The field of our national politics is still shrouded in mist. Nobody can clearly discern the future. On the Whig side, Fillmore seems to me ...

SEPT. 12. What I wished to tell you yesterday was what Miss Dix had just told me about her hospital in New Jersey. One gentleman has given...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 13, 1850. MY DEAR DOWNER,—I wrote you nothing about affairs; and how could I? The atmosphere is full of treachery. If wh...