I notice the attack on me in the 'Liberator.' If need be, I shall show  backbone  in resisting the pressure even of friends. Had I u...

God bless you for your truly noble and courageous course! Follow it up to the end, however, without caring for blessing or cursing. Such thi...

I congratulate you most sincerely on the happy issue or your efforts for Drayton and Sayres. You have earned your honors. SOURCE: Edward L...

I am won very much by Houston's conversation. 1 With him the antislavery interest would stand better than with any man who seems now am...

I have yours of 25th of January proposing to me to write an article on Judge Story in the Westminster Review. As a filial service I should b...

Pardon me if I say frankly you have done injustice to Story. 1 I admire him as a jurist, but with a discrimination between his titles to re...

Congress and all the world have a vacation to-day to quaff fresh air, sunshine, and champagne on board the 'Baltic.' 1 I voted for ...

The post of assistant secretary of state  was  offered to my brother; but I write, not for any public correction of your paper, but merely f...

WASHINGTON, April, 1851. MY DEAR SUMNER, —  Laus  Deo! Good, better, best, better yet! By the necessity of the case, you are now to be a pol...

Kossuth errs, all err, who ask any intervention by government. Individuals may do as they please,— stepping to the verge of the law of natio...

Kossuth produces a great impression by personal presence and speech, but confesses that his mission has failed. It has failed under bad coun...

I have one moment for you, and only this. My speech was an honest utterance of my convictions on two important points. I pleaded at the same...

Seward has just come to my desk, and his first words were, “What a magnificent speech Wilson made to Kossuth! I have read nothing for months...

WASHINGTON, [D. C.], June 9th, 1856. DEAR HUNTER: I presume you have heard ere this of the action of the Cincinnati Convention and its utt...

Opera tonight with Ellie and Mrs. Georgey Peters and her papa; Der Freischutz in an Italian version. The Germanism of that opera is so inten...

THE truth about Bull Run will, perhaps, only reach the people when it becomes reduced to an historical use. I gather what I am sure is true....

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10, 1851. E. W. CLAP, ESQ. MY DEAR SIR, — . . . I was glad to hear from you, and should be much obliged for a more detail...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14, 1851. MY DEAR SUMNER, — Remember it is the darkest time just before day. I have long had very serious apprehensions a...

Shields is now speaking. Everybody has treated me with cordial kindness. Clay, I think, has upon him the inexorable hand. He has not been in...

Your kind reception at Washington is not attributable, sure enough, to the influence of our Boston oligarchy; but their power does not exten...