ROME, December 24, 1839. What a stormy time you are having in America! Your cradle was rocked in the Revolution, and now in your old age y...

To-night the telegraph reports the evacuation of Fort Moultrie by the Federal troops by order of the Executive, and the burning of the fort....

Walked uptown with George Anthon, who entertained me with the biography of his runaway cousin. Miss "Unadilla” Elmendorf, and incidents...

Rome, November 24, 1859. MY DEAR FRIEND: I see by a recent telegraph which the steamer of November 2d brought from Boston, that the Court ...

Not any spot six feet by two      Will hold a man like thee; John Brown will tramp the shaking earth,      From Blue Ridge to the sea, Till ...

SHERWOOD FOREST, VA., May 7, 1861. MY DEAR MAMMA: Mr. Clopton goes to Richmond in the morning (by land), and it is a good opportunity to w...

MR. CHAIRMAN AND FELLOW-CITIZENS: I share the sympathy and sorrow which have brought us together. Gentlemen who have preceded me have well s...

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,...