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Showing posts with label Mexico. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mexico. Show all posts
Thursday, December 5, 2024

Senator John C. Calhoun to Thomas G. Clemson, March 7, 1848

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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...

Senator John C. Calhoun to Thomas G. Clemson, March 22, 1848

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

Senator John C. Calhoun to Thomas G. Clemson, April 1, 1848

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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...

Senator John C. Calhoun to Thomas G. Clemson, April 13, 1848

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

Senator John C. Calhoun to James Edward Calhoun, April 15, 1848

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Washington 15th April 1848 MY DEAR SIR, Your letter indicates much and mature reflection on the character and tendency of the present grea...
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, August 4, 2024

Daniel Webster to Millard Fillmore, February 3, 1851

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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...
Thursday, August 1, 2024

Senator John C. Calhoun’s Speech on the Oregon Bill, June 27, 1848

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