I am won very much by Houston's conversation. 1 With him the antislavery interest would stand better than with any man who seems now am...

Pardon me if I say frankly you have done injustice to Story. 1 I admire him as a jurist, but with a discrimination between his titles to re...

Congress and all the world have a vacation to-day to quaff fresh air, sunshine, and champagne on board the 'Baltic.' 1 I voted for ...

The post of assistant secretary of state  was  offered to my brother; but I write, not for any public correction of your paper, but merely f...

Kossuth errs, all err, who ask any intervention by government. Individuals may do as they please,— stepping to the verge of the law of natio...

I do not see our future on the Presidential question. The recent declaration of Toombs seems ominous of a break-up, in which I should rejoic...

I heard of your illness, while I was in New York, with great regret. Time and distance did not allow me to see you at your suburban retreat,...

I would not affect a feeling which I have not, nor have I any temptation to do it; but I should not be frank if I did not say to you that I ...

Seward read the dispatches which he proposed to send to Mr. Motley,—the first, protesting against the sending of troops to Mexico by the Aus...

Whatever may be the result of our proceedings, I am desirous that you should know my position. I have never directly or indirectly suggested...

You are right in auguring ill from the Fabian strategy. When the balloting was postponed for three days, I thought our friends had lost the ...

Our Free Soil convention was very spirited. The resolutions are pungent, and cover our original ground. On this we shall stand to the end. I...

Only a week ago, in overhauling old pamphlets, a part of my patrimony, I found the actual memorial to Congress 1 reported by the committee ...

You inquire about Eliot. 1 He is an honest and obstinate man, but essentially Hunker in grain. In other days and places he would have been ...

McCulloch, Stanton, and Dennison are absent from Washington. Seward read a letter from Bigelow at Paris, which indicates peace, though all t...

But little of importance at the Cabinet. Seward read a letter from Bigelow, Minister at Paris, representing that indications were that Maxim...

The week has been one of intense heat, and I have been both busy and indolent. Incidents have passed without daily record. The President has...

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

As the young gentleman of color, to whom I had given egregious ransom as well as an advance of wages, did not appear this morning, I was, a...

Washington , Dec r . 2, 1852. Dear Hamlin , Where are you? What are you about? The last I saw of you was that you attended a democratic...