I have been requested, Fellow-citizens, as Chairman of the Committee of Arrangements for this meeting, to make a statement of the reasons f...

Athens [ga. ], November [4 ? ] , 1848. Gentlemen : I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your circular, accompanied by the pro...

A Friend has shown us this week's number, and we see by it that poor Mr. Barton is yet at home. We wonder people should be so insensibl...

Here it is the middle of November, and the weather is most delightful. No frosts, but a warm, mellow atmosphere like our Indian summer in O...

November 17, 1863. My Dearest Mother : . . . I shall say nothing of our home affairs save that I am overjoyed at the results of the ele...

The discussion goes on. It pervades, it possesses, it “agitates” the land. It must be stopped, or slavery dies, and the colored man has his...

Columbus [ga. ], 23d Feby., 1848. Dear Howell , You ask me to write you soon and fully my views of Cass's letter and Dickinson'...

I rejoined General Johnston at 9 A.M., and was received into his mess. Major Eustis and Lieutenant Washington, officers of his Staff, are t...

We started again at 1.30 A.M. in a smaller coach, but luckily with reduced numbers, viz. — the Louisianian Judge (who is also a legislat...

HAMBURG, Harding Co., Tenn., April 25. FRIEND SANDERS:   When I left Davenport I promised to write you occasionally.   I have kept my w...

“We thank God,” says the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, “that the slavery question is now in a fair way of settlement.   We are alike sick ...

The following Letter from Mr. CLAY to the Editors was forwarded from Raleigh on the day of its date, but did not reach our hands in time fo...