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Showing posts with label Henry A Wise. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Thomas A. Glover to Senator Robert M. T. Hunter, June 23, 1855

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NEW YORK, [N. Y.], June 23, 1855. MY DEAR SIR: Desirous of urging, most strongly, upon you the necessity of your coming to New York to par...

A. D. Banks to Senator Robert M. T. Hunter, November 23, 1855

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PETERSBURG, [Va.], November 23rd, 1855. MY DEAR SIR: For the past ten days, I have been in Richmond and while there have had frequent conv...

James A. Seddon to Senator Robert M. T. Hunter, December 3, 1855

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ST. JAMES, LOUISIANA, December 3rd, 1855. MY DEAR SIR: Your letter only reached me in this outside world a few days since. Its confidence ...
Saturday, March 23, 2024

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 14, 1865

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Bright and cold. Very cold, and fuel unattainable. The papers speak of heavy raids in process of organization: one from Newbern, N. C., ag...
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,...
Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Lewis E. Harvie to Senator Robert M. T. Hunter, March 5, 1855

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March 5th, 1855. DEAR HUNTER: I shall direct this letter to you at home, supposing you to be there. I did not write about the proposed org...
Sunday, February 25, 2024

Henry David Thoreau: A Plea for Captain John Brown,* October 30, 1859

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I TRUST that you will pardon me for being here. I do not wish to force my thoughts upon you, but I feel forced myself. Little as I know of C...