After current business at the Cabinet was closed, I inquired of Seward if it was true that he had sent out a special official certificate of...

Fox called on me last evening and unexpectedly bade me farewell. Said he would not trust himself to call at the Department to-day. He was ve...

The papers to-day contain a synopsis of what took place yesterday in the Cabinet on the subject of Reconstruction. I have no doubt that the ...

This being the anniversary of the assassination of President Lincoln, the several Departments were closed by order of the President. Had a...

I think the President, though calm and reticent, exhibits indications of not being fully satisfied in some respects with the conduct and cou...