95. Mr. Drinkard to Governor Houston. [Telegram.]    War Department, March 14, 1860.           Sir: Your despatch of the 8th instant has been received and submitted to the President.           He directs me to say that he declines your tender of volunteers, inasmuch as a despatch has this day been received by the Adjutant General of the [...]

93. Governor Houston to Mr. Floyd. Executive Department,           Austin, March 12, 1860.           Sir: Realizing that it is my duty to address your department, that it may be laid before his excellency the President, I thus devote myself to action for two purposes: First to vindicate myself from misapprehension, and next to obtain if possible protection [...]

Crawfordville [Ga.], March 9th, 1860. Dear Sir[i]: You will, I suppose, be in the convention at Milledgeville on the 14th inst, and I therefore address these lines to you there. The subject relates particularly to myself, but I trust you will under the circumstances excuse the obtrusion. From the allusions to my name in the [...]

Governor Houston to Mr. Floyd. [By telegraph.] Austin, March 8, 1860.                     Sir: Judging from the tenor of despatches from your department to me, of the 28th ultimo, that the government has not at its command sufficient troops to afford the immediate protection to Texas desired, I herewith tender the services of five thousand (5,000) Texas [...]

89. Major Heintzelman to the Adjutant General. Headquarters Brownsville Expedition,           Fort Brown, Texas, March 7, 1860.           Sir: I have the honor to enclose herewith a copy of my letter to the department headquarters, dated 29th February.           Since then I have heard of but one small party on this side of the river. They were engaged [...]

Colonel Lee to General Scott. Headquarters Department of Texas,           San Antonio, March 6, 1860.           Colonel: Reports from the posts in the northern part of Texas give frequent information of depredations upon the settlements. These have become more numerous and daring since the necessity has arisen for withdrawing a portion of the force on that line [...]

The Adjutant General to Colonel Lee. Adjutant General’s Office,           Washington, March 3, 1860.           Colonel: In further reference to the subject concerning which the Adjutant General had the honor to address you on the 2d instant, I am instructed by the Secretary of War to say, that should the Mexican authorities on the Rio Grande frontier [...]

The Adjutant General to Colonel Lee. Adjutant General’s Office,           Washington, March 2, 1860.           Colonel: Referring to the letter I had the honor to address to you the 24th ultimo, in relation to the outlaw Cortinas, I am now in structed by the Secretary of War to say that you will notify the Mexican authorities on [...]

1. Major Heintzelman to Colonel Lee. ______ Headquarters Brownsville Expedition,           Fort Brown, Texas, March 1, 1860.           Sir: In compliance with the instructions contained in your letter of January 7, 1860, I have the honor to make the following report:           In compliance with Special Order No. 103, headquarters department of Texas, San Antonio, November 12, 1859, [...]

Crawfordville [Ga.], Feb. 24th, 1860.                     Dear Smith, Some time has past since I heard from you last. I fear you are sick again. Sam McJunkin got home three days ago. He came here but I was at Glascock Court. He doubtless would have been able to give me full information about you but as I [...]

83. Major Thomas to Colonel Seawell. Headquarters, Camp Cooper, Texas,           February 22, 1860.          Sir: I have to report, for the information of the department commander, that on the night of the 17th instant the sentinel on post over the public mules at this post permitted, by criminal neglect of his duty, some person or persons [...]

February 20, 1860 To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States: Eight memorials numerously signed by our fellow-citizens, “residents for the most part within the territorial limits of Kansas and Nebraska at and near the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains,” have been presented to me, containing the request that I would [...]

February 19, 1860 Fellow-Citizens:—I see that you are providing a platform for me. I shall have to decline standing upon it, because the president of the company tells me that I shall not have time to wait until it is brought to me. As I said yesterday, under similar circumstances at another gathering, you must [...]

80. Governor Houston to Mr. Floyd. Austin, February 15, 1860.                     Sir: I have the honor to forward by my friend Gen. Forbes Britton, assistant adjutant general of the State, and a prominent member of the State senate, despatches which I deem of importance, and desire that his excellency the President shall consider the contents thereof. [...]

Colonel Seawell to the Adjutant General. Headquarters Department of Texas,           San Antonio, February 10, 1860.           SIR: Herewith I have the honor to enclose a communication from Major S. P. Heintzelman, embracing the latest official intelligence from the Rio Grande. It does not clearly appear from this letter why Major Heintzelman has not made use of [...]

Major Heintzelman to Colonel Jewell. Headquarters Brownsville Expedition,           Fort Brown, Texas, February 10, 1860.           Sir: Since my letter of the 5th February, I have received Captain Ford’s report of what took place on the 4th, when he crossed the river into Mexico to protect the steamboat Ranchero on her way down, with a cargo valued [...]

Earlville LaSale Co Ills Jan. 9th 1859 [1860]. Hon Abram Lincoln           Dr Sir – It has been publicly stated in this place that you endorse the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, as constitutional in its object, & in its provisions in All Respects– You would would confer a favour upon the writer of this as [...]

Mr. Hart to Mr. Floyd. EL Paso, Texas, February 7, 1859. Governor; I have the honor to call your attention to occurring events on this frontier touching our relations with Mexico. The church party at last accounts, which I deem authentic, were organizing a column at Guadalajara to march on Chihuahua and Durango, to occupy [...]

Major Heintzelman to the Adjutant General. Headquarters Brownsville Expedition, Fort Brown, Texas, February 5, 1860. Sir: I have the honor to report that the steamboat Ranchero, on her way down the Rio Grande with a valuable freight, was fired upon by Cortinas from the Mexican side of the river, at the Bartoni, a point thirty-five [...]

Lieutenant Fink to Colonel Seawell. Headquarters, Fort Davis, Texas, February 4, 1860. Sir: I have the honor to report the arrival at this post to-day, from Chihuahua, of two American citizens, Messrs. McManus and Hickman. Those gentlemen have informed me that they, together with all other American citizens, as well as other foreigners, who were [...]

Crawfordville [Ga.], Feb. 4th, 1860. Dear Smith, I have just got back from Augusta where I have been all the past week attending court, and now have your letter of the 30th ulto. before me. The news of the organization of the House reached Augusta while I was there and I saw no man there [...]

Major Heintzelman to the Adjutant General. Headquarters Brownsville Expedition, Fort Brown, Texas, February 2, 1860. SIR: Having received instructions from the commander of the department to collect the names of the killed, and ascertain the damage done by Cortinas and his command, I left Roma on the 15th and arrived here on the 21st of [...]

Mr. Hart to Mr. Phelps. El Paso, Texas, January 31, 1860. My Dear Major: This morning I received another express from Chihuahua to myself and the Mexican prefect, Señor Vilarde, asking me to furnish the means to buy two hundred stand of arms for account of the governor Of Chihuahua, giving me a lien on [...]

Robert Toombs to Alexandr H. Stephens. R. Washington, D. C, 31st Jany., 1860. Dear Stephens, … I send you a copy of my speech today. The account in the Union by mistake cutts off a column and a half of it. We have whipped out Sherman and the Helperites. Pennington will be elected today or [...]