Nothing is clearer to me than this. Our friends should if possible secure the balance of power in the Legislature, so as to influence the ch...

WASHINGTON, D. C., December 17, 1865. MY DEAREST:—  I hope to start home in time to be with you Friday next. The Senate has not yet acted ...

With regard to the assault upon Mr. Sumner, by Col Brooks, a statement was made in the Senate on Friday, by Mr. Wilson, of Massachusetts, wh...

On the 7th of March, Sir, I declared my opinion to be, that there is not a square rod of territory belonging to the United States, the chara...

The caucus of the New Hampshire members of the legislature friendly to the Administration has resulted in the substitution of Cragin for Jo...

Washington , May 11, 1826. Dear Crittenden ,—I have received your acceptable favor of the 27th. The affair with Mr. R[andolph], to whic...

I shall detain the Senate for but a moment longer. General Halleck, in an official communication addressed to the adjutant general of th...

Boston , January 21st, 1852. My Dear Mann : — It seems an age since I have seen you and long since I have had a word about you. There ...

Columbus, Feb. 14, I860. Dear Sumner , Your congratulations, if not among the first, were by no means the least welcome; for I know th...

[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 27, 1860] [Dr. S. G. Howe.] I am so far on my return from Washington, where I had a good time. ...

Athens, Ga. , May 12, 1846. My Dear Brother , . . . Toombs misrepresented me on the Oregon question. The Senate's Resolutions as am...

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...

Washington, D. C ., Feb. 3,1846. Dear Crawford , Yours in relation to the Galphin claim came to hand last night and I will examine the...

Washington [ga.,] Feb. 16th, 1845. [ dear S]tephens , 1 I received your letter of 9th and hardly know [what to] write you about my pr...

Cragie House, Cambridge , April 25, 1851. My Dear Wilson , — I have this moment read your remarks of last night, which I think peculiar...

Athens, [ga.,] Feb. 15th, 1846. Dear Howell , I have just returned from Clark court and in the morning I must start to Walton, but I c...

Washington, D. C. , Feb. 11, 1845. Dear Thomas , Let me know what you think of my speech upon Texas and what the Whigs of Hancock think...

Grimes tells me that the reports in last evening's papers are meagre and perverted, doing no justice to the Navy Department as it stood...

Washington , Jany 23, 1854. My Dear Sir : Wrote you a day or two since. Today the Nebraska Bill was called up, but was postponed till M...

New-York , December 20th, 1862. My dear Lusk: Your last letter has not been answered before this, because of the reason that you — ye...