Months ago, when we and others urged that Lincoln’s inaugural meant war, we were told by those who have since been “awakened,” that the Pre...

March 5th, 1855. DEAR HUNTER: I shall direct this letter to you at home, supposing you to be there. I did not write about the proposed org...

Boston, November 14, 1850. GENTLEMEN,—I am under great obligations for the letter received from you, expressing your approbation of the se...

(Private.) RICHMOND, [Va.], June 14th [1852]. DEAR SIR: I beg to call your attention, to that portion of Judge Conrad's speech in the ...

Fort Hill 24th July 1849 MY DEAR ANDREW, I sent you a Messenger, containing a copy of my communication in reference to Benton's Speech...

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

FEB. 7. Yesterday, Mr. Clay concluded his speech upon his Compromise resolutions. Its close was pathetic. There is hardly another slavehol...

Washington 7th Dec 1849 MY DEAR SIR, I would regard the failure of the Convention, called by Mississippi, to meet, from the want of endors...

Washington 8th Dec 1849 MY DEAR SIR, . . . Congress has been in Session now for four days without being able to elect a speaker. It is unc...

Galena , April 19, 1S61. Mr. F. Dent— Dear Sir: I have but very little time to write, but, as in these exciting times we are very...

NEW YORK, April 29, 1861. . . . The humiliating condition to which Southern insolence and ruffianism have reduced us has preyed upon me...

Rochdale , July 31,1863. My Dear Me. Forbes , — I am glad to hear of your safe arrival, and I rejoice that on your arrival so much good...

Charleston [S. C.], Aug. 21st, ’47. Dear Sir,   *   *   *   I wish the Southern Representatives would consent to act together without r...

October, 1859. Each State has a perfect right to have its own local policy, and a majority in Congress has an absolute right to govern ...

What a wonder, what a shame, what a crime, that in the midst of the light and progress of the middle of the nineteenth century, such an abo...

Boston , April 28th, 1848. My Dear Mann : — It has long been lowering and threatening over my head, but at last it pours, and oh how it...

Wash. 31 Jany 61 Dear Fox: I recd yours about the Tug of War yesterday and laid it before Genl Scott, who upon reading it said it had...

Verily I would be sooner in the Coptic Cairo, narrow streeted, dark bazaared, many flied, much vexed by donkeys and by overland route passe...

Nothing additional has occurred at Charleston, the enemy not having renewed the attack. At Vicksburg all was quiet, and the enemy abandonin...

Boston, 21 Charles Street, August 29, 1862. My Dear Motley : I don't know how I can employ the evening of my birthday better than...