I have been requested, Fellow-citizens, as Chairman of the Committee of Arrangements for this meeting, to make a statement of the reasons f...

Boston, December 22, 1859. Dear Sir , — I am sorry to see, by a reported speech of yours, that you are among those who have been duped...

Declined to serve as vice-president of the Union meeting at Faneuil Hall, because I do not wish to help the Democrats. SOURCE: Willi...

Storm. Agreed to be at Faneuil Hall and act as an officer of the meeting. Public meeting at Faneuil Hall. A grand affair. The crowd was ver...

Peterboro , Nov. 23, 1846, Edmund Quincy , Esq., of Massachusetts: Dear Sir, — I have this evening, read your letter to me, in the la...

Attended the meeting at Faneuil Hall, for the consideration of reconstruction of the Southern States. Dana made a statement to the effect t...

Saw Dr. Howe this afternoon: he looks better, in fine health and spirits. I went with him to the Faneuil Hall meeting of Free-soilers. Sumn...

Thursday, 29, 1856 We have been in the most painful state of excitement relative to Kansas matters and dear Charles Sumner, whose condi...

Boston , Sept. 26th, 1846. Dear Sir : — Permit me to inform you that you were appointed a member of the Committee of Vigilance, chosen ...

The regiment received its orders to go home for its thirty days' furlough January 9, 1864, those who had not re-enlisted remaining in c...

Mr. Chairman , — My relation to this meeting not only authorizes, but requires, me to offer, at its commencement, some remarks on the purpo...

MR. CHAIRMAN: — We have met for the freest discussion of these resolutions, and the events which gave rise to them. [Cries of “Question,” “...