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Showing posts with label Tariffs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tariffs. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 8, 2024

Congressman Horace Mann, September 17, 1850

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There is a great rush here of the Tariff party. Mr. Webster has held out the idea all summer, that, if we would surrender liberty, the South...
Tuesday, May 7, 2024

Congressman Horace Mann to Samuel Downer, September 24, 1850

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 24, 1850. MY DEAR DOWNER, I have but time to say a word. . . . There has just been another desperate attempt to get a ...
Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Mccullough And Co. to Senator James A. Bayard Jr., March 29, 1854

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WILMINGTON [DEL.], March 29, 1854. DEAR SIR: We have taken the liberty of enclosing you herewith a memorial, which we shall esteem a great...
Tuesday, March 5, 2024

Edwin M. Stanton to James Buchanan, March 16, 1861

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WASHINGTON, March 16, 1861. Every day affords proof of the absence of any settled policy or harmonious concert of action in the administra...
Monday, February 19, 2024

Daniel Webster to Franklin Haven, Tuesday, September 27, 1850—7 a.m.

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Tuesday morning, seven o'clock, September 27, 1850. MY DEAR SIR,—There is no chance of doing any thing for the tariff, this session, f...
Friday, January 19, 2024

Daniel Webster to Peter Harvey, September 13, 1850

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Washington, D. C., September 13, 1850. MY DEAR SIR,—I have read to-day your exceedingly kind letter of the 11th instant. Your heart is ful...
Saturday, January 6, 2024

Jefferson Davis to the People of Mississippi, July 13, 1846

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(From Vicksburg Sentinel, July 21, 1846.) Fellow Citizens: I address you to explain the cause of my present absence from the seat of the f...
Monday, October 23, 2023

Congressman Horace Mann to Samuel Downer, June 13, 1850

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WASHINGTON, June 13, 1850. S. DOWNER, Esq. MY DEAR SIR, You must excuse me for not answering all your kind letters. I should be glad to do...
Saturday, September 16, 2023

Senator Daniel Webster to Peter Harvey, April 13, 1850

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Washington, April 13, 1850. MY DEAR SIR,—Your letter and The Courier of Saturday came together this morning. I am infinitely obliged to yo...
Tuesday, September 5, 2023

Remarks of Jefferson Davis on the Bill to Raise Two Regiments of Riflemen delivered in the House of Representatives, March 27, 1846.

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Mr. JEFFERSON DAVIS said he did not intend to enter into a wide discussion with reference to the tariff, to Oregon, to Texas, or to the impr...
Thursday, July 13, 2023

Congressman Jefferson Davis to John Jenkins, January 30, 1846

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Washington, 30th January, 1846. Jno. Jenkins, Esq: Dear Sir—I have recently been informed by a letter from Jackson, that a rumor prevails ...
Thursday, May 18, 2023

Jefferson Davis to Senator William Allen, March 25, 1844

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Hurricane Mi., 25th March 1844 Hon. Sen. Allen of Ohio, Dr. Sir, “The sick man knows the Physician's step,” but I assure you that if br...
Sunday, April 30, 2023

Congressman Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, July 7, 1866

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WASHINGTON, D. C., July 7, 1866. DEAR UNCLE:— Have you melted away? Not heard from you for a good many hot days. We have the inevitable ...
Saturday, March 11, 2023

William T. Sherman to David F. Boyd, February 23, 1861

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NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 23, 1861. DEAR MR. BOYD: I fear from our experience here the cadets did not have a good time of it last night. It rained...
Saturday, June 13, 2020

Alexander H. Stephens: The Cornerstone Speech, March 21, 1861

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Mr. Mayor, and Gentlemen of the Committee, and Fellow-Citizens: —For this reception you will please accept my most profound and sincere than...