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Showing posts with label The Slave Power. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Slave Power. Show all posts
Sunday, May 5, 2024

Charles Sumner to Theodore Parker, April 19, 1851

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Court Street, Boston, April 19, 1851. May you live a thousand years, always preaching the truth of Fast Day! 1 That sermon is a noble eff...
Saturday, August 4, 2018

Thomas Wentworth Higginson to a Louisa Storrow Higginson, November 5,1859

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Worcester , November 5,1859 Dearest Mother: . . . Four days I spent in going to the Adirondacks for Mrs. Brown and then another in Bo...
Monday, July 23, 2018

Salmon P. Chase to Charles A. Dana, Esq.,* New York, November 10, 1860

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Private. Columbus , Nov. 10. [I860] I do not know what to say in reply to your wish that I may go into Mr. Lincoln's cabinet, exc...
Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Governor Salmon P. Chase to Senator Charles Sumner, July 16, 1858

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Columbus , July 16, 1858. My Dear Sumner , Your brief parting note came to me like a note of music, sad but pleasant, wafted from the w...
Thursday, May 10, 2018

Senator Salmon P. Chase to Congressman Lewis D. Campbell,* May 25, 1855

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Cincinnati , May 25th [ 1855. ] Dear Sir : On my return this evening from the East, I find your note of the 18th on my table, and I sha...
Thursday, May 3, 2018

Senator Salmon P. Chase to A. M. G.,* February 15, 1855

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Washington , Feb. 15, 1855. Dear Friend , It is impossible for me to change my ground. I went into the Peoples Movement last year heart...
Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Senator Salmon P. Chase to Edward S. Hamlin, January 22, 1855

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Washington , Jan’y 22, 1855. My Dear Sir , I am in fault as usual about my correspondence. My only excuse is that I have more to read, ...
Monday, April 2, 2018

Senator Salmon P. Chase to Edward S. Hamlin,* July 21, 1854

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Washington, July 21, 1854,. My Dear Hamlin : It was good to see your handwriting again. You had been so long silent that I almost bega...
Friday, August 25, 2017

Senator Salmon P. Chase to Charles Sumner, March 24, 1850

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Washington , March 24, 1850. My Dear Sumner : I thank you for your letter. It is not my purpose to go at all fully into the various que...
Monday, August 29, 2016

Salmon P. Chase to John Thomas* of Cortlandville, New York, June 24, 1847

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June 24, [1847.] I am much obliged to you for yr. kind letter of the 11th ult. wh. I recd. yesty. It always gratifies me to hear of the...