AVERSE as I am to the continuance of a controversy with my colleagues on the subject of Mississippi politics, I am not the less constrained ...

Senator Doolittle brought me last evening the rough draft of a proposed call for a national Union convention which he had prepared. Some of ...

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...

Went with G. W. Blunt to see the President this morning. Blunt wants to be Naval Officer and has been a true and earnest friend of the Navy ...

ST. LOUIS, Nov. 8, 1885. Dear Brother: . . . I have been importuned from every quarter to write or say something about the "Depew...

There was no Cabinet-meeting yesterday, and labor in the Department was suspended on account of the funeral of Lieutenant-General Scott. S...

Bryson telegraphed yesterday that he had captured seven hundred Fenians crossing the river at Black Rock. I sent the telegram to the Preside...

Montgomery Blair still persists that Seward is false to the President and that he and Stanton have an understanding. There are many strange ...

The President has finally issued a proclamation in regard to the Fenians. It should have appeared earlier, but Seward has counseled delay. S...

But little of importance at the Cabinet. I had some conversation with the President after adjournment, and in the evening McCulloch and myse...

Dined this evening at Tassara's, the Spanish Minister. The banquet was given in honor of Dulce, late Governor-General of Cuba. Seward an...