1843 Letters

, MA -

I have just received your note and I cannot forbear telling you that it has comforted me greatly.

Washington, TX - 31 January 1843

I have often reflected upon the trials through which you have passed, and admired the firmness with which you met and triumphed over opposition.

Washington, DC - 9 February 1843

Winfield Scott letter to T. P. ATKINSON, ESQ

Andalusia, PA - 27 February 1843

I beg you to listen to the following oracular sentences which if they have no other inspiration are dictated by a public regard for you & for the Country.

unknown - 2 March 1843

I have not the least idea of going abroad

Andalusia, PA - 4 March 1843

The subject most canvassed at present is the retirement of Mr Webster a question of much importance to the country & of great interest to yourself.

Washington, TX - 5 March 1843

Your talk came to me. I read it and was happy ! I remembered other days.

unknown - 11 March 1843

The President is still resolved to try the chances of an Election.

Washington, TX - 20 March 1843

Between your people and ours there has been war. Trouble has been in the path between us, and it has been stained with blood.

Springfield, IL - 26 March 1843

abraham lincoln -- From a Letter to Martin M. Morris. Springfield, Illinois. March 26,1843

Washington, TX - 28 March 1843

My heart is sad ! A dark cloud rests upon your nation. Grief has sounded in your camp. The voice of Flaco is silent.

New York, NY - 8 April 1843

I had the honor to receive your letter of the 4th instant inviting me to attend the celebration of the centennial anniversary of the birth of Thomas Jefferson

Fort Hill, SC - 8 April 1843

I hope you and Maria will not fail to make us a visit during the summer. We shall be glad to see you. It will give you an opportunity to look at your mountain property.

Washington, TX - 19 April 1843

It has been represented to me to-day that upwards of two hundred horses have been taken from the Lipans and Toncahuas by some of the wild Indians, said to be a party of Wacoes.

Andalusia, PA - 24 April 1843

Knowing how anxious you are [to] serve the country it strikes me that you might be useful now.

Fort Hill, SC - 0 May 1843

I hope you do not err in supposing, that Gov'r Van Ness will be appointed collector of N. York.

Washington, TX - 4 May 1843

My ears were opened to your words - they were words of peace. I have laid them up in my heart. I send you my words by the same friend.

, MA - 16 May 1843

Rejoice with me in my great, inexpressibly great joy! I am engaged to Henry Longfellow!

Fort Moultrie, SC - 23 May 1843

W.T. Sherman letter to brother John Sherman...Here at Fort Moultrie we have about 250 soldiers, divided into four companies.

Washington, TX - 30 May 1843

Those that I send to you have sat by my side and eaten bread with me. They have learned to love the red brothers. They know the counsels of peace which I have always given.

Fort Hill, SC - 3 June 1843

The indication every where South of Virginia is favourable. In this state, there is perfect unanimity and much devotion to the cause.

Fort Hill, SC - 7 June 1843

There is, I think, no danger of any state South of North Carolina. That State will be taken either by Mr Clay, or myself

Elmwood, MA - 15 June 1843

Men yield more readily to an ambitious man, provided he can bear it out by deeds.

Loyds, VA - 16 June 1843

I wrote to Woodbury before the meeting of the N Hampshire Convention to beg him to go to it and take an active part for you.

New York, NY - 20 June 1843

I believe the "black cockade" of 1798 to have been worn exclusively by members of the Federal party, but certainly not by all of them.

Fort Hill, SC - 6 July 1843

If I do not mistake, we hold in our hands the means of forcing on the friends of Mr Van Buren in Virginia and N. York the choice of delegates by District and the per capita mode of voting

Hermitage, TN - 8 July 1843

I have to remark that I shall ever recollect my dear General, with great satisfaction, the relations, both private and official which subsisted between us during the greater part of my administration

Fort Hill, SC - 10 July 1843

I regret, that you could not take the Charge of the Spectator, but doubt not, that you have decided correctly all things considered.

Richfield, OH - 24 July 1843

I well know how to appreciate the feelings of a young person among strangers, and at a distance from home...

