Montgomery Blair still persists that Seward is false to the President and that he and Stanton have an understanding. There are many strange ...

SYRACUSE, N. Y., August 22 , 1865. Strictly confidential. MY DEAR SIR: The political campaign is about opening, and from present appearanc...

WASHINGTON, March 16, 1861. Every day affords proof of the absence of any settled policy or harmonious concert of action in the administra...

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES, St. Louis, Mo ., Feb. 1, 1876. Dear Brother: . . . Your letter endorsing Hayes is first-rate, and...

MANSFIELD, OHIO, Aug. 4, 1872. Dear Brother: . . . Just now all interest is centred upon the Presidential election. As you say, the Republ...

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES,           WASHINGTON, D.C., Aug. 28, 1874. Dear Brother: . . . Don't ever give any person the ...

Allen of the Intelligencer called upon me to-day in reference to the Connecticut election. Says it is stated in the papers that I have writt...

MANSFIELD, OHIO, Oct. 17, 1871. Dear Brother: Your note of the 14th is received. I am glad you are going to Europe, and under such favor...

Neither of the feeble organizations discussed or professed much regard for any of those fundamental principles which had created and previou...

Have examined the bill for the Freedmen's Bureau, which is a terrific engine and reads more like a decree emanating from despotic power ...

[MANSFIELD, OHIO, October 14, 1868.] The October election is now over, but I do not yet know precise results. I write, supposing that the ...

HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSOURI,           ST. LOUIS, March 14, 1868. Dear Brother: I don't know what Grant means by his...

If you can keep free from committals to Johnson, you will surely as you live be called upon to act as President. The danger now is that the ...

OFFICE ST. LOUIS RAILROAD COMPANY, St. Louis, April 4 ,  1861 . MY DEAR FRIEND: I promised you all to keep you advised of my whereabouts t...

SEMINARY, Jan. 13, 1861.  . . . I see no change to note here in public sentiment, the fact that Seward has been named as secretary of stat...

BATON ROUGE, Feb. 17, 1860. DEAR TOM: . . . I am down here at the legislature log rolling for a bill to the interest of our institution. ...

Much party machinery is just at this time in motion. No small portion of it is a prostitution and abuse. The Whig element is venal and corru...

WEST POINT, December 21, 1860 DEAR SISTER:  We are on general review in mineralogy and geology preparatory to our last January examinatio...

Fessenden has got out an advertisement for a new loan and an address to the people in its behalf. Am not certain that the latter is judiciou...

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: You are, as yet, the people of a Territory; but you probably soon will be the people of a State of the Union. Then yo...