Court Street, Boston, April 19, 1851. May you live a thousand years, always preaching the truth of Fast Day! 1 That sermon is a noble eff...

Boston, November 5, 1850, MY DEAR SIR—I left New Hampshire yesterday, having be come free of disease, and well, except so far as this prot...

Marshfield, November 11, 1850. DEAR SIR, I have received your letter of the 7th of this month. Experience has long since taught me how u...

WASHINGTON, July 1, 1850. Webster said there were only two parts of the Constitution which had any bearing on the subject of the trial by...

The provisions of the bill, commonly called the fugitive slave bill, and which Congress have submitted to the President for his approval and...

MARCH, 1850. To S. DOWNER. MY DEAR FRIEND,—Mr. Webster astonished almost all Northern men here. We are recovering from the shock; but it w...

I am glad of your new appeal. Like everything from you, it is careful, logical, clear, and with a practical bearing on the times. I am incli...

Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless  Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge By Erica Armstrong Dunbar Nearly every American...

April 21. I have today conversed with the extraordinary colored man, Peter Burns, who brought off one hundred and thirty-two persons with ...

May 10. Capt. Rogers performed a deed on the 8th ins't for which he will always rejoice. The causeway at the Ferry extends out into th...

May 27. We are being greatly washed in the rainy season. Fortunately our tents are all raised eighteen inches from the ground and pitched ...

[Delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States, January 19, 1848.] MR. CHAIRMAN: With the convictions I entertain in rega...