Amesbury, MA - 0 August 1843

I should be heartily glad to visit Philadelphia, to sit with cousin Ann, and discuss upon the great problems of human life and destiny, and not upon those high abstractions alone, but upon the household things

Fort Hill, SC - 6 August 1843

My impression is and has been, that it would be difficult, if not impossible to get up a general organization. It required the aid of office and patronage for Mr V. B. to effect it

Fort Hill, SC - 26 August 1843

A member of our State Convention has propounded two questions to Mr Ritchie, which will throw the onus on him.

London, ENG - 2 September 1843

I have seen other influential men of the Whig party who are prepared to rally against ministers on the question of slave grown produce, and especially on their policy of interfering with the question of slavery in foreign states.

Fort Hill, SC - 8 September 1843

England has but one alternative; to harmonize her interest with that of the other portions of the civilized world, or resort to force to maintain her pre-eminence.

Fort Hill, SC - 12 September 1843

I have no doubt, but that the cause to which you refer has a powerful effect in the North and North West; and that it has been secretly used by Van Buren and his friends to weaken me.

Trinity River, TX - 13 September 1843

I send you my friend to shake you by the hand, and tell you that my heart is still warm toward you.

Loyds, VA - 19 September 1843

I have just returned from Washington where I have been to consult with our friends.

New York, NY - 20 September 1843

From a market upon the water apparently insane individuals were emptying into the river basket after basket of peaches, until the river was covered with them.

London, ENG - 24 September 1843

I send you the Examiner's Comments on your letter. The article was prepared by one of the most influential members of Parliament who has at all times taken a most prominent lead in the Anti Slavery movement

New York, NY - 11 October 1843

Mr. Webster, on leaving here two days ago, assured this friend, that he should return to Massachusetts with a determination to re-unite himself to the Whig party, and give it his best support.

Quincy, MA - 11 October 1843

Nothing could give us more pleasure than to accept your offered hospitality and to visit you at your residence at Ashland.

New York, NY - 13 October 1843

it seems to have been generally known among Mr. Webster's friends here, that I had, at the pressing solicitation of one of them, although under the declared conviction that it could produce no useful result, written to you on the subject of a reconci

Charleston, SC - 22 October 1843

On my arrival here day before yesterday I found your friends in some excitement. I heard that you were determined to refuse immediately to go into a convention at all

New York, NY - 0 November 1843

I never was but a poor writer in a language which is not my native tongue, and was compelled to confine myself to statements of facts and dry reasoning

, MA - 0 November 1843

Young Lowell, the poet, dined with us yesterday and talked in a very Swedenborgian way of spiritual sympathies.

Nauvoo, IL - 4 November 1843

we have judged it wisdom to address you this communication, and solicit an immediate, specific, and candid reply to What will be your rule of action, relative to us

Milledgeville, GA - 21 November 1843

On my arrival at this place I found a most unfortunate state of things in regard to the Democratic Party, which is broken routed and disunited.

Boston, MA - 30 November 1843

I have been harassed more than you can well think with the business of my magazine. I have staked all my present hope upon this one throw of the dice...

Tulip Hill, MD - 3 December 1843

It would not be safe to go into any convention, however formed, with the Richmond and Albany politicians.

Washington, TX - 14 December 1843

My young chiefs were well treated and protected from harm. This was right : it was the conduct of a good friend.

Washington, TX - 14 December 1843

Our nation is yet young, but will make us rich, and then I will send many presents to our red brothers.

Loyds, VA - 19 December 1843

I have learned from Washington from a source entirely reliable, that a treaty for the annexation of Texas will probably be submitted to the Senate this Winter.

Washington, TX - 21 December 1843

If you wish to come and see me and the chiefs of this nation in council, they are here. The white chief who takes you this talk will show you and your friends the way to my house

Fort Hill, SC - 22 December 1843

Those who expect to live on the Gov't. have proved stronger than the people, and political machinery stronger than arguments.

, MA - 29 December 1843

Lowell has just published a volume of poems. Many are very beautiful, more manly and finished than his former...