Alton Mch 25th/58 Abram Lincoln Springfield Dear Sir allow me to call your attention back to the 4th of last March & also to the conve...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill., August 3, 1858. SIR—In March, 1857, I saw upon the railroad train, being taken from Chicago to Alton to the Penitentiar...

Binghamton Aug. 9, 1858 Dear Sir Your favor of the 3d with enclosure of Mr Alfred Hyde toyou , has just been recd. Hyde was here and in bu...

Camp Warren, Ia. Sept. 29th/61 Ia Cavalry                Dear Sisters 1 I received your kind letter yesterday morning but as I did not hav...

Dined at New York Club with Charles E. Strong and Henry Fearing. Thereafter we inspected the grand procession of the “Wide-Awakes,” a new no...

Went with George Anthon and Walter Cutting to the opera. Heard three acts of Martha in the Cutting box. Patti and Brignoli did fairly. Hous...

Tomorrow we shall hear of today’s state election in Pennsylvania. Its result, if favorable to the Republicans, will be decisive, and one may...

Republicanism triumphant in Pennsylvania and by majorities that transcend the wildest prophesyings of the Tribune. So the question is settle...

Play-going with Ellie tonight at the Winter Garden; Guy Mannering. A dramatic distortion of the novel. Miss Charlotte Cushman was the Meg Me...

Our little Prince sailed . . . Saturday, and got safely out of our hands. Inferences from the phenomena that accompanied his visit are: (1...

Fine day. Tonight’s anti-Lincoln or Fusion Torchlight procession was “a big thing.’’ It was more numerous than any political demonstration I...

The Board of Brokers is in decided panic. Stocks are going down. Cause, the anticipation of trouble growing out of Lincoln’s election. The g...

We have reason to be unsettled and alarmed. A large and influential Southern party is working hard for disunion, and in South Carolina, at l...

The talk today is that Fusionism may carry this state after all. Then the election goes into the House and would be long contested before a ...

Sent Ellie to the opera in charge of her brother Jem and sallied out for a debilitated stroll. Found a great Wide-Awake demonstration in pro...

With William Schermerhorn to Columbia College Board meeting at two o’clock. Unusual amount of business, mostly unimportant. Treasurer’s repo...

A memorable day. We do not know yet for what. Perhaps for the disintegration of the country, perhaps for another proof that the North is tim...

Lincoln elected. Hooray. Everybody seems glad of it. Even Democrats like Isaac Bell say there will be no disturbance, and that this will qui...

MCCLELLAN is now all-powerful, and refuses to divide the army into corps. Thus much for his brains and for his consistency. The message — ...

Busy through the day until dark on the subject of promotions, except for a short time at the Cabinet. The promotions will, unavoidably, give...