My dear Sir: As to the expensiveness of the plan of gradual emancipation with compensation, proposed in the late Message, please allow me one or two brief suggestions. Less than

Private & confidential. Hon. O. H. Browning My dear Sir Yours of the 17th is just received; and coming from you, I confess it astonishes me. That you should object

  For your own eye only Hon. A. H. Stephens- My dear Sir Your obliging answer to my short note is just received, and for which please accept my thanks.

  Hon. Michael Hahn My dear Sir: I congratulate you on having fixed your name in history as the first—free—state Governor of Louisiana. Now you are about to have a

  Private Hon. Andrew Johnson My dear Sir: I am told you have at least thought of raising a negro military force. In my opinion the country now needs no

  Hon. Henry W Hoffman My dear Sir: A convention of Maryland has framed a new constitution for the State; a public meeting is called for this evening, at Baltimore,

Hon: George Ashmun: President of the Republican National Convention. Sir: I accept the nomination tendered me by the Convention over which you presided, and of which I am formally appri[z]ed

My dear Sir: Herewith is a little sketch, as you requested. There is not much of it, for the reason, I suppose, that there is not much of me. If

  Dear Speed: You know what a poor correspondent I am. Ever since I received your very agreeable letter of the 22nd. of May I have been intending to write