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Showing posts with label France. Show all posts
Showing posts with label France. Show all posts
Thursday, December 5, 2024

Senator John C. Calhoun to Thomas G. Clemson, March 22, 1848

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Washington 22d March 1848 MY DEAR SIR, The Cambria brought us the intelligence of the Revolution in Paris, the overthrow of the late dynas...

Senator John C. Calhoun to Thomas G. Clemson, April 1, 1848

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Washington 1st April 1848 MY DEAR SIR, I am very happy to learn by your's and Anna's letters by the Caledonia, that you were all w...

Senator John C. Calhoun to Thomas G. Clemson, April 13, 1848

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Washington 13th April 1848. MY DEAR SIR, I was disappointed in not receiving any letter by the Hibernia from Brussels. Since I wrote you...

Senator John C. Calhoun to James Edward Calhoun, April 15, 1848

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Washington 15th April 1848 MY DEAR SIR, Your letter indicates much and mature reflection on the character and tendency of the present grea...
Monday, December 2, 2024

Senator John C. Calhoun to Andrew Pickens Calhoun, April 16, 1848

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Washington 16th April 1848 MY DEAR ANDREW, Everything here is in a state of uncertainty, in reference to the Presidential election. The pa...

Senator John C. Calhoun to Anna Calhoun Clemson, April 28, 1848

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Washington 28th April 1848 MY DEAR DAUGHTER, The Sarah Sands brought me a letter from Mr Clemson and one from you to Cornelia, but none wa...
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...
Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Diary of George Templeton Strong: January 25, 1860

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Wolcott Gibbs called by appointment tonight. We microscopized energetically, and the performances terminated with a very modest supper of ch...
Friday, October 25, 2024

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 19, 1865

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As beautiful a spring morning as ever dawned since the sun spread its glorious light over the Garden of Eden. Cannon is heard at intervals...
Friday, September 27, 2024

Senator Charles Levi Woodbury to Senator Robert M. T. Hunter, April 1, 1856

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BOSTON, [MASS.], April 1st, 1856. DEAR SIR: I send you a copy of the French Tariff whose promulgation has reached here in the last mail. I...
Sunday, September 1, 2024

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 2, 1865

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Raining. No well-authenticated news; but by many it is believed Staunton is in the hands of the enemy, and Lynchburg menaced. Nevertheless, ...
Saturday, August 31, 2024

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 11, 1865

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Bright and frosty. From a published correspondence between Gens. Hampton and Sherman, on the subject of retaliatory executions, it is mentio...

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 15, 1865

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Warm and cloudy. My cabbages coming up in the garden. The papers contain no war news whatever, yet there is great activity in the army. ...
Sunday, July 21, 2024

Senator John C. Calhoun to Anna Calhoun Clemson, June 23, 1848

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Washington 23d June 1848 MY DEAR DAUGHTER, If a long interval lies between the date of this and your last, you must attribute it to the fa...
Tuesday, June 18, 2024

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 21, 1865

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Another bright and glorious morning. Charleston fell on Thursday night last. A large number of heavy guns fell into the hands of the enemy...
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...