MR. CHAIRMAN AND FELLOW-CITIZENS: I share the sympathy and sorrow which have brought us together. Gentlemen who have preceded me have well s...

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...

My sons Edgar and John got home this morning from a visit to Connecticut. Have word that the Pontoosuc arrived at Halifax about four hours a...

Received dispatches to-day from Admiral Farragut confirming intelligence received several days since through Rebel sources. The official acc...

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...

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

Mr. Seward brought me this A.M. a dispatch from Consul Jackson at Halifax, saying the pirate Rebel Tallahassee had arrived at that port. I h...

Private Astor House 24 Sep. 61. My Dear Mr. Fox, I closed up things yesterday at Philad a — where Turner is doing remarkably well;...

Private Louner's near Wilmington Aug. 9, 1861    My Dear Mr. Fox I was sorry to leave Wash n before your return, but it was ...

Dear Fox I have not written you because it was easy for you to understand what I thought of the Fort Sumpter business and not agreeable ...

Hiram Barney, Collector at New York, called on me. Is feeling depressed. The late frauds, or lately discovered frauds, annoy him. . . . ...

Wrote Commodore Wilkes that his denial was not sufficiently explicit; that innocent parties were implicated in the publication of his lette...