MR. BROWN said: I do not intend to detain the House by anything like an elaborate speech upon the subject of the public printing. In the few...

WASHINGTON, May 8, 1852. MY DEAR MR. COMBE,— We are on the verge of a Presidential election. Our political caldron is beginning to seethe ve...

I am won very much by Houston's conversation. 1 With him the antislavery interest would stand better than with any man who seems now am...

NEW ORLEANS, January 31, 1849. MY DEAR SIR,—The breaking out of the cholera here prevented my meeting General Taylor in this city, as had ...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22, 1850. MY DEAR DOWNER,  I see by the date of my letter that it is Forefathers' Day; and I cannot but ask myself w...

In answer to your inquiries, let me say that there are signs of a contest in Massachusetts such as very rarely occurs. The bitterness of the...

BROWNSVILLE, [PA.], August 25th, 1855. DEAR HUNTER: I received your letter of the 20th instant this morning and have just shipped the box ...

SPEECH IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, JULY 19, 1850, ON THE ADMISSION OF THE DELEGATE FROM NEW MEXICO IN ADVANCE OF HER TERRITORIAL ORGANI...

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...

WASHINGTON, June 13, 1850. S. DOWNER, Esq. MY DEAR SIR, You must excuse me for not answering all your kind letters. I should be glad to do...

OUR IMMEDIATE ANTISLAVERY DUTIES. SPEECH AT A FREE-SOIL MEETING AT FANEUIL HALL, NOVEMBER 6, 1850. MR. CHAIRMAN, AND YOU, MY FELLOW-CITIZE...