PAPERS OF MIRABEAU BuoNAPARTE LAMAR
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dress and resistance, I am willing, if you desire it, to serve you. But if you are prepared to float down the current of Submission on the surface, like that stream which glides with a sluggard pace "by the fat weed that grows on Lethe's wharf," then, I am not your man. One hour in the bosom of my own family would be worth an age in even the gorgeous and fretted colonnades of the Senate, in witnessing the ac- quiescence of South Carolina in wrongs, which, with courage and fore- cast, she could fling off like "dew drops from the lion's mane." With profound and respectful consideration, your fellow country- man, J. HAMILTON. No. 2551 1857 Nov. 23, VIRGIL H. HEWES, CAMBRIDGE, [MASSACHU- SETTS] TO [MIRABEAU BUONAPARTE] LAMAR, [WASHINGTON, D. C.] Reminiscences of their former acquaintance in Alabama; family and personal news. A. L. S. 4 p. No. 2552 1857 Dec. 2, JO[H]N A. SMITH, WASHINGTON COUNTY, D. C. Certificate of the official qualification of John S. Hollingshead as a notary public of Washington County. D. S. (printed form :filled out). 1 p. No. 2553 1857 Dec. 4, THOMAS S. BELL, WASHINGTON, [D. C.] TO [MIRABEAU BUONAPARTE] LAMAR, WASHING- TON, [D. C.] Application for appointment in the Central American legation. A. N. S. 3 p. No. 2554 1857 Dec. 8, F. W. JONES, WASHINGTON, D. C., TO M[IRA- BEAU] B[UONAPARTE] LAMAR, [WASHINGTON, D. C.] Application for appointment on the staff of the Nicaraguan legation; his connection with Walker's expedition. A. N. S. 2 p. No. 2555 1857 Dec. 9, OSCAR G. SAWYER, NEW YORK, [NEW YORK] TO M[IRABEAU] B[UONAPARTE] LAMAR, WASHING- TON, D. C. Application for appointment upon the staff of the Buenos Ayres lega- tion. A. L. S. 1 p.
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