MANSFIELD, OHIO, Sept. 3, 1887. Dear Brother: Your letter of the 27th came as I was starting for the Ohio Fair. From thence I went to Lanc...

NEW YORK, Sept. 6, 1887. Dear Brother :  I am sorry you lost the trip to Alaska, but it will give you an excuse for making it at some futu...

Washington 7th March 1848 MY DEAR SIR, The last Steamer brought a letter from Anna to me, the only one received by it. I am happy to learn...

Washington 22d March 1848 MY DEAR SIR, The Cambria brought us the intelligence of the Revolution in Paris, the overthrow of the late dynas...

Washington 1st April 1848 MY DEAR SIR, I am very happy to learn by your's and Anna's letters by the Caledonia, that you were all w...

Washington 13th April 1848. MY DEAR SIR, I was disappointed in not receiving any letter by the Hibernia from Brussels. Since I wrote you...

Washington 15th April 1848 MY DEAR SIR, Your letter indicates much and mature reflection on the character and tendency of the present grea...

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...

February 3, 1851. MY DEAR SIR,—You will receive the suggestion which I am about to make as being unexpected. I look upon the Nicaragua M...

[Delivered in the United States Senate, June 27th, 1848.] THERE is a very striking difference between the position on which the slaveholdi...