Ottawa, Illinois, August 21, 1858 Freeport, Illinois, August 27, 1858 Jonesboro, Illinois, September 15, 1858 Charleston, Illinois, Septembe...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5, 1851. MY DEAR FRIENDS MR. AND MRS. COMBE, — Politics in this country do not, as they should, mean a science, but a con...

Col. Forney is particularly down on the New England delegations at Charleston. The following is from his “Occasional” correspondence: “Of ...

. . . one of our most staunch and reliable republicans, speaking of the tenacity with which a portion of the northern democracy adheres to S...

. . . held at New Orleans last week, to endorse the action of those who stayed in the Douglasite convention, and denounce the seceders, is d...

[WHEELING, VA.?],  May  24th, 1856. DEAR SIR: I have had a somewhat desultory correspondence with my old friend Linn Boyd. 1 He thinks it...

The Philadelphia Press, with other Douglas papers, objects to any movement for calling back the seceders [ sic ] from the Charleston Convent...

AUGUSTA, GA., May 13.—At a Democratic meeting at Atlanta on Saturday, the postmaster defended the Charleston Secessionists and denounced Dou...

Editors Press and Tribune: The Nomination of Mr. Seward will necessitate the nomination of Mr. Douglas at Baltimore. If Mr. Seward is plac...

No one who as watched the political currents in Illinois this year can doubt that ABRAHAM LINCOLN is emphatically the choice of the State fo...

We have the authority of the New Orleans Delta for saying that the Douglas movement lately attempted in that city, for its influence upon t...

The Cincinnati Commercial calls attention to the fact that in all the balloting at Charleston, Mr. Douglas received but 11 1-2 votes from t...

The field of our national politics is still shrouded in mist. Nobody can clearly discern the future. On the Whig side, Fillmore seems to me ...

BOYDTON, VA., February 21, 1856 . DEAR HUNTER: I have just reached home safe and sound—having accomplished the journey with no other disco...

CHICAGO, ILL., October 21, 1850. MY DEAR SIR—Your kind favor of the 3d inst. has reached me at this place, having been forwarded from Wash...

RICHMOND, [Va.], February 7, 1852. MY DEAR SIR: For some days past, I have been suffering serious inconvenience and confinement from my ve...

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...

BROWN'S HOTEL, WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 3, 1861. I hasten to write you this evening of my arrival, with the President, Alex., baby and ...

WASHINGTON, 13th June, 1860. MY DEAR SIR: Do you wish me to place the letter of Captain Maddox to yourself on file? Also that of Mr. Ivers...