The result at which you arrived is not in the least surprising to me. You are in your nature more trusting than I, and therefore expected mo...

Parker is too impatient. If by chance or ignorance of the currents here I have got into the rapids, my friends should not abandon me. In any...

I value your friendship, and am glad of your frankness. From other sources I learn the prevailing distrust with regard to me. Thus far, in t...

I heard Charles Sumner on the Rebellion: my first sight and hearing of the great anti-slavery statesman. He was greeted with tremendous appl...

I have never, my dear friend, ceased one moment to trust you. Passing over the whole State this winter, lecturing sometimes four nights in t...

When by the circumstances a speech is an  act  for liberty, then I  trust  that you will make it. But when by speaking you feel that you wou...

I like your course, and especially that it is yours, and not any other man's. I told you at the outset to take time, act deliberately, s...

We have perfect faith in your course. We believe that if you had been permitted to speak, 1 a better day for the speech could not have been...

If the people of Massachusetts who now distrust you could have heard your voice in the Senate, and witnessed the attention you received, the...

You must not let the session close without speaking. Should you do so, you would be openly denounced by nine tenths of our people. They say ...

I know too well the strength and depth of your antislavery principles, and have been too recently assured of your anxiety to utter your full...

I thank you for your watchful friendship. Had I imagined the impatience of friends, I would have anticipated their most sanguine desires. Bu...

You are right in regarding both the old parties as substantially alike. I do not think that one who looks at principles and seeks to serve h...

If you are conscious that you can speak an effective word for Kossuth's Hungarian career, I should regret not to have it done, though I ...

I longed to see you. When you called I was at Eames's, discoursing on Baltimore and its scenes. This nomination 1 makes me lament anew ...

We hear that Scott is nominated at last. I tell you confidentially how Seward regards it. He thinks that his friends have been defeated, tha...

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...