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...

St. Louis, Feb. 24, 1859. To Messrs. J. PHILIPS PHOENIX, WILLIS BLACKSTONE, H. M. BININGER, DAVID J. LILET AND H. R. SMITH, Committee, New...

BOSTON, May 13, 1852. MY DEAR MR. CRITTENDEN,—I received a welcome letter from you weeks ago, for which I have often thanked you in spirit...

More than ever do I feel the importance to our cause of preventing the Commonwealth from passing into the hands of Webster Whiggery. This, o...

The field of our national politics is still shrouded in mist. Nobody can clearly discern the future. On the Whig side, Fillmore seems to me ...

Will not Higginson see the matter in a practical light? I respect him so much, and honor his principles so supremely, that I am pained to di...

I heard of your illness, while I was in New York, with great regret. Time and distance did not allow me to see you at your suburban retreat,...

OFFICE OF THE JOURNAL OF COMMERCE,           NEW YORK, [N. Y.], March 25th, 1856 . DEAR SIR: I believe I had the pleasure of meeting you o...

ASHLAND, June 21, 1849. MY DEAR SIR,—I received your favors of the 1st and 4th instant. I regret extremely that many of the appointments o...

NEW YORK, [N. Y.], June 23, 1855. MY DEAR SIR: Desirous of urging, most strongly, upon you the necessity of your coming to New York to par...

Elms Farm, Sunday evening, November 3, 1850, six o'clock. MY DEAR SIR,—I expect to take my leave of Franklin tomorrow morning, and the...

BUENA VISTA, DELAWARE, October 8, 1851. MY DEAR CRITTENDEN,—Square yourself, for I have a favor to ask of you for one of my friends. Don...