes me lament anew ...
Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Senator Charles Sumner to Charles Francis Adams Sr., June 21, 1852

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We hear that Scott is nominated at last. I tell you confidentially how Seward regards it. He thinks that his friends have been defeated, tha...
Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Speech of Congressman Albert G. Brown, delivered in the United States House of Representatives, in Reply to his Colleague, Hon. John D. Freeman, on the State of Parties in Mississippi, March 30, 1852

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AVERSE as I am to the continuance of a controversy with my colleagues on the subject of Mississippi politics, I am not the less constrained ...