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Showing posts with label Lewis Cass. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lewis Cass. Show all posts
Thursday, October 2, 2025

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

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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

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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

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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

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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...
Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Senator Charles Sumner to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, December 28, 1851

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I feel heart-sick here. The Senate is a lone place, with few who are capable of yielding any true sympathy to me. I wish I were in some othe...
Friday, October 4, 2024

Congressman Horace Mann to Samuel Downer, December 22, 1850

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WASHINGTON, Dec. 22, 1850. MY DEAR DOWNER,  I see by the date of my letter that it is Forefathers' Day; and I cannot but ask myself w...
Sunday, September 15, 2024

Senator John C. Calhoun to James Edward Calhoun, May 22, 1848

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Washington 22d May 1848 MY DEAR JAMES, I am happy to have your approval of my remarks in reference to the French Revolution. I see they ha...

Senator John C. Calhoun to Thomas G. Clemson, May 26, 1848

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Washington 26th May 1848 MY DEAR SIR, Since my last I have received your's of the 26th April, with letters from Anna for her Mother an...
Thursday, August 22, 2024

Congressman Horace Mann to Mr. and Mrs. George Combe, November 15, 1850

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WEST NEWTON, Nov. 15, 1850. MY DEAR MR. AND MRS. COMBE,—I received your brief note from London, dated Sept. 15; and afterwards your letter...
Sunday, July 21, 2024

Senator John C. Calhoun to Anna Calhoun Clemson, June 23, 1848

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Washington 23d June 1848 MY DEAR DAUGHTER, If a long interval lies between the date of this and your last, you must attribute it to the fa...