It seems to me that the destinies of this admirable people are in strange hands. Mr. Lincoln, honest man of nature, perhaps an empiric, doct...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14, 1850 GEO. E. BAKER, Esq., Member of Assembly, Albany, N. Y. DEAR SIR, — I remember you well as one of the littlest boy...

I do not see our future on the Presidential question. The recent declaration of Toombs seems ominous of a break-up, in which I should rejoic...

Sumner takes his last dinner with us. In a few days he will be gone to Washington for the winter. We shall miss him much. He passed the nigh...

We had a solitary dinner, missing Sumner very much. He is now in Washington, and it will be many days before we hear again his footsteps in ...

Your farewell note came safe and sad; and on Sunday no well-known footstep in the hall, nor sound of cane laid upon the table. We ate our di...

MY VERY DEAR JULIA, — Your parting benediction and God-speed, mingling with mother's, made my heart overflow. I thank you both. They wil...

DEAREST LONGFELLOW, — I could not speak to you as we parted, — my soul was too full; only tears would flow. Your friendship, and dear Fanny...

DEAREST HOWE, Three times yesterday I wept like a child, — I could not help it first in parting with Longfellow, next in parting with you, a...

THE emancipation of slaves is virtually inaugurated. Gen. Butler, once a hard pro-slavery Democrat, takes the lead. Tempora mutantur et nos ...

FELLOW-CITIZENS OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES: BY the hands of the Secretary of the Commonwealth I have received a certificat...

You ought to be a diplomatist. Another motive to me for discontent with my present position is the fear that I may stand in your way. It wou...

In answer to your inquiries, let me say that there are signs of a contest in Massachusetts such as very rarely occurs. The bitterness of the...

We have before us in Massachusetts a very bitter period of political strife, to last till the Presidential election. After that the Free Soi...

The Curtises In the United States there is a struggle substantially coincident with yours, which is now going on. With us the slave-power ...

I had already carefully read the judgment of Chief-Justice Hornblower, and commended it especially to the “Commonwealth,” where I think it w...

More than ever do I feel the importance to our cause of preventing the Commonwealth from passing into the hands of Webster Whiggery. This, o...

On the tariff I am absolutely uncommitted. Mr. Henry Cabot, an old manufacturer, told me yesterday that he and others were now satisfied tha...

The field of our national politics is still shrouded in mist. Nobody can clearly discern the future. On the Whig side, Fillmore seems to me ...

Will not Higginson see the matter in a practical light? I respect him so much, and honor his principles so supremely, that I am pained to di...