LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,—I am very sensible of the difficulty and magnitude of the task which I have undertaken. I am to address you in comme...

[Special Dispatch to the Charleston Courier.] WASHINGTON, December 27, 7 P. M.—Secretary FLOYD says positively that he knows nothing offic...

BOSTON, May 13, 1852. MY DEAR MR. CRITTENDEN,—I received a welcome letter from you weeks ago, for which I have often thanked you in spirit...

WASHINGTON, June 10, 1852. There is no duty, sir, that I more readily perform than that of making atonement frankly and voluntarily for an...

WASHINGTON, 1852. MY DEAR SIR,—Your note of yesterday has given me relief and pleasure. It is certainly true that your remarks at the Pres...

WASHINGTON, June 19, 1852. DEAR SIR,—Conversing to-day with Mr. Clay, I gave him a brief account of my observations at Baltimore. I told h...

WASHINGTON. DEAR CRITTENDEN,—If Messrs. Crittenden and Burnley, or either of them, want exercise, let them visit the sick. Here I am ensco...

Tuesday evening. MY DEAR SIR,—Colonel King has just mentioned to me (and I am sorry he did not do so before we left the Senate) that you fel...

WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 17, 1852. MY DEAR SIR,—It is the wish of the committee that the birthnight celebration come off at Willard's H...

Mr. Crittenden, in answer to loud calls from all parts of the hall, rose and said: Mr. PRESIDENT,—I regret that in this company, where the...