NORFOLK, [VA.], May 11, 1856. DEAR HUNTER: I have just returned from a visit to my old (Hampton) county and hope things will end there as ...

BOSTON, [MASS.], April 1st, 1856. DEAR SIR: I send you a copy of the French Tariff whose promulgation has reached here in the last mail. I...

On the tariff I am absolutely uncommitted. Mr. Henry Cabot, an old manufacturer, told me yesterday that he and others were now satisfied tha...

OFFICE OF THE JOURNAL OF COMMERCE,           NEW YORK, [N. Y.], March 25th, 1856 . DEAR SIR: I believe I had the pleasure of meeting you o...

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...

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 ...

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

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

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...

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...

(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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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 ...

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...

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