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part, and that the party asked only the use of my name, I consented to be announced, and immediately resigned from the United States Senate. Nevertheless, I soon afterward took the field in person, and worked earnestly until the day of election. I was defeated, but the majority of more than seven thousand votes, that had been cast a short time before against the party with which I was associated, was reduced to less than one thousand. The following letter, written in 1853 to the Hon. William J. Brown of Indiana, formerly a member of Congress from that state, and subsequently published, relates to the events of this period, and affords nearly contemporaneous evidence in confirmation of the statements of the text: Washington, D. C., May 7, 1853. my dear sir: I received the Sentinel containing your defense of me against the false accusation of disunionism, and, before I had returned to you the thanks to which you are entitled, I received this day the St. Joseph Valley regist
9. Brown, John, 27,36, 70. Brown, Joseph E., Letter from Davis concerning conscription law, 434-39. Brown, William J., 18. Buchanan, James, Pres. of U. S., 31, 47, 48, 50, 51, 161, 181, 182, 183, 185, 186, 188, 212, 228-29, 233, 2ve to slavery in territories, 457-64. Reflection to Senate, 16, 22. Nomination for governor, 17; defeat, 18. Letter to Brown of Indiana, 18-19. Member of Pierce's cabinet, 20-22. Extracts from speech on master and servant, 26-27. Extract from generals, 385, 393-99. Extract from inaugural address of 1862, 415. Union bank episode, 426-27. Extracts from letter to Brown of Georgia, concerning conscription law, 434-39. Extract from message to Congress, slaves as soldiers, 440-43. ExtractsFoot, Samuel A., 8. Forsyth, John, 239. Commissioner from Confederacy to Lin-coln, 212, 230. Fort Barrancas, 230. Brown, 183, 407. Castle Pinckney, 242. Caswell, 355. Donelson, 348. Henry, 348. Jackson, 283. Jefferson, 242. Johnson, 24