I had already carefully read the judgment of Chief-Justice Hornblower, and commended it especially to the “Commonwealth,” where I think it w...

I have just read your admirable letter on Clay's resolutions [of compromise]. 1 You have done a good work. . . . There is a great advan...

In this moment of discomfiture I turn to you. I am sick at heart as I think of the treason of our public men. Freedom is forgotten in the mi...

I thank you very much for writing that letter on Mr. Webster's speech. It will be read extensively, and will do great good. You expose h...

Your letter to the “Advertiser” appeared in that paper last Saturday, the 6th. 1 The paper is sometimes known as “the respectable,” affecti...

Bedford, November 9, 1852. My Dear Sir — Rarely have I been so delightfully astonished as by the intelligence of your election. What a...