Monmouth, Oct. 17th, 1835. To show you that I am not wasting the prime of life in ignoble ease, I may mention that I am a senator in the L...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5, 1851. MY DEAR FRIENDS MR. AND MRS. COMBE, — Politics in this country do not, as they should, mean a science, but a con...

There is a great army of earnest men in Chicago to-day, brought together from all parts of the country by a common impulse and for a common ...

Office of The Tribune,           New York, Decr. 22nd 1860 My dear Sir, I have yours of the 19th. 1  Let me try to make my views a little ...

The subject of admitting Colorado was to-day before the Cabinet. The bill has passed both houses after having been once rejected. Congress i...

Court Street, Boston, April 19, 1851. May you live a thousand years, always preaching the truth of Fast Day! 1 That sermon is a noble eff...

“Let the levees on the Mississippi be at once prostrated in a hundred places, while the water is high, and let the Traitors and Rebels livin...

MADISON, IND., September 2d, 1854. DEAR HUNTER: Yours of the 15th ultimo with letter in behalf of Mr. Lyle is received and for which accep...

CHARLESTON, [S. C.], 8th June, 1855. MY DEAR HUNTER: Some weeks since I rec[eive]d y[ou]r letter and thank you for y[ou]r efforts in behal...

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...

MARCH 13, 1850. The hallucination that seizes the South on the subject of slavery, is, indeed, enough to excite our compassion; but an exc...

WASHINGTON, June 9, 1850. Yesterday I read Prof. Stuart's pamphlet in defence of Mr. Webster. It is a most extraordinary production. H...

EXETER, Nov. 20, 1846. TO REV. JAMES C. BOSWELL, President, and SAMUEL A. HALEY, ESQ., Secretary, &c. Gentlemen:—I have received you...

HARTFORD, KY., 21st February, 1850. MY DEAR SIR: Perhaps you may almost have forgotten the individual who now addresses you, and who retai...

SHERWOOD FOREST, August 26, 1860. MY DEAR SIR: Your letter of August 21st was forwarded to me from the summer residence of my family, near...

SHERWOOD FOREST, August 27, 1860. DEAR ROBERT: I think it best to enclose you these letters. There are parts of mine you may not be able t...

VILLA MARGARET, Sept. 14, 1860. MY DEAR ROBERT: I see the election is gone in Maine, although Douglas confidently calculated on carrying t...

New Haven, Connecticut, Nov. 28. Dear Sir: Permit a friend of liberty and equitable law to address you a few brief thoughts, which I hope ...

OFFICE ST. LOUIS RAILROAD COMPANY, St. Louis, April 25, 1861. DEAR BROTHER: Virginia's secession influences some six millions of peop...

WASHINGTON, D.C., December 9, 1860. . . . I am clearly of the opinion that you ought not to remain much longer at your present post. You w...