Pages

▼
Showing posts with label Lewis Cass. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lewis Cass. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 19, 2026

Senator Charles Sumner to Edward L. Pierce, August 6, 1852

›
I value your friendship, and am glad of your frankness. From other sources I learn the prevailing distrust with regard to me. Thus far, in t...
Wednesday, June 17, 2026

1st Lieutenant William T. Sherman to John Sherman, January 4, 1846

›
FORT MOULTRIE, S.C., Jan. 4, 1846. My Dear  Brother : I had to go to North Carolina on a wedding tour at Christmas time, and as soon as I...
Friday, June 12, 2026

Diary of Edward Bates, June 8, 1859

›
International Law — Naturalized Citizens — Their rights as such, against the claims of their Native Country — The Mo. Democrat of June 10 ...

Diary of Edward Bates, Wednesday, June 15, 1859

›
[Rights of Naturalized Citizens Abroad.   Secretary Cass renders the following decision, in answer to a communication of a naturalized c...

Diary of Edward Bates, Monday Morning, June 20, 1859

›
Barton 95 has been with us two days, it being too wet to plough at home. . . . Senator Green The Weekly Mo. Rep:[ublican] of June 17 co...
Monday, May 4, 2026

Henry Clay to James Harlan of Kentucky, June 22, 1848

›
ASHLAND, June 22, 1848. MY DEAR SIR, — I wished much to see you, and hope soon to meet you. I got your letter from Choles' on your way...
Saturday, January 31, 2026

Senator John C. Calhoun to Waddy Thompson Jr.,* October 29, 1847

›
Fort Hill, 29th Oct 1847. DEAR SIR, I have read your letter with attention, and will answer it in the same sperit of candour and freedom, ...
Thursday, October 2, 2025

Senator Henry Clay to James Lynch and Others, September 20, 1848

›
ASHLAND, September 20, 1848. GENTLEMEN, I have received your official letter as members of the (Whig) Democratic General Committee of the ...
Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Congressman Horace Mann to Mr. and Mrs. George Combe, December 5, 1851

›
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5, 1851. MY DEAR FRIENDS MR. AND MRS. COMBE, — Politics in this country do not, as they should, mean a science, but a con...
Friday, June 6, 2025

Senator John C. Calhoun to Thomas G. Clemson, February 4, 1848

›
Washington 4th Feb: 1848 MY DEAR SIR, . . . My speech 1 has had a very wide circulation and the impression is, that it has made a deeper ...
Sunday, March 2, 2025

Speech of Congressman Albert G. Brown, November 2, 1850

›
DELIVERED AT ELLWOOD SPRINGS, NEAR PORT GIBSON, MISS., NOVEMBER 2, 1850. FELLOW-CITIZENS: I shall speak to you to-day, not as Whigs, not a...