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...

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

If the time of the Senate permitted, I would feel it to be my duty to call for the reading of the mass of petitions on the table, in order t...

ALEXANDRIA, LA., May 8, 1860. . . . There is one point which you concede to the Southern States, perfect liberty to prefer slavery if they c...

ASHEBORO, May 15, 1861 . I have been forced by surrounding facts to take sides, or rather front, with my section. I regard a prudent peace, ...

ASHEBORO, May 17th, 1861. I have made special inquiry into the cost question against you and the other securities of Daniel Worth—having f...