The Letters of Daniel Webster; From Documents Owned Principally by the New Hampshire Historical Society (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...to know that you are already appraised of the substance of what I have now related, and to be assured that the explanation is satisfactory and that I still enjoy a portion of your respect and esteem, which I can assure you I value very highly. I am frank to say there is no man in the nation for whom I have entertained, and still entertain, so high a regard. My respect has bordered upon veneration, and my esteem upon admiration, and though this estrangement to which you allude, has prevented all correspondence and intercourse, yet it has not prevented me from noticing and admiring your uniform high and statesmanlike course in the Senate which has uniformly met my entire approval. I sympathize with you most deeply in your domestic afflictions, and would that it was in my power to offer consolation, but that must come from a higher source. I write in much haste without time to copy and beg leave to subscribe myself Your devoted friend Millard Fillmore (To D. Fletcher Webster.) Monday Eve' May 15. '48. My Dear Son: I have reed yours of yesterday, & a parcel of speeches from Mr Kingsbury, which I have franked, & shall send off by this mail.--It will give me pleasure to oblige a son of Mr Shaw, & a daughter of Genl Lyman; & I shall not fail to remember Col. Andrews.--I cannot comply with Mr. Ketchum's suggestion to frank the "address." It would be out of character.--Whatever I can properly do, I am ready to attempt; but I must maintain an elevated position Yrs D. W. (To D. Fletcher Webster.) Astor House May 25. 48. Thursday mor'g Dear Fletcher We must leave Albany to Mr. Ketchum, or to chance. Mr Clingman M. C. is here. He is a member of the Convention. He says if a Northern Candidate be nominated at Baltimore, many Southern Whigs will s...