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Showing posts with label England. Show all posts
Showing posts with label England. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 4, 2025

John J. Crittenden’s Address on the Life and Death of Henry Clay, Delivered at Louisville, September 29, 1852

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LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,—I am very sensible of the difficulty and magnitude of the task which I have undertaken. I am to address you in comme...
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...
Saturday, August 31, 2024

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 14, 1865

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Bright and pleasant, but indications of change. The papers contain no news from the armies, near or remote. But there was some alarm in the ...
Thursday, August 8, 2024

Isaac E. Holmes to Senator Andrew P. Butler,* March 17, 1856

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CHARLESTON, [S. C.], 17th March, 1856 . MY DEAR BUTLER: I have rec[eive]d y[ou]r letter and speech. The best speech you have made and y[ou...
Thursday, July 18, 2024

James K. Polk* to Jefferson Davis, May 19, 1847

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(From Vicksburg Weekly Whig , October 20, 1847.) Washington City, May 19, 1847. My Dear Sir:—The Secretary of War will transmit to you, ...
Thursday, April 11, 2024

Diary of Adam Gurowski, April 1861

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COMMISSIONERS from the rebels; Seward parleying with them through some Judge Campbell. Curious way of treating and dealing with rebellion, w...