frame than thirty years since exhibited, but in some respects

the same.

Come and see us at "the Orchard," where you and yours will be thrice welcome always.

Sincerely and affectionately yours,

D. S. DICKINSON.

PROF. MATHER TO MR. DICKINSON.

AMHERST COLLEGE, June 5, 1861.

DEAR SIR-I have been intending for some weeks to write you with reference to the time of our commencement, but have delayed doing so till the other addresses of the same week had been definitely settled.

Enclosed please find a printed slip giving the various exercises; and you will notice that your oration before the literary society is expected on Wednesday, July 10th, at 2 P. M. I hope you may arrange it so as to be here a few days before, for I am anxious that you should know something more of our institution, and see something more of this quarter of New England, than can be done in one of those hurried visits that you public men are too apt to make.

Mrs. Mather unites with me in the hope that Mrs. Dickinson may accompany you in this trip to the Connecticut Valley, and that we may have the pleasure of entertaining you while here at our house.

If you should come by New York, the best route is to leave in the express at 8 A. M. from the 27th street New Haven depot, and come by way of New Haven, Hartford, Springfield, and Palmer, arriving here at half-past three P. M.

Any other information that I can give you I should be most happy to communicate.

With kind regards to yourself and family, I remain,
Yours most truly,

R. H. MATHER.

MR. DALLAS TO MR. DICKINSON.

PHILADELPHIA, June 20, 1861,

MY DEAR SIR-Let me thank you cordially for that kind note

of the 15th inst., and beg to have the acknowledgments of Mrs. Dallas and her daughters made to your family.

You will be struck by reading the 125 first pages of Benton's Abridgment of the Debates in Congress, 12 vol. It has been sent to me since I made the short address of which you speak so kindly; and really I am surprised to find myself so exactly now against secession where I was thirty years ago against nullification. Truth and principle are seldom inconsistent, even in political action.

Where is all this madness and treachery to end? The whole confederate operation is an audacious and wretched exhibition of discreditable trick, hypocrisy, and oath-breaking. Are these the men for whose equality and rights in the Union you and I have heretofore so uniformly and anxiously struggled? Perhaps they place as much pride in having hoodwinked and cheated us, as they seem to chuckle in having victimized Mr. Buchanan! Well! well! our constitutional views on their behalf were sound and true: the written text could not be mistaken, but it is not the first time that honest and zealous advocates have had rogues for their clients.

I left Mr. and Mrs. Cropsey doing admirably in London. He is rising fast into high appreciation as a painter. One of his great pictures, "Autumn on the Hudson," he had just sold for little less than four thousand dollars. He will, in a little while, when thoroughly found out, be claimed as a native Englishman. That's the settled practice.

My conviction is, that the neutrality announced to me by Lord John Russell, at my first interview with him in March last, will be steadily persevered in, unless, at the expiration of a year or two, the power to maintain her separate independence should be made indisputable by the Montgomery combination. Always, most respectfully and sincerely,

G. M. DALLAS,

MR. PORTER TO MR. DICKINSON.

ALBANY, August 23, 1861.

MY DEAR SIR-I have just finished a second reading of your speech in Wyoming county, and with so much pleasure

and admiration that I cannot refrain from thanking you. It is a speech worthy of an American statesman, and will command the attention of the country by its high and generous patriotism, no less than by its eloquence and power. It gives bold and manly expression to the convictions which, as I believe, pervade the masses of the true-hearted democracy of New York. We cannot make war on the friends of the republic while they are fronting the public enemy. If party divisions are to be maintained, let it be in honorable emulation between democrats and republicans in the defence of government against treason in arms. Very truly yours,

JOHN K. PORTER.

MR. DICKINSON TO MR. SPENCER.

BINGHAMTON, August 28, 1861.

MY DEAR S.-We go for breaking up the corrupt Regency clique, and for a Union movement. We shall send delegates to the Union Convention, and act with it if fair, &c. I will send you a copy of our local call to-morrow. I am not going to the devil politically with my eyes open, and under such a lead; and if the democratic organization is determined to go where the old federalists of 1812 did, let it.

Sincerely yours,

D. S. DICKINSON.

MR. ROGERS TO MR. DICKINSON.

BUFFALO, August 31, 1861.

MY DEAR SIR-I am very sorry indeed that I could not see Mollie married. From the time we received our invitation, it seemed altogether out of the question for my wife to go, but we hoped that it might so turn out that I could, and I made every possible effort to do so, consistent with pressing duties. But it is all in one's life-time, and I shall hope to see her soon after her marriage, and if she and her husband are only happy, it will be all the same as if the sunlight of my countenance had been given to the scene.

Your Tunkhannock speech is the most telling effort you have ever made. It seems to have found a responsive throb in every heart. From the bottom of my soul I thank you for it. I believe that it will accomplish more in arousing the popular mind to a sense of danger, and in bringing the fighting element of the North to bear upon the conflict, than all that has been said by any other Northern man.

I see that the Republicans, in their great zeal to do justice to talent, integrity, courage and patriotism, are talking of you for Attorney-General, Secretary of State, Comptroller, and Judge of the Court of Appeals. When referred to for any opinion, as to which you would take, if any, I have ventured to predict you would not take either, and that I did not believe you would, even if the whole were combined.

With love to Mrs. D. and all the family, I am as ever,

Truly yours,

H. W. ROGERS.

MR. DICKINSON TO MRS. MYGATT.

THE ORCHARD LIBRARY, September 2, 1861.

MY DEAR CHILD-We have all been lonely indeed, since your departure, notwithstanding our pleasant company; though we have scarcely yet realized that our cherished one has departed. It is well we cannot, for did we, our grief would be indescribable. When we mourn your absence, temporary as we hope it may only be now, we "smile through our tears" in the belief that your new relation will contribute to your happiness and enlarge your sphere of usefulness. Children are wisely prevented from experiencing the emotion and anxiety of parents, and a daughter, with all her appreciation and affection, can never know the key to which a father's very heartstrings are attuned for her.

You have now set sail upon the uncertain ocean of life, and were I a patriarch I would confer on you a patriarch's ble-sing; but as I am only a father, you and dear John will accept his, and a mother's too. May God bless you both, and shield you

from every evil.

We go to Owego to-morrow, where I am to speak. I shall

speak at Bridgeport on the 14th, Hartford the 17th, and New London the 19th. If you and John come, I would prefer to see you at Hartford, and hope I may. Your dear mother joins me, as do all the family, in much love to you both.

Most affectionately your father,

D. S. DICKINSON.

PROF. TYLER TO MR. DICKINSON.

AMHERST COLLEGE, September 13, 1861.

MY DEAR SIR-I cannot refrain from expressing to you the high satisfaction with which I have seen the career of patriotism and public spirit which you began in your eloquent and noble oration at our late Commencement, and continued by addresses of like tenor in several of the principal cities of your own and other States.

You have struck a blow at treason and rebellion, and at that scarcely less blind and mad monster, party spirit, from which they will never recover. I trust you will not withhold your hand until they are utterly extinct. God, and your native land, will approve and reward you. I rejoice to see that the people of the great and noble State which has delighted to honor you, are now so prompt to appreciate your services. Proud as I am of old Massachusetts, I am obliged to acknowledge that, in the coming State election, New York promises to outdo her in enlightened patriotism; and Republican as I am to the back-bone, I would like to be a citizen of that State long enough to cast my vote for the late leader of her Democracy.

The Faculty and students of Amherst College, I am sure, all unite with me in these sentiments. They take pride in having had something to do in calling you out from your retirement to buckle on your armor again in a battle with the mistaken or pretended friends of our institutions, no less patriotic, and scarcely less heroic, than that which our soldiers are waging with open enemies on the field of mortal strife.

Mrs. Tyler desires an affectionate remembrance to Mrs. Dickinson, and unites with me most cordially in the approval and admiration of your course. She is prouder than ever of