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Showing posts with label Franklin Pierce. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Franklin Pierce. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 8, 2025

John Pettit* to Senator Robert M. T. Hunter, November 10, 1856

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LAFAYETTE, INDIANA,  November  10, 1856. MY DEAR SIR: The smoke of the battle has cleared away and we are victorious. I congratulate you a...
Wednesday, September 10, 2025

General William T. Sherman to Senator John Sherman, November 12, 1889

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NEW YORK, Νον. 12, 1889. Dear Brother: . . . I was very glad to receive your full letter of November 9th, to hear that you are safely bac...
Sunday, August 10, 2025

Edward Everett to John J. Crittenden, February 26, 1853

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE, February 26, 1853 MY DEAR COLLEAGUE, I informed General Pierce that you propose to tender your resignation on the 4th...

Franklin Pierce to John J. Crittenden, March 4, 1853

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EXECUTIVE MANSION, March 4, 1853. SIR,—I have the honor to acknowledge the reception of your letter of this date, tendering to me the resi...
Monday, June 23, 2025

The Yankee Delegates at Charleston.

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Col. Forney is particularly down on the New England delegations at Charleston. The following is from his “Occasional” correspondence: “Of ...
Thursday, June 19, 2025

George W. Thompson* to Senator Robert M. T. Hunter, May 24, 1856

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[WHEELING, VA.?],  May  24th, 1856. DEAR SIR: I have had a somewhat desultory correspondence with my old friend Linn Boyd. 1 He thinks it...
Saturday, December 28, 2024

Francis Mallory to Senator Robert M. T. Hunter, May 11, 1856

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NORFOLK, [VA.], May 11, 1856. DEAR HUNTER: I have just returned from a visit to my old (Hampton) county and hope things will end there as ...
Friday, September 27, 2024

Francis Mallory to Senator Robert M. T. Hunter, April 13, 1856

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NORFOLK, [VA.], April 13, 1856. DEAR HUNTER: Since my return home I have been so unwell that I have had no opportunity of mixing extensive...
Thursday, August 8, 2024

Muscoe R. H. Garnett* to Senator Robert M. T. Hunter, February 5, 1856

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RICHMOND, [VA.], February 5th, 1856 . MY DEAR UNCLE: The Kanawha River bill passed this morning, waiving the State's lien on the tolls...

William O. Goode to Senator Robert M. T. Hunter, February 21, 1856

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BOYDTON, VA., February 21, 1856 . DEAR HUNTER: I have just reached home safe and sound—having accomplished the journey with no other disco...

Edward Kennan to Senator Robert M. T. Hunter, March 15, 1856

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(Confidential.) WHEELING, [VA.], 15th March, 1856. MY DEAR SIR: I arrived here on Thursday morning on my way home, but resolved to spend a...
Sunday, March 24, 2024

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 2, 1865

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Bright and beautiful, and pleasantly frosty. Gen. Sherman is advancing as usual in such dubiety as to distract Gen. Hardee, who knows not wh...
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Lecture of Wendell Phillips: “The Lesson of the Hour,” Delivered at Brooklyn, New York, Tuesday Evening, November 1, 1859

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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,...
Thursday, March 14, 2024

Lucius B. Peck to Senator Daniel S. Dickinson, January 24, 1853

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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...
Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Senator Robert M. T. Hunter to Herschel V. Johnson, December 2, 1852

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

Henry A. Wise to Senator Robert M. T. Hunter, April 16, 1853

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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...
Wednesday, January 24, 2024

Charles Sumner to George Sumner, November 26[, 1850]

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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...