Washington 16th April 1848 MY DEAR ANDREW, Everything here is in a state of uncertainty, in reference to the Presidential election. The pa...

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 ...

I heard of your illness, while I was in New York, with great regret. Time and distance did not allow me to see you at your suburban retreat,...

Whatever may be the result of our proceedings, I am desirous that you should know my position. I have never directly or indirectly suggested...

You are right in auguring ill from the Fabian strategy. When the balloting was postponed for three days, I thought our friends had lost the ...

You inquire about Eliot. 1 He is an honest and obstinate man, but essentially Hunker in grain. In other days and places he would have been ...

What means Stanley 1 in N. C.? Don't they know whom they send? Do they wish to drive our N. E. troops out of the field and disgust man...

Boston , July, 1852. My Dear Sumner : — I have to thank you for many documents, valuable in themselves, but the more so as signs of you...

Boston , July 2d, 1852. My Dear Sumner : — There is a scattering of our forces here, or there has been, but I think now we begin to set...

Boston , Tuesday, 25th April, 1852. My Dear Sumner : — I am only waiting to see Kossuth and to ascertain whether I can do anything for ...

Boston , April 8th, 1852. Dearest Sumner : — I am very grateful for your frequent though brief notes. I know how much your present posi...

Boston , Thursday, March 15, 1852. Dearest Sumner : — I write you from my house, to which I have been confined by a more than commonly ...

Boston , Dec. 12, 1851. My Dear Sumner : — But for an aching head and a sad heart (my spirits always sink to zero when my body is out o...

Wednesday Eve., April, 10 o'clock, 1851. My Dear Mann : — I am sad and sick at heart at the probable issue to-morrow. You know I ha...

Washington Jany 22, 1854 My Dear Sir , I think you are mistaken in the am t , of my debt to you — it was for one letter instead of two...

Washington City , Dec. 5, 1851. My Dear Sir , I have just sent that letter to you to the Post Office as there was but just time to save...

Columbus , April 28, 1851. My Dear Sumner , Laus Deo! From the bottom of my heart I congratulate you — no, not you but all friends of ...

Washington City , Jany. 16, 1851. My Dear Sir , Mr. Hoadly, of Cincinnatti, has requested me to write you in relation to his election a...

Washington , Jany 7, 1851. My Dear Sir , I am not certain whether I replied to your letter of the 22nd which I received in New York whe...

Washington City , Dec. 20, 1850. My Dear Sir , I recd. your letter last night and thank you for it. I had written you the day before an...