Bright and beautiful, and pleasantly frosty. Gen. Sherman is advancing as usual in such dubiety as to distract Gen. Hardee, who knows not wh...

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: Of course I do not expect—speaking from this platform, and to you— to say any thing on the vital question of the hour,...

CHELSEA, January 24, 1853. MY DEAR SIR—Your favor of the 15th instant reached me at this place this evening, where I have been for the pas...

LLOYDS, ESSEX Co. [VA.], December 2nd, 1852. MY DEAR SIR: I received your letter after it had performed its circumnavigation through vario...

ONLY, NEAR ONANCOCK, VA., April 16, 1853. MY DEAR HUNTER: I thank you for yours of the 11th. I did not expect you would be able to tell me...

Our movement here is part of the great liberal movement of Europe; and as “law and order” are the words by which reaction has rallied in Eur...

TAPPAHANNOCK, ESSEX Co., VA., August 2nd, 1852. MY DEAR SIR: The Federal press and party are circulating a charge against Genl. Pierce, th...

WASHINGTON, [D. C.], August 9th, 1852. MY DEAR SIR: I regret to learn from your letter that there are democrats in our county who hestitat...

MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, October 23rd, 1852. MY DEAR SIR: I have just had the pleasure of reading, your speech, delivered some time ago in ...

SHADWELL, ALBEMARLE Co., [VA.], November 2nd, 1852. MY DEAR SIR: I know not if a man retired as I am from politics and never very active o...

(Private.) ELIZABETH CITY Co., NEAR HAMPTON, [VA.], November 5th, 1852. MY DEAR HUNTER: I wrote you in June a short note from Baltimore im...

CONCORD, June 5.—This morning effigies of President Pierce and Preston S. Brooks were found hanging in front of the State House, eighty feet...

ALEXANDRIA, July 10 ,  1860. . . . I feel little interest in politics and certainly am glad to see it realized that politicians can't ...

AIX-LA-CHAPELLE, October 18th, 1854. TO THE HON. WM. L. MARCY,           Secretary of State. SIR: The undersigned, in compliance with the w...