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Showing posts with label Extension of Slavery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Extension of Slavery. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 25, 2023

Congressman Horace Mann, February 6, 1850

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FEB 6. I really think, if we insist upon passing the Wilmot Proviso for the Territories, that the South—a part of them — will rebel. But  ...

Congressman Horace Mann, February 14, 1850

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FEB. 14. You ejaculate a prayer for my protection. I do not feel in any personal danger. I mean to tell them what I think, and in such a w...

Congressman Horace Mann, February 20, 1850

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FEB. 20. You are mistaken in supposing the great majority of the South would rejoice if slavery were not extended; at least, this is true ...
Wednesday, August 12, 2020

Abraham Lincoln’s Speech at Leavenworth, Kansas, December 3, 1859

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LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: You are, as yet, the people of a Territory; but you probably soon will be the people of a State of the Union. Then yo...
Saturday, February 23, 2019

Alexander H. Stephens to the Editor of the Federal Union,* August 30, 1848

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Clinton, Ga . 30th, Aug., 1848. Mr. Editor : In passing through this place, I have just seen your paper of yesterday's date which c...
Sunday, October 28, 2018

Henry L. Benning* to Howell Cobb, February 23, 1848

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Columbus [ga. ], 23d Feby., 1848. Dear Howell , You ask me to write you soon and fully my views of Cass's letter and Dickinson'...
Sunday, August 26, 2018

Amos A. Lawrence, July 1857

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We look on the great question as now settled, and all political movements in Kansas as having chiefly a local interest. Some of us stood re...
Thursday, August 23, 2018

George S. Denison to Salmon P. Chase, May 15, 1862

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New York , May 1862. Sir : You desired me to put in writing the statements made to you by me while in Washington. In compliance with th...
Sunday, June 3, 2018

Governor Salmon P. Chase to Thomas Spooner, Esq.,* New York City, New York, December 18, 1859

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Columbus , Dec 18, [1859.] Dear Spooner : From what you say in yours of the 14th, I infer you had not received mine previously written ...
Thursday, May 10, 2018

Senator Salmon P. Chase to Congressman Lewis D. Campbell,* May 25, 1855

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Cincinnati , May 25th [ 1855. ] Dear Sir : On my return this evening from the East, I find your note of the 18th on my table, and I sha...
Sunday, January 21, 2018

Senator Salmon P. Chase to Edward S. Hamlin, June 28, 1852

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Washington , June 28, 1852. My Dear Sir , I received only today your letter of the 15th. I left the city on the adjournment over upon t...
Thursday, October 5, 2017

Senator Salmon P. Chase to [Milton Sutliff?], November 17, 1850

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Private. Cincinnati , Nov. 17, 1850. My Dear Sir , Your letter, like the “royal Charlie” of the Cannie Scots “was long in coming.” It...