The following sweet morsel of her fierce defiance and blustering braggadocio appears in the Philadelphia Transcript , under the head of “Cru...

CHARLESTON, [S. C.], 8th June, 1855. MY DEAR HUNTER: Some weeks since I rec[eive]d y[ou]r letter and thank you for y[ou]r efforts in behal...

RICHMOND, April 16, 1861. Well, dearest, your letter received this morning placed me much at ease relative to the dear children. I hope yo...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21, 1850. S. DOWNER, Esq. MY DEAR SIR,—The only question on which the sincere friends of freedom here have any doubt is t...

July 21. Four of the seven members who compose the cabinet are from the slaveholding States: so, if we consider Mr. Webster a proslavery man...

SARATOGA, [VA.], May 8th, 1852. DEAR HUNTER: I received your very able and valuable report on “a change in the coinage,” and was highly de...

BROWN'S HOTEL, WASHINGTON, February 13, 1861. I have a moment to myself just before tea, and I may have time to write you in haste som...

Was last night at a loud-heralded and large party given by Marquis Montholon, the French Minister. Am inclined to believe there was somethin...

MARCH 13, 1850. The hallucination that seizes the South on the subject of slavery, is, indeed, enough to excite our compassion; but an exc...

WASHINGTON, June 9, 1850. Yesterday I read Prof. Stuart's pamphlet in defence of Mr. Webster. It is a most extraordinary production. H...

SHERWOOD FOREST, Jan. 1, 1861. MY DEAR COLONEL: I am deeply concerned at the condition of public affairs. No ray of light yet appears to d...

Ilion, New York, November 24. Dear Brother in Christ: How I would like to spend this night with you in your cell, and converse for a seaso...

The slavery question has become paramount here at last. The slave States threaten to dissolve the Union if slavery is prohibited by Congress...

HARTFORD, KY., 21st February, 1850. MY DEAR SIR: Perhaps you may almost have forgotten the individual who now addresses you, and who retai...

ALBEMARLE, [Va.], July 2d, 1850. MY DEAR SIR: I rec[eive]d your letter accompanied by the Prospectus of the "Southern Press" and a...

NORFOLK, [VA.], August 18th, 1850. MY DEAR SIR: Upon receipt of your kind letter of the 10th Inst[ant], I immediately commenced such a rep...

New Haven, Connecticut, Nov. 28. Dear Sir: Permit a friend of liberty and equitable law to address you a few brief thoughts, which I hope ...

OFFICE ST. LOUIS RAILROAD COMPANY, St. Louis, April 25, 1861. DEAR BROTHER: Virginia's secession influences some six millions of peop...

This knotty subject is exciting comment in nearly all of the newspapers in the confederacy, (says the Selma Mississippian,) and thoughtful ...

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...