NEW YORK, June 9, 1848. MY DEAR SIR, — The mis-representatives of the Whig party have at length consummated the greatest act of national i...

NEW YORK, June, 1848. MY DEAR MR. CLAY, — I write to you in the fullness of my heart, not to condole with you, for though I feel all the p...

ASHLAND, June 28, 1848. GENTLEMEN, — I received your favor adverting to certain reports in circulation in respect to me, with regard to t...

We hear that Scott is nominated at last. I tell you confidentially how Seward regards it. He thinks that his friends have been defeated, tha...

ASHLAND, August 5, 1848. MY DEAR SIR,—I received, at the Estell Springs (from which I returned yesterday), your favor transmitting a sketc...

ASHLAND, August 24, 1848. MY DEAR SIR,—I duly received, and perused with lively interest and gratitude, your friendly letter of the 27th u...

Fine day—At work in office. out at Cox's to tea. “Help me Cassius or I sink” received a long letter from Hon David Davis, Tho s A Marsh...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10, 1852. MY DEAR DOWNER, - There is nothing of much moment transpiring here. Cabell of Florida, in the House, a few days...

ASHLAND, September 20, 1848. GENTLEMEN, I have received your official letter as members of the (Whig) Democratic General Committee of the ...

Senator Doolittle brought me last evening the rough draft of a proposed call for a national Union convention which he had prepared. Some of ...

WASHINGTON, July 13, 1851. A Virginian told me yesterday that he saw I kept preaching; and, upon my evincing some curiosity to know what h...

In presenting ABRAHAM LINCOLN to the National Republican Convention, as a candidate for the Presidency, were are actuated not by our great l...

KISSING THE CHAIN! Shall Massachusetts stand erect no longer, But stoop in chains upon her downward way, Thicker to gather on her limb...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6, 1851. MY DEAR MR. COMBE, — . . . I have nothing to write on political subjects that can afford any gratification to a ...

NEW ORLEANS, January 26, 1849. MY DEAR SIR,—I met with an accidental but violent fall a week ago, in carelessly descending a flight of sta...

NEW ORLEANS, January 31, 1849. MY DEAR SIR,—The breaking out of the cholera here prevented my meeting General Taylor in this city, as had ...

Today was published in St Louis papers (copied from the New York Tribune) a recent letter of mine to the Whig Committee of New York, in answ...