The Senate has passed a new Conscription Act, putting all residents between the ages of eighteen and fifty-live in the military service for...

Cin . Nov. 11, 1854.. My Dear Sir , It is too bad that the failure of the Banks should add to your other troubles; and too bad that, at...

Cincinnati , Nov. 2, 1854. My Dear Sir : Your enquiry whether I am “aware that the 26th of October is past,” must refer to something I ...

Washington, Mar. 12, 1854. My Dear Mr. Pierce . Your letter is very cheering and consolatory. Here “where Satan's net is”, the nea...

Washington , Feb. 23,1854. My Dear Pierce :— Your article had already attracted my attention and I had cut it out for Bailey to print i...

Washington , Feb. 10, 1854. Dear Hamlin : Pardon me for my expression of regret. I am glad to learn that you have taken no part in the ...

Chicago , July 4 , 1853. My Dear Sir : I have just returned from Missouri. Your letter reached me I think at St. Louis. I regret not se...

Washington City , Mar. 10, 1852. My Dear Sir , I am very sorry that anything occurred to prevent your purchase of the three shares of t...

Washington City , Feb. 25, 1852. My Dear Sir , What are you about? I supposed that before this time you would have been established in ...

Washington City , Dec. 5, 1851. My Dear Sir , I have just sent that letter to you to the Post Office as there was but just time to save...

War Department Washington City July 22d, 1863 Dear Sir, I have received your note of the 20th, but not the papers referred to th...

Cincinnati , Feb. 27, 1849. My Dear Hamlin ; I recd. your letter on Saturday and meant to answer it that day but was prevented. I d...

Feby 26 ['49.] My D r Stanley , I wish to ask y r intervention for me in the affairs of the Standard. I had a despatch from Mr. G...

Jefferson June 2, 1845 My Dear Sir In the course of last winter I became acquainted with Mr Hamlin of Elyria who I believe is also pe...

New York , May 1, 1850. Dear Sir : There are serious objections to murder; some people are so fastidious as to object to burglary and ...

Cincinnati, Nov. 26, 1846. My Dear Sir : I promised Mr. Vaughan, sometime ago, to write you in reference to the True American, but hav...

Boston , April 22, 1850. My Dear Sir : I return your letter, agreeably to your request. It went sadly against my grain to withhold it f...

Boston , April 15, 1850. My Dear Sir : I am quite as fully persuaded as yourself that political matters are in a most critical state. I...

Shady Hill , 30 January, 1863. One busy day has succeeded another since you were here till I am at last reduced to a condition in which...

North Shore , April 26, 1865. My Dear Charles , — Yours of the 24th reaches me this evening. I cannot at once decide upon the propositi...