You must not let the session close without speaking. Should you do so, you would be openly denounced by nine tenths of our people. They say ...

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

Fort Hill 15th June 1847 MY DEAR SIR, Your views in reference to our political condition and affairs is so good, that I have little to add...

MR. BROWN said: I do not intend to detain the House by anything like an elaborate speech upon the subject of the public printing. In the few...

WASHINGTON, April 24, 1852. DR. JARVIS. DEAR SIR,— I have just received your favor of the 19th instant, and the accompanying volumes; fo...

WASHINGTON, May 8, 1852. MY DEAR MR. COMBE,— We are on the verge of a Presidential election. Our political caldron is beginning to seethe ve...

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...

Fort Hill, 29th Oct 1847. DEAR SIR, I have read your letter with attention, and will answer it in the same sperit of candour and freedom, ...

The President sent me a note this A.M. to call upon him this evening at eight. Although under the doctor's care and ordered to remain pe...

WASHINGTON, February 7, 1854. DEAR SIR,—The bill to organize the Territories of Nebraska and Kansas, with a provision to repeal the Missou...

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

WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 13, 1852. C. PIERCE, Esq. MY DEAR SIR,—We heard from you authentically through our common friends, from whom we had a...

CHESTERTOWN, [MD.],  October  17, 1856. MY DEAR SIR: I fear that I shall not be successful in the money affair. There is a shyness about a...

Washington 10th Dec 1847 MY DEAR SIR, . . . I have not been here long enough to form an opinion, what course parties will take during the ...

Warm day—The convention was occupied all day on credentials, rules and resolutions. The platform was adopted late in the afternoon, when we ...