Blair has gone into Maryland stumping. He was very much surprised when he got the President's note. He had thought the opposition to hi...

. . . . In the evening Judd and Usher, and Nicolay and I were talking politics and blackguarding our friends in the Council Chamber. A grea...

Newport , 2 October, 1861. . . . I sent you yesterday a copy of de Vere's last volume of poems. There are some very charming things...

Private and confidential . Washington D. C. Sept. 2, 1861. Major General Fremont, My dear Sir: Two points in your proclamation o...

HEADQUARTERS WESTERN DEPARTMENT, Saint Louis, September 8 , 1861 . The PRESIDENT: MY DEAR SIR: Your letter of the 2d, by special...

Washington, D. C. Sep. 11. 1861. Major General John C. Fremont. Sir: Yours of the 8th in answer to mine of 2nd Inst. is just received...

Yesterday there was a letter from the President to Fremont saying that he wished him to modify his proclamation in regard to slaves and th...

We left Newport yesterday at 11 o'clock A.m. and arrived here (Naushon) 1 at 6 p.m. Fremont's proclamation is of great importance...

Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah! The Tribune says today that Fremont has declared Missouri to be under martial law and granted freedom to all the sl...

Washington , November 13, 1861. Your letter of the 10th inst. is at hand, and your imprudence in writing to me will now impose upon you...

Washington , November 13, 1861. I cannot enlighten you very much about Fremont. He has no doubt done some impolitic and some very fooli...

Burlington , September 19, 1861. Of course, you are so terribly oppressed with the great affairs of the finance department of this Gove...

The President of the United States has issued his proclamation revoking that of Maj. Gen. Hunter ’s, although he has not yet received any ...

The proclamation of Gen. Hunter , freeing the slaves of his military district, has created excitement more intense than any document issued...

Executive Mansion, Washington, Sep. 22. 1861 Hon. O. H. Browning. My dear Sir: Yours of the 17th is just received; and, coming ...

. . . a pro slavery, Mahony sheet published at Keokuk, made a speech in that city last fall, of which the following are extracts.   Speakin...

Times’ Special NEW YORK, May 16. Hunter’s proclamation excites scarcely any interest in Washington, no one attaching any importanc...