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Showing posts with label Zachary Taylor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Zachary Taylor. Show all posts
Thursday, October 16, 2025

Congressman Horace Mann to Samuel Downer, February 10, 1852

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WASHINGTON, Feb. 10, 1852. MY DEAR DOWNER, - There is nothing of much moment transpiring here. Cabell of Florida, in the House, a few days...
Thursday, October 2, 2025

Senator Henry Clay to Henry White, September 10, 1848

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ASHLAND, September 10, 1848. MY DEAR SIR, I received your friendly letter, and beg you to be perfectly assured of my undiminished regard a...

Senator Henry Clay to James Lynch and Others, September 20, 1848

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ASHLAND, September 20, 1848. GENTLEMEN, I have received your official letter as members of the (Whig) Democratic General Committee of the ...
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Speech of Senator John C. Calhoun on His Resolutions in Reference on the War with Mexico Delivered in the United States Senate, January 4, 1848

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RESOLUTIONS. Resolved , That to conquer Mexico, and to hold it, either as a province or to incorporate it in the Union, would be inconsist...
Thursday, September 25, 2025

Colonel Jefferson Davis to Stephen Cocke*, July 15, 1847

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(From Mississippi Department of Archives and History.) Brierfield, Mi. 15th July 1847. Chancellor Cocke, Dear Sir, When we parted I hoped ...

William L. Marcy to Colonel Jefferson Davis, July 16, 1847

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(From Mississippi Free Trader, Aug. 4, 1847.) War Department, July 16, 1847. Sir: I am directed by the President to inform you, in reply t...
Sunday, June 8, 2025

General Zachary Taylor to Senator Henry Clay, November 17, 1848

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BATON ROUGE, La., November 17, 1848. MY DEAR SIR,—On my return here a day or two since, after a short absence, I found your highly esteeme...
Friday, June 6, 2025

Senator John C. Calhoun to Thomas G. Clemson, February 4, 1848

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Washington 4th Feb: 1848 MY DEAR SIR, . . . My speech 1 has had a very wide circulation and the impression is, that it has made a deeper ...

Senator John C. Calhoun to Anna Calhoun Clemson, February 20, 1848

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Washington 20th Feb: 1848 MY DEAR DAUGHTER, . . . As to politicks, things are very much as they were, when I last wrote Mr Clemson. We hav...
Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Jefferson Davis to William L. Marcy, June 29, 1847

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(From Mississippi Free Trader, Aug. 4, 1847.) Warrenton, Mississippi, June 29, 1847. Hon. W. L. Marcy, Secretary of War: Sir—Several compa...
Sunday, March 2, 2025

Speech of Congressman Albert G. Brown, November 2, 1850

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DELIVERED AT ELLWOOD SPRINGS, NEAR PORT GIBSON, MISS., NOVEMBER 2, 1850. FELLOW-CITIZENS: I shall speak to you to-day, not as Whigs, not a...