SHERWOOD FOREST, VA., May 7, 1861. MY DEAR MAMMA: Mr. Clopton goes to Richmond in the morning (by land), and it is a good opportunity to w...

New Alexandria, Penn., November 23. Dear Sir: Permit a stranger to address you. I am the pastor of a congregation of people known as Scotc...

The news brought by the steamer from America is exciting. The political storm rages fiercely in the South, taking a reckless direction for s...

new York , December 14, 1859. Probably Mr. Seward stays in Europe till the first flurry occasioned by the Harper's Ferry affair is ...

Washington , June 19, '61. Don't let any one blame Governor Andrew — he is good and thoughtful, and if he is sometimes misled b...

Boston , June 18,1860. My Dear Mr. Senior , — Thinking you may be interested in the antecedents of our promised ruler Lincoln, I send t...

Burlington , June 30, ’60. It is interesting, is it not, to see Seward's “irrepressible conflict” so speedily illustrated at Baltim...

Burlington , May 24, '60. How does the Chicago platform and nomination please the Puritans, — it shows pluck, and that, in an Ameri...

Washington , December 10, 1859. One week of congressional life is over, and I think it to be the stupidest business I was ever engaged ...

Senate Chamber, December 6th This body was organized yesterday; Mason, of Virginia, immediately introduced Harper's Ferry resoluti...

Six States have "seceded." Let them go. If the Union is now dissolved it does not prove that the experiment of popular government...

The attempt now making to revive the Republican party on an extra-constitutional platform which contemplates the erasure of a large number o...

This is altogether the most alarming and daring insurrectionary demonstration that ever has been made in the United States. It is a natural ...