Katie Hatton
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Displaying 141 - 160 of 952Not having received an answer to the note which I had the honor of addressing to you yesterday, by my friend Mr. Grosvenor—You will readily perceive that there is but one course left. Mr. Grosvenor is fully authorized on the subject, and I presume you or your friend, will arrange it for as early a day as possible.
The language which you used respecting me and my conduct in court, last Saturday evening, renders it necessary that I call on you for such explanation, apology, or satisfaction, as one gentleman when thus injured has a right to demand from another. My friend, Mr.
To the Hon. Martin Van Beuren, Senator elect in the Congress of the United States, Chief of the Tails, Poet Laureate, &c. &c.
My Dear Matty,
In endeavoring to renew the stale contest between the great parties of this country, have you been accustomed to reflect on consequences?— Permit me to lay before you some of the evils of party spirit, which, like the arch apostate always strives at evil, though sometimes foiled and producing its opposite.
By M. Van Beuren, Esq. The republicans of the country of Columbia. Undismayed by the success of faction and corruption, attached to the republican cause from a conviction of its justice, they will remain as steady to their principles as the needle to the pole.
When we see men, high in station and public confidence, formally uttering the sentiment, that division is the anchor of our safety, and that party animosity in the life-blood of republics, it is natural to inquire by what process of reasoning that doctrine is established; and what are the motives that have induced the propagation of a sentiment so repugnant to our...
Pursuant to the usage of their predecessors, your representatives in Senate and Assembly met at the capitol in this city, to designate the counties from which the next candidates for senators for the middle district ought to be taken. The proceedings above detailed shew the result of their deliberations.
By M. Van Buren, esq. The state of Vermont. May she produce no more Elliotts.
The attorney-general, to whom was referred the engrossed bill, from the honorable the Assembly, entitled "an act for the relief of Benson Hunt," reported as follows, to wit:
Your letter of the 10th ultimo was delivered to me on my return to this place yesterday.
I had the honour to receive on my way to this place your obliging Letter informing me of my election as an honorary member of the "Planters Club on Pee Dee" I beg leave to assure your brother members that I shall ever remember with unalloyed satisfation the happy hours which it was my good fortune to spend at the cheerful & truly hospitable board and that I...
Recurring to the history of the administration which you conducted so ably and upon principals so fully approved by those with whom you have this day been associated and regarding your visit to South Carolina and our own neighborhood with peculiar pleasure together with your kind appreciations of the hospitalities which they have been able to offer.
I have had the pleasure to receive your friendly letter at this place, and thank you very kindly for the invitation it contains. It is not quite certain that I will be able to stay long enough in Kentucky to pay Mrs. Clay and yourself a visit, but if it should be ^so,^ you may rest assured, that I shall not deny myself that gratification.
A number of yr democratic friends are desirous of spending a social hour with you before you leave us & by their Request we beg leave to ask the favour of yr Company at a Private dinner at Pages tomorrow at 5 P M. should yr arrangements Permit—or at such other time as would Comport with them.
Your friends while they Regret that they will not have an opportunity of meeting you around the Social Board, appreciate your Views in Relation to any movement beyond ordinary social Intercourse.
We propose to leave here on the 14th. & to go directly to Charleston expecting to arrive there about the 22d. Mr Paulding of the party. In reference to the suggestion in your letter I say sincerely that my desire is to pass among as quietly as any other private gentleman would do—willing to see any body that wants to see me, but without parade or ostentation.
I thank you very kindly for your interesting letter & friendly suggestions upon the subject to which the enclosed relates. I have no doubt I would be fully justified in taking no notice of the question proposed to me, but there are considerations connected with ^it^ which would ^might^ render such a course somewhat embarassing.
I have received your friendly letter, and do most sincerely reciprocate your congratulations on the subject of the recent elections.
Died—In this city, on the evening of Friday, the 5th inst. after a lingering illness, Mrs. Hannah Van Buren, wife of the hon. Martin Van Buren, in the 36th year of her age.
I have offered Lord Morpeth an introduction to you, which he was happy to recieve. Your knowledge of his high character renders it unnecessary that I should say any thing to commend him to your kind attentions. I know enough of both to know that you will be highly pleased with him.