SENATE CHAMBER, December 16, 1859. DEAR TYLER: The excitement seems to abate slightly in Congress, but it is on the rise in nearly every S...

ASHEBORO, May 22nd, 1861 . This State is now a perfect unit as the North seems to be. No man desired or worked harder than myself to prese...

At present there is a stream of emigrants to Canada of all persons who have left the country for its good.   They are of three classes—runa...

[December 24, 1860] I am well satisfied that the Southern Party determined to secede, to see if they could not break up the Republican ...

Wash. 31 Jany 61 Dear Fox: I recd yours about the Tug of War yesterday and laid it before Genl Scott, who upon reading it said it had...

Keokuk Dec 27 th 1859 My Dear Sir Our State Convention comes off soon probably too Soon for the appointment of delegates to the Nati...

We have been up to the Mulberry Plantation with Colonel Colcock and Judge Magrath, who were sent to Columbia by their fellow-citizens in th...

At a meeting of the Pioneer Association of Cincinnati, held on Saturday last, Parson Brownlow made another characteristic speech.   We find...