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Showing posts with label John Quincy Adams. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Quincy Adams. Show all posts
Saturday, May 27, 2023

Charles Sumner to William Jay, March 18, 1850

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In this moment of discomfiture I turn to you. I am sick at heart as I think of the treason of our public men. Freedom is forgotten in the mi...
Wednesday, April 5, 2023

Diary of Gideon Welles: December 1, 1865

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It is some weeks since I have had time to write a word in this diary. In the mean time many things have happened which I desired to note but...
Monday, November 4, 2019

Henry Clay to John J. Crittenden, March 10, 1826

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Washington , March 10, 1826. Dear Crittenden , — Robert Scott informs me that there are several cases of the estate of Colonel Morrison...
Thursday, August 8, 2019

Ezekiel Webster to Congressman Daniel Webster, April 3, 1823

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April 3, 1823. Dear Daniel ,—I received yours this morning. Of all the candidates named for the Presidency, the people of New Hampshire...
Saturday, August 3, 2019

George M. Bibb to John J. Crittenden, March 8, 1824

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Washington , March 8, 1824. DEAR JOHN,—That there are men who will ascribe my actions to any motive but a reasonable one, I know, but t...

George M. Bibb to John J. Crittenden, March 17, 1824

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March17th. I have heard Wirt in another great case, opposed by Clay and Harper. Wirt rises with the occasion and the opposing force. The bi...
Thursday, March 7, 2019

Nathaniel Peabody Rogers: Colonization Love and “Logic,” September 8, 1838

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Abolition Logic “ Not hate of one's neighbor.” We prove it to be hate, because it wants to send off. Hatred repels, and would expel...
Thursday, January 10, 2019

Nathaniel Peabody Rogers: The Discussion, July 14, 1838

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The discussion goes on. It pervades, it possesses, it “agitates” the land. It must be stopped, or slavery dies, and the colored man has his...
Friday, August 17, 2018

Thomas Wentworth Higginson to Louisa Storrow Higginson, 1857

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Dearest Mother: I thought, when waiting for admission to President Quincy's study, that there was really nobody living, except the v...
Tuesday, June 5, 2018

Senator Thomas Hart Benton to Congressman John Scott, February 8, 1825

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Senate Chamber , Feb. 8th, 1825. SIR: I received on the morning of the 6th instant your note of the 5th, in which you make known to me ...
Saturday, May 26, 2018

Thomas Hart Benton to Colonel James Patton Preston, December 22, 1821

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Senate Chamber , Dec. 22nd, 1822. Dear Sir : We arrived here on the 9th ins. myself, Elizabeth and the child. We are very well, but h...
Saturday, March 31, 2018

Horace Mann: Letter Accepting the Nomination for the Thirtieth Congress, Made by the Whig Convention of the 8th District of Massachusetts, March 21, 1848.

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Gentlemen; Your communication of the 16th inst., being directed to Newton, (instead of West Newton, where I reside,) did not reach me un...
Thursday, June 22, 2017

In The Review Queue: Lincoln and the Abolitionists

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Lincoln and the Abolitionists: John Quincy Adams, Slavery, and the Civil War by Fred Kaplan The acclaimed biographer, with a ...
Sunday, January 22, 2017

Diary of Gideon Welles: Thursday, March 5, 1863

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Went on the evening of the 3d inst. to the Capitol. Spent most of the time until eleven o'clock in the President's room. It is my f...
Saturday, December 10, 2016

Diary of John Hay: October 12, 1861

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To-night the President went to Seward's, I with him. At the door a telegram was handed him from McClellan stating that the enemy was be...
Saturday, November 26, 2016

Diary of Gideon Welles: Saturday, December 20, 1862

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At the meeting last evening there were present of the committee Senators Collamer, Fessenden, Harris, Trumbull, Grimes, Howard, Sumner, and...