Montgomery Blair still persists that Seward is false to the President and that he and Stanton have an understanding. There are many strange ...

At the Cabinet-meeting word was received of the death of Lieutenant-General Scott at West Point at the advanced age of eighty. He was great ...

Some slight indisposition and pressing duties have postponed my daily remarks. The President had expressed to me his intention to go to Rich...

As I went into the President's office this morning and was passing him to enter the library, he took occasion to express his satisfactio...

Met General Thomas of the Army of the Tennessee at the President's. He has a fine, soldierly appearance, and my impressions are that he ...

Admiral Dahlgren writes me that Sherman is with him in his cabin (14th inst.). Mr. Chandler, 1 employed by the Department to attend to al...

Wrote Gilpin, District Attorney at Philadelphia, in answer to his private letter as to prosecution for frauds in Philadelphia Navy Yard. T...

The President is greatly importuned and pressed by cunning intrigues just at this time. Thurlow Weed and Raymond are abusing his confidence ...

The speeches of Jeff Davis betoken the close of the War. The rebellion is becoming exhausted, and I hope ere many months will be entirely su...

New York City is shouting for McClellan, and there is a forced effort elsewhere to get a favorable response to the almost traitorous proceed...

Mr. Blair returned this morning from Concord. He had, I have little doubt, been sent for, partly to see and influence me. I am not sufficien...

 Had an interesting half-hour talk with J. M. Forbes, a sensible man and true patriot. He wishes the President to make the issue before the ...

Most of the vessels sent out in pursuit of the Tallahassee have returned, and with scarcely an exception the commanders have proved themselv...

Much party machinery is just at this time in motion. No small portion of it is a prostitution and abuse. The Whig element is venal and corru...

Had some talk with Senator Lot Morrill, who is a good deal excited, not to say alarmed. The slow progress of our armies, the mismanagement o...

 I wrote a letter to the Secretary of State, softly pointing out the proper course of proceeding in this French claim for captured cotton, ...

Much pressed with duties. A pleasant hour at the Cabinet, but no special subject. Fessenden still absent. Stanton did not attend. Blair inqu...

New-York, Aug 22 Dear Seward, When, ten or eleven days since, I told Mr Lincoln that his re-election was an impossibity, I also told h...

Executive Mansion.                Washington , August 24. 1864. Sir: You will proceed forthwith and obtain, if possible, a conferen...

ROOMS OF THE NATIONAL UNION EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Astor House , New York , Aug 22 1864. My dear Sir:— I feel compelled to drop yo...