WASHINGTON, Dec. 22, 1850. MY DEAR DOWNER,  I see by the date of my letter that it is Forefathers' Day; and I cannot but ask myself w...

I heard of your illness, while I was in New York, with great regret. Time and distance did not allow me to see you at your suburban retreat,...

I send you papers which will show the close of the long contest here in Massachusetts. The New York “Tribune” of Friday, April 25, candidly ...

I would not affect a feeling which I have not, nor have I any temptation to do it; but I should not be frank if I did not say to you that I ...

Our movement here is part of the great liberal movement of Europe; and as “law and order” are the words by which reaction has rallied in Eur...

OUR IMMEDIATE ANTISLAVERY DUTIES. SPEECH AT A FREE-SOIL MEETING AT FANEUIL HALL, NOVEMBER 6, 1850. MR. CHAIRMAN, AND YOU, MY FELLOW-CITIZE...

WASHINGTON, May 18, 1850. My letter is approved or disapproved a thousand times more for its bearing on party attachments than for its mer...

WASHINGTON, April 25, 1850. DEAR CRITTENDEN,—I have been thinking for several months that I would write to you, but as I did not wish to a...

FEB. 7. Yesterday, Mr. Clay concluded his speech upon his Compromise resolutions. Its close was pathetic. There is hardly another slavehol...

The slaveholders are bent on securing the new territories for slavery, and they see in prospective an immense slave nation embracing the Gul...

The antislavery agitation which it was hoped to hush by the recent laws is breaking out afresh. It will not be hushed. Mr. Webster is strong...

SENATE CHAMBER, June 15, 1850. GENTLEMEN—Gladly would I have joined you on next Monday, at the social board, and united most cordially in ...

The slavery question has become paramount here at last. The slave States threaten to dissolve the Union if slavery is prohibited by Congress...

[January 24, 1850.] DEAR HENRY, Whittier is here on a short visit. I go to-night with Miss Bremer to hear Wendell Phillips, and to-morrow ev...

I have just read your admirable letter on Clay's resolutions [of compromise]. 1 You have done a good work. . . . There is a great advan...

UNITED STATES SENATE, WASHINGTON, July 2, 1866. Dear Brother: I have read the enclosed letter with a good deal of interest. The feeling of ...

Rochester, Oct . 15, 1864. My Dear Mr. Tilton: I am obliged by your favor containing a copy of your recent speech in Latimer halL I h...

(Private and Confidential) New Orleans , February 12th, 1863. Dear Sir : Enclosed is General Orders No. 14—in part concerning Plantat...