To Columbia College meeting, Lafayette Place, at two in the afternoon. . . . I moved that Lieber’s opening lecture of his present Law School...

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

The closing-up of the year, an eventful one. A review of it from my standpoint would be interesting in many respects, and, should God grant ...

The President to-day in Cabinet, after current business was disposed of, brought forward the subject of Jefferson Davis' trial, on which...

WASHINGTON, April 19, 1860 . . . I don't remember what I said in my postscript, which seems to have affected you so much, but in all y...

Green Peace , Thursday Evening [probably 1850]. My Dear Sumner : — I have called twice without finding you. Why do you not put upon...

I read to President Johnson Colonel Baker’s letter, 1 with your introduction. He said at once that he accepted every word of it; that colo...

New York , September 10,1865. . . . The Secretary of War is going to ask Congress for an appropriation for a lecturer on the Law and Us...

New York , August 4, 1865. I should have been in favor of strict justice, that is, death, for the worst, — not from revenge, but distin...

New York , April 11, 1865. . . . I hope the President will walk very, very warily in coming to his new proclamation. I do not blame Lee...

New York , April 4,1865. How do you feel now? was the constant question yesterday in the street, in the clubs, in the dwellings of the ...

New York , March 29, 1865. . . . How often have I said, “Let us beat the enemy and the logic will soon enough follow.” Such letters as ...

New York , January 22, 1865. . . . I am unqualifiedly against the retaliation resolutions concerning prisoners of war. The provision th...

New York , December 29, 1864. I must write to you, my friend, even from my sick-bed. Some time ago you wrote to me what topics were bef...

December 24, 1864. My Dear Sumner , — You will feel the loss of Earl Carlisle much. I sympathize with you. I do not know whether your i...

Is it not possible to formulate the idea that government interference in elections is a nefarious thing into a law? We shall suffer here gr...

New York , December 11,1864. . . . War to the knife to slavery. Let us have no “slavery is dead.” It is not dead. Nothing is dead until...

New YorK , October 15, 1864. . . . I dare say you have already attended to the subject I am going to write about; still I feel prompted...

New York , September 1, 1864. My Dear Friend , — I write, but do not know very well why, unless it be that a sad heart will run over as...

July 20,1864. I received this moment “The Express” of July 16, which you sent me. It was to be expected that you would be sneered at. Y